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Waffle Street
Waffle Street is a 2015 American drama/comedy film directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms and starring Danny Glover and James Lafferty. It is a film adaptation of James Adams’ memoir of the same name, published by Sourced Media Books in 2010. The riches-to-rags story follows Adams’ journey of self-discovery and redemption after losing his job as vice president of a multi-billion dollar hedge fund and finding work as a server at a local 24-hour diner. Waffle Street was filmed in Lehi, Utah in 2014, with most of the scenes being filmed in a local diner called One Man Band. It was named winner of Best Narrative Feature at the 2015 Hollywood Film Festival, the Audience Award Best Feature at the 2015 Red Rock Film Festival, and the Andretta Carpe Diem Award for Best Film at the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival. It initially released on September 24, 2015. Plot In the aftermath of the 2008 market crash, James “Jimmy” Adams (James Lafferty) gets laid off from his Wall Street hedg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lafferty
James Martin Lafferty (born July 25, 1985) is an American actor, director, and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Nathan Scott on The WB/ CW teen drama television series ''One Tree Hill'' (2003–2012). Early life Lafferty was born in Hemet, California to Angelica and Jeffrey Lafferty, who own a local construction company. He has a younger brother, actor Stuart Lafferty. Having worked as an uncredited extra on television shows including ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' and ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'', Lafferty received his first significant acting role in a school play when he was ten years old. Lafferty attended Hemet High School (where he played on the school's basketball team) until 2003, after which he enrolled at California State University, Long Beach. At age eighteen, he moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, having been cast as Nathan Scott in ''One Tree Hill''. Career In 1997, at age twelve, Lafferty made his small-screen acting debut with a voice-over role in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodstock Film Festival
The Woodstock Film Festival is an American film festival that was launched in 2000 by filmmakers Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto with the goal to bring high quality independent film to the Hudson Valley region. The festival takes place each fall in the towns of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock, Rosendale, New York, Rosendale, Saugerties, New York, Saugerties and Kingston, New York, Kingston, in the height of fall foliage. The Woodstock Film Festival is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. The Woodstock Film Festival is an Oscar®-qualifying festival in the short film categories - Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film, and Documentary Short Film. History With offices located in the heart of Woodstock, NY, the first fiercely independent inaugural festival ran September 21–24, 2000. It included workshops, documentaries, concerts and films from all over the world. Speakers at the inaugural festival's workshops included actor Aidan Quinn, documentary filmmakers Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartland Film Festival
The Heartland International Film Festival is a film festival held each October in Indianapolis, Indiana. The festival was first held in 1992, its goal is to "inspire filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...s and audiences through the transformative power of film". Grand Prize and Audience Choice Award-winning films References {{Reflist, 2 External linksOfficial website Film festivals in Indiana Festivals in Indiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macau International Movie Festival
The Macau International Movie Festival () is an international film festival that takes place in Macau, China. The first festival took place between December 26, 2009 and January 2, 2010. It was organized by mainland Chinese businessman Xu Chao Ping. The festival awards the Golden Lotus Awards. It is distinct from the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM, 澳門國際影展). Festivals * 1st Macau International Movie Festival (2009) * 2nd Macau International Movie Festival (2010) * 3rd Macau International Movie Festival (2011) * 4th Macau International Movie Festival (2012) * 5th Macau International Movie Festival (2013) * 6th Macau International Movie Festival (2014) * 7th Macau International Movie Festival (2015) * 8th Macau International Movie Festival (2016) * 9th Macau International Movie Festival (2017) * 10th Macau International Movie Festival (2018) * 11th Macau International Movie Festival (2019) * 12th Macau International Movie Festival (2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cucalorus Film Festival
The Cucalorus Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is one of the largest film festivals in the U.S. South and recognized as a destination film festival for indie filmmakers. MovieMaker magazine recognizes it as "one of the coolest film festivals in the world", and "one of 50 film festivals worth the entry fee". The Brooks Institute named it one of the top ten film festivals in the nation. Dan Brawley is currently the head ("chief instigator") of the festival. Purpose The ''Cucalorus Film Festival'' presents around 150 independent films each year, often controversial, and putting an emphasis on supporting films directed by women and by people of color. The festival also showcases performance art, fringe-style theatre and panels about social justice. History The festival was founded in 1994 by independent filmmaker collective ''Twinkle Doon''. The first official Cucalorus was one standing-room-only night of locally-made indie films d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallgrass Film Festival
The Tallgrass Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Wichita, Kansas, specializing in independent films. It was founded in 2003 by Timothy Gruver. Gruver was raised in Wichita. He studied filmmaking at Brigham Young University. After college, Gruver worked for the animation wing of Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio. Gruver had worked for other film festivals and modeled Tallgrass after the Telluride Film Festival. Tallgrass is operated by the non-profit organization Tallgrass Film Association. There were 190 features and shorts screened in 2012. The festival takes place at several locations in downtown Wichita including the Orpheum Theatre. In 2012, over 11,000 people attended. Since its creation in 2003, over 100,000 people have attended with approximately 200 filmmakers, actors and guests coming in for the festival from all over the world. The 2003 festival screened 40 features and 55 short films at several venues in the downtown & Oldtown area. 4,172 peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronado Island Film Festival
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) is an annual film festival based in Coronado, a resort city across the San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. It consists of a four-day festival in November – and a monthly year-round "Classic Movie Series" – at venues across the island including the iconic Hotel Del Coronado, once known as Hollywood's Playground. History Film critic and author Leonard Maltin has served as Honorary Head Juror since the inaugural event in 2016. On November 11, 2018, Jack Lemmon's son Chris, an actor and entertainer in his own right, fell seriously ill due to a lung condition at the festival. He was unable to accept an award on behalf of his father at the Hotel Del Coronado because he had to receive an immediate double lung transplant. Notable Films The first opening night film in 2015 was The Finest Hours starring Chris Pine. In 2017, Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman opened the festival. In 2021, notable films included C'mon C'mon (Opening Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Reynolds
''Time Freak'' (also known as ''Time After Time'') is a 2018 American science-fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrew Bowler. It was released in limited release and on digital on November 9, 2018. Plot Stilman, a physics student and genius, is dumped by his girlfriend and attempts to find what caused her unhappiness and the break-up itself. Stilman and his best friend Evan look over their relationship and sort different days into happy and bad memories which may or may not have caused Debbie to break up with Stilman. In the midst of the break-up Stilman finally figures out how to create a time machine. Stilman and Evan travel back in time to the day Stilman and Debbie met. Stilman plans on doing things differently and will know if the plan worked if the last text Debbie sent disappears. Evan and Stilman then travel to a movie date with Evan, Stilman, Debbie, Carly and Ryan. Stilman shows them his favorite movie but they do not appreciate it and mock the movie. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Lively
Ernie Lively (born Ernest Wilson Brown Jr.; January 29, 1947 – June 3, 2021) was an American actor and acting coach, and the father of actors Lori Lively, Jason Lively, Robyn Lively, Eric Lively, and Blake Lively. Life and career Lively was born Ernest Wilson Brown Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Beatrice Gray (Walton, 1927-1994) and Ernest W. Brown Sr (1919-2007). Lively may be best known for his roles in ''Passenger 57'', ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' and ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2''. In the latter two films, he played the father of a character played by his own real life daughter, Blake. Lively's credits as a character actor date back to the 1970s, beginning with TV roles on shows including ''The Waltons'' and ''The Dukes of Hazzard''. He appeared in movies including ''Turner & Hooch'', '' Air America'', ''Passenger 57'' and ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' and on popular TV shows like ''The X-Files'', ''That '70s Show'' and ''The West Wing''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PennLive
''The Patriot-News'' is the largest newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily and Sunday circulation in the United States. It has been owned by Advance Publications since 1947. On August 28, 2012, the newspaper's publisher announced that it would shift to a three-day print publication schedule beginning January 1, 2013, and expand its digital focus on its website, PennLive.com, and social media platforms. This followed similar moves at other Advance Publications-owned publications. It is published Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also, as of May 4, 2015, ''LNP'', a seven-day newspaper based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is printed in the same facility as ''The Patriot-News''. History ''The Patriot-News'' officially traces its history to March 4, 1854, with the founding of ''The Daily Patriot''. Its heritage dates, however, to December 1820, involving a weekly newspaper named ''The Pennsylvania In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wall Street
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry, New York–based financial interests, or the Financial District itself. Anchored by Wall Street, New York has been described as the world's principal financial center. Wall Street was originally known in Dutch as "de Waalstraat" when it was part of New Amsterdam in the 17th century, though the origins of the name vary. An actual wall existed on the street from 1685 to 1699. During the 17th century, Wall Street was a slave trading marketplace and a securities trading site, and from the early eighteenth century (1703) the location of Federal Hall, New York's first city hall. In the early 19th century, both residences and businesses occupied the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IndieWire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming." IndieWire is part of Penske Media. History The original IndieWire newsletter launched on July 15, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for independent film." Following in the footsteps of various web- and AOL-based editorial ventures, IndieWire was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by New York- and Los Angeles-based filmmakers and writers Eugene Hernandez, Mark Rabinowitz, Cheri Barner, Roberto A. Quezada, and Mark L. Feinsod. Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997. In January 1997, IndieWire made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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