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The first slate of programming, comprising feature length and short films, narratives, documentaries, pilot episodes, music videos, animation, puppetry, experimental and virtual reality has been revealed for the upcoming 41st Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF).
“We are really excited to release a first wave of films that represents every category of our festival programming,” said ATLFS Executive Director Christopher Escobar. “ATLFF isn’t just one thing, and by including short films, pilots and virtual reality alongside features, we are presenting a greater picture of what to expect this year.”
This group of fourteen films represents the first selections out of a new ATLFF record of 6,085 submissions. Hailing from Austria, Brazil, China, France, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and USA, these films showcase a tremendously diverse swath of work, both artistically and geographically.
Among the feature films represented, themes range from Iranian transgender rights in “Cold Breath” to poverty-stricken Beyoncé super-fans from Brazil in “Waiting for B.” The Tunisian documentary short “El Hara” was co-directed by ATLFF ‘15 alum Mo Scarpelli, who saw great success with her debut film “Frame by Frame.” Famed Japanese animator Keiichi Tanaami created “The Laughing Spider” using inspiration from his childhood memories of air-raids. Virtual reality short film “Traces” explores memory loss and reconstruction by placing the viewer inside the mind of a woman with Alzheimer’s.
These films will be joined by over 150 others for the 2017 Atlanta Film Festival, taking place March 24 through April 2, 2017.
Narrative Feature
Cold Breath (دم سرد) — directed by Abbas Raziji
Iran, 2016, Persian, 83 minutes
Maryam has just turned 30-years-old. She was born as a girl but she passed through puberty like a boy. In the way of love and subsistence, she has tried hard everyday to live just like a normal man.
No Light and No Land Anywhere — directed by Amber Sealey
USA, 2016, English, 75 minutes
Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three-years-old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, beginning with his aging former in-laws, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father. Along the way, she establishes other unexpected connections: her father’s ailing former second wife, her bitter half-sister Tanya and her caregiver girlfriend, and two local barflies.
Documentary Feature
Black Memorabilia — directed by Chico Colvard
USA/China, 2017, English/Chinese, 62 minutes
At the intersection of international commerce, racial identity, and historical narrative, BLACK MEMORABILIA follows the propagation of demeaning representations of African Americans. From industrial China to the rural American south to contemporary Brooklyn, the viewer observes people and places that reproduce, consume and reclaim black memorabilia. This feature documentary takes us on a journey into the material culture of racialized artifacts and confronts us with the incendiary features of these objects.
Waiting for B. — directed by Paulo Cesar Toledo, Abigail Spindel
Brazil, 2016, Portuguese, 72 minutes
WAITING FOR B. takes the viewer on a journey with young Beyoncé super-fans who, lacking the money to buy their way to the front, camped out for two months in order to be closer to the front of the stage. A story about victims of hype, a community of hope, and the contradictions of humility and vanity at the heart of diva worship.
Narrative Short
Submarine — directed by Mounia Akl
Lebanon, 2016, Arabic, 21 minutes
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s garbage crisis, Hala—a wild child inside of a woman—is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
They Charge For the Sun — directed by Terence Nance
USA, 2016, English, 17 minutes
In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
Documentary Short
El Hara — directed by Margaux Fitoussi, Mo Scarpelli
Tunisia/France, 2016, French, 16 minutes
EL HARA poetically explores how the places we grow up in haunt who we become, forever.
Se Shin Sa — directed by Eunhye Hong Kim
USA, 2016, Korean, 11 minutes
A hybrid of fiction and documentary, SE SHIN SA follows an undocumented woman living and working as a masseuse in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
Animated Short
The Laughing Spider — directed by Keiichi Tanaami
Japan, 2016, Japanese, 7 minutes
A psychedelic fantasmagoria from Japan’s greatest veteran animator, based on childhood memories of air-raids.
Virtual Reality Short
Traces — directed by Gabriela Arp
USA, 2016, English, 8 minutes
TRACES is a cinematic virtual reality film exploring the meaning of memory for one woman living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Puppetry Short
Good Night (Gute Nacht) — directed by Henning Backhaus
Austria, 2016, German, 7 minutes
A sock puppet strolls through niveous winter worlds; the dark, expressionist black-and-white imagery oscillating between comedy and tragedy. Soon the protagonist will choose to end his life, while the lonesome journey by Schubert has only just begun.
Experimental Short
Forged From the Love of Liberty — directed by Vashti Harrison
Trinidad and Tobago/USA, 2016, English, 5 minutes
A visual poem about a family’s curse, and two superstitions surround it.
Pilot Episode
The Benefits of Gusbandry — directed by Alicia J. Rose
USA, 2016, English, 9 minutes
One woman, one man, a lot of weed, a little crying and NO sexual attraction whatsoever. Love is so gay.
Music Video
“Left & Right” by Pazes — directed by Camila Lima
Brazil, 2016, 3 minutes
Left and right. Fire and water. Night and day. Heavy and light. Masculine and feminine. From a divided individual in search of its whole.Atlanta Film Festival
The Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. The Atlanta Film Festival is one of the largest and longest-running festival in the country, welcoming an audience of over 28,000 to discover hundreds of new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films, selected from 8000+ submissions from all over the world.
Atlanta Film Festival started in 1976 and takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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First Wave of Films Announced for 2017 Atlanta Film Festival
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The first slate of programming, comprising feature length and short films, narratives, documentaries, pilot episodes, music videos, animation, puppetry, experimental and virtual reality has been revealed for the upcoming 41st Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF).
“We are really excited to release a first wave of films that represents every category of our festival programming,” said ATLFS Executive Director Christopher Escobar. “ATLFF isn’t just one thing, and by including short films, pilots and virtual reality alongside features, we are presenting a greater picture of what to expect this year.”
This group of fourteen films represents the first selections out of a new ATLFF record of 6,085 submissions. Hailing from Austria, Brazil, China, France, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and USA, these films showcase a tremendously diverse swath of work, both artistically and geographically.
Among the feature films represented, themes range from Iranian transgender rights in “Cold Breath” to poverty-stricken Beyoncé super-fans from Brazil in “Waiting for B.” The Tunisian documentary short “El Hara” was co-directed by ATLFF ‘15 alum Mo Scarpelli, who saw great success with her debut film “Frame by Frame.” Famed Japanese animator Keiichi Tanaami created “The Laughing Spider” using inspiration from his childhood memories of air-raids. Virtual reality short film “Traces” explores memory loss and reconstruction by placing the viewer inside the mind of a woman with Alzheimer’s.
These films will be joined by over 150 others for the 2017 Atlanta Film Festival, taking place March 24 through April 2, 2017.
Narrative Feature
Cold Breath (دم سرد) — directed by Abbas Raziji
Iran, 2016, Persian, 83 minutes
Maryam has just turned 30-years-old. She was born as a girl but she passed through puberty like a boy. In the way of love and subsistence, she has tried hard everyday to live just like a normal man.
No Light and No Land Anywhere — directed by Amber Sealey
USA, 2016, English, 75 minutes
Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three-years-old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs, beginning with his aging former in-laws, collecting numbers and addresses in the hopes that one will lead to her father. Along the way, she establishes other unexpected connections: her father’s ailing former second wife, her bitter half-sister Tanya and her caregiver girlfriend, and two local barflies.
Documentary Feature
Black Memorabilia — directed by Chico Colvard
USA/China, 2017, English/Chinese, 62 minutes
At the intersection of international commerce, racial identity, and historical narrative, BLACK MEMORABILIA follows the propagation of demeaning representations of African Americans. From industrial China to the rural American south to contemporary Brooklyn, the viewer observes people and places that reproduce, consume and reclaim black memorabilia. This feature documentary takes us on a journey into the material culture of racialized artifacts and confronts us with the incendiary features of these objects.
Waiting for B. — directed by Paulo Cesar Toledo, Abigail Spindel
Brazil, 2016, Portuguese, 72 minutes
WAITING FOR B. takes the viewer on a journey with young Beyoncé super-fans who, lacking the money to buy their way to the front, camped out for two months in order to be closer to the front of the stage. A story about victims of hype, a community of hope, and the contradictions of humility and vanity at the heart of diva worship.
Narrative Short
Submarine — directed by Mounia Akl
Lebanon, 2016, Arabic, 21 minutes
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s garbage crisis, Hala—a wild child inside of a woman—is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
They Charge For the Sun — directed by Terence Nance
USA, 2016, English, 17 minutes
In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
Documentary Short
El Hara — directed by Margaux Fitoussi, Mo Scarpelli
Tunisia/France, 2016, French, 16 minutes
EL HARA poetically explores how the places we grow up in haunt who we become, forever.
Se Shin Sa — directed by Eunhye Hong Kim
USA, 2016, Korean, 11 minutes
A hybrid of fiction and documentary, SE SHIN SA follows an undocumented woman living and working as a masseuse in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
Animated Short
The Laughing Spider — directed by Keiichi Tanaami
Japan, 2016, Japanese, 7 minutes
A psychedelic fantasmagoria from Japan’s greatest veteran animator, based on childhood memories of air-raids.
Virtual Reality Short
Traces — directed by Gabriela Arp
USA, 2016, English, 8 minutes
TRACES is a cinematic virtual reality film exploring the meaning of memory for one woman living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Puppetry Short
Good Night (Gute Nacht) — directed by Henning Backhaus
Austria, 2016, German, 7 minutes
A sock puppet strolls through niveous winter worlds; the dark, expressionist black-and-white imagery oscillating between comedy and tragedy. Soon the protagonist will choose to end his life, while the lonesome journey by Schubert has only just begun.
Experimental Short
Forged From the Love of Liberty — directed by Vashti Harrison
Trinidad and Tobago/USA, 2016, English, 5 minutes
A visual poem about a family’s curse, and two superstitions surround it.
Pilot Episode
The Benefits of Gusbandry — directed by Alicia J. Rose
USA, 2016, English, 9 minutes
One woman, one man, a lot of weed, a little crying and NO sexual attraction whatsoever. Love is so gay.
Music Video
“Left & Right” by Pazes — directed by Camila Lima
Brazil, 2016, 3 minutes
Left and right. Fire and water. Night and day. Heavy and light. Masculine and feminine. From a divided individual in search of its whole.
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Atlanta Film Festival Announces Competition Feature Lineup
God Bless the Child The 39th annual Atlanta Film Festival taking place March 20-29, 2015, announced the competitive lineups in the narrative and documentary feature categories.
“This year’s feature competition includes a wide variety of innovative works that truly challenge our perception of traditional film forms,” said ATLFF Director of Programming Kristy Breneman.
Three of these films, all of which are narratives, were announced in December: “Breathe (Respire)” directed by Mélanie Laurent, “Next Year (L’annee Prochaine)” directed by Vania Leturcq and “The Sisterhood of Night” directed by Caryn Waechter. Seven of the competition films are directed by women.
ATLFF will host the world premieres of both “Rosehill” (directed by Brigitta Wagner) and “Somewhere in the Middle” (directed by Lanre Olabisi). “Rosehill” is Wagner’s feature debut and stars Josephine Decker and Kate Chamuris. “Somewhere in the Middle,” starring Cassandra Freeman, Charles Miller and Louisa Ward, marks a return to ATLFF for Olabisi. His last feature, “August the First,” played the 2007 Festival. Olabisi is among the winners of the 2009 ATLFF Screenplay Competition.
Two films, Peter Blackburn’s “Eight” and Marcelo Galvão’s “Farewell (A Despedida),” will have their North American premieres at ATLFF. “Next Year (L’annee Prochaine)” played at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, but will make its American debut in Atlanta.
Narrative Feature Competition:
Breathe (Respire)
directed by Mélanie Laurent
France, 2014, French, 91 minutesSeventeen-year-old Charlie is bright and beautiful, but not without insecurity. When new girl Sarah arrives, Charlie is captured by her charisma and the two strike up a deep friendship. For a time, it seems as though each is what the other has been waiting for. When Sarah tires of Charlie and begins making new friends, their relationship takes a turn for the worse.
Starring: Joséphine Japy, Lou de Laâge, Isabelle Carré, Claire Keim
#Narrative #InternationalEight
directed by Peter Blackburn
Australia, 2014, English, 82 minutesSarah Prentice had a life, once. She had a husband, and a daughter. She had holidays. Now she has a routine. She has eight. Bound in a repetitive cycle of OCD, trapped in her house by agoraphobia, the smallest of every day tasks are a monumental effort. As she battles to break her vices, will a knock on the door unhinge her progress?
Starring: Libby Munro, Jane Elizabeth Barry
#Narrative #International #NorthAmericanPremiereFarewell (A Despedida)
directed by Marcelo Galvão
Brazil, 2014, Portuguese, 90 minutesBased on true facts, “Farewell” tells the story of Admiral, a 92-year-old man, who decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life and spends one last night with Fatima, his lover who is 55 years younger than him. His life has been showing clear signs that it is coming to an end, which makes the experience dense, deep and urgent.
Starring: Nelson Xavier, Juliana Paes, Amélia Bittencourt, Tereza Piffer
#Narrative #International #NorthAmericanPremiereFunny Bunny
directed by Alison Bagnall
USA, 2015, English, 86 minutesGene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene discovers that Titty has an ongoing online relationship with the beautiful but reclusive Ginger, who is an animal activist. Gene convinces Titty to make a pilgrimage to meet Ginger where the two men form a close bond despite both of them being drawn to the enigmatic Ginger, who is in need of rescue.
Starring: Kentucker Audley, Olly Alexander, Joslyn Jensen, Josephine Decker
#NarrativeGod Bless the Child
directed by Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
USA, 2015, English, 92 minutesFive siblings, left on their own, spend a summer’s day full of fantasy and chaos.
Starring: Harper Graham, Elias Graham, Arri Graham, Ezra Graham, Jonah Graham
#NarrativeKrisha
directed by Trey Edward Shults
USA, 2015, English, 82 minutesAfter years of absence, Krisha reunites with her family for a holiday gathering. She sees it as an opportunity to fix her past mistakes, cook the family turkey, and prove to her loved ones that she has changed for the better. Only, Krisha’s delirium takes her family on a dizzying holiday that no one will forget.
Starring: Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild, Bill Wise, Trey Edward Shults, Chris Doubek, Olivia Grace Applegate, Alex Dobrenko, Bryan Casserly, Chase Joliet, Atheena Frizzell, Augustine Frizzell, Rose Nelson, Victoria Fairchild, Billie Fairchild
#NarrativeMontedoro
directed by Antonello Faretta
Italy, 2015, Italian/English, 88 minutesA rich middle aged American woman unexpectedly discovers her true origin after her parents have died. Deeply moved, in the midst of an identity crisis, she decides to travel, hoping to find the natural mother she has never known. She therefore goes to a small and remote place in the south of Italy, Montedoro. She finds an apocalyptic scene when she gets there: the village, resting on a majestic hill, is completely abandoned and nobody seems to live there anymore.
Starring: Pia Marie Mann, Mario Duca, Luciana Paolicelli, Joe Capalbo, Anna Di Dio, Caterina Pontrandolfo, Domenico Brancale
#Narrative #International #WorldPremiereNext Year (L’année Prochaine)
directed by Vania Leturcq
France/Belgium, 2014, French, 105 minutesClotilde and Aude are eighteen and have always been best friends. Their relationship is strong and interdependent, as teenage friendships can be. They are finishing school and have to decide what to do the following year, after their baccalaureate. Clotilde decides to leave their small, provincial village and go to Paris, dragging Aude along with her. But the two friends will experience this departure differently, ultimately splitting up.
Starring: Constance Rousseau, Jenna Thiam, Julien Boisselier, Kévin Azaïs
#Narrative #International #USPremiereRosehill
directed by Brigitta Wagner
USA, 2015, English, 78 minutesOld friends Alice and Katriona haven’t seen each other since Alice got a job as a sex researcher in rural Indiana. When New York actress Katriona pays a sudden visit, Alice thinks her small-town boredom has come to an end. Little does she know that Katriona is harboring something. The two women set out on a local journey that leads them, unexpectedly, back to themselves. Rocks, women, motion, metamorphosis, and erotica. Part road trip, part meditation, part improvised fiction, part documentary, “Rosehill” is a film about crisis and eternal change, the darkness and resilience of the human spirit.
Starring: Josephine Decker, Kate Chamuris, Ken Farrell, John Machesky, Jacob Emery
#Narrative #WorldPremiereThe Sisterhood of Night
directed by Caryn Waechter
USA, 2014, English, 102 minutesThe story begins when Emily Parris exposes a secret society of teenage girls who have slipped out of the world of social media, into a mysterious world deep in the woods. Emily’s allegations of sexually deviant activities throw the town of Kingston into hysteria and the national media spotlight. As the accused uphold a vow of silence, Emily’s blog takes an unexpected turn when girls across the country emerge with personal stories of sexual abuse. Why are the Sisterhood girls willing to risk so much for a ritualistic gathering in the woods? From the story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser, “The Sisterhood of Night” chronicles a provocative alternative to adolescent loneliness, revealing the tragedy and humor of teenage years changed forever by the Internet age.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Kara Hayward, Willa Cuthrell, Olivia De Jonge, Kal Penn, Laura Fraser
#NarrativeSomewhere in the Middle
directed by Lanre Olabisi
USA, 2015, English, 89 minutesSofia’s life is a mess. Bad relationships. Dwindling job prospects. But a chance encounter at a bookstore convinces her that she’s met the love of her life in Kofi — a handsome, but immature office manager. Kofi, however, has other things on his mind. Namely, his crumbling marriage to his demanding wife, Billie, who is herself struggling with a newfound attraction for her female co-worker, Alex. In an instant, events that seem true suddenly turn upside down. As secrets and lies surface, each layer of the love quadrangle is slowly peeled away, leaving everyone to cope with the ripple effects of love, obsession, sexuality and ultimately self-discovery. “Somewhere in the Middle” was born out of a year long improvisational process wherein the actors and director mutually crafted a time-fragmented, ensemble drama. Structured like a jigsaw puzzle, no character fully grasps their current dilemma as three interwoven stories are retold from varying viewpoints.
Starring: Cassandra Freeman, Charles Miller, Louisa Ward, Marisol Miranda, Aristotle Stamat, D. Rubin Green
#Narrative #WorldPremiereDocumentary Feature Competition
Frame by Frame
directed by Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli
USA/Afghanistan, 2015, English/Dari, 85 minutesIn 1996, the Taliban banned photography in Afghanistan. Taking a photo was considered a crime. When the US invaded after 9/11, Afghans saw the Taliban regime topple, the media blackout disappear, and a promising media industry emerge. Now, in a country facing abject uncertainty and ongoing war, Afghanistan’s young press struggles to be a free press. “Frame by Frame” is a feature-length documentary that follows four Afghan photojournalists navigating a young and dangerous media landscape. Through cinema verité, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban, the film reveals a struggle in overcoming the odds to capture the truth.
#Documentary #International
Madina’s Dream
directed by Andrew Berends
USA/Sudan, 2015, Sudanese Arabic, 80 minutesAn unflinching and poetic glimpse into a forgotten war, “Madina’s Dream” tells the story of rebels and refugees fighting to survive in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. After decades of civil war, South Sudan achieved its independence from Sudan in 2011. But inside Sudan, the conflict continues. Sudan’s government employs aerial bombings and starvation warfare against the inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to refugee camps in South Sudan or remain trapped in the war zone. Eleven-year-old Madina and countless others dream of a brighter future for the Nuban people.
#Documentary #International
Masculinity/Femininity
directed by Russell Sheaffer
USA, 2014,English, 88 minutes“Masculinity/Femininity” is an experimental interrogation of normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Prominent filmmakers, film theorists, gender theorists, and artists are each asked to perform a piece that deals with issues surrounding gender identity and construction. Shot primarily on Super 8, the film merges academic and cinematic critique—aiming to be more of a document of gender de-construction rather than a documentary about gender construction.
#Documentary #PinkPeach
A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake
directed by Michael Lessac
South Africa, 2014, English, 99 minutesA diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country’s experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland’s violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness. Featuring never-before-heard original music by jazz legend Hugh Masekela.
#Documentary #International
Stray Dog
directed by Debra Granik
USA, 2014, English, 98 minutesHarley-Davidson, leather, tattooed biceps: Ron “Stray Dog” Hall looks like an authentic tough guy. A Vietnam veteran, he runs a trailer park in rural Missouri with his wife, Alicia, who recently emigrated from Mexico. Gradually, a layered image comes into focus of a man struggling to come to terms with his combat experience. When Alicia’s teenage sons arrive, the film reveals a tender portrait of an America outside the mainstream. “Stray Dog” is a powerful look at the veteran experience, a surprising love story, and a fresh exploration of what it takes to survive in the hardscrabble heartland.
#Documentary
Sweet Micky for President
directed by Ben Patterson
Haiti/USA/Canada, 2015, English, 89 minutesCan one man change a country? Pras Michel believed he could. “Sweet Micky for President” tells the story of Pras, founder of the Grammy award winning hip-hop group The Fugees, as he sets out to change the destiny of his home country of Haiti. With no experience, no money and no support, Pras mobilizes a presidential campaign for Michel Martelly better known as the controversial diaper wearing pop-star Sweet Micky. As a first time political candidate, Martelly aims to use his skills as an artist to affect revolutionary change in a country whose people have been disenfranchised for over 200 years. Despite all odds, Martelly wins the presidency instilling a renewed sense of hope for Haiti’s future.
#Documentary #International
Tomorrow We Disappear
directed by Jim Goldblum, Adam M. Weber
India/USA, 2014, Hindi/English, 85 minutesWhen their home is sold to real-estate developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Delhi’s Kathputli Colony must find a way to unite—or splinter apart forever.
#Documentary #International
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First 10 Films, All Directed by Women, Announced for 2015 Atlanta Film Festival
The Sisterhood of NightThe 39th annual Atlanta Film Festival taking place March 20 thru 29, 2015, has released the first ten feature films, all directed by women, selected for the festival’s film lineup. “Films from female directors composed nearly half of last year’s feature film program. This first glimpse at the Festival’s 2015 lineup showcases the outstanding quality of work found in submissions from female filmmakers,” said ATLFF Director of Programming Kristy Breneman. Of the ten features in this first wave, six are narrative (fiction) and four are documentaries.
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“I Believe In Unicorns” “Getting to the Nutcracker” Among Winners of 2014 Atlanta Film Festival
LEAH MEYERHOFF, WRITER/DIRECTOR OF THE 2014 ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD WINNER, I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS. I Believe In Unicorns directed by Leah Meyerhoff won the top prize for Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2014 Atlanta Film Festival.“I Believe in Unicorns” takes us on a road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love. Getting to the Nutcracker directed by Serene Meshel-Dillman won the award for Best Documentary. “Getting to The Nutcracker” takes you inside the Herculean effort involved in gathering the resources, assembling the volunteers, casting the dancers, rehearsing and staging the performances of the classic ballet. Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo directed by Matt Livadary that exposes the world to the unsung LGBT community of both the old and new west won the Pink Peach Feature Film award.
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JOE starring Nicolas Cage to Open 2014 Atlanta Film Festival; THE DOUBLE starring Jesse Eisenberg to Close
JOE starring Nicolas CageThe 38th Annual Atlanta Film Festival taking place March 28 to April 6 2014, will open with the feature film “JOE,” starring Nicolas Cage. This film from Roadside Attractions is centered on Nicolas Cage, who plays the titular role of Joe, an ex-con and unlikely role model, who meets a 15-year-old boy (Tye Sheridan) and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin. “JOE” is directed by David Gordon Green, director/producer of television’s “Eastbound and Down” and cult classic films “Pineapple Express” and “All the Real Girls.”
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2012 Atlanta Film Festival Line-Up Plus L!fe Happens to Open and The Cabin in the Woods to Close Festival
Opening Night Film – L!fe Happens The Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF) announced its 2012 lineup of narrative and documentary features and short films for this year’s festival, March 23-April 1 in Atlanta, GA.