EARTHxFilm has announced its CALL FOR ENTRIES looking for documentary, narrative and short submissions for the second annual film festival in April 2018 with prize money totaling $25,000. EARTHxFilm takes place during EARTHx, a global environmental expo and summit in Dallas, Texas.
The Indie Memphis Film Festival presented by Duncan-Williams, Inc., (November 1-6) has announced its full slate of films for the 20th edition of the annual festival this year. Oliver Butler and Will Eno’s THOM PAIN opens the festival, while Lynn Sachs’s TIP OF MY TONGUE is the Closing Night selection. In between those two films and among the competition films, are a special salute to Abel Ferrara, a MLK50 series honoring the slain Civil Rights leader, a special sneak peak at Craig Brewer’s new television series, a special sidebar of shorts featuring the work of filmmakers from Saudi Arabia, a music-filled block party, and a full slate of screenings featuring many of the most critically revered and popular films from this year’s film festival circuit.
The 15th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival presented by Consolidated Equities Trust (October 18-22) today announced the full schedule for this year’s edition with an impressive roster of Gala selections including; Quentin Krog’s FOR THE BIRDS (Opening Night Gala), Byron Davis’s HUNTING EMMA (Centerpiece Gala), and Lysa Heslov’s SERVED LIKE A GIRL (Closing Night Gala).
The Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film festival dominates this list, along with a couple cool, debate-inspiring films in the theater, and then a couple classics from the late 70s/early 80s.
“The Film Prize has never seen this amazingly high level of work from all of the filmmakers,” said Gregory Kallenberg, Founder and Executive Director of the Film Prize Foundation. “It’s immediate and tangible proof that everyone can see on the big screen of the talent, both local to Louisiana and from all over the country, that is continuing to grow and to film here in Louisiana.”
The Closing Night red carpet for the Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival featured the filmmaking teams behind BROTHERLY LOVE and SOMETHING LIKE SUMMER and a handful of other filmmakers in addition to the belles of that night’s Ball – the Co-Director of BECKS, Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and the woman that starred as the film’s title character, Lena Hall. Once again, everyone had a great time with the photos and the interviews and aGLIFF closed out their 30th edition of the fest with a lot of fun.
For the first time in my decade-long film fest career, I sent out a media alert asking press to cover a red carpet, yet wouldn’t tell them who the “guest of honor” was, since the filmmaker was the writer and director of the Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival’s Secret Screening. But there was a lot of “new” to be had, since aGLIFF wasn’t accustomed to doing the red carpet thing the way Wildworks PR does it. So, everything was shiny and new and a lot of fun as we gave the filmmakers their rock star moments on aGLIFF’s red carpet for the very first time…
Inside the Loop will open with Dorie Barton’s award-winning comedy GIRL FLU, close with Ben Bacharach-White’s music comedy MOCK AND ROLL, and will include a meet-and-greet and “Conversation on Hollywood” with “Young & the Restless” star Daniel Goddard, among an exciting three-day weekend in October including a total of 7 feature-length films and 22 short films.
Damon Cardasis’s SATURDAY CHURCH took home the award for Best Narrative Feature, and Arshad Khan’s ABU was named Best Documentary Feature. The following day, it was announced that Dome Karukoski’s TOM OF FINLAND (Narrative), and Rebecca Adler’s locally-produced documentary TRANS YOUTH won the festival’s Audience Awards.
Rose McGowan has been a major indie film icon that epitomizes the phrase ‘stubbornly independent.’ However, we have all learned that as dynamic as her onscreen presence was, it was barely scratching the surface of her filmmaking vision – as demonstrated by her directorial debut, DAWN.
