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Lineup Announcements
– The 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival (Svff), presented by Zions Bank, has announced its film line-up for the weekend of March 15 – 19. Now in its sixth year, Svff offers five days of 30 feature film screenings, including 5 world premieres and featuring 16 documentaries and 14 narrative features.
The festival will open with the World Premiere documentary “Blood Road” starring Sun Valley local Rebecca Rusch on March 15 and close with the documentary “Big Sonia” on March 19. Additional film highlights include “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman, “Custody” with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shalhoub, and “Dina,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance. The film slate can also be viewed here.
– Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival...
Lineup Announcements
– The 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival (Svff), presented by Zions Bank, has announced its film line-up for the weekend of March 15 – 19. Now in its sixth year, Svff offers five days of 30 feature film screenings, including 5 world premieres and featuring 16 documentaries and 14 narrative features.
The festival will open with the World Premiere documentary “Blood Road” starring Sun Valley local Rebecca Rusch on March 15 and close with the documentary “Big Sonia” on March 19. Additional film highlights include “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman, “Custody” with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shalhoub, and “Dina,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance. The film slate can also be viewed here.
– Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival...
- 2/23/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A slender glimpse into Latin American history through the eyes of an unlikely participant, Andrea Kalin's First Lady of the Revolution introduces Henrietta Boggs, an Alabama woman who married Jose Figueres shortly before he started on his path to being one of Costa Rica's most important figures. Most appropriate for screening in museum or educational settings, the doc does showcase a woman whose adventurous nature was out of step with early 20th-century conventions.
Boggs was born in 1918 and grew up in very conservative Alabama society. To hear her tell it (her sharpness on camera belies her age), she was...
Boggs was born in 1918 and grew up in very conservative Alabama society. To hear her tell it (her sharpness on camera belies her age), she was...
- 12/8/2016
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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