The Bel Air International Film Festival, first held in 2008, ^[1] is an annual international film festival which takes place in Bel Air and the greater Los Angeles area. The Festival honors films in the following categories: Film Fashion, Documentaries, Shorts, Comedy Shorts, Comedy, Drama, Animation, Foreign Films, Music Video, and Student Film. ^[2]

Documentaries selected for the 2009 festival include:

• Science Plus Dharma Equals Social Responsibility, which captures Nobel Prize Winner Richard R. Ernst who brought the advent of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) through his pure research. The filming takes place in Ernst’s hometown of Switzerland.
• I Remember Better When I Paint, featuring Rita Hayworth’s daughter, Yasmin Aga Khan, president of Alzheimer Disease International. The film reviews the latest technology in treating Alzheimer’s disease and focuses on the positive results received from patients that paint.
• Garbage Dreams, an international documentary film widely promoted by Al Gore.^[3] It follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade, growing up in the world’s largest garbage village on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.^[4]

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