2019

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Cinequest VR Experience Lounge The Cinequest VR Experience Lounge will act as ground zero for your VR indulgence. Meet, connect, and converse with friends, fellow audience members, enthusiasts, and VR artists. You can enjoy your time here with more VR experiential and immersive content, VR Gaming, and hospitality. VR Workshops will occur in the lounge as well.

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Enter the Exhilarating New World of Virtual Reality! Cinequest, the longtime leader in showcasing the integration of Silicon Valley technological innovation with filmed media, has now become the place to experience the new world of Virtual and Augmented Reality. Cinequest has always focused on empowering artists and innovators, and connecting their creations to the audiences who appreciate and love their work.

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Cinequest opens in high fashion as the glorious Nandita Das presents her sweeping biopic, Manto a moving and gorgeously crafted look at the work and life of India's beloved and controversial writer, Saadat Hasan Manto. At the dawn of India's independence, an air of optimism sweeps the country. Yet the euphoria flees when the country faces turmoil, violence, and fear of their quickly changing world. A horrified Manto bears witness to the upheaval in his homeland and channels his emotions into writing a transformation of that inner turmoil.

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With more than forty films (encompassing ten languages) in her rich and lengthy resumé, Nandita Das could rightfully claim the status of bona fide Indian and Global film star and bask in the warm glow of klieg lights and the heady aura of celebrity.

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When one thinks of Silicon Valley, “creative” seems to be the perfect descriptor. Wild ideas, impossible concepts, and quantum leaps have been the wellsprings that grow and nurture the amazing technology that is part of everyday life. Yet one of the most prominent players in the Valley is neither designer, entrepreneur, scientist, nor business person. Growth of her “business” isn’t charted on any stock exchange or touted by a venture capital firm.

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This panel will focus on how to raise independent financing for your screenplay. It will pay specific attention to alternative types of financing including equity, tax credits, and domestic and international presales. The moderator and panel will also discuss what to do once your motion picture is completed with a specific concentration on how a producer can secure the best distribution for their film. Panelists will include a studio executive, a domestic sales agent, a foreign sales agent, and a financing executive.

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Cinequest’s grand Closing Night gives the audience one of the most anticipated films-a film almost 30 years in the making-iconic director Terry Gilliam’s adventure-comedy The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Brimming with imaginative ideas from the very beginning, Gilliam’s magnum opus celebrates its source material with delight-as it takes on the classic adventures of Don Quixote and infuses it with a reflective commentary on art and the madness of our own world. Adam Driver (Girl, Star Wars) is Toby, a young artist who has lost the zeal for his craft and is working in advertising.

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Though she debuted at age 3 playing a younger version of her sister, Elle Fanning quickly made her own name. She earned her first role away from Dakota by appearing in the ensemble of Daddy Day Care, but began standing out in dramas. By the age of 10 she had already costarred with actors like Jeff Bridges, Brad Pitt, and Cate Blanchett, even once playing the young Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.