LA Shorts Fest honors those individuals who have achieved excellence in short films. As the largest short film festival in the world with 9 days of screenings, educational panels, interactive and entertaining events, the festival has quickly become the industry standard for showcasing and awarding undiscovered talent.

As officially recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, some of these films may go on to receive Oscar nominations. In the past, 33 films have received Oscar nominations with 11 winning the coveted Oscar statue.

The festival runs from July 23rd to 31st. Scarlett Johansson, Courteney Cox and Kirsten Smithwill be there on 23rd to open the festival. It must be a lot of fun to attend the festival and see great short films from all over the world.

Courteney will be at the festival to  attend her directorial debut ‘The Monday Before Thanksgiving’ screening July 23rd

Actresses Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston and singer Sheryl Crow co-hosted a dinner to help raise awareness for the campaign as well as to raise money. All three spoke to Access Hollywood:

“[OmniPeace is] building this place called the City of Joy,” said Cox, an ambassador for the organization. “It’s a healing center for women and children who have been violated.”

OmniPeace is selling specially designed t-shirts in order to help fund the City of Joy, and many celebrities find donating profits that have been generated through consumerism to be a good idea.

“There are so many looming causes that need everyone to be involved in and everyone to be conscious of,” said Crow. “This is one that I really think does escape people because it’s not happening in our own country and it’s so foreign – the idea of using rape as warfare – that a lot of people close their eyes to it. In our own way of consumer-ship, we can have a voice in what happens over there.”

The t-shirts feature drawings by the child victims at the center’s art therapy program.

“[The t-shirt logo] are images that have been made into a collage from these children,” explains Aniston. “You can see all of these drawings. It’s quite disturbing to know that this is what is in front of them… It’s excruciating. [This] is what they see in front of their eyes.”

Lisa Kudrow’s Streamy-nominated web series Web Therapy is coming back for a second season today on LStudio.com. Kudrow returns as online therapist Fiona Wallice known for her curt, questionably-legal three-minute patient sessions via iChat.

A second season, even for a web series, means plenty of notable guest stars, including Kudrow’s former Friends co-star Courteney Cox, who joins the cast for a few “sessions.” Her three-episode run will debut on July 6th. Also on the chat-couch this time are Alan Cumming, Steven Weber, Julie Claire, Dan Bucatinsky, and Victor Garber.

Kudrow has apparently been loving the chance to call her own shots with the project, as she once again works with producing partners Dan Bucatinsky and Don Roos (who also directs the series) at Is it or Isn’t It Entertainment.

“Web Therapy allowed me to work with some incredibly talented people on a project that provided rare creative freedom,” said Kudrow. “The ability to write, produce and act in a web series with such high production value is incredibly rewarding.”

The series has been the flagship of Lexus’ L Studio content portal since its launch last September, which was recently redesigned with a cleaner interface and better social media integration. The series is being distributed through YouTube, Hulu and iTunes as well, which is a probably a good thing seeing that traffic to the branded site has been minimal for the past few months.

At this point there’s no official word whether a second season of Amy B. Harris’ urban dog lovers comedy Puppy Love is in the works, despite rumors that it is.

Source: news.tubefilter.tv

There’s a video with Courteney & Lisa if you scroll down.

Source: www.icelebz.com