The Iranian black comedy Pig (Khook) that world premiered at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival, opened at New York’s IFC Center on February 1, to be followed by the Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles on February 15.
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Iranian Black Comedy PIG (KHOOK) Opens in US
Pig (Khook)
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Australian Romantic Comedy TOP END WEDDING Releases Trailer
Top End Wedding The trailer debuted for Wayne Blair’s highly anticipated Australian romantic comedy Top End Wedding starring Miranda Tapsell, and Bohemian Rhapsody breakout Gwilym Lee. Top End Wedding which also stars Kerry Fox, Huw Higginson, Ursula Yovich and Shari Sebbens, had it’s World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
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ROMA’s Alfonso Cuarón, EIGHTH GRADE’s Bo Burnham Win DGA Awards
ROMA Alfonso Cuarón continued his winning record for Roma, snagging the Directors Guild of America’s Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Roma at the 71st Annual DGA Awards. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2013 for Gravity. Bo Burnham won the Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director for Eighth Grade; and Tim Wardle won the Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for Three Identical Strangers.
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Israeli Drama WORKING WOMAN Sets US Release Date
WORKING WOMAN WORKING WOMAN, an absorbing Israeli drama about a young mother and wife struggling with sexual harassment in the workplace, will open theatrically in NYC March 27 at the IFC Center & Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, and April 12 in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Royal, Town Center, and Playhouse.
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2019 Sundance Film Festival Awards – CLEMENCY, ONE CHILD NATION, HONEYLAND, THE SOUVENIR Win Top Prizes
Honeyland by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, an official selection of the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Samir Ljuma. Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories won at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to Clemency for U.S. Dramatic, One Child Nation for U.S. Documentary, Honeyland for World Cinema Documentary and The Souvenir for World Cinema Dramatic.
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2019 Miami Film Festival to Showcase 160 + Films, Opens with Documentary THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Meryl Streep appears in This Changes Everything (Meryl Streep from “Florence Foster Jenkins” at Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival) This Changes Everything, a pivotal documentary examining historic and contemporary gender inequity in the American film and television industries, will open the 36th edition of Miami Dade College’s acclaimed Miami Film Festival, on Friday, March 1st at the historic Olympia Theater. Appearing on camera are leading Hollywood women Meryl Streep, Geena Davis, Sandra Oh, Rosario Dawson, Zoe Saldana, Jessica Chastain, Taraji P. Henson, Cate Blanchett, Amandla Stenberg, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, Jill Soloway and many more advocating for meaningful change.
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Zhu Shengze’s PRESENT.PERFECT. Wins Tiger Award at 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam
From left to right: Susanna Nicchiarelli (president Tiger Jury), Zhu Shengze (filmmaker), and Zhengfang Yang (producer) International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 Award Winners Present.Perfect. directed by Zhu Shengze, described as a “daring film” by the jury, won the top prize – Tiger Award at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević won the Special Jury Award for Take Me Somewhere Nice. Audience favorite Capharnaüm by Nadine Labaki won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award. The VPRO Big Screen Award was awarded to Transnistra by Anna Eborn from Sweden.
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Berlin Film Festival to Honor Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, Agnès Varda and Herrmann Zschoche
Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, Agnès Varda and Herrmann Zschoche Since 1986, the Berlinale Camera has been awarded to individuals and institutions that have a connection with the festival and have made an extraordinary contribution to the world of filmmaking. At the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, US producer and IFP founder Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, who headed the Berlinale’s Panorama section for many years, French filmmaker Agnès Varda, and German director and screenwriter Herrmann Zschoche will be honored with the Berlinale Camera.
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THE FAVOURITE, BOY ERASED, LOVE SIMON Among 30th GLAAD Media Awards Nominees
Nicole Kidman in Boy Erased GLAAD, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced the nominees for the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Among the nominees: The Favourite, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Boy Erased, Love Simon, and The Miseducation of Cameron Post. GLAAD announced Special Recognition Awards for Nanette, a Netflix special starring queer comedian Hannah Gadsby; TransMilitary, a documentary which premiered on Logo and spotlighted the lives of transgender service members; and House of Mamis, a Spanish-language docuseries about a LGBTQ voguing community in Mexico City which ran on LGBTQ site INTOMore.com.
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24th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in NYC Announces Lineup, Opens with THE TROUBLE WITH YOU
Pio Marmaï and Adèle Haenel in The Trouble with You Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the annual French film festival, hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance, that showcases contemporary French filmmaking, announced the complete lineup for the 24th edition. The festival will run February 28 to March 10, 2019 at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City.
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Irish Film London to Host UK Premiere of Award-Winning Documentary on Champion Boxer Katie Taylor
Katie Irish Film London will host the much-anticipated UK premiere of Katie, the award-winning documentary that offers an incredible and emotional insight into the realm of world champion boxer Katie Taylor. Described by British champion Anthony Joshua as ‘phenomenal’, the notoriously private Irish Olympic Gold medal winner has become the most decorated and celebrated female fighter of all time.
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GREEN BOOK Mahershala Ali, A QUIET PLACE Emily Blunt, THE WIFE Glenn Close Win SAG Awards
Glenn Close in The Wife Mahershala Ali, Emily Blunt, Rami Malek and Glenn Close were honored with coveted Actor statuettes for performances in motion pictures of 2018 at the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The Actor for a motion picture cast performance along with the award for stunt ensemble went to Black Panther.