Key West Film Festival Announces Second Annual “Costume Design Focus” Honoring Oscar®-winning Costume Designer Mark Bridges

Festival runs November 15-19

New York, NY — October 17, 2017 — The Key West Film Festival announced today its second annual Costume Design Focus program, honoring Academy Award®-winning costume designer Mark Bridges. Widely known for his versatile talents, Bridges has contributed to shaping the worlds and characters of films such as The Artist, There Will be Blood and Silver Linings Playbook with his artistry in the field of costume design. The Festival will present Bridges with its Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design award. He will also participate in an audience discussion following a special festival screening of The Artist, the film for which Bridges won the Oscar for achievement in Costume Design. Bridges will also discuss his work on the upcoming untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film being release lated this year, his ninth collaboration with the director. Bridges was nominated for an Oscar® for his work on Anderson’s Inherent Vice.

The award will be presented by Dr. Deborah Nadoolman Landis via a video presentation at the Closing Night Awards ceremony. Dr Landis, a Costume Design Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and an Academy Award nominee, presented the first annual career achievement award for costume design in 2016 to Mary Zophres (The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, La La Land, Hail, Caesar!, Interstellar) who went on to receive an Oscar® nomination for her work in La La Land.

Michael Tuckman, Director of Programming of the Key West Film Festival, says, “As Key West and other coastal communities continue to recover from these devastating storms, movies remain an integral and important part of bringing communities together. The role of a Costume Designer, often so overlooked, literally creates the fabric of the characters on screen who take us to other worlds. Mark Bridges’ work has been so integral to so many of the films that have both moved us and brought us together over the last 25 years and we cannot be more honored to be presenting him this award this year.”

The Festival’s Critics Focus program, enhanced with the juried Critics’ Prize, together with the Costume Design Focus, marks the Key West Film Festival as a vital stop on the awards season fall festival circuit, with programs designed to support film criticism and craft while giving audiences greater context and perspective of films through public conversations guided by expert voices.

Festival venues include the Tropic Cinema and the historic San Carlos Institute, where the campaign for Cuba’s independence from colonial powers was planned in 1892. The Key West Film Festival has equipped the San Carlos with DCP technology, and it will host gala screenings. Other screening venues include the Key West Theater, and the Studios of Key West. Host venues for social events include the Truman House and the Audubon Society.

Visit kwfilmfest.com for full program information – which will be announced on October 18 , along with a schedule of events and travel and lodging details.

About the Key West Film Festival

Creativity, diversity, sustainability and beauty. The Key West Film Festival is an annual celebration of film and filmmakers, set to take place November 15-19, 2017.

A diverse, entertaining and artistically rigorous selection of films will be represented through a broad array of categories that offer opportunities for filmmakers, both aspiring and established, to commune and exchange ideas with each other while showing their work to audiences in an historic and artistically vibrant tropical paradise.

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