Dallas International Film Festival

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Jameson Brooks ’s BOMB CITY leads the 2017 Dallas International Film Festival Announces Award Winners

By admin 9 years ago

The Dallas Film Society announced the award winners for the 11th edition of the Dallas International Film Festival at the annual Dallas Film Society Honors Gala Presented by the Arthur E. Benjamin Foundation held at The Highland Dallas (5300 E. Mockingbird) on Friday, April 7. C.A. Gabriel and Renée Felice Smith’s THE RELATIONTRIP took home the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize and Jonathan Olshefski’s QUEST was awarded the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: No April Fools! Brett Haley of THE HERO, Felix the Fox and INTO THE WHO KNOWS! took over DIFF’s red carpet on Saturday, April 1st

By admin 9 years ago

The Dallas International Film Festival featured Brett Haley, the director of THE HERO, on the red carpet, Saturday, April 1st at the Dallas City Performance Hall. But without his star, Sam Elliot, to protect him. Felix the Fox and the cast and crew and kids from INTO THE WHO KNOWS! took the whole thing over. Also joining on the carpet were 44 PAGES, A BAD IDEA GONE WRONG, CITY OF JOY, Katharine Houghton of GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, THE RELATIONTRIP, THE SECRET LIFE OF LANCE LETSCHER, SUNSHINE AND RAIN, and SWEET, SWEET LONELY GIRL.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: BOOM! Jamie Brooks ‘s BOMB CITY blows up Dallas International Film Festival red carpet on Friday, March 31st

By admin 9 years ago

The Dallas International Film Festival featured the cast and crew from BOMB CITY on the red carpet, Friday, March 31st at the Dallas City Performance Hall. Apparently all of Texas worked on the film because the group shot was one of the largest DIFF has ever had. Also joining on the carpet were THE BIG SPOON, BILL’S RECORDS, DEALT, END OF THE EARTH, and PROXY. A full house and a full carpet!

DIFF 2017 REVIEWS: Mark Palansky ‘s REMEMORY is the rare sci-fi film/emotional drama hybrid that gets the balance right

By admin 9 years ago

When it comes to the matter of “truths,” REMEMORY is complex enough to admit that examining perspective and putting together the pieces of multiple accounts is everything in the quest for enlightenment. In this sense, the film is a reflection on the human condition and the types of neuro technologies that we’re set to wrestle with in the near future.

Dallas International Film Fest 2017 REVIEWS: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s debut feature film, HEARTSTONE is a grand achievement

By Miguel Cima 9 years ago

The visual transition is caught in wild nature, like much of the film, and offers a tiny flicker of hope – don’t blink or you’ll miss it – in a grand spontaneous gesture, as far from phony as you get in cinema. Truly, this work is a grand achievement, Guðmundsson’s first feature, hopefully foreshadowing an equally brilliant career to come.

The Edward Douglas Interviews: OLD STONE director, Johnny Ma talks the politics of doing the right thing, making films in Asia, and trading cigarettes to get along

By Edward Douglas 9 years ago

The Chinese title is called Lao Shi, which is the character’s name, and actually, the literal meaning of that is Old Stone, but there’s a double meaning to that also. It’s what you call somebody who is too honest, too naïve. It’s almost like saying, “Oh, that guy is way too honest. He’s easy to cheat.”

Film Festival News: Red Carpet Photos from the Dallas International Film Festival's Opening Night Gala Presentation of BONNIE AND CLYDE

By admin 9 years ago

The Dallas International Film Festival’s 50th Anniversary Gala Presentation of BONNIE AND CLYDE at the Dallas City Performance Hall on Thursday, March 30, was as exciting as it gets with two Academy Award-winners in the house, and the entire cast and crew for BOMB CITY on hand, set to make its world premiere the next evening…