San Antonio Rolls Out the Crimson Carpet because the San Antonio Movie Competition (SAFILM) returns subsequent week, August 1-Sixth, with over 200 movies slated to display amongst three completely different metropolis areas: Tobin Heart for Performing Arts, Radius Heart and Palladium Santikos Theater.
The competition kicks off Tuesday, August 1st for Opening Evening with the Texas premiere of the comedy THE ADULTS, directed by Dustin Man Defa, starring Michael Cera (Arrested Growth, Particular person to Particular person), Hannah Gross (Infinite Summer season, Joker), and Sophia Lillis (Dungeons And Dragons, IT). Following the screening on the Santikos Palladium will likely be a particular Opening Evening afterparty on the Paper Tiger with a live performance by Right here’s to Now band, debuting their music video Management at SAFILM, government produced by San Antonio native and actor/producer/director Kevin Alejandro.
SAFILM is proud to be partnered with the Metropolis of San Antonio’s World Heritage Workplace, UNESCO Inventive Metropolis of Gastronomy with the Meals Movie Competition programming 5 implausible movies that commemorate the culinary arts. The meals movies will display all through the competition week and embody: The Finest Pizza within the World, Les Dames d’Escoffier, Convection, Terroir to Desk, Love Me Tenderizer.
In 2017, the Metropolis of San Antonio was designated as a Inventive Metropolis of Gastronomy by the United Nations Instructional, Scientific, and Cultural Group (UNESCO), turning into the 2nd metropolis in the US to obtain this designation. In 2019 SAFILM partnered with the World Heritage Workplace who manages the designation within the creation of its Meals Movie Competition occasion. We rekindled that partnership in 2022, 2023 showcasing a number of native cooks and their meals for audiences that mirrored the cuisines, themes, and edible components from movies within the Meals Movie Competition class. This activation fulfills a promise the Metropolis of San Antonio made in its profitable bid to be designated a UNESCO Inventive Metropolis of Gastronomy and can also be sanctioned as a UNESCO Inventive Metropolis of Gastronomy occasion.
With a lot anticipation, SAFILM is bringing again the beloved eighth Annual San Antonio Youngsters’s Movie Competition on Friday morning, August 4th from 10am-12pm with award-winning movies specifically curated for the youngsters. SAFILM Children Fest will likely be held at Radius Heart with complimentary film treats for the younger movie goers.
Saturday evening’s function movie: #BUTGOD tells the inspiration story of Caleb Freeman and his 10 % probability of survival after a devastating automotive accident and the miraculous #BUTGOD motion that adopted. Each Caleb and Producer Kevin McAfee will likely be in attendance for the 7pm screening on the Carlos Alvarez Theater on the Tobin Heart, with an encore screening, Sunday at 3pm.
Academy Award Successful Editor: Paul Hirsch (Star Wars, Mission Unattainable, Carrie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Footloose, The Mummy, Planes Trains & Cars) and writer of A Lengthy Time In the past in a Chopping Room Far, Far Away, discusses the facility of movie enhancing, moderated by SAFILM Founder & Govt Director Adam Rocha FREE to the general public on Saturday, Aug 5, 12:30PM-2:30PM.
Tickets Now Out there. Get a Badge to obtain all-access to screenings, red-carpet occasions and a standing invitation to nightly filmmaker mixers on the Radius Heart from 5-7pm. VIP Passes are $149, Weekend Passes $99, and Day Passes $59.99 – obtainable at www.TobinCenter.org. Particular person film tickets are $8.99 matinee and $14.99 night movies. For full schedule and to buy tickets: www.safilm.com.
