Category: film
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Toronto Fringe Announces Programming for New Primetime Festival
Toronto FringeAnnounces Programming for NewPrimetime Festival The Toronto Fringe is proud to present their new festival, the Primetime Festival, with five digital theatrical experiences from October 30 – November 28, 2021. The Primetime Festival will include live and on-demand virtual presentations of works from Jacqui Du Toit, Mind of a Snail Puppet Co, Tita Collective, Velvet Wells, plus the opening night presentation of With Love and…
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The Redford Center and IF/Then Shorts Announce Finalists for $35,000 Grant Initiative. Six film projects highlighting stories of people, places, and paths to accessing the outdoors invited to participate in Nature Access pitch event at DOC NYCNew York, NY
IF/THEN SHORTS & THE REDFORD CENTER ANNOUNCE NATURE ACCESS SHORT FILM FINALISTS Six film projects highlighting stories of people, places, and paths to accessing the outdoors invited to participate in Nature Access pitch event at DOC NYCNew York, NY — The Redford Center and IF/Then Shorts, announced today the finalists for the inaugural IF/Then x The…
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NOW PLAYING IN NYC AT CINEMA VILLAGE; NATIONAL VIRTUAL CINEMA EVENT 11/10 ACCLAIMED NEW FILM ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND PSYCHEDELICS, CONSCIOUSNESS, & HEALING
From Area23a distributor of Fantastic Fungiand Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me comes… AWARD-WINNING & CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY FEATUREAWARE:GLIMPSES OFCONSCIOUSNESS “ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING.”– Bradley Gibson, Film Threat “Science and spirituality join forces in the mindful if heavily meditative documentary, Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness.”“Consciousness-elevating food for thought.”– Michael Rechtschaffen, Los Angeles Times “IT’S A REMARKABLE FILM.”“The documentary Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness is a heady experience – dare…
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GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT WILL RELEASE MAYA SARFATY‘S AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY-LOVE IT WAS NOT IN THEATERS STARTING FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT QUAD CINEMA IN NEW YORK CITY
GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT WILL RELEASE MAYA SARFATY‘S AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY LOVE IT WAS NOT IN THEATERS STARTING FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5AT QUAD CINEMA IN NEW YORK CITY The impossible and tragic love story between Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch Featuring incredible eyewitness testimony, the film is based on Sarfaty’s 2016 Student Academy Award-winning short The…
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AWARD-WINNING SHORT SUBJECT DOCUMENTARY & OSCAR CONTENDER NOW STREAMING FROM THE NEW YORKER- “A BROKEN HOUSE”
Director Amar Chebib Joe Buffalo is an Indigenous skateboarding legend. He’s also a survivor of Canada’s notorious Indian residential-school system. Following a traumatic childhood and decades of addiction, Joe must face his inner demons to realize his dream of turning pro. Watch the film now at The New Yorker. WINNER – Audience Award at 2021 SXSW…
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OPENS THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 IN LOS ANGELES AT LAEMMLE MONICA FILM CENTER AND MORE CITIES + HOLDING IN NYC AT FILM FORUM
“Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, which takes its title from her second album, is in tune with the haunting poetics of her work.”“The documentary’s…interviews with friends, bandmates, exes and her daughter, Abralyn (Abbe) Baird offer first-person recollections that are vivid and, in their quiet way, emotionally charged… Holds a crucial place in preserving her work…above all…
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Visual Communications Announces Award Winners For The 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival the Largest Fest of its Kind on the West Coast – I WAS A SIMPLE MAN; CANE FIRE; ZONA; CLOSING ANNISA; and F1-100 are Grand Jury Award Winners
Visual Communications Wraps 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Marking A Return to In-Person Theaters Grand Jury Prize Award Winners Include: Best Narrative Feature: I WAS A SIMPLE MAN by Christopher Makoto Yogi; Best Documentary Feature: CANE FIRE by Anthony Banua-Simon; Golden Reel – Best Narrative Short: ZONA by Masami Kawai (Academy Award® Qualified); Golden…
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FILM CAST ANNOUNCEMENT: ALLY MAKI, HAYDEN SZETO and PETER S. KIM LEAD THE CAST IN TOM HUANG’S “DEALING WITH DAD” – GEENA DAVIS’ BENTONVILLE WAY ENTERTAINMENT IS A PRODUCING PARTNER ON FAMILY DRAMEDY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HUANG
ALLY MAKI, HAYDEN SZETO and PETER S. KIM LEAD THE CAST IN TOM HUANG’S “DEALING WITH DAD” GEENA DAVIS LED BENTONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL PRODUCTION ARM, BENTONVILLE WAY ENTERTAINMENT, A PRODUCING PARTNER ON FAMILY DRAMEDY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HUANG LOS ANGELES, CA – Principal photography was recently completed for “DEALING WITH DAD,” a film written and directed…
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Acclaimed documentary North by Current to have national broadcast and streaming debut on PBS television series POV & PBS.org on Monday, Nov. 1
Acclaimed documentary North by Current to have national broadcast and streaming debut on PBS television series POV & PBS.org on Monday, Nov. 1 Angelo Madsen Minax’s Poetic and Richly-Layered Document of Addiction, Trans Identity and Grief; Berlinale Selection and Grand Jury Harrell Award Winner for Best Film at the 2021 Camden International Film Festival WATCH THE TRAILER NOW “It is…
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Award-winning documentary Storm Lake on family’s fight for community, local newspaper, journalism’s future is now in theaters and has its national TV debut on PBS on November 15th.
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross “The battle to keep journalism alive.” “Storm Lake is an elegiac heartland portrait…colored by the hope of endurance, both for the newspaper and the community it represents.” STORM LAKE A NEWSPAPER. A FAMILY. A COMMUNITY. Award-Winning Documentary Has Nationwide Theatrical Tour Ahead of November TV & Streaming Release…
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Windrush Caribbean Film presents:The ‘Best of the Fest’, 1st – 31st October 2021
Following on the heels of a successful film festival, the organizers of the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival are proud to announce the streaming of the ‘Best of the Fest’. As part of Black History Month, organizers will showcase the best of the 2021 festival for FREE. From 1st October, film lovers will be able to log on to stream the…
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THE LONELIEST WHALE: THE SEARCH FOR 52 Available to stream October 12, 2021 on Hulu
Directed by Joshua Zeman (“Sons of Sam,” Cropsey)Written by Joshua Zeman & Lisa SchillerProduced by Joshua Zeman and Jonathan Shukat, co-produced by Caitlin ColfordExecutive Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson, Lucy Sumner, Adrian Grenier, Jim Jacobsen, Maria Bertrand, Gabriel Napora, Yas Taalat, Yipeng Ben Lu, Jeffrey Sobrato, Nicole Shipley, Jeff Rice, Brian Devine, and Evan Krauss. Check out the trailer here!THE LONELIEST WHALE: THE SEARCH FOR 52 is a cinematic quest to find the “52 Hertz…
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NEEDTOBREATHE’s new album landed the band on the top 10 of the Billboard Top Rock Albums charts for the 7th time and the Billboard Top 10 Current Sales charts
IN OVER 500 MOVIE THEATERS NATIONWIDE INCLUDING THE TOP 60 MARKETS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Documentary Intimately Captures the Band Recording Their Latest Album While Isolated During the PandemicWatch Now: Trailer for ‘Into the Mystery’Greenwich Entertainment The documentary feature NEEDTOBREATHE: INTO THE MYSTERY, directed by Chris Phelps and produced in partnership with Elektra Records and Foundations Music, will…
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THE FAITHFUL powerfully explores fandom, memorabilia and the magnetic appeal of three of the most influential cultural icons of our time…
THE FAITHFUL The King, The Pope, The Princess A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT IMAGES – 20 YEARS IN THE MAKING – FROM ARTIST & DIRECTOR ANNIE BERMAN WEST COAST THEATRICAL RELEASE STARTSFRIDAY, OCTOBER 8 IN LOS ANGELES IN-PERSON SCREENINGS AND Q&A’S TO FOLLOW IN LA, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE AND MORE. WATCH THE TRAILER NOW FOR ‘THE FAITHFUL’ OPENS IN…
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Gravitas Ventures Day & Date Release on October 22nd of “The Subject” Starring Jason Biggs (“Orange is the New Black,” and “American Pie”), Aunjanue Ellis (“If Beale Street Could Talk,” and Emmy nominee for “Lovecraft County”)
Gravitas Ventures Acquires Lanie Zipoy’s Multi Award-Winning “The Subject” For Theatrical & TVOD/Digital Audiences Everywhere October 22nd, 2021 “The Subject” Starring Jason Biggs, Aunjanue Ellis & Anabelle AcostaMakes a Day & Date Release Across North America This Fall (Los Angeles,CA) Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired worldwide rights to director/producer Lanie Zipoy’s (“17 Things I Wish I Could Tell You…
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THE MUSTANGS: America’s Wild Horses Film to open theatrically nationwide October 15th. Executive Producers Robert Redford, Patti Scialfa Springsteen and USA Olympic Equestrian Silver Medalist Jessica Springsteen take viewers to the American West to show how the survival of the wild horse is at stake.
Featuring “Never Gonna Tame You (Original Song from “The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses”)”written by music icon Diane Warren and performed by Platinum-selling artist Blanco Brown NEWTOWN, PA 2021 – Virgil Films announced it has acquired the worldwide rights to “The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses” in a deal made by Virgil President Joe Amodei and Steven Latham, the film’s producer and…
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FOUND-Launching Globally on Netflix October 20th-
A Netflix Original Documentary FOUND A Film by Amanda LipitzProduced by Anita Gou, Jane Zheng, and Jenny Raskin ***Launching Globally on Netflix October 20th*** Opening October 13th at the Paris Theater in NYCOpening October 15th at the Laemmle Monica in Los Angeles Screening Thursday, September 30 as part of IDA Awards Season Screening Series7:30 PM PT…
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Julia @ TIFF 2021
Directed by: Julie Cohen and Betsy West, “Julia” presented a portrait of Julia Child, whose cookbooks and TV shows revolutionized American cuisine.Julia Child was a pinoneer of the 20th century. Born in 1912, she defied expectations for women of her time by travelling abroad, mastering French cuisine, and then, in her fifties, becoming a celebrity…
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The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival-October 19-24, 2021.
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts FestivalAnnouncesSeven Directions Shorts ProgramPLUS In Person Screenings Across CanadaHalifax, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Vancouver The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is proud to announce exciting live in-person and virtual events as part of the 22nd Annual Festival from October 19-24, 2021. imagineNATIVE will present select in person screenings at Cineplex Theatres in Halifax, Montreal, Winnipeg…
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Nobuhiko Obayashi’s LABYRINTH OF CINEMA@The Metrograph in New York on October 20 and in Los Angeles@The Lumiere Cinema-October 29 (co-presented by Acropolis Cinema)&VANCOUVER-Friday, October 30@Vancity Theater(At VIFF Centre)with a nationwide theatrical release to follow.
LABYRINTH OF CINEMA Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi (House)Cast: Takuro Atsuki, Takahito Hosoyamada, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Rei Yoshida, Riko Narumi, Hirona Yamazaki, Takako Tokiwa LABYRINTH OF CINEMA will be released at The Metrograph in New York on October 20 and in Los Angeles at The Lumiere Cinema on October 29 (co-presented by Acropolis Cinema) with a nationwide theatrical release to follow.…