Category: film

  • TIFF 2022: Martika Ramirez Escobar’s Sundance Award Winner LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE To Close Out Midnight Madness

    Written and Directed by Martika Ramirez EscobarStarring Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides and Anthony Falcon  Midnight Madness Closing Night Film – 2022 Toronto International Film Festival WINNER – Special Jury Prize for Innovative Spirit – 2022 Sundance Film FestivalWINNER – Special Jury Mention, Narrative Feature – 2022 LA Asian Pacific Film FestivalWINNER – Best…

  • NANITIC by Carol Nguyen In World Premiere at TIFF

    NANITIC by Carol Nguyen In World Premiere at TIFF trailer Travelling and Coop Vidéo de Montréal are proud to present Nanitic by Carol Nguyen in official competition at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The short film will have its World Premiere as part of the Short Cuts 1program on September 8, 15 and 16, in the presence of the film crew. A festival regular, the 24-year-old…

  • Icarus Films Announces theNorth American Theatrical Release ofMY IMAGINARY COUNTRY

    The Latest Film by Master DocumentarianPatricio Guzmán Is an Urgent and Inspiring Chronicleof How a Popular Uprising Sparked Deep Political Change The Cannes Film Festival Official SelectionOpens September 23 at the IFC Center in NYC,September 30 in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles,and San Francisco ** Filmmaker Available for Select Interviews**** NYC Press Screening TBA **Icarus Films is proud to announce the North American theatrical…

  • TIFF 2022: World Premieres of WHILE WE WATCHED and LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BLACK & BLUES, and LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE To Close Out Midnight Madness

    LONO Studio and Britdoc FilmsPresent WHILE WE WATCHED Directed by Vinay ShuklaProduced by Vinay Shukla, Khushboo Ranka and Luke W. MoodyExecutive Produced by Maxyne Franklin, Jess Search and Beadie FinziFeaturing Ravish Kumar  World Premiere  – 2022 Toronto International Film Festival  2022 Toronto International Film Festival Screening Schedule:*Press/Industry Screening* – Sunday, September 11th at 11:10 AM at Scotiabank Theatre…

  • SUMMIT 72CBC’s original four-part documentary seriesmarking the 50th anniversary of the iconic1972 Canada-Russia Hockey ‘Super Series’officially authorized by Team Canada 72

    Enhanced Photo from the original 16mm film of Team Canada’s series-winning goal.  Courtesy Hockey Hall of Fame.Premieres  Wednesday September 14, 2022CBC and CBC Gem | 8:00 p.m. (8:30 NT)Nicholas de Pencier leads a barnburner team including Dave Bidini, Robert MacAskill, and Ravi Baichwal, who are available for interviews The 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series of Hockey changed the game forever,…

  • TIFF 2022- Carolina Markowicz’s CHARCOAL (World Premierę)

     CHARCOAL (Carvão) Please find details below of CHARCOAL, which I am representing at TIFF 2022. To request further information, filmmaker interviews, a viewing link or tickets to public screenings please contact: emma@eg-pr.com _____ CHARCOAL (WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: CAROLINA MARKOWICZ) (TIFF 2022–PLATFORM SECTION–WORLD PREMIERE) STARRING: Starring Maeve Jinkings (Aquarius, Neon Bull), and Argentine actor César Bordon (Wild Tales, The Headless Woman), Camila…

  • Premiere Documentary KING ON SCREEN focused on Stephen King’s Adapted Work for Cinema and TV.

    King on Screen (Yellow Veil Pictures)Los Angeles/ New York–  Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired world sales rights to Daphné Baiwir’s feature documentary KING ON SCREEN. The documentary, approved by Stephen King, will premiere at Fantastic Fest in September, with more festivals to be announced throughout the fall. In 1976, Brian de Palma directed Carrie, the first…

  • Freestyle Digital Media to Release Powerful WWII Documentary “Syndrome K” Across North American on TVOD/Digital on August 16th, 2022

    The last film to be narrated by acclaimed screen icon Ray Liotta (“Goodfellas,” “Field of Dreams”), “Syndrome K” shines a light on the truly amazing story of three Roman Catholic doctors, who created a highly contagious f ake disease during the Nazi Occupation of Rome to save Roman Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital from deportation to Auschwitz during WWII. Powerful and impactful documentaries are…

  • Toronto International Film Festival announces 2022 TIFF Tribute Award for Performance.

    Toronto International Film Festival announces 2022 TIFF Tribute Award for Performance The cast of Michael Grandage’s My Policeman — Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett — are the first-ever film ensemble to receive this honourPhoto credit: Courtesy of Prime Video — Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF, is delighted to announce that…

  • Could Gowan see a Stranger Things Moment For “(You’re A) Strange Animal” from Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’?

    There is a new wave of music coming out of the world Jordan Peele created in his latest #1 box office film, NOPE, and it’s the sound of Canadian prog-rocker Gowan. No spoilers here. But Jordan Peele has always used music as dramatic irony, using Gowan’s ’80s hit “(You’re a) Strange Animal,” a song where the…

  • The World’s First Incredible Multi-Sensory-Augmented Game “Time Detectives: The Mystery of the Mary Rose”

    The world’s first incredible multi-sensory-augmented game from the Mary Rose Museum and Picture This Productions. Launching timed to the nearly 500th anniversary on July 19th of the sinking of Henry VIII’s favourite ship, the Mary Rose, in 1545, the Time Detectives: The Mystery of the Mary Roseapp will immerse players globally on their smartphones in the sights, sounds and even smells of life…

  • Greg MacGillivray’s Iconic Surf Film Offers Cultural Time Capsule To Cinema Audiences in Over 50 Markets  

    Adventure Entertainment Brings Digitally Remastered 50thAnniversary of “Five Summer Stories” To Theatres Across the U.S. & Canada Beginning on August 12th  (Laguna Beach, CA) Adventure Entertainment continues to bring extraordinary stories to North American audiences this summer with MacGillivray Freeman Films (MFF), the world’s foremost independent producer of original giant-screen films for IMAX® theatres, and co-founder Greg MacGillivray’s 50th Anniversary special release of the…

  • Acclaimed Documentary “THE YOUTH GOVERNOR” Directed by Matthew and Jaron Halmy – Gets Limited Theatrical and Begins VOD on Amazon and Apple TV on August 26

    Presents THE YOUTH GOVERNOR Directed by Matthew and Jaron HalmyExecutive Produced by Jason Blum ***In Theaters and on Amazon and Apple TV August 26*** About The Film THE YOUTH GOVERNORThe Youth Governor is the story of the candidacy, campaign, and election of the 72nd California Youth Governor. In the halls of California’s Capitol, 4,000 teenagers…

  • Opening in September: OUR AMERICAN FAMILY -NYC/LA Theatrical and US/Canada VOD Release

    Addiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only of the lives of the afflicted, but also those around them. OUR AMERICAN FAMILY provides an honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse. Captured at a pivotal “nothing to lose” moment, for over the course of a year, five family members…

  • Persephone Productions Presents Pool No Water – Sept. 1 – Sept. 15 at The Segal Centre Studio

    FOLLOWING A TWO YEAR HIATUS SHIFTING INTO A NEW ERA OF MONTREAL THEATRE PERSEPHONE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS POOL NO WATER     A DARK, COMEDIC, ONE-ACT PERFORMANCE SURROUNDING THE TRUE NATURE OF ARTISTIC CREATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN THE MODERN WORLD DIRECTED BY INCOMING CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS LEILA GHAEMI & REBECCA GIBIAN  WRITTEN BY BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT MARK RAVENHILL  FEATURING A CAST OF…

  • Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives

    Wu-Tang Forever: The Art and Legacy of Shaolin’s Finest DIRECTED BY: BOBBITO GARCIA 2015 USA 99 MINUTES Watch in Cinema SAT JUL 23 Venue details “Wu-Tang Clan comin’ at ya, watch your step kid, watching your step kid…” With those lyrics from their debut single “Protect Ya Neck”, the Wu-Tang Clan took over the airwaves,…

  • World Premiere: The Swimmers is TIFF 2022’s Opening Night Gala film

    The Swimmers is a soaring epic that dramatizes the true story of two sisters who left their home in war-torn Syria for a new life in Europe — and the chance to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Swimmers joins Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmansand Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy as World Premieres at TIFF ’22, announced earlier this week.…

  • Out Now-The Gray Man

    NEW The Gray Man Anthony Russo, Joe Russo The Gray Man The Gray Man is CIA operative Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling). Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Sierra Six was once a highly skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is…

  • Come Back Anytime DIRECTED BY: JOHN DASCHBACH

    COME BACK ANYTIME DIRECTED BY: JOHN DASCHBACH JAPAN PG 81 MINUTES Watch in Cinema FRI JUL 22 SAT JUL 23 SUN JUL 24 TUE JUL 26 THU JUL 28 Venue details Calling all foodies! Dig in to the mouth-watering story of self-taught noodle master Masamoto Ueda, the culinary genius behind Tokyo’s legendary Bizentei, which he…

  • Gull wins the Grand Prize at the 21st Jeonju International Film Festival 

    Pre-recorded introduction by Hanbin Kim Known for frequent depictions of violence against women in her short films, Kim Mijo was recognized as a provocative emerging director when Gull won the Grand Prize at the 21st Jeonju International Film Festival. Kim’s debut feature follows Obok (Jung Ae-hwa), a mother and wife in Seoul who has contentedly sacrificed her…