Marking its 24th year, the Austin Film Festival closed Nov. 2 after screening more than 150 of this year’s buzziest films. The festival opened Oct. 26 with A24’s “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig’s critically acclaimed directorial debut which has been making its way around the festival circuit after premiering at the Telluride Festival back in September. Also opening this year’s festival was the Weinstein Company’s “The Current War,” which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival but has been pushed to an undecided 2018 release. Closing out Aff was another Oscar hopeful: the buzzy “I, Tonya” from distributor Neon; the Tonya Harding biopic also made its debut at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, where it was a runner-up for the People’s Choice award (losing out to another Aff feature, Fox Searchlight Pictures’ “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”). The writer of the film, Steven Rogers, attended the screening of the Craig Gillespie-directed film,...
- 11/6/2017
- backstage.com
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