Lights, Camera, Action! Architecture and Design Film Festival Returns to Los Angeles

  The Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is the nation’s largest focused on this subject matter. Held annually in New York since its founding in 2008, ADFF has recently established satellite events in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., among other cities, with plans to expand to New Orleans, Athens, Greece, and beyond. ADFF celebrates the creative spirit driving architecture and design by presenting a curated selection of films, panel discussions, and other interactive experiences. Founder and director Kyle Bergman is a New York–based architect with a background in publishing and production. Each year, the ADFF team reviews approximately 300 films submitted from around the world. “We focus on films that are interesting enough from a design perspective but also have a human story that anyone can enjoy,” said Bergman, while noting that ADFF tends to avoid jargon-laced films targeted at purely architectural audiences. When he initially conceived the …