Cinequest Film Festival

Cinequest Film Festival
Cinequest Film Festival
Location San Jose, California, USA
Language International
Official website

The Cinequest Film Festival is an annual independent film festival held in San Jose, California. The festival highlights the work of new film makers.

Cinequest, a nonprofit 501(c)3 institute, produces the Cinequest Film Festival, Cinequest Distribution Label, and Cinequest Mentoring & Education Programs. Cinequest serves Maverick film artists, movie lovers and students. Each year, the festival awards its "Maverick Spirit Award" to honorees selected by the festival's organizers.


Contents

History

Cinequest was founded in 1990 by filmmakers Halfdan Hussey and Kathleen Powell. The scheduled guest of honor that year was Jon Jost (director of All the Vermeers in New York), but he failed to appear. The festival occupied a single theater (the Camera 3 Theatre in San Jose) and showed 60 films during this debut event. In subsequent years, the festival has grown to an eleven-day event showing over 150 films and attracting over 80,000 attendees.

Maverick Spirit Awards

The Maverick Spirit Award has honored the following artists over the years:

Year Honoree
1990 Jon Jost
1992 Lena Stolze
1993 Paul Bartel
Carl Franklin
1994 Russ Meyer
Werner Herzog
John Waters
1996 Luis Valdez
1997 Jennifer Jason Leigh
1998 Kevin Spacey
Elmer Bernstein
Jackie Chan
Walter Murch
John Schlesinger
Barry Sonnenfeld
1999 Gabriel Byrne
Rod Steiger
2000 Robert M. Young
Dario Argento
Alec Baldwin
Wes Craven
Peter Fonda
2001 Mia Trachinger
2002 Lalo Schifrin
David Strathairn
Lili Taylor
Ian McKellen
2003 Ralph Bakshi
Stephen Frears
Lupe Ontiveros
William H. Macy
Val Kilmer
James Woods
2004 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kurt Miller
2005 Blanchard Ryan
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
Ben Kingsley
Jon Polito
2006 Edward James Olmos
2007 Stewart Copeland
Minnie Driver
Christine Vachon
J.J. Abrams
Christopher McQuarrie
2008 Kevin Pollak
Louis Gossett Jr.
Diablo Cody

Notable debuts

Independent films that premiered at Cinequest that went on to further distribution by a major movie studio:

Year Films
2001 Maze
The Adventures of Barry Ween
2002 Blue Car
2003 Hukkle
Robot Stories
Suckers[disambiguation needed ]
Spellbound
2004 I.P.O.
The Agronomist
The Praying Mantis
One Man Show
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Imelda
2005 Accordion Tribe
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2006 Edmond
Water
Thank You for Smoking
2007 The Namesake
A Dog's Breakfast
Sublime
2008 Sherman's Way
The Village Barbershop
The Sinking of Santa Isabel
2009 All About Dad
Billy Was a Deaf Kid
Blue Road
Heart of Stone
Historias Extraordinarias
The Nature of Existence
Rocaterrania
Wake
2010 Anyone You Want
Cost of a Soul
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Gabi on the Roof in July
Hell is Other People
Kill the Habit
Krews
Peepers
Professor
The Real Revolutionaries
Tercer Mundo
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey

Oscar Nominees

Several short films shown at Cinequest have received nominations for Academy Awards. In recent years, these have included

Year Films
2004 (A) Torzija
2005 Ryan
Little Terrorist
2006 Cashback
9
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Our Time is Up

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Midwest Independent Film Festival — The Midwest Independent Film Festival is the nation’s only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker. Only films from the eight state Midwest region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin are… …   Wikipedia

  • Denmark (film) — Denmark Directed by Daniel Fickle …   Wikipedia

  • Chalk (film) — Chalk Directed by Mike Akel Produced by Mike Akel Angie Alvarez Graham Davidson Chris Mass Michael McAlister David Gonzales …   Wikipedia

  • Native New Yorker (film) — Native New Yorker Directed by Steve Bilich Produced by Steve Bilich and William Susman Written by Steve Bilich …   Wikipedia

  • Outsourced (film) — Outsourced Promotional poster for Outsourced Directed by John Jeffcoat Produced by …   Wikipedia

  • Wahrheit oder Pflicht (Film) — Filmdaten Originaltitel Wahrheit oder Pflicht Produktionsland Deutschland …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Loopy (film) — Infobox Film bgcolour = cyan name = Twisted image size = caption = director = producer = writer = music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 2004 runtime = 20 mins country = USA language = English budget = $35,000 (estimated)… …   Wikipedia

  • Trinity (film) — Trinity is a 2001 cult science fiction film. It was written and directed by Gary Boulton Brown, and stars Tom McCamus (as Dr. Clerval), Lucy Akhurst (as Schiller), and Stephen Moyer (as Brach). Plot Summary In a remote arctic research station,… …   Wikipedia

  • Flourish (film) — Infobox Film name = Flourish caption = 2008 Flourish Film Poster director = Kevin Palys producer = Kevin Palys Jennifer Morrison BP Cooper Jason Peterson writer = Kevin Palys starring = Jennifer Morrison Jesse Spencer Leighton Meester Daniel… …   Wikipedia

  • Lansdown (film) — Lansdown is a 2002 dark comedy film written and directed by Tom Zuber. Paul Shields stars as Jake Jorgenson, a criminal defense attorney in the fictional town of Lansdown, New Jersey. [cite news| last =Crust| first =Kevin| title =If You Live in a …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”