The 92nd Academy Award Winners

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The winners of the 92nd Oscars are.......

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Joaquin Phoenix
Joker
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Brad Pitt
Once upon a Time...in Hollywood
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Renée Zellweger
Judy
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Laura Dern
Marriage Story
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Toy Story 4
Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera, Mark Nielson
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917
Roger Deakins
COSTUME DESIGN
Little Women
Jacqueline Duran
DIRECTING
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
American Factory
Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar, Jeff Reichert
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Carol Dysinger, Eleena Andreicheva
FILM EDITING
Ford v Ferrari
Andrew Buckland
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Bombshell
Kazuhiro Tsuji
ORIGINAL SCORE
Joker
Hildur Gudnadottir
BEST PICTURE
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho, Kwak Sin-ae
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Nancy Haigh
Once upon a Time...in Hollywood
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Hair Love
M. A. Cherry, karen Rupert Toliver
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The Neighbors' Window
Marshall Curry
SOUND EDITING
Ford v Ferrari
Donald Sylvester
VISUAL EFFECTS
1917
Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy, Greg Butler
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi,
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Parasite
Han Jin-won

Hollywood Golden Age Screen Legend Kirk Douglas Has Died at 103 years-young

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One of the last Actor of Hollywood Golden Age, Kirk Douglas has died.

Douglas made his acting debut in the 1946 film ‘The Strange Love of Martha Ivers starring Barbara Stanwyck.
He went on to appear in more than 90 films. He received his first Best Actor nomination for the 1949 ‘Champion.’ Three years later he received his second Academy Award nomination for 1952 ‘The Bad and the Beautiful.’

He was one of the first actors to break his studio contracts and formed an independant production company, Bryna Productions, names after his mother, that produced ‘Path of Glory’ in 1957 and his still talked about performance
in 1960 ‘Spartacus.’ Other films include ‘The Indian Fighter’, ‘Paths of Glory’, ‘The Viking’, ‘Lonely are the Brave’, and ‘Seven Days in May.;

In addition to acting, Douglas is also an author beginning with his first book in 1988 autobigraphy The Ragman’s Son to his las book Life Could Be Verse: Reflactions of Love, Loss, and What Really Matters.

In 1981 President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1991 AFI Life Achievement Award, 1994 receipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. 1998 Screen Actor Guilds Lifetime Achievement Award. 2002 President Bush gives him the National Medal of Arts.

His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6263 Hollywood Blvd.

During the 40s and 50s he appeared on radio Suspense, Screen Directors Playhouse, and Lux Radio Theatre.

He gave his last feature film performance Michael Gorjian’s 2004 ‘Illusion.’ His final television appearance was im the 2008 release ‘Empire State Building Murders.’ His final curtain call was his autobiographical theatre performance in his one-man show ‘Before I Forget’

Kirk Douglas, a true Hollywood Legend, with a career that spanned over 60 years.

He gave his last feature film performance  Michael Gorjian’s 2004 ‘Illusion.’ His final television appearance was im the 2008 release ‘Empire State Building Murders.’ His final curtain call was his autobiographical theatre performance in his one-man show ‘Before I Forget’
 
Kirk Douglas, a true Hollywood Legend, with a career that spanned over 60 years.
He was married to his second wife, Anne Buydens, a marriage that spanned longer than his remarkable career, for over 70-years. Together they had two sons, Peter born in 1955 and Eric, born in 1958 and later to succumb to addition in 2004. With his first wife, Diana Dill ,  the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas.

Films Coming To The Screen in Los Angeles This Week: Gretel & Hansel, The Rhythm Section, and more

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January 31, 2020

The Assistant

Runtime: 1 hr 25 min
Genre:  Drama
Rating: R
Limited Release

Recently graduating from college and excited to embark on her new career working in entertainment for one of the most powerful   moguls, Jane (Julia Garner) becomes disillusioned by the abuse taking place and decided to be the voice that speaks on behalf of all.

Written and directed by Kitty Green. With Matthew MacFadyen (Pride & Prejudice, Death at a Funeral, Kristine Froseth

(The Society, Looking for Alaska) Makenzie Leigh (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk) as Ruby, Noah Robbins, Dagmara Dominczyk

(The Count of Monte Carlo, Big Stone Gap) as Donna, Purva Bedi. Produced by James Schamus, Scott Macaulay, Jennifer Dana. Music by Tamar-kali. Cinematography by Michael Latham. Production Company Symbolic Exchange 3311 Productions. Distributed by Bleecker Street.

 

Incitement

Runtime:  2 hr 3 min
Genre:    Thriller
Rating:   Not rated
Language: Hebrew
Country:  Israel
Limited Release

On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halevi), an Israeli law student, violently opposed to the Oslo Accords, who along with his brother Hagai Amir (Yoav Levi), his accomplice, assassinated Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. Incitement looks at Amir's life beginning a year before his decision to take Rabin's life, in his effort to stop his signing of the Accord. Directed by Yaron Zilberman (A Late Quartet). Written by Ron Leshem,

(Euphoria, Beaufort) Yaron Zilberman, Yair Hizmi. With Amitai Yaish as Shlomo Amir, Anat Ravnitzki as Geula Amir, Daniella Kertesz as Nava, Sivan Mast as Margalit Har-Shefi. Production companies: Metro Communications, Opening Night Productions, Mountaintop Productions, WestEnd Films. Music by Raz Mesinai. Cinematography by Amit Yasur. Editing by Shira Arad, Yonatan Winstein, Distributed by Greenwich Entertainment.

Gretel & Hansel

Runtime: 1 hr 27 min
Genre:   Thriller
Rating:  PG-13

 

The Brothers Grim's German tale of Hansel and Gretel gets an modern twist in director Oz Perkins' (Psycho II, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) new film Gretel & Hansel. Flipping the script, it's teenager Gretel (Sophia Lillis, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase) desperate to survive, who takes her much younger brother Hansel (Sam Leakey, film debut) into the woods in hopes of finding ways to sustain  them, only to walk into grip of an evil spirit. Screenplay by Oz Perkins, Rob Hayes. With

Charles Babalola (The Legend of Tarzan, Mary Magdalene) as The Hunter, Jessica De Gouw (The Crown) as Young Holda/The Witch, Alice Krige (Chariots of Fire, Star Trek: The Experience) as Holda/The Witch. Music by Rob. Cinematography by Galo Olivares. Edited by Josh Ethier, Julia Wong. Production Companies: Orion Pictures, Automatik Entertainment, Bron Creative. Distributed by United Artists Releasing.

 

The Rhythm Section

Runtime: 1 hr 49min
Genre:   Thriller
Rating:  R
County: United Kingdom, United States

Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively, Gossip Girls, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) seeks revenge for the murder of her family in a plane crash. Directed by Reed Morano, Written by Mark Burnell, Based on The Rhythm Section by Mark Burnell. With Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Captain Marvel) as Iain Boyd, Sterling K. Brown (This is Us, Black Panther) as Marc Serra, Max Casella (The Sopranos, Analyze This) as Leom Giler, Daniel Mays (1917, Pearl Harbor) as Dean West, Geoff Bell (Green Street) as Green, Richard Brake (Cold Mountain, Game of Thrones) as Lehmans, Raza Jaffrey (Code Black, cliffs of Freedom) as Keith Proctor, Tawfeek Barhom (Mary Magdalene) as Reza, David Duggan (The Belly of the Whale, Dead Still) as David Patrick. Produced by Barbara Brocoli, Michael G. Wilson. Music by Steve Mazzaro. Cinematography Sean Bobbitt. Edited by Joan Sobel. Production Companies Global Road Entertainment, Eon Productions, Danjaq LLC, Ingenious. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.

 

The Traitor

Runtime: 2 hr 35 min
Genre: Drama/Crime
Rating: R
Language: Italian
Country: Italy, France, Brazil, Germany
Limited Release

In the world of crime, being labeled a snitch puts a mark on your back and who would know better than Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince of Caspian, World War Z). The Traitor tells the story of Buscetta life in the Mafia and his eventual cooperation with federal authorities, providing them with valuable information about Cosa Nostra and the Sicilian Mafia Commission that only someone on the inside could know. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. Screenplay by Marco Bellocchio, Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, Francesco La Licata. Story by Marco Bellocchio. With Luigi Lo Cascio as Savatore "Totuccio' Contorno, Fausto Russo  as Judge Giovanni Falcone, Maria Fernanda Candido as Maria Cristine de Almeida Guimaraes, Fabrizio Ferracane as Pillo Calo, Nicola Cali as Toto Riina, Giovanni Calcagno as Gaetano Badalamenti. Produced by Beppe Cashetto. Music by Nicola Piovani. Cinematography by Vladan Radovic. Edited by Francesca Calvelli. Production Companies: IBC Movie, Kavac Film Rai Cinema, Gullane, Ad Vitam Production, Match Factory Productions. Distributed by O1 Distribution.

9th Annual African American Film Critics Association Award Winners and Top 10 Films of the 2019

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On Thursday, January 22, 2020, the 9th Annual African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Awards took place at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood.

As the largest black film critics association and whose membership is from around the country and globe, gives voice to all those who seek films that reflects the life and life experiences of people of color.

Leading the pack Jordan Peele's "US" wins three awards, Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for Lupita Nyong'o. Eddie Murphy took home the Best Actor award for portrayal of Rudy Ray Moore in "Dolemite Is My Name"

The AAFCA winners are listed below.

Best Film: "US" (Universal Pictures)

Best Director: Jordan Peele ("US", Universal Pictures)

Best Actor: Eddie Murphy ("Dolemite Is My Name," Netflix)

Best Actress: Lupita Nyong'o ("US", Universal Pictures)

Best Supporting Actor: Jamie Foxx ("Just Mercy," Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph ("Dolemite Is My Name," Netflix)

Best Breakout Performance: Kelvin Harrison, Jr. ("Waves," A24)

Best Animated Film: "Abominable" (Universal Pictures)

Best Documentary: "The Black Godfather" (Netflix)

Best Foreign Film: "Parasite" (Neon) I Atlantics (Netflix)

Best Independent Film: "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" (A24)

Best Screenplay Presented with The Black List: Bong Joon-ho, "Parasite" (Neon)

Impact Award: "Queen & Slim" (Universal Pictures)

We See You Award: Taylor Russell ("Waves," A24)

The TOP TEN FILMS OF 2019

  1. "US" (Universal Pictures)
  2. "Dolemite is My Name" (Netflix)
  3. "Just Mercy" (Warner Bros)
  4. "Clemency" (Neon
  5. "The Irishman" (Netflix)
  6. "Queen & Slim" (Universal Pictures)
  7. "Waves" (A24)
  8. Tie "Parasite"(Neon) and "Atlantics" (Netflix)
  9. "The Farewell" (A24)
  10. "Harriet" (Focus Features)

The sponsors for the 9th Annual African American Film Critics Association are Nissan, Morgan Stanley and Deadline.

The AAFCA Special Achievement Awards takes place Saturday, April 11, 2020 at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades.

 

2020 Oscar Nominees Announced

List of all the 92nd Oscar nominees

Best Picture:

Ford v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite

Best Actor:

Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

Best Actress:

Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renee Zellweger, Judy

Best Supporting Actor:

Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Supporting Actress:

Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell

Best Director:

Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Joker
Sam Mendes, 1917
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite

Best Animated Feature:

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

Best Animated Short:

Dcera (Daughter)
Hair Love
Kitbull
Memorable
Sister

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
The Two Popes

Best Original Screenplay:

Knives Out by Rian Johnson
Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach
1917 by Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
Parasite by Bong Joon Ho & Han Jin Won

Best Cinematography:

The Irishman
Joker
The Lighthouse
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Documentary Feature:

American Factory
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland

Best Documentary Short Subject:

In the Absence

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)

Life Overtakes Me

St. Louis Superman

Walk Run Cha-Cha

Best Live Action Short Film:

Brotherhood

Nefta Football Club

The Neighbors’ Window

Saria

A Sister

Best International Feature Film:

Corpus Christi

Honeyland

Les Miserables

Pain and Glory

Parasite

Best Film Editing:

Ford v Ferrari

The Irishman

Jojo Rabbit

Joker

Parasite

Best Sound Editing:

Ford v Ferrari

Joker

1917

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best Sound Mixing:

Ad Astra

Ford v Ferrari

Joker

1917

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Production Design:

The Irishman

Jojo Rabbit

1917

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Parasite

Best Original Score:

Joker

Little Women

Marriage Story

1917

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Best Original Song:

“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” Toy Story 4

“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” Rocketman

“I’m Standing With You,” Breakthrough

“Into the Unknown,” Frozen II

“Stand Up,” Harriet

Best Makeup and Hair:

Bombshell

Joker

Judy

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

1917

Best Costume Design:

The Irishman

Jojo Rabbit

Joker

Little Women

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Visual Effects:

Avengers: Endgame

The Irishman

The Lion King

1917

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Films Coming to the Screen in Los Angeles This Week: Like A Boss, Underwater, and More

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January 10

Like A Boss
Good friends Mia Carter (Tiffany Haddish) and Mel Paige (Rose Byrne) personal and business relationship is put to the test when the beauty business they build from the ground up, is faced with a financial crisis that leaves them vulnerable to a hostile takeover by Claire Luna (Selma Hayek.). Who said beauty is always pretty? With Jennifer Coolidge, Billy Porter, Ari Graynor, Jessica St. Clair. Screen play by Sam Pitman, Adam Cole-Kelly; story by Danielie Sanchez-Witzel; written by Adam Cole-Kelly, Sam Pitman. Directed by Miguel  Arteta.

Rated R
Genre: Comedy
Runtime 1:23
Paramount Pictures.

The Sonata

After the death of composer, Richard Marlowe (Rutger Hauer), who was long estranged from his daughter, Rose (Freya Tingley) a violinist,  she travels with her manager, Charles (Simon Abkarian) to France to claim her inheritance, an old mansion. Stumbling upon her father's last composition, a sonanta. Filled with symbols, Rose and Charles begins a journey to find the hiding meanings that unleashes  spirits out of their control. With James Faulkner. Written by Andrew Desmond, Arthur. Directed by Andrew Desmond.

Rated NR
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1:30
Screen Media Films

Underwater

Norah (Kristen Stewart), a marine researcher, who along with her team are thrown into the fight of their life when their submarine laboratory is devastated by an earthquake when animals unknown to them are unleashed and terrorizes them. With Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher, Jr. Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller. Written by Brian Duffield, Adam Cozad. Directed by William Eubank.

Rated: PG-13
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1:35
20th Century Fox

Just Cause with Jamie Fox and Michael B. Jordan that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and a limited release on Christmas Day, will have a wider release this week.

 

2020 Awards Season Kicks Off With The 31st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards Gala

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The 2020 awards season kicks off with the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards Gala that took place last night, Thursday, January 2nd.

Hosted by Mary Hart, this year's honorees, all worthy of an Oscar nod are:

  1. Cynthia Erivo; Breakthrough Performance Award, for her performance in "Harriett"
  2.  Joaquin Phoenix: Chairman's Award for his performance in "Joker"
  3. Antonio Banderas: International Star Award, Actor for his performance in " Pain and Glory"
  4.  Laura Dern: Career Achievement Award for her performance in "
  5. Zack Gottsagen: Rising Star Award for his performance in "The Peanut Butter Falcon"
  6. Quentin Tarantino: Director of the Year Award for "Once Upon A Time …. in Hollywood"
  7. Jennifer Lopez: Spotlight Award for her performance in "Hustlers"
  8. Jamie Foxx: Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in "Just Mercy"
  9. Charlize Theron: International Star Award, Actress for her performance in "Bombshell"
  10.  Adam Driver: Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor for his performance in "Marriage Story"
  11. Renee Zellweger: Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress for her performance in "Judy"
  12. Martin Scorsese: Sonny Bono Visionary Award for
    "The Irishman"The Palm Springs Film Festival will take place from Thursday, January 2, 2020 through Monday, January 13, 2020.The first Palm Springs Film Festival took place in 1989 during the tenure of Sonny Bono as Mayor. Before his entry into politics, the former U.S. congressman was the half of the duo Sonny and Cher. With his extensive entertainment background made Bono a strong advocate for the films and the arts.

    The PSIFF was established in 1989 during the tenure of Sonny Bono as Palm Springs' Mayor. Prior to his run for political office and becoming U.S. Congressman for the Palm Springs area, he was the 2nd half of the duo Sonny and Cher, which made him a strong advocate for films and the arts.

    With over 180 films being screened, the film festival runs from Thursday, January 2 to Monday, January 13th.

Key West Film Festival Has Announced the Winners of the 8th Edition of the Festival

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Key West Film Festival has announced the winners of the 8th edition of the festival which ran November 20-24, 2019.

Waves directed by Trey Edward Shults, which closed the festival, was voted winner of the Audience Award.
After Parkland by Emily Taguchi & Jake Lefferman won for Best Documentary Feature, A Name Without A Place  by Kenny Riches won for Best Florida Feature and Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Celine Sciamma won Best LGBT Feature.

Other winners include: Bacurau by Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles for Best Foreign Feature and  Atlantics by Mati Diop won the Critics Award.

During the festival Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce and legendary actor Tom Skerritt (Alien) received prestigious Golden Key Awards.
Arianne Phillips received the Golden Key Award for Costume Design.

*****KWFF 2019 AWARDS******
WORLD Narrative Short & Documentary Short

Always Remember Me
Nell Teare

Underwater Senses
Leonardo Sergiani

WORLD STUDENT Narrative Short & Documentary Short

Where’s the Fire
Yonca Talu

Deaf Reach: Hope for Pakistan
John Quatroche

FLORIDA STUDENT Narrative Short & Documentary Short

Freewheel
Hollis Rosenkranz

In Human Kind
Juancho Rodriguez

FLORIDA Narrative Short & Documentary Short

The Things they Left Behind
Sara Werner

Phil & Grace | The World's Oldest Scuba Diving Couple
Sonny DePasquale

FLORIDA SCREENPLAY Short & Feature

SHORT: Violette Hayes: A True Story
By Giancarlo Fusi

FEATURE: Hearts of Key West
By Billy Nahn and David Fleer

FOREIGN Feature

FEATURE: Bacurau
By Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles

DOCUMENTARY Feature

FEATURE: After Parkland
By Emily Taguchi & Jake Lefferman

FLORIDA Feature

FEATURE: A Name Without A Place
By Kenny Riches

LGBT Feature

FEATURE: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
By Celine Sciamma

CRITICS AWARD

FEATURE: Atlantics
By Mati Diop

AUDIENCE AWARD

FEATURE: Waves
By Trey Edward Shults

ABOUT THE KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2019

The Key West Film Festival — where passion meets paradise — is an annual celebration of contemporary cinema in a historically rich, artistically vibrant, and culturally diverse island community.

KWFF strives to showcase the best of Florida filmmaking talent, while highlighting visiting filmmakers and industry leaders through discussions and workshops, with access to some of the biggest names in the film business. The festival also looks to support the next generation of local student filmmakers with scholarships and other key awards.


The Festival’s Critics Focus program, enhanced with the juried  Critics’ Prize,
together with the Costume Design Focus,  marks the Key West Film Festival as a vital stop on the awards season’s fall festival circuit, with programs designed to support film criticism and craft while giving audiences greater context and perspective through public conversations guided by expert voices.
Key publications represented in KWFF Critic’s Focus program and Critic’s Prize at the festival include: Los Angeles Times, Vulture.com, Rolling Stone, Indiewire, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, TimeOut NY, RogerEbert.com and more.

Past guests have included: Burt Reynolds, John Waters, Mariel Hemingway, Harmony Korine, Marisa Tomei, Paul Haggis, Alan Cumming, Sebastian Junger, Tom Berenger, Paul Verhoeven,  Billy Corben, Terry George, Corey Glover, Steven Bauer, Anson Mount, Celia Weston, Angus MacLachlan, Judy Blume, Ondi Timoner, Bob Wisdom, Val Lauren, Anne O’Shea, Lois Smith, Mark Bridges and many more.
For more information, visit our website: https://kwfilmfest.com
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DOC NYC 2019 IN BRIGHT AXIOM (Section: INVESTIGATIONS) NYC PREMIERE

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DOC NYC 2019

IN BRIGHT AXIOM (Section: INVESTIGATIONS)

NYC PREMIERE 

Director: Spencer McCall (The Institute)

Welcome to the House of Latitude, where absolute discretion is demanded in exchange for entry into a mysterious social experiment in the form of an elaborate immersive experience. Drawing a community of curiosity seekers, this secret society becomes a way of life for some, putting increasing pressure on the organizers to maintain this sophisticated and fantastical parallel world.

From the minds who inspired AMC’s upcoming series Dispatches From Elsewhere, IN BRIGHT AXIOM weaves an intriguing cautionary tale about the unforeseen consequences of embracing the unknown. Followers of Meow Wolf, Sleep No More, Ingress and other immersive & augmented reality entertainment should take note.

The film also features never-before-seen discourse from the mesmerizing hip-hop polymath, RAMMELLZEE and original music by Justin Robbins, with additional songs from Isan, Tickles, and ü-Ziq.

Spencer McCall has spent the last ten years orchestrating socio-reengineering and public hoax-prank performance art pieces. An avid fan of the Yes Men, McCall began by participating in Improv Everywhere inspired events, “plant” based roles in The Go Game, and location-based performances with Atmos-theater.

In 2009, he became a co-creator of the Jejune Institute; a citywide alternate reality game in San Francisco that lasted three years and “inducted” over 10,000 unknowing participants. McCall took his experience working with Jejune and turned it into an award-winning documentary “The Institute.” His film is currently being remade into a series on a major television network.

McCall also contributed to follow-up experience The Latitude Society; a faux secret society with an underground experiential labyrinth beneath San Francisco.

Running Time: 90 Minutes Language: English Country: USA (Feature Documentary)

DOC NYC 2019 FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: 

PUBLIC SCREENING:

Thursday, November 7 at 9:20PM
Location: Cinepolis Cinema (260 West 23rd Street)

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8th Annual Key West Film Festival Announces Official Lineup

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Noah Baumbach’s “MARRIAGE STORY” and Destin Daniel Cretton’s “JUST MERCY” to serve as Centerpiece Presentations

Previously announced Opening and Closing Night Films – “THE IRISHMAN” and Florida festival Premiere of “WAVES” - Curated by K. Austin Collins of Vanity Fair and Jen Yamato of the Los Angeles Times as part of 5th Annual Critics Focus Program 

October 30, 2019, New York, NY – The 8th Annual Key West Film Festival announces its official 2019 lineup including major fall films from Noah Baumbach and Destin Daniel Cretton. More than 115 films and V/R pieces will be shown during the 5-day festival, which runs November 20-24. Nearly half of the feature films at the festival will be Florida festival premieres.

Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY (Netflix), starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and Cretton’s JUST MERCY (Warner Bros. Pictures), starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx serve as the marquee Centerpiece films, joining the previously announced Opening and Closing Night Films, Martin Scorsese’s THE IRISHMAN (Netflix) and Trey Edward Shults’s Hollywood, FL-based WAVES (A24). The latter two films play as part of the festival’s 5th Annual Critics Focus program, in which two of the nation’s top critics curate the slots and have a pre-screening discussion. Shults will appear for a Q&A moderated by Collins and Yamato.

Director of Programming Michael Tuckman says, “We are once again elated to be showcasing some of the major contenders for the Oscars this year and giving audiences in Key West a first look at these films, which are sure to be talked about for decades to come. And we are equally proud of the spotlight we are placing on Florida-based stories, not just through our extensive local programming, but as seen through so many films in our main slate program that take place in or are connected to Florida.” 

Other Spotlight films include the Florida premieres of Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman’s AFTER PARKLAND, who will both attend the festival, and Bert & Bertie’s TROOP ZERO, starring Viola Davis and Allison Janney and written by Florida native Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild). Another Florida native, acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner,  returns to KWFF with a special director’s cut of her film MAPPLETHORPE, which took home the award for Best LGBTQ Film at KWFF 2018.

Film critics in attendance at this year’s festival will include Collins, Yamato, and Eric Kohn, Executive Editor & Chief Critic of IndieWireDavid Fear, Senior Editor and critic at Rolling Stone; Eugene Hernandez, Co-Publisher of Film CommentMonica Castillo of RogerEbert.com; Tomris Laffly of Variety; Shirrel Rhoades of Adams Publishing Group, and Hans Morgenstern of the Miami New Times. These critics will participate in the 5th Annual Critics Panel, moderated by Eric Kohn, and collaborate to decide the winner of KWFF’s fourth annual Critics Prize. Unique in its nature, the Critics Prize, voted on by the critics in attendance, is presented to one film from the entire program.

Special events this year include previously announced appearances by Florida native Kimberly Peirce and legendary actor Tom Skerritt, who will be honored with the prestigious Golden Key Awards on the 20th Anniversary of BOYS DON’T CRY and the 40th Anniversary of ALIEN, respectively.

The fourth annual Golden Key for Costume Design will also take place, this time with an award honoring Arianne Phillips, whose recent work was showcased in Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.  Deborah Nadoolman Landis, a past president of the Costume Designers Guild and former Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, will helm a video presentation of the award.

New to the program this year is the Kibbitz with Critics series, in which the curating critics share two of their favorite films from the last year over brunch. Collins will present Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar’s AMERICAN FACTORY and Yamato will present Florida-raised Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL.

Additional films in the main slate with ties to Florida include PAHOKEE, A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM, and THE INFILTRATORS. Special guests from each of these films will appear at the festival.

The festival will take place in Key West from November 20-24, and includes special event screenings and a curated selection of over 30 feature films and shorts programs encompassing narrative features, documentaries, foreign language cinema, LGBTQ cinema, VR, and works by Florida filmmakers. The shorts programs were curated from hundreds of submissions from Florida, the United States, and a dozen other Latin American, Caribbean, European, and Asian countries.

The complete line-up is as follows. Eugene Hernandez and Brian Brooks assisted in the curation of the LGBTQ programming and the Virtual Reality programming was curated by Matthew Bolish. Filmmaker Ruth Reitan, a graduate of the University of Miami MFA program and KWFF alumnus, directed the program.

CRITICS FOCUS – OPENING NIGHT

THE IRISHMAN,Martin Scorsese

JUST MERCY,Destin Daniel Cretton

SHORTS PROGRAMS
World Comedy I

World Comedy II

World Student Docs/Drama

Animation + FL Student Docs/Drama

FL Docs

World Drama/Thriller

FL Psych/Thriller

Florida and World Student Comedy

FL Student Comedy

Environmental Docs & Animation

Havana Shorts

Virtual Reality

ABOUT THE KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2019

The Key West Film Festival — where passion meets paradise — is an annual celebration of contemporary cinema in a historically rich, artistically vibrant, and culturally diverse island community.

KWFF strives to showcase the best of Florida filmmaking talent, while highlighting visiting filmmakers and industry leaders through discussions and workshops, with access to some of the biggest names in the film business. The festival also looks to support the next generation of local student filmmakers with scholarships and other key awards.

The Festival’s Critics Focus program, enhanced with the juried Critics’ Prize, together with the Costume Design Focus, marks the Key West Film Festival as a vital stop on the awards season’s fall festival circuit, with programs designed to support film criticism and craft while giving audiences greater context and perspective through public conversations guided by expert voices. Key publications represented in KWFF Critic’s Focus program and Critic’s Prize at the festival include: Los Angeles Times, Vulture.com, Rolling Stone, Indiewire, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, TimeOut NY, RogerEbert.comand more.

Past guests have included: Burt Reynolds, John Waters, Mariel Hemingway, Harmony Korine, Marisa Tomei, Paul Haggis, Alan Cumming, Sebastian Junger, Tom Berenger, Paul Verhoeven, Billy Corben, Terry George, Corey Glover, Steven Bauer, Anson Mount, Celia Weston, Angus MacLachlan, Judy Blume, Ondi Timoner, Bob Wisdom, Val Lauren, Anne O’Shea, Lois Smith, Mark Bridges and many more.

For more information, visit our website: https://kwfilmfest.com

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