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The newish festival, co-founded by Micah Gottlieb<\/a> and Sarah Winshall<\/a> in 2024, is set to take place April 9-12. It will open with John Early<\/a>\u2019s directorial debut, Maddie\u2019s Secret<\/a>, and close with Sophy Romvari<\/a>\u2019s Blue Heron<\/a>. Co-presented by Kino Film Collection<\/a> and Mezzanine<\/a>, Lafm will roll out a program of more than 25 films, including two world premieres, three U.S. premieres and six West Coast premieres along with featured artist talks that are still being finalized.<\/p>\n Magnolia Pictures\u2019 Maddie\u2019s Secret<\/a>, which will screen at Vidiots\u2019 Eagle Theatre on April 9, stars Early<\/a> opposite Kate Berlant<\/a>, Vanessa Bayer<\/a> and Conner O\u2019Malley<\/a>. Early, who wrote and directed, also stars as the title character, Maddie Ralph, a food influencer who is secretly struggling with the return of an adolescent eating disorder. The Lafm showing follows a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Los Angeles Festival of Movies is reeling in a full program for its 2026 edition. The newish festival, co-founded by Micah Gottlieb and Sarah Winshall in 2024, is set to take place April 9-12. It will open with John Early\u2019s directorial debut, Maddie\u2019s Secret, and close with Sophy Romvari\u2019s Blue Heron. Co-presented by Kino Film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2314492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Los-Angeles-Festival-of-Movies-to-Open-With-John-Earlys.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314494,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314492\/revisions\/2314494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}