Films from Bay Area filmmakers bookend the lineup for the 66th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival), set to take place in theaters across San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley from April 13 to April 23, 2023.
Film Festivals
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66th San Francisco International Film Festival Announces Lineup
I Have Electric Dreams (Tengo Sueños Eléctricos) directed by Valentina Maurel
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BlackBerry and IMordecai Headline San Luis Obispo International Film Festival 2023 Lineup
IMordecai directed by Marvin Samel The 2023 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival announces the film lineup for 29th edition running April 25 to May 7. The 29th edition of the festival opens with Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry and will close with Marvin Samel’s IMordecai.
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10th Old School Kung Fu Fest Returns to Metrograph in NYC, Announces Line Up of 12 Films
The King of Wuxia The Old School Kung Fu Fest returns to the Metrograph theater, promising the biggest retrospective of Taiwanese wuxia (sword fighting hero) movies ever seen in New York City.
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Eva Longoria’s Flamin’ Hot Among Audience Award Winners at SXSW
(From: L-R) Brice Gonzalez, Annie Gonzalez, Jesse Garcia and Hunter Jones in Flamin’ Hot. | Credit: Emily Aragones/Searchlight) Flamin’ Hot, the biopic drama directed by Eva Longoria on the story of Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor who claimed to have invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos won the Audience Award in the Headliners category at the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival. The film will stream on both Hulu and Disney+ on June 9.
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Mark Polish’s MURMUR Wins Best Film at MidWest WeirdFest, Melissa Tittl’s CODE 12 Wins Palmer d’Or
Melissa Tittl was awarded the Palmer d’Or for Code 12 at 7th MidWest WeirdFest The 7th MidWest WeirdFest wrapped last week and announced the winning films, with the chilling techno-thriller Murmur from director Mark Polish (Twin Falls Idaho, The Astronaut Farmer) awarded the festival’s prestigious “Best Film” award.
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Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s THE BEASTS Wins 3 Awards at 40th Miami Film Festival
The Beasts directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen The Goya Award-winning film The Beasts, directed by Goya Award-winner and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen, took the top jury prize, the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award, at the 40th Miami Film Festival. The thriller about a French couple starting a new life in rural Galicia, Spain, also received the Rene Rodriguez Critics Award, and “The Beasts” composer Oliver Arson earned the Alacran Music in Film Award. The award highlights the power of music and film and celebrates the role of the film composer and was selected by the Art of Light (Composer) Award honoree Nicholas Britell.
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SXSW 2023 Award Winners – RAGING GRACE and ANGEL APPLICANT Win Grand Jury Prizes
Raging Grace directed by Paris Zarcilla Raging Grace directed by Paris Zarcilla is the winner of the Grand Jury Award in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 30th SXSW Film & TV Festival. The jury commented, “The story of a Filipina house cleaner and her young daughter confronting Britain’s racial and class divides, Raging Grace is both frank and elusive, a film that subverts expectations on its way to a stirring conclusion.”
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Lauren Greenhall’s Erotic Thriller PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT Premieres at Sarasota Film Festival | Trailer
Perfectly Good Moment directed by Lauren Greenhall Directed by Lauren Greenhall, the erotic thriller Perfectly Good Moment will have its world premiere at the 25th Sarasota Film Festival on March 29, 2023. This psychosexual thriller asks the question: what happens when the things that make your relationship passionate and exciting are the same things that make it toxic?
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Ben Affleck’s AIR to Make Surprise Debut as Closing Night Film of SXSW
Ben Affleck as Phil Knight in AIR (Amazon Studio) Ben Affleck’s AIR will make its surprise debut as this year’s Closing Night Film of South by Southwest® (SXSW®) film festival on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at the Paramount Theatre.
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STEPHEN CURRY: UNDERRATED Documentary to Open San Francisco Film Festival
Stephen Curry: Underrated (Photo Courtesy Apple Original Films via SFFILM) Emmy award-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks’ Stephen Curry: Underrated will open the 66th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival) on Thursday, April 13th. Returning to the Festival for the fourth time, Nicks’ latest film is an intimate documentary of the celebrated and iconic NBA superstar Stephen Curry.
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Hundreds of Beavers and Show Business Is My Life Win Top Awards at Oxford Film Festival 2023
Hundreds of Beavers directed byMike Cheslik G.B. Shannon’s Show Business Is My Life (But I Can’t Prove It) won Best Documentary Feature and Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers was named Best Narrative Feature at the 2023 Oxford Film Festival.
