Onur Tukel’s That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes: Sidewalk Film Festival 2021 — Keeps adding more and more and more films, panels, and people!
Onur Tukel’s That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes: Sidewalk Film Festival 2021.
Sidewalk Film Festival announced late-breaking additions to their already impressive slate of feature films for next week’s film festival, including the world premiere of Onur Tukel’s That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes, a 30th Anniversary screening of Mario Van Peebles’ New Jack City, and Nick Cannon’s latest, She Ball.
The popular film festival also announced an astounding 175 short films, episodic projects, and music videos, a full lineup of filmmaker panels of Saturday and Sunday, as well as this year’s group of filmmakers, film festival heads, and film industry veterans comprising the 2021 Sidewalk jury.
Sidewalk Film Festival Creative Director and Lead Programmer, Rachel Morgan, said, “We worked really hard to fit a few more films in and we’re ecstatic about this last round. Plus, we love a surprise, especially when it’s unexpected and at the very last minute. Every year we work to create a well balanced and diverse line-up and we think the Festival weekend is more fun when there’s a very, very full schedule of amazing things to choose from, choices are best when they’re difficult – Tennis, overachieving co-athletes, Florida road trips and Onur Tukel are great additions to an already stellar line-up!”
Feature films added to next week’s schedule are led by the world premiere of Onur Tukel’s That Cold Dead Look In Your Eyes. The film follows the plight of a man trapped in a nightmare as he’s about to lose his girlfriend, home, and job while experiencing strange hallucinations on the eve of his 40th birthday. Mario Van Peebles’ New Jack City (1991)aboutthe efforts of undercover cops to bring downa newly proclaimed drug kingpingets a special 30th Anniversary screening. William Klein’s seminal documentary on the 1981 French Open, The French (1982) is a critically-revered behind-the-scenes look at a crucial moment in a crucial year in the history of a game, and its iconic players Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Chris Evert, Yannick Noah, and Ivan Lendl.
Additional highlights among the new additions include Lauren Hadaway’s The Novice about a queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team, obsessively pursuing a spot on the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. Nick Cannon’s She Ball follows the struggles of Avery Watts, who enlists the baddest women’s streetball league in the city to help him save the embattled Inglewood Community Center, which he manages, all while trying to raise his seven-year-old daughter. Janicza Bravo’s Zola, which follows a Detroit waitress, and her newfound friend who go on a wild weekend of dancing and partying in Florida that includes a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures.
This year’s lineup of panels on Saturday and Sunday, August 28 and 29, include; Sidewrite Table Reads of the screenplay competition winners; Creative Sustainability Panel: Work-Life Balance looking at ways to ensure you can follow your passion and support yourself at the same time; Post-Covid Programming, which will include programmers from various film festivals talking about how COVID-19 has changed the game for us all in film festival-land; The State of Acting, which will discuss head-on the idea that you have to live in NYC or L.A. in order to have an acting career; and Documenting LGBTQ+ History, which will discuss the triumphs and setbacks in documenting queer history in its many forms.
This year’s Sidewalk Jury includes; Verton Banks (Dollface), Skizz Cyzyk (Icepick to the Moon), Matt Grady (Factory 25), Morgan Doctor (Coming Clean), Becca Greene (Good Vibes), Aaron Hillis (Playtime with Hillis), Lauren Jacobs (Local filmmaker and LGBTQ activist), Andrea Krauss (Hawaii International Film Festival), Cameron McAlister (ATL Film Festival), Kayla Myers (Indie Memphis), Juki Timoner, Ondi Timoner (Mapplethorpe), Onur Tukel (Catfight), Farah White (The Ladies of the House), and Lauren Wissot (Filmmaker Magazine).
Tickets are now on sale and additional information can be found at sidewalkfest.com.
Onur Tukel’s That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes: Sidewalk Film Festival 2021