{"id":159,"date":"2017-08-31T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/american-independent-ff\/primele-titluri-confirmate-les-films-de-cannes-a-bucarest-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T08:47:02","slug":"actor-ethan-hawke-special-guest-at-the-american-independent-film-festival-in-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/actor-ethan-hawke-special-guest-at-the-american-independent-film-festival-in-bucharest\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Ethan Hawke, special guest at the American Independent Film Festival in Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><ul>\n<li><strong>The hottest American <em>Indie<\/em>\u00a0titles of the year, to premiere in Romania between September 15 and 21, at the first edition of the festival <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four-time nominated at the Oscars, <strong>Ethan Hawke will be special guest of the American Independent Film Festival, to take place in Bucharest, between September 15 to 21 at Cinema PRO and Cinemateca Eforie. <\/strong>The actor will talk to the audience on September 21 at Cinema PRO at the end of the special screening of \u201cBefore the Devil Knows You\u2019re Dead,\u201d directed by Sydney Lumet, starring opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired from the tradition of great American narrative features, the American Independent Film Festival\u00a0presents a selection of the latest independent productions <em>made in USA<\/em>, critically acclaimed titles featured in major festivals. The screenings will be rounded-up by talks with special guests and a section dedicated to actor Ethan Hawke. <strong>Focus Ethan Hawke<\/strong> will bring for the first time on the Romanian screens two of the most recent films in Hawke\u2019s portfolio &#8211; \u201c<strong>Maudie<\/strong>\u201d, directed by Aisling Walsh, a love story based on a real story from the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, where Hawke stars opposite Sally Hawkins, and \u201c<strong>Born to Be Blue<\/strong>\u201d by Robert Budreau, on famous jazz musician Chet Baker. Richard Linklater\u2019s \u201c<strong>Boyhood<\/strong>\u201d (Golden Globe for Best Film, 2015) and \u201c<strong>Before Midnight<\/strong>\u201d, co-written by the director, Hawke and July Delpy and nominated at the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, will also be presented in the section. \u201c<strong>Before the Devil Knows You\u2019re Dead<\/strong>\u201d directed by Sidney Lumet, will close the festival on September 21 at Cinema PRO, followed by an open talk with the actor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethan Hawke<\/strong>\u00a0is a Tony\u00ae and four-time Oscar\u00ae nominated artist, whose multi-faceted career as an actor, filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist has spanned over thirty years. Hawke recently wrapped production on \u201cBlaze,\u201d a drama he co-wrote and directed about the life of musician Blaze Foley that reunites Hawke with \u201cBorn to be Blue\u201d producer Jake Seal, and long-time collaborator John Sloss (\u201cBoyhood\u201d) from Cinetic Media. \u00a0He will next be seen in Paul Schrader\u2019s timely political and environmental thriller, \u201cFirst Reformed\u201d opposite Amanda Seyfried. The film will premiere at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival and will also screen at TIFF.\u00a0Upcoming, Hawke is set to star in Robert Budreau\u2019s \u201cStockholm\u201d opposite Noomi Rapace and Mark Strong and he recently wrapped production on the romantic comedy \u201cJuliet, Naked\u201d based on the best-selling novel of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The program, events and all the news on the festival will be updated on the website and Facebook\u00a0page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanIFF\/?fref=ts\">American Independent Film Festival.<\/a>(@AmericanIFF)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets<\/strong> to the festival will be available for 15 lei on the<strong> Eventim network <\/strong>(shops Germanos, Carrefour, Orange Shop, Vodafone, Carturesti and Humanitas bookshops, OMV gas stations), Eventim offices (Bucharest: I.C.Bratianu Bd. 6, at the Cinema Pro venue and Cluj: Alexandru Vaida-Voevod 53B \u2013 Iulius Mall)\u00a0and online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventim.ro\/\">www.eventim.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Independent Film Festival<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is <strong>organized by<\/strong> the Cinemascop Association in partnership with the Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB, supported by Catena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the support of<\/strong>:\u00a0Embassy of the United States in Romania, American Chamber of Commerce in Romania\u00a0\u2013 AmCham Romania, TAP AIR Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official car:<\/strong>\u00a0BMW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners:<\/strong> OvidiuRo Association, CinemaPRO, National Film Archive \u2013 Cinemateca Rom\u00e2n\u0103 (ANF), RoImage, InterCom Film, Odeon Cineplex, Voodoo Films, Pro Video, Transilvania Film, Eventim, C\u0103rture\u015fti, Media Image Factory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seen by:\u00a0<\/strong>Radio Guerrilla.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media partners<\/strong>: Agerpres, Ziare.com, Zile si Nop\u021bi, Sensotv.ro Cinemagia, Cinefan, IQads, Ziarul Metropolis, PRWave, A List Magazine, Urban.ro, Avantaje, Inoras.ro, umblat.ro, AARC.ro, Liternet, Filme-Carti.ro, Scena9.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credits \u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Sam Jones<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmedefestival.ro\/american-independent-ff\/editia-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}