Posted by Larry Gleeson
The 2022 San Luis Obispo Worldwide Movie Pageant
proclaims honorees and extra late-breaking information
(April 26-Might 1)
Dale Dickey can be this 12 months’s King Vidor Award honoree
and Michael Showalter will obtain the Highlight Award
Stacy Peralta’s The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez
would be the featured movie for this 12 months’s Surf Nite on the Drive-in
San Luis Obispo, CA (April 21, 2022) – The twenty eighth Annual San Luis Obispo Worldwide Movie Pageant (April 26-Might 1) introduced that Dale Dickey (A Love Track) will obtain the King Vidor Award at subsequent week’s movie competition and Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) can be this 12 months’s Highlight Award honoree. Stacy Peralta’s The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez was additionally introduced because the featured movie for this 12 months’s Surf Nite on the Drive-in.
San Luis Obispo Movie Pageant Director Skye McLennan stated, “We now have been thrilled to return to the SLO Movie Fest now we have all identified and beloved for thus lengthy and produce again traditions, beloved favorites inside our programming and occasions that this movie competition is understood for. The King Vidor Award, the Highlight Award, Surf Nite, moderated talks with Ben Mankiewicz, Jenelle Riley, and extra are the issues lovers of cinema on the Central Coast have sorely missed. I can converse for everybody right here after I say we’re counting every day till SLO Movie Fest opens subsequent week!”
Along with the movie competition’s return to in-person screenings at film theaters for the primary time in two years, this version of SLO Movie Fest may also embody the primary reside shows of the movie competition’s celebrated King Vidor and Highlight Awards throughout the Filmmaker Awards Evening on Saturday, April 30 on the Fremont Theater (1035 Monterey Avenue). A preferred spotlight of the movie competition, the shows may also characteristic the all the time entertaining moderated “Conversations on Movie” with Turner Traditional Motion pictures’ Ben Mankiewicz and Selection’s Jenelle Riley.
Receiving this 12 months’s King Vidor Award can be veteran character actor, Dale Dickey, who has obtained a lot consideration as one of many stars of Max Walker-Silverman’s romantic drama, A Love Track. Dickey, who has lengthy been thought to be one in every of movie and tv’s most prolific and critically esteemed supporting gamers, stars reverse Wes Studi, as a pair, childhood sweethearts a number of years in the past, who are actually each widowed. They meet up at a campsite and reconnect, sharing tales, recollections, and feelings throughout an evening by a lake within the mountains.
Considered one of Hollywood’s most coveted character actors, Dale Dickey cast a status for illuminating gritty, darkish, and oftentimes broken characters. Following impressed performances onstage, together with the Broadway manufacturing of “The Service provider of Venice” (1989) and the 2009 stage adaptation of “A Streetcar Named Need,” Dickey has put collectively an enviable checklist of performances collectively in movies like Sordid Lives (2000), Winter’s Bone (2010), Tremendous 8 (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), Hell or Excessive Water (2016), and Palm Springs (2020), and on numerous tv exhibits like The X-Information, True Blood, Breaking Dangerous, and My Identify is Earl. Her position in A Love Track is a well-deserved lead in a characteristic that has been critically acclaimed since its debut at Sundance earlier this 12 months.
Receiving the movie competition’s Highlight Award can be Michael Showalter, the prolific director, author, and producer who skillfully blends drama and comedy, telling distinctive and heartfelt tales with unconventional lead characters. Showalter most not too long ago directed The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which earned two Academy Awards together with Greatest Actress for Jessica Chastain and Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling. On the tv facet, Showalter additionally not too long ago directed, and govt produced the critically acclaimed miniseries The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried. Showalter’s different characteristic credit embody The Lovebirds, which he directed and produced, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae, and the critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated movie The Massive Sick, which he directed, and Hi there My Identify Is Doris, for which he additionally wrote and directed. He’s additionally the co-creator of the cult-comedy favourite Moist Sizzling American Summer season and the hit HBO Max unique sequence, Search Celebration, which simply premiered its fifth and ultimate season. Upcoming movies embody directing and producing Spoiler Alert, starring Sally Discipline and Jim Parsons, and govt producing I Love That for You, an upcoming sequence for Showtime, starring Molly Shannon and Vanessa Bayer.
SLO Movie Fest’s Surf Nite, it’s signature one-of-a-kind browsing movie occasion, will characteristic Stacy Peralta’s The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez. The documentary seems to be at one in every of browsing’s most enigmatic heroes. Famously referred to as “Mr. Pipeline” for his calm demeanor within the tube, Lopez constructed his profession with aggressive browsing that left behind a path of blood and tears. As radical as he’s Zen, Lopez transcends categorization. His affect on fashionable browsing is immeasurable and for the primary time, his story has been advised in full. Offered on Thursday, April 28, on the Sundown Drive-In for the second straight 12 months. Surf Nite will embody the standard look of some basic Sixties browsing autos so as to add to the environment of what could possibly be known as the “Rocky Horror Image Present” for the browsing movie lover. The night will embody the long-lasting automobiles and reside music from the Boomer Surf Band earlier than the characteristic presentation and the primary 100 folks to reach early will obtain a customized t-shirt from Cayucos Collective.
Together with the aforementioned honorees, this 12 months’s San Luis Obispo Worldwide Movie Pageant can have many filmmakers descending on the Central Coast from outdoors the state and different components of California to characterize their movies and take part in post-screening Q&As and extra. Amongst them are; Alastair Evans (DIR/PROD) A Crack within the Mountains; Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (DIR/PROD), Josh Beddingfield (Sound); Aguilas; Lorena Gordon (DIR) At Final; Sandra Chandler (DP) The Automat; Elaine Carmody (PROD), Jason Park (DIR/SCR) BJ’s Cell Reward Store; Robert Walker (PROD) Carry Them Dwelling; Mye Hoang (DIR), Dave Boyle (PROD/ED), Jeff Judkins (Topic) Cat Daddies; Ulysses Salcido (PROD/DP), Victor Villa (Topic) Échale Ganas: The Villa’s Tacos Story; Seanne Winslow (DIR/SCR/PROD) The Falconer; Geoff Pingree (PROD) Fireboys; Nicholas Weisman (PROD) Havana Libre; Justin Monroe (DIR/PROD) Holy Frit; Cheryl Bookout (DIR/SCR/PROD), Cheri Gaulke (DIR/SCR/PROD), Stacy Sweeting (PROD), Jeff Hafler (Topic) Contained in the Magnificence Bubble; CJ Russo (DIR/SCR/PROD), Chiah Rodriques (CAST) Girl Buds; Isabel Castro (DIR), Doris Munoz (Topic), Ruth Munoz (Topic) Mija; Afton Quast Saler (DIR), Jesse Saler (DP) Neurodivergent; PJ Palmer (DIR/SCR/PROD), Ryan Haffey (PROD), Emily Palmer (PROD), Caroline Metz (EXEC PROD), Zelda Hallman (EXEC PROD), Ernesto Lomeli (DP) North Star; Kanani Koster (DIR), Jasmine Karcey (DP), Janie Faison (Artwork Director) No Spectators Allowed; David Baram (DIR/SCR/PROD), Harry Baram (CAST) One All of the Approach; Nicholas P. Vilarreal (DIR), Alessandro Squitti (PROD) On/Off; James Becket (DIR) The Seeds of Vandana Shiva; Alison Wealthy (DIR/SCR/CAST) Coaching Wheels; Orion Huang (DIR) The Yellow Panther: The Lifetime of Richard Aoki.
(Press launch from John Wildman, Wildworks PR)
