2019 Movie News & Features

This page contains links to articles about film, film festivals and other events, and the film industry in general from 2019. They are copyrighted by the publications in which they originally appeared and/or MeierMovies, LLC, and cannot be reproduced or reposted online without permission. All content, unless otherwise noted, is by Cameron Meier. (MeierMovies is based in Orlando, so the news is often focused on Central Florida.)

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The best films of 2019 and the decade

The Great Star Shift

Changes coming to Orlando’s film slams — both of them

James Dean reborn?: Everything dead is new again

14th Annual Orlando Film Festival:
Opening blog
OFF continues

25th Annual South Asian Film Festival

Change coming to FilmSlam: Enzian parts ways with Jen Vargas

Fall movie preview and Telluride Film Festival wrap-up

The 46th Annual Telluride Film Festival

CenFlo grows

Love Your Shorts Film Festival Summer Rewind

Orlando 48 Hour Film Project

Avengers: Endgame‘s profits analyzed: What does the money mean?

28th Annual Florida Film Festival:
FFF program announcement
Richard Dreyfuss to screen The Goodbye Girl
Programmers balance quality with variety
A look at domestic narrative shorts
Richard Dreyfuss interview
It’s a (shorts) wrap
Award winners

21st Annual Sarasota Film Festival announces films, guests

Director Shawn Snyder discusses To Dust

The best films of Filmapalooza 2019

Orlando hosts Filmapalooza

Ranking the 2019 Oscar nominees

Top 30 movie villains of all time

Ninth Annual Love Your Shorts Film Festival