Icarus Films will release Users, the most recent film by acclaimed director and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award Natalia Almada. Winner of the Documentary Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival—a second win for Almada in the same category after her 2009 documentary El General—Users opens Friday, June 9 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York City, and on Friday, June 16 at the Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, before expanding to other cities in North America.
NewFest, home to the celebrated LGBTQ+ film festival, announced the full lineup for their third annual NewFest Pride Summer Film Series. The event kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month from June 1 – 5, 2023 in New York, and will feature a mix of exclusive in-person premieres/panels, virtual screenings, and social events.
The 22nd San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (SF DocFest) will be held June 1 – 11, 2023; and screen 39 features and 47 shorts. The festival opens with Christine Yoo’s 26.2 To Life and Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? directed by Yvan Iturriaga, Francisco Nuñez Capriles.
Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, the Devil won the jury award for Best Narrative Feature and Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Butterfly in the Sky won the jury award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2023 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
Searchlight Pictures revealed the official trailer for Flamin’ Hot, the comedy drama film directed by actress Eva Longoria, and based on the memoir A Boy, a Burrito and a Cookie: From Janitor to Executive by Richard Montañez, the former janitor who claimed to have invented “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos”.
Ballin Abroad, a documentary that follows the journeys of five American basketball players playing in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and Euro-Leagues, is set for a Special Community Screening at the North Carolina Black Film Festival.
Conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins are under the spotlight in the documentary Wild Life, as they fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth.
The documentary films Batata, Fire of Love, Aftershock and Mariupol: The People’s Story are among the 35 winners of the 83rd Peabody Awards, recognized as the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting, streaming, and interactive media during 2022.
The 25th Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) set to take place June 14-18, 2023, revealed its lineup of narrative, documentary, and short films and honorees.
HBO revealed the official trailer for Being Mary Tyler Moore, an intimate documentary chronicling the life of the legendary actress whose career spanned sixty years.
The 22nd edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, returns to Film at Lincoln Center from June 1 to 8 with a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films.
