Film Fest 919 announced the film lineup and special events for its 2nd edition, October 9-13, 2019 at Silverspot Cinema at University Place.
Showcasing the fall season’s most talked-about films from Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals, audiences will have an opportunity to see Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson; Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins; James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale; Scott Z. Burns’ The Report starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening; Trey Edward Shultz’ Waves starring Sterling K. Brown and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite; Pedro Almodovar’s Portrait of a Lady starring Antonio Banderas,; Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx; Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, and more.
FF919 features films representing a wide breadth of genres and spanning 18 countries, including four Official Academy submissions for Foreign Language Film. In addition to screenings and Q&As with filmmakers and local academics, the festival will offer film industry panels and feature celebrity guests and a variety of parties for festival attendees.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Just a few of the exciting special events for 2019 Film Fest 919 include:
Wednesday, October 9
• Celebrate the Opening Night screening of Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, with special guest Martha Kelly (Baskets, Corporate Animals) attending. The screening will be followed by the Opening Night after-party at City Kitchen, hosted by Sally Brown, wife of UNC football coach Mack Brown. Musical entertainment will be provided by local favorite, Liquid Pleasure.
Thursday, October 10
• A special encore screening of the hit film ROCKETMAN, with a special appearance by Ray Williams, the man responsible for discovering Elton John and introducing him to his longtime lyricist partner Bernie Taupin.
Friday, October 11
• Before a full day of movies, start the day with us for coffee at Caffé Driade, 1215-A East Franklin St., Chapel Hill.
• After the movies, join festival-goers at 401 Main, the area’s newest, hottest hangout for a late-night get-together, featuring music by Jasme Kelly Kollective.
Saturday, October 12
• Panel Discussion: Writing For The Screen – Learn about the art of screenwriting from some of the industry’s best, with a special emphasis on adapted screenplays in a panel discussion moderated by Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish. Panelists to be announced soon. Free admission.
• Film Fest 919 will present the first-ever Distinguished Screenwriter Award to three-time Academy Award®-nominated Screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything), following the screening of Academy Award®-nominated director Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce.
• Later that evening, join us for a Late Night Happy Hour at the Siena Hotel.
Sunday, October 13
• MEET THE ARTISTS: Joe Letteri, Weta Digital
Special presentation by four-time Academy Award®-winning special effects supervisor and Director of Weta Digital, Joe Letteri. Letteri will share his valuable insights with the audience and discuss how the craft has evolved from the early days of motion capture on The Lord of the Rings all the way through virtual production on Avatar, remote onset capture work on the Planet of the Apes trilogy and the refinement of the facial animation process that allowed Weta Digital to create ‘Thanos,’ ‘Alita’ and the digital human work for Will Smith in Ang Lee’s upcoming Gemini Man.
• Enjoy the Closing Night screening of Taika Waititi’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit, winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screening will be followed by an after-party at Silverspot Cinema.
The 2019 Program:
And Then We Danced | Levan Akin, Sweden/Russia – OFFICIAL ACADEMY SUBMISSION FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, SWEDEN
Starring Levan Ghelbakhiani, Ana Javakishvili
Cannes Film Festival
Bacurau | Kleber Medonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Brazil
Starring Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Barbara Colen, Thomas Aquino
Winner Grand Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival
Beanpole | Kantemir Balagov, Russia
Starring Konstantin Balakirev, Andrey Bykov, Olga Dragunova
Winner Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival; Telluride Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Britt-Marie Was Here | Tuva Novotny, Sweden
Starring Pernilla August, Peter Haber, Anders Mossling, Lancelot Ncube
By The Grace of God | Francois Ozon, France/Belgium
Starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Menochet, Swann Arlaud
Winner Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival
Clemency | Chinonye Chukwu, USA
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Danielle Brooks
Winner Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Collisions | Richard Levien, USA
Starring Jesse Garcia, Ana de la Reguera, Izabella Alvarez
Cyrano, My Love | Alex Michalik, France/Belgium
Starring Thomas Solivérès, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner
Dolemite Is My Name | Craig Brewer, USA
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Keegan-Michael Key, Titus Burgess, Craig Robinson, Chris Rock
Toronto International Film Festival
Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold, USA
Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Remo Girone, Ray McKinnon
Telluride Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Frankie | Ira Sachs, France/Portugal/Belgium
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, Isabelle Huppert, Greg Kinnear
Cannes Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Greener Grass | Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, USA
Starring: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D’Arcy Carden
Sundance Film Festival
Honey Boy | Alma Har’el, USA
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges
Winner Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
In Fabric | Peter Strickland, UK
Starring Gwendoline Christie, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Toronto International Film Festival, 2018, Winner, Fantastic Fest
Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi, Germany/USA – CLOSING NIGHT
Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Thomasin McKenzie, Rebel Wilson
Based on Christine Leunens’s novel; Winner of People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival
Just Mercy | Destin Daniel Cretton, USA
Starring: Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Tim Blake Nelson
Toronto International Film Festival
Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach, USA – OPENING NIGHT
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Lauren Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty
Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival
MEET JOE LETTERI, WETA DIGITAL – THE EVOLUTION OF VISUAL EFFECTS
Special presentation by four-time Academy Award-winning Visual Effects artist Joe Letteri.
Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton, USA
Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Leslie Mann, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Willem Dafoe
Telluride Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Pain & Glory | Pedro Almodovar, Spain
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas
Winner Best Actor for Banderas at Cannes; Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
Parasite | Joon-ho Bong, South Korea
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
Winner Palm d’Or Cannes; Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival; Official Academy submission for Foreign Language Film, South Korea
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Celine Sciamma, France
Starring: Adele Haenel, Noémie Merlant
Winner of Best Screenplay, Queer Palm, Cannes; Telluride Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Premature | Rashaad Ernesto Green, USA
Starring: Zora Howard, Joshua Boone
Nominee for Next Innovator Award, Sundance Film Festival
Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher, USA
Starring: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden
Encore screening, featuring an appearance by Ray Williamson, credited for discovery of Elton John.
Shepherd: the Story of a Jewish Dog | Lynn Roth, USA
Starring: Ayelet Zurer
Winner Audience Award, LA Jewish Film Festival
Director/writer Lynn Roth will attend.
Sink or Swim | Gilles Lellouche
Starring Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde
Winner Cesar Awards; Cannes Film Festival
Song of Names | Francois Girard, Canada/Hungary
Starring Tim Roth, Clive Owen, Catherine McCormack
Toronto International Film Festival
Sorry We Missed You | Ken Loach, UK | France | Belgium
Starring; Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone
Cannes Film Festival
The Aeronauts | Tom Harper, UK
Starring Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne
Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
The Chambermaid | Lila Avilés, Mexico – OFFICIAL ACADEMY SUBMISSION FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM / MEXICO
Starring Gabriela Cartol, Agustina Quinci, Teresa Sánchez
Toronto International Film Festival
The Kill Team | Dan Krauss, USA/Spain
Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff, Rob Morrow
The King | David Michôd, USA
Starring Timothee Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily-Rose Depp
Venice Film Festival
The Report | Scott Z. Burns, USA
Starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening
Sundance Film Festival; Telluride Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
The Traitor | Marco Bellocchio, Italy, France, Brazil, Germany
Starring: Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi
Cannes Film Festival; Winner Golden Globes Italy; Toronto International Film Festival
The Truth | Hirokazu Koreeda, France
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke
Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
The Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles, UK | Italy | Argentina | USA
Written by Anthony McCarten – HONORED WITH DISTINGUISHED SCREENWRITER AWARD
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Telluride Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival
Screenwriter Anthony McCarten will attend
Waves | Trey Edward Shults, USA
Starring: Sterling K. Brown, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Taylor Russell, Lucas Hedges, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Clifton Collins, Jr.
Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
Windows on the World | Michael D. Olmos, USA
Starring Edward James Olmos, Rene Auberjonois, Ryan Guzman, Julie Carmen
Winner Los Angeles Film Awards and Method Fest
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