Standout comedian and actress Megan Stalter is known for her hilarious breakout performance as Kayla in the Emmy Award-winning series “Hacks” with Jean Smart. In 2020, The New York Times critic Jason Zinoman declared her “sketch comedy’s newest star.” In addition to her current starring role in the PIFF 2023 Opening Night film CORA BORA, she appears… Continue reading 2023 – MEGAN STALTER
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2023 – BILLY PORTER
Billy Porter is a tremendously talented Emmy, Tony and Grammy-award winning actor, singer and director, and playwright. His cinematic performances include 80 for Brady, Cinderella, The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy and Bill Oliver’s OUR SON, which is featured in this year’s festival. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Anything’s Possible in 2022. Billy’s work on FX’s… Continue reading 2023 – BILLY PORTER
2023 – BRUCE LABRUCE
Bruce LaBruce is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, writer, and artist whose work is known for pushing boundaries and blurring the lines between independent film and pornography. Along with numerous short films, he has written and directed fourteen feature films, including Gerontophilia, which won the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal in 2012.… Continue reading 2023 – BRUCE LABRUCE
Provincetown International Film Festival Announces Lineup: Bruce LaBruce, Billy Porter, Julio Torres and Megan Stalter Named Honorees
– Hannah Pearl Utt’s CORA BORA to open the festival, THEATER CAMP from Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman announced as closing night film – May 9, 2023 (Provincetown, MA) – Celebrating 25 years of “Filmmaking on the Edge,” the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced today its lineup of narrative, documentary, and short films, as… Continue reading Provincetown International Film Festival Announces Lineup: Bruce LaBruce, Billy Porter, Julio Torres and Megan Stalter Named Honorees
MovieMaker Magazine: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee 2023, Presented by Film Freeway
BY TIM MOLLOYAPRIL 10, 2023 “Exquisite taste in an exquisite place. The festival’s emcee/patron saint John Waters used to jokingly celebrate bad taste, but this festival in Cape Cod’s LGBTQ+ mecca just keeps spotting great talents on the rise. Among recent standouts is Todd Flaherty, whose $20,0000 drag-queen platonic love story Chrissy Judy story was one of… Continue reading MovieMaker Magazine: 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee 2023, Presented by Film Freeway
Todd Flaherty’s Debut Feature Film CHRISSY JUDY Opens April 14, 2023, at Waters Edge Cinema
When his best friend and creative partner suddenly couples off and moves away, an ambitious New York drag queen determined for the limelight must reinvent himself or risk becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off in Provincetown filmmaker Todd Flaherty’s charming debut feature, CHRISSY JUDY. Flaherty will present the movie and do Q&As… Continue reading Todd Flaherty’s Debut Feature Film CHRISSY JUDY Opens April 14, 2023, at Waters Edge Cinema
Provincetown Film Society & Center for Coastal Studies Team Up for April Environmental Film Series
The Provincetown Film Society and the Center for Coastal Studies present an environmental film series on Earth Day weekend (April 21, 22 & 23) that offers both feature-length and short films related to the ocean, climate change, and citizen science. Called “Planet Ptown: An Outermost Coast Film Series,” the movies will be shown at the… Continue reading Provincetown Film Society & Center for Coastal Studies Team Up for April Environmental Film Series
Provincetown Film Society Announces 3rd Annual Winter Auction Featuring Private Dinner with John Cameron Mitchell and “Soiree at the Sewer” Event with John Waters
February 3, 2023 (Provincetown, MA) – The Provincetown Film Society (PFS) announced it has added a new event to its winter auction: join John Waters for “Soiree at the Sewer,” a private dinner featuring log-jam appetizers, elimination entrees and mudslide desserts prepared by Chef Jacob Hetnarski. With a dress code billed as either “mellow yellow”… Continue reading Provincetown Film Society Announces 3rd Annual Winter Auction Featuring Private Dinner with John Cameron Mitchell and “Soiree at the Sewer” Event with John Waters
2022 Annual Appeal
Help keep film in Provincetown by making a tax-deductible, year-end donation to the Provincetown Film Society! 2023 is the 25th anniversary of the Provincetown International Film Festival! We will be celebrating with another fantastic in-person event featuring the best in new and influential cinema from around the world and exciting conversations and events with notable… Continue reading 2022 Annual Appeal
Artforum: John Waters’s Best Films of 2022
1. PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is appropriated and remade as a gay Frenchman’s love letter to the original version. Hilariously stilted, often overwrought, but always highly entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla finally makes an appearance and Isabelle… Continue reading Artforum: John Waters’s Best Films of 2022