RETURNS TO SILICON VALLEY BY CINEJOY

AND CULTURAL WORLD BILINGUAL WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED

PARTICULAR COVERAGE BY: IRIDE APARICIO

PHOTOS COURTESY CINEQUEST

SILICON VALLEY-- Because of the Pandemic, this month of March, CINEQUEST FILM & CREATIVITY FESTIVAL won't fill our local hotel rooms with guests and we will not see the streets of Downtown San José, crowded with filmmakers, producers, directors, film editors, cameramen or actors walking, standing in line outside our restaurants, or sitting on the bars ' chairs. What we will see this month, starting on March 20 and ending of March 30, will be the product of all these people's imaginations and their work collaboration, converted into 150 movies from more than 50 different countries, which will be projected Online and on demand allowing us to scape, for a few hours, to the world provided by The Cinejoy Showcase which will be projected on the screens of our computers and can be watched in the privacy of our own homes. And it will be a star studded lineup:

OPENING NIGHT: SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH. Will be an Amazing evening and a glorious Opening Night of celebration of cinema and art, showing the film DEATH OF A LADIES' MAN with star GABRIELE  BYRNE (The Usual Suspects, In treatment, and Miller Crossing) star  JESSICA PARÉ (Mad Mean, SEAL Team) and star BRIAN GLEESON (Peaky Blinders). As part of this amazing evening, the movie fans will also be able to watch the live conversations with the actors GABRIELE BYRNE & JESSICA PARÉ and the filmmakers after the film.

SUNDAY, MARCH 21ST: MAVERICK SPIRIT AWARD NIGHT
EDDIE ISSARD and the screening of SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
Hailed as the foremost stand up of a generation, on this night, star of stage and screen, iconic comedian, actor, writer and activist EDDIE IZZARD will receive the prestigious CINEQUEST'S MAVERICK SPIRIT AWARD for her amazing career and spectacular artistry. For years, IZZARD has been a tireless supporter of charity, a Runner, a Political campaigner and a Fashion icon. The Award Ceremony will be followed by an energetic conversation with him and the Maverick and film lovers will enjoy the screening of the new film: Six Minutes to Midnight, Starring and written by IZZARD and starring Dame JUDI DENCH, JIM BROADBENT, CARLA JURI and JAMES  D'ARCY.

MONDAY, MARCH 22ND
MY ZOE and Conversation with JULIE DELPY
This is an incredible new film, which tells the story of an ambitious woman scientist who turns to extremes and dangerous measures to keep her daughter in her life after a tragic accident. The film was written by  actor, director,  JULIE DELPY (Before Sunrise, Two Days in Paris)and comes to the Cinequest audience followed by a dynamic conversation with DELPY herself.

Please note that while the Spotlight Events are scheduled to start at definite starting times, the films may be screening on demand. CINEQUEST FILM & CREATIVITY FESTIVAL this year, is also going to be Screening Parties online, some of them hosted or attended by the filmmakers.

Keep checking our website because from March 20 to March 30, 2021, Cultural World Bilingual will be publishing the online Films' schedules of CINEQUEST Film and Creative Festival Featured by CINEJOY.  Our website, will also review some of the films, and our private interviews with the celebrities, writers, producers and actors.  

For tickets and for more information go to:https://creatics.org/cinejoy.