DIFF

FILMS GONE WILD: On this Juneteenth, Dallas International Film Festival Artistic Director James Faust gives a first person (and family) account of a life lived

By John Wildman 6 years ago

When you reach out to your friends of color and ask how they are doing…remember… you may be opening a box of systemic trauma that they don’t want to, or are ill equipped to deal with. Rancor and rage may come your way. I ask you to listen ..really listen… For every step forward…there’s a George Floyd. For every success story, there’s a Trayvon Martin. For every…you know what…it’s too much…there are too many. My mother shouldn’t have to check in on me and remind me how to act in front of cops.. I’m 50!

David Blue Garcia’s thriller TEJANO Opens Dallas and North Texas’s Best of Fests will be first film festival featuring all of a single city’s prominent fests joining forces for one big event fest

By John Wildman 7 years ago

The film festival community in Dallas, Fort Worth and North Texas has long been an unsung hero for film lovers locally, bringing films to audiences that they likely would never have had an opportunity to see on a big screen or even be aware of, otherwise.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: EARTHxFilm’s Opening Night Green Carpet for Jeff Orlowski ‘s CHASING CORAL

By admin 9 years ago

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.

FILMS GONE WILD: Honoring Faye Dunaway among My Personal Happy Moments at this year’s Dallas International Film Festival

By John Wildman 9 years ago

And let me tell you, it is very hard to convince a famous director or movie star, etc. to leave their home in New York City or Beverly Hills or wherever to come spend a couple days at a film festival in Oxford, Mississippi, or Wichita, Kansas, or Birmingham, Alabama, or Dallas, Texas, so they can have film fans make a big deal over them, talk about a film or films they made 10 or 20 years ago, and receive a cool award and endless praise. It’s even harder to convince a personal publicist, or agent, or manager.

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Dallas Shining Star honoree Zoey Deutch: The 2017 Dallas Film Society Honors Red Carpet with a Dallas Shining Star, her movie star mother, and much, much, more!

By admin 9 years ago

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.

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.