Directed by Gregory Bezat, The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher, the new documentary on California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher will World Premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival. The documentary traces the remarkable life of iconic California food writer Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher and explores the impact of her ideas on food, its meaning in our lives, and how her writing laid the foundation of modern food writing.
The Mill Valley Film Festival will honor writer, director Nikyatu Jusu with a Spotlight program including a special onstage conversation, screening of the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and first feature Nanny, and the MVFF Award for Feature Debut.
The 44th Mill Valley Film Festival came to a close after 11 days of films, panels, parties, and musical performances at the annual autumn showcase. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast was voted MVFF Overall Audience Favorite with other top audience awards going to Last Film Show by Pan Nalin won Audience Favorite / World Cinema, C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills won Audience Favorite / US Cinema and The Rescue by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin won Audience Favorite / Documentary.
Mill Valley Film Festival announced the lineup of 118 films – 65 features and 53 shorts, for the 44th edition of the festival headlined by Joe Wright’s Cyrano as opening night film, Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Centerpiece film and Wes Anderson’s star-studded The French Dispatch as closing night film.
The 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF43) and the DocLands Documentary Film Festival (which ran in tandem this year) concluded on October 18th after 11 days of virtual and drive-in screenings, panels, and special events.
The highly buzzed and acclaimed documentary Maxima directed by Claudia Sparrow follows Peruvian indigenous farmer Máxima Acuña in her fight to protect her land as she stands up to the largest gold producer in the world: US-based Newmont Mining Corporation.
Just Mercy directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award® winner Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Rob Morgan and Karan Kendrick is the winner of the Overall Audience Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival 2019.
Director Alma Har’el will attend the upcoming 2019 Mill Valley Film Festival to showcase her latest film Honey Boy, from a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf based on his life.
Actress Laura Dern will receive this year’s Mind the Gap Actor of the Year Award at Mill Valley Film Festival for her incredible body of work, with a special focus on her impressive slate of roles in 2019.
