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Sterling K. Brown and the cast of “The Blackening” have been added to the lineup at CultureCon Los Angeles 2023. The festival kicks off on Saturday, June 17 at Rolling Greens Mateo, making it the first-ever full CultureCon summit to take place in L.A.
The festival is presented by Max and will be hosted by comedian Jay Pharoah and Emmy-winning journalist Francesca Amiker. Also slated to appear is singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, rapper Lakeyah and “The Blackening” director Tim Story and stars Dewayne Perkins and X Mayo, who’ll discuss the horror-comedy with Pharoah.
Festival partners Cîroc, Sephora, My Black is Beautiful, Prime Video, McDonald’s, Coca Cola and others will be hosting panels and activities for festival goers. In addition, CultureCon will be filled with skill-building workshops, activations and numerous Black-owned small businesses to shop from.
“When it comes to real community work in the East, CultureCon has held it down bar for bar,...
The festival is presented by Max and will be hosted by comedian Jay Pharoah and Emmy-winning journalist Francesca Amiker. Also slated to appear is singer-songwriter Victoria Monét, rapper Lakeyah and “The Blackening” director Tim Story and stars Dewayne Perkins and X Mayo, who’ll discuss the horror-comedy with Pharoah.
Festival partners Cîroc, Sephora, My Black is Beautiful, Prime Video, McDonald’s, Coca Cola and others will be hosting panels and activities for festival goers. In addition, CultureCon will be filled with skill-building workshops, activations and numerous Black-owned small businesses to shop from.
“When it comes to real community work in the East, CultureCon has held it down bar for bar,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay, Sophia Scorziello and Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
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Mammoth Lakes Film Festival has announced the lineup of its ninth installment, held in-person from May 24-28 at venues throughout the California mountain town. Notably, the opening and closing films will feature stories from transgender individuals around the world.
“Two of the most compelling documentaries we came across this year happened to be transgender stories, highlighting characters living in circumstances that threaten their survival, and we are so thrilled to showcase ‘Queendom’ and ‘Kokomo City’ as our opening and closing spotlight films,” said Paul Sbrizzi, director of festival programming.
Opening film “Queendom,” by Agniia Galdanova, is a window into the life of Gena, a transgender Russian performance artist, and the radical acts that put her life in danger. The closing film “Kokomo City” by D. Smith explores the lives of four Black transgender sex workers as they consider what their existence means within the Black community. Koko Da Doll, who...
“Two of the most compelling documentaries we came across this year happened to be transgender stories, highlighting characters living in circumstances that threaten their survival, and we are so thrilled to showcase ‘Queendom’ and ‘Kokomo City’ as our opening and closing spotlight films,” said Paul Sbrizzi, director of festival programming.
Opening film “Queendom,” by Agniia Galdanova, is a window into the life of Gena, a transgender Russian performance artist, and the radical acts that put her life in danger. The closing film “Kokomo City” by D. Smith explores the lives of four Black transgender sex workers as they consider what their existence means within the Black community. Koko Da Doll, who...
- 5/4/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Another great year at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival! Hey guys… long time no chat! Melissa here, and boy have I missed you! I was lucky enough to attend this years festival and as per usual, the programming exceeded expectations. Be sure to check out my reviews this week as I talk about some of the amazing films! Below, you can find a list of all of the winners. These are all films that you do not want to miss!
Winners Include “My Name is Myeisha,” “Tower. A Bright Day” and “White Tide”
The 4th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (Mlff) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners at the Closing Night Award Ceremony at the Sierra Event Center in Mammoth Lakes on Sunday, May 27, 2018. The festival, held from May 23-27, screened over 70 films, including 63 in Mlff’s competition categories. Each of the festival winners received an Orson the Bear Award,...
Winners Include “My Name is Myeisha,” “Tower. A Bright Day” and “White Tide”
The 4th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (Mlff) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners at the Closing Night Award Ceremony at the Sierra Event Center in Mammoth Lakes on Sunday, May 27, 2018. The festival, held from May 23-27, screened over 70 films, including 63 in Mlff’s competition categories. Each of the festival winners received an Orson the Bear Award,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2nd Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival is happening right now in beautiful Mammoth Lakes California, and their programming, yet again, is nothing short of spectacular (thanks to Festival Director Shira Dubrovner and Director of Programming Paul Sbrizzi).
One of the more powerful films that I have seen thus far is the feature film by director/writer Robert G. Putka, Mad. In this tragicomedy, daughters Connie (Jennifer Lafleur) and Casey (Eilis Cahill) are trying to navigate their own lives and relationships while also dealing with their mother, Mel’s (Maryann Plunkett) nervous breakdown after her recent divorce, on top of her bi-polar disorder. Mel finds herself abandoned in a psych ward after her daughters decide they would rather not deal with her, and is now faced with navigating through her mental health. Meanwhile, perfect daughter Connie and ‘fuck up’ Casey can’t seem to find a common thread other than...
One of the more powerful films that I have seen thus far is the feature film by director/writer Robert G. Putka, Mad. In this tragicomedy, daughters Connie (Jennifer Lafleur) and Casey (Eilis Cahill) are trying to navigate their own lives and relationships while also dealing with their mother, Mel’s (Maryann Plunkett) nervous breakdown after her recent divorce, on top of her bi-polar disorder. Mel finds herself abandoned in a psych ward after her daughters decide they would rather not deal with her, and is now faced with navigating through her mental health. Meanwhile, perfect daughter Connie and ‘fuck up’ Casey can’t seem to find a common thread other than...
- 5/29/2016
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sundance. Berlin. Tribeca. Cannes. Venice. Toronto. New York. Once saved for occasional weeks out of any given year, “film festival season” has now become a year-long event. Be it the aforementioned biggest of the big, or the ever growing slate of must-attend smaller festivals like Hot Docs, True/False, Stanley or Telluride, film festivals are cropping up across the globe.
But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.
Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.
Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...
But very few of them are set against a beautiful landscape quite as glorious as the Mammoth Lakes region of California.
Marking their debut this year, the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will launch their inaugural lineup this week, with a hotly discussed documentary from Alex Gibney leading the way.
Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine will open the festival this Wednesday. “We are blessed to have gotten such a strong lineup this year,” says Shira Dubrovner, founder of the festival. She, along with veteran programmer Paul Sbrizzi...
- 5/27/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The first annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will make it’s debut this week. Set in the scenic and majestic setting of Mammoth Lakes, California, and will take place May 27-31, and will open with acclaimed Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine.
The festival will present sixteen films in Narrative and Documentary Competition. I recently spoke with Artistic Director/Director Shira Dubrovner about choosing the films for the festival. She said:
“[The films] have a common thread. The one thing I did with this festival is give the full power to Paul Sbrizzi, who is a veteran at programming. He’s been programming for Slamdance for the past fifteen years, he programs for La film fest and many other film festivals in the country. I knew his artistic taste, and I know that he also has an eye for talent. He...
The festival will present sixteen films in Narrative and Documentary Competition. I recently spoke with Artistic Director/Director Shira Dubrovner about choosing the films for the festival. She said:
“[The films] have a common thread. The one thing I did with this festival is give the full power to Paul Sbrizzi, who is a veteran at programming. He’s been programming for Slamdance for the past fifteen years, he programs for La film fest and many other film festivals in the country. I knew his artistic taste, and I know that he also has an eye for talent. He...
- 5/26/2015
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The most extensive previews of this year's Slamdance, opening tonight and running through Thursday, come from Paul Sbrizzi at Hammer to Nail and Twitch. Sbrizzi has notes on Perry Blackshear's They Look Like People, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson's Diamond Tongues, Patrick Ryan's Darkness on the Edge of Town, Alexandre Paschoalini's Asco, Johanna Moder's High Performance, Jiyoung Lee's Female Pervert, Gary Walkow's The Trouble with Dot and Harry and Stephen Richter's Birds of Neptune, plus two documentaries, Maurizius Sterkle Drux’s Concrete Love – The Böhm Family and Paul-Julien Robert's My Fathers, My Mother and Me. We'll be collecting full-blown reviews as they appear. » - David Hudson...
- 1/23/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The most extensive previews of this year's Slamdance, opening tonight and running through Thursday, come from Paul Sbrizzi at Hammer to Nail and Twitch. Sbrizzi has notes on Perry Blackshear's They Look Like People, Pavan Moondi and Brian Robertson's Diamond Tongues, Patrick Ryan's Darkness on the Edge of Town, Alexandre Paschoalini's Asco, Johanna Moder's High Performance, Jiyoung Lee's Female Pervert, Gary Walkow's The Trouble with Dot and Harry and Stephen Richter's Birds of Neptune, plus two documentaries, Maurizius Sterkle Drux’s Concrete Love – The Böhm Family and Paul-Julien Robert's My Fathers, My Mother and Me. We'll be collecting full-blown reviews as they appear. » - David Hudson...
- 1/23/2015
- Keyframe
(The 2014 La Film Fest runs June 11th–19th. Visit the festival’s official website for more information. Full Disclosure: Paul Sbrizzi is an associate shorts programmer for L.A.F.F., but he put on his film lover/reviewer toga to write this post.) Snowpiercer, the new Bong Joon-ho, is opening the festival; Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys is closing. There […]...
- 6/11/2014
- by Paul Sbrizzi
- Hammer to Nail
There hasn't been a whole lot of previewing in the run-up to today's opening of Slamdance 2012 but I've come across one truly terrific story in, of all places, Entertainment Weekly. On Monday, Final Curtain, a long-lost 22-minute film from 1957 that Ed Wood hoped would be the pilot episode of a TV series he wanted to call Portraits of Terror, will essentially be seeing its world premiere in Park City. Clark Collis tells the story of its rediscovery and restoration but also that of the actors involved, particularly Paul Marco. Great stuff.
Otherwise, I can point you to two previews of the lineup and, as notable reviews come in, I'll make a note of them here. IndieWIRE's Eric Kohn picks six films to keep an eye on and reminds us that Slamdance doesn't really deserve to be overlooked as much as it has been so far this year: "Last year's premiere...
Otherwise, I can point you to two previews of the lineup and, as notable reviews come in, I'll make a note of them here. IndieWIRE's Eric Kohn picks six films to keep an eye on and reminds us that Slamdance doesn't really deserve to be overlooked as much as it has been so far this year: "Last year's premiere...
- 1/20/2012
- MUBI
"We polled a full 100 critics and curators on their best films this year," tweeted @SightSoundmag last week. "One guess which film came out top?" And a bit later that same day: "Most of you guessed right: our film of 2011 is The Tree of Life (by a country mile). Two guesses what came second?" Followed shortly by: "Second in our #filmsof2011 poll of 100 critics: Asghar Farhadi's A Separation."
And that was that until a few days later, when Guy Lodge, among others, posted the top ten. It's likely that we'll eventually see a "year in review" package as extravagant as Sight & Sound's 2010 survey, but for now:
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick).
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi).
3. The Kid With a Bike (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne).
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier).
5. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius).
=6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan).
=6. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr) — By the way,...
And that was that until a few days later, when Guy Lodge, among others, posted the top ten. It's likely that we'll eventually see a "year in review" package as extravagant as Sight & Sound's 2010 survey, but for now:
1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick).
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi).
3. The Kid With a Bike (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne).
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier).
5. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius).
=6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan).
=6. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr) — By the way,...
- 12/1/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 6/27.
This year's Los Angeles Film Festival, running through June 26, opens tonight with the latest from Richard Linklater, and Steven Zeitchik talks with him for the Los Angeles Times: "'It was my most difficult one to get made,' he said flatly. 'It took 12 years to happen, and even then it was tough. People can say shooting in 22 days makes a movie better. It doesn't.' … Bernie is a shaggy, idiosyncratic work, possibly the strangest yet in a career full of strangeness. Set in the small town of Carthage, Texas, it tells of an effeminate, musical-loving mortician named Bernie Tiede [Jack Black] who befriends and then commits a horrible crime against a repressed wealthy matriarch [Shirley MacLaine], leaving him to face the wrath of a local prosecutor [Matthew McConaughey]. The movie is a dramatization of an actual case — the script was based on a 1998 Texas Monthly article about Tiede, and Linklater, who attended Tiede's trial,...
This year's Los Angeles Film Festival, running through June 26, opens tonight with the latest from Richard Linklater, and Steven Zeitchik talks with him for the Los Angeles Times: "'It was my most difficult one to get made,' he said flatly. 'It took 12 years to happen, and even then it was tough. People can say shooting in 22 days makes a movie better. It doesn't.' … Bernie is a shaggy, idiosyncratic work, possibly the strangest yet in a career full of strangeness. Set in the small town of Carthage, Texas, it tells of an effeminate, musical-loving mortician named Bernie Tiede [Jack Black] who befriends and then commits a horrible crime against a repressed wealthy matriarch [Shirley MacLaine], leaving him to face the wrath of a local prosecutor [Matthew McConaughey]. The movie is a dramatization of an actual case — the script was based on a 1998 Texas Monthly article about Tiede, and Linklater, who attended Tiede's trial,...
- 6/27/2011
- MUBI
Here's the latest Austin movie news.
The Austin/Texas films at Los Angeles Film Festival are gathering plenty of attention and critical acclaim. The opening-night film on Thursday was Richard Linklater's latest feature, Bernie, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, and based on a Texas Monthly article. Austin Movie Blog has a good roundup of reviews and responses, plus photos.Also at Laff, former Austinite Steve Collins' film You Hurt My Feelings premiered over the weekend. The cast includes Collins regulars John Merriman, Courtney Davis and Macon Blair. IndieWIRE has an email interview with Collins about the movie. Check out Paul Sbrizzi's thoughtful review at Hammer to Nail.And last night, Laff screened An Ordinary Family, from local filmmaker Mike Akel (Chalk), which has a local cast/crew including a brief appearance from Merriman. It's still early for reactions, but Moving Pictures Network has a review.
The Austin/Texas films at Los Angeles Film Festival are gathering plenty of attention and critical acclaim. The opening-night film on Thursday was Richard Linklater's latest feature, Bernie, starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, and based on a Texas Monthly article. Austin Movie Blog has a good roundup of reviews and responses, plus photos.Also at Laff, former Austinite Steve Collins' film You Hurt My Feelings premiered over the weekend. The cast includes Collins regulars John Merriman, Courtney Davis and Macon Blair. IndieWIRE has an email interview with Collins about the movie. Check out Paul Sbrizzi's thoughtful review at Hammer to Nail.And last night, Laff screened An Ordinary Family, from local filmmaker Mike Akel (Chalk), which has a local cast/crew including a brief appearance from Merriman. It's still early for reactions, but Moving Pictures Network has a review.
- 6/20/2011
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
The 17th annual Slamdance Film Festival is all set to run for eight days and nights Jan. 21-27. The festival is featuring a bold theme this year of “All Is Not Lost” where — due to the current devastating economic climate — Slamdance will donate 10% of ticket proceeds back to the filmmakers.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
The fest is screening 14 feature films — 10 of which are in competition — and 8 feature documentaries, all of which are in competition. In addition, there will be 56 short films screening.
Plus, there are a couple of special screenings, including the Straight 8 event where anybody can register to receive a single roll of Super-8 film that they can use to direct their own in-camera edited mini-masterpiece. Also, on the 26th, there will be a special retrospective of the works of renegade ’60s filmmaker J.X. Williams.
The full film lineup is below, but for more information on the site please visit the official Slamdance website.
- 12/23/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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The 16th annual Slamdance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 21-28 in Park City, has added three films to its Special Screening program: Jordan Brady's documentary "I Am Comic," featuring Sarah Silverman and Kathy Griffin, Gerard Johnson's "Tony" and Ben Wheatley's "Down Terrace."
Slamdance also has programmed 36 narrative and experimental shorts, 10 animations, 12 short documentaries and seven horror shorts that will screen as part of its inaugural Twilight Shorts program.
The shorts programs include such titles as "Head in the Sand," a look at a naive soldier's tour of duty in Afghanistan; "Saturday Morning Blues," in which an inner-city teens wrangles doses of knowledge and poison from her best friend; and "Solarium," a sci-fi piece designed entirely with found and recycled materials.
"In spite of the recession, we saw an increase in both quantity and quality of shorts submissions this year," said Paul Sbrizzi, captain of the shorts programming committee.
Slamdance also has programmed 36 narrative and experimental shorts, 10 animations, 12 short documentaries and seven horror shorts that will screen as part of its inaugural Twilight Shorts program.
The shorts programs include such titles as "Head in the Sand," a look at a naive soldier's tour of duty in Afghanistan; "Saturday Morning Blues," in which an inner-city teens wrangles doses of knowledge and poison from her best friend; and "Solarium," a sci-fi piece designed entirely with found and recycled materials.
"In spite of the recession, we saw an increase in both quantity and quality of shorts submissions this year," said Paul Sbrizzi, captain of the shorts programming committee.
- 12/16/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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