The Vail Film Festival Continues In 2012

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Published on Tuesday, 27 March 2012 20:07

Written by Joanne Choi

Film festival at a ski resort? You bet!

Opening March 29 - April 1 2012, at the ski resort of Vail, Colorado, the annual  Vail Film Festival makes it to its ninth edition.

The Vail FF promotes independent filmmaking, with a special focus on new and innovative filmmakers. Besides screening some of the year's top films from around the globe, the festival also features workshops, seminars, industry panel discussions and special events with award-winning actors, writers and directors.

With Cadillac as a returning sponsor, this four-day event includes a special awards ceremony, ski and snowboarding, VIP parties and live music as well as a rich film program.

Produced by the Colorado Film Institute, this non-profit arts organization is dedicated to fostering independent cinema and creative filmmaking.

There will be numerous events this year which celebrate films and filmmakers from all over the world.

Screenings place in various venues:

• Sebastian Hotel in Vail Village
• The Four Seasons
• Vail Mountain School
• Cinebistro in Solaris Plaza

Alongside the film festival, the annual screenplay competition will be running in unison. Attendees will experience a weekend filled with film screenings, parties, live music, ice skating, and a hospitality lounge with complimentary Stella Artois, leading to the closing night of the ceremony.

The festival begins Thursday evening with The Eye of the Storm directed by Vanguard Award Recipient Fred Schepisi. The Opening Night Party features live art by pop artist Michael Perez in association with Gallery 212 Miami, the Art Gallery partner of the 2012 Festival, and Stella Artois, who returns as the Official beer of the Vail Film Festival for the 8th year.

Performing live, Friday, March 30th, is the acclaimed Hotel Café as well as musicians Sara Bareilles (Three-time Grammy nominee, Celebrity judge on NBC’s hit show ‘The Sing Off’), Cary Brothers (Best known for his song ‘Blue Eyes’ from the Grammy-winning ‘Garden State’ soundtrack), Laura Jansen, Greg Laswell, Javier Dunn, Buddy, and Harper Blynn at Sebastian Hotel.

The Sebastian -- HQ base for the four-day event --  offers the Bloom Spa, Frost Bar, Market for nibbles, and the Block 16 restaurant. There’s a mountain-view pool, hot tubs and a roaring fire pit.

Base Camp offers ski-in ski-out access from Vail's Vista Bahn lift, just at the foot of Vail Mountain. Ski valets help you into warm ski boots and out onto the mountain. As the place in the mountains, The Sebastian is the Vail loved by many with a dazzling new twist.

Another unqiue aspect of the for this year’s Vail Film Festival is the CinéBistro, a sophisticated “dinner-and-a-movie” experience located at Solaris in Vail Village. Offering amenities such as reserved seating in over-sized leather seats, in-theatre, full-service dining and state-of-the art movie viewing.

Saturday, March 31st will be concluding with the annual awards ceremony at the Vail Mountain School, honoring outstanding members of the industry including Fred Schepisi and Krysten Ritter, followed by the Closing Night Party at Sebastian Vail.

Following the Saturday evening awards ceremony, the Vail Film Festival will present the Closing Night Film, L!fe Happens, helmed by Vail Film Festival alum and talented new director Kat Coiro, staring Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth, and Rachel Bilson.  

The official awaed categories of the festival are the following:

• Best Feature
• Best Documentary
• Best Short
• Best Student
• Best Adventure
• Best Feature Screenplay
• Best Short Screenplay
• The Blue Sky Tribute for Environmental Activism presented by Chipotle
• the Cadillac Audience Award

The winners of the 2012 Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition are:

• 1st Place Feature, Daniel Turkewitz (The Wright Stuff)
• 2nd Place Feature,Rachel Shepherd (Let’s Kill Peter)
• 3rd Place Feature, Jeff Trently & Anthony Stitt (Chances)
• 1st Place Short, Melissa Sweazy (The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention)
• 2nd Place Short, David C.C. Erickson (Samantha’s Thief)
• 3rd Place Short, Phyllis Heltay (Mustang)

The 2012 Vail Film Festival Film Program Includes: 

Feature Films:

• 6 Month Rule, directed by Blayne Weaver
• Downtown Express, directed by David Grubin
• Inuk, directed by Mike Magidson
• Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy, directed by Rob Heydon
• Life Happens, directed by Kat Coiro
• Mariachi Gringo, directed by Tom Gustafson
• The Eye of the Storm, directed by Fred Schepisi
• The Mulberry Tree, directed by Mark Heller
• Shuffle, directed by Kurt Kuenne
• Puncture, directed by Adam Kassen & Mark Kassen

Documentaries:

• Andrew Bird: Fever Year, directed by Xan Aranda
• Between the Harvest, directed by Scott Drucker
• Last Call at the Oasis, directed by Jessica Yu
• Words of Witness, directed by Mai Iskander
• One Night Stand, directed by Trish Dalton & Elisabeth Sperling
• Oscar, directed by Aoife Naughton
• Sing, directed by Laura Crosta
• With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story, directed by Terry Dougas, Nikki Frakes & Will Hess
• Zero Percent, directed by Tim Skousen
• Singleton: from the earth, directed by Robert A. Reid

 Environmental Showcase Presented by Chipotle:

• High Ground, directed by Michael Brown
• Tipping Point: The End of Oil, directed by Tom Radford & Niobe Thompson

Adventure Films:

• The Art of Flight, directed by Curt Morgan
• The Movement, directed by Greg I Hamilton & Kurt Miller
• Wyoming Triumph, directed by Chris Kitchen & Sam Pope

Shorts:

• Free Hugs, directed by Olivia Wilde
• A Morning with Gold in Its Mouth, directed by Samuel Dowe-Sandes
• Arts & Crafts, directed by Jonathan Kesselman
• Cadaver, directed by Jonah D. Ansell
• Deerskin Lake, directed by Joshua Clark
• dik, directed by Christopher Stollery
• Everything is Incredible, directed by Tim Skousen, Trevor Hill, & Tyler Bastian
• Fatakra, directed by Soham Mehta
• I’m Having A Difficult Time Killing My Parents, directed by Jeff Tomsic
• Mouthful, directed by Robert G. Putka
• Protect The Nation, directed by C.R. Reisser
• Queen, directed by Adam Rose
• Souterrain, directed by Erwin Haecker
• The Arm, directed by Brie Larson, Jessie Ennis, & Sarah Ramos
• The Carrier, directed by Scott Schaeffer
• The Jockstrap Raiders, directed by Mark Nelson
• What’s Life Got to Do with It?, directed by Noah Weisberg
• Christmas is Ruined, directed by Andrew Putschoegl
• Lagun Mina, directed by Jose Mari Goenaga
• The Monster Whisperer, directed by Elad Offer

Student Films:

• Roleplay, directed by Brendan H. Banks
• Happy Ones, The, directed by Brandon Zuck
• Pushing Above the Highpoint, directed by Ben Thomas
• Fixed, directed by Johnny Rutter
• Ad & Subtract, directed by Laura Stephens
• Live Outside the Box, directed by Shu-Hsuan Lin
• Necking, directed by Lindsay Lindenbaum
• My Friend the Thief, directed by Roland Kennedy
• Commerce, directed by Lisa Robertson
• Election Day, directed by Zach Wechter
• Derek, directed by Alex Gray
• X.C., directed by Sam Osborn
• Lines, directed by Joselito Seldera

For the complete 2012 Vail Film Festival program and screening schedule, visit: www.vailfilmfestival.com/program.

Festival passes incorporate a combination of movies, filmmaker panels, galas and music. For tickets and additional information, visit www.vailfilmfestival.com or call 970-476-1092.

Vail Film Festival
March 29 - April 1 2012

Sebastian Hotel in Vail Village

The Four Seasons

Vail Mountain School

Cinebistro in Solaris Plaza

Colorado Film Institute
P.O. Box 747
Vail, CO 81658

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