The third annual Los Angeles Music Video Festival starts tonight at the Downtown Independent in LA, with doors opening at 8pm every night through Saturday. In addition to showing lots of amazing music videos up on a big screen, LAMVF offers some other great features, like director panels and their “Life's A Pitch” contest where a group of directors pitch on a music video for the band Five Knives. If you’re in the LA area, you should definitely head down to the fest. You’ll likely get the chance to meet lots of great directors, as well as us, since we’ll be there too. Below is the fest schedule for the next four days, and you can get your tickets here, so check it out and we’ll see ya there!

5/1 Wednesday Night:

-"Life's A Pitch" with Five Knives, sponsored by RedBull Records
-Student Category Screening
-Unofficial Category Screening
-OMG! Cameras Everywhere Presentation
-Kick Off Reception, sponsored by Angel City Brewery

5/2 Thursday Night:

-Live Category Screening
-Animation Category Screening
-"Let's Get Animated" Panel
-Reception / Pop Up Inspiration Gallery

5/3 Friday Night:

-Non-Narrative Category Screening
-Narrative Category Screening
-"Video is the New Radio" Panel
-Industry Mixer, sponsored by MVPA & Media Services

5/4 Saturday Night:

-Best of the Fest Screening
-Lifetime Achievement Award & Keynote, Greg Gold
-Awards Ceremony
-LAMVF Afterparty, sponsored by SideCar

Doug Klinger is the co-founder/content director of IMVDb and watches more music videos than anyone on earth. You can find him on twitter at @doug_klinger.