Willie (2019)

  • 2019 DTLA Film Festival Winners – PUSHOUT, QT8 and AMERICAN WOMAN Win Prizes

    PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS directed by Jacoba Atlas
    PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS directed by Jacoba Atlas

    The 11th annual DTLA Film Festival, announced its award winners for 2019, with PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS, directed by Jacoba Atlas winning the Audience Favorite Award. Other award winners include AMERICAN WOMAN Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress; QT8: THE FIRST EIGHT for Best Director and Best Documentary and a Special Remembrance Award for Robert Forster; JOSIE & JACK picked up Best Screenplay and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for William Fichtner; and Hong Chau has won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in AMERICAN WOMAN.

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  • THE TWO POPES and WILLIE Take Audience Awards at Middleburg Film Festival

    Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce
    Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce

    The Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Middleburg Film Festival went to THE TWO POPES from director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Anthony McCarten, who also received the Festival’s Distinguished Screenwriter Award. The award for Best Documentary Film went to WILLIE about NHL legend, Willie O’Ree, who attended the festival with director Laurence Mathieu-Leger.

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  • Documentaries on Quentin Tarantino and Kathy Griffin Headline DTLA Film Festival 2019

    Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino

    “QT8: Quentin Tarantino The First Eight,” a documentary that focuses on the first 21 years of Quentin Tarantino’s career and includes interviews with frequent collaborators: including Zoë Bell, Bruce Dern, Robert Forster, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Kruger, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Eli Roth, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell, Christoph Waltz, amongst others, will open this year’s 11th annual DTLA Film Festival.

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  • WILLIE, Story of Willie O’Ree – First Black Player in NHL – to World Premiere at Hot Docs

    Willie O'Ree with Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
    Willie O’Ree with Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

    Willie follows the amazing story of Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the National Hockey League, and his family from his great, great-grandfather’s escape from slavery in 1779 to Willie’s ascent to hockey’s highest honor – induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame on November 12, 2018.

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