The 2011 RiverRun International Film Festival, held April 8-17 this year, the Festival will feature a spotlight on “Contemporary French Masters,” showcasing some of France’s most important films and filmmakers of the last decade.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, held April 14-17 this year in Durham, announced that it would open its 14th annual festival with the U.S. Premiere of “Guilty Pleasures,” directed by Julie Moggan.
As director of the Cucalorus Film Festival for more than a decade now, Dan Brawley has been instrumental in growing the festival’s presence on the national scene and shaping it into one of the Southeast’s premiere cultural events. When the curtain rises on Cucalorus this November, it will mark the 16th installment of the festival, [...]
Now entering its 16th season and making more and more noise on the national film festival scene with each passing year, the 2010 Cucalorus Film Festival is set to electrify downtown Wilmington once again, running from November 11-14 this fall. As in previous installments, the program will boast approximately 120 films selected from a record-breaking [...]
As the 5th Charlotte Film Festival wrapped, a broad range of jury and audience awards were presented to participating films. “Barry Munday,” directed by Chris D’Arienzo and distributed by Magnolia Pictures in the U.S., received the Fest’s Best Narrative Feature Audience Award, while the LGBT-themed doc “Gen Silent,” directed by Stu Maddux, received the Best [...]
Durham’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Wilmington’s Cucalorus and Winston-Salem’s RiverRun were three of the more than 350 arts programs and projects from across North Carolina that will divide $7.4 million in N.C. Arts Council grants for the coming year, the state announced August 9.
While the future of the city-operated Asheville Film Festival remains very much a mystery, it appears increasingly likely that a new festival will take flight next fall with or without the city council’s blessing.
“Road to Nowhere,” an independent motion picture filmed in 2009 in Western North Carolina, was selected to premiere in competition at the 2010 Venice Film Festival, running September 1-11 in Italy.
This past spring, filmmaker David Gordon Green received the Emerging Master Award at the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem. The ceremony was held on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Green’s alma matter, following the 10th anniversary screening of his first feature, “George Washington,” which was shot in Winston-Salem.
The Charlotte Film Festival is heading into a milestone year of sorts as it prepares to raise the curtain on its fifth annual festival. Its second go-round as a week-long enterprise, this year’s festival will run from September 20-26 and feature a slate of films that includes favorites from Sundance, Cannes, South by Southwest and beyond.
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