In the city notoriously known for making happy, shiny movies, it should only make sense (and dollars) Los Angeles would create the Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF).

Running August 22-24 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, FGFF (here comes open season on this acronym) will play movies with positive themes, happy endings, make audiences laugh and capture the beauty of our world (I thought that was what Wal-Mart’s movie selection was about).

While other film festivals make screen documentaries on the Iraq invasion, torture, and the recession, and features on family dysfunction, FGFF films offer innocence, hope and change – something we so desperately need after the past eight years. Each film in the festival receives a Feel Good Rating that defines the projected age and maturity level of audience members.

FGFF will open with a screening of director Christopher Watson’s The Rainbow Tribe, a film about a man (David James) who deals, like too many of us, with middle-age crisis through nostalgia. FGFF closes with a tribute to the extraordinary funny guy and artist Jonathan Winters with director Jim Pasternak’s oddly delightful documentary Certifiably Jonathan, as part of tribute honoring Winters. In between FGFF is set to show around 50 films, shorts and documentaries.

For more information on FGFF log onto www.fgff.org