Unofficially presided over by the town's trashy fairy godmother, John Waters, this year's Provincetown International Film Festival will honor out actress Cynthia Nixon, director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), producer Effie T. Brown, and will feature an array of films to pique the interest of any queer cinephile.
Ang Lee (below, center), a two-time Academy Award-winning director (Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain), will accept the 2016 Filmmaker on the Edge Award in conversation with Waters on Saturday, June 18, at Provincetown's historic Town Hall. Lee's filmography also includes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sense And Sensibility. He is currently in post-production on his next feature, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
The festival will honor stage, film, and TV actor Cynthia Nixon (below, left) with the 2016 Excellence in Acting Award as well. Nixon began her at age 12 in the feature film Little Darlings and made her Broadway debut in The Philadelphia Story for which she won a Theatre World Award. On television, she received critical praise and her first Emmy in the role of Miranda Hobbes on HBO's hit series Sex and the City, which also earned her multiple Golden Globe nominations. She went on to co-star in the two wildly successful Sex and the City films. Nixon can currently be seen in Pamela Romanowsky's film The Adderall Diaries and later this year in Terence Davies' biopic A Quiet Passion as reclusive poet Emily Dickinson. On Stage, Nixon has won a Tony Award for Rabbit Hole and earned two Tony nominations for Indiscretions and Wit. Nixon will appear in conversation on Saturday, June 18 at 5 p.m. at Provincetown's Historic Town Hall.
Prolific filmmaker Effie T. Brown (Dear White People, In the Cut, and But I'm A Cheerleader) will host the third annual Evan Lawson Filmmaker's Brunch on Sunday, June 19 at 11 a.m. Brown (below, right), who is currently a producer and mentor on HBO's Project Greenlight will deliver the keynote address as this event.
Though the festival is not a nominally queer film festival, the slate of films always tilts heavily to the LGBT-friendly. This year's fest continues that tradition. The LGBT-interest films in the lineup include:
CLOSING NIGHT
STRIKE A POSE - directed by Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan (Sunday, June 19) *Special guests attending
SPOTLIGHT SELECTIONS
POLITICAL ANIMALS - directed by Jonah Markowitz and Tracy Wares (Thursday, June 16) *Jonah Markowitz and Tracy Wares attending
NARRATIVE FEATURES
AWOL - directed by Deb Shoval
BEING 17 - directed by Andre Techine
LAZY EYE - directed by Tim Kirkman
MILES - directed by Nathan Adloff
OTHER PEOPLE - directed by Chris Kelly
THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER - directed by Lars Kraume
SPA NIGHT - directed by Andrew Ahn
SUMMERTIME - directed by Catherine Corsini
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY - directed by Jeff Feuerzeig
CHECK IT - directed by Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer
THE GUYS NEXT DOOR - directed by Amy Geller and Allie Humenuk
JEWEL'S CATCH ONE - directed by C. Fitz
SUITED - directed by Jason Benjamin
THE TRANS LIST - directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
UNCLE HOWARD - directed by Aaron Brookner
Festival passes are now on sale. Tickets go on sale to the public on May 23. For more information, visit PTownFilmFest.org
