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Sonoma Worldwide Movie Competition Flies Increased In 2024

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Mar 25, 2024 / 4964 Views

Evan Walker

Many feared for the destiny of regional movie festivals following the pandemic, but when attendance on the twenty seventh Sonoma Worldwide Movie ComPetition was any indication, these mainstays of the cinephile circuit are doing simply OK. The comPetition introduced its largest attendance ever for the 2024 occasion surpassing ticket and go holder gross sales for 2023. However past serving as a showcase of impartial, worldwide and documentary movie for the bay space, SIFF featured many Business Gamers glad to attach post-Oscars and Sundance.

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Friends and jury members at this 12 months’s comPetition included present Sundance Movie ComPetition Director Eugene Hernandez, Telluride Movie ComPetition Government Director Julie Huntslinger, Participant Media SVP Rob Williams, Sideshow’s Jason Hellerstein, Start Once more Movies’ Rosa Bosch, former Sundance Movie ComPetition Director Tabitha Jackson, and legendary Sundance Movie ComPetition artistic director John Cooper. John Cameron Mitchell and Rob Garza of Thievery Company (that’s not a misprint) have been each DJ’s at two of the comPetition’s lots of the quite a few events and actor Scoot McNairy (“Fairyland”), chef Susan Feniger (“Forked”), and director Goran Stolevski (“Housekeeping For Newcomers”) have been in attendance to assist their movies.

This was the comPetition’s second 12 months below the path of Inventive Director Carl Spence who, alongside along with his programming workforce, was credited by too many to depend for drastically bettering the standard of movies on the comPetition from the earlier regime. Films screened this 12 months included Bertrand Bonello‘s “The Beast,” Daina O. Pusić’s “Tuesday,” Tony Goldwyn’s “Ezra,” Bob Byington’s “Awful Carter,” Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson’s “Ghostlight,” Thea Sharrock’s “Depraved Little Letters,” Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot, and Ethan Hawke’s “Wildcat.” The comPetition additionally featured the world premiere of Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung‘s entertaining buddy-stoner comedy “Extraordinarily Distinctive Dynamic” (positively the youngest skewing film on the comPetition).

Beau Bridges was offered with the 2024 SIFF Lifetime Achievement Award for an illustrious profession. A packed Q&A moderated by movie critic extraordinaire Katie Walsh was adopted by a thirty fifth Anniversary screening of “The Fabulous Baker Boys.”

Mohamed Kordofan’s “Goodbye Julia” obtained the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Function, Vanessa Hope’s “Invisible Nation” received the Grand Jury Award for Documentary Function, Taylor James’ world premiere “ILY, Bye,” starring Kanoa Goo and Meg Stalter, received the Grand Jury Dwell Motion Quick, and Patricia Font’s “The Instructor Who Promised the Sea” received the Stolman Viewers Award for Greatest Function.