Filmmakers Symposium’s Arthouse Film Festival Series - Get Tickets Now

Filmmakers Symposium’s Arthouse Film Festival is hosting ten weeks of advance screenings and compelling interviews.  Come and experience the best of Sundance, Cannes and Toronto without a press pass.

Imagine seeing a festival-winning gem before public release, then the lights come up, and there in front of you are the creators of the film, ready to answer questions and discuss their work.

Starting September 26, 2011, Filmmakers Symposium’s Arthouse Film Festival will run for ten weeks at two New Jersey theatres: AMC Loews Mountainside, Mondays at 7:15pm sharp and AMC Loews Monmouth Mall, Tuesdays at 7:15pm sharp.  The festival has hosted 1,461 movie premieres with 956 live guest appearances over the past 20 years.

Oscar winners and nominees Danny Aiello, Alan Arkin, James Cromwell, Frank Darabont, Jesse Eisenberg, Tony Gilroy, Ethan Hawke, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jon Kilik, Melissa Leo, Viggo Mortensen, Chazz Palminteri, John Sayles, Marc Shaiman, Howard Shore, Fisher Stevens and David Strathairn have joined Dylan Baker, Famke Janssen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Delroy Lindo, Derek Luke, Mary Stuart Masterson, David Morse, Connie Nielsen, Joe Pantoliano and Kevin Smith as guest speakers who have come to share their insights with festival participants.
“The program will always be flexible in order to take advantage of opportunities as they arise,” said festival director Chuck Rose.  “Wonderful surprises and fantastic celebrities can pop up out of nowhere, so I try to keep the schedule as fluid as possible.  Last year, we premiered 33 films that later earned a total of 13 Spirit Awards, 24 British Academy Awards, and 20 Oscar nominations.”  “Even before we started 20 years ago, I began working to create an international VIP network of actors, directors, journalists, critics and film industry pros whose jobs involve finding and evaluating the cream of Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Venice, Berlin, Tribeca and the other important film festivals.  We also work to ferret out potential hits in the development and production stages so we are ready to pounce on the best films first,” explained Rose.

For information or to register, call 732-870-6012 or visit, www.ArthouseFilmFestival.com.

The festival is open to anyone, but seating is limited, so early enrollment is advised.  Subscription is $133 for five weeks or $235 for all ten weeks.  Also being offered is a specially priced flex ticket so the user may choose any eight out of ten nights for their convenience.  Discounts will be available for early registration. 

Confirmed films and those under consideration for the upcoming festival include:  “Another Happy Day” with Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, director Sam Levinson; “The Artist” with Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, director Michel Hazanavicius; “The Conquest” with Dennis Podalydes, Florence Pernel, director Xavier Durringer; “Coriolanus” with Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, director Ralph Fiennes; “David” with Muatasem Mishal, Binyomin Shtaynberger, director Joel Fendelman; “The Descendants” with George Clooney, Judy Greer, director Alexander Payne; “Dirty Girl” with Juno Temple, Jeremy Dozier, director Abe Sylvia; “Ides of March” with George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, director George Clooney; “In the Land of Blood and Honey” with Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, director Angelina Jolie; “The Iron Lady” with Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, director Phyllida Lloyd; “The Last Rites of Joe May” with Dennis Farina, Mamie Anne Allman, director Joe Maggio; “Like Crazy” with Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, director Drake Doremus; “Marathon Boy” with Biranchi Das, Budhia Singh, director Gemma Atwal; “Margin Call” with Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, director J.C. Chandor; “Martha Marcy May Marlene” with Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, director Sean Durkin; “My Week With Marilyn” with Michelle Williams, Julia Ormond, director Simon Curtis; “The Other F Word” with Jim Lindberg, Flea, director Andrea Blaugrund Nevins; “Romantics Anonymous” with Benoit Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carre, director Jean-Pierre Ameris; “The Rum Diary” with Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, director Bruce Robinson; “The Salt of Life” with Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, director Gianni Di Gregorio; “W.E.” with Andrea Riseborough, James D’Arcy, director Madonna; “We Need To Talk About Kevin” with Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, director Lynne Ramsey; and “Young Goethe In Love” with Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, director Philipp Stolzl.

Filmmakers Symposium was founded by Chuck Rose in 1990.  Since then, Rose has curated and staged over one thousand movie premieres, importing and interviewing actors and filmmakers from all over the world.  His symposia have been sponsored by Rutgers University, Caldwell College and a dozen other academic and arts
organizations.  Inspiration for Filmmakers Symposium grew out of Rose’s experiences at the University of Southern California where Professor Arthur Knight screened a variety
of not-yet-released movies followed by discussions with actors and filmmakers.  Specifically, the seed was planted after an evening when Professor Knight’s surprise guest was Alfred Hitchcock.  Rose remembers, “Everything changed after that.  Just being in the room with Hitchcock was life altering.  His simple, yet brilliant explanations of technique, and his droll, but hilarious anecdotes about directing Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and the rest, thrilled and motivated a pack of know-it-all film students.  Hitchcock and Knight had more than a glass of wine with dinner, so the gloves were off, and no one was spared.”  Spending time on both coasts, Rose has authored 24 screenplays, directed “Vietnam Vets” starring Danny Aiello, worked in the story department at Orion Pictures, served as a Contributing Editor at “Movies USA”, and written feature articles on the film industry for “The Hollywood Reporter”.  He has held faculty positions at Seton Hall University, Adelphi University and
New School University where he developed a program in Film Script Analysis adopted by executives at HBO, ABC and many independent production companies.  Rose is an alumnus of the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop, and holds a Master of Arts in Cinema History, Criticism and Aesthetics from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production from New York University.  Currently, Rose has under development a World War II drama, “Ziggy’s Only Son.”