2016
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"Based on a true story:" words so compelling that producers ensure audiences know it from frame one.
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You've written your script. What's next? Join experts on how to successfully navigate through the film industry to get your script made and advance your career.
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Well before Silence of the Lambs became a box office sensation and earned Jodie Foster an Academy Award, Michael Mann's Manhunter introduced audiences to one of cinema's most memorable villains, Dr. Hannibal Lecktor. Based on the Thomas Harris novel, Red Dragon, and starring (pre-CSI) William Peterson as FBI profiler Will Graham, Manhunter grabs you by the throat, drags you down into the dark netherworld of serial killers and refuses to let you go.
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A coming-of-age-at-30 comedy starring the enchanting Rita Moreno (West Side Story, Singin' in the Rain) Two self-involved cousins have better things to do than embark on a road trip with their grandmother, Gloria (Moreno). But someone has to take the frail woman to an assisted care facility. Despite such inconvenient circumstances, the two cousinsa risk-averse yuppie and a slacker stand-up comedianfind plenty of laughs along the way.
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James Franco (Pre-Festival) Storytelling Reimagined Event occurs February 28th in Palo Alto, CA. The Maverick Spirit Award Presentation will occur as part of this James Franco Storytelling Reimagined Event. If you want to try to pin down James Franco, youd better be really quick and have a lot of pins nearby. Much heralded and much analyzed, this bona fide, modern-day Renaissance man doesnt dabble; whatever he takes on, its the full plunge, with both feet, arms, head, and hearthis entire being.
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Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd are the three comic geniuses of film's silent era. Chaplin's Little Tramp was the wistful, romantic, melancholic yearner. Keaton was the "great stone face," stoically tumbling his way through a chaotic, harsh, surreal world. And then there was Lloyd. The charming, awkward guy with the glasses, the "everyman" to whom audiences could relate. Although his travails were the more common battles faced in daily life, they were no less poignant, thrilling, and hilarious than his comedic film rivals.
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As soon as director Kevin Smith lights up the screen with his moving story of being discovered for his film Clerks, Film Hawk is off and running with a poignant, celebratory, and often humorous look at one of contemporary cinemas most influential, yet modestly unrecognized, dynamos Robert Hawk. A man who has positively impacted the lives of film artists and audiences for decades, the word "cinephile" is an understatement for a way to describe Hawk.
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Opening Cinequest with a bang! Academy award-winning director Gavin Hood will present his captivating new thriller Eye in the Sky, starring Dame Helen Mirren (The Queen, Trumbo), Alan Rickman (Harry Potter, Die Hard), Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad). Is the life of one innocent worth the lives of thousands? Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren) is in charge of a top-secret mission: to capture, not kill, a terrorist.
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Cinequest Film Festival 2016 culminates with the United States Premiere of Simon Stone's beautiful and haunting The Daughter, which boasts an incredible ensemble cast including Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Ewen Leslie (Sleeping Beauty), Paul Schneider (Lars and the Real Girl), Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings), Anna Torv (Fringe), Odessa Young (Wonderland), and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park). After a fifteen year absence, Christian (Schneider) returns home to New South Wales for what should be a celebration of his father Henry's (Rush) marriage to Anna (Torv).
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Immersion into the throes of feeling: A superb community of leading film artists brings you diverse genre approaches to the exciting new format. These short films provide a fun, dramatic and thrilling take on the three screen experience. Goldilocks (12min) MONO-The Old Curiosity Shop (4min) One Last Time (8min) The Secret Of 40 (20min) Two Legged Rat Bastards (12min) Screening sponsored by Barco