This year’s 2015 Las Vegas Film Festival ran for six consecutive days
from August 11-16 in partnership with CineVegas and showcased a wide
variety of feature films,
shorts, foreign films, documentaries, world premieres, parties, mixers
and more.
CineVegas which returned after a six year hiatus, with three features and one short.
Including"Guiseppe Makes a Movie," "Jauja" and Bobcat Goldthwait's latest film,"Call Me Lucky."
Goldthwait's documentary "Call Me Lucky" follows the volatile but
brilliant comic Barry Crimmins and his experience with activism, comedy
and politics. The
documentary showcases his immense influence over renowned comedians, as
well as his turbulent, but inspiring life story.
"Giuseppe Makes A Movie" follows filmmaker/musician Giuseppe
Andrews as he captures the psychotic and intriguing characters that live
in his town of Ventura,
California. The documentary is a collection of experimental vignettes
Andrews culminated after staying in the trailer park where he grew up.
Lisandro Alonso's film "Jauja" serves as the only narrative
feature in the festival, and tells the story of an unattainable and
mythological land of abundance and
happiness. Viggo Mortensen stars as a father who travels with his
daughter to find the mythological land of Jauja.
Also added was Johnny Knoxville's produced Evel Knievel documentary “Being Evel “and directed by Daniel Junge.
“Being Evel,” from Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Junge
(“Saving Face,” “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”), traces
Knievel’s larger-than-life career,
from his early days as a tough kid growing up in Butte, Mont., to his
final years of illness and financial chaos. His life, says modern-day
daredevil Johnny Knoxville of “Jackass”
(who cites Knievel as a career inspiration and is a producer of the
film), was “fast, faster and disaster.”
The film gives the most emphasis to the late ’60s and early ’70s, when
Knievel made his name as a daredevil with a legendary failed leap over
the fountains at Caesars
Palace in Las Vegas (watching him rag-doll-flop onto the concrete is
cringe-making), and continued with a succession of much-hyped jumps,
ending with the debacle that
was his Snake River Canyon rocket blast in 1974.
One interesting feature included “Tangerine” which was entirely
shot on an iPhone in LA.
The movie is about two transgender prostitutes tracking down the
cheating boyfriend/pimp of one of the prostitutes to teach him and his
new lover a lesson.
Another funny feature included “Seoul Searching” directed by Benson Lee.
About a 1980's John Hughes inspired romantic teen comedy about a group
of Korean misfits
from around the world forced by their parents to attend a cultural
propaganda camp in Seoul resulting in the best summer of their lives.
