The live, immersive VR production, The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite, will make its Asia premiere at the innovative Kaohsiung Film Festival this October via VR headset. Welcome to Respite is a standalone experience and the first chapter of The Severance Theory, a four-part series. This hour-long immersive journey will be available to experience as a live performance with a virtual reality headset on the VRChat platform during the festival.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye directed by Michael Showalter will open and Marvel Studios’ Eternals will close the sixteenth Rome Film Fest taking place October 14 – 24, 2021. Rome Film Fest will also celebrate Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Poser directed by Noah Dixon and Ori Segev won Best Narrative Feature, and Bo McGuire’s Socks on Fire won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 52nd edition of Nashville Film Festival.
At the 34th European Film Awards, the European Film Academy will honor filmmaker Márta Mészáros with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding body of work. She will be an honorary guest at the 34th European Film Awards Ceremony on December 11, 2021 in Berlin.
The 15th Annual Other Israel Film Festival returns as a hybrid format with in-person premieres and filmmaker Q+As at the freshly renovated Carole Zabar Center for Film’s Goldman-Sonnenfeldt auditorium at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan and streaming online from November 4–11, 2021.
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) added 65 new documentary films to its festival lineup today, rolling out the non-competitive program sections Best of Fests, Masters, and Paradocs. The 34th edition of IDFA takes place from November 17 to 28 in Amsterdam.
The 13th Naples International Film Festival (NIFF) will be held October 21-24, 2021, featuring a return to in-person screenings. The festival will include 67 films (12 narrative features, 11 documentary features, 44 short films) from 20 countries. A central theme of this year’s edition of NIFF will be a celebration of the art of making the short film, including the first time the festival has showcased a specially curated shorts program for its Opening Night Film experience. The film festival will close with a special presentation of Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future featuring a live performance of John Williams’ classic score by the Naples Philharmonic, conducted by Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly.
Set to premiere in theaters this month, here is the official trailer for Violet, the indie drama starring Olivia Munn, Luke Bracey with Justin Theroux. Directed by Justine Bateman in her directorial debut, Violet had its world premiere at 2021 South by Southwest, and opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 29, 2021 (expanding theatrically November 5), followed by on-demand on November 9.
Disney+ released the new official trailer for “Fauci,” the new documentary on the nation’s top infectious disease expert and dedicated public servant Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D. premiering on Disney+ this Wednesday, October 6.
Directed by Robert B. Weide and Don Argott, IFC Films will release Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, the feature documentary about the prolific author in theaters and on VOD on November 19, 2021
Directed by Dan Slater, the beautifully shot and deeply disturbing genre film The Family will World Premiere at Busan International Film Festival. The film stars Nigel Bennett (Father), Benjamin Charles Watson (Caleb), Jenna Warren (Abigail), Toni Ellwand (Mother), Keana Lyn (Mary), and Yasmin MacKay (Evelyn).
My Name Is Pauli Murray directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen (RBG) was voted the Audience Award winner of the 42nd annual Aspen Filmfest. The film made its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and will be released digitally on the Amazon platform October 1, 2021.