The 2019 Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced the complete lineup of films, as well as special tributes for writer/director/actor John Cameron Mitchell and actress/producer Jillian Bell .
John Cameron Mitchell (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES) who will be named the 2019 “Filmmaker on the Edge,” and Jillian Bell (BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON, SWORD OF TRUST) will receive the festival’s third annual “Next Wave Award,” which recognizes those who have exciting and distinctive voices, take artistic risks, and have a passionate commitment to independent film.
Bell will be in attendance to accept the award in conversation and in support of her film BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON, which will open the festival.
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON is a dramatic comedy about Brittany Forgler (Bell), a woman known for being the life of the party finding real friends – and a real life – by taking control of her herself, one city block at a time. The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. Amazon Studios will release the film in theaters on August 23.
Additionally, author and former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Andrew G. McCabe will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Evan Lawson Filmmakers’ Brunch on Sunday, June 16. McCabe’s best-selling book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump is a searing look into the Trump presidency which The New York Times called “concise yet substantive account of how the F.B.I. works, at a moment when its procedures and impartiality are under attack.”
The Provincetown International Film Festival runs June 12 to 16, 2019 in Provincetown, MA.
The complete film lineup is below:
OPENING NIGHT
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON – directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo (Wednesday, June 12)*Paul Downs Colaizzo and Jillian Bell in attendance
CLOSING NIGHT
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT – directed by Hannah Pearl Utt (Sunday, June 16)*Hannah Pearl Utt in attendance
SPOTLIGHT SELECTIONS
LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE – directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (Thursday, June 13)*Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman in attendance
THE APOLLO – directed by Roger Ross Williams (Friday, June 14)*Roger Ross Williams in attendance
VITA & VIRGINIA – directed by Chanya Button (Saturday, June 15)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS/EVENTS
JOHN WATERS PRESENTS: MOM AND DAD – directed by Brian Taylor
MODERN LOVE LIVE, presented by WBUR and The New York Times (Friday, June 14)
BABYLON – directed by Franco Rosso
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH – directed by John Cameron Mitchell
STATE OF PRIDE – directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY – directed by John Schlesinger
NARRATIVE FEATURES
ADAM – directed by Rhys Ernst
AN ALMOST ORDINARY SUMMER – directed by Simone Godano
AUGGIE – directed by Matt Kane
BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES – directed by Salvador Simó
CLEMENCY – directed by Chinonye Chukwu
DOLCE FINE GIORNATA – directed by Jacek Borcuch
DRIVEWAYS – directed by Andrew Ahn
END OF THE CENTURY– directed by Lucio Castro
THE FAREWELL – directed by Lulu Wang
GOOD POSTURE – directed by Dolly Wells
IMAGINARY ORDER – directed by Debra Eisenstadt
OFFICIAL SECRETS – directed by Gavin Hood
ORAY – directed by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
SISTER AIMEE – directed by Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann
SPEED OF LIFE – directed by Liz Manashil
SWALLOW – directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
SWORD OF TRUST – directed by Lynn Shelton
TOP END WEDDING – directed by Wayne Blair
WILD ROSE – directed by Tom Harper
YESTERDAY – directed by Danny Boyle
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
ALWAYS IN SEASON – directed by Jacqueline Olive
AMERICAN FACTORY – directed by Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
CIRCUS OF BOOKS – directed by Rachel Mason
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH – directed by David Charles Rodrigues
HONEYLAND – directed by Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska
MAIDEN – directed by Alex Holmes
MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT – directed by Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon
MIKE WALLACE IS HERE – directed by Avi Belkin
MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS – directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky
MUSEUM TOWN – directed by Jennifer Trainer
SEA OF SHADOWS – directed by Richard Ladkani
SEAHORSE – directed by Jeanie Finlay
WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL – directed by Rob Garver
WIG – directed by Chris Moukarbel
SHORTS
AWUMBUK – directed by Dylan Gillah
THE BLACK MAMBAS – directed by Bruce Donnelly
BUBBLE – directed by Alyssa Lerner
BURNING MY TONGUE – directed by Murphy McCann
CARLOTTA’S FACE – directed by Valentin Riedl
CATHERINE OPIE B. 1961 – directed by Erin Wright
CLASS OF 84 – directed by Alex Salsberg
THE COCOA FONDUE SHOW – directed by Andrew Wyatt Arnold
CURE FOR INSOMNIA – directed by Jay Critchley
DOCKING – directed by Trevor Anderson
FAITHY, HEY – directed by Emily Hubley
FRAN THIS SUMMER – directed by Mary Evangelista
GIRL TALK – directed by Erica Rose
THE HIGH BRIDGE – directed by Benedict Campbell
HOW I CAME OUT – directed by Mark Jones
I KNEW ANDY WARHOL – directed by Marc Saltarelli
LADIES DAY – directed by Abena Taylor-Smith
LAVENDER – directed by Matthew Puccini
THE LINE – directed by Melisa Resch
LOCKDOWN – Celine Held, Logan George
MADE PUBLIC – directed by Foster Wilson
MILLER & SON – directed by Asher Jelinsky
THE MURALIST – directed by Eric Forman
PUT YOUR FEET UP – directed by Peter Horgan
THE RACE – directed by Dina Rudick
RENOVATION – directed by Fábio Leal
SOMETIMES, I THINK ABOUT DYING – directed by Stefanie Abel Horowitz
TIME TO GO – directed by Rio Contrada
TWO BALLOONS – directed by Mark C. Smith
UNDER COVERS – directed by Michaela Olsen
YOU SAY HELLO – directed by Lovell Holder