June 10, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLEASE:
Contact: Jeff Hill / International House of Publicity
Phone: 212-265-4373

PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – JUNE 17-21

Writer/Director Guy Maddin, Actor Alessandro Nivola and Strand Releasing to be honored

Monday, May 18, 2009—(PROVINCETOWN, MA) – Provincetown International Film Festival Executive Director Gabby Hanna, Artistic Director Connie White and Director of Programming Andrew Peterson announced today that the 2009 Filmmaker on the Edge Award will be awarded to writer/director GUY MADDIN (“My Winnipeg,” “The Saddest Music in the World,” “Careful”), actor Alessandro Nivola (“Junebug,” “Laurel Canyon,” and the upcoming 2009 films “Coco Before Chanel” and “Howl”) will receive the Excellence in Acting award and Strand Releasing will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The prestigious film festival will take place in Provincetown, Massachusetts from June 17-21.

The Opening Night Film will be Woody Allen’s WHATEVER WORKS (New England Premiere) starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley, Jr.

The festival will close with Jay DiPietro’s PETER AND VANDY (East Coast Premiere), starring Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler and Zak Orth.

First produced in 1999 (the same year Provincetown celebrated its 100th anniversary as America’s oldest art colony) the PIFF is on the edge – artistically and geographically. Provincetown takes pride in embracing creativity and diversity in a thriving and increasingly year round tourist, business and art economy. For decades, Provincetown has attracted legendary artists, writers and filmmakers to this furthest tip of Cape Cod. Eugene O’Neill, Norman Mailer, Lily Tomlin, John Waters, Connie Francis, Helen Hayes, Billie Holiday, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Richard Gere, and Eartha Kitt have all worked and performed here to the delight the town’s cosmopolitan visitors and residents.

Presenting Sponsors of the film festival are Art House, Bacardi Dragonberry, Crown & Anchor, HBO. PIFF is also supported by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Provincetown Tourism Fund.

http://www.ptownfilmfest.org

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