Desperate Housewives" Eva Longoria to Join The Premiere LA Femme Film Festival as 'Celebrity Board Member

The Board of Directors for the LA Femme Film Festival today confirmed, Eva Longoria, as this years Celebrity Board member for the LA Femme Film Festival.

Losngeles, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2005 -- The Board of Directors for the LA Femme Film Festival today confirmed, Eva Longoria, as this years Celebrity Board member for the LA Femme Film Festival. LA Femme Film Festivals goal is to increase emerging and cross-over female artists into high profile A List" female Producers, Directors and Writers in the entertainment industry and will be held at the LA Center Studios in downtown Los Angeles, May 27th -- 29th, 2005.

We are thrilled to have secured an actress of Ms. Longorias caliber as a part of this years festival," said Leslie LaPage, President and Founder of LA Femme Film Festival. Her zest promises to make this a memorable and entertaining event."

Recently voted one of People en Espanol's "25 Most Beautiful People" and an ALMA Award winner for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama for her role on "The Young and the Restless," Eva Longoria currently plays Gabrielle Solis, the ex-model who has everything in life shes ever wanted in the hit television series Desperate Housewives" on ABC. Longoria flexes her comedic muscles in "Hot Tamales Live," a critically- acclaimed comedy and variety show at The Comedy Store, in which she co-produces. Previously she celebrated her theater debut in the popular farce, "What the Rabbi Saw." She is currently working on an independent feature written and directed by David Ayer (Training Day") in which she co-stars opposite Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez. This summer, Longoria will be shooting a film in a co-starring role in Sentinel," opposite Michael Douglas, Keifer Sutherland and Kim Basinger for Regency/Fox, written by George Nolfi (Oceans Twelve") and directed by Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T.").

I am very pleased to be involved in this new film festival with the mission of empowering women in the film industry," said Eva Longoria. It is such a ground breaking concept in this industry. Im thrilled to support the growth of new, up-and-coming women through the LA Femme Film Festival.

LA Femme Film Festival is a unique, multi-ethnic and multi-culturally diverse film festival. It is the only festival of its kind to represent into distribution the festivals competition films through Foundation Films Distribution (FFD), which was formed by Leslie LaPage and David Aion (Formerly of Lincoln Media Group, American Film Partners and currently serving on the Board of Directors of Women in Film)

About La Femme Film Festival

LA Femme Film Festival, a Division of La Femme Inc., platforms female artists in the entertainment community as Producers, Directors and Writers. This festival is about empowering females who desire to create commercially viable product in media entertainment or desiring to cross over into one of the above creative fields.

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