2019 JACKSONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL: OFFICIAL SELECTION ANNOUNCED
October 1, 2019
Jacksonville, FL - The 2019 Jacksonville Film Festival will showcase three days of international independent films at the San Marco Theatre on November 15-17, 2019. Jacksonville Film Festival is announcing the 2019 Official Selection; a total of 101 films have been selected, representing 21 countries with 26% being women directors. The festival received a record 471 film submissions from 41 countries.
The festival’s theme this year, First Hollywood, represents the vision to highlight and celebrate Jacksonville’s film history by screening shorts and clips of silent-era films that were produced in and around Jacksonville, before each programming block.
Niki Logoreci, Festival Director / Jacksonville Film Festival, said, “We’re excited to celebrate Jacksonville’s motion picture history this festival year. With 21 countries getting represented, we're happy to bring a global film perspective to our city.”
Tim Driscoll, Program Director / Jacksonville Film Festival, said, “I'm thrilled to be able to share with our community this fantastic collection of international, domestic and local films at this year's festival. The level of quality, top to bottom, may be the best collection of films we have seen to date. Film craftsmanship has risen across the globe and we're the beneficiaries. Don't miss this program. Join us in November and be a part of something special.”
The 2019 Official Selection films for the 2019 Jacksonville Film Festival are:
IN-COMPETITION FILMS:
Feature Narrative
Every Time I Die - United States - Director: Robi Michael
Book Week - Australia - Director: Heath Davis
Feature Documentary
Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn? - United States - Director: Zachary Stauffer
Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury - United States - Director: Matt Hinton
For Fear of Kofi - United States - Director: Marina Petrovskaia
Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window - United States / China - Director: Andrew Hevia
Fly Like a Girl - United States - Director: Katie McEntire Wiatt
Short Narrative
83 Days - United States - Director: Andrew Paul Howell
Mr. Sam - United States - Director: Zeus Kontoyannis
Lady Hater - United States - Director: Alexandra Barreto
The Adventures of Wonderboy - United States - Director: Marti Young & Alan Brazzell
The Replacement - United States - Director: Sean Miller
The Tattooed Heart - United States - Director: Sheldon Wong Schwartz
The Fighting Road - United States - Director: Walcene Metayer
Over the Line - Canada - Director: Aaron Hall
My Daughter Yoshiko - United States - Director: Brian Blum
Liberty - United States - Director: Faren Humes
The Hunt (La Chasse) - France - Director: Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Are you Volleyball?! - Iran - Director: Mohammad Bakhshi
A Swedish Classic (En Svensk Klassiker) - Sweden - Director: Måns Berthas
The Line (Il Tratto) - Italy - Director: Alessandro Stevanon
Melodi - Singapore - Director: Michael Kam
Hermit - Iran - Director: Omid Mirzaee
Papa - United States - Director: Brian Peery
Your Last Day on Earth (Tu último día en la tierra) - Spain - Director: Marc Martínez Jordán
Straw, Wood & Brick (Paja, madera y ladrillo) - Spain - Director: Companyia Mec Mec
Within Reach - United States - Director: Heather Fusari
AZADEH - Iran - Director: Mirabbas Khosravinezhad
Swung - United States - Director: Fokke Baarssen
ARIA - Italy - Director: Brando De Sica
After Emma - United States - Director: Gabrielle Stone
Let Tonight Pass - Iran - Director: Hamed Gasemi
Matched - United States - Director: Alex Willemin
INSANE LOVE - when love hides something you don’t want to see - Italy - Director: Eitan Pitigliani
BLACKWOOD - Australia - Director: Kalu Oji
We Have Your Wife - United States - Director: Jim Ford
Ms Hitt - United States - Director: Aaron Wells
Safety - United States - Director: Fabrice Joubert
Don’t Draw the Curtain (Nu Trage Perdeaua) - Romania - Andrei Florescu
A.M.A- United States - Director: Peter Ebanks
Starlets - United States - Director: Marten Carlson
Dorris 85 - United States - Director: Grace Philips
Ruth - United States - Director: Alex Rollins Berg
BAILAORA - Spain - Director: Rubin Stein
Short Documentaries
The Colorblind Artist - United States - Director: Carlo Caldana
Exit 12 - United States - Director: Mohammad Gorjestani
A Fresh Perspective - United States - Director: Aaron Hosé
Babli - United Kingdom / Pakistan - Director: Aneel Ahmad
Finding Jack (W poszukiwaniu Jacka) - Poland - Director: Tomasz Wiśniewski
After Parkland - United States - Executive Producer - Beth Mendelson
The Guy: The Brian Donahue Story - United States - Director: E.J. McLeavey-Fisher
Brick in the Wall - United States - Director: Bob Bean
Saving Florida’s Sparrow - United States - Director: Justin Grubb
5 Reasons Why we Need Hate Speech - United States - Director: Molly Dedham
Daniel Nasca: The Lion Within - United States - Director: Daniel Balandra
Hoan Alone: Personal Stories From the Bridge - United States - Director: Aaron Johnson
Love Separated - United States / Vietnam - Directors: Jackie Wright & Jack LiVolsi
Student Shorts
Mariposas - United States - Director: Adrian Carey
Doll it Up - United States - Director: Yalan Hu
Interior Day, Exterior Night - Canada - Director: Othello Nogueira
Shaken - United States - Director: Chayse Banks
My Friend Frank - United Kingdom - Director: Joel Caborn
Recruit- United Kingdom - Director: Harry Statham
Petunia - United States - Director: James Leming
Still Life - Greece - Director: Iordanis Theodosiadis
Anita - United States - Director: Ryan Joiner
Farewell Athens (Adieu Athènes) - France - Adèle Shaykhulova
Better Off - United States - Director: Jules Brown
Lost in a Dream - United States - Director: Elizabeth Arceneaux
Hard Shadow - Iran - Director: Neda Khanifar
The Can - Russia - Director: Alexey Protsenko
Battle of the Air Bands - United States - Director: Joshua Bowen
Colors Run - United States - Director: Olivia Carter
What we Had - United States - Director: Aaron Brooks
Student Documentaries
Oldest City Underwater - United States - Mallory Hopkins
Motherland (Батьківщина) - United States (filmed in Ukraine) - Director: Colby Blackwill
Blue Skies - United States - Director: Summer Schantz
Happier - United States - Director: Grace Yao
Woman of Steel - United States - Director: Chris Violette
The Flip Side - United States - Director: William Stead
Jacksonville Lynchings - United States - Director: Monique Mancera
Exploring the buried past of lynchings in Jacksonville, FL.
The Boss of the Music Industry - United States - Director: Antonio Rodriguez
Jacksonville's First Black Millionaire - United States - Directors: Aleksiya Phillipov, Haidy Andrada, Chelsea Rafan & Shawn Clark
Norman Studios - United States - Directors: Ian Wilson & Andrew Willis
A Colourful Red - United States - Director: Costa Karalis & Jack Owen
The Show Must Go On - United States - Director: Ellen Cottrill
Animation
Calls for Archie - United States - Director: Zach Christy
Ext - Canada - Director: Adrian Bobb
Framed - Italy - Director: Marco Jemolo
Two Bottles - United States - Director: Rob Shaw
Flicker - United States - Director: Brendan Arena
Exposed - United States / Taiwan - Director: Ya-Lin Yu
Is That What Sex is? - United States - Director: Sarah Pender
Balance - Singapore / Indonesia - Director: Raymond Limantara Sutisna
Bird - United Kingdom - Director: Wu-Ching Chang
CycLove (چرخعشق) - Iran - Director: Seyed Emad Karimifard
iRony - Australia / Japan / Korea / Malaysia - Director: Radheya Jegatheva
Repeat - United Kingdom - Director: Steven Haggie
Sound of Hell - United States - Director: Amanda Jow & Beatrice Li
OUT OF COMPETITION FILMS:
Wizard of Oz (1939) - United States - Director: Victor Fleming
Teardrop Goodby with Mandatory Directorial Commentary from Remy von Trout. - United States - Director: Franklin Ritch
For a complete list of films, including the synopsis, please visit jacksonvillefilmfestival.com/2019.
For a complete list of films, including the synopsis, please visit jacksonvillefilmfestival.com/2019.
Ticket information and the detailed schedule for the 2019 Jacksonville Film Festival: First Hollywood will be announced mid-October. Visit jacksonvillefilmfestival.com for more info.
WHAT: 2019 Jacksonville Film Festival: First Hollywood
WHEN: Friday, November 15
Saturday, November 16
Sunday, November 17
WHERE: San Marco Theatre
1996 San Marco Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32207
Jacksonville Film Festival is an annual international film festival that showcases in-competition and out-of-competition American and International independent films. The festival celebrates Jacksonville’s glorious moviemaking past by serving as a destination for the independent film community and encouraging a new generation of filmmakers to utilize the city as their canvas.
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