2016 Napa Valley Film Festival to Feature Awards-Heavy Slate Including Lion, 20th Century Women

Erik Anderson September 28, 2016

**Lion, starring Dev Patel, will hit the wine country at the 2016 Napa Valley Film Festival**

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The 2016 Napa Film Festival, kicking off November 9th, has set up quite an impressive slate of big awards contenders including Lion, 20th Century Women, Elle, and Miss Sloane, which closes the festival on the 13th. The wine country festival is in its 6th year.

The Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) is an immersive, sense-awakening celebration of the finest in cinematic story-telling dedicated to the notion that the best of humanity lies ahead of us.

At NVFF, each year’s most outstanding new independent films are washed down with world-class food and wine, tucked into bed each night with sublime hospitality, and greeted each gorgeous morning with opportunities to deepen the bonds between artists and audience. NVFF16 takes place November 9 – 13.

Here is the full listing of the 2016 NVFF’s Awards Season slate:

20th Century Women

Lion

Miss Sloane

Captain Fantastic

Bleed For This

Mr. Church

Burn Your Maps

Gleason

The Red Turtle

Toni Erdmann

Elle

For the Full Slate of films including Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Shorts and Special Presentations go here.

The 20 films in NVFF’s core competition categories will vie for the titles of Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, as determined by the juries. The directors of these films participate in NVFF’s unique Artists-in-Residence Program that includes a six-night stay at the luxury resort Meadowood Napa Valley. The residency includes master classes with industry leaders and networking opportunities with their peers and festival patrons at lavish receptions and winemaker dinners. Past Faculty for the Artistsin-Residence Program have included composer Carter Burwell, writer-director Atom Egoyan, producer Nicolas Gonda, producer Ted Hope (Amazon Studios), indie film distributor Kevin Iwashina, producer Michael de Luca, executive producer John Sloss (Cinetic Media) and producer Christine Vachon (Killer Films).

The highly anticipated Celebrity Tributes, saluting the highest level of cinematic achievement by established players and rising stars, returns to the Lincoln Theater in Yountville on Thursday, November 10 as part of the festival’s line-up of special events. The festival will salute Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!, Why Him?) and Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!!, Hidden Figures) as Domaine Chandon Rising Stars. Chloe Grace Moretz (The Equalizer, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising) will receive the Raymond Vineyards Trailblazer Tribute. This year’s program will be hosted by Access Hollywood’s Natalie Morales and Kit Hoover who will conduct intimate on-stage conversations with the honorees after presentations of film clips from each honoree’s work.

About The Napa Valley Film Festival
The ultimate celebration of film, food, and wine, NVFF lights up wine country at the most colorful time of year, November 9-13. NVFF presents over 120 new independent films and studio sneak previews in 13 beautiful venues throughout the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Attendees interact with over 300 filmmakers at screenings, and enjoy industry panels, wine tastings, culinary demos, winemaker dinners, Festival Gala, Celebrity Tributes, Awards Ceremonies, VIP parties and more.

Visit www.nvff.org for more information.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.