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'BIOGRAPHY: I WANT MY MTV' (2019) is the story of the birth, life and death of MTV music television, which came into being in 1981, and how it revolutionized entertainment as we know it until its inevitable demise via the digital revolution. With dozens of riveting interviews with the founders of MTV, including some 80’s talent whose careers were greatly impacted by MTV (i.e. Tori Amos, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Annie Lenox, Doctor Dre, and many more), the film is co-directed by d...
Director Sean Cisterna
Sean Cisterna is an accomplished, multi award-winning film director whose works are frequently screened at recognized international festivals. His first theatrical feature, Moon Point (2011), was acquired by The Movie Network and broadcast nationally in 2012. His feature length documentary 30 Ghosts (2013) was developed out of the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival's Doc Ignite program and now resides with the National Film Board of Canada. Ful...
“Dear Zoe” also Stars Theo Rossi, Jessica Capshaw, Justin Bartha, Vivien Blair, and Newcomer Kweku Collins
“Dear Zoe” is a new independent feature film adapted from the award-winning novel by Pittsburgh author Philip Beard. The adapted screenplay was written by Pittsburgh natives Marc Lhormer and Melissa Martin, and directed by Gren Wells (The Road Within).
“Dear Zoe” stars Sadie Sink as Tess (Stranger Things). ...
Raised in New York City, Todd Harris earned his BA and MBA from Stanford University and currently lives in Los Angeles. He began his producing career while in college with a production of ‘Hair’. His first job out of college, he managed theater company TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. He started producing fulltime after achieving his MBA from Stanford when he moved to Los Angeles. Mr. Harris’s films include such reputable titles ‘Bottle Shock’ (2008) starring Alan Rickm...
Robert Solomon is an award-winning actor and pianist from Atlanta, GA. He started acting in high school theater before attending the Georgia Institute of Technology to study applied mathematics. In 2017, he was a member of the Shakespeare Academy @Stratford ensemble were he trained and performed under the tutelage of Brian McManamon. Later that year, he temporarily halted his studies to fly to Los Angeles where he acted the eponymous role in the short film, Duke. For this leading rol...
During November 6-11 the Program provides total immersion into the audiovisual industry in Los Angeles through an exclusive agenda of meetings, panels and visits LATC coordinates annually a group of filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, attorneys and government...
EL 8º FESTIVAL DE CINE DOMINICANO EN NUEVA YORK ANUNCIA LAS PELÍCULAS GANADORAS EN LA CEREMONIA DE NOCHE DE CLAUSURA
MEJOR PELÍCULA: LO QUE SIENTO POR TI BY RAUL CAMILO
MEJOR DOCUMENTAL: SOLANO (PATRICIA SOLANO)
MEJOR DIRECTOR: FELIX GERMAN (LA ISLA ROTA)
PREMIO DEL PÚBLICO: DOS MEJOR QUE UNA (JOSE PINKY PINTOR)
MEJOR ACTOR: FRANK PEROZO (LA ISLA ROTA)
MEJOR ACTRIZ: YORDANKA ARIOSA (LO QUE SIENTO POR TI)
MEJOR CORTOMETRAJE DOMINICANOS EN LA DIÁSP...
BEST FEATURE: LO QUE SIENTO POR TI BY RAUL CAMILO
BEST DOCUMENTARY: SOLANO (PATRICIA SOLANO)
BEST DIRECTOR: FELIX GERMAN (LA ISLA R...
Goran Kostic
Accomplished and prolific actor/producer Goran Kostic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. His starring role in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' (2011) catapulted him to international recognition. Having appeared in next to sixty film and TV performances, he has worked on such prominent titles as 'Children of Men' (2006), 'Hannibal Rising' (2007), 'Taken' (2008), 'The Last Days on ...
CFO & COO of Arclight Films, Brian Beckmann, is a prolific producer in his own right, whose recent titles include: 'Dog Eat Dog' (2016), 'First Reformed' (2017), 'Guardians of the Tomb' (2018) and 'Triple Threat' (2019). With a background in rocket science, he was one of the men to put Pathfinder on Mars and has been headhunted by the likes of Elon Musk. But aerospace engineering aside, his passion is film. At Arclight Films ('Crash' 2004, 'Bobby...
Dimitris Anagnostou (left) and Nassos Vakalis (right)
Animator/Director/Producer Nassos Vakalis, known for his work in the Animation Department of over 37 films including 'Thumbelina' (1994), 'Quest for Camelot' (1998), 'Spirit' (2002), 'Bee Movie' (2007), 'Puss in Boots'' (2011), 'Turbo' (2013), 'Smallfoot' (2018) and Producer Dimitris Anagnostou run their Declare Productions company out of Los Angeles and have recent...
EIZA GONZÁLEZ JOINS ROSAMUND PIKE AND PETER DINKLAGE IN
“I CARE A LOT”
FROM BLACK BEAR PICTURES
Barcelona, SPAIN — Eiza González (Baby Driver, Alita:Battle Angel) is set to join Academy Award-nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, A Private War) and Golden Globe-winner Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) in Black Bear Pictures’ I Care a Lot, it was announced today during the STXinternational presentation out of CineEurope.
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Director Noah Wagner
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate NOAH WAGNER is an award-winning director, writer and filmmaker who has appeared on HBO, NBC, BBC, VIMEO STAFF PICKS and THE NEW YORKER. His films have screened at festivals worldwide, including the Oscar-Qualifying Cleveland Int’l FF, Nantucket FF, and Sonoma Int’l FF, where his latest short – AI thriller, 'Watch Room' (2019) - won the Jury Award for Best Dramatic Short.
Starring Mamoudou Athie (...
Irish native Kevin Jackson is a prolific TV series and film producer at Big Fish Films in Belfast and former Assistant Head of Drama at BBC. He is known for such films as award winning 'Behold the Lamb' (2011), 'The Truth Commissioner' (2016), 'Zoo' (2017), 'Ups and Downs' (2019) and many more. His upcoming slate includes a number of exciting projects including 'Reawakening' currently in pre-production.
Kevin frequents international fil...
Udayyan Raathore is an actor, producer and director whose past works include 'Everybody Gets Screwed Here' (2015) and 'Dangal' (2016). Married to fellow producer Divya Baghela Rathore, they worked together on Udayyan's directorial debut 'Twosome' (2019), starring Preet Kunwar Choudhry and Rishabhraj Mehrota. The film is about two complete strangers who get stuck with each other for an entire night, after which their life tirns into a game which then becomes the...
Actor, writer, producer Tom Malloy's production company, Trick Candle Productions, include films he starred in such as psychological thriller 'The Alphabet Killer' (2008) directed by Rob Schmidt (Wrong Turn, Crime & Punishment in Suburbia); 'Love N' Dancing' (2009) by Rob Iscove (She's All That); 'Ashley' (2013) by Dean Ronalds; 'Hero of the Underworld' (2016) by John Vincent; and a thriller by Mary Lambert called 'The Attic' (2007), star...
Brian A. Metcalf (WGA, PGA, DGA, VES, ASCAP) is an Asian-American writer, director, producer and actor. His most recent film, Adverse, is a drama/thriller that he produced, directed, wrote and acted in and stars a large ensemble cast with Academy Award® Nominee Mickey Rourke, Academy Award® Nominee Sean Astin, Golden Globe® Nominee Lou Diamond Phillips, Golden Globe® Nominee Penelope Ann Miller, Matt Ryan, Jake T. Austin, Andrew Keegan, Luke Edwards, Shelley Regner, Thoma...
UK native actor/producer Nik Goldman was educated at Salford University and at the Northern Film School. he has been the recipient of numerous awards for his scholastic work. In 2004, Nik produced and acted in the well known short film ‘Briefing’, which was picked up by North America's Big Film Shorts distributor. The film has since been shown on us Comcast cable tv, HBO Latin America and Canadian television. Nik acted in another short 'The Parting' (20...
Emily Shah
Directed by Sagar Ballary, JUNGLE CRY (2019) is a true story based on the lives of twelve underprivileged children from the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences in Orissa. Their 'Jungle Crows' rugby team, coached in Rugby sport by Indian coach Rudraksha Jena (played by Abhay Deol) of KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Science) and Paul Walsh MBE - former employee at British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata- went on to make Indian and British history by winning the Rugb...
Known for his work in TV with the Academy Awards, the Emmys and The Screen Actors Guild Awards, editor and producer Douglass M. Stewart Jr. takes the director's chair in his breakthrough documentary feature: 'Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future' (2018), which tells the story of the eponymous unsung architect and painter who has influenced and inspired for generations, yet whose name remains virtually unknown. In architecture, Chesley is known for having worked on the Golden ...
Producer, director, writer Don Millar's debut feature documentary BOTERO (2018) portrays the life of beloved and iconic artist Fernando Botero. The 86 year-old Colombian native painter and sculptor was born in Medellin in 1932. A poetic ode to the modern master, the film features interviews across ten cities in China, Europe, North America and Latin America, following Botero and his family, revealing the legacy he has created from his youth to life today as he continues to paint and sculpt...
The documentary feature “The Pollinators” (2019) by filmmaker/cinematographer and bee-keeper Peter Nelson is a cautionary tale about the current international bee crises. Today, bees face a serious threat to becoming endangered, which would prove a hazard to human food supply; almost all fruits, nuts and vegetables would not exist without bees. For example, on just one crop in California, each year more than 31 billion honey bees pollinate more than 90 million almond trees. Yet, be...
Meg Ryan at 2019 Sun Valley Film Festival with SVFF Festival Directors: Teddy Grennan, Executive Director & Candice Pate, Director
8th Annual Festival - Founded in 2012 by Teddy Grennan & Emily Granville
SVFF Films/Filmmakers
Many of the selected films had filmmaker representation at SVFF.
64 total films; 25 features; 10 narratives ,15 documentaries, 2 episodic, 1 WIP, 26 shorts, 11 student films
12 world premieres (4 feature world prem...
Chelsea Handler and Alex Ross Perry at
Sun Valley Film Festival Coffee Talks
Fest Additional Line-up of Feature and Short Films
The 2019 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF), presented by Ford. Celebrated host, author, stand-up comic and activist Chelsea Handler will attend the festival as a special guest and participate in the festival’s Coffee Talks on Thursday, March 14. Alex Ross Perry, who will receive the Festival’s Rising Star Award for Directing, will p...
THE FILM LAB AT SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
SPONSORED BY TITO’S HANDMADE VODKA
A WORK-IN-PROGRESS FILM PARTNERSHIP WITH A PRIZE
OF UP TO $185,000 IN POST-PRODUCTION SERVICES
Jay Duplass to Judge Competition
The 2019 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) Film Lab. Now in its sixth year, The Film Lab, sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka and The Farm Group, selects one team of filmmakers to partner with the Festival and Tito’s to complete their film’s vision. ...
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