EXTRA MAN’ TO OPEN 15TH ANNUAL NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL
Weinstein Company’s John Lennon Biopic ‘Nowhere Boy’ to Close Fifteenth
Anniversary; Ben Stiller Comedy Roundtable added as annual event
NY) – The Nantucket Film Festival has always excelled at compiling a
unique variety of films and crafting engaging events for its audience
with past participants including Ben Stiller, Steve Martin, Tina Fey,
Jim Carrey, and Paul Rudd among many others. To celebrate their
fifteenth anniversary, organizers are gearing up to top themselves yet
again. Executive Director Colin Stanfield and Artistic Director Mystelle
Brabbée announce the full lineup of films, which will take place
Thursday, June 17 through Sunday, June 20. Passes are now available on
the festival’s website (www.nantucketfilmfestival.com
going on sale Wednesday, May 28th.
“Fifteen is shaping up to be our most
exciting festival yet,” said Mr. Stanfield. “We’re thrilled to add Ben
Stiller’s All-Star Comedy Roundtable to our roster of Nantucket Film
Festival signature events which include the Screenwriters Tribute, Late
Night Storytelling, and Morning Coffee With…®.”
will be the uproarious and unpredictable Late Night Storytelling.
Participants include five surprise guests as well as audience members.
Past storytellers include Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Mos Def,
Rosie Perez, Cheryl Hines, Laird Hamilton, Olympia Dukakis, Paul Rudd,
Alan Cumming, Fisher Stevens, and Brian Williams.
for this year’s Nantucket Film Festival will be Toy Story 3, from
Disney•Pixar, and NFF® veterans Shari Springer Berman and Robert
Pulcini’s The Extra Man, from Magnolia Pictures.
Closing the festival
this year will be John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy from The Weinstein
Company.
“For fifteen years,
NFF has offered a chance for personal interaction with storytellers of
all stripes, from comic legends to human rights leaders to stars of
popular culture,” Ms. Brabbée added. “This line-up of feature films is
reflective of some of the fiercest storytellers out there – newcomers as
well as some of Nantucket Film Festival's most beloved past
participants.”
In keeping with NFF® mission of
spotlighting writers, the Festival will announce the winner of
Showtime’s annual Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting in early June. The
winner will be feted at the Showtime Award Ceremony at the Festival.
Among other awards given
at NFF ® this year will be The Compass Rose Acting Award, The Audience
Award for Best Feature & Best Short, SHOWTIME’S TONY COX Awards for
Best Screenwriting in a Feature Film and Short Film, Teen View on NFF®
Award, Best Storytelling in a Documentary Film, and the Adrienne Shelly
Excellence in Filmmaking Award, and new this year a New Voices in
Screenwriting Award.
special events include Morning Coffee With…®, which draws sell-out
crowds annually. Returning to host is festival favorite Jace
Alexander.
The daily panels take place every morning and invite
attendees to join filmmaker experts for an intimate mix of coffee,
conversation, bagels and shoptalk with some of their favorite
filmmakers.
Last year the NFF
presented 40 feature and short films, including soon-to-be Academy Award
winners The Hurt Locker and The Cove. Celebratory guests included Ben
Stiller, Meg Ryan, Ben Foster, Brain Williams, Cheryl Hines, Harold
Ramis, Fisher Stevens, Paul Giamatti, Peter & Bobby Farrelly, Lily
Taylor, Chris Matthews, John Hamburg, Anne Meara, and many more.
to spotlight screenwriters, screenwriting and storytelling in
today's cinema. The festival takes place the third week of June on the
idyllic island of Nantucket, MA. Now in its fifteenth year, NFF has
become a prestigious annual event within the international film
industry. The festival is a significant attraction that draws over ten
thousand attendees, screenwriters, producers, agents and development
executives each year.
be announced soon.
more information please visit our website at www.nantucketfilmfestival.org.
