2017
2017 Schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20
EVENT SOLD OUT
The Breadwinner
EVENT SOLD OUT
Fireworks
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
Three Snow Whites
Outlandish Lands
Google VR Lounge
EVENT SOLD OUT
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
Zombillenium
EVENT SOLD OUT
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
EVENT SOLD OUT
Mutafukaz
Virus Tropical
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22
EVENT SOLD OUT
Disney • Pixar’s The Incredibles
EVENT SOLD OUT
Big Fish and Begonia
Google VR Lounge
The LEGO Batman Movie
EVENT SOLD OUT
Lu Over the Wall
Tehran Taboo
Songs of Love and Death
FESTIVAL EVENT SOLD OUT
Mary and The Witch’s Flower
EVENT SOLD OUT
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
2017 Partners & Sponsors
2017 Jury
Allison Abbate
Allison Abbate is an executive vice president at Warner Animation Group. Prior to assuming her post at WAG, Abbate was an executive producer on the global blockbuster The LEGO® Movie, and a producer on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Brad Bird’s Iron Giant.
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge is Variety’s Chief International Film Critic. He first joined the Variety team in 2005 as a features editor, compiling the magazine’s annual 10 Actors, Directors and Screenwriters to Watch lists as well as overseeing a range of special editorial sections, including those tied to the magazine’s philanthropy-driven Power of Youth and Power of Comedy events.
Carolyn Giardina
Carolyn Giardina is Tech Editor at The Hollywood Reporter and writes its Behind the Screen blog. In 2015, Carolyn was presented American Cinema Editors’ Robert Wise Award, which recognizes a journalist for contributions to film editing. She was the 2011 recipient of the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for journalistic contributions to cinematography.
Anne Thompson
Born and raised in New York, IndieWire Editor at Large Anne Thompson has been a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, The Observer, and Wired. She has served as film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com. Anne was the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment.