This year’s edition of the Provincetown International Film Festival will present the Next Wave Award to Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder. The honor recognizes those who have exciting and distinctive voices, take artistic risks and have a passionate commitment to independent film.
Schoenbrun and Einbinder will receive the award on June 12 at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, Mass. “Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder remind us that fearless storytelling and honest artistry can reshape culture,” said festival executive director Anne Hubbell. “Bold, original and challenging, they represent the future of film.”
The duo will be in town to present their new film “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” which screens June 11 following its world premiere as the opening film in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival. Starring Gillian Anderson, Einbinder, Eva Victor, Sarah Sherman and Jack Haven, the movie follows filmmaker Kris (Einbinder) who has been tasked with directing a reboot of the popular “Camp Miasma” horror films, a fictional slasher franchise inspired by the hyper-sexualized — and often transphobic — horror films of Schoenbrun’s youth. Mubi will release the film on Aug. 7.
PIFF also announced that writer and director Matt Johnson and actor Dominic Sessa will be in conversation June 12 to introduce “Tony,” which chronicles a pivotal Provincetown summer that changed the course of Anthony Bourdain’s life. Set during the summer of 1975, Sessa stars as a 19-year-old Bourdain who travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen.
Actor Marco Calvani returns to the festival on June 14 for a conversation following a screening of an episode from Season 2 of the Netflix series “The Four Seasons.”
The Provincetown International Film Festival runs June 10–14.
Source: variety.com
