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Congratulations to the 2024 Award Winners
Congratulations to the award winners, announced yesterday, and thank you to ALL of the filmmakers who generously shared their beautiful work with our audiences this past week. You moved us and made us laugh, sparking conversations and friendships that will last a lifetime. You are now part of the PIFF family!
2024 – Joel Kim Booster
Comedian, writer, and actor Joel Kim Booster is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the breakout hit Fire Island (PIFF 2022), for which he received two Emmy nominations along with a “Best First Screenplay” nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards.
2024 – Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo is an award-winning actor, playwright, director, and producer. In other words, he’s a mega talent. A 2024 Oscar, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Critics Choice Award nominee for his starring role as Bayard Rustin in Rustin, Domingo also starred last year as Mister in The Color Purple. He is a two-time Film Independent Spirit, Gotham, SAG, Critics Choice, NAACP Image, Tony®, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for his work on stage and screen, and is an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award winner.
2024 – Andrew Haigh
Andrew Haigh is an award-winning British writer-director, known for tender and emotionally revealing works. His most recent film, the critically acclaimed All of Us Strangers, starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, received six BAFTA nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Haigh. All of Us Strangers was also the recipient of four Gotham and three Independent Spirit Awards nominations. Haigh’s previous feature films include A24’s Lean on Pete (2017), IFC’s Sundance Selects’ 45 Years (2015), for which Charlotte Rampling earned an Academy Award nomination, and his breakout hit, Weekend, which screened at PIFF in 2011.
Provincetown International Film Festival Announces Lineup: Andrew Haigh, Colman Domingo Named Honorees
Celebrating its 26th year, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced today its lineup of narrative, documentary, and short films, as well as honorees for this year’s Filmmaker on the Edge and Excellence in Acting Awards. Andrew Haigh will be named 2024’s “Filmmaker on the Edge.” The acclaimed English writer/director is best known for WEEKEND, 45 YEARS, LEAN ON PETE and most recently ALL OF US STRANGERS, starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Haigh also wrote and produced the HBO series LOOKING and its film sequel LOOKING: THE MOVIE. Haigh will be in Provincetown to receive the award in conversation with resident artist John Waters on Saturday, June 15.
Help Provincetown Film Society Keep Film in the Spotlight in Ptown!
What a difference a year makes! We are happy to say that 2023 brought film back to the forefront in Provincetown. In June, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), a signature program of the Provincetown Film Society (PFS), exuberantly celebrated 25 years honoring and showcasing independent filmmakers on the edge. Film lovers and creators came… Continue reading Help Provincetown Film Society Keep Film in the Spotlight in Ptown!
MovieMaker Magazine: Provincetown International Film Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary by Showing How to Do a Film Festival Right
BY TIM MOLLOYJune 20, 2023 For its 25th anniversary, the Provincetown International Film Festival perfected the art of putting on a film festival at a very hard time for festivals in general. All are bouncing back, or trying to bounce back, after years of COVID-induced darkness. Some were struggling even before COVID. But from June… Continue reading MovieMaker Magazine: Provincetown International Film Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary by Showing How to Do a Film Festival Right
Provincetown International Film Festival Announces 2023 Winners
June 20, 2023 (Provincetown, Mass.) – The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced today the winners of this year’s PIFF Audience Awards, the John Schlesinger Awards, and Short Film Jury Prizes. PIFF Audience Awards The Audience Awards are voted on by in-person festival attendees. PIFF Audience Award / Best Narrative Feature: FAIRYLAND, directed by Andrew… Continue reading Provincetown International Film Festival Announces 2023 Winners
2023 – JULIO TORRES
Julio Torres is an Emmy-nominated and WGA-winning writer. His work on “Saturday Night Live” garnered four Emmy nominations and he’s performed stand-up on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” as well as “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” In 2017, Julio headlined his first solo hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, “My Favorite Shapes: By Julio Torres” to rave reviews, and which became… Continue reading 2023 – JULIO TORRES