Things are hotting up in P. Town as exciting plans keep seeping out of the Film Festival Office about their 18th Edition which takes place in a little over two months time. The town then is usually overrun with a veritable movie biz ‘who’s who’ for the five days of the Event, and this summer there are two faces that we can definitely expect to see as they are the recipients of the Festival’s prestigious awards.
It has been announced that this year’s Filmmaker On The Edge
will be Three-Time Academy Award winner director Ang Lee. His films include The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Life of Pi, plus Brokeback Mountain which should have rightly won Lee his 4th Oscar! Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk his latest movie is currently in post production and is due to be released in November 2016. Ang Lee will appear in conversation with John Waters on Saturday, June 18th @ 5 pm at Provincetown’s Historic Town Hall.
This year’s P.I.F.F. Excellence In Acting Honoree is Emmy/Tony 
& Grammy Award Winning Actress Cynthia Nixon who has certainly proved there is life after her most famous role as Miranda Hobbs in Sex & The City for which she picked up her first Emmy Win and several Golden Globe Nominations. Nixon went on to win the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the original production of Rabbit Hole, a second Emmy Award in 2008 for her guest role in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2009 for An Inconvenient Truth. In 2011, she played Michele Davis in the TV film Too Big to Fail, before returning to Broadway in the 2012 play Wit.
Recent movies have included Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015), and James White (2015), The Adderall Diaries (2015). She also stars as Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies upcoming film A Quiet Passion and for which the U.K’s Guardian Newspaper says is ‘a superb performance’. The movie will be released in the US in the Fall.
Cynthia Nixon will take part in the filmmaker dialogue to be held on Saturday, June 18 at 5 pm at Provincetown’s Historic Town Hall.
Provincetown’s Leading (and only) Television Station P.T.V. will be covering the Film Festival in depth and will hopefully be bringing you exclusive interviews with both Honorees that week.
Meanwhile here is a sneak peak of Cynthia Nixon in A Quiet Passion.
Labels: 2016, culture, Provincetown Film Festival 2016
