Multi-hyphenate filmmaker Jay Duplass has been named because the recipient of this yr’s Highlight Award on the thirty first Annual San Luis Obispo Worldwide Movie Competition (SLOIFF.) Duplass will attend the occasion with a screening of his new movie, “The Baltimorons,” adopted by a Q&A on Sunday, April 27. The pageant runs this yr from April 24-29 in San Luis Obispo, the coastal group positioned halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Duplass is well-known on the impartial movie circuit for his work and his collaborations with brother Mark Duplass on such movies as “The Puffy Chair” and “Cyrus” and for creating such TV exhibits as “Togetherness” and “Room 104.” Lately, Duplass has additionally carved out a formidable appearing profession with roles on the Emmy-award successful sequence “Clear” and “Business” and movies like “Outdoors In” and “Beatriz at Dinner.”
Skye McLennan, government director of SLOIFF, says, “Personally, I’ve been an enormous fan of the Duplass Brothers’ work, and so they have been a major inspiration for a lot of impartial filmmakers and movie festivals.” Duplass serves as writer-director on “The Baltimorons,” which marks his first characteristic as director since 2012. The movie focuses on a mismatched couple, performed by Liz Larsen and co-writer Michael Strassner at Christmastime. It premiered at this yr’s SXSW Movie Competition to a heat evaluation from Selection critic Stephen Saito, who referred to as it “one thing to have fun.”
McLennan calls the movie “a fantastically crafted piece that serves as a reminder that, regardless of the funds, when you have a superb story to inform, that’s what shines by way of. We’re privileged to showcase this movie and honor Jay Duplass for his unbelievable achievements and for championing the spirit of impartial movie.”
Over its six days, the pageant will current over 113 movies and such particular occasions as a Surf Nite and Neighborhood of Skate. There can even be a program curated by The Coastal Awakening that can have fun filmmaker David Lynch and his ardour for meditation.
The pageant will open with the comedy “DJ Ahmet,” which acquired the Viewers Award at this yr’s Sundance Movie Competition, and shut with “Coastal,” a documentary about Neil Younger’s tour directed by Daryl Hannah.
Passes and pageant data might be discovered at https://slofilmfest.org.
Jay Duplass (second from left) on the set of “The Baltimorons.”
