Celebrating our history with the 14th Arpa Film Festival poster
2011 – We drew a record attendance and were touted as one of the longest running festivals in Los Angeles! Vahik Pirhamzei received the Breakthrough Performance Award for My Uncle Rafael, and screenwriters, Pirhamzei and Scott Yagemann were honored with Arpa Film Festival’s first ever cash award for Best Screenplay. Environmental heroine, Marion Stoddart earned the AT&T Award for Environmental Conservation and Stewardship. The Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award went to the film, Children Of War.