SAN JOSE—CA—January 31, 2012—Cinequest Film Festival 22 runs February 28-March 11, 2012,
unveiling over 155 films infused with passion and creativity and screening in sublime, state-of-the-art
venues. Audiences for the thirteen-day fest are expected to surpass 100,000. These passionate, inspiring
films will once again captivate attendees’ hearts, minds, and souls, sparking creative searches for personal
passion within. Furthering this passion will be six hundred film artists who will share their own visionary
fervor in lively post-screening conversations with Cinequest 22 audiences.
• Films starring: Alex Karpovsky (Almost in Love, Tiny Furniture), Alan Cumming (Almost in
Love, The Good Wife), Gary Whimes (Almost in Love, Nurse Jackie), Marjan Neshat (Almost
in Love, Fringe), Robb Wells (Beat Down, Trailer Park Boys), Janet Kidder (Beat Down, After
Flight 111), Tony Nappo (Beat Down, Saw II), Rachel Weisz (Deep Blue Sea, Constant
Gardner), Tom Hiddleston (Deep Blue Sea, Thor), Bryan Cranston (Detachment, Breaking
Bad), Christina Hendricks (Detachment, Mad Men), Adrien Brody (Detachment, Midnight in
Paris), Lucy Liu (Detachment, Charlie’s Angels), James Caan (Detachment, Las Vegas), Elliot
Gould (Dorfman, Ocean’s Eleven), Sara Rue (Dorfman, Rules of Engagement), Creed Bratton
(The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, The Office), Orlando Bloom (The Good Doctor, Pirates of The
Caribbean), Rob Morrow (The Good Doctor, Numb3rs), Riley Keough (The Good Doctor, The
Runaways), Michael Pena (The Good Doctor, Crash), Karine Vanasse (I’m Yours, Pan Am),
Michelle Yeoh (The Lady, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), David Thewlis (The Lady, Seven
Years in Tibet), Chow Yun-Fat (Let the Bullets Fly, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon),
Krysten Ritter (L!fe Happens, She’s Out of My League), Kate Bosworth (L!fe Happens,
Superman Returns), and Rachel Bilson (L!fe Happens, The OC)