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
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
Love Your Shorts Film Festival Summer Rewind
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
Ranking the 2019 Oscar nominees