The time is now to Join the Film Revolution. Next week we'll be announcing the (R)evolution of Film series that will feature classic screenings in January, February and March. Be there and become part of the Film Revolution.
Looking for volunteer designers for the 2014 PFF marketing campaign
Be part of the Phoenix Film Festival team!
We're looking for a few designers for the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival marketing campaign. Specialty in vector art design a plus. Must know Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Keep in mind these are volunteer positions, however you'll have the opportunity to be creative, get great exposure and plus you'll receive passes to the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival.
If you're interested in getting involved as part of our design team, please send questions and resumes to office@Phxfilm.com.
Submissions for the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival are now closed!
Thank you all for submitting your films and screenplays to the 2014 Phoenix Film Festival. The submission period wrapped up on December 16. Films are currently being screened and notifications will be made in late January.
Keep updated on our selections and submissions process for the 2015 festival by joining our mailing list.
Good luck and we'll see you in April!
Winners & Happenings at the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival!
The films have been shown. The awards have been presented. Missed out on the ceremony or miss any of the winning films at the festival? Have no fear because we'll be showing the winning films all week long so you'll get a second chance to catch all the winning films for the rest of the festival!
2013 Phoenix Film Festival
Copper Wing Award Winners
International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Fest Awards • Best Sci-Fi Short: White Room: 02B3 • Best Sci-Fi Feature: Channeling • Best Horror Short: Killer Kart • Best Horror Feature: Found.
Short Film Awards • Best Grade/HS: Alone Together • Best College Short: If You’re Serious • Best Arizona Short: Say What You Want • Best Documentary: Short:Ivan and Arnold: Day Laborers From Both Sides of the Border • Best Live Action Short: 6 Years, 4 Months & 23 Days • Best Animated Short:Head Over Heels
World Cinema Awards • Best World Cinema Short: Half Good Killer • World Cinema Best Documentary: Occupy The Movie • World Cinema Best Director: David Ondricek, In the Shadow • World Cinema Best Picture: Inch’Allah • World Cinema Audience Award Winner: Ninah’s Dowry
Foundation Awards • Arizona Filmmaker of the Year: Bob Marquis • Volunteer of the Year: Bill Mondy • Board Member of the Year: Chris LaMont
Feature Film Awards • Dan Harkins Breakthrough Filmmaker Award: Fredrik Stanton, Uprising • Special Jury Prize: Lou Taylor Pucci, The Story of Luke • Best Ensemble: The Retrieval • Best Director: Chris Eska, The Retrieval • Best Screenplay:Paul Osborne, Favor • Best Documentary: Los Wild Ones • Best Picture presented by FX Movie Channel:Putzel • Cox Audience Award: The Retrieval directed by Chris Eska
2013 Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Contest
Congratulations to the winners and finalists for the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Contest Winners. Below is a list of this year's winners.
First Place: $300 Cash, a prize pack and listing on Phoenix Film Festival website, two VIP Passes to the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival (accommodation and air fare not included).
Second Place: A prize pack, listing on Phoenix Film Festival website, two VIP Passes to the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival (accommodations and air fare not included).
Third Place: A prize pack, listing on the Phoenix Film Festival website, a VIP Pass to the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival (accommodations and air fare not included).
Ten Finalists: Ten Finalists to be posted on the Phoenix Film Festival website.
2013 Phoenix Film Festival Screenplay Search
Results
1st Place Daddy’s Girl Lee Olivas
2nd Place This Modern Man is Beat David Schroeder
3rd Place Eleven Eleven Chris Redish
Remaining Top 10 in alphabetical order by title:
Baby on Board Steven Laflamme
Marriagehood John Harris
Peculiar Taste Philip Sedgwick
The Sidekick Rules Chris Warner
Sidewalker Surfer Pamela Ryan-Hick
Something Incredible Megan Breen
The Taking of the King Nelson Blish
Passes to the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival on sale now
Passes for the 2013 Phoenix Film Festival are now on sale. There are so many ways to enjoy this year's festival from individual tickets all the way up to the VIP Passes. This year we'll have over 140 screenings of new films including features and shorts. For more information on purchasing passes, click hereMany films have already been announced and scheduled. You can start planning your festival itinerary by visiting our films page here
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Opening Night Event - Celebrate the Art of Food and see The Spectacular Now
The Opening Night Event features a cocktail party with a dozen restaurants participating, a screening of the Opening Night Movie and presentation of the Visionary Award.
Tickets are $60 and can be purchased here . Ticket price includes food, drink, entertainment and the film.
Opening Night Cocktail Party in The Arizona Republic Party Pavilion
Thursday, April 4th at 5:00pm
The 2013 Phoenix Film Festival kicks off in style with the Opening Night Cocktail Party where we’ll be celebrating the art of food. We’ve got a dozen restaurants on board to satisfy your appetite and sweet tooth.
In addition to food, entertainment will be provided by Colton Avery. You can find out more about Colton at facebook.com/pages/colton-avery
The Opening Night Event is also a fundraiser for the non-profit Phoenix Film Foundation which operates the Phoenix Film Festival and other film organizations. This is your opportunity to help support their student education programs through the silent auction and raffle.
Restaurants participating include: America's Taco Shop, Carlos O'Briens, Grimaldi's, Kiki's Custom Cupcakes, Outback Steakhouse, Postino, Roy's, Short Leash Hot Dogs, Sprinkles, TK's Tavern, Tommy Bahama and Whole Foods,
Then at starting at 7:00, we'll head over to the theatre for a screening of the Opening Night Film with director James Ponsoldt in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
The Spectacular Now
Directed by James Ponsoldt
Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Cast:
Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miles Teller
Synopsis:
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Celebrity Guests
Every year at the Phoenix Film Festival, we invite celebrity guest to help us celebrate the art of film. 2013 will be no different. This year we have several guests on tap to help us make 2013 special. They include D. B. Sweeney, Natalie Imbruglia, Melora Walters and Teller.
D. B. Sweeney
D.B’s big break came in Francis Ford Coppola’s Gardens of Stone where he played a gung-ho Vietnam enlistee alongside screen legends James Caan, Anjelica Huston, and James Earl Jones. Sweeney subsequently made a big impression in the classic romantic comedy The Cutting Edge as Doug Dorsey, a tough hockey player who turns to figure skating after an eye injury. Perhaps his most memorable role was Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out, costarring John Cusack, David Staitharn, and Charlie Sheen. Sweeney also starred in World War II thriller Memphis Belle alongside Mathew Modine and Eric Stoltz in the B17 bomber crew on their final dangerous mission into Germany and alongside the great Peter Falk in Roomates. Some of his many other films include Hear No Evil, Spawn, and No Man’s Land. Sweeney recently made his debut as a screenwriter, director, and producer with Two Tickets to Paradise. A founding board member of Los Angeles’ celebrated Blank Theatre who has appeared in over forty plays on Broadway and around the country, D.B. enjoys returning frequently to the theatre.
Natalie Imbruglia
Triple threat Natalie Imbruglia was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up in a small beach town. At 17, the actress/singer/songwriter was catapulted into the public¹s consciousness when she appeared as Beth Brennan on the hit Aussie TV series “Neighbours,” a role she would inhabit for two years (1992-1994). Imbruglia followed her small screen success with a move to London where her music career flourished. Quickly becoming an anthem of the time, “Torn” - Imbruglia¹s first single - was released in 1997 and broke air play records across the globe. Four studio albums followed with Imbruglia selling over nine million albums worldwide to date. Throughout her musical success, Imbruglia¹s passion for acting never waned. In 2003 she appeared onscreen in the British spy spoof “Johnny English,” and she starred in the critically acclaimed 2009 drama “Closed for Winter.” Of her performance in the film, Variety wrote: “Believably expressing what it must be like to live with ungovernable sorrow, the actress proves to have much more than just a face the camera adores.” A global ambassador for charity organization Virgin Unite, Imbruglia splits her time between London and Los Angeles.
Melora Walters
MELORA WALTERS was born in Saudi Arabia. She grew up there, as well as in Holland. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute in New York City. Melora is also an actress. She has collaborated with such filmmakers as Paul Thomas Anderson, Taylor Hackford, John McNaughton, and Anthony Minghella to create memorable characters and performances. She most recently starred in HBO’s critically acclaimed series Big Love and this year she was seen in the independent features Case 219 and Missing Pieces as well as on Showtime’s Californication. Her upcoming credits include the independents Lonely Boy, Underdogs and Short Term 12. She has studied writing with Kim Calder and Chiwan Choi. Last year, Finishing Line Press published her first book of poetry Sonnets and Failures with some of her wood block prints.
On June 21, 2011 Writ Large Press published her two books entitled In the Painting Heraclitus Wrings His Hands Above the World and Appears to be Crying and The Siren. In July Launch LA presented a show that included the original art shown in the books, Lying Chicken Man and the Muse. The Lying Chicken Man series of paintings will accompany her next book, The Man and the Woman.
She lives in Los Angeles with her two children, Tom and Joanna.
Teller
Teller has been the smaller, quieter half of renowned magic duo Penn & Teller since 1975.
An Emmy, Writers Guild Award, Obie and Drama Critics Circle winner, Teller with partner Penn Jillette, has enjoyed successful runs on Broadway, sold-out world tours and is the current longest-running headline act in Las Vegas.
In 2008, Teller conceived and co-directed a bloody, supernatural thriller-inspired stage version of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” that toured the East Coast to raves from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In 2010 he co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit “Play Dead.” Conceived as an ode to the classic midnight spook shows of the mid-20th Century, he again received raves from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and earned a Drama Desk nomination for “Unique Theatrical Experience.” A filmed version of the play is currently screening on the horror film festival circuit to great acclaim.
Most recently, he consulted on the magic and effects for Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse production of “The Exorcist.” Teller has starred in his own television series and specials, has written five books and has a prolific career as a magic consultant for live theater, television and films.
