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It was a busy eight days for the Newport Beach Film Festival, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019 with a record attendance of 58,000 people. The Festival opened on Thursday, April 25 with the West Coast Premiere of “Luce” starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spence, Tim Roth...

More than 50 local restaurants are set to serve food during the 2019 Newport Beach Film Festival, and a presenting sponsor is Pacific Sales (a leader in kitchen and home products), so the foodie factor at the festival is high. That’s why the Film Festival has brought back its...

Orange County has long been a hotbed of creativity, especially in the music department. We had an explosive punk rock movement in the late 1970s and early 80s, which is when I was playing drums in a band called Desperate Living while managing other local bands and producing demos...

With more than 3,000 films submitted to the Newport Beach Film Festival ever year, who determines which films make the grade and which ones get two thumbs down? According to festival co-founder and CEO Gregg Schwenk, he and his team of programmers make the rounds of the top film...

What you need to know: in the end, dance wins, and the human spirit revives. That’s the underlying theme of the Newport Beach Film Festival’s 20th anniversary program of shorts called “Put on Your Dancing Shorts,” a series of nine thoughtfully curated...

It seems every year a few films on the schedule for the Newport Beach Film Festival focus on the experience of people who overcome incredible obstacles against all odds. This year is no different. Two such films stood out: “Camino Skies,” the in-depth story of six pilgrims...

Bees or no bees? That is the question. “The Pollinators” may have the answer. “The Pollinators” is one of the films in the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Environmental Film Series, presented by Pacific Sales. According to Leslie Feibleman of the Newport Beach Film Festival, this...

The Newport Beach Film Festival marks a major milestone this month. The renowned cinematic celebration commemorates its 20th anniversary as a respected lifestyle film festival. It’s the largest film festival in coastal Southern California, one that has garnered international...

Opening night of the Newport Beach Film Festival is always a dazzling affair, with a red carpet in front of Edwards Big Newport theater with filmmakers and actors, VIP speeches, the opening night film premiere, and of course the gala after-party across the street in the...

The 20th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which runs April 25 – May 2, has announced its 2019 Art, Architecture + Design (AA+D) Film Series, an international showcase of films celebrating art, architecture, design, modernism, photography, sculpture, painting, typography,...

Ideas can be powerful things. Just ask the Newport Beach Film Festival. The theme for the 20th anniversary Film Festival that runs April 25 – May 2 is “The Power of Ideas.” That’s also the theme of the 2019 festival trailer, which will be shown prior to each scheduled film...

It’s not just the luck of the Irish that nearly three dozen films from Ireland will be screened at the 20th annual Newport Beach Film Festival that runs April 25-May 2, 2019. The Newport Beach Film Festival will present the largest celebration of Irish Cinema in North America...

Big things spring from small seeds, and it was indeed a small packet of seeds that Newport Beach Film Festival founders Gregg Schwenk and Todd Quartarero planted 20 years ago when the duo conceived of a film festival with the city of Newport Beach serving as a luxurious backdrop....

The Newport Beach Film Festival, which runs from April 25 through May 2, is getting ready to celebrate a milestone, and they need your help. Renowned as one of the leading lifestyle film festivals in the United States, the Newport Beach Film Festival seeks to bring to Orange...

In December 1998, restaurateurs Paul Fleming and Bill Allen opened the first Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. Two decades later, Fleming’s now has 70 locations nationwide.  Also in December of 1998, Gregg Schwenk and Todd Quartararo...

The Newport Beach Film Festival and the Laguna Art Museum are hosting a free screening of the documentary film “Leaning Into the Wind — Andy Goldsworthy” on Saturday as part of the museum’s Art and Nature Festival that runs through Sunday. The 2017 film follows the British...

Most of us do not realize the power of the brain and how much influence it has on our lives. At last month’s Newport Beach Film Festival, I watched a documentary called “My Tourette’s.” This film followed five people through a new form of treatment for Tourette’s, which has long...

By Lily Williams | NB Indy As a teenager who grew up just as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat were taking hold, I am all too familiar with the rhetoric that adults use when talking to kids about Internet safety. Middle school assemblies warned us of stranger danger; parents...

Hundreds of film fans flocked to the Edwards Big Newport theatre in Fashion Island for the opening night celebration of the 19th annual Newport Beach Film Festival. Actors, filmmakers, musicians and local dignitaries walked the red carpet prior to the screening of “American...

By Camryn Eakes | NB Indy Hidden at the Newport Beach Film Festival, tucked neatly between the international, narrative and documentary screenings, is Dancing in Your Shorts, a collection of seven short films that will literally and metaphorically move you. The frequency of dance...