Red Rock Film Festival announces official selections
By Matt Marxteyn
The 13th annual Red Rock Film Festival announced its official selections for its competition categories including documentary feature, fiction feature, documentary featurette, fiction featurette, documentary short, fiction short, animation short, collegiate fiction short, young filmmaker short, music video, and experimental short. The 2019 Red Rock Film Festival will be held at the Dixie Center Auditorium in St. George Nov. 1, 2, 4, and 5 with special events Nov. 3 at the Hilton Garden Inn next door and at the smaller theater at the Cedar Theater in Cedar City Nov. 6–9.
The pre-selection committee was very selective this year. There were eight documentary featurettes (shorter features) selected, five documentary shorts, four fiction features, two fiction featurettes, just seven fiction shorts, five animation shorts, four young filmmaker shorts, five collegiate fiction shorts — plus experimental, music video, and short-shorts, which typically cross over into other genres.
Several films came from Utah or were filmed in Utah, such as two of the young filmmaker films —the experimental film “Sanguine” and documentary “I’m Human Too” — plus the documentary featurette “Ashes to Ashes, the motorbike racing documentary “Blenio, Utah,” and the U.S. premiere of the drama “Links of Life,” which was filmed in Canyonlands.
Other premieres include the U.S. Premiere of the comedy short “Heart Bomb,” the world premiere of the irreverently titled comedy documentary “Who Farted?” nine western states premieres including the closing documentary film “Sheep Hero,” five American Premieres such as featurette doc “In Your Eyes,” feature documentary “Who Made You?” from festival alum Iiris Harma, the North American premiere of Dylan and Lazlo Tonk’s documentary feature “Galore” (also festival alumni,, which plays with the international premiere of documentary featurette of “Village of the Missing,” plus several smaller premieres.
The festival hosts other events throughout the year such as the Summer Film Series and the Children in Crisis Conference.
Other “Red Grid” films will be announced later. Special passes are no longer available, but individual tickets are available at redrockfilmfestival.com.
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