13, Mill Valley will also showcase Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch with intimate discussions involving some of the most talented and buzzed-about scripters working in Hollywood. This year’s honorees include Edward Norton (“Motherless Brooklyn”), Andrew Lanham (“Just Mercy”) and Shia LaBeouf (“Honey Boy”).
In addition to much anticipated screenings of big awards-season titles such as “ Just Mercy,” “Ford v Ferrari,” and “Motherless Brooklyn,” this year’s festival will also include on-stage conversations with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, special premieres of “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo” and “The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso” and new restorations of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “Thousand Pieces of Gold.” This attitude is apparent in the current edition’s programming. “I was pretty much making it up as I went along!” “It sounds a bit cliche, but it was about the celebration of the art of film,” he says. Since the beginning, MVFF has taken an innovative approach to programming, capitalizing, Fishkin says, on “the excitement of everything going on in cinema at that time,” during what he calls “the Raging Bulls era.” Mill Valley was one of the first festivals to include video art in its programming early editions had exhibits of artistic photography and blocks of short films with intriguing themes. This year, the 42nd edition is set to honor Alfre Woodard, documentarian Michael Apted and actress Barbara Rush. It continues to be renowned for its diverse contemporary programming and thoughtful, affectionate tributes to luminaries from across cinema history, including Jeanne Moreau, Nicholas Ray, Catherine Hardwicke, Les Blank and Barbet Schroeder. More than 40 years later, the Mill Valley Film Festival remains one of America’s longest-running and most prestigious regional fests. “But being a Gemini, I never do anything completely 100% focused.” “It was three days long and was primarily focused on the great talent in the Bay Area,” remembers Fishkin. 11-13, 1978, and was intended, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from that summer, to “honor successful filmmakers living or working out of Marin County,” with tributes to legends of the area such as James Broughton and John Korty. The first Mill Valley Film Festival took place Aug. He’d visited once or twice while the festival was on, by chance, and had seen how they did things out there and it inspired him, when he founded a festival of his own, to do things a little differently. Fishkin had recently moved to California from the small town of Ouray, Colo., about an hour’s drive to Telluride the long way around Mt. Not many people did - there were few major film festivals in the United States at the time, and it would be decades before there emerged anything like today’s bustling international festival circuit. When he founded the California Film Institute in 1977, Mark Fishkin didn’t know much about running a film festival.
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