By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: While it doesn’t quite have the stature of such festivals as Toronto, Venice, or Telluride, the annual Savannah Film Festival held in gorgeous Savannah, Georgia still manages to attract awards-season contenders and high-profile stars.
This year, lucky No. 13 for the fall festival, Liam Neeson, Sir Ian McKellen and Isabella Rossellini will be honored with specific awards, while coveted titles like “127 Hours” and “Black Swan” will screen.
McKellen will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of this year’s event. Neeson and Rossellini will receive Achievement in Cinema awards. But they are not the only names expected to be in attendance. Academy Award-nominated actress Virginia Madsen (“Sideways”) will present the documentary “I Know a Woman Like That,” directed by her mother Elaine Madsen, who will also be in attendance. Ed Burns will show his latest film, “Nice Guy Johnny.” Writer/director Neil Labute will participate in a workshop.
Hollywoodnews.com: While it doesn’t quite have the stature of such festivals as Toronto, Venice, or Telluride, the annual Savannah Film Festival held in gorgeous Savannah, Georgia still manages to attract awards-season contenders and high-profile stars.
This year, lucky No. 13 for the fall festival, Liam Neeson, Sir Ian McKellen and Isabella Rossellini will be honored with specific awards, while coveted titles like “127 Hours” and “Black Swan” will screen.
McKellen will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of this year’s event. Neeson and Rossellini will receive Achievement in Cinema awards. But they are not the only names expected to be in attendance. Academy Award-nominated actress Virginia Madsen (“Sideways”) will present the documentary “I Know a Woman Like That,” directed by her mother Elaine Madsen, who will also be in attendance. Ed Burns will show his latest film, “Nice Guy Johnny.” Writer/director Neil Labute will participate in a workshop.
- 9/30/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Chicago – This three-image slideshow contains our red-carpet photography for the Chicago premiere of the documentary “I Know a Woman Like That” as part of the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival.
“I Know a Woman Like That” stars the Oscar-nominated Virginia Madsen. The film is produced by Virginia Madsen, Elaine Madsen and Karly Meola and directed by Elaine Madsen (Virginia Madsen’s mother). Virginia Madsen has been featured in “The Haunting in Connecticut,” “Diminished Capacity,” “The Number 23,” “The Astronaut Farmer,” “Sideways” and more.
You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto and HollywoodChicago.com. All rights reserved.
virginiamadsen1: Chicago actress and producer Virginia Madsen smiles for the HollywoodChicago.com camera following the Chicago International Film Festival premiere and audience Q&A of the documentary “I Know A Woman Like That...
“I Know a Woman Like That” stars the Oscar-nominated Virginia Madsen. The film is produced by Virginia Madsen, Elaine Madsen and Karly Meola and directed by Elaine Madsen (Virginia Madsen’s mother). Virginia Madsen has been featured in “The Haunting in Connecticut,” “Diminished Capacity,” “The Number 23,” “The Astronaut Farmer,” “Sideways” and more.
You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto and HollywoodChicago.com. All rights reserved.
virginiamadsen1: Chicago actress and producer Virginia Madsen smiles for the HollywoodChicago.com camera following the Chicago International Film Festival premiere and audience Q&A of the documentary “I Know A Woman Like That...
- 10/14/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
- In 2004, Virginia Madsen's career was flipped 'Sideways' and has been headed in a pretty good direction ever since. The Oscar-nominated role marked a move for the actress from heroines in telefilms to leading ladies opposite some of Hollywood's most respected actors. Projects that followed include Firewall opposite Harrison Ford, A Prairie Home Companion, The Astronaut Farmer with Billy Bob Thorton and The Number 23 opposite Jim Carrey. Madsen also recently starred in the short Cutlass alongside Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell, which marked Kate Hudson's directorial premier. Variety reports that the blonde beauty has signed on to co-star in Amelia, the Amelia Earhart biopic directed by Mira Nair and starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. Swank, who is also exec producing, will be flying high as the aviatress herself, with Gere as her publisher-promoter husband George Putnam. Madsen will be playing Putnam's first wife, Dorothy Binney.
- 4/22/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Virginia Madsen is stepping behind the camera and forming a production company with partner Karly Meola called Title IX Prods.
Madsen and Meola have been working for the past two years on a slate of films and documentaries for the shingle.
Title IX's first project is the fully financed documentary I Know a Woman Like That, directed by Madsen's mother, Elaine Madsen, about the lives of extraordinary women ages 64-94.
The duo also has several projects in development that they're ready to shop around for financing, including screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez's screen adaptation of Martha O'Connor's novel The Bitch Posse and a remake of the 1984 film Electric Dreams, in which Madsen appeared.
But the actress said they're not setting up the company for vanity projects.
"My intent is to make other people's films, not films that I necessarily star in," said Madsen, who was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for 2004's Sideways. "There is one I'm looking at where I will have a supporting role, and it will help the movie get off the ground, but my main interest is not projects that star me."
Meola said their slate is a "good mixture" of films that could be indie-based or studio projects.
Madsen and Meola have been working for the past two years on a slate of films and documentaries for the shingle.
Title IX's first project is the fully financed documentary I Know a Woman Like That, directed by Madsen's mother, Elaine Madsen, about the lives of extraordinary women ages 64-94.
The duo also has several projects in development that they're ready to shop around for financing, including screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez's screen adaptation of Martha O'Connor's novel The Bitch Posse and a remake of the 1984 film Electric Dreams, in which Madsen appeared.
But the actress said they're not setting up the company for vanity projects.
"My intent is to make other people's films, not films that I necessarily star in," said Madsen, who was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for 2004's Sideways. "There is one I'm looking at where I will have a supporting role, and it will help the movie get off the ground, but my main interest is not projects that star me."
Meola said their slate is a "good mixture" of films that could be indie-based or studio projects.
- 3/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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