Vail Film Festival Announces 2011 Lineup & Awards

Vail Film Festival Announces 2011 Lineup & Awards
This year's festival will showcase 67 films from around the world, including 11 feature films and 56 documentaries, shorts, adventure, student, and animated films, at the beautiful new Sebastian hotel in Vail Village, and Cinebistro in the Solaris complex. The 2011 Festival will donate 5% of the overall ticket sales to the American Red Cross for earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts in Japan, and an additional 5% to Angelight Films, a 501(c) (3) non-profit production company that gives chronically ill children the opportunity to express themselves in their own short film.

The Vail Film Festival is pleased to announce that Kate Bosworth, star of Blue Crush, Bryan Singer's Superman Returns and Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea will be in attendance to receive the Excellence in Acting Award, and Emmy Award winning actor/filmmaker Michael Imperioli will be in attendance to receive this year's Renegade Award for Risk Taking in Film, an honor bestowed to Zach Braff, Jeremy Davies, and filmmaker Kevin Smith in recent years.

The 2011 Festival will officially open on Thursday evening, March 31st at the Vail Mountain School with a screening of Falling Overnight. Also on Thursday, the Festival is proud to screen the Colorado Premiere of Super, starring Rainn Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Liv Tyler, and Ellen Page. In this action packed comedy, a wife (Liv Tyler) leaves her husband (Rainn Wilson) for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). When her husband decides he will win her back as Crimson Bolt, a costumed vigilante armed with a monkey wrench, his actions bring him an admirer: an overeager comic store clerk (Ellen Page) who wants to be his sidekick.

Throughout the festival weekend, pass holders will enjoy film screenings, red carpet ceremonies and parties, panel discussions, live music featuring Grammy-winning musicians from LA's famed Hotel Café, the festival's hospitality lounge at The Sebastian Hotel, and the annual awards ceremony recognizing the outstanding work of leaders in the film industry on Saturday, April 2nd.

New to this year's program, the Vail Film Festival is excited to announce the launch of the “Cadillac Short Series,” the only Festival “venue” in which the public will be invited to view festival programming from the comfort of a 2011 Cadillac Escalade, a 2011 CTS Wagon, and a 2011 SRX, in the middle of Solaris Plaza. The Cadillac Short Series will feature short films screened on the vehicles' deluxe interior entertainment systems throughout the 2011 Festival weekend.

In partnership with Olympus Imaging America Inc., the 2011 Vail Film Festival is also pleased to welcome back the 48 Hour film contest to the festival's program. The Olympus PEN Your Short 48 Hour Film Contest will kick off on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11:00AM MT, followed by a period of 48 hours where registered filmmakers will be asked to create a short film using the new Olympus PEN® camera. All short films must be submitted by Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 10:59AM MT. Films submitted by this deadline will be screened on Saturday afternoon in the Cadillac Screening Room at Cinebistro. The contest winner will be announced during the Saturday evening Awards Ceremony. The winning team will receive $5,000, Olympus PEN Equipment, VIP Passes to the 2012 Festival, and a private meeting with a Hollywood film producer.

The Vail Film Festival has also launched a new feature on its website this year, allowing pass holders to create their own custom festival schedule, as well as rate and comment in real time on films they have seen. Pass holders who visit https://vailff.slated.com/2011/films during their visit to the hospitality lounge at the Sebastian hotel will be entered to win a 2011 Vail Film Festival VIP Gift Bag.

The 2011 Vail Film Festival Film Program Includes:

Feature Films:

Boy Wonder, directed by Michael Morrissey
Face to Face, directed by Michael Rymer
Falling Overnight, directed by Conrad Johnson
Losing Control, directed by Valerie Weiss
Serotonin Rising, directed by Tony Perri
Small Town Murder Songs, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly
Something Better Somewhere Else, directed by Ron Lazzeretti
The Inner Room, directed by Ron Gastelbondo
Super, directed by James Gunn
The Wedding Party, directed by Amanda Jane

Adventure Films:

Downhill: The Bill Johnson, directed by Zeke Piestrup
Out of the Shadows, directed by Athen Merrick and Nicolas Teichrob
Skate Australia, directed by Sebastian Lundmark
Twiga Stars: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters, directed by Nisha Ligon

Animated Shorts:

Bygone Behemoth, directed by Harry Chaskin
Pinball 12 Reanimated, directed by Abbey Luck
Something Left, Something Taken, directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
Starwars: Retold, directed by Joe Nicolosi
The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger, directed by Bill Plimpton
The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9!, directed by Jake Armstrong

Documentaries:

A Perfect Soldier, directed by Jon Severson
Certain Proof: A Question of Worth, directed by Ray Ellis
Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean, directed by Curt Fissel
Echoes of a Storyteller, directed by Daniel Turcan
Hauling, directed by Sean Walsh
Lens & Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place
Loy Krathong, directed by Jeffrey Waldron
Odysseus in America, directed by Charles Berkowitz
Saving Pelican 895, directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky
The Clean Bin Project, directed by Grant Baldwin
WE STILL LIVE HERE: As Nutayunean, directed by Anne Makepeace

Shorts:

Animal Control, directed by Kire Paputts
A Robot's Life, directed by Elad Offer
AyA, directed by Michael Walker
Bathing & the Single Girl, directed by Christine Elise McCarthy
Daisy Cutter, directed by Enrique Garcia and Ruben Salazar
Efrain, directed by Matthew Breault
GAYKEITH, directed by Leslie Hope
Hello Caller, directed by Andrew Putschoegl
Idiots, directed by Kat Coiro
Love is Retarded, directed by Bill Escudier
Nouvelle Nostalgia, directed by Amy Obarski
Pipe Dreams, directed by Ben Green
Rosie and me, directed by Matthew Graham
run., directed by TJ Thyne
RUNNER, directed by Nic Reader
Scent, directed by Darren Bolton
Shoe, directed by Nick Kelly
Something Fishy, directed by Kristy Best
Tapeworm, directed by Margaret Laney
The Box, directed by Bobby Willis
The Fall Line, directed by Tyler Stableford
The Filmmaker, directed by Marcello Fabrizi
The Interview, directed by Michelle Steffes
The Line, directed by Joe Petrilla
The Philosopher, Cyrile Deleye
The Price, directed by Zeke Pinheiro and James St. Vincent
The Tailor, directed by Gordon Grinberg
¡Una Carrerita, Doctor!, directed by Julio O. Ramos
Un Novio de Mierda, directed by Borja Cobeaga
Women, directed by George Mays and Ashley Scott

Student Films:

El Bolerito, directed by Julio O. Ramos
God of Love, directed by Luke Matheny
Nedele, directed by Iliya Gegov
Surviving Hunger, Balgum Song
The Haymaker, directed by Daniel D'Alimonte
The History of Space Flight, directed by Chris Caraballo
The Shoes Maketh the Man, directed by Tarek Sursock

For complete film listings and screening times, event schedule, FAQs and to order tickets please visit: www.vailfilmfest.com