ANAHEIM, Calif. — After Raphael Sbarge finished his first film, a short documentary on the Los Angeles River, he then focused on finding a theater to screen it.
Of course, he already knew where he wanted it to run, as he says in his new feature documentary, “Only in Theaters.”
“I included my story because it seemed to be kind of representative of a lot of filmmakers in Los Angeles,” Sbarge says. “Which is that if you want to show your film to an audience in L.A., everyone says you’ve got to go to the Laemmles.”