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Ventura County community goes Hollywood for the weekend, hosting film festival

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The Moorpark Film Festival runs Friday through Sunday and features two dozen screenings.

A historic Ventura County theater is rolling out the red carpet this weekend as it hosts a film festival.

The fourth annual Moorpark Film Festival is this weekend at the town's 1920s-era High Street Arts Center.

"There are 24 projects in total. We have a mix of shorts. We [also] have TikTok shorts, a new category we started last year. We have documentary shorts and our narrative short films," said Festival Director Jay Ellison.

He added that the festival starts Friday night with Batman: One Dark Knight, a film made by Batman fans.

"They have about half of the film done, so we are going to screen what they've done, and then get a behind-the-scenes look," explained Ellison.

The festival runs Friday through Sunday and is a fundraiser for the Moorpark Morning Rotary Club.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.