Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately cancelled by the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead.
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The dates are set for the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. But there’s more news than just the September 2-6 run, which expands from three days to four: Organizers are hoping to hold an in-person event in the Colorado resort town.
The hope is that the Covid-19 vaccination process will be far enough along by then and that, by taking all necessary safety precautions including the extra day, the fest won’t have to be virtual. Last year’s event was canceled.
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Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately cancelled by the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead.
The Cannes Film Festival said Tuesday that Spike Lee will be its jury president in 2021, one year after he was due to preside over the festival but couldn’t due to its cancellation.
It is truly beginning to feel like we’re in a time loop. It was only a year ago when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Spike Lee would be the Jury President for the film festival.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSpike Lee is set to preside over the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which is expected to take place July 6-17. The director and activist will be the first Black president of the festival’s jury.Lee was on track to preside over last year’s festival which was canceled due to the pandemic, and had vowed to return to the French Rivera-set festival if the health situation allowed for it.
Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterFew film institutions, and certainly no film festivals, experienced a COVID trial by fire quite as SXSW did last year. The mammoth Austin event — which includes a film festival, a tech conference and its original smorgasbord of musical performances — was the first major film festival to cancel in response to the pandemic when the city of Austin shut it down on March 6, a week before it was supposed to kick off.
Rebecca Davis editorThe Shanghai International Film Festival will take place this year from June 11 to June 19.The news comes less than two weeks after Gao Yunfei, the head of Shanghai’s municipal film administration and vice-minister of its propaganda department, stated at a press conference that the city was considering pushing the event back to July.Registration for the 24th annual event is now open to “Chinese and foreign filmmakers and industry people,” the festival said, implying a door
The Berlin International Film Festival has fixed the dates for its planned in-person event in the German capital this summer. The 71st Berlinale's "Summer Special" will run June 9 to 20, with red carpet galas and public screenings of this year's festival winners.
The American Black Film Festival is set to go ahead with a 10-day hybrid event amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, organizer ABFF Ventures said the film festival will return to Miami Beach for an in-person 25th edition to run from Nov.
The Santa Barbara Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Aaron Maurer’s documentary Invisible Valley, which profiles the stories of the disparate people that make up the Coachella Valley. It kicks off a festival that will run March 31-April 10 with a hybrid edition that includes online elements and screenings at a pair of pop-up beachside drive-in venues.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is always starry a celebration of up and coming filmmakers and Oscar hopefuls, but this year the programmers have also decided to make it more accessible.
The Nantucket Film Festival will go ahead with its 2021 edition amid the coronavirus pandemic, from June 17 to 28, with a first-time hybrid event that combines virtual streamings online with physical screenings in drive-in theaters and small garden settings. On Monday, the annual summer festival's partnering Screenwriters Colony also unveiled plans for an online series for emerging film scribes titled Screenwriter Sessions Live: Craft and Conversation.
Hours after his Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear for best film at the first-ever virtual Berlin International Film Festival, Romanian director Radu Jude took aim at what he called the "bullshit of red carpets" and the false glamour of in-person film festivals.Jude said he was "quite happy" not to have had to attend a fancy awards gala in Berlin on Friday to receive his Golden Bear.
Naman Ramachandran The 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has moved from early July, and will now take place Aug. 20-28, as the Czech Republic fights a surge in coronavirus infections.The festival was due to take place July 2-10, but the alarming COVID-19 situation has forced organizers to delay.
This year’s 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has been postponed from early July to August 20-28, 2021.
The 2021 San Diego Comic Con is again switching things up for this year.
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterSan Diego Comic-Con, the largest fan convention in North America, will not be held in person in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers announced on Monday.
The Tokyo International Film Festival has announced the dates for the 34th edition of the festival as well as dates for TIFFCOM, the film and television market. Japan's flagship festival is set to run for 10 days from Oct.
Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorThe Telluride Film Festival is optimistic that by September, it will be able to safely hold an in-person event in the Colorado mountain town, including an extra day of programming. The fest is set for Sept.
The inaugural Red Sea Film Festival — which was due to launch March 12, 2020 in Saudi Arabia's coastal city of Jeddah and became one of the first festival casualties of the coronavirus — has finally been rescheduled. Almost a year to the day that the festival was canceled as the kingdom reported its first cases of COVID-19 and much of the world was beginning to feel the devastating effects of the pandemic, organizers have revealed that the festival will now take place Nov.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfter a delay due to coronavirus Saudi Arabia’s nascent Red Sea International Film Festival in now on track to hold it’s first edition in November with a partly renewed team in place.The ambitious event, which is Saudi’s first full-fledged film festival and market with international ambitions, is set to run November 11-20 in the historic district of Jeddah, a Unesco World Heritage site.The theme of the fest’s first edition will be “Metamorphosis,”