While the Sundance Film Festival recently announced a decision to expand its presence in Salt Lake City, UT, the festival will remain anchored in Park City, UT for the next 12 years. As part of a pact approved yesterday, next fall Sundance Institute will move its year-round administrative HQ from Salt Lake City to Park City. Under an agreement approved by the Park City Council last night, Sundance Institute will move into a renovated historic building at the base of the Park City Mountain Resort, according to an announcement today. The deal will also keep the Sundance Film Festival in Park City through 2018. There is also an option to renew t...
Read More »One of America's longest running documentary fests, the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival has announced the slate of its 29th edition including the New York premiere of first-time director Petr Lom's "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgystan." The fest, which screens at New York's American Museum of Natu...
Read More »The fifth annual High Falls Film Festival, held in Rochester, N.Y., has announced its 2005 lineup. The festival, which focuses on the achievements of women working in film and video, will feature over 50 narrative and short films and documentaries. Stephen Frears's ("Dirty Pretty Things") "Mrs. Hend...
Read More »The 28th Mill Valley Film Festival wrapped up on October 16 after screening over 200 movies from 55 countries. This was the first year that the festival granted audience awards. The Audience Award for dramatic feature went to Zola Maseko's "Drum," about conditions in South Africa in the 1950s. Lisa Gay Hamilton's "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," about the life of actress, poet and activist Beah Richards, received the Audience Award for documentary feature. Stefan Scaini's "Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story" was given the Children's FilmFest Audience Award. The British Academy of Film and Television award for short films went to "City Paradise...
Read More »Director David Cronenberg will discuss his latest film, "A History of Violence" on November 9th at the Walter Reade Theater in Manhattan. The box office success, a New Line release, stars Viggo Mortensen as a "pillar of a small town community who runs a diner and lives a happy and quiet life with his wife (Maria Bello) and two children. Their lives are disrupted, however, when Mortensen thwarts an attempted robbery and is lauded as a hero by the media, attracting the attention of mobsters (William Hurt and Ed Harris) who believe he is someone else." Mortensen, Bello, Hurt and the film's composer Howard Shore will join Cronenberg in a discussi...
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