Have you always been curious about what goes into writing a screenplay? For the fourth year, a key public component of our annual Screenwriters Lab is a Master Class with award-winning screenwriters. This year, HIFF is pleased to welcome two: Oscar®-winning screenwriter Jim Taylor (SIDEWAYS, ELECTION) and Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Tamara Jenkins (THE SAVAGES), who together will offer a behind-the-scenes deep […]
Mathison Fund Screenplay Reading: Aemilia Scott’s ‘BIRTHDAY SUIT’
January 15, 2019 by
On the eve of her 55th birthday, Elaine realizes that she is becoming invisible to her husband, her family, and her town. So she decides to take a radical step to be seen: she takes her clothes off, and she does not put them back on. Monday night in New York City, HIFF celebrated the […]
HIFF 2018 Audiences Have Spoken
October 9, 2018 by
HIFF 2018 Audience Awards were announced today! The HIFF2018 Audience Award for Narrative Feature went to THE HATE U GIVE, directed by George Tillman Jr., and starring Amandla Stenberg. As a way to escape the limited options of the streets she grew up on, sixteen-year-old black teenager Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) is torn between two […]
HIFF 2018: Saturday Slideshow
October 7, 2018 by
Saturday was another jam-packed day at #HIFF2018, including World Premieres (HENRI DAUMAN: LOOKING UP, THE PANAMA PAPERS), our Saturday Centerpiece film FIRST MAN, celebrations, conversations, and more! Congratulations to Isold Uggadottir for winning the Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution for her film AND BREATHE NORMALLY. And also to Emily Anderson […]
HIFF2018: Friday Slideshow
October 6, 2018 by
Friday was a pleasure at #HIFF2018 from start to finish! We kicked things off with a raw, intimate conversation at Winick Talks at Rowdy Hall called Our Bodies, Our Stories, followed by A Conversation With Maggie Gyllenhaal, moderated by Alec Baldwin at Bay Street Theater. There was not an empty seat in the house for […]
