Soap star to appear at Niagara Falls Film Festival
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Actress Constance Towers, who took over a role created by Elizabeth Taylor in the soap opera “General Hospital,” will be a guest today at the Niagara Falls International Film Festival.
Towers will speak following two showings of her 1964 movie director by the festival’s posthumous honoree, Samuel Fuller.
The Niagara Falls International Film Festival, which opened with celebrity-studded red carpet awards ceremonies on Wednesday that also included a special award to actor Lou Gossett Jr., was deemed a success by festival founder Bill Cowell.
“It was amazing,” said Cowell of the opening ceremonies which were held at the Rapids Theatre on Main Street in downtown Niagara Falls. “Everybody loved the atmosphere there,” he said of the Rapids.
This is Cowell’s second annual Niagara Falls International Film Festival, though he’s been holding film festivals in the region for about two decades.
A wide variety of films will be shown today and the festival will conclude Saturday with several premieres and another red carpet gala and awards ceremony.
The screenings will take place at the Regal Niagara Falls theaters at 720 Builders Way in Niagara Falls. Showings start at noon. Some of today’s films include:
• Noon – Premiere Screening of the family film “The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands.”
• 2 p.m. – Premiere Screening of “Shock Corridor” starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans with special guest Constance Towers appearing.
• 5:50 p.m. – Premiere Screening of “Big Muddy” with special guests Matt Shapira and Brian Thomas Smith of the “Big Band Theory” attending.
• 6 p.m. Premiere Screening of “A Fuller Life” with special guests Christa and Samantha Fuller, Perry Lang, Robert Carradine, Kelly Ward, Bobby DiCicco and more in attendance. Starring Mark Hamill, James Franco, William Friedkin, Joe Dante, Jennifer Beals, Tim Roth, Constance Towers and more.
• 8 p.m. Screening of “Aberration” and “Naked Kiss” Sam Fuller productions starring Constance Towers, Betty Bronson, Patsy Kelly, Virginia Grey with Constance Towers attending.
• 8 p.m. Premiere Screening of “SGT. Will Gardner” with special guests Max Martini and Michael Hagerty attending. Starring Max Martini, Omari Hardwick, Lily Rabe, Robert Patrick, Elisabeth Rohm, Dermot Mulroney, Gary Sinise, JoBeth Williams and Holt McCallany.