LAWEBFEST, The Los Angeles Web Series Festival, more commonly known as the LA Web Series Festival, is a web series festival based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2009 by Michael Ajakwe Jr, an Emmy Award Winning writer, and was one of the first web series-based events; Filmmaker Magazine called it "the granddaddy of all webfests."
The 1st LAWEBFEST took place in March 2010 at a 99 seat theatre, Stage 52. Since then the venue has been at the Hilton Universal City Hotel in Universal City, Warner Brothers Studios and Sony Studios.

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Our goals for 2024 are to expand the festival so it can become a viable provider of quality content on an international scale. Our intention is to create a place that nurtures and cultivates upcoming creators. We invite you to a new paradigm of festival where you can take part in screenings, network parties, a redcarpet, an award show and gain access to distributors, branded companies, filmmakers, writers, producers, funding etc.

Since our founding, our mission has expanded to include many variety forms of web contents, including:

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- Web Series (Short Form & Long Form)
- Pilot

- Shorts

- Fiction Podcasts

- TikToks, Reels, Shorts

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The Webfest Branching Out:

LA Webfest, Marseille Webfest, Hollywood Series, Digital Media Fest, Melbourne Webfest, Die Seriale, Bilbao Seriesland, Rio Webfest, New Jersey Webfest, Miami Webfest, Minnesota Webfest, DC Webfest, Toronto Webfest, Sicily Webfest, Asia Web Awards, NZ Webfest, Chile Digital Fest, Bogota Webfest, Realist Webfest, Sydney Webfest, British Web Awards, Apulia Webfest, Nouvelle Vague Awards, Montreal Digital Webfest, Ozark Mountain Webfest, Baltimore Next Media Webfest, Stareable Webfest, NYC Webfest, Webfest Berlin, Cali Webfest, Lima Webfest, Cusco Webfest, Panama Series Festival and etc.