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28-559: The festival features a collection of new films from all over the world, as well as national and international premieres . Apart from new feature films in various film genres , the festival focuses on documentary films , short films , experimental films and crossover productions. Together with the Austrian Film Museum , a historical retrospective is organized every year, as well as special programs, tributes and homages to international institutions and individuals. During

56-612: A performer in that work. Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the film premiere to showman Sid Grauman , who founded Grauman's Chinese Theatre . The first ever Hollywood premiere was for the 1922 film Robin Hood , starring Douglas Fairbanks , in front of the Egyptian Theatre . By the late 1920s the red carpet had become synonymous with film premieres. There are a number of different types: A single work will often have many premieres. For example, in film,

84-448: A role he reprised in its 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey . Following the success of Bill & Ted , Winter and creative collaborators Tom Stern and Tim Burns were hired to develop a sketch comedy show for MTV. The result, 1991's The Idiot Box , was canceled after six episodes. Winter, Stern and Burns accepted a $ 12 million deal from 20th Century Fox to film their own feature film, which became 1993's Freaked . While

112-455: A work receives will impact on how the work is treated by festivals, including the categorization of the work in screening sessions, e.g. Fantastic Fest , and even as the basis of its submission requirements, e.g. Sundance Film Festival eligibility rules require that United States feature films, both narrative and documentary, have retained their world premier status, whilst international feature films, both narrative and documentary, have retained

140-939: Is Jewish, of Ukrainian Jewish descent. When Winter was five, his family moved to Missouri , where his father ran the Mid-American Dance Company (later, Modern American Dance Company ), while his mother taught dance at Washington University in St. Louis . The two divorced in 1973. In 1978, Winter moved to the New York City area, where he and his mother lived in Montclair, New Jersey . During this time Winter began performing as an actor on and off Broadway, commuting into New York City. He reports his experience in New Jersey as being positive. In 1983, after graduating from Montclair High School , Winter

168-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a European film festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Premiere A premiere , also spelled première , (from French : première, 1 , transl.  first, 1st ) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play , film , dance , musical composition , or even

196-540: Is a New York-born dancer who trained with Martha Graham , and founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s. His father, Ross Albert Winter, is an Australian who danced with Winter's mother's troupe and co-founded the Mid American Dance Company in St. Louis. Winter received training in dance as a child. He has an older brother named Stephen. His father has English ancestry and his mother

224-705: The Argyll Rooms in London on 21 March 1825. When a work originates in a country that speaks a different language from that in which it is receiving its premiere, it is possible to have two premieres for the same work, e.g., the French-language version of the play The Maids by Jean Genet received its British premiere (which was also its world premiere) in 1952, and subsequently its English-language premiere in Britain in 1956. The type of premiers that

252-558: The Panama Papers , and Trust Machine: The Story Of Blockchain , which premiered in Los Angeles on November 16, 2018. In July 2015, Winter began work on a biographical documentary of the rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa . The Zappa Family Trust publicly gave its approval to Winter's plans for the film. Released on November 27, 2020, Zappa was not only the first documentary with access to his archives, but this project

280-643: The live-action adaptation of the hit Cartoon Network series Ben 10 , which aired in November 2007 and garnered the highest ratings in Cartoon Network history. He directed its sequel, Ben 10: Alien Swarm , which aired on Cartoon Network in November 2009 and captured over 16 million viewers in its premiere weekend. As of 2008, he was attached to write the screenplay for the Howard Stern -produced remake of Rock 'n' Roll High School . In 2010, he

308-471: The #1 documentary on iTunes. In 2013, he had a role in the thriller Grand Piano , starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack , playing The Assistant. In 2016, Winter released a short documentary entitled Relatively Free about journalist Barrett Brown 's release from prison. This was followed in 2017 by another short documentary, Trump's Lobby about President elect Donald Trump . In 2018, Winter released two documentaries, The Panama Papers , about

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336-477: The 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). He is also known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys , for co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked , and for directing documentaries in the 2010s. Winter was born in London, England. His mother, Gregg Mayer,

364-735: The 2019 United States movie Aladdin held its world premiere at the Grand Rex in Paris , France, on 8 May 2019, its first regional premiere in Jordan on 13 May 2019, and its United States premiere on 24 May 2019. Likewise, in music, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 received its world premiere in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna on 7 May 1824, and subsequently received a premiere in England at

392-603: The Internet and privacy inspired him to make the 2012 documentary film Downloaded , about internet file sharing and Napster, and the 2015 film Deep Web , about the Silk Road , bitcoin , and the dark web . Winter was married to Sonya Dawson, with whom he had a son, born in 1998. The couple later divorced. In 2010, he married Ramsey Ann Naito . They have two children. Winter maintains dual British and American citizenship. On February 2, 2018, Winter revealed that he

420-644: The cancellation of a number festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival , an International film festival called We Are One was organised where films were globally streamed, via YouTube , in an event containing 13 world premieres, 31 online premieres, and 5 international online premiers. Director Lina Soualem  [ fr ] , who reluctantly kept her film Their Algeria  [ fr ] in for an online premier at We Are One said "At first, your automatic feeling is, 'No, I don't want to do that, ... I felt distressed because this would be

448-453: The coronavirus pandemic, festivals had to become either partially online, e.g. SXSW and Tribeca , or fully online, e.g. CPH:DOX , Visions du Reel . Director Alex Winter even went so far as to pull his documentary Zappa out of both SXSW and CPH:DOX rather than let the film premiere there, saying "Our main concern was sales. Being online with these festivals would be the equivalent of a streaming distribution deal." On 29 May 2020, upon

476-740: The festival, the Fipresci Prize is awarded by international film critics . Another prize is awarded by the readers of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard . The program of the festival includes galas, special events and celebrations, as well as discussions and meetings between international guests and local visitors. The Vienna International Film Festival is different from the Film Festival Rathausplatz in central Vienna, which exclusively shows music films daily throughout August. This film award–related article

504-538: The film was never widely released, despite positive reviews from The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly , Winter did not return to directing until 1999, when he filmed Fever . The film was shown at film festivals worldwide, including Official Selection in the Director's Fortnight at Cannes . New York Daily News praised the film, calling it "a claustrophobic mind bender. Winter sustains an aura of creepiness worthy of Roman Polanski ." Winter directed

532-457: The film." Fionnuala Halligan of Screen Daily questioned the legitimacy of the festivals without physically screened premiers, saying "Is premiere status demanded by A-list festivals still valid, and if not world, then national or international, or online – how much do they matter in the time of Covid?" On the complications of incorporating online premiers during the new online reformatting of festivals, Halligan said that another burning question

560-510: The first time I would show an audience my film, so I was upset that it (would have to) be online." but said she relented as "I was observing (the Doha Film Institute's Qumra event ) online, and it was a good experience. I spoke to many programmers and professionals, and little by little, I understood we are all in the same situation and times are so uncertain that if I decided to say 'no,' I wouldn't know what would happen next with

588-403: The idea of large numbers of anonymous users discussing a variety of topics in an anonymous space. "I found that really striking then. And it seemed liked the beginning of something." He has criticized media companies and news outlets for exaggerating how many people used Napster for digital piracy . "Napster was a huge threat to the power structure," Winter said. Winter's interest in technology,

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616-482: The international premiere status. Premiering at a film festival has been used to gain publicity for a film, even without a distributor already in place, and can even allow last minuting editing. Director Alex Winter said, of film festival premiers, "It helps me get a sense of what my work is or isn't communicating. We've often made little tweaks and changes after we've premiered it at a few film festivals." Concerns existed about online premieres, when in 2020, during

644-427: The plot as, "Basically, they're supposed to write a song to save the world and they haven't done that." In January, 2024, Alex hinted about a possibility of a 4th film "Bill & Ted 4". Destroy All Neighbors is another film from 2024 of gonzo horror genre. Winter began devoting a lot of his attention to the internet not just because he liked technology, but also because "I found this community there." Winter liked

672-402: The two wrote and directed a number of short films and music videos. Winter continued to find work as an actor, landing notable roles in such big productions as The Lost Boys and Rosalie Goes Shopping . In 1989, Winter found international success when he co-starred with Keanu Reeves , playing William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. in the smash-hit comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure ,

700-399: Was "Would a geo-locked online premiere at a smaller festival jeopardise a filmmaker's chances for showing their "international premiere" at another, perhaps larger, more covetable event (for which the selection hasn't yet been announced)?" Alex Winter Alexander Winter is a British and American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he is best known for playing Bill S. Preston Esq. in

728-772: Was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University . While at NYU, he met fellow aspiring filmmaker Tom Stern . The two collaborated on a number of 16 mm short films. As an actor, Winter spent many years on Broadway with supporting roles in productions of The King and I , Peter Pan , and the American premiere of Simon Gray 's Close of Play at the Manhattan Theatre Club . Winter dropped out of NYU film school before his senior year, and he and Tom Stern moved out to Hollywood, where

756-572: Was attached to direct a 3D-remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate , which was scheduled for release in 2011. Winter's 2012 VH1 rock doc Downloaded earned worldwide critical acclaim at theatrical and festival screenings. Winter's multiple award-winning 2015 documentary Deep Web had its world premiere at SXSW and a broadcast premiere in the U.S. on the Epix network alongside a global festival tour. The film went wide in September 2015, opening as

784-410: Was the highest funded documentary in crowdfunding history, via Kickstarter . In April 2011, Winter's Bill & Ted co-star Keanu Reeves confirmed that a third installment of the film series was under way; the film was in development for most of the 2010s. Winter returned as Bill Preston in the film, Bill & Ted Face the Music , which was released on August 28, 2020; with Reeves describing

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