The upside with the brand new digital platform is that we’re ready to display our official choices to a world viewers. We’ll additionally offer digital panels and networking occasions to convey our group collectively.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB)
April 16, 2021
The 21st Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival® (BHFF) is proud to announce its first-ever digital version, which is livestreaming 155 official choices globally through the fest’s web site, beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com and powered by Eventive, from April 28 – May 2, 2021. Actor Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa (“The Last Emperor,” “Man in the High Castle,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Rising Sun”) is being honored with BHFF Legends Award, and filmmakers are vying for Jury and Audience Awards, together with the fest’s high honor, the Golden Palm Award. The Annual Screenwriting Competition additionally hosts over 100 finalists. Honors shall be offered throughout a Live Virtual Awards Ceremony on May 2nd.
Festival president, Nino Simone, says, “It was heartbreaking to have last year’s momentous 20th Anniversary edition of the festival shut down due to the pandemic. We’ve always been proud to host an international event, hosting filmmakers from the four corners of the world. The upside with the new virtual platform is that we are able to screen our official selections to a global audience. We’ll also be offering virtual panels and networking events to bring our community together.”
The fest is famend for its annual onsite Opening Night Red Carpet Gala and 5-days of Premieres, Screenings, Panels, Parties and Closing Ceremony Awards Gala. Despite the shutdown and never having the ability to current Audience Awards, BHFF20 was nonetheless ready to remotely bestow Jury Awards for final yr’s official choices, together with: director Cam Cowan’s “Opeka” (Golden Palm Award); director Derek Wayne Johnson for “Stallone: Frank, That Is,” starring Frank Stallone” (Best Documentary) and “40 Years of Rocky,” starring Sylvester Stallone (Best Short Documentary); William Baldwin for “Talk” (Best Actor); and “Josie & Jack” successful Best Director for Sarah Lancaster and Best Actress for the movie’s star Olivia DeJonge.
This yr’s line-up options an unbelievable collection of impactful movies throughout a number of genres, representing 25+ international locations, together with: “The Final Fix,” narrated by Ewan McGregor; “T&A: Love & Sex,” directed by and starring Thomas Jane and starring, written and produced by Anne Heche; “The Clown without a Mask” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt; “Hard Work,” directed by Julie Pacino; “Code Karim” from Italian director Federico Alotto; and “Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran” from Iranian director Farbod Ardebeli.
BHFF Jury members this yr embody: Jury president, the award-successful producer Frederico Lapenda; Oscar-winning screenwriter & producer Nick Vallelonga (“Green Book”); Wonderfilm founding producer Kirk Shaw (“Moose,” starring John Travolta, “Primal,” starring Nic Cage); Roberta Augusto, Senior VP of Marketing, Distribution & Publicity at IDC, a Lionsgate Company (“LaLa Land,” “The Twilight Saga,” “The Hunger Games”); Emmy-winning producer Nate Thomas (PBS’ “The Last of the One Night Stands,” “East of Hope Street”); movie and music video director Brett Leonard (“Lawnmower Man,” IMAX’s “T-Rex,” “Virtuosity”); veteran actor John Posey (“Selena,” “Criminal Minds,” “Teen Wolf”); Australian actor Costas Mandylor (“Saw” franchise); expertise and literary agent Amy Lord (accomplice, Eris); and advertising strategist Gary Shapiro (former senior VP advertising, Sony Pictures, and a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).
Past recipients of the BHFF Legends Award embody: producer Mike Medavoy; actor Jon Voight, actress Ann Archer, cinematographer Haskell Wexler, producer Frank Yablans, and “Rat Pack” photographer Phil Stern.
Over the years, different VIPs which have attended the competition embody: Gary Oldman, Danny Devito, Rhea Perlman, Jonathan Mayer, Bob Saget, John Stamos, Andie MacDowell, Martin Landau, Anne Heche, Djimon Honsou, Candace Cameron Bure, Seth Green, Angie Everhart, Rutger Hauer, Billy Zane, Anton Yelchin, Steven R. McQueen, Kelli LeBrock, Hector Elizondo, Dash Mihok, Leslie Zemeckis, Laila Ali, and Dominique Swain, simply to identify just a few.
Online Screening passes can be found now for the pre-sale value of $13 per ticket and $100 for an All Access VIP Pass, which incorporates all screenings, panels and the Awards Presentation.
Visit beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com for an entire line-up of the 2021 official choices, to safe tickets and livestream the movies.
About BHFF
The annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival was based in 2001 by award-successful unbiased filmmaker Nino Simone. The 21st annual occasion, happening just about from April 28 by May 2, 2021, is devoted to showcasing and selling non-studio movies to the leisure business. Designed to bridge the world of premiere unbiased cinema with Hollywood, the competition hosts on-line screenings, networking occasions and business seminars.
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