TEN MOST RECENT FILMS WATCHED: Daniel Peddle ‘s GARDEN OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON Tops the List: It’s All About the Florida Film Festival from Films Gone Wild
TEN MOST RECENT FILMS WATCHED: Daniel Peddle ‘s GARDEN OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON Tops the
TEN MOST RECENT FILMS WATCHED: Daniel Peddle ‘s GARDEN OF THE PEACEFUL DRAGON Tops the
Call for Entries open May 1, 2017, for the 2018 Oxford Film Festival, taking place in Oxford, Mississippi, February 7-11, 2018. The 15th edition of the festival includes a new film and screenplay competition with cash prizes, as well as a reduced submission fee incentive for female filmmakers.
From film festival to film festival, I wrapped up the Dallas International Film Festival, immediately went into the brand new EARTHxFilm festival (both of which I am the publicist for), and from there headed directly to the Florida Film Festival, where I had been asked to be on the Narrative Jury. So, the film choices were laid out for me, and I happily took them in…
“This year’s lineup is typically diverse, both in content and the filmmakers responsible for the films, bookended by personal profiles that hit close to home both because of their redemptive themes and because they get to the heart of what is the best in humanity,” said Harlem International Film Festival Program Director Nasri Zacharia, “In our 12th year, the festival will once again provide a forum for wonderful storytelling and exciting moments on the big screen created by talent all around the world.”
EARTHxFilm and Earth Day Texas rolled out the Green Carpet to honor environmental heres and activists at the Global Green Gala on Friday, April 21 at Fair Park, in Dallas. Featuring a heady mix of people on the front lines working to literally save the earth, as well as filmmakers documenting and illustrating those efforts, the red carpet also included several of the guests contributing to the mission.
The very first red….er, I mean GREEN carpet for the very first EARTHxFilm and their very first Opening Night Gala selection, Jeff Orlowski’s CHASING CORAL featured Earth Day Texas and EARTHxFilm luminaries, a cool race car driver, and an Oscar winner! All of them walked along a turf carpet that could double as a putting green outside Fair Park’s beautiful Music Hall.
The newly elected Board of Directors includes President Dan Brawley (Cucalorus Film Festival), Vice President Andrew Rodgers (Denver Film Society), Treasurer Anne Chaisson (Hamptons International Film Festival and FFA founding member), Secretary Judy Laster (Woods Hole Film Festival, FFA founding member) and Jon Gann (Founder DC Shorts Film Festival, Past Program Director, FFA.)
The Dallas Film Society Honors red carpet on Friday, April 7, featured a Dallas Shining Star honoree and her famous mom, this year’s jurors, some late arriving filmmakers, and some filmmakers making one last appearance to soak up the attention of the photographers’ cameras and interviewers’ microphones.
Mike Peters of The Alarm, the inspirational founder of the rock band, at the West
Studio Movie Grill’s Senior Director of Outreach, Lynne McQuaker, says, “We are so excited to bring this celebration of women on screen and behind the camera to Studio Movie Grill and to partner with local non-profits who provide needed resources and give women the power to grow and heal.”