The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival, one of the largest gatherings of fashion film professionals in the world, is preparing to take La Jolla by haute couture storm July 26-28. Check back here often for interesting facts about the festival and the fashion gurus who will come through our seaside community — and maybe even get a chance to win tickets to some of the events! Festival event: Sydney Levine and Peter Belsito will headline a festival seminar on one of the most important skills for any director or producer: pitching as a business skill. Levine and Belsito, who work around the world as film consultants, are two of Hollywood’s most elite insiders. As Todd McCarthy, senior film critic of The Hollywood Reporter said, “Sydney Levine and Peter Belsito have been on the front lines of the American independent film scene before the Sundance Film Festival and any of the current indie companies even existed, and they continue to know what’s going on before anyone else does. The web they cast is wide, their contacts are unparalleled, their stature enormous, their services indispensible.” A Q&A will follow the seminar, time and location TBA. Visit www.ljfff.com for more information.