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# Film critic Turan gets festive By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/film-critic-turan-gets-festive-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2004-03-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:03:08.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Pico, #archive-import

Renowned Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan will give a free lecture on the impact of film festivals on the worldwide motion picture industry.

“From Sundance to Sarajevo” will be held Friday, March 26 at Santa Monica College at 7 p.m. in the SMC Concert Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd. Seating is a first-come, first-serve basis. The lecture is co-sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs on campus, and the University of California Press Associates — which provides support to the University of California Press.

The lecture’s title comes from Turan’s book of the same name that was recently published by UC Press.

Turan is also a film critic for National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post and TV Guide and the Times’ book review editor.

Turan also teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC and is on the board of directors of the National Yiddish Book Center.

A graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he is the co-author of “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke.”

For information, call (310) 434-4303.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 22, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032204.pdf?ref=smdp.com)