Sept. 16--Organizers of CatConLA, the first-of-its-kind conclave of feline fanciers that took place in downtown Los Angeles earlier this summer, have announced that the event's sophomore outing -- scheduled for June 25-26, 2016, will include a screening of the Internet Cat Video Festival.
Presented in conjunction with Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, where Scott Stulen organized the inaugural Catvidfest in 2012, CatConLA founder Susan Michals says the offsite evening event will be the only large-venue screening to take place in L.A.
Will Braden, creator of the "Henri, le Chat Noir" series -- and current curator and producer of the festival (and who also happened to be part of the inaugural CatConLA earlier this summer) -- is touring the country with the offline celebration of online cat videos and will be on hand to host the event, Michals says.
The annual festival, which has screened in Los Angeles in the past (the last time was in 2014), is known for drawing huge crowds on its home turf. The inaugural event, in 2012, was attended by an estimated 10,000 fans of feline film, and this year's, held at CHS Field in St. Paul, Minn., attracted some 13,000 furball fanatics.
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