EarthxFilm’s Artistic Director, David Holbrooke, added, “The proposed wall between the U.S. and Mexico is already such a complicated issue but Ben Masters’ film manages to examine and attempt to understand a critical aspect that’s easy to forget – the abundant wildlife that know no borders.”
Dallas’ film festival community did something never before seen anywhere else in the country when 22 film festivals joined forces last weekend to offer up films from each film festival that either were award-winners, major hits from a previous edition of their fest, or simply demonstrated the programming style and taste of the film festival.
Anyone that knows me at all, or my history, knows about one of the primary things I do for a living, etc. would likely think it was fightin’ words if someone legitimately asked me, “What’s the point of having a red carpet at a film festival?”
The heads of prominent Dallas and North Texas Film Festivals announced their selections for the Top Ten Films of 2018 during WFAA’s Midday at 8 news broadcast today with Ryan Coogler’s BLACK PANTHER, Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA, and John Krasinski’s A QUIET PLACE taking the top three spots.
EarthxFilm, presented by EarthX, reported that the growth of the environmentally focused film festival in their 2nd year, included a 65% increase in attendance from the first year. The festival wrapped things up on Sunday, April 22, by handing out the first awards ever presented by the fest, including cash prizes totaling $37,000.
The heads of prominent Dallas and North Texas Film Festivals announced their selections for the Top Ten Films of 2017 during WFAA’s Midday at 8 news broadcast today with Edgar Wright’s BABY DRIVER, Jordan Peele’s GET OUT, and Guillermo del Toro’s THE SHAPE OF WATER taking the top three spots among films released in 2017.
EARTHxFilm has announced its CALL FOR ENTRIES looking for documentary, narrative and short submissions for the second annual film festival in April 2018 with prize money totaling $25,000. EARTHxFilm takes place during EARTHx, a global environmental expo and summit in Dallas, Texas.
EARTHxFilm and Earth Day Texas rolled out the Green Carpet to honor environmental heres and activists at the Global Green Gala on Friday, April 21 at Fair Park, in Dallas. Featuring a heady mix of people on the front lines working to literally save the earth, as well as filmmakers documenting and illustrating those efforts, the red carpet also included several of the guests contributing to the mission.
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.
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…
