This year's 25 New Faces, as chosen by Filmaker Magazine, will be showcased at the Grand Cinema, starting on Aug. 20, in what is apparently the first film festival modeled after the magazine's list.

"It's kind of a built-in festival, if you wanted to put it together, but I was curious if anyone had ever tried to do that," says Philip Cowan, executive director of The Grand Cinema. "I assumed someone probably had, but I got in touch with Filmmaker Magazine, and nobody had ever done that. They had talked about it, but nobody had ever tried to pull it together. So they were on board."

The idea is to assemble the work of these 25 New Faces - or most of it, anyway - and there you have a festival. Most of these filmmakers are young, innovative people whose daring projects impressed early on.

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The Grand Cinema

25 New Faces of Independent Film
Friday, Aug. 20-Thursday, Aug. 26
606 S. Fawcett Ave., Tacoma
253.593.4474
Film schedule with starting times here