The animated film Weathering With You (Tenki no ko) directed by Makoto Shinkai has been selected by Japan Motion Picture Producers Association (Eiren) to represent Japan in the Best International Feature Film category at the 2020 Oscars.
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Japan Picks Animated Film WEATHERING WITH YOU for 2020 Oscar Race for Best International Film
Weathering With You (Tenki no ko)
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Jane Seymour to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Jane Seymour Actress Jane Seymour will receive the SFiFF Lifetime Achievement Award before introducing the film Somewhere in Time (1980) at the Lensic Performing Arts Center Friday, October 18th at 6:30 pm. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented during the 11th Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, October 16th-20th, 2019 in downtown Santa Fe.
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CIRCLE OF BOOKS and VILLAINS Win Top Awards at North Bend Film Festival 2019
CIRCUS OF BOOKS directed by Rachel Mason The second edition of the North Bend Film Festival came to a close in the scenic town of North Bend, Washington with closing night film Rachel Mason’s personal queer doc Circus of Books taking home the Audience Award. Villains won the prizes for Best Film along with Best Actor for Bill Skarsgård.
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Anderson Cowan’s Dark Comedy GROUPERS Gets Fall Theatrical Release Date
GROUPERS directed by Anderson Cowan Global Digital Releasing has acquired the worldwide rights to writer / director Anderson Cowan’s feature film debut, “GROUPERS”.
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Donald Sutherland to be Honored at San Sebastian Film Festival
Donald Sutherland Donald Sutherland will be honored with the Donostia Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, recognizing his more than fifty years of acting career. Sutherland will will receive the accolade prior to the screening of The Burnt Orange Heresy, a thriller directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. The film, with a cast featuring Mick Jagger, Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki will close the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival.
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Panama Selects Family Drama EVERYBODY CHANGES for 2020 Oscar Race for Best International Film
Everybody Changes (Todos cambiamos) by Arturo Montenegro Arturo Montenegro’s family drama Everybody Changes (Todos cambiamos), starring Gaby Gnazzo, Andrea Pérez Meana, Susan Elizabeth Castillo, Mónica Lola Díaz and José Manuel Arispe was selected by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Panama to represent Panama at the 2020 Academy Awards in the Best International Feature category.
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TO KID OR NOT TO KID, Maxine Trump’s Documentary on Women who Decide to Live Childfree, in Theaters in November
TO KID OR NOT TO KID directed by Maxine Trump There is still a myth that living childfree is weird, selfish or somehow wrong. In a world where you’re threatened for speaking openly about living childfree, two women, search for ways to support each other in making the decision to live without kids.
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Watch Trailer for Paula Hernandez’s THE SLEEPWALKERS World Premiering at Toronto Film Festival
The Sleepwalkers (Los Sonámbulos) The Argentinian film, The Sleepwalkers (Los Sonámbulos), written and directed by Paula Hernández, and starring Érica Rivas (WILD TALES), Ornella D’Elia, Marilu Marini, Luis Ziembrowsky, Daniel Hendler (FAMILY LAW, QUEENS), Valeria Lois, Rafael Federman will World Premiere, at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Ukraine Selects HOMEWARD for 2020 Oscar Race for Best International Film
Homeward (Evge) directed by Nariman Aliev Homeward (Evge) directed by Nariman Aliev has been selected by Ukraine to represent the country in the 2020 Oscars in Best International Feature Film category. The film tells the story of a Crimean Tatar man, Mustafa (Akhtem Seitablaev), who is coming back to the Russia-annexed Crimea to bury his elder son (Remzi Bilyalov) who died in the Donbas war.
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New Orleans Film Festival 2019 to Close with HARRIET + Announces Centerpiece and Competition Films Lineup
Harriet directed by Kasi Lemmons For its 30th anniversary, the Oscar-qualifying New Orleans Film Festival will showcase a slate of 232 visionary, thought-provoking films from October 16 through October 23, 2019. The festival will close with Harriet biopic about renowned abolitionist Harriet Tubman, and the Tribeca Film Festival award-winning film Burning Cane, directed by 19-year-old Phillip Youmans, will serve as the Centerpiece Film.
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JUST MERCY Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx will Open Hamptons Film Festival 2019
JUST MERCY Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will open the 2019 festival on Thursday, October 10, at Guild Hall, with the East Coast Premiere of JUST MERCY. A powerful and thought-provoking true story, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, JUST MERCY follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice as he fights a merciless legal system stacked against him and his clients at every turn. The film also stars Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Karan Kendrick and Brie Larson.
