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The Maryland Film Festival is an annual five-day international film festival taking place each May in Baltimore, Maryland. The festival was launched in 1999, and presents international film and video work of all lengths and genres. Each U.S. feature screened within the festival is hosted by one or more of its filmmakers. The many internationally known filmmakers who have presented their work within Maryland Film Festival include Barry Levinson, David Simon, Kathryn Bigelow, Melvin Van Peebles, Lena Dunham, Lisandro Alonso, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Jonathan Demme. In addition to forty or more new features and fifty or more new short films, each Maryland Film Festival includes one favorite film selected and hosted by legendary filmmaker and MFF board member John Waters. The films presented by John Waters within Maryland Film Festival have ranged from Joseph Losey's ''Boom!'' to Gaspar Noé's ''I Stand Alone''. Major names in contemporary music have presented favorite films within the festival, including Dan Deacon, Branford Marsalis, Marin Alsop, Ian MacKaye, Will Oldham, Jonathan Richman, Bill Callahan, and members of Animal Collective. Additionally, personalities ranging from Harry Belafonte to Cal Ripken, Jr. have appeared at the festival alongside documentaries about their lives and work. Each festival also includes a vintage 35mm 3D film and a silent film with a live score by Alloy Orchestra. The festival also programs film events in and around Baltimore year-round, including the film component of Baltimore's annual summer Artscape festival and many events for its membership support group Friends of the Festival. The 15th annual Maryland Film Festival took place May 8–12, 2013 in downtown Baltimore, using all five screens of the historic Charles Theatre as its anchor venue. The 16th annual Maryland Film Festival took place May 7–11, 2014 using seven screens in and around the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. The 17th annual festival took place May 6-10, 2015 using 5 screens in Station North as well as the auditoriums of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum. ==Festival history== The first Maryland Film Festival screening took place Thursday, April 22, 1999, with an Opening Night presentation of Barry Levinson's documentary ''Diner Guys'' (about the real-life inspirations for his first feature film, ''Diner'') at the historic Senator Theatre. Full programming began April 23, 1999, using all five screens of the historic Charles Theatre. These screenings were the first public use of the newly renovated Charles, which had expanded from one to five screens. In 2002, the festival dedicated its Opening Night to a collection of short films, and has done so each year since 2004. In 2009, the festival expanded its offerings of international films, with the stated goal of expanding the scope of international films brought to Baltimore, and in future years bringing a filmmaker to host each foreign feature film screening as the festival does with all U.S.-made feature films. In 2013, the festival announced its expansion to 5 days, shifting its Opening Night to Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Previous opening nights had taken place on Thursdays. The festival continued as a 5-day festival in 2014 and 2015. The festival currently employs a staff of five year-round, with several hundred volunteers working during each festival and in the weeks leading up to them. The festival's feature-film programming has emphasized independent films represented by their filmmakers, as well as international works handled by such art-house and specialty film distributors as The Cinema Guild, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Factory 25, Milestone Films, Strand Releasing, and Kino. The festival has offered the world premieres of such American independent features as Eugene Kotlyarenko's ''0s & 1s'' (2010), Josephine Decker's ''Butter on the Latch'' (2013) and Stephen Cone's ''Henry Gamble's Birthday Party'' (2015). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maryland Film Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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