Key West Film Festival

Key West Film Festival

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10th Anniversary of The KeyWest Film Festival!

BY MAGGIE KLEIN KONKLIFE STAFF WRITER T he 10th Annual Key West Film Festival is upon us! The five day event will run from November 17th to the 21st, and fea- ture more than 75 films, including a wide variety of categories ranging from LGBTQ, international films, documentaries, and so many oth- ers. The Festival honors creativity,

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Films created by Key West high school stu- dents haven’t always been included in the Festival, but this year, the heads of the Festival learned that the local high school filmpro- gramhad sent nine films to the national high school film competition in NewYork! The young students must be very gratified and pleased with their work, espe- cially since it is being premiered among other films that have gained traction and feature great talent. Way to go, KeyWest high school!

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beauty, and diversity, and contin- ues to grow bigger every year. Brooke Christian founded the Film Festival in 2012 out of personal in- terest in films and desire to collabo- rate with friends that shared similar interests. Christian notes that over the course of the past 10 years, the quality of the Festival’s programming is better than anywhere else in the world. He adds, “Couple that with the opportunity to have that type of programming in an environment like KeyWest, and that makes for one hell of a vacation for the people that head

Better With Age The Key West Film fes- tival has gained more attention and appre- ciation as the years progress. Films that have been showcased in the last five years have received over 65 Academy Award nominations! Five of these were for Best Picture, and 15 Oscar wins, which include two for Best Picture. We absolutely cannot wait to see what this year entails.

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Shorts Program The Shorts Program has receivedmore than 1,000 submissions this year! That’s more than double the Festival has had in the past! Some of the shorts that are being shown were even awarded in Sundance, a curator of stories for the stage and screen. As seen on their website, Sun- dance.org, “Each Janu- ary, the Sundance Film Festival brings artists and audiences togeth- er for the premieres of groundbreaking work, and year-round, the Institute hosts a variety of public programs to amplify original voices, inspire new ideas, and rally our community in support of inde- pendent storytelling.” These are definitely shorts that you do not want tomiss!

over to visit!” Michael Tuckman, an- other member of the Film Festival team, is honored to be a part of it, and states, “It’s great to work with so many venues in Key West. We re- ally are bringing art in person back to places like the Key West Theater and the newWilliams Hall, to name a few. We’ve always been about sup- porting local art institutions.” There are a number of exciting things happening this year at the Festival. The opening night will kick off the event with the docu- mentary films, Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road , as well as Blonie: Vivir En La Habana . They will be shown at the Key West Amphithe- ater on November 17th. There are

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also a number of Oscar Nominees that are being featured this year, one in particular is a film called Red Rocket , by Sean Baker. The film received a Gotham Award for screen- play, and Baker is actually coming to the Festival which is very exciting for attendees. Another highlight will be the Florida Focus event on Sunday, covering the 15th anniver- sary of Billy Corbin’s Cocaine Cowboys . Corbin is going to come down to do an in person interview. There will also be a variety of Florida features throughout the day. Things will culminate on Sunday night, with the pre- miere of The Power of The Dog . The entire festival will be jam-packed with an exciting range of films, and no dull moments! Christian stresses the importance of having such a close knit community in Key West by stating, “You

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start with a generic approach of taking commerce from ev- erywhere, but we’ve really tried to lean into the Key West locals these past five years. You have to have your base and foundation be people locally, and I think the support and community embracing of it has grown more solid each year. I do feel like we are as close with the Key West com- munity as we have ever been.”

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