Milos Stehlik
BERKELEY, CA, October 2, 2019 – Telluride Film Festival (TFF), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is pleased to announce the presentation of the inaugural Milos Stehlik Scholar award. The award was established by TFF before its 46th edition to honor the legacy of Facets Multimedia co-founder and former TFF Board President, Milos Stehlik, who passed away in July 2019. Milos’ longtime commitment to film exhibition and education, as well as to the Telluride Film Festival, made him a lifelong friend to students, cinephiles and filmmakers as a champion of cinema. Each year, one student who embodies Milos’ passion and humanist heart will be chosen from the incoming Student Symposium class to receive the award. This student will receive travel, lodging, a stipend and a student film pass. The Student Symposium, now in its 32nd year, is open to 50 currently enrolled college and university students from around the globe, no matter their major. The primary requirement is a love of film.
This year’s recipient, Damani Brissett, is a student from State University of New York at Purchase. He will receive an internship with the Telluride Film Festival Education Programs in 2020 along with the experience of attending the 47th Festival.
Damani, born and raised in Brooklyn, was selected by faculty from the Student Symposium Class of 2019. He says, “As a child, I was taught many integrities of living, some of them being: understand self-respect, respect for community, empathy, and aim to empower those around you to do good, not only for themselves, but for others. These seeds of holistic approach to humanity were sown within me and my sister at an early age, quietly, in a little corner of Flatbush Brooklyn.”
He was raised by a single mother with a devotion to her family and community, stemming from her proud Jamaican lineage. Damani continues, “Currently, as we face global dissensions on politics, ethics & consciousness altogether, I tend to revisit my origins to ascertain bearing on how to move forward. How can I, one studying filmmaker at SUNY Purchase college, work in the service of the people, with the people, in hopes to redefine systemic confines? I say, where there’s a will there’s a way, for that ‘I’ once took the form of Dr. King’s ‘Dream’, and that ‘I’ is sometimes all there needs to be, simply... a start somewhere.”
The Telluride Film Festival is honored that Damani will return next year to work with the TFF Education Programs and is proud to honor Milos’ legacy annually through the Milos Stehlik Scholar award. Milos co-founded Facets Multimedia in 1975. It is a hub for cinephiles to access hard-to-find independent and international films from around the globe. He was also a pioneer of the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the oldest, biggest kid’s film festival in North America. As an educator, a journalist on WBEZ, and a vocal champion of film, Milos has helped introduce generations to the awesome power of film.
For more information on Telluride Film Festival and its Student programs, please visit www.telluridefilmfestival.org.
For more information on Milos and Facets Multimedia, please visit https://www.facets.org.
OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2019: SCREENPLAYS
Here's my Early(ish) Bird take on Oscar's Screenplay categories after the big fall fests-well almost, New York is wrapping up. All TFF films predicted are indicated with Bold.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1) The Two Popes
2) JoJo Rabbit
3) The Irishman
4) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
5) Joker
Other Possibles: Little Women, Judy, Ford v. Ferrari, Just Mercy
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1) Marriage Story
2) Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood
3) Parasite
4) The Farewell
5) Knives Out
Other Possibles: 1917, Pain and Glory, Booksmart, Bombshell
As of today's post, here's the breakdown of my predictions for Telluride 2019 films in the eight topline categories:
Marriage Story: Six nominations and one possible: Picture, Director/Baumbach, Actress/Johannson, Actor/Driver, Supporting Actress/Dern, Original Screenplay/Baumbach. Possible: Supporting Actor/Alda...and a parenthetical note here...MTFB is campaigning for a Julie Hagerty nomination for Supporting Actress...someone with some actual juice needs to get on this STAT.
The Two Popes: Four nominations and one possible: Picture, Actor/Pryce, Supporting Actor/Hopkins, Adapted Screenplay/McCarten. Possible: Director/Meirelles.
Parasite: Three nominations: Picture, Director/Bong, Original Screenplay/Bong, Han.
Ford v. Ferrari: One nomination and three possibles: Picture. Other possibles: Supporting Actor/Bale, Director/Mangold, Adapted Screenplay/Butterworth, Butterworth, Keller.
Judy: One nomination and two possibles: Actress/Zellweger, Other Possibles: Picture, Adapted Screenplay/Edge, Quilter.
Pain and Glory: One nomination and one possible: Actor/Banderas, Possible: Original Screenplay/Almodovar.
The Report: One nomination: Supporting Actress/Bening.
Waves: Three possibles: Picture, Supporting Actress/Russell, Supporting Actor/Brown.
OSCAR HISTORY AND TFF PART NINE
After spending the past few weeks doling out the history between Telluride and The Academy Awards by each year, I'm turning now to a breakdown of the history as related to each of the feature categories as far as TFF is concerned beginning with the list of films that played at Telluride and then subsequently earned Best Picture nominations:
1974-The Conversation
1989- My Left Foot
1992- The Crying Game
1993- The Piano
1996- Secrets and Lies
2000- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
2003- Lost in Translation
2005- Brokeback Mountain, Capote
2006- Babel
2007- Juno, There Will Be Blood (scenes screened at TFF)
2008- Slumdog Millionaire-WINNER, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (scenes screened)
2009- Up in the Air, An Education
2010- The King's Speech-WINNER, 127 Hours, Black Swan
2011- The Artist-WINNER, The Descendants
2012- Argo-WINNER, Amour
2013- 12 Years a Slave-WINNER, Gravity, Nebraska
2014- Birdman-WINNER, The Imitation Game
2015- Spotlight-WINNER, Room
2016- Moonlight-WINNER, La La Land, Arrival, Manchester by the Sea
2017- The Shape of Water-WINNER, Darkest Hour, Lady Bird
2018- Roma, The Favourite
In all, 39 films that have come through Telluride have been nominated for Best Film of the Year come Oscar time, 29 of those since 2007. Of the 39, 9 have won the honor with all of those wins coming since 2008.
I'll have the Best Director nominees from TFF films up in Monday's post.
NEW TRAILER FOR PARASITE
Neon has a hot item on its plate with Cannes' Palme d'Or winner Parasite. The film has been critically lauded for months now on the film festival circuit-it has a 92 on Metacritic- and audiences seem to have embraced it as well- our Telluride People's ratings gave it a 4.36 average rating (out of 5) which was good enough for it to land the second place spot in this year's People's Telluride.
Now Neon has dropped a new trailer for the film and here it is from YouTube:
Parasite opens domestically on Oct. 11th.
TRAILER FOR THE KINGMAKER
One of the best received documentaries at the 2019 edition of The SHOW was Laura Greenfield's look at the powerful former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos.
That doc now has a trailer and here it is from YouTube:
The Kingmaker seems to be in the conversation for the Best Doc Oscar.
Interestingly, at least to me, is the connection to this film of one of our local physicians here in my small Oklahoma Panhandle town. The doctor and his brother are both involved in Philippino politics.
I have included a link here to Indiewire's coverage of the trailer's roll out.
That's the Thursday MTFB. More on Monday...
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