{"id":2032124,"date":"2025-09-18T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2032124"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:52:27","slug":"jay-kelly-to-open-middleburg-film-festival-hamnet-to-screen-as-centerpiece-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jay-kelly-to-open-middleburg-film-festival-hamnet-to-screen-as-centerpiece-film\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 to Open Middleburg Film Festival, \u2018Hamnet\u2019 to Screen as Centerpiece Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Noah Baumbach<\/a>\u2019s \u201cJay Kelly<\/a>\u201d is set to open the Middleburg Film Festival. Chloe\u0301 Zhao\u2019s \u201cHamnet<\/a>\u201d will serve as the festival\u2019s centerpiece film. The Middleburg Film Festival, now in its 13th year, will run from Oct. 16-19.<\/p>\n

Following the \u201cJay Kelly<\/a>\u201d screening, the festival will present the Inaugural Ensemble and Casting Award to members of the cast and casting directors Douglas Aibel<\/a> and Nina Gold<\/a>. Zhao<\/a>, who is attending, will receive the Visionary Director Award. Based on Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/a>\u2019s book, \u201cHamnet<\/a>\u201d stars Jessie Buckley<\/a> and Paul Mescal<\/a>. The film won TIFF\u2019s People\u2019s Choice Award.<\/p>\n

Colin Farrell<\/a> will receive the Spotlight Actor Award following a screening of Edward Berger<\/a>\u2019s thriller \u201cBallad of a Small Player<\/a>.\u201d Rose Byrne<\/a> will be honored with the Agn\u00e8s Varda Trailblazing Film Artist Award for her performance in Mary Bronstein<\/a>\u2019s A24\u2019s release \u201cIf I Had Legs, I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See full article at Variety – Film News<\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noah Baumbach\u2019s \u201cJay Kelly\u201d is set to open the Middleburg Film Festival. Chloe\u0301 Zhao\u2019s \u201cHamnet\u201d will serve as the festival\u2019s centerpiece film. The Middleburg Film Festival, now in its 13th year, will run from Oct. 16-19. Following the \u201cJay Kelly\u201d screening, the festival will present the Inaugural Ensemble and Casting Award to members of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2032124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Jay-Kelly-to-Open-Middleburg-Film-Festival-\u2018Hamnet-to-Screen.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}