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2014 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival Lineup; World Premiere of Michael Rapaport’s NY Knicks Documentary WHEN THE GARDEN WAS EDEN to Kick Off Program

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), today announced the lineup for the eighth annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. The Sports Festival was founded to broaden the audience for independent film through stories about sports and competition. The program includes feature and short films, an outdoor screening, special conversations, and an ESPN Films 30 for 30 program on soccer. The 2014 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will run during the 13th edition of TFF, taking place April 16 – April 27 at locations around New York City.

The world premiere of the 30 for 30 documentary WHEN THE GARDEN WAS EDEN will serve as the gala premiere of the program on Thursday, April 17. In the film, Rapaport focuses on the glory days of the Knicks championship teams of the early 70’s and their larger impact through a series of interviews with storied figures such as Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Earl Monroe, Willis Reed, Bill Bradley and Phil Jackson.

Philadelphia Film Festival to Present PFF Spring Showcase, April 11 to 17

Philadelphia Film Society Theater at the Roxy

The Philadelphia Film Society will produce the Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF): Spring Showcase, a 7-day film event scheduled to take place from Friday, April 11 to Thursday, April 17, exclusively at the PFS Theater at the Roxy. According to the PFS, the Spring Showcase offers a preview of the kind of diverse programming that audiences can expect from the annual Philadelphia Film Festival, October 16 – 26, 2014. A small collection of exciting new films including summer releases and other hits from the festival circuit, it is a great sampler of the kinds of films that will be presented in the line-up this fall.

San Francisco International Film Festival to Honor Richard Linklater with Founder’s Directing Award

Richard Linklater

Filmmaker Richard Linklater will be the recipient of the 2014 Founder’s Directing Award at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 24 – May 8), honoring the quintessentially American director’s expansive body of work and celebrating the upcoming release BOYHOOD, his groundbreaking new film. The award will be presented to Linklater at Film Society Awards Night, Thursday May 1.

Florida Film Festival Announces Films for 2014 Festival; Opens With Florida Premiere of THE TRIP TO ITALY

THE TRIP TO ITALY directed by Michael Winterbottom.

The program lineup was unveiled today for the 23rd Annual Florida Film Festival, taking place April 4 to 13, 2014, in Maitland and Winter Park, Florida. FFF will screen more than 170 feature and short films representing 26 countries, along with celebrity guest appearances, forums and parties. The festival opens with Florida Premiere of THE TRIP TO ITALY directed by Michael Winterbottom.

Michael Winterbottom’s largely improvised 2010 British TV series-turned-feature-film, The Trip, had comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing variations on their own public personas as they went on a restaurant tour of northern England. In this hilarious and incisive follow-up, the director has reunited the pair for a new culinary road trip, retracing the steps of the Romantic poets’ grand tour of Italy and indulging in some sparkling banter and, thankfully, more impersonation battle-royales. On assignment by The Observer to write about some high-end restaurants and historical sites along the Italian peninsula, Rob enlists the on-hiatus-from-Hollywood Steve to join him on this new journey. So off they go in a rented Mini-Cooper, enjoying mouthwatering meals in gorgeous settings from Liguria to Capri while riffing on subjects as varied as the latestBatman flick, the artistic merits of Alanis Morissette, and of course, the virtue of sequels. As the camera captures the idyllic Italian landscape and the gastronomic treasures being prepared and consumed, THE TRIP TO ITALY effortlessly mines the chemistry and brilliant comic interplay between Coogan and Brydon. Thankfully, we’re all along for the ride.

Sarasota Film Festival Unveils 2014 Film Lineup; Opens With Rory Kennedy’s LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM

LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM

The Sarasota Film Festival, taking place April 4-13, 2014, announced today that Rory Kennedy’s new film LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM will open the 2014 Festival on Friday, April 4th, 2014. Charlie McDowell’s THE ONE I LOVE will screen as the Closing Night film on Saturday, April 12th, while John Slattery’s GOD’S POCKET and Andrew Rossi’s IVORY TOWER will serve as the festival’s Centerpiece Films. The Opening Night Film LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM will launch the festival’s ACTS OF VALOR program, examining the experience of American veterans from WW I to today.

Full Frame Announces Lineups for 2014 Thematic Program “Approaches to Character” and Tribute to HOOP DREAMS Director Steve James

Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters,” “Stevie”)

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced its full list of Full Frame Tribute and Thematic Program films. The festival will present the Full Frame Tribute to esteemed filmmaker Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters,” “Stevie”). Full Frame will screen a collection of his highly regarded films over the course of the four-day event, and will welcome a variety of subjects featured in these works for Q&As. Arthur Agee, Jr. (“Hoop Dreams”), Ameena Matthews (“The Interrupters”), and Reverend Carroll Pickett (“At the Death House Door”) are expected to attend, along with many of James’s collaborators from Kartemquin Films. Full Frame will also feature “Hoop Dreams at 20,” a panel conversation in celebration of the landmark documentary’s 20th anniversary that will feature outtakes, insider commentary, and special guests.

SXSW Film Awards; FORT TILDEN, THE GREAT INVISIBLE Win Top Awards

Envelope please! The Jury Awards were announced last night for SXSW Film 2014, and FORT TILDEN, debut feature film of directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, won the top award for Best Narrative Film, and THE GREAT INVISIBLE directed by Margaret Brown won the award for Best Documentary.

FORT TILDEN explores quarter life crisis, as two friends, Allie struggles to prepare for the Peace Corps, while Harper awaits checks from her father to fund her artistic dreams. But the two friends quickly shun responsibilities for the day when a pair of good-looking guys invites them along for a carefree Fort Tilden afternoon. As the two young women board their bikes and embark on a lengthy journey to the beach, they quickly realize that, akin to their confusing, transitioning lives, they neither know where they’re going nor how they plan to get there. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history. THE GREAT INVISIBLE goes beyond the media coverage to examine the crisis in depth.

Filmmakers Kurtis Hough and Alain LeTourneau are Winners of 2014 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship

The Northwest Film Center and the Oregon Arts Commission announced filmmakers Kurtis Hough and Alain LeTourneau as the winners of the 2014 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship. The public announcement was made on the occasion of the February 6th screening of the work of 2011 Fellow, Elijah Hasan at the Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.

The Media Arts Fellowship supports Oregon filmmakers who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the media arts. Jurors Enie Vaisburd, an independent filmmaker as well as Media Arts Instructor at Pacific University in Forest Grove and Matt Schulte, indie filmmaker and Digital Strategist with the Metropolitan Group, reviewed 19 submissions from applicants throughout the state, weighing artistic merit, the potential of the proposed activity to advance a given artistʹs work, and the feasibility of the projects proposed. The two 2014 winners will split a $5000 Fellowship which is funded solely by the Oregon Arts Commission. The Film Center continues to seek additional funders for the 2015 Fellowship. In previous years, the Fellowship has awarded as much as $15,000 to Oregon-based makers.

2014 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Short Film Lineup Featuring Sophia Loren, Danny DeVito, Fred Armisen

Academy Award®-winning Live Action Short, HELIUM

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), today announced its lineup of 58 short films, 29 of which are world premieres. The shorts will be presented in 9 thematic programs —5 narrative, 3 documentary, and 1 experimental. Last year’s popular genre-specific program returns this year as “Totally Twisted” with some added unusual comedies.

The Festival will screen the recent 2014 Academy Award®-winning Live Action Short, HELIUM. Edoardo Ponti, the 2013 winner of Tribeca’s Best Narrative Short film, THE NIGHTSHIFT BELONGS TO THE STARS, returns to Tribeca to world premiere HUMAN VOICE, featuring a powerful performance by Sophia Loren and cinematography by Academy Award®-winner, Rodrigo Prieto. Ponti is among a number of returning filmmakers including Steve James, Bill Morrison, Anita Thacher, and Ondi Timonor. The lineup also features performances by Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Danny DeVito (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), Jon Huertas (Castle), Seamus Dever (Castle), and voiceovers by Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, and Fred Armisen.

Check out Poster and Trailer for Sci-Fi-Horror Film AFFLICTED

The official poster and trailer has been released for sci-fi-horror film AFFLICTED, directed by and co-starring Derek Lee and Clif Prowse. The film which also stars Baya Rehaz will be released on April 4th, 2014. This terrifying horror thriller follows two best friends who set out on the trip of a lifetime around the world. Their journey, documented every step of the way, soon takes a twisted and unexpected turn after an encounter with a beautiful woman in Paris leaves one of them mysteriously afflicted.

Child Trafficking Film, SOLD, starring Gillian Anderson, David Arquette To Open Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles | VIDEO Trailer

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced the Opening Night Gala film, SOLD, a harrowing and inspiring story of child trafficking directed by Jeffrey D. Brown, executive produced by Emma Thompson, and starring Gillian Anderson, David Arquette, and Seema Biswas.

Big Foot Horror Film EXISTS from ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Director Eduardo Sánchez Acquired by Lionsgate for US Release

EXISTS, a new horror film from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT director Eduardo Sánchez has been acquired by Lionsgate for release in the US. The film premiered at SXSW in Austin, where it played to a sold-out midnight screening. In Bigfoot’s bold return to the big screen, five friends on a camping weekend in the remote woods of East Texas struggle to survive against a legendary predator that is stronger, smarter, and more terrifying than anything they would have ever believed exists.

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