Michael Sarrow’s Smile As You Kill won Best Narrative Feature and Lana Pavic’s Opera Selecta took the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) 2023 Fall Edition
San Pedro International Film Festival
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Michael Sarrow’s ‘Smile As You Kill’ and Lana Pavic’s ‘Opera Selecta’ Win Top Awards at San Pedro Film Festival Fall 2023
Smile As You Kill directed by Michael Sarrow
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San Pedro International Film Festival Sets 2023 Lineup with Nick Broomfield’s The Stones and Brian Jones
1964: Rock and roll band “The Rolling Stones” pose for a portrait in 1964. (L-R) Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts. The Rolling Stones in The Stones and Brian Jones (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. The San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) returns next month for screenings, panels, and events, November 2-5. Highlights include a special presentation of Nick Broomfield’s documentary The Stones and Brian Jones, and a focus on Croatian films, including Dubravka Tulic’s Academy Awards Best Foreign Film submission Traces (Tragovi). Special appearances include veteran producer Carol Baum, who will do a book signing following an Closing Night screening of the Robert DeNiro/Ed Harris starrer Jacknife (1989), and a book reading and signing of Evelyn McDonnell’s The World According to Joan Didion.
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Korean War Documentary Forgotten Victory Opens San Pedro Intl Film Festival 2023 Lineup
Forgotten Victory directed by Christopher HK Lee After taking a pause in 2022, the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) returns February 2 – 5, 2023, for screenings, panels, and events. The film festival kicks off with Christopher HK Lee’s Korean War documentary, Forgotten Victory, followed by a lineup of curated shorts programs, episodic projects, a special environmentally focused documentaries, a screenwriters panel, and a screenplay competition.
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San Pedro International Film Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Packed Weekend of Films
Wisper directed by Russ Emanuel The 10th Anniversary edition of the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) taking place November 4-14 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, will once again celebrate the work of emerging filmmakers from around the world, both in-person and virtually.