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The 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival

By Greer Wylder

October 12, 2022

The 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival will host world premieres, awards contenders, nightly special events, and compelling conversations with filmmakers. This year’s highlights include the Opening Night film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and the Closing Night film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Centerpiece films will also include All Quiet on the Western Front, Argentina 1985, Armageddon Time, Bardo, The Banshees of Inisherin, Broker, Corsage, Devotion, Empire of Light, The Good Nurse, Joyride, The Lost King, My Policeman, Mothering Sunday, She Said, Taurus, White Noise and Women Talking. The Festival Honors event will also recognize Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch: Kerry Condon (The Banshees of…

Newport Beach Film Festival 2022 Festival Honors

By Greer Wylder

October 12, 2022

The 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its 2022 Festival Honors, to take place on Sunday, October 16 at Balboa Bay Resort in conjunction with Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch. This year’s honorees attending the Festival Honors event include Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Ron Howard (Thirteen Lives) who will receive the Variety Legend and Groundbreaker Award for his outstanding creative leadership and impactful artistic achievements that have proved both visionary and enduring. Four honorees – Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal), Jonathan Majors (Devotion), Keke Palmer (Nope) and Patton Oswalt (I Love My Dad) – will receive Artist of Distinction Awards, presented to individuals known for…

The Human Trial at The Newport Beach Film Festival

By Greer Wylder

October 07, 2022

For the past decade, I have been an Executive Producer of a documentary called The Human Trial in the hopes of one day showing the world the human side of type one diabetes, what it’s like to live with it, and why it’s so important to cure it. Life with diabetes--both type one and type two--can take an enormous physical and emotional toll on patients and their families.The Human Trial filmmakers, Lisa Hepner and Guy Mossman are partners in film and husband and wife. Lisa knows firsthand what it’s like to live with type one, she’s had it for the past 30 years,…

Newport Beach Film Festival October 13-20

By Greer Wylder

October 07, 2022

The Newport Beach Film Festival has announced its Opening Night and Closing Night films. On Thursday, Oct. 13, the Festival will kick off its eight-day run with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, and Quinta Brunson. Fresh from the Toronto International Film Festival, where it generated huge buzz and won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story will screen at 7 p.m. at Edwards Big Newport.A Roku original film, which is available for streaming November 4 on The Roku Channel, WEIRD: The Al…

Protecting Laguna Beach’s Small Town Charm with Measure Q

By Greer Wylder

October 05, 2022

Known the world over for its dramatic coastline, art shows and charming village vibe Laguna Beach welcomes more than 6.5 million visitors a year. Remaining true to its roots is one of the reasons Measure Q will be on the ballot next month. Laguna Beach voters will be asked if they would like the right to vote on significant projects. 22 years ago, Newport Beach residents were asked a similar question with the Greenlight initiative and the answer was a resounding “yes.” Dana Point passed its initiative in 2016. Orange County’s coastal cities face increasing challenges. Built out and in a high…