The 21st Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will take place online October 20 – 25, 2020, showcasing work by Indigenous artists. imagineNATIVE will open the Festival with the shorts program YELLOW, composed of works created by artists from seven different nations. imagineNATIVE will close October 25 with the Canadian premiere of Compañía by Bolivian director Miguel Hilari.
Because of the Covid-19 health crisis, the 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), will be presented virtually and extending by a week to now run 18 days from November 5-22.
First Vote, Yi Chen’s documentary on the Asian American experience at the voting polls will have its World Broadcast Premiere on October 20, 2020.
Filmmaker Paolo Licata makes his debut with the Italian coming-of-age drama “Alone with her Dreams” opening in the U.S. via Virtual Cinema on October 30, 2020. Winner of Best First Feature and Best Original Score at the 2020 Italian Golden Globe Awards, the film stars Lucia Sardo, Marta Castiglia, Ileana Rigano, Katia Greco, Claudio Collovà,Loredana Marino, Tania Bambaci, along with Federica Sarno.
MTV Documentary Films acquired the documentary “76 Days,” directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and Anonymous, currently playing at the 29th Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF).
A new documentary on Grammy nominated, multi-platinum singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes titled “In Wonder” will be released globally on Netflix on November 23. The documentary world premiered at Toronto International Film Festival as a TIFF special event selection.
Sony Pictures Classics released the new trailer for Nine Days directed by Edson Oda and starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Bill Skårsgard, Tony Hale, David Rysdahl, along with Arianna Ortiz. The film which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival is scheduled to be released in early 2021.
The new documentary, “Trapped: Cash Bail in America” explores the growing movement to end the inherent economic and racial inequalities of cash bail while highlighting victims impacted by an unjust system, the tireless campaigners fighting for criminal justice reform, and a bail industry lobbying to maintain the status quo. The documentary is available to stream for free on the Real Stories YouTube Channel.
The pandemic-set, isolation horror/thriller Darkness in Tenement 45 from writer/director Nicole Groton (“The Melting Family”) will debut on all digital VOD platforms November 3.
The 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Antalya, Turkey awarded the Golden Orange’s Best Film in the National Competition to Ghosts (Hayaletler), directed by Azra Deniz Okyay and Best Film in the International Competition to Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Žbanić.
The new trailer is here for Call Me Brother, an offbeat indie comedy starring Saturday Night Live’s Andrew Dismukes.
The 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival runs all-virtual from October 15 – 29, featuring 197 film titles. Opening the festival is “I Used to Go Here” directed by Kris Rey, featuring Gillian Jacobs and Jemaine Clement, a heartfelt crowd-pleaser about a 30-something writer who should be celebrating her success, but with all of her friends getting married and having kids, she feels like she’s missing out.