Middleburg Festival 2020 - Virtual This Weekend!
Monday, October 12, 2020 at 2:19PM by Nathaniel R
Just a heads up that the Middleburg International Film Festival, that we cover each year right here, has gone mostly virtual this year. The festival is later this week (Thurs, Oct 15th - Sunday, Oct 18th). Despite the unfortunate circumstances of movies in this bizarre year, they've somehow gathered their usual crop of buzzy Oscar contenders and possible breakout indies. You can see the full list here -- any films in particular you'd like us to cover? You may recall that last year we did a "Coffee and Contenders" Oscar panel with Clayton Davis and Jazz Tangcay (who both work for Variety now). We're repeating that again this year since it was a success last time. This year it will be on Zoom due to, well, you know... but we're still excited.
The panel is this coming Friday at 9:00 AM EST. It will be available for free if any of you reading would like to tune in (ignore the "not available in your country" notice. They are in the process of fixing that)
Reader Comments (6)
Thanks for the heads up. No specific requests for coverage, but I was glad to get tickets to Minari and One Night in Miami, as well as a couple of documentaries I'd been wanting to see (76 Days and Assassins).
Sound of Metal, please!
I love Middleburg! So glad they were able to go virtual and still pull in a big lineup this year so I won't have to miss it (and wish I had a car so I could get out to that Nomadland screening)
UK reviewers who have seen Sound of Metal say Riz is amazing and tranformative in it.
I've seen Undine. It's a mysterious, entrancing, hypnotic movie.
I am specially curious about "The Sound of Metal"... it could become really fluffy, but Riz Ahmed is an amazing performer and the role is pure Oscarbait, plus he has already made himself a name in the industry (Four Lions, Venom, Nightcrawler) showing extreme versatility and I consider that he was horribly snubbed from an Oscar nom for Nightcrawler (and probably, Four Lions).