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2016 SBIFF American Riviera Award Winners

2016 SBIFF American Riviera Award Winners

Excitement and anticipation abound Friday evening as Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams stormed the red carpet at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, CA for the American Riviera Awards at the 31st annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Rachel’s stunning Jonathan Simkhai gown dazzled the crowd as she got out of the car to sign […]

31st Santa Barbara Int’l Outstanding Directors of the Year

31st Santa Barbara Int’l Outstanding Directors of the Year

SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced today that Lenny Abrahamson, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Tom McCarthy, Adam McKay and George Miller will receive the 2016 Outstanding Directors of the Year award. They will each be celebrated individually for their films ROOM, THE REVENANT, SPOTLIGHT, THE BIG SHORT and MAD MAX: FURY […]

2016 SBIFF American Riviera Award Recipients

2016 SBIFF American Riviera Award Recipients

SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced today that Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams will be honored with the 2016 American Riviera Award at the 31st edition of the Fest, which runs from February 3 to February 13, 2016. This is the first time the award will be given […]

Chicago 15 – SPOTLIGHT – Closing Night Film

Festival Screening – October 29, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The AMC River East When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations […]

Chicago International Film Festival Will Play Shorts Before Films

New Festival-inspired short films from Chicago’s filmmaking community and beyond The 51st Chicago International Film Festival is announcing the 10 original short films that have been newly created to play before every film program during the Festival. Founder & Artistic Director Michael Kutza, Festival Programmers and Staff reached out to a variety of filmmaking teams […]

Telluride 15 – SPOTLIGHT

First Festival Screening – September 5, 2015 @ 9 AM Last Festival Screening – September 6, 2015 @ 8:30 PM In 2001, a new Boston Globe editor (Liev Schreiber) assigns a crack team of reporters (Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d’Arcy James) to investigate Boston’s Catholic Archdiocese handling of a priest’s sexual misconduct […]

2015 Tribeca Announces Spotlight, Midnight & Special Sections

2015 Tribeca Announces Spotlight, Midnight & Special Sections

New York, NY – The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, today announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Screening sections as well as work in progress screenings. The 14th edition of the Festival will take place from April 15 to April 26 in New York City. The Spotlight section […]

TIFF Coen Brothers Spotlight kicks off w/ Modern Day Classic Fargo

The ten-film spotlight TIFF Cinematheque – Retrospective on the Coen Brothers starts on Thursday, Nov 28th @ 6:30pm w/ the black comedy Fargo & finishes Dec. 20th w/ True Grit. Check out the trailer & FILMbutton capsule review of Miller’s Crossing that screens Friday, November 29, 2013. If you want to learn more about the […]

2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films In Next (<=>), Spotlight, New Frontier And Park City At Midnight

2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films In Next (<=>), Spotlight, New Frontier And Park City At Midnight

from sundance insititute Festival Adds New Native Showcase As Previously Announced, Slacker to Screen From the Collection PARK CITY, UT – Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival out-of-competition sections NEXT (), Spotlight, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight, as well as a new Native […]