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The inaugural Ladyface Mountain Film Festival opens Thursday in Agoura Hills, Calif., just outside Los Angeles.

Harvest, meanwhile, centers on Trappist Cistercian monks who make wine in the Northern Sacramento Valley. Along with nature, Litzinger cites community and passion as other thematic pillars of LMFF.