Al Pacino returns to the Lee Strasberg Theater & Movie Institute as a senior juror for the Lee Strasberg Movie Competition (LSFF) this November.
Pacino, who studied technique appearing below Strasberg, will lead a jury of actors and filmmakers, evaluating unbiased movies and performances for the tenth version of the pageant. Additionally on the jury are Henri Esteve, Hayley Orrantia, Wade Allain-Marcus, Hyejin “Grace” Park and Brittany Alexia Younger.
Competition director David Lee Strasberg, whose household shares a decades-long relationship with Pacino, mentioned: “My mom and father [Lee and Anna Strasberg] believed it was extraordinarily vital to convey artists collectively in a collaborative artistic group. This 12 months’s jury displays my mother and father’ imaginative and prescient with a unprecedented vary of voices, from icons like Al [Pacino] who’ve offered a lot assist to our group, to the proficient former working actors, to the daring unbiased filmmakers who’re simply starting to make their mark on fashionable cinema.
The tenth Lee Strasberg Movie Competition takes place November 13-15 on the Lee Strasberg Theater & Movie Institute in Los Angeles and concludes with an awards ceremony on the Marilyn Monroe Theater. The LSFF will award classes corresponding to Greatest Quick Movie and Greatest Screenplay, and a number of other appearing honors will even be awarded.
Monday July 13
Vashon Island Movie Competition broadcasts 2026 pageant lineup
Vashon Movie Institute, the nonprofit group devoted to selling unbiased cinema within the Pacific Northwest, has introduced the lineup for its fifth annual Vashon Island Movie Competition.
VIFF 2026 will happen August 13-16 on the Vashon Theater. Eight characteristic movies and 17 quick movies from the present pageant circuit shall be screened, alongside three particular shows, seven Native Spotlights and the shortCUTZ native quick movie competitors.
This 12 months’s characteristic movie competitors will display screen 5 narrative movies and three documentary movies. The characteristic movies are “Grownup Youngsters” by Wealthy Newey and Annika Marks, “Crooks” by Mickey Keating, “Maintain On to Me” by Myrsini Aristidou, “Labrador – Post-mortem of Silence” by Rodrigue Jean, “Silent Insurrection” by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo and Nadine Lamari, “Aanikoobijigan” by Adam and Zack Khalil. [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]“Everyone to Kenmure Avenue” by Felipe Bustos Sierra and “The Life We Depart” by JJ Gerber.
Narrative quick movies in competitors embrace “A Shot at Artwork” by Ilke Paddenburg, “Balloon Animals” by Anna Baumgarten, “Jazz Infernal” by Willa Niava and Kristelle Laroche, “The Man That I Wave At” by Ben S. Hyland, “So, Growth” by Abby Pierce and Tiny Cruz and “We Had been Right here” by Pranav Bhasin.
Documentary shorts in competitors embrace “The Boys and the Bees” by Arielle Knight, “Pay attention” by Taliesin Black-Brown, “Luigi” by Liza Mandelup, “Panther Pat” by Ashley Brandon and “Nonetheless Standing” by Livia Albeck-Ripka and Víctor Tadashi Suárez.
The animated quick movies in competitors embrace “Busy Our bodies” by Kate Renshaw-Lewis, Celia Alcina Matesanz, Fuxuan Deng, Pontheera Nimmanakiat, Ané Quintana and “The Well-known Final Present” by Hongru Su, “Hag” by Anna Ginsburg and Miranda Latimer, “Les Vieux” by Boris Boidron, Lucile Brunet and Lauren Félines, “Dwelling with a Visionary” by Stephen P. Neary and Daniel Neiden and Edward. “Whale 52 – Suite for Man, Boy and Whale” by Jordan.
VIFF will display screen three particular shows, together with Matt Johnson’s narrative characteristic “Tony,” Ben McKenzie’s feature-length documentary “Everyone Lies to You for Cash” and the primary episode of Chris Smith’s documentary sequence “Convey Me the Beauties: A Mannequin Cult.”
Three characteristic movies and 4 Native Spotlights quick movies shall be screened on the pageant. Characteristic movies embrace “Dad Genes” by Craig Downing and Matt Isaac, “Radioheart: The Drive and Occasions of DJ Kevin Cole” by Andrew Franks and Peter Hilgendorf and “Theater is Useless” by Katherine Dudas, Olivia Blue, Madison Lawlor and Decker Sadowski. Quick movies embrace “36 Questions” by Chiara Motley and Rachel Noll James, “Lengthy Time, No See” by Donald Saunderson, “Scout’s Honor” by Isabel Pask and Sam Paley and “Who Are You, Nanu?” » by Anjini Taneja Azhar.
Native quick movie competitors shortCUTZ, in partnership with C’Mon Barber, will display screen movies shot totally on Vashon Island or by present and former residents. Registrations are open till Friday July 24. The official choices will compete for the Mickey’s Chair Award, chosen by the general public.