Sentences with phrase «park city festival»

The Sundance Film Festival has gone back to the drawing board for this weekend's Next Fest, the second time the Park City festival has taken its show on the road to Los Angeles.

«One of the great things about the Park City festival is its cross-pollination of the arts, so for this one we wanted to give it a musical component to make more noise,» said Groth.

Next Fest comes on the heels of Sundance's recent announcement that it will expand its operations to Hong Kong, where it plans to screen eight films from this year's Park City festival over two weeks in September.

Our annual Sundance Curiosities column takes a look at various movies and filmmakers from the upcoming Park City festival worthy of anticipation.

Not exact matches

Speaking at OZY Media's annual arts and innovation festival in New York City's Central Park over the weekend, Wharton professor Adam Grant and author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek, discussed a future shift to an employee - minded business model that emphasizes workplace culture.

In the past, the city has created legal gridlocks to prevent new restaurants from obtaining liquor licenses and imposed heavy fees on free, acoustic music festivals in the parks.

The grilling festival took place on the Percorso Verde di Pian di Massiano, a park with lots of sports activities and only 10 minutes driving distance from the city.

NOLA On Tap (September 24)-- The largest beer festival in the region, this one - day - only event welcomes more than 25,000 brew - lovers and their dogs to New Orleans City Park to kick off Oktoberfest in New Orleans and benefit the Louisiana SPCA.

The festival takes place at Creek Ridge County Park, 7943 W. 400 North, Michigan City (2 miles east of U.S. 421).

Park advocates have long complained that Taste of Chicago crowds damage trees, bushes and grass and have urged city officials to move the festival elsewhere in Grant Park or out of the park altogetPark advocates have long complained that Taste of Chicago crowds damage trees, bushes and grass and have urged city officials to move the festival elsewhere in Grant Park or out of the park altogetPark or out of the park altogetpark altogether.

Let the festival contract for the site with the Park District and pay its amusement tax to the city, and let the Park District decide where the money is needed most.

Spurred by her own concerns as well as complaints from Grant Park patrons about the traffic noise, Catherine Cahill, festival director of concert programs, has secured a city permit allowing the Park District to close off heavily traveled Jackson Street between Columbus and Lake Shore on concert nights through July.

C3's current deal with the city called for a minimum of $ 950,000 from each festival for park improvements, Mitchell said, but attendance helped nearly double that figure and prompted the new deal.

Surfacing only days after a rally for President - elect Barack Obama was broadcast around the world and showcased Grant Park's spectacular lakefront setting, the new deal with promoter C3 Presents would extend a current five - year contract and ensure the festival as an annual presence through a potential 2016 Summer Olympics date in the city.

Investigators are looking into whether the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, scoped out bigger music festivals in the city and Chicago — and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.

BP Katz: «Fair to All Applicants, Allows City to Establish Official Policy, Criteria and Process for Community Input» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation's denial of all current applications by for - profit companies to hold paid - admission music festivals -LSB-...]

This year the festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of the official designation of Flushing Meadows Corona Park as a New York City Park.

The ban would limit smoking in any areas the city parks department manages, so that includes parks where little league games are played, but also the site of many of the festivals that take place in the city, such as Clinton Square, Cathedral Circle, Hanover Square.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation's denial of all current applications by for - profit companies to hold paid - admission music festivals this summer in Flushing Meadows - Corona Park:

Our SummerStage festival removes the barriers to culture, bringing world - class artists, topical and popular, to neighborhood parks like Flushing Meadows Corona Park, free of charge,» said HEATHER LUBOV, Executive Director of City Parks Foundaparks like Flushing Meadows Corona Park, free of charge,» said HEATHER LUBOV, Executive Director of City Parks FoundaParks Foundation.

His snapchats have me reminiscing hard about the beauty of Park City and all the fun the film festival was.

If you walk up and down the sidewalks of Park City, Utah during the Sundance film festival, you'll see puffers, vintage fur (hopefully faux) and a bevy of weather proof boots.

As we entered the city of Brookhaven, we started to see a ton of free parking lots designated for the festival that had shuttles running back and...

Some of my other favorites are listening to live music in City Market downtown, going to Sand Gnats games (the local minor league baseball team), and attending festivals and events in Forsyth Park.

With all the parks, venues, stadiums, and concert halls, the city never runs out of reasons or places to hold a festival.

As they arrive in Park City today, no one was willing to predict if this would be a festival teeming with deals, or one where all but a few films take weeks to sell.

His involvement had begun to attract interest in Hollywood, and things really took off after Redford's friend the late Sydney Pollack suggested they move the festival to the ski resort of Park City in order to make it seem unique.

On a cold and snowy night at this year's Sundance festival, I left a screening that wasn't working for me and jumped on the shuttle bus — to the Park City Library, I thought, but it went instead to the Yarrow Inn, where a press screening of «Me and You and Everyone We Know» was starting in 15 minutes and so, what the heck, I walked in to it, and was rewarded with my favorite feature from the festival.

The festival takes place from January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Utah.

The Hong Kong and London festivals are in addition to Sundance's flagship festival in Park City, and its annual NEXT Fest in Los Angeles.

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival may be months away from kicking off in snowy Park City, Utah, but the annual festival has begun rolling out its various lineups, including today's announcement of its competition sections — including U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Documentary offerings — along with its out of competition NEXT lineup.

Made in Milwaukee celebrates its 10th event showcasing the city's treasures with its biggest gathering yet, a free daylong festival in Cathedral Square Park that begins with the East Town Farmers» Market in the morning and ends with an 8:30 more

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Sundance Film Festival Park City Utah - Day 7 Only at a film festival can you have one of your best experiences watching 12 year - old children, and younger, in prison.

Though its summer release date is pretty ballsy for a movie that would have benefited from an early fall awards push, the studio's confidence in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» is not only encouraging, but suggests that the rave reviews coming out of Park City wasn't just the usual film festival hyperbole.

But after premiering a short at the festival last year, and directing two episodes of the excellent «Children's Hospital,» she's back in Park City for her feature debut, which delves into the competitive world of voiceover artists.

The festival takes place January 21st — 31st in Park City, Utah.

Now, after a false start or two (he was working on a script called «A Topiary» for a while), Carruth is back in Park City, and it's one of the most anticipated film of the festival.

One of the great things about the festival and its place in the calendar is the way that it introduces a host of new names (and gives a leg - up to some established ones) at the start of the new year; actors, writers and directors who, having impressed in Park City, will go on to big things throughout the rest of 2013.

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The seismic shifts in Hollywood have rippled over to Park City, Utah, for the Sundance film festival.

Last year it was announced that the Sundance Film Festival would take the hustle and bustle of their annual Park City, Utah invasion all the way overseas to London for a four - day multi-disciplinary arts festival that will include film screenings, music, discussions, panels and more.

Today, the festival has announced a slew of films that will be screening next month in Park City in the Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, and New Frontier categories.

In the middle of the festival, the 2018 Oscar nominations were announced and landed in Park City like a blueprint to the immediate future, with classical dramas by Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan competing against low - budget, first - time directors Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele.

Actor Shailene Woodley is photographed for Rolling Stone at the Sundance film festival on January 23, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

«The Miseducation of Cameron Post» was awarded the highest honor by the Park City, Utah festival in the U.S. dramatic competition: The Grand Jury Prize.

Free screenings • The festival has scheduled six late - night screenings — four at the Park Avenue, two at the Tower Theatre in Salt Lake City — that will be free to the public.

Model and actor Dree Hemingway is photographed for Rolling Stone Italy at the Sundance film festival on January 21, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

Actor Elle Fanning is photographed for Rolling Stone at the Sundance film festival on January 25, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

And while there's another 500 - seat theater in Park City, Keri Putnam, Sundance Institute's executive director, stressed that «we haven't expanded the number of films in the festival.