Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – Greek Americans are as woven into Charlotte’s fabric as the oak trees that line its streets. In a special presentation, The Fifth Annual Charlotte Film Festival is proud to present “Hometown Stories: The … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – Celebrating its partnership with filmmakers in Mecklenburg, Germany, The Fifth Annual Charlotte Film Festival presents “12 Paces Without a Head.” Set in the 14th Century, the film unravels the adventurous and bloodied story … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – Decades after thousands of Guatemalans disappeared into the abyss of civil war, thousands of families learn how they died in  “La Isla – Archives of a Tragedy” being presented at The Fifth Annual … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC –Who knew that taking a wholesome approach to ‘R’ rated films could pit Hollywood’s heavy hitters against a group of Mormons in Utah? The movie Cleanflix, directed by Andrew James and Joshua Ligairi, chronicles … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – Yael Hersonski’s powerful documentary, A Film Unfinished, captures remarkable insights to the World War II era by shedding light on a missing reel of film shot by Nazi’s in the Warsaw Ghetto. The … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – A pervasive pattern is sweeping across the elder generation of the LGBT community in what experts in the documentary film GenSilent call an epidemic of discrimination. Aging members of the LGBT community are … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – When world-renowned architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown discovered that their iconic beach house was scheduled for demolition last year, they launched an epic operation to preserve the home by transporting it … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – What happens when you mash together 300 volunteer zombies, a $10,000 budget and an “end of the world, romantic-zombie-action-musical” screenplay? The 2009 Australian indie film I am Bish, currently buzzing through the international … Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Charlotte, NC – The Fifth Annual Charlotte Film Festival is proud to present a collection of short films  by the Students, Faculty and Friends of Central Piedmont Community College’s Film & Video Program. The showcase event … Read More

CHARLOTTE, NC – Theatre #8 SOLD OUT this past Sunday, July 18th, as the Charlotte Film Festival presented its summer series with METROPOLIS, the classic silent film from 1927’s Berlin. The film, co-sponsored by The Charlotte Film Society and the … Read More