Festival to open with Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen crowd-pleasing romantic comedy ETERNITY and close with Oscar Best Picture frontrunner HAMNET, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, to serve as Centerpiece Film
Special work in-progress screening of film about celebrated local artist, Eric Anfinson
The 14th...
LEGENDARY COMEDIAN AND PERFORMER BILLY CONNOLLY TO RECEIVE GOLDEN KEY AWARD FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE TIED TO 20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF “THE ARISTOCRATS.”
TENTH ANNUAL GOLDEN KEY FOR COSTUME DESIGN HONORS AWARD-WINNING COSTUME DESIGNER DEBORAH L. SCOTT
2025 FESTIVAL RUNS NOVEMBER 12th -16th
The Key West Film Festival announced today the recipients of its Golden Key Award...
They Shot The Piano Player
Reposted by Robin Menken
Bossa Nova is making a comeback-filmically.First there was Roberto de Oliveira’s “Elis and Tom”, a documentary from remastered footage of a legendary recording session in LA in 1974: then Dandara Ferreira & Lô Politi bio pic about Gal Costa "Meu Nome e Gal"- a look at Gal Costa's career as part of Tropicalia's political resistance to...
In its 20th edition, Forum Expanded brings together 24 works from 21 countries. Employing practices that span installation, film, video and sculpture, the selected artists and filmmakers employ translucence as a means of engaging with the cataclysmic realities of the present. Whether dealing with personal or collective histories, ongoing wars, extractivism, legacies of colonialism or...
Ice 3, Review: Russian film festival’s six-pack of ice
While Mumbaikars were still mulling to dig into their winter-wardrobe, the Russian Film Festival laid out the white carpet, with huge sheets of ice several kilometres long, for the film was set in the freezing north. Mumbai’s winter would make us blush when compared to North Russia, where the temperatures can be much lower 0...
Saturday night Key West Film Festival celebrated our filmmakers and special guests in a joyful Awards Ceremony at The Studios of Key West. Thanks to Matt Hauser for hosting the evening, and congratulations to the KWFF 2024 Golden Key and Golden Conch Award Winners!
GOLDEN KEY AWARDS
Excellence in Costume Design - Danny Glicker
Emerging Talent - Delaney Buffett
GOLDEN CONCH...
Riding the wave of being named to both MovieMaker Magazine’s esteemed “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” and “Top 20 Destination Film Festivals in the World,” The Key West Film Festival has assembled a revered group of industry leaders and artists to judge the 13th edition of the festival, which is set for November 13-17 in the Sunshine State. The collective includes Dungeons...
The Key West Film Festival announced today the recipient of its ninth annual Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design, honoring Academy Award-nominated costume designer Danny Glicker.
As part of the honor, Glicker will participate in a discussion of his work, to be moderated by Stephanie Zacharek of Time. Mr. Glicker will accept his award in person at the festival, which will...
Animales del desierto, by Santiago Loza; Crocodilla / She, Crocodile, by Gabriela Amaral Almeida; El espíritu de la ley / The Spirit of Law, by Natalia Meta; La escuela pesada / Hard-Boiled School, by Hernán Rosselli; La levedad de ella / Her Lightness, by Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo; La mujer extraña / The Strange Woman, by Martín Boulocq; Los dos paisajes, by...
By Bailey Pennick
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent filmmaking. While we can learn a lot about the filmmakers from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival through the art that these storytellers share with us, there’s always more we can learn about them as people. This year, we...