Gorillas in the mountain mist, tortoises clambering over Galapagos rocks, zebras galloping on the Serengeti plains – those are the subjects of nature documentaries.
But pigs on a small farm in upstate New York, on their short path to become pork chops and bacon? How much drama and charm can there be?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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, of “Big Love,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” and “Bloodline,” started working on a movie about Lizzie Borden 10 years ago.