Scenes from the 42nd Mill Valley Film Festival. Photos by Kirk Wrench.
The 42nd Mill Valley Film Festival concluded October 13 on the heels of screenings of 111 feature films and 98 shorts, including 13 world premieres, 10 North American premieres and 10 U.S. premieres – and appearances from a constellations of stars, including Jamie Foxx, Olivia Wilde, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Alfre Woodard and, on the Closing Night, Edward Norton and James Mangold, the directors of Motherless Brooklyn and Ford v. Ferrari, respectively.
MVFF42 organizers said Tuesday that it drew more than 75,000 attendees to the 11-day event, and that the Overall Audience Award went to Opening Night film Just Mercy, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award® winner Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Rob Morgan and Karan Kendrick. The 136-minute film, which opens Dec. 25, tells the story of African American Walter McMillian (played by Foxx), who was sentenced to death for killing a white woman in 1988. A real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch in the form of recent Harvard Law grad Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) challenged a corrupt, racist system to free an innocent man.
Full List of the other MVFF2019 Audience Award Winners:
MVFF42 organizers said Tuesday that it drew more than 75,000 attendees to the 11-day event, and that the Overall Audience Award went to Opening Night film Just Mercy, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award® winner Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Rob Morgan and Karan Kendrick. The 136-minute film, which opens Dec. 25, tells the story of African American Walter McMillian (played by Foxx), who was sentenced to death for killing a white woman in 1988. A real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch in the form of recent Harvard Law grad Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) challenged a corrupt, racist system to free an innocent man.
Full List of the other MVFF2019 Audience Award Winners:
| FAMILY FILMS Audience Favorite – Family Films TEAM MARCO Julio Vincent Gambuto ACTIVE CINEMA Audience Favorite – Active Cinema THE STORY OF PLASTIC Deia Schlosberg MIND THE GAP Audience Favorite – Mind the Gap US Cinema HARRIET Kasi Lemmons Audience Favorite – Mind the Gap World Cinema 37 SECONDS HIKARI ¡VIVA EL CINE! Audience Favorite – Viva el Cine MARIGHELLA Wagner Moura | US CINEMA Audience Favorite - US Cinema THE TWO POPES Fernando Meirelles Audience Favorite - US Cinema Indie BLACKBIRD Roger Michell WORLD CINEMA Audience Favorite - World Cinema PAIN AND GLORY Pedro Almodóvar Audience Favorite - World Cinema Indie A GIRL FROM MOGADISHU Mary McGuckian VALLEY OF THE DOCS Audience Favorite - Valley of the Docs THE GREAT 14TH: TENZIN GYATSO, THE 14TH DALAI LAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS Rosemary Rawcliffe |
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