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Ventura Film Festival

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The Ventura Film Festival is an international film festival held each year in Ventura, California. The Ventura Film Festival features Academy Award winning films and has been attended by Academy Award winning celebrities.[1]

In 2011 the Ventura Film Festival hosted the 50th Anniversary of West Side Story and the full cast of the film and gave a lifetime achievement awards to Academy Award winner/Golden Globe winner George Chakiris who starred in the film as Bernardo and Academy Award nominee/Golden Globe winner Russ Tamblyn who played the co-starring role of Riff in West Side Story.[2]

The Ventura Film Festival was founded in 2004 by Jordan Older and his father who also serve as directors of the festival.[3]

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