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The 20th Provincetown International Film Festival, which runs Wednesday, June 13, through Sunday, June 17, has announced that its 2018 Filmmaker on the Edge will be Sean Baker, the director and co-writer of “Tangerine” (2015), the wild tale of transgender sex workers on the streets of L.A. that was shot on an iPhone, and “The Florida Project” (2017), which won numerous critics’ awards and an Oscar nomination for Willem Dafoe. Baker will sit down for a conversation with festival icon John Waters as part of the annual awards ceremony on Saturday, June 16. READ MORE AT WICKED LOCAL WELLFLEET.

Marking its 20th anniversary, the Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced today that acclaimed writer/director Sean Baker (“The Florida Project,” “Tangerine”) will be named the 2018 “Filmmaker on the Edge.” Baker will be in attendance to accept the award in conversation with resident artist John Waters on Saturday, June 16. Additionally, actress Chloë Grace Moretz (“The Miseducation Of Cameron Post,” “If I Stay”), will receive the festival’s second annual “Next Wave Award,” which recognizes those who have exciting and distinctive voices, take artistic risks, and have a passionate commitment to independent film. Moretz will be in attendance to accept the award in conversation with Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper on Friday, June 15, and in support of her film “The Miseducation Of Cameron Post,” which is a PIFF Spotlight selection. READ MORE AT EDGE MEDIA NETWORK.

In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with Rick McCarthy, President of the Board of Directors of the Provincetown Film Society about the Provincetown International Film Festival that runs June 14th to June 18th in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Celebrating its 19th year, Sofia Coppola will receive the Filmmaker on the Edge Award coming off her recent Cannes win for Best Director. Coppola will be in attendance to accept the award in conversation with resident artist John Waters on Saturday June 17th at Provincetown’s historic Town Hall and Chloë Sevigny will receive the Excellence in Acting Award in a conversation with Eugene Hernandez, deputy director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center & co-publisher of Film Comment.

The reason people’s stories need to be told is usually personal. That’s certainly true of David France’s new documentary, “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” which will be screened at the Provincetown International Film Festival on Saturday, June 17, and Sunday, June 18. France met Johnson in the early ’80s, when he first moved to New York City as a young gay man…

Writer/director Sofia Coppola will be feted at the upcoming Provincetown International Film Festival as its 2017 Filmmaker on the Edge. She’ll appear at the festival on June 17 to accept the award and take part in a conversation with the fest’s resident artist John Waters…

Sofia Coppola is having a helluva week. The writer-director’s next film, “The Beguiled,” was just announced as part of Canne’s 2017 lineup, and now comes word that the Oscar winner will be honored at this year’s Provincetown Film Festival (PIFF), where she’ll be named Filmmaker on the Edge…

Academy Award winning writer/director Sofia Coppola    is being honored by the Provincetown International Film Festival as their 2017 Filmmaker on the Edge.  and will be in conversation with filmmaker John Waters.

The Provincetown Film Festival has also just announced that actress and director Chloë Sevigny will receive the 2017 Excellence in Acting Award. Sevigny started her career in 1995 in Larry Clark’s controversial coming of age story Kids, but her big breakthrough came in when she played Lana Tisdel in Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don’t Cry  the biographical film of trans man Brandon Teena who was raped and murdered.  Sevigny will accept the Award at the Festival in conversation with Eugene Hernandez, deputy director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center .

The Provincetown International Film Festival announced that “Ingrid Goes West” was selected as the closing night film, and co-writer and director Matt Spicer and producer and star Aubrey Plaza plan to be there. The festival will open with “Mr. Roosevelt,” a film written, directed and starring Noël Wells, and spotlight selections include Vincent Gagliostro’s “After Louie,” Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” and David France’s “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.”

Women filmmakers can get inspired by this year’s 19th Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) running from June 14th to June 18th, the line-up is bursting with women both in front of and behind the camera. We hear so much about the importance of inclusion and PIFF has got it right…