Jane Schoenbrunn and Hannah Einbinder will be honored with the Next Wave Award at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival. This honor recognizes people with exciting and unique voices, who take artistic risks and are passionate about independent film.
Schoenbrunn and Einbinder will be presented with the award on June 12 at Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, Massachusetts. “Jane Schoenbrunn and Hannah Einbinder remind us that fearless storytelling and honest artistry can reshape culture,” said festival executive director Anne Havel. “It’s bold, original and challenging, and represents the future of film.”
The two are in town to screen their new film “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” which will be screened on June 11th after its world premiere as the opening film in the “Un Certain Regard” section of the Cannes Film Festival. Starring Gillian Anderson, Einbinder, Eva Victor, Sarah Sherman, and Jack Haven, the film follows filmmaker Chris (Einbinder), who is tasked with directing a reboot of the hit horror film Camp Miasma, a fictional slasher series inspired by the hypersexual and often transphobic horror films of Schoenbrunn’s youth. Mubi will release the movie on August 7th.
PIFF also announced that writer/director Matt Johnson and actor Dominic Sessa will sit down June 12 to present a first look at A24’s “Tony,” which chronicles the pivotal Provincetown summer that changed the course of Anthony Bourdain’s life. Set in the summer of 1975, Sessa plays Bourdain, a 19-year-old who travels to Provincetown and gets lost in the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen.
Actor Marco Calvani returned to the festival on June 14th for a conversation following the screening of an episode of Season 2 of the Netflix series The Four Seasons.
The Provincetown International Film Festival runs June 10-14.
