The San Diego Worldwide Movie Pageant opens Oct. 18 with a screening of Oscar winner Alexander Payne‘s new movie, The Holdovers.
The pageant, with the theme, “Celebrating the Energy of Movie” continues by Oct. 22 and options a number of world premieres.
Opening night time is to happen at Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts, with the remaining screenings hosted on the Westfield UTC AMC.
The opening movie – which reunites Payne with actor Paul Giamatti, after their success with 2004’s Sideways – focuses on three individuals, an delinquent trainer, a trouble-making scholar and a bereaved cook dinner, caught collectively over Christmas at a boarding faculty in snowy New England.
Payne has been nominated for Academy Awards seven occasions, largely for steering and writing, along with his two wins coming within the tailored screenplay class, for Sideways and The Descendants in 2012.
The pageant will display 91 movies complete, 21 in narrative competitors and 9 in documentary competitors, together with 61 shorts. These choices have been winnowed down from 3,200 submissions from 85 nations.
Pageant partnerships and tracks embody social affect, preventing political oppression, Native Individuals, LGBTQ rights and the opioid disaster.
World premieres on the movie slate embody:
- Brothers After Warfare – follows three brothers within the navy each whereas serving and after returning dwelling; directed and produced by veteran Jake Rademacher.
- The Portrait – after her husband is grievously injured, a lady finds herself stricken by a portray that resembles him.
- Límite – in Tijuana, a teen finds himself in peril when a romance leaves him in debt to a drug vendor.
- Junction – three interconnected tales replicate the opioid disaster – these of a pharmaceutical CEO, physician and addict.
Passes for the complete fest begin at $240, with particular person screenings set at $18. Some occasions, reminiscent of Culinary Cinema, have separate ticketing. Gross sales started Wednesday.
