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Jane Schoenbrun
Jane Flannery Schoenbrun is an American film producer, screenwriter and film director who began working in the film industry in the late 2010s. Prior to their directorial debut in 2018, Schoenbrun produced feature-length fiction films, documentaries, and short films. Career Schoenbrun made theirSchoenbrun uses they/she pronouns. For consistency, this article uses singular they. directorial debut in 2018 with the documentary ''A Self-Induced Hallucination.'' The film centers the narrative of the fictional horror character and internet phenomenon Slender Man as told through a found footage compilation of existing YouTube videos. Though it used to be available to view on Vimeo, the film has since been removed. Schoenbrun has stated that they do not wish to profit from ''A Self-Induced Hallucination'': "I have no desire to profit from it, or to commodify it in a traditional sense." Their film ''We're All Going to the World's Fair'' (2021) was premiered during the online 2021 Sundan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We're All Going To The World's Fair
''We're All Going to the World's Fair'' is a 2021 American coming-of-age horror film written, directed, and edited by Jane Schoenbrun. The film stars Anna Cobb in her debut role and Michael J. Rogers. David Lowery served as an executive producer. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2021. It was then released in U.S. theaters by Utopia on April 15, 2022, and streaming on HBO Max on September 1, 2022. Plot Casey is a lonely teenage girl who lives with her widower father. One day, she decides to record herself taking the viral "World's Fair Challenge", in which she states, "I want to go to the World's Fair", three times on camera, smears some of her blood on her laptop computer screen and watches a short strobe light video, before saying she will make updates on any "changes" she notices. Other World's Fair challengers record and post their own psychological and physical changes. Casey's next video recounts bouts of sleepwalking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chained For Life (2019 Film)
''Chained for Life'' is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Aaron Schimberg. The title may refer to the 1952 film of the same title that featured conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, who had worked as singers and 'display' people in circuses and old style freak shows. Plot A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut. Cast * Jess Weixler as Mabel * Adam Pearson as Rosenthal * Stephen Plunkett as Max * Charlie Korsmo as Herr Director * Sari Lennick as Sarah Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, ''Chained for Life'' holds an approval rating of , based on reviews. Its consensus reads, "Darkly funny and impressively ambitious, ''Chained for Life'' is as unpredictable as it is original." On Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Festival
American Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Wrocław, Poland. The first festival was held from 20 to 24 October 2010. The festival is organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty and co-funded by the Wroclaw Municipality and Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Festival Programme 2010 * Highlights – new American films * Spectrum – contemporary American cinema * American docs – documentaries * On the edge – experimental films * Retrospective: John Cassavetes * A decade of independent – independent films * Classic films On the first edition of the festival audience award in the category of "Spectrum" awarded to the film ''Winter's Bone'' by Debra Granik. The award for "American Docs" awarded to the film '' The Two Escobars'' by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist. Festival Programme 2011 The second edition took place on 15–20 November 2011. * Highlights – new American films * Spectrum – contemporary American cinema * American docs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Film Critics Association
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is an association of professional film critics, who work in print, broadcast and online media, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The organization was founded in 1990 by film critics Sharon LeMaire and Sue Kiner, following the success of the first Chicago Film Critics Awards given out in 1988. The association comprises 60 members. Since 1989, the CFCA has given out annual awards that recognize the best films in a variety of categories. These awards are noted in the established print media such as ''Variety'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter''. The association has also hosted the annual Chicago Critics Film Festival since 2013, which intends to bring a number of feature and short films to a larger audience. Membership The Chicago Film Critics Association restricts its membership to professional film critics, who have been employed in the media as a "critical voice or staff authority" on the subject of the cinema for six months. Appli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bingham Ray
Bingham Ray (1 October 1954 – 23 January 2012) was an American independent film executive. Career He was a co-founder of indie film distributor October Films and president of United Artists from 2001 to 2004. At the time of his death, he was executive director of the San Francisco Film Society. Legacy As noted by the Independent Feature Project's Gotham Independent Film Awards, "New to the Gotham Awards this year 012is the Bingham Ray Award, an award bestowed upon an emerging filmmaker whose work exemplifies a distinctive creative vision and stylistic adventurousness that stands apart from the mainstream and warrants championing. The goal is to bring additional attention to new artists whose work could be seen as conceivably joining the ranks of filmmakers championed by industry veteran Bingham Ray, who died in January." *Oden Roberts, Director and Writer, " A Fighting Season" was awarded the SFFS KRF grant by Bingham in December 2011. *Benh Zeitlin, director and co-writer of ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotham Awards
The Gotham Awards () are American film awards, presented annually to the makers of independent films at a ceremony in New York City, the city first nicknamed "Gotham" by native son Washington Irving, in an issue of ''Salmagundi'', published on November 11, 1807. Part of the Gotham Film & Media Institute (formerly Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)), "the largest membership organization in the United States dedicated to independent film" (founded in 1979), the awards were inaugurated in 1991 as a means of showcasing and honoring films made primarily in the northeastern region of the United States. Scope In 2004, the scope of the awards broadened to include the international film scene, when the number of awards presented increased from six awards given to films and those involved in making them primarily from the northeastern U.S. film community to nine awards, including in its broader scope films originating in Los Angeles, California, and international locations as well. Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw Film Festival
Warsaw Film Festival ( pl, Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy, abbreviated as WFF) is an annual film festival held every October in Warsaw, Poland which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world. The festival has been held every year since 1985. In 2008, it was recognized by FIAPF as a competitive film festival specialised in first and second features and films from Central and Eastern Europe. The festival is host to the International Federation of Film Critics awards for enterprising filmmaking in Central Europe and beyond (i.e. Denmark and Israel). The 38th edition will take place between 14 October to 23 October 2022. Festival Programmes The programme consists of the following sections: * The International Competition – premiering competition for international features * 1–2 Competition – for 1st and 2nd feature films * Free Spirit Competition – competition for independent, innovative, rebellious feature length fiction and documenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), held annually in Nashville, Tennessee, is the oldest running film festival in the South and one of the oldest in the United States. In 2016, Nashville Film Festival received more than 6,700 submissions from 125 countries and programmed 271 films. Attendance has grown to nearly 43,000. The festival also offers a screenplay competition with features, teleplays and shorts categories and a web series competition. In addition to tendays of film screenings, the festival provides industry panels, music showcases, parties and receptions. The Nashville Film Festival is also an Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ... qualifying festival. Program and focus Films shown at the Nashville Film Festival include narrative features, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montclair Film
Montclair Film is a nonprofit most well known for organizing the annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF) usually held in late April, early May in Montclair, New Jersey. The festival showcases new works from American and international filmmakers, and has year-round events. The festival features a program of films in the Fiction, Non-Fiction, World Cinema, Short, and Student Filmmaking categories. Notable advisory board members include J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Alter, Stephen Colbert, Abigail Disney, Olympia Dukakis, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Freud, Laura Linney, Jon Stewart, Julie Taymor, and Patrick Wilson, among others. History The film festival was founded by WNET-TV Vice President and General Counsel Bob Feinberg, a Montclair resident, who hired festival programmer Thom Powers and director Raphaela Neihausen and developed a Board of Directors composed of many of Montclair's prominent residents, including film and media professionals, philanthropists and community leaders. Editions Inau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Memphis
Indie Memphis, located in Memphis, TN, is an arts organization that runs year-round programs that "inspire, encourage and promote independent films and filmmaking in Memphis."indiememphis – About , Indie Memphis. Film festival The organization is mainly known for its yearly that takes place in Memphis. The festival, which typically occurs in November, was nationally ranked as one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals" by magazine.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijón International Film Festival
The Gijón International Film Festival ( ast, Festival Internacional de Cine de Xixón or ''FICXixón'') is an annual film festival held in Gijón, a city in northwest Spain. History The festival's origins date back to 1963. In the beginning it was an initiative of the City Council of Gijón in co-operation with Caja de Ahorros de Asturias (Cajastur). Both entities co-operate with the Festival, the first as organizer and the second as sponsor. The first year it was held it was called ''Certamen Internacional de Cine y TV Infantil'' (International Children's cinema and TV contest). Between 1964 and 1968 it still kept the same name, only the last part, “children's”, was substituted by “for children”. Between 1969 and 1976 this last part stopped appearing in the Festival's name. From 1977 till 1978 it received the name Certamen Internacional de Cine para la Infancia y la Juventud (International Cinema Contest for Children and Teens). Although in 1986 the Festival began to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasia International Film Festival
Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. Regularly held in July of each year, it is valued by both hardcore genre film fans, and distributors, who take advantage of the eclectic line up to select domestic and international films for release across North America. By virtue of the reputation developed over the last 15 years, this festival has been described as perhaps the "most outstanding and largest genre film festival in North America". Overview The history of the Fantasia Festival has roots in the Asian Film scene in Montreal. Beginning in 1996 where it screened Asian films from Hong Kong and Anime from Japan, the festival later expanded its international repertoire and screened genre films from all across the world. Since this time many world and international premieres have featured at Fantasia fest, including ''Shaun of the Dead'', ''Perfec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
