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Wendie Malick’s Mother Of All Shows to Kick Off 2023 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

Mother Of All Shows starring Wendie Malick

The World Premiere of Mother Of All Shows starring Wendie Malick (Young Sheldon, Hot in Cleveland, Just Shoot Me) kicks off the 13th edition of Art of Brooklyn Film Festival on Thursday, June 1st at Brooklyn’s historic Cobble Hill Cinemas. The film is the story of a woman coping with the impending death of her estranged mother (Malick) by imagining their conflict as a 1970s musical variety show. Wendy will appear with director and co-star Melissa D’Agostino at the premiere, with a Q&A to follow.

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The Adults Trailer. Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis Star in Dustin Guy Defa’s Indie Comedy

The Adults directed by Dustin Guy Defa

Ahead of the US premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, Variance Films shared the official trailer for The Adults, the indie comedy drama film starring Michael Cera as Eric, who travels trip back home to visit his family, but finds himself balancing the relationship with his sisters and his addiction to a local poker game. Also starring in the film are Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis, Wavyy Jonez, Anoop Desai, Kyra Tantao, Kiah McKirnan, and Simon Kim.

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Where the Road Leads, Unicorn Boy, Love Dump Win Top Awards at 2023 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

Where the Road Leads director Nina Ognjanovic (Photo Credit Dori Myer)

The 2023 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) honored the year’s jury and audience award winners at the Closing Night Award Ceremony in Mammoth Lakes where Where the Road Leads directed and written by Nina Ognjanović won both the Jury and Audience awards for Best International Narrative Feature.

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Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2023 Reveals Lineup, Patricia Clarkson and Barry Ward Among Jury

Slow directed by Marija Kavtaradze

New films by Pascal Plante, Stephan Komandarev, Tinatin Kajrishvili, Babak Jalali will compete alongside Ernst De Geer, Itsaso Arana and Cyril Aris in the Crystal Globe Competition at the 2023 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Actress Patricia Clarkson and Irish actor Barry Ward are among the Jury that will select the winning films.

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Joshua Burge Stars as a Troubled Insomniac in NY in Alex Andre’s PRATFALL Premiering at Brooklyn Film Festival

Chloé Groussard and Joshua Burge in Pratfall (Credit – Alex Andre)

Joshua Burge (“Buzzard,” “Relaxer,” “The Revenant”) plays Eli, a troubled insomniac who encounters Joelle (Chloé Groussard), an enigmatic French tourist in Central Park. The two set off on a sleepless New York adventure as the city casts a shadow over them in the new independent film Pratfall.

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‘The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ Documentary Set for CNN on Memorial Day

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart. Courtesy HBO.

Directed by filmmaker Frank Marshall (Seabiscuit, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, the Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary on Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, known as the Bee Gees will air on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29 at 8pm ET on CNN.

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Land of Gold, unseen, Nurse Unseen Win Top Awards at CAAMFest 2023

Land of Gold directed by Nardeep Khurmi

It’s a wrap. The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) celebrated a successful return to fully in-person programs at CAAMFest 2023, with more than 11,000 people in attendance.

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Hugo Ruiz’s ONE NIGHT WITH ADELA Starring Laura Galán to World Premiere at Tribeca | Trailer

One Night With Adela (Una Noche Con Adela) directed by Hugo Ruiz

One Night With Adela (Una Noche Con Adela), written and directed by Hugo Ruiz, will have its world premiere in the Midnight Section of the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

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Tribeca Fest Documentary TAKE CARE OF MAYA by Henry Roosevelt to Debut on Netflix

Take Care of Maya directed by Henry Roosevelt

Directed by Henry Roosevelt and executive produced by award-winning filmmakers Liz Garbus, Dan Cogan and Jon Bardin, the documentary Take Care of Maya follows Jack and Beata Kowalski and their experience with the “system” after they bring their 10-year-old daughter to the ER with a rare illness.

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DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival Unveils DC/FRAME Program Lineup

Bring Them Home directed by Ray Whitehouse and Kate Woodsome

The DC/DOX documentary film festival set to take place June 15-18, 2023 in Washington, DC, revealed the slate of films for DC/FRAME, a special festival program curated in partnership with HumanitiesDC.

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19 Documentary Films Win Jewish Story Partners Grants

Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round directed by Ilana Trachtman

19 documentary films have been awarded grants totaling $490,000 from Jewish Story Partners (JSP), a Los Angeles-based non-profit film funding organization. JSP, which launched in April 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation, has an ambitious vision to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.

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Australian Premiere of Noora Niasari’s Sundance Winning SHAYDA to Open Melbourne Film Festival

Shayda directed by Noora Niasari

The 71st edition of Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will open with the Australian Premiere of Noora Niasari’s Shayda, winner of the Audience Award earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival. Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story, a rollicking documentary portrait of the late, great Australian music icon will make its World Premiere in a very special Music on Film event.

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