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2020 British Urban Film Festival Winners – “How to Stop a Recurring Dream” Wins Best Feature Film

How to Stop a Recurring Dream (directed by Ed Morris)

The 6th annual British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) came to a close with the annual awards ceremony streamed online via the festival website (see video below) and hosted by actor, writer and director Femi Oyeniran. How to Stop a Recurring Dream directed by Ed Morris won the Victor Adebodun Award: Best Feature along with Best Actress for Ruby Barker. Exploring themes of separation and loss this dreamy trip takes place over a weekend in the lives of two sisters. In the film, an imminent family separation forces the oldest daughter to kidnap her sister in an attempt to reconnect before they part.

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“Go/Don’t Go” Trailer – Alex Knapp’s Psychological Thriller Gets a January Release Date

“Go/Don’t Go” directed by Alex Knapp

Kamikaze Dogfight and Gravitas Ventures will release the psychological thriller, “Go/Don’t Go” written and directed by first time filmmaker, Alex Knapp on digital and cable VOD platforms on January 12, 2021. The thriller stars Alex Knapp, Olivia Luccardi, Nore Davis, Bettina Skye, Tom Essig, and Zoey Wagner.

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Music City Film Critics 2020 Awards Nominations – Nomadland, Sound of Metal, The Father Receive Nods

THE FATHER Starring Olivia Colman And Anthony Hopkins

The Music City Film Critics Association (MCFCA) – based in Nashville announced their nominees representing the best in film for 2020. Films receiving multiple nominations including for Best Film include Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and The Father.

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Lifetime Releases Trailer for “Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn’t We Almost Have It All” Documentary

Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn’t We Almost Have It All

Lifetime released a trailer for the new documentary Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn’t We Almost Have It All, which premieres on Saturday, February 6 at 8pm ET/PT, immediately followed by an encore presentation of the Lifetime original movie Whitney (2015) at 10pm ET/PT.

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SOUND OF METAL and NOMADLAND Lead Greater Western New York Film Critics 2020 Awards Nominations

Sound of Metal by Darius Marder

The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s announced the nominations for the third annual end-of-year Film Awards. Leading the 2020 nominations are Sound of Metal (8 nominations), Nomadland (6 nominations), and Mank, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and The Father (5 nominations each).

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Florida Film Critics Circle 2020 Winners – FIRST COW Wins Best Picture

First Cow by Kelly Reichardt

The Florida Film Critics Circle awarded its 2020 Best Picture prize to First Cow, Kelly Reichardt’s adaptation of Jonathan Raymond’s The Half Life. Los Fuertes, the Chilean drama about young men in love, won the Best Foreign Film category; and You Don’t Nomi, about the filming of the 1995 camp classic Showgirls, won Best Documentary.

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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Reveals Competition Lineup – Opens with “Riders of Justice”

Anders Thomas Jensen’s “Riders of Justice” starring Mads Mikkelsen

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2021 will open with the international premiere of absurdist tragicomedy Riders of Justice by Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, starring Mads Mikkelsen. Riders of Justice with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas centers on the deployed military man Markus who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – until the mathematics geek Otto shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart and Emmenthaler. Otto was also a passenger on the wrecked train. He is convinced someone must have been behind it. As the clues pile up, it becomes clear to Markus that his wife became a random casualty of what looks like a carefully orchestrated assassination.

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Oscars Rejects Portuguese Film LISTEN for Best International Feature Film

Listen directed by Ana Rocha de Sousa

The Portuguese film Listen directed by Ana Rocha de Sousa, selected to represent Portugal in the Best International Feature Film race at the 93rd Academy Awards, has been rejected because the film is mostly spoken in the English language

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2020 Indiana Film Journalists Awards – “Nomadland” “Dick Johnson is Dead” “Another Round” Win Awards

“Nomadland,” “Dick Johnson is Dead,” “Another Round”

“Nomadland” took top honors at the 2020 Indiana Film Journalists Association awards, winning four prizes including Best Picture, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for Chloé Zhao.

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RAMS Trailer: Sam Neill and Michael Caton Star as Estranged Brothers in English-Language Adaptation of Icelandic Film

RAMS starring Sam Neill and Michael Caton

Samuel Goldwyn Films released the trailer for Rams directed by Jeremy Sims (Last Cab to Darwin, Beneath Hill 60) and starring Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), Michael Caton (The Animal, The Castle) and two time Academy Award-nominee Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Hours, The Phantom of the Opera). The film opens in theaters and VOD on February 5th, 2021.

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Peter Jackson Reveals First Look at “The Beatles: Get Back” Documentary

Oscar®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “They Shall Not Grow Old”) released a sneak peek at his upcoming documentary “The Beatles: Get Back” which will open in US theaters on August 27, 2021.

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Deepa Mehta’s FUNNY BOY Rejected as Canada’s Oscar Entry for Best International Feature Film

Funny Boy directed by Deepa Mehta

Funny Boy, by cowriter-director Deepa Mehta, originally submitted by Canada as the country’s entry for Best International Feature Film at 2021 Oscars, has been rejected because the film does not meet the Academy’s eligibility requirements for the International Feature Film category due to the amount of English dialogue in the film. The Academy mandates that a film cannot contain more than 50% English to be eligible. The film will now be submitted for consideration in the Best Picture and general entry categories for the 93^rd Academy Awards^®.

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