NORTH HOLLYWOOD – The Valley Film Festival is taking the Valley back to the 80s! This year’s festival running September 17 – 21, 2025, kicks off with retro-80s song, ‘FOR 25 YEARS’ AI score. Showcased are movies Made-in-the-818 and imported to the 818 from around the world.
Tickets now on sale at Laemmle NoHo 7.
DOROTHEA opens the festival with a biopic about 1980s serial killer Dorothea Puente – as detailed in KABC7 Interview with VFF Founder Tracey Adlai and Opening Night Director Chad Ferrin. VFF’S SIGNATURE MADE-IN-THE-818 SHORTS PROGRAM returns spotlighting a number of movies made by kids of 1980s kids and their narratives about navigating life. As reported in The San Fernando Sun Friday’s DRAMATIC SHORTS PROGAM puts a spotlight on TARZANA BOY, a short movie by local SFV Filmmaker revolving around a Valley Boy obsessed with 1980s pop hit Tarazan Boy.
Valley Film Festival’s Saturday Late Night Feature LOVEBUG is vintage 1980s as Logan Pepper discovers a new career in the lucrative, new, adult VHS industry. Italian foreign feature MARATONA DI NEW YORK finds a man literally running away from his less-than-ideal 1980s boyhood. US Peruvian Feature MISTURA focuses on the grandmother of 1980s kids as she navigates through family situatiosn and socio-economics in 1960s Peru. Finally, THE PROSPECT finds the kids of 1980s kids struggling with navigating High School’s senior year and college admissions.
The Valley Film Festival’s invite closing party will happen at Retro-80s PLAYER ONE ARCADE BAR in NoHo Arts District (21+).
About the Valley Film Festival
The Valley Film Festival (VFF) was founded by Los Angeles (Toluca Lake) native, and proud “Valley Girl,” Tracey Adlai, in 2000, to spotlight locally produced films in response to the San Fernando Valley’s attempt to secede from Los Angeles. VFF remains the first and continuously running film festival in The Valley at the Laemmle NoHo 7 in North Hollywood.
Now in its 25th year, VFF serves the Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, Studio City and East Valley areas and is an all-volunteer, non-profit arts project of Community Partners. We support local and international voices that advance storytelling, while furthering the education, production, and exhibition of film.