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Architecture & Design Film Festival expands to Los Angeles

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Following a five-year run in New York, the Architecture & Design Film Festival is branching out to Los Angeles, where it will host a five-day salute to art, architecture, design, fashion and urban planning next month.

The Architecture & Design Film Festival, running March 12-16, will feature 30 recent feature-length and short films from around the world, including profiles of British fashion and textile designer Paul Smith, self-taught Japanese architect Tadao Ando and Italian graphic designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli.

Several documentaries in the series will focus on designs specific to California, including “The Oyler House,†a profile of the Lone Pine retreat designed by Richard Neutra; “Coast Modern,†a look at West Coast modernist architecture; and “Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui,†making its world premiere.

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Confirmed panelists for the event include Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne; L.A. architect Barbara Bestor; actress Kelly Lynch, current owner of the Richard Oyler house; “Built on Narrow Land†director Malachi Connolly; and Carl Hansen Chief Executive Knud Erik Hansen, among others.

Tickets are $14 and go on sale Friday. The films will screen at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown Los Angeles. www.adfilmfest.com (213) 489-0994.

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