Art work by Alex Wonderful. New/Next Film Festival, produced by Baltimore NPR affiliate station 88.1 WYPR and curated by programmer Eric Allen Hatch, proclaims right now the primary titles in its inaugural 2023 lineup. The pageant was created in response to the current information that the Maryland Movie Pageant wouldn’t have a 2023 version. New/Subsequent will run from August 18-20 and be hosted on the five-screen Charles Theatre in Baltimore.
“I’m thrilled to be again at The Charles Theatre, bringing a few of the most enjoyable cinema I’ve seen lately to our audiences,” stated Hatch, who was MdFF’s director of programming from 2010-2018, in a press launch. “I very a lot see New/Subsequent as a continuation of the work I’ve carried out in Baltimore for different establishments.”
New/Subsequent lineup bulletins will proceed all through the month of July, together with repertory programming, which can characteristic a screening chosen and launched by Baltimore-based dream pop duo Seaside Home.
All-access pageant passes additionally go on sale right now. Per the press launch:
All-access passes present entry to all New/Subsequent screenings; an advance window for movie and seat choice forward of public ticketing; and attendance to all New/Subsequent particular occasions, together with the Opening and Closing Evening events and live shows. The Opening Evening Occasion will embody performances by stars of Baltimore’s membership and hip-hop scenes, TT the Artist and Dapper Dan Midas.
Discover the primary three titles chosen for New/Subsequent 2023 and descriptions beneath. For extra details about all-access passes and normal updates, go to the pageant’s official website.
Titles Introduced At present for New/Subsequent:
Margie Soudek‘s Salt and Pepper Shakers (2023 Meredith Moore) | Doc Quick
An artist and visual-effects teacher connects along with her ageing grandmother, Margie, by amassing, art-making, and obsessing as a solution to improve actuality. Produced by MEMORY (Rat Movie; Crestone; All Mild, In every single place) and scored by Dan Deacon.
Max Roach: The Drum Additionally Waltzes (2023 Sam Pollard) | Doc Characteristic
Max Roach: The Drum Additionally Waltzes explores the life and music of the legendary drummer, composer, bandleader, and social activist by a exceptional sequence of artistic peaks, struggles, and private reinventions—from the Jim Crow period to the Civil Rights years, surveying the heady days of post-war fashionable jazz to hip-hop and past.
Rotting within the Solar (2023 Sebastián Silva) | Narrative Characteristic
Author-director Sebastián Silva’s Sundance hit Rotting within the Solar is a darkly humorous and refreshingly audacious meta-comedy that skewers the enterprise of filmmaking and our self-obsessed tradition. Whereas unwinding at a Mexican homosexual seashore city, depressed director Sebastián Silva meets gregarious Instagram influencer Jordan Firstman (each enjoying variations of themselves), and Sebastián reluctantly agrees to collaborate on an upcoming mission. However when Jordan arrives again in Mexico Metropolis, Sebastián is nowhere to be discovered, and Jordan embarks on a wildly unpredictable, quasi-detective journey.
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