Film nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary shows at the Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Crip Camp” showing April 16-21 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Crip Camp” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Oscars. In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened — a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” in the Catskills — exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and makeout sessions awaiting everyone,…
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Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent star in film at Mary D. Fisher Theatre The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present a “Festival Flashback” of the sensational Academy Award-nominated film “Iris” on Monday, April 12 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Iris” is the second film in a month-long tribute to Dame Judi Dench with a special “Judi-Judi-Judi” series in April featuring a different Judi Dench film every Monday. “Iris” garnered three Academy Award nominations, including Best Leading Actress for Judi Dench, Best Supporting Actress for Kate Winslet and won the Oscar…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature shows at Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Time” showing April 9-14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Time” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at this year’s Oscars. In this intimate yet epic love story filmed over two decades, indomitable matriarch Fox Rich strives to raise her six sons and keep her family together as she fights for her husband’s release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola. Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur,…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best International Film shows at Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?” showing April 9-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Quo Vadis, Aida?” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars. Bosnia, July 1995: Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations…
Film nominated for Academy Award for Best International Film shows at Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “The Man Who Sold His Skin” showing April 11-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “The Man Who Sold His Skin” is nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars. Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to travel to Europe and live with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tattooed…
Film nominated for two Academy Awards debuts at the Fisher Theatre The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is proud to present the Academy Award-nominated “Collective” showing April 16-21 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Collective” is nominated for two Academy Awards — Best Documentary Feature Film and Best International Feature Film — at this year’s Oscars. “Collective” is a gripping, real-time docu-thriller that follows a heroic team of journalists as they expose shocking corruption in the Romanian national health-care system. After an explosive fire claims the lives of 27 people at Bucharest nightclub, Colectiv, officials reassure the public that surviving victims…
Mary D. Fisher Theatre plays host to Academy Award nominated short documentary films The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premieres of the 2021 Oscar Documentary Shorts Programs April 9-15 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Now an annual film festival tradition, Sedona audiences will be able to see all of the short documentary films nominated for Academy Awards before the Oscar telecast on April 25. OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAM 2021 • Colette (France/Germany/USA): Resistance took courage in Nazi-occupied France. 75 years later, facing one’s ghosts may take even more. • A Concerto Is a…
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Romantic comedy featuring all-star cast and untold tale of discovery in flashback series The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present a “Festival Flashback” of “Hysteria” on Tuesday, April 6 at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Hysteria” is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rupert Everett, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce and Felicity Jones. The film tells an untold tale of discovery — the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness. London, 1880: Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) — a dedicated and…