Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) announced what they describe as a captivating and thrilling lineup of films for their 2014 festival, to be held October 16-25 at Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON at The Shops at West End in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Festival begins with the Jason Reitman directed dramedy Men, Women & Children, which will open the festival Thursday night. Minnesotan filmmakers will again be featured among award contenders, including 2014 TCFF Centerpiece film Hunger in America produced by Minneapolis’ own Tim VandeSteeg and narrated by James Denton. VandeSteeg and Denton will appear at the special benefit with partial proceeds being donated to the St. Louis Park Foodshelf, an organization battling hunger in the Twin Cities Community.
Other highly anticipated films include the hit comedy from the Los Angeles Film Festival, The Last Time You Had Fun starring Demetri Martin and Eliza Coupe; V/H/S: Viral, the third film in the hit found footage horror trilogy; and The Heart Machine, the haunting and intricate romantic mystery that had audiences at South by Southwest talking.
The final days of the festival will feature two critically-acclaimed films, The Imitation Game on October 24 and Wild onOctober 25. The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cummerbatch as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. The film recently took home the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, immediately positioning it as an awards season frontrunner. Wild, based on the NY Times bestselling book by Minnesota native Cheryl Strayed, stars Reese Witherspoon.
Closing the festival will be Time Lapse, the ingenious and tantalizing story about a camera that takes photos 24 hours in the future which has already won the coveted audience award at the Fantaspoa International Film Festival.
2014 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST SCHEDULE
October 16
7:30PM: Men, Women & Children
October 17
1:00PM: The Immortalists
3:00PM: Big Significant Things
5:15PM: Father-Like Son
7:30PM: The Last Time You Had Fun
9:30PM: V/H/S: Viral
October 18
10:00AM: One Good Year
12:00PM: These Hopeless Savages
2:00PM: Old Fashioned
4:45PM: 3 Nights in the Desert
6:00PM: BFFs
7:00PM: The Heart Machine
8:30PM: The Well
9:00PM: House of Manson
October 19
10:30AM: Born to Fly
12:30PM: A Family Affair (Shorts Block)
3:00PM: The Young Kieslowski
6:00PM: Wild Canaries
8:30PM: Just Before I Go
October 20
6:00PM: Evil, Enemies, and Aliens (Shorts Block)
8:45PM: The Transylvania TV
October 21
6:00PM: To Say Goodbye
8:45PM: Solitude
October 22
12:30PM: Flying Paper
2:15PM: Father-Like Son
4:30PM: Old Fashioned
6:00PM: Hunger In America
7:00PM: Comet
8:30PM: The Control Group
9:30PM: The Well
October 23
11:30AM: Hoop Dreams
3:00PM: The Immortalists
5:00PM: Where the Trail Ends
5:45PM: The World Around Us (Shorts Block)
7:00PM: Stray Dog
8:30PM: Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter
9:30PM: Strike One
October 24
11:00AM: The Syndrome
2:30PM: Big Significant Things
4:30PM: The Heart Machine
6:00PM: Lust, Love & Loss (Shorts Block)
6:30PM: Breaking Free From The Life
8:30PM: The Imitation Game
9:00PM: The Last Time You Had Fun
October 25
10:00AM: The Syndrome
12:30PM: Women in Charge (Shorts Block)
3:00PM: Scouts Honor
5:30PM: Ink & Steel
6:00PM: Wild
8:30PM: Time Lapse