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Deadline - IFC Films Buys Amy Redford’s YA Thriller ’What Comes Around’ – SFiFF
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that IFC Films has snapped up the North American rights to Amy Redford’s What Comes Around, which made its world premiere at TIFF under the title Roost. The movie will hit select theatres and VOD in February and stream exclusively on AMC+ in May 2023.
The pic played to a packed house last week at the Santa Fe International Film Festival, where we caught the title.
Deadline - Monster Nightmares, Hippie Van Guru & A Woman Locked In Her Car, Part Of SFiFF Surreal Shorts From Fabio Colonna, Jeff Hilliard, Emily Maya Mills & More
In addition to New Mexico being a serious place for filmmaking and TV series –the state reaping a record $855.4M from Hollywood’s motion picture & TV industry’s spending– Santa Fe itself counts a fervent moviegoing community, especially for arthouse and experimental product.
Audiences packed venues around town for the Santa Fe International Film Festival from Oct. 19-23 for films of all shapes and sizes at such venues as the George R.R. Martin owned Jean Cocteau Cinema; the Moorish, Spanish Renaissance 1931 built Lensic Theater; and the two-story, bistro cinema the Violet Crown in the swanky railroad district among others. In regards to the moviegoing spirit, think Toronto, but on a much smaller scale.
Deadline - Santa Fe International Film Festival 2022 Winners Include ‘Scarborough’, Julian Rubinstein Docu ‘The Holly’
The 14th Annual Santa Fe International Film Festival has announced its juried award winners for the event which has run from Oct. 19-23.
More than 100 filmmakers have traveled to the Land of Enchantment state to show off their cinematic wares.
Says SFiFF Artistic Director Jacques Paisner, “We play strange movies, small movies and foreign films, and the audience is keen on a chance to see something they wouldn’t otherwise experience.”
Deadline - How George R.R. Martin Is Building Out A Howard Waldrop Short-Film Anthology With ‘Night Of The Cooters’, ‘The Ugly Chickens’ Starring Felicia Day – Santa Fe Int’l Film Festival
Days before a Targaryen civil war erupts between Rhaenyra and Alicent on the Season 1 finale of HBO’s House of the Dragon, you’ll find series creator George R.R. Martin staying mum on fire-breathing animals and talking up his latest rotoscope animated short, Night of the Cooters, in his Santa Fe, NM stomping ground.
Pasatiempo - Films you can't see anywhere else
Exclusivity is among the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s selling points, with attendees able to see films before wide releases. The following films won’t be viewable elsewhere until six months after Santa Fe’s event, says Jacques Paisner, the festival’s artistic director and the former director of programming at Jean Cocteau Cinema. Note that some are being screened at multiple times and locations.
Deadline - Catherine Hardwicke To Be Lauded With Santa Fe International Film Festival Visionary Award
Catherine Hardwicke will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s Visionary Award this October at Jean Cocteau Cinema.
The Twilight and Thirteen filmmaker also will be leading an acting workshop at the Santa Fe Playhouse.
Santa Fe Reporter - Santa Fe International Film Festival: ‘Imagining the Indian’ Review
Documentary uses scholar and activists to narrate the fight against stereotypical sports mascots
A plethora of articulate Native scholars and activists deliver powerful narratives in Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting—their diversity of tribal affiliation and backgrounds as strong as their more homogeneous message about the damage of stereotypical images.
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Santa Fe New Mexican - Season of cinema: A 'new' old festival returns
Ruth Stone’s poems are accessible, emotional, and funny, and they often tell compelling narratives. But they are also personal.
In Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind, a film in the documentary category at this year’s Santa Fe International Film Festival (Wednesday, Oct. 19, through Oct. 23), director Nora Jacobson (The Hanji Box) peers with intimate access into the life of an iconic American poet. Stone (1915-2011) was known for infusing her poems with allusions to the natural sciences and associated imagery. After the death of her husband, she retreated to a home in rural Vermont, and it became an intellectual center for poets and students.
Santa Fe Reporter - Santa Fe International Film Festival: ‘The Thief Collector’ Review
Stealing for the love of it
On the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, a couple walked into the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and absconded shortly thereafter with painter Willem de Kooning’s 1955 medium-busting work, “Woman-Ochre.”
The painting didn’t see the light of day for the next 32 years, flummoxing local law enforcement, university cops and the FBI alike. Cut to 2015, when employees of a small Silver City, New Mexico, antiques shop hired to handle the estate of Jerry and Rita Alter unearthed that de Kooning hidden in plain sight behind a bedroom door. What a wild turn of events.
Santa Fe New Mexican - Paradigm shift: Godfrey Reggio looks to the children
She rises from the Earth, radiant as the sun, her head a mass of roots, like the quintessential archetype of the Mother. Children haven’t forgotten her face, even if adults no longer remember.
“We come from hell. Not the Christian hell, or any other religion’s hell. We come from beneath the ground. She embraces that,” says filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, whose new film, Once Within a Time, recalls the long-ago myths, revealing them, and ultimately upending them to make way for something new. Not an easy task or a comfortable one, especially since this is a children’s film.
Deadline - 2022 Santa Fe International Film Festival Confirms First 15 Feature Titles
The Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) has announced its first 15 feature titles. These films are part of the Special Presentation section and will be followed by a full schedule of competition films, short films, panels and events. SFiFF starts October 19 and will run through October 23.
VIMOOZ - Godfrey Reggio to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Award-Winning filmmaker Godfrey Reggio will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival’s 14th edition, presented this upcoming October. The Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony will be followed by the World Premiere of Reggio’s latest film, Once Within a Time.
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Los Alamos Daily Post - Santa Fe International Film Festival Runs Oct. 19-23
Referred to as “a young Sundance” by IndieWire, the 14th annual Santa Fe International Film Festival, presented by the Santa Fe Film Institute, hosts five days of independent and cutting-edge cinema, community events, filmmaker Q & As, select free screenings, educational workshops, a student day and much more.
Albuquerque Journal - Godfrey Reggio to receive the SFiFF’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Filmmakers have the opportunity to blaze their own trail with each project. This is exactly what Godfrey Reggio has done his entire career.
The New Mexico resident will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 22.
Santa Fe Reporter - Independent Goes International
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival is now the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
Officials from Santa Fe’s most high-profile film festival announced Friday they will change the annual event’s name from the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival to the Santa Fe International Film Festival—and it’ll still hold onto the SFIFF initials, so you needn’t worry about updating your acronyms.
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe film festival changes name to embrace international work
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival has changed its name to the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
The same SFiFF acronym stays in place.
The name change has been a long time coming for the festival launched in 2009.
“We started to have a lot of international films in 2012,” said Liesette Bailey, the festival’s executive director. “International films became a major focus of the festival in 2017.”
Albuquerque Journal - Going international: SFiFF gets updated name
After 13 years, the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival is making some changes.
With the 15th anniversary on the horizon in 2023, festival organizers are going international.
The annual film festival is being rebranded at the Santa Fe International Film Festival.
Albuquerque Journal - SFiFF participants competing for over $100,000 thanks to Panavision, Light Iron
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival is getting some exciting collaboration for this year’s festival.
The festival announced that there will be over $100,000 in prize packages from Panavision and Light Iron to two juried award winners at the 2022 festival in October.
IFILMFESTIVAL.COM – Top 50 Best Film Festivals
Did you know that there are at least ten thousand film festivals in the world?
But with so many film festivals out there, how do you choose the best film festivals to submit your film?
We’ve put together a list of the best and most interesting film festivals in the world.