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Follow on Google News | 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival Lineup (Nov. 5-15)By: Cinema St. Louis Among the highlights of this year’s Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), held Nov. 5-15, is a trio of programs featuring actor/writer/ The fest extends well beyond Winter, of course: SLIFF has films for all seasons and every taste. The 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival will screen an unprecedented 447 films: 97 narrative features, 86 documentary features, and 264 shorts. The fest also will feature seven special-event programs, including two free master classes and the closing-night party, and 67 free programs. This year’s SLIFF has 270 screenings/programs, with 70 countries represented. The fest will host more than 125 filmmakers and related guests, including honorees Winter (Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award), Trent Harris (Contemporary Cinema Award), and Rosemary Rodriguez (Women in Film Award). The festival will open on Thursday, Nov. 5, with Winter’s “Deep Web,” which gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. Other prominent films at SLIFF include buzz movies “The 33,” “Anomalisa,” In our continuing response to the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, SLIFF again will feature a stream of programming entitled Race in America: The Black Experience. To maximize outreach, about half of those programs are free. The fest schedule, ticket and venue information, and a complete list of films (with descriptions) For more information, the public should visit www.cinemastlouis.org or call 314-289-4150. End
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