Wednesday, March 25, 2015 Florida Film Festival 2015 - Special Guest and Juries Announced
24th Annual Florida Film Festival (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube) takes place April 10-19, 2015, in Maitland and Winter Park, Florida. Below is this year's special guest and jury members.
Juried and audience awards will be announced at a ceremony and party on Saturday, April 18.
Tickets for the Awards Bash and Celebrity Events are on sale now at floridafilmfestival.com.
Special Guest:
An Evening with Bob Balaban
featuring a screening of the film Gosford Park
Sunday, April 12, 7:30–11PM at Enzian
Mr. Balaban will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
Among Bob Balaban’s crowning achievements is his work on the critically acclaimed Academy Award® winning film Gosford Park, which he produced. Balaban boasts an impressive roster of other directing/writing/producing credits. He directed the HBO film Bernard and Doris, which earned ten Emmy nominations, three Golden Globe nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, as well as Producers Guild and Directors Guild nominations.
He is perhaps most recognizable for his hilarious recurring role on Seinfeld as the head executive of NBC. Bob received an Emmy Award nomination for his role in HBO’s Recount, and has appeared in nearly fifty films, including The Monuments Men, MidnightCowboy, Catch 22, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Altered States, 2010, Absence of Malice, Prince of the City, Deconstructing Harry, Jakob the Liar, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, The Mexican, Ghost World, Gosford Park, A Mighty Wind, No Reservations, Dedication, Capote, Marie and Bruce, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Balaban is also the acclaimed author of the Scholastic best-selling children’s series McGrowl. The diary he kept during the filming of Close Encounters of the Third Kind has been published under the title Spielberg, Truffaut, and Me. A Chicago native, Balaban's roots are in the entertainment world: his uncle was a long-time president and Chairman of the Board of Paramount and his grandfather headed production at MGM for many years. He now lives in Bridgehampton, NY.
GOSFORD PARK UK/USA/ITALY, 2001, 137 MIN, RATED R DIRECTED BY ROBERT ALTMAN Seven-time Oscar® nominee (including Best Picture, Director, and two Best Supporting Actress honors) and winner of the Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay for Julian Fellowes (creator of TV’s Downton Abbey), GOSFORD PARK is a whodunit as only director Robert Altman could do it. Set in the 1930s, this brilliant, light murder-mystery features an extraordinary cast and one of Altman’s greatest ensembles ever: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Emily Watson, Clive Owen, Bob Balaban, Kristen Scott Thomas, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, and Derek Jacobi.
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