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Pressplayff When: October 23-24, 2021
Where: Galaxy Theatres at Grandscape
5740 Grandscape Blvd.

Ste. 100
The Colony, Texas

Link to Register for FREE TICKETS:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-pressplay-film-festival-tickets-184111140377

This year’s festival included a lot of amazing films that featured so much talent. We’re truly honored to have every fil...
10/27/2021

This year’s festival included a lot of amazing films that featured so much talent. We’re truly honored to have every film in our festival this year. Without further adieu, please help us congratulate this year’s 2021 PressPlay Film Festival winners:

🏆 Best Feature: Outlaw’s Buckle
🏆Best Texas Feature: Milk for Violence
🏆Best Short: Soyka
🏆Best Texas Short: Skin and Bone
🏆Best Documentary: The State of Texas vs. Melissa
🏆Best Texas Documentary: Jim Allison: Breakthrough
🏆Best Actress: Darcy Doyle
🏆Best Actor: Eric Hanson
🏆Best Director: Skin and Bone
🏆Best Sound: Inherited
🏆Best Cinematography: The Plumber
🏆Best Editor: Ikarus
🏆Audience Choice Short: Helix
🏆Audience Choice Feature: Buckskin
🏆Audience Choice Documentary: The State of Texas vs. Melissa

Congratulations! 🥳

10/23/2021

“Helix” - Texas Short Film

Film Director: Shaheer Naqvi
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Mystery, Drama, Noir

Screening at 12:53 PM CST in Short Block 01 on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
A weary artist undergoes a medical procedure and finds himself thrust into a bizarre dreamscape where he must confront the fears he has long run from or be forever stuck in oblivion.

10/23/2021

“Fearless” - Texas Documentary Film

Film Director: Wojciech Lorenc
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Documentary

Screening at 10:00 AM CST on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
An intimate portrait of a boxing gym in a small town of Conroe, Texas. The film is constructed as an allegory for the challenges faced by people of color and immigrants in the US.

10/23/2021

“Who is James Payton” - Documentary Film

Film Director: Oliver Guy-Watkins
From: Netherlands
Film Genre: Documentary

Screening at 10:00 AM CST on Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
From playing Frank Longbottom in Harry Potter to Adolf Hi**er in Captain America, as well as standing in for Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law; James Payton has been part of the British Film Industry for the best part of 20 years. Yet he is still largely unknown.

Director Oliver Guy-Watkins followed James for a year as he attended Comic Cons, taught wizardry skills to children and was cast as Tony Blair in the Nick Moran helmed film Creation Stories.

This is a story of fandom, loneliness and perseverance, that plays with the boundaries of reality and fiction, but do we find out Who Is James Payton?

10/23/2021

“Life Insurance Lottery” - Texas Feature Film

Film Director: Chuck Norfolk
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Comedy

Screening at 8:20 PM CST on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
A down and out loser, who dreams of life on the islands, joins a club that is the answer to his dreams; but when his friends start to die he must choose between pulling down the big bucks and bringing down a killer.

“In the Hiding” - Texas Short FilmFilm Director: Jason J. Angco-BarreraFrom: Texas, USAFilm Genre: Western, DramaScreeni...
10/23/2021

“In the Hiding” - Texas Short Film

Film Director: Jason J. Angco-Barrera
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Western, Drama

Screening at 6:46 PM CST in Short Block 03 on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
Maria Estrada is a local bar owner in Catarina, TX. The year is 1910 and Mexico is experiencing civil unrest as the Mexican Revolutionary War is at full power. Hundreds of Mexicans are fleeing from their war torn villages north into Texas. However, the Texas government views these "refugees" as a threat to their well being, so the Texas Rangers were given full power to do whatever they wanted to keep the "great state of Texas" safe. So, these unlawful Rangers became the judge, jury, and executioner of hundreds of Mexican refugees and Mexican Americans. This is only one story of Texas' dark history.

10/23/2021

“Issues of the Heart” - Texas Feature Film

Film Director: Tola Olatunji
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Drama

Screening at 4:50 PM CST in on Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
A middle-aged wife strays away from her faith due to her frustration of not being able to have a baby, thus leading her to other temptations, causing her husband to be distrusting of her.

“The Robbery” - Short FilmFilm Director: John Marrs From: Arizona, USAFilm Genre: Western, ComedyScreening at 3:17 PM CS...
10/23/2021

“The Robbery” - Short Film

Film Director: John Marrs
From: Arizona, USA
Film Genre: Western, Comedy

Screening at 3:17 PM CST in Short Block 02 on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
A gang of incompetents outlaws tries to rob a bank.

10/23/2021

“The State of Melissa vs. Texas” - Texas Documentary

Film Director: Sabrina Van Tassel
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Documentary

Screening at 11:30 AM CST on Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
The State of Texas vs. Melissa explores the life journey of Melissa Lucio, the first Hispanic woman to be sentenced to death in the state of Texas. For over ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal. No one had ever seen Melissa be violent towards her children, yet she was blamed for the daily abuse and subsequent death of her two year-old daughter, who died from blunt head trauma. Set in the heart of the Latino community of South Texas, the film takes a look at Melissa’s broken childhood, her adult life plagued by poverty and prejudice, and the miscarriage of justice Melissa faced, from the court appointed attorney who willingly set aside evidence, to the District attorney who used her case to help his re-election. The State of Texas vs. Melissa is the portrait of a woman’s fight against an entire system.

“The Cause of Death” - Texas Short FilmFilm Director: Tim McCarthy From: Texas, USAFilm Genre: Drama, ComedyScreening a...
10/22/2021

“The Cause of Death” - Texas Short Film

Film Director: Tim McCarthy
From: Texas, USA
Film Genre: Drama, Comedy

Screening at 2:44 PM CST in Short Block 04 on Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at the PressPlay International Film Festival

Synopsis:
As an obituary writer, David is very familiar with death. That is, until Death himself shows up to try to give David new perspective.

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