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…