The USA Film Festival has officially announced the schedule for its 42nd annual festival season, slated to run from April 22-29 at the Angelika Film Center. The festival will include 22 feature-length in addition to its annual short film competition and showcases. Advance tickets are available through Ticketmaster starting April 16. This year’s honorees are actor-director Rob Reiner (with an anniversary/tribute … Continue reading
The Dallas International Film Festival and Reel FX will honor veteran animator Glen Keane with the Texas Avery Award during a special 20th anniversary screening of Aladdin at noon, April 21, at the Angelika Film Center. A Q&A session with Keane will take place afterwards. (Details) A 36-year veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Keane … Continue reading
Three-time Academy Award nominee Laura Linney will receive the Dallas Star Award on Friday, April 20, as part of the 2012 Dallas International Film Festival. A Conversation with Laura Linney will take place at 11am, April 21, at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Linney earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for … Continue reading
The USA Film Festival will present its Great Director Tribute to producer-director-animator Peter Lord during a special preview screening of his new film The Pirates! Band of Misfits on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at the AMC NorthPark Theater in Dallas, TX. (Event time TBA.) The event will include a film-clip compilation tribute featuring clips from some of his works … Continue reading
The Dallas International Film Festival has announced that this year’s Dallas Star Award would be presented to noted costume designer Bernie Pollack (Ordinary People, Rain Man), and that it will honor Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) with the Dallas Shining Star Award. Both Pollack and Sidibe will receive their awards at DIFF’s annual awards dinner on Friday, April … Continue reading
The final deadline for submissions to the 2012 Asian Film Festival of Dallas is March 31, 2012 (postmarked). The festival is open to domestic and international filmmakers, and entry fees are $40 for feature films and $25 for short films. The AFFD’s mission statement is “to celebrate and support emerging and established Asian and Asian-American … Continue reading
Academy Award-nominee James Franco (127 Hours) will headline the University of Texas at Arlington‘s 2012 Graduation Celebration at 7:30pm, May 11, at the Levitt Pavilion, 100 W. Abram St., Arlington. Franco will make a keynote address at the annual party, which will also feature fireworks, music, and food. Other speakers include UT Arlington President James D. Spaniolo … Continue reading
The Video Association of Dallas is now accepting team registrations for the 11th Annual 24-Hour Video Race. The race is limited to 100 teams competing in five different divisions. The race begins at 11:59 p.m. Friday, May 4, at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station, and end there 24 hours later at midnight on Saturday, … Continue reading
The Dallas International Film Festival released the schedule for its 2012 festival season on Thursday. The festival will run from April 12-22 and feature 111 feature-length and short films from 27 countries over an 11-day period. Festival passes and tickets are currently on sale. Guests in attendance have yet to be announced. Movie Ink will post … Continue reading
The Dallas International Film Festival has announced a 25th anniversary screening of the classic science fiction satire Robocop as the closing night event of its 2012 festival. Filmed in Dallas by director Paul Verhoeven, Robocop quickly became a cult classic. (A remake starring The Killing‘s Joel Kinnaman is currently in the works.) The screening will be … Continue reading