For the 11th consecutive year the DGA returned as a principal sponsor of the Los Angeles Film Festival, an event featuring 60,000 people attending over 150 screenings of work by veteran and emerging narrative, documentary, and short filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world. The 2005 LAFF also offered, seminars, private discussion groups with industry notables, cocktail receptions, a filmmaker lounge, poolside chats and the DGA's annual filmmakers luncheon at Pinot Hollywood.