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Matthew Puccini
Matthew Puccini (born ) is an American filmmaker. He is known for his short films that deal with LGBT film, LGBT-related subject matters. These include ''The Mess He Made'' (2017), ''Marquise'' (2018), ''Dirty (2020 film), Dirty'' (2020) and ''Lavender (2019 film), Lavender'' (2019). His films have played at several festivals including Sundance Film Festival, Sundance, SXSW, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Palm Springs ShortsFest, and Outfest Los Angeles. His work has also been featured on Topic Studios, Topic and The Huffington Post. Life and career Puccini grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2015, while attending Tisch School of the Arts, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he made his first film as writer and director, ''Solo'', which starred Tommy Nelson (actor), Tommy Nelson and Matthew Mindler. It earned Puccini the King Award for Screenwriting at NYU’s First Run Film Festival and won the 2017 Golden Reel Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Run Film Festival
The First Run Festival is an annual event showcasing over 120 intermediate and advanced projects in film, video, and animation. It is presented by the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television and held in New York City. The event first ran in 1986. The selection runs a gamut of undergraduate and graduate films ranging between narratives, documentaries and animation produced during the filmmakers' time in the program. The work is evaluated by a trio of juries: a three-judge Undergraduate Intermediate panel looks at submissions from junior level courses; the Graduate Industry and Undergraduate Industry panels each have six judges. The selections are then sent toward the respective faculty panels to announce the final top three winners. This annual week-long festival begins with the Craft Awards Ceremony and Wasserman Finalists Announcement and culminates with the Wasserman Awards Ceremony featuring the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards. The students' films and videos comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Sundance Film Festival
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 23 to February 2, 2020. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 4, 2019. The opening night film was '' Miss Americana'' directed by Lana Wilson and produced by Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, and Christine O'Malley. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition * '' The 40-Year-Old Version'' by Radha Blank * ''Blast Beat'' by Esteban Arango * '' Charm City Kings'' by Ángel Manuel Soto * '' Dinner in America'' by Adam Carter Rehmeier * '' The Evening Hour'' by Braden King * '' Farewell Amor'' by Ekwa Msangi * '' Minari'' by Lee Isaac Chung * '' Miss Juneteenth'' by Channing Godfrey Peoples * '' Never Rarely Sometimes Always'' by Eliza Hittman * ''Nine Days'' by Edson Oda * ''Palm Springs'' by Max Barbakow * '' Save Yourselves!'' by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson * '' Shirley'' by Josephine Decker * ''Sylvie's Love'' by Eugene Ashe * '' Wander Darkly'' by Tara Miele * '' Zola'' by Janicz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Searchlight Pictures, Inc., formerly known as Fox Searchlight Pictures, is an American arthouse film production and distribution company, which since 2019 is owned by Walt Disney Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1994 as a division of 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios), the studio focuses primarily on producing, distributing, and acquiring independent and specialty films. Searchlight is known for distributing the films '' Slumdog Millionaire'', '' 12 Years a Slave'', '' Birdman'', '' The Shape of Water'', and '' Nomadland'', all of which have won an Academy Award for Best Picture. The studio has grossed over $5.3 billion worldwide and amassed 51 Academy Awards, 30 Golden Globe Awards, and 56 BAFTA awards. ''Slumdog Millionaire'' is the studio's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million. Searchlight Pictures was one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincetown International Film Festival
The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) is an annual film festival founded in 1999 and held on Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The festival presents American and international narrative features, documentaries and short films for five days in June of each year. The festival is a program of the Provincetown Film Society, the non-profit parent organization which also operates the year-round Waters Edge Cinema (formerly known as Whaler's Wharf Cinema), a year-round Provincetown movie theater presenting what it considers the best in current independent and international cinema. The festival hosts films and panel discussions and incorporates the cultural, historic, and artistic character of Provincetown: with its thriving art colony, its large gay and lesbian population, its original Native American and Portuguese heritage, and its congenial scenic setting. In keeping with its mission, the festival often presents films about countercultural figures, such as Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vimeo
Vimeo ( ) is an American Online video platform, video hosting, sharing, and services provider founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices and operates on a software as a service (SaaS) business model. The platform provides tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting along with enterprise software solutions and the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. the site has 260 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services. The site was initially built by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in 2004 as a skunkworks project of CollegeHumor, taking inspiration from the Image sharing, photo sharing site Flickr launched earlier that year by Ludicorp. The project was organized as a division of CollegeHumor's parent, Connected Ventures, a Startup company, startup formed by Ricky Van Veen, Josh Abramson, Lodwick and Klein. IAC Inc., IAC acquired a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Sundance Film Festival
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 24 to February 3, 2019. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 28, 2018. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition * '' Before You Know It'' by Hannah Pearl Utt * '' Big Time Adolescence'' by Jason Orley * '' Blush'' by Debra Eisenstadt festival titled Imaginary Order * ''Brittany Runs a Marathon'' by Paul Downs Colaizzo * ''Clemency'' by Chinonye Chukwu * '' The Farewell'' by Lulu Wang * '' Hala'' by Minhal Baig * '' Honey Boy'' by Alma Har'el * '' The Last Black Man in San Francisco'' by Joe Talbot * ''Luce'' by Julius Onah * '' Ms. Purple'' by Justin Chon * '' Native Son'' by Rashid Johnson * '' Share'' by Pippa Bianco * ''The Sound of Silence'' by Michael Tyburski * '' Them That Follow'' by Britt Poulton and Dan Savage * '' To the Stars'' by Martha Stephens U.S. Documentary Competition * ''Always in Season'' by Jacqueline Olive * '' American Factory'' by Steven Bognar and Julia Reich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Urie
Michael Lorenzo Urie (born August 8, 1980) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC comedy drama television series ''Ugly Betty'' and Brian on the Apple TV+ series '' Shrinking'', a role for which he won a Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. He can be heard as Bobby Kerns in ''As the Curtain Rises'', an original podcast soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network. Early life and education Michael Urie was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Plano. He is of Scottish and Italian descent. He graduated from Plano Senior High School in 1998. Urie then studied at Collin County Community College before being accepted at the Juilliard School in New York City. While there, he was a member of the Drama Division's ''Group 32'' from 1999 to 2003. Urie graduated from Juilliard in 2003. Career Urie, while still a student at Juilliard, performed in the world premiere of ''Love and Happiness'' (2001) at the Consolati Perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hsu Rosen
Michael Hsu Rosen is an American actor and dancer best known for his roles as Jayden and Nabil in the Netflix series '' Pretty Smart'' and ''Tiny Pretty Things'', respectively. Rosen also starred in the Broadway revivals of ''Torch Song'' and ''West Side Story''. Early life and education Rosen was born and raised in New York City on the Upper West Side. He attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School, as well as the Professional Children's School. He trained for nine years at the School of American Ballet and matriculated at Yale University before withdrawing to pursue acting full-time. Career While in high school, Rosen performed with the New York City Ballet and made his Broadway debut at seventeen in the 2009 revival of ''West Side Story''. He later returned to Broadway in revivals of '' On the Town'' and Harvey Fierstein's ''Torch Song''. Rosen has guest starred in such television shows as ''Jessica Jones'', '' Monsterland'', and '' The Good Doctor'' as well as earned main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kickstarter
Kickstarter, PBC is an American Benefit corporation, public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York City, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of April 2025, Kickstarter has received US$8.71 billion in pledges from 24.1 million backers to fund 277,302 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects. People who back Kickstarter projects are offered tangible rewards or experiences in exchange for their pledges. This model traces its roots to subscription model of arts patronage, in which artists would go directly to their audiences to fund their work. History Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler. ''The New York Times'' called Kickstarter "the people's National Endowment for the Arts, NEA". ''Time (magazine), Time'' named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Burns Film Center
The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a nonprofit cultural arts center located in Pleasantville, New York. It occupies the old Rome Theater, a Spanish mission-style theater built in 1925. Along with independent and documentary films, the center hosts a variety of special events, including discussions with filmmakers, critics and people from the industry following some screenings. ''The New York Times'' has credited the theater with helping to revitalize the downtown area of Pleasantville. It annually hosts Pace University's documentary premiere with a documentary created by their class. History The Rome Theater, named after its owner Granville Rome, was originally built in 1925 and was the first movie theater in Westchester County. The theater matched the movie palace designs that were popular at the time, including leather seats, friezes, velvet curtains and an original Photolayer pipe organ. The Rome Theater continued screening movies until it closed in 1987 and became an off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, NYFF is one of the longest-running and most prestigious film festivals in the United States. It is a non-competitive festival centered on a "Main Slate" of typically 20–30 feature films, with additional sections for experimental cinema and new restorations. Dennis Lim is the Artistic Director for NYFF. Kent Jones was the festival director from 2013 to 2019. Sections the festival program is divided into the following sections: Main Slate The Main Slate is the Festival's primary section, a program typically featuring 25–30 feature-length films, intending to reflect the current state of cinema. The program is a mix of major international art house films from the festival circuit, new discoveries, and studio releases targeting awards sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
