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The 14th Annual Phoenix Film Festival begins April 3, 2014 and runs through April 10, 2014.Continually breaking attendance records since its inception, last year’s festival saw over 23,000 attendees and there are hopes to pull in even more film enthusiasts this year.The week-long Phoenix Film Festival will be held once again at Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theaters located at 7000 E. Mayo Blvd. Phoenix, AZ 85054.
Tickets and passes are on sale now and available through the Phoenix Film Festival website www.phoenixfilmfestival.com.Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Phoenix Film Festival Ticket Center next to the Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theater. Tickets range in price from $12 for a single screening to $300 for a platinum pass.For more information call 602-955-6444 or go to www.phoenixfilmfestival.com.
STARS IN ATTENDANCE
The Phoenix Film Festival is bringing Hollywood over to the valley with stars and filmmakers for the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival beginning on Thursday April 4th at the Harkins Scottsdale 101.
Actress Lea Thompson (Back To The Future) will be present at the festival as her latest film The Trouble With The Truth will be showing on both Monday, April 7th at 5:00 pm and Tuesday, April 8th at 7:10 pm.Academy Award® nominee Stephen Knight (Eastern Promises) will in attendance for his latest film, Locke starring Tom Hardy, being shown at the opening night film of the festival on Thursday, April 4th.Director Richard Shepard (The Hunting Party), will also be present showing his new film Dom Hemingway, starring Jude Law and Emilia Clarke; on Sunday, April 6th at 7:00 pm.
Appearing at this year’s International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival is actor Dee Wallace (E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Cujo) will be doing a Q&A following a showing of the 1983 classic horror film Cujo on Friday, April 4th starting at 7:30 pm.
Richard Linklater‚Äôs acclaimed hit from this year‚Äôs Sundance Film Festival, Boyhood, will be the festival‚Äôs closing night film, as the film’s star Ellar Coltrane and producer Cathleen Sutherland will be present for a post screening Q&A on Thursday, April 10th at 7:30 pm.
SHOWCASE FILMS
BOYHOOD – Closing Night Film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.
LOCKE- Opening Night Film starring Tom Hardy with Academy Award nominee Steven Knight in attendance.
TRUST ME – Friday Night Film starring Clark Gregg, Saxon Sharbino, Amanda Peet, Sam Rockwell, Felicity Huffman, Allison Janney, William H. Macy.
DOM HEMINGWAY – Sunday Night Film starring Jude Law with director Richard Shepard in attendance.
FRONTERA – Starring Ed Harris, Eva Longoria and Michael Pena.
OBVIOUS CHILD – Starring Jenny Slate, Gaby Hoffman and David Cross.
GOD’S POCKET РStarring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks and John Turturro and directed by John Slattery.
JOE – Starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan and directed by David Gordon Green.
WORDS AND PICTURES – Starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.
THE GRAND SEDUCTION – Starring Breandan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch.
DISNEY NATURE’S BEARS РThe latest documentary from DisneyNature, narrated by John C Reilly.
BELLE – Palm Springs International Film Festival award winner.
FOR NO GOOD REASON – Documentary with Johnny Depp about legendary artist Ralph Steadman.
THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH – Starring Lea Thompson and John Shea.
LIST OF MOVIES COMPETING
The 2014 Phoenix Film Festival schedule of movies competing for awards:
45RPM Рdirected by Juli Jackson, an artist struggling with the source of her inspiration finds help from an obsessive record collector in the search for her deceased father’s lost music.
JAKE SQUARED – starring Elias Koteas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Virginia Madsen, Jane Seymour, and Mike Vogel, a mind-bending comedy about a guy whose problems compound exponentially when younger versions of himself invade his life and try to solve his romantic problems.
KING OF HERRINGS – directed by Eddie Jemison (OCEANS 11), a Tom Waits tips-his-hat-to Woody Allen world, a group of small time wannabes, banters about the rickety streets of New Orleans to find themselves in a strange tug-o-war.
LIFE INSIDE OUT Рdirected by Jill D’Agnenica, when a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled teenage son.
LITTLE HOPE WAS ARSON – an edge-of-your-seat mystery set in the buckle of the Bible Belt, ten churches were burned to the ground in five weeks, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history.
MISFIRE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOOTING GALLERY – a documentary about the independent film company responsible for art-house hits YOU CAN COUNT ON ME and LAWS OF GRAVITY; a company that rose to the top of the independent film scene in the 90s before financial risk-taking and mismanagement caused it to crash.
TEDDY BEARS – starring Gillian Jacobs, David Krumholtz, Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, French Stewart, and Ned Beatty, a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal from the loss of his mother.
THE FRONTIER – starring Max Gail and Coleman Kelly, a retired professor and his ranch hand son try to reconnect after years of estrangement.
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT – directed by Henry Barrial, an ambitious young Latino man who, fueled by misguided nostalgia, buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his boisterous family into the apartments to live rent-free.
THE JOE SHOW Рa shocking and wildly entertaining documentary about America’s most controversial Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, and his ringmaster approach to media, politics, and law enforcement.
The full synopsis and trailer of each film is now available at the Phoenix Film Festival website, www.phoenixfilmfestival.com.
TEEN NIGHT
The Phoenix Film Festival has announced Teen Night for the festival Рfor every teen and teen-at-heart Рto take place on Saturday, April 5, 2014.Teen Nightshowcases two classic films for the evening including 1995’s Clueless and 2012’s The Perks Of Being A Wallflower; both films having the central characters/themes involve teenage life. Tickets are $20 and include both screenings and chances to win great prizes. Clueless will begin at 5:10 pm; while The Perks Of Being A Wallflower begins at 7:20 pm.
Saturday 5 April is also “Kids Day” at the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival. Go to the website listed above for more information.
The Internation Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival is also, again, part of this year’s Phoenix Film Festival.
Stay tuned for continual updates.
