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Ben Masters’ THE RIVER AND THE WALL Opens The Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film Festival announces film lineup for brand new fest’s debut in July

By John Wildman 7 years ago

This is our world and while these wonderful, insightful films can illustrate what is going on around us, and illuminate us all regarding both the world’s beauty, majesty, frailty, and our place in it, we think it’s vital to be an active participant in that world. Therefore, the Boulder E/N/O FF will also feature panel discussions and conversations with the filmmakers, their subjects, and experts to give our audiences an opportunity to use the films as launch points to learn more and talk about what they have just witnessed on the big screen.”

Jesus del Cerro’s HAWAII leads The 2019 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival Filmmaker Awards & Record Audience and Sponsorship Growth for Second Year

By John Wildman 7 years ago

“While the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival has been on an upward trajectory as far as the number of audience members have been concerned for a few years now, this year’s response was seriously off the charts,” said San Luis Obispo Film Festival Director Wendy Eidson. “There are lot of areas that one could chalk that up to, but we all know that it begins and ends with the quality of our films, and our award winners certainly exemplified a very fine year as far as that was concerned.”

50th Anniversary screening BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID at San Luis Obispo International Film Festival mixes classics with great docs, local talent, and (of course) SURF NIGHT and wine country for their 25th

By John Wildman 7 years ago

The 25th Annual San Luis Obispo Film Festival (March 12-17) has revealed its full slate of films which will begin with the previously announced special Opening Night performance by Katharine Ross followed by a 50th Anniversary screening of the classic BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. Along with the films competing in the George Sidney Independent Films Competition, SLO is bringing back several festival favorites from years past for encore presentations. The line-up includes 147 films (23 narrative features, 38 documentary features, and 86 short films) representing 25 countries.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Peter Farrelly’s GREEN BOOK added at Heartland International Film Festival Dives Into Awards Season by Adding High Profile Titles and Best Foreign Film Contenders

By John Wildman 7 years ago

The Heartland International Film Festival announced at last week’s VIPS & SIPS event, held at Daniel’s Vineyard, three high profile feature films that have been added to this year’s lineup. Those films – each on awards prognosticators “watch” lists – include Joel Edgerton’s BOY ERASED, Peter Farrelly’s GREEN BOOK, and Paul Dano’s WILDLIFE. It has also been confirmed that local luminary, WCW-WWE pro-wrestler/actor Bishop Stevens, would be in attendance this year.