The 2017 Provincetown Intl. Film Festival provides as diverse a showcase for short films as it does for narrative features and documentaries. No fewer than four short film programs are featured this year, including queer shorts by male and female directors and a New England series devoted to, as artistic director Lisa Viola says, “films that are regionally made, both in terms of subject and where the filmmakers live.” The expansive spotlight is due to the festival’s belief that short films can be a calling card for developing filmmakers.
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Little Pink House wins Provincetown Festival Audience Award
The 19th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival concluded Sunday, June 18, with the HBO Audience Awards going, for narrative feature, to Courtney Moorehead Balaker’s Little Pink House, and for documentary, to I Am Evidence, directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, The Hollywood Reporter reveals.
Wells takes charge at Provincetown Film Festival
The multifaceted Noël Wells is able to do impressions of a pug dog turning into a baby, of a boy practicing how to be masculine in the mirror and of a vine of a teenage girl at a Beyonce concert — picture someone screaming “Beyonce!” and then tripping, over and over on loop.
Honoree Sofia Coppola Talks ‘The Beguiled’ With John Waters at the Provincetown Film Festival
Fresh from becoming only the second woman in history to win best director at Cannes, the Filmmaker on the Edge award recipient looked back over her work, from ‘The Virgin Suicides’ to her new Southern Gothic thriller.
‘Little Pink House,’ ‘I Am Evidence’ Win Provincetown Festival Audience Awards
The 19th annual Cape Cod film event also honored Sofia Coppola, Chloe Sevigny and Aubrey Plaza, while the first feature awards went to ‘Brigsby Bear’ and ‘Susanne Bartsch: On Top.’
Sofia Coppola, Chloe Sevigny shine spotlight on women at Provincetown Film Festival
Sevigny was honored at the Provincetown International Film Festival on Friday with the Excellence in Acting Award. Her most recent role is in the Trump-era film “Beatriz at Dinner,” starring Salma Hayek and John Lithgow.
Director Sofia Coppola was named this year’s Filmmaker on the Edge. Her most recent film, in theaters June 23, is a retelling of “The Beguiled,” based off the book by Thomas Cullinan. With this film, she won the best director award at Cannes Film Festival this year, making her only the second woman to do so in the festival’s 70-year history.
Snapshots from the Provincetown film festival
There have been close to 80 films shown during the 19th annual Provincetown International Film Festival, with close to 70 stars and filmmakers in attendance. We were able to speak to some of them Saturday at a gathering at the Land’s End Inn and hear about their work. Below are some highlights — and the list of eventual festival winners at the end
Aubrey Plaza talks about her new movie – and Instagram – at Provincetown festival
Aubrey Plaza was the big star at the Provincetown International Film Festival on Sunday. The actress, of “Parks and Recreation,” “The Little Hours,” “Legion,” and “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,” was in town for a festival screening of her new dark comedy, “Ingrid Goes West,” the story of a woman who becomes obsessed with a seemingly perfect Instagram star, played by Elizabeth Olsen.
Chloe Sevigny dishes about her Lizzie Borden film
Chloe Sevigny, of “Big Love,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” and “Bloodline,” started working on a movie about Lizzie Borden 10 years ago.
Sofia Coppola shares some snippets from her filmmaking life
John Waters talks to Sofia Coppola at the Provincetown International Film Festival party Saturday at Land’s End Inn.