Big Brother is your sister-in-law in Jan Komasa’s thriller, which also stars Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack and Dylan O’Brien.
The annual festival is scheduled to launch later this month on Oct. 31 and continue through Nov. 9.
The documentary short grand jury prize went to Charles Frank’s ‘Shanti Rides Shotgun’ while an animated shorts prize went to Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears’ film ‘Forevergreen.’
The two star as a pair of struggling musicians who form a Neil Diamond tribute band in the new film.
Armen Weitzman and Nick Corirossi’s festival hit, billed as a mash-up between ‘Sideways’ and ‘American Pie,’ is a freewheeling spoof on Hollywood franchise filmmaking.
Claimant Richard Taylor said his depiction in the film — following the 2012 hunt for King Richard III’s remains — was misogynistic and defamatory.
On the TV side, ‘Operation Sabre’ was the big winner.
A mix of local and international stars walked the carpet before the gala screening of the opening film, Junji Sakamoto’s ‘Climbing for Life.’
Ella Anderson, Michael Imperioli and Jim Belushi also star in Craig Brewer’s account of a real-life blue-collar Milwaukee couple whose Neil Diamond tribute act makes them local legends.
He was the subject of the 2021 documentary ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,’ a quote about him from Luchino Visconti, his Italian director on the film.
