New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Timely and compelling, 'Loving' is a testament to the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against seemingly insurmountable odds.
The newly released feature film "Loving," written and directed by Jeff Nichols, has been honored with the Truly Moving Picture Award from nonprofit arts organization
Heartland Film. Select theatrically-released titles — entertaining films that do more than just entertain — receive the designation throughout the year. Submissions are received directly from studios and producers for consideration.
"Timely and compelling, 'Loving' is a testament to the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against seemingly insurmountable odds," said
Heartland Film
Director of Film Programming & Marketing Greg Sorvig. "Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton deliver stirringly intimate performances in Jeff Nichols' nuanced portrait of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving."
"Loving" celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed in the film by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who fell in love and were married in 1958. The couple had grown up in Central Point, a small town in Virginia that was more integrated than surrounding areas in the American South. Yet it was the state of Virginia, where they were making their home and starting a family, that first jailed and then banished them. Richard and Mildred relocated with their children to the inner city of Washington, D.C. While relatives made them feel welcome there, the more urban environment did not feel like home to them. Ultimately, the pull of their roots in Virginia would spur Mildred to try to find a way back. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry. Richard and Mildred returned home and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.
The latest film from acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols ("Take Shelter," "Mud," "Midnight Special"), "Loving" stars Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Jon Bass, and Michael Shannon.
The Truly Moving Picture Award winner "Loving," MPAA-rated "PG-13" and released by Focus Features, is now playing across the country.
About
Heartland Film, Inc.
Heartland Film is a nonprofit arts organization founded in 1991 with the mission to inspire filmmakers and audiences through the transformative power of film.
Heartland Film is a curator and supporter of purposeful filmmaking, honoring a wide variety of cinema and awarding storytellers from all over the world. The films
Heartland Film selects and exhibits - whether they inspire and uplift, educate and inform, or have the ability to shift audiences' perspectives on the world - all have one thing in common: they are entertaining films that do more than just entertain. Every October, the
Heartland Film Festival gives its moviegoers access to more than 100 visiting independent filmmakers from all over the world, right in the heart of the Midwest.
Heartland Film Festival (Oct. 12-22, 2017) showcases more than 130 independent films over 11 days of red carpet premieres and events, parties and hundreds of film screenings across Indianapolis. The
Heartland Film Festival has earned the special designation of being a qualifying festival for the Annual Academy Awards® within the Short Films category. Each year, the
Heartland Film Festival awards more than $125,000 in cash prizes and presents its Festival Awards to top-judged submissions.
Heartland Film has awarded more than $3 million to support indie filmmakers over the last 25 years. Beyond the
Heartland Film Festival,
Heartland Film honors theatrically-released films that align with its mission via the Truly Moving Picture Award, inspires the next generation of filmmakers via the
Heartland Film Institute, and exhibits films across
Indiana all year long via the
Heartland Film Roadshow. To learn more, visit heartlandfilm.org.
