Academy Award-Winning Actress Mira Sorvino will be honored at the 9th annual Catalina Film Festival with the 2019 Avalon Award on Saturday, September 28, at the historic Avalon Theater on Catalina Island. Sorvino stars in the World Premiere of BADLAND, directed by Justin Lee, featuring Kevin Makely, Bruce Dern and Trace Adkins. Select cast/crew confirmed to attend. The Catalina Film Fest celebrates the 9th annual festival September 25-29 on the Queen Mary in Long Beach and Catalina Island.
The five-day Catalina Film Festival (CFF) celebrates its 9th annual festival in coastal sister cities with iconic and historic film venues. The continued partnership with Long Beach connects the island festival’s experience to the mainland Sept. 25-29, 2019, bookending CFF with “launch” and “landing” premieres, parties and panels Wednesday-Thursday and Sunday in Long Beach. Catalina Island will play host to CFF Friday and Saturday, with Festival-chartered cruises to and from the Queen Mary Terminal daily.
Just a few highlights include:
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25－OPENING NIGHT ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY with feature film comedy, Babysplitters. Written and directed by Sam Friedlander, staring Emily Chang (The Vampire Diaries), Danny Pudi (Community), Eddie Alfano (Shameless), Mark Feuerstein (What Women Want). Director Sam Friedlander and Eddie Alfano confirmed to attend.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26－THRILLER THURSDAY: WORLD PREMIERE OF DARK HARBOR STARRING JOEL MCHALE & JESSICA SIPOS & THE TALK, DIRECTED BY KEVIN ALEJANDRO. Thriller Thursday takes over the Queen Mary with World Premiere of Dark Harbor, starring Joel McHale (Community, The Soup) and Jessica Sipos (Chesapeake Shores, Wynonna Earp). Cast confirmed to attend: Jessica Sipos, Xander Berkeley, Meagen Fay, Connor Trineer, Jillian Armenante, and more. Plus, The Talk, directed by Kevin Alejandro (confirmed to attend), best known for his role on Netflix’s Lucifer.
Thriller Thursday includes the Wes Craven Horror Block at 6 p.m. – the only festival award sanctioned by the king of horror. Catalina Film Fest’s Film & New Media Summit also kicks off on the Queen Mary with a Film Finance panel (10 a.m.) and Making your First Feature Film (12:30 p.m.), plus a Spotlight Interview at 2:30 p.m. with actress Lesley Ann Warren moderated by film critic Jim Hemphill.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY (SEPT. 27-28): CATALINA TRIBUTE TO ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS MIRA SORVINO. The Festival heads to Catalina Island for two full days of premieres, panels and events. Daily roundtrip cruises are available from Long Beach. Island action includes:
Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion) will be honored with the Avalon Award, plus the World Premiere of Badland, starring Sorvino, Kevin Makely (Big Legend) also confirmed to attend, Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), and Trace Adkins (I Can Only Imagine), Sept. 28.
Lion’s Den Pitch Panel. Stacked with prospective film investors, this pitch-fest matched accredited investors with filmmakers seeking funding for their projects on Friday.
NEW THIS YEAR: CFF’s new streaming channel features 67 official selections in competition for the 2019 Film Festival, allowing festival channel passholders to watch films in competition and vote for their favorites. For more info, visit http://www.catalinafilmchannel.com/
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