Film fest favorites and award winners 'Women Talking,' 'Sirens,' 'Rewind & Play,' and 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' are among the entries.
"Women Talking," starring Rooney Mara, Frances McDormand and Claire Foy as women in an isolated religious community;"The Inspection," with Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union in a drama about a gay, Black soldier; and"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," lauded filmmaker Laura Poitras' documentary about photographer Nan Goldin's battle against pharmaceutical companies, are just three of the more than 50 features and shorts being shown at this year's Houston...
The festival, presented by the Houston Cinema Arts Society and running Nov. 10-17, is the city's leading annual showcase for independent filmmaking, with previous editions hosting the regional premieres of such films as"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,""I, Tonya" and"Red Rocket.
"It was so great to have this opportunity to program for an audience that's incredibly different ," Moreno said in a phone interview."And I wanted to reflect that in the programming and reflect all of those diverse interests and to showcase the full range of Houston. It's multicultural, it's queer, it's young, it's mature and it's money."
The venues this year include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The DeLuxe Theater, Asia Society Texas, Rice Cinema, The Menil Collection Lawn, Talento Bilingue, Orange Show Center for Visionary Art and some of the programming will be made available online for those who purchase a virtual pass.
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