MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL

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It’s on.

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Congratulations to MVFF36 films 12 Years a Slave & Dallas Buyers Club on their Oscar® wins last night! This is the 4th year in a row an MVFF film has gone on to win the Oscar® for Best Picture!

A big round of applause to 12 Years a Slave for taking home the award for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay & Lupita Lupita Nyong'o for Best Supporting Actress!

Another round of applause to Dallas Buyers Club for receiving the awards for Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor & Jared Leto for Best Supporting Actor!

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PopSugar's MVFF36 red carpet interview w/ Jared Leto

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@bswfilm World Premiere with Brett Dalton and Ryan Eggold @millvalleyfilmfest #MVFF36 #bswfilm (at Mill Valley Film Festival)

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It was great having the Beside Still Waters folks at MVFF36 & we wish them the best of luck with their film!

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Last night’s opening gala of the Mill Valley Film Festival was a blast! Everyone loved creating their own #flipbooks #mvff #mvff36

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And so it begins...

Photo @ Robert Bloomberg

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Top 3 from the ever-dapper John Morrison, CFI Education Director

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO "I'm like a kid myself, never having seen this on the big screen and being a huge fan of the director Hayao Miyazaki. I saw him speak at the Zellerbach in Berkeley and he is just like his movies: funny, wise and very down-to-earth."

GHOSTOWN TO HAVANA  "I think I cried all the way through this film. Not because it's sad—though it is in places—but because it is so moving. Since Eugene Corr was raised on baseball, he has an intimate knowledge of its ability to inspire young boys. And I don't even like baseball."

  MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE "Rarely have I seen such a personal documentary. Director Michele Josue goes deeply into the life of Matthew Shepard who was killed in a horrific manner, a hate crime in capital letters. Deeply in the sense that you see a full picture of what the world has missed without the presence of this wonderful young man."

  5605Teaser v1: Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine from Michele Josue on Vimeo.

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Top three from Jennie-Marie Adler, Membership & Community Manager:

GRISGRIS

"The story is completely engaging and while worlds away from the Bay Area, very relatable. It's all about dreams and reality."

  THE DANDELIONS

"Coming of age story told with heart and humor. It makes you want to be a kid again."

View trailer HERE

      BREATHE IN

"I'm very excited to see this one. I love Drake Doremus' last film Like Crazy."

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Check out a fine sampling of the MVFF36 line-up on...

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Every year, we choose a different artist's songs to title the 5@5 short film series at the Mill Valley Film Festival.  The artist we're showcasing this year is Bay Area legend Tom Waits.

Up next, in anticipation of this year's **six** shorts collection, the MVFF36 Shorts Spotify playlist for your listening pleasure... the six songs whose titles we've respectfully borrowed for our short film series programs.

Photo © Anton Corbijn, from the crazy amazing, cruelly limited series book authored with Waits, Jim Jamusch and Robert Christgau

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Check out a preview of a few of the selections in the MVFF36 line-up

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The first of several film announcements we'll be making prior to the September 10 release of the full MVFF36 schedule:

The World Premiere Screening of BESIDE STILL WATERS, the directorial debut of actor turned writer-director Chris Lowell (The Help, Up in the Air, Veronica Mars, Private Practice). The screening, scheduled for Saturday 12 October, will be followed by an on-stage interview and audience Q&A. 

The Story: Seven childhood friends and one unexpected guest come together at a bucolic lake house to comfort one another, reconnect, reconcile and possibly rekindle romance in this wry, emotionally potent Big Chill for the Millennial Generation. 

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And, we're back...

The 36th Mill Valley Film Festival is a mere 7 weeks away!

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Director Ang Lee for #LifeofPi @MVFilmFest Closing Night before my #mvff35 #DigInMag interview with him. #ontheredcarpet #presscoverage #videointerview #Q&A #crouchingtigerhiddendragon #academyawardwinner #brokebackmountain #Hulk #3d