Tonight is the opening of Visual Communications’ Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and we got word that a limited number of tickets to our FREE, SOLD-OUT filmmaking panel INTERPRETATIONS: So You Really Want To Make Films? (taking place this Sunday, May 2, 2-4 PM at DGA 2) will be released to the public. But you can’t get them online, they’ll only be available at the DGA box office, which is the location of the opening night gala as well as our panel. So be sure to pick them up at the festival before they’re gone. And did I mention they were free? And did I mention the cool people who will be participating in our panel (see my previous post with all the details here)?

As our regular readers already know, we’ll also be launching our INTERPRETATIONS Film Initiative at our event. This is a new program we’re starting to support our community of aspiring filmmakers. We’ve been working hard to compile a list of prominent industry professionals to serve as jurors for our initiative. Here’s a list of just SOME of the people who have signed on to join us (more to come):

Rowena Arguelles (CAA agent)

David Gale (MTV Films Executive VP)

A.P. Gonzalez (UCLA School of Theater, Television and Film)

David Henry Hwang (Tony-Award winning writer M. Butterfly)

Niija Kuykendall (Warner Bros, Director of Development)

Jeffrey Kirschenbaum (Universal Pictures Executive VP Production)

Anne Lai (Sundance Lab Producer-In-Residence)

Chris Lee (producer Superman Returns, Valkyrie)

Amanda Lewis (Original Films Executive VP/producer Made of Honor, Gridiron Gang)

Dan Lin (producer Sherlock Holmes, Terminator Salvation)

Art Marcum & Matt Holloway (screenwriters Iron Man, upcoming Highlander)

Corey Miller (co-executive producer/writer The Forgotten, CSI:Miami)

Chris Morgan (screenwriter Wanted, Fast & Furious)

John Murchison (HBO VP)

Quan Phung (Scott Stuber Productions Head of Television)

Troy Poon (independent producer, former VP MTV Films)

Joe Russo (director Arrested Development, Community, You, Me, and Dupree)

John Sloss (founder Cinetic Media and Sloss Eckhouse Brennan Law Co LLP, clients include Kevin Smith, Bob Dylan, Morgan Spurlock, Killer Films, Richard Linklater)

Bryan Tyler (composer Eagle Eye, Constantine)

So hope to see many of you on Sunday. If you can’t get advance tickets, we hope to have some rush tickets on the day of so come on by and we’ll do our best to try to get everyone in. Regardless, we’ll have plenty of updates and all the details about Interpretations online after the panel so keep reading.