Since its founding in 1999, the Newport Seaside Movie Competition in Orange County, California has grown into considered one of Southern California’s largest worldwide cinema occasions because of its big selection of programming and appearances by actors starting from Harvey Keitel and Nicolas Cage to June Squibb and Colman Domingo. This yr, the competition is launching a brand new occasion that appears to do for tv what the movie fest has finished for the films.
Set for the primary weekend in June, the inaugural Newport Seaside TV Fest will function screenings and panels associated to a few of tv’s most acclaimed and standard reveals, together with “The White Lotus,” “Yellowjackets,” “1923,” and “The Studio.” This morning the competition introduced that it’ll current its Excellent Drama Collection Award to Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ sequence “Landman” at an occasion that shall be attended by a number of of the present’s stars.
Billy Bob Thornton (“Tommy Norris”), Andy Garcia (“Galino”), Ali Larter (“Angela Norris”), and Jacob Lofland (“Cooper Norris”) will settle for the award following a panel dialogue on Saturday, June 7 at 6pm. “The Newport Seaside TV Fest is thrilled to have a good time ‘Landman’ with the Excellent Drama Collection Award,” stated Gregg Schwenk, CEO and Govt Director of the Newport Seaside TV Fest. “Inside Taylor Sheridan’s physique of labor, this sequence captures the uncooked ambition and complicated dynamics of Americana with unparalleled depth. We’re excited to honor the present at our inaugural competition.”
“Landman” has change into one of the vital streamed reveals on tv since its debut final November, racking up tens of billions of minutes seen based on Nielsen. Set within the oil boomtowns of West Texas, ‘Landman’ makes use of Thornton’s character, disaster supervisor Tommy Norris, because the anchor for an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling an business that shapes the world’s local weather, economic system, and politics. Season 2 is scheduled to premiere this November.
The Newport Seaside TV Fest runs from June 5 to June 8. Tickets for occasions and screenings shall be obtainable at nbtvfest.com.