24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival Lineup (Nov. 5-15)

By: Cinema St. Louis
 
 
SLIFF 2015
SLIFF 2015
ST. LOUIS - Oct. 16, 2015 - PRLog -- Winter is coming.

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/director Alex Winter, a former St. Louisan who receives the fest’s annual Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award. Winter’s documentary “Deep Web” kicks off SLIFF on Nov. 5, and he’ll also accompany screenings of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (on Nov. 6) and “Downloaded” (on Nov. 7).

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,” “Brooklyn,” “Carol,” “I Saw the Light,” “Krisha,” “The Lady in the Van,” “Legend,” “Love the Coopers,” “Remember,” “Son of Saul,” and “Youth”; the locally made features “Cronies,” “Four Way Stop,” and “The Nameless”; and new works by such prominent directors as Les Blank, Atom Egoyan, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Michel Hazanavicius, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Nicholas Hytner, Albert Maysles, Alice Rohrwacher, Paolo Sorrentino, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, and Apichatpong Weerasenthakul.

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) are available at the Cinema St. Louis Web site (www.cinemastlouis.org).

For more information, the public should visit www.cinemastlouis.org or call 314-289-4150.

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