Film Fest 919 is a film festival based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that highlights the best feature films the year has to offer.

Film Fest 919 (FF919) embodies the true spirit of a film festival, presenting a diverse breadth of compelling narrative features to the area’s enthusiastic, film-loving audience.  Showcasing the fall season’s most talked-about films from Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals, audiences will have an opportunity to see awards-worthy films early on, including critical favorites Fernando Meirelles’ The Two Popes starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce; Trey Edward Shultz’ Waves; starring Sterling K. Brown and Lucas Hedges winner of the Palm d’Ore at Cannes, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite; Pedro Almodovar’s intimately emotional Pain and Glory winner of the Queer Palm and Best Screenplay in Cannes and starring Antonio Banderas, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx; Audience Choice winner at Toronto International Film Festival, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit,  and so many more.

Founded by Randi Emerman and Carol Marshall, the festival not only showcases great films, but the artists behind them and giving audiences the opportunity to engage with them.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Thursday, October 10 will feature an encore screening of the hit film ROCKETMAN, with a special appearance by Ray Williams, the man responsible for discovering Elton John and introducing him to his longtime lyricist partner Bernie Taupin.
• Saturday, October 12 offers a panel discussion: Writing For The Screen. Learn about the art of screenwriting from some of the industry’s best, with a special focus on novel to screen in a panel discussion moderated by Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish.  Panelists to be announced soon.
• Sunday, October 13 – MEET THE ARTISTS:  Joe Letteri, Weta Digital

Special presentation by four-time Academy Award®-winning special effects supervisor and Director of Weta Digital, Joe Letteri.  Letteri will share his valuable insights with the audience and discuss how the craft has evolved from the early days of motion capture on The Lord of the Rings all the way through virtual production on Avatar, remote onset capture work on the Planet of the Apes trilogy and the refinement of the facial animation process that allowed Weta Digital to create ‘Thanos,’ ‘Alita’ and the digital human work for Will Smith in Ang Lee’s upcoming Gemini Man.