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Hugo Sobelman’s SOUL KIDS, Mye Hoang’s CAT DADDIES: Oxford Film Festival 2022’s Opening Night red carpet!

By John Wildman 4 years ago

The Oxford Film Festival returned with a new Interim Executive Director and Director of Programming to bring the world of film, as only it can, to Mississippi. Celebrating the Opening Night screening of Hugo Sobelman’s SOUL KIDS, and Mye Hoang’s festival favorite CAT DADDIES, the socially distanced red carpet included filmmakers, jury members, and representatives from the Oxford Film Festival programming team.

TOMORROW’S HOPE, Executive produced by the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation, turns some heads at SXSW EDU 2022

By John Wildman 4 years ago

Tomorrow’s Hope producers Tamra Raven and Aaron Steinberg were joined for their screening at SXSW EDU by one of the film’s outspoken subjects Portia Kennel to talk about the film, what it took to make it, and the ongoing issues and hurdles that teachers face as we attempt to not simply educate children, but also take care of the people charged with that responsibility of teaching them.

Cheryl Allison’s documentary HONK got a SRO preview hosted by Dallas Video Fest

By John Wildman 4 years ago

offer. Standing Room Only to watch her latest documentary, HONK, about the relationship that grew between the filmmaker and a goose who had been abandoned in a local park. Allison’s videos of their encounters caught the imagination of people around the world, the press couldn’t get enough of progress reports and updates on Honk’s journey thanks to Allison’s publicizing his plight. So, prior to the film’s official film festival debut, Bart Weiss’ Dallas Video Fest hosted a special sneak preview screening.

Sound Unseen comes to Austin Film Society for the first time with Bobbi Jo Hart’s FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK and Todd Rohal’s THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE, more

By John Wildman 5 years ago

And the success of that venture, meant the next step was ready to be taken: Sound Unseen was finally going to Austin. So, on October 27 and 29, Bobbi Jo Hart’s documentary FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK and Todd Rohal’s seminal indie classic THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE were set to test the waters at the Austin Film Society’s theaters. Better yet, Fanny guitarist Patti Quatro was lined up to talk to filmmaker Lisa Donato (GOSSAMER FOLDS) on Thursday, and Todd Rohal agreed to attend his screening and have a conversation on film with friend and fellow director Jeff Nichols (TAKE SHELTER, MUD).

Dorie Barton’s WELCOME TO THE SHOW brings the show back home to the Richmond Film Festival

By John Wildman 5 years ago

Well, the film and the filmmakers all returned to the scene of the…scenes..? Part of a Virginia and Richmond-specific Opening Night presentation, Barton and her team literally brought “The Show” to the Richmond Film Festival’s audiences by taping invitations under random seats in the theater for “lucky” patrons to participate in the immersive experience paralleling what the main characters in the film experience, and also saw the Andrew Bonieskie and Dillon Douglasson perform music from the film’s soundtrack live later that week.

Big Bear Film Summit’s first in-person fest brought filmmakers up to the mountains

By John Wildman 5 years ago

Film festivals always take their personality from the people in charge and in this case, the Big Bear Film Summit was one of the friendliest, most supportive film festivals at its core that you could ever hope to experience. You can always streamline, increase budgets, perfect systems, but you just can’t buy that underlying feeling of getting the big cosmic hug. For that reason alone, the Big Bear Film Summit holds A LOT of promise as a destination fest going forward, because who doesn’t want to get a big cosmic hug while having their film screened in a prime vacation (and location) spot.

Meital Cohen Navarro’s OVER MY DEAD BODY makes its L.A. debut at Dances With Films

By John Wildman 5 years ago

Meital Cohen Navarro’s short film OVER MY DEAD BODY is mid way through its film festival run that began with a Jury Prize at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in March, and has included screenings at Iowa’s Julien Dubuque Film Festival, Canada’s Gimli Film Festival, and the Cordillera International Film Festival in Reno, Nevada. However, L.A.’s Dances With Films festival was the first time the cast had joined director/screenwriter/producer Meital Cohen Navarro to see the film on the big screen in front of an audience.

Kat Albert’s Lake Travis Film Festival rolls out the red carpert for 2021 Filmmakers: Lisa Belcher, Hellin Kay, Chantelle James, Olivia Nash, Joel Mendez-Zarate, Lincoln Edwards, and more!

By John Wildman 5 years ago

Kat Albert’s Lake Travis Film Festival has A LOT of ambitions. And founded and directed by a woman who is a filmmaker herself, those ambitions have an eye toward what filmmakers want and hope for in a film festival. And one of those things is getting attention for themselves and their films. Therefore, in its second year, LTFF literally rolled out the red carpet. In fact, while Lake Travis is adjacent to Austin, this was the first red carpet that city has seen since the pandemic had shut things down as far as in-person tests were concerned last year. And Austin has got a couple other film festivals that people pay attention to from what we hear.