Focus Features acquired Limbo, the English-language directorial debut of Ben Sharrock (Pikadero). The film is written and directed by Sharrock, and stars BIFA Nominee Amir El-Masry (Industry, Jack Ryan, The Night Manager).
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Focus Features to Release Ben Sharrock’s LIMBO Starring Amir El-Masry
LIMBO directed by Ben Sharrock
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Watch New Trailer for THE VIGIL, Supernatural Horror Film Steeped in Ancient Jewish Lore
The Vigil directed by Keith Thomas IFC Midnight released a new trailer for the supernatural horror film The Vigil directed by Keith Thomas and starring Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig along with Lynn Cohen. The film opens in select theaters, on digital platforms and VOD on February 26th.
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TINA, an HBO Documentary on Legendary Singer Tina Turner, Debuts in March
Tina (HBO) The new documentary Tina, from Academy Award®-winning directors Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, is a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. The documentary debuts Saturday, March 27 (8:00 PM- 10:00 PM ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
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Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Announces 2020 Winners, NOMADLAND Wins Best Picture
Frances McDormand and David Strathairn in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted Nomadland as the best film of 2020, with Chloe Zhao winning Best Director and Joshua James Richards for Best Cinematography.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Announces Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino Lineups
Eve Duranceau, G.A. Roy, Maxim Gaudette in Hygiène sociale (Social Hygiene) Berlin International Film Festival 2021 revealed the films selected for Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino programs. In the 2021 Perspektive Deutsches Kino, three documentary and three fiction films take us on journeys to places in Denmark, Nigeria, Canada, the USA, Georgia, Hong Kong and Germany – from the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, to Berlin and Brandenburg, to the Baltic Sea.
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Watch Trailer For HAPPILY – Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé Star in Indie Dark Comedy
HAPPILY starring Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé Saban Films released the trailer for Happily, an indie dark comedy starring Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé, along with Stephen Root, Paul Scheer, Breckin Meyer, Natalie Zea, Natalie Morales. Happily, the feature directorial debut of writer BenDavid Grabinski, opens in theaters, on digital and on demand on March 19th 2021.
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The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup of 30 Films
No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival opens its 18th annual edition on May 12th at the Oregon Electric Station in Eugene, Oregon. The five-day event offers film screenings and will also feature expert speakers, a guided tour, TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Media, a TAC Conference symposium on the search for Amelia Earhart and possibly other symposia, and a Saturday social gathering, and will conclude with an awards reception on May 16th.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Reveals Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded Lineup
Aurielle Akerele in The Inheritance 17 films makes up the 51st Berlinale Forum program and the Forum Expanded film selection consists of four short film selections, one medium-length film and two feature-length films, with a total of 18 films to be shown in March at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. Eight installations will also be shown in June.
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Surfer Garrett McNamara Documentary Series 100 FOOT WAVE Premieres in Spring on HBO
100 FOOT WAVE featuring surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara Directed by award-winning filmmaker Chris Smith the six-part HBO Sports Documentary series 100 Foot Wave premiering this spring, intimately captures the decade-long odyssey of surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara, who, after visiting Nazaré, Portugal in hopes of conquering a 100-foot wave, pushed the sport to ever-greater heights and alongside locals helped transform the small fishing village into the world’s preeminent big-wave surfing destination.
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5 Students Compete in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in Documentary OWN THE ROOM Premiering on Disney+
“Own the Room” Daniela Blanco, co-founder of Sunthetics. (Credit: Future of Work Film Inc) Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, the filmmakers behind the successful Emmy Award-winning, Sundance and SXSW audience film “Science Fair,” team up with National Geographic Documentary Films on the feature documentary “Own the Room”, which will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on March 12.
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‘Minari,’ ‘Nomadland’ and ‘First Cow’ Lead Nominations for 2020 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
First Cow directed by Kelly Reichardt Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari leads the nominations for the 2020 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the year’s best in film with 8 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Steven Yeun), Best Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung Youn), Best Ensemble Cast, Best Original Score, and Best Youth Performance (Alan Kim). The Korean-American film also scored a Best Film Not in the English Language nomination.
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‘Minari,’ ‘Nomadland,’ and ‘One Night in Miami’ Among Nominees for AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards
One Night in Miami by Regina King AARP The Magazine announced the nominees for the upcoming Movies for Grownups® Awards, with Minari, Nomadland, and One Night in Miami, among the films contending for the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category.