Tag: Film Festivals
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RED ROCKET’s Chris Bergoch & FF919 gang at afterparty shot on an iPhone
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent In the spirit of Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch’s first breakout film TANGERINE, last night Film Fest 919 founders Randi Emerman and Carol Marshall lined up with RED ROCKET Screenwriting Honoree Chris Bergoch and festival pals from an afterparty for some impromptu iPhone filming. This weekend’s footage followed a…
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Check your Hollyshorts for Red Bull Champ Stuntman Cory DeMeyers’ DANNY BOY
by Screenmancer Staff LOS ANGELES, CA: The Academy Award qualifying film festival Hollyshorts has tapped Cory DeMeyers’ directorial debut DANNY BOY for a run at gold during this fest, which opens Sept. 23. Hollyshorts, slated through Oct. 1, will premiere DeMeyers’ directorial outing about a pair of unusual suspects who find themselves caught between being good thieves or being…
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Spotlight Award for Grammy Legend Diane Warren at Film Fest 919
CHAPEL HILL, NC: Film Fest 919 today announced the dates for its highly-anticipated 4th edition which takes place Oct. 18-24, including a special opening celebration honoring composer Diane Warren with the Spotlight Award on Monday, Oct. 18. Warren’s exciting celebration will launch the festival. “We are delighted to honor the profoundly talented, multi-award-winning, 12-time…
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ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, on domestic silence that is familiar violence, comes to North America
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival this summer. It’s a Greek, Belgian, and German production, dubbed a “psychological thriller” but it is much more than that simple label. As this film opens in North America on Sept. 24 for the Calgary International Film Festival,…
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HONEY BOY Will Mess You UP, But FORD V FERRARI Is a Great Chaser at FF919
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You know it’s a great film festival when you lose track of the calendar count on your daily coverage, meaning today is Day Three, hopefully? Blame Shia LaBeouf’s autobiography-coaster HONEY BOY. Film Fest 919 in Chapel Hill, NC, is showing Shia’s written testament to a Hollywood Childhood on the…
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Party Like It’s 919, But Seriously This IS Film Fest 919 in Chapel Hill, NC
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Once upon a time in Palm Beach and Santa Barbara, there were no smash-hit film festivals and then along came some powerhouse women and made it happen… You have to imagine John Forsythe saying this because Film Fest 919 happening this week in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is literally…
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6 Ways F-Rating Feminist Films Sucks
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Remember when Jack Nicholson shows up in “The Witches of Eastwick” as Daryl Van Horne, but no one can say his name? Next Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon have to make a secret spell to banish him? This is the stuff of female-oriented films. The part where awesome…
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