Category: film
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TIFF announces Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy as World Premiere screening
TIFF announces Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called Birdy as World Premiere screening Photo credit: BELLA RAMSEY stars in CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY Photo: ALEX BAILEY © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLCD TIFF is excited to announce Lena Dunham’s Catherine Called…
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SQUEAL- Opening Theatrically (NY/LA) and on VOD August 19 (US & Canada)
Filmmaker Aik Karapetian’s dark fairy tale SQUEAL centers on Samuel (Kevin Janssens), who is far from home, searching for his father. Lost in remotest Eastern Europe, on the edges of a mythical forest, a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer’s daughter Kirke (Laura Siliņa). Sam soon learns that his priorities must change if he…
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TIFF ANNOUNCES MY POLICEMAN AS WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING
Photo credit: Courtesy of Amazon StudiosTORONTO — TIFF is thrilled to announce that My Policeman, directed by Michael Grandage, will have its World Premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival.Adapted for the screen by Ron Nyswaner from Bethan Roberts’ award-winning novel of the same name, My Policeman follows three young people – policeman Tom…
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World Premiere: The Woman King @TIFF
More World Premieres are coming to the 47th edition of the Festival! Watch Oscar winner Viola Davis’s latest, The Woman King — the true story of the Agojie, the all-female military regiment charged with protecting the embattled African Kingdom of Dahomey. Get your ticket package today to save up to 30% and be one of the first to…
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1091 Pictures will distribute “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic” Globally This Fall
Investigative Documentary “Sextortion: the Hidden Pandemic” Will Be Released to Global TVOD/Digital Audiences on October 4th Following an Educational Theatrical Tour this Summer. (Los Angeles, CA) 1091 Pictures will distribute Auroris Media’s powerful and timely feature documentary “Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic” from filmmaker Maria Peek (“I Dream of Dance,” “Third Grade”) across all TVOD/Digital platforms globally beginning on October 4th, 2022. Auroris Media is launching a national educational screening…
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TIFF is thrilled to showcase director Sanaa Lathan’s film On the Come Up with a World Premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival.
World Premiere: On the Come Up Courtesy of Paramount Pictures TIFF is thrilled to showcase director Sanaa Lathan’s film On the Come Up with a World Premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival.Bri, a gifted 16-year-old rapper, attempts to take the battle-rap scene by storm in order to lift up her family and do right by the…
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Third Annual Hybrid Filmocracy Fest Concludes and Award Winners Announced; Film Market Elevates Networking and Sales
Los Angeles, CA The third edition of Filmocracy Fest presented a strong lineup of features and shorts competing for top prizes, both in person and online, including the Best of the Fest category, which was available online-only. The Festival ended with a celebratory Awards Ceremony on July 17. Award Winners include:Best Narrative Feature: 1-800-HOT NITE…
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A DOCUMENTARY FILM EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITIES OF CHANGE, GRIEF AND ACCEPTANCE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY HUMAN BODY EXPRESSION’S FILM WORK AS PART OF DANCEWORKS’ MOVING ONLINE SERIES
STREAMING ONLINE JULY 28 – 31, 2022 CHOREOGRAPHED BY HANNA KIEL FEATURING DANCERS: RYAN LEE, BONNIE KIM, DARRYL C. TRACY, SUSIE BURPEE, PULGA MUCHOCHOMA, ORIAH WIERSMA, KENDRA EPIK, AND AND 11 YEAR-OLD DANCER EVA TEECE-SOTER How do we navigate change, grief and acceptance in times of uncertainty? DanceWorks presents But Then Again, Human Body Expression’s documentary film work, featuring choreography by Hanna Kiel,…
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You’re invited to Member Meet-ups: Summer of Seoul
SEOUL Lady Vengeance Park Chan-wook Lady Vengeance Introduction by Reel Asian Artistic Director Aram Siu Wai Collier on July 22 35mm Print! The apotheosis of revenge wears red eyeshadow and an intense, angelic look in Park Chan-wook’s last entry in his dazzling Vengeance Trilogy. Lady Vengeance is a perilous venture into the psychology of a woman pursuing…
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ON SALE NOW OPENS FRI, JULY 22,2022 -Fire of Love
Fire of Love By Sara Dosa Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things: each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world.…
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New Release: The Talented Mr.Rosenberg@Hot Docs&Showing Now
The con is on! Notorious grifter Albert Rosenberg – dubbed the “Yorkville Swindler” by the media – sets out to set the record straight…or does he? A handsome and fashionable septuagenarian with a taste for life’s finer things, his outward charm masks a jaw-dropping history of heart-breaking betrayal, outrageous lies and elaborate masquerades. As he…
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KDMG, Inc. Brings Moving Coming of Age Drama “Icon” to Audiences Everywhere this August
KDMG, Inc. Acquires Filmmaker Tony Ahedo’s Touching Feature Film “Icon” for North American VOD/Digital & Blu-Ray/DVD August 1st Release (Los Angeles, CA— KDMG, Inc. (Kaczmarek Digital Media Group, Inc.) has acquired the Pretty Sweet Films’ production of filmmaker Tony Ahedo’s touching feature film debut “Icon.”This moving coming of age drama charts the perilous journey to adulthood for our charismatic leads Sam (Parker Padgett) and Ana (Devon Hales). KDMG, Inc. will release “Icon” across all TVOD/Digital…
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Filmocracy Fest Returns with Filmocracy Fest III: Hybrid Digital and In-Person Event July 14-17 in Beverly Hills; Feature Slate of Narratives and Docs AnnouncedFESTIVAL ADDS FILM MARKET, IMPACT EXPO
Filmocracy, LA’s hybrid boutique festival, returns for its third edition, with in-person screenings July 14-17 at Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills, with its full complement of twenty-six films available online via the Filmocracy digital platform. Filmocracy Fest got its start during the pandemic, when former AFI Fest programmer and Slamdance co-founder Jon Fitzgerald was working with…
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HBO FYC: GEORGE CARLIN’S AMERICAN DREAM, Directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio
George Carlin’s American Dream is a 2022 two-part documentary film about comedian George Carlin directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio.Then he discovered drugs. Carlin unpacked his mind, stopped shaving his beard, and changed his act. What “George Carlin’s American Dream” really captures is how much its subject was willing to shift and change, never…
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TIFF announces Festival debut of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as world premiere screening
TIFF announces Festival debut of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as world premiere screening Photo credit: Courtesy of Netflix TIFF is thrilled to announce that Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will make its festival debut with a world premiere at the 47th edition of the Festival.In the follow-up to Rian Johnson’s 2019 Knives Out, which earned…
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‘POV’ OPENS ITS 35TH SEASON WITH GRIPPING DOCUMENTARY WUHAN WUHAN ON JULY 11, 2022
Filmmakers Yung Chang, Diane Quon, Peter Luo, and Donna Gigliotti explore the early days of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China Debuts on PBS Television Nationwide and Streaming on PBS.org Watch Trailer • Download Press Photos New York, N.Y. –The 35thanniversary season of POV, America’s longest running documentary series, opens with the heart rendering observational film Wuhan Wuhan, about the first…
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Opening Theatrically and on VOD August 19 (US & Canada)
SQUEAL Director: Aik Karapetian Scriptwriter: Aik Karapetian,Aleksandr Rodionov Cast: Kevin Janssens,Laura Siliņa,Aigars Vilims,Normunds Griestiņš,Juris Bartkevičs,Guntis Pilsums Official Selection: FANTASTIC FEST 2021 and many more. SQUEAL will be released in the US Theatrically in Los Angeles (with more cities TBC) and on VOD in the US and CANADA on August 19. Theaters Include:Lumiere Music Hall – Los Angeles…
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CINÉPISTOLAIRE: The complete series is now available on the Cinéma Public platform
CINÉPISTOLAIRE : 10 filmmakers, 5 filmed correspondences The complete series is now available on the Cinéma Public platform Left to right: (up) Caroline Monnet, Carol Nguyen, Lina Rodríguez, Jorge Lozano, (centre) Trevor Anderson, Eva Cvijanović, (down) Shannon Walsh, Julien Elie, Rhayne Vermette, Nour Ouayda Cinéma Public is proud to announce that its first original creation, the Cinépistolaire series,…
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“FALL” – Dropping In Theaters Only on August 12, 2022
U.S. Release Date: Dropping In Theaters Only on August 12, 2022For best friends Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner), life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky…
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Executive Producer Tennis Star Naomi Osaka and Academy Award®-Winning Director Ben Proudfoot (The Queen of Basketball) Team Up on the New Short Documentary MINK!
Executive Producer Naomi Osaka and Academy Award®-Winning Director Ben Proudfoot (The Queen of Basketball) Team Up on the New Short Documentary MINK! Released Today by The New York Times Op-Docs in Association with Osaka’s Hana Kuma Told by Her Daughter Wendy, MINK! Chronicles the Remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American From Hawaii Who Became the First Woman of Color Elected to the…
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