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Legion M’s critically acclaimed dark comedy film My Dead Friend Zoe which won SXSW Film Festival’s Audience Award this year has been acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment for release later this year. The film is the directorial debut of Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, a former U.S. Army infantry paratrooper and Iraq War Bronze Star veteran.
Homeland Story directed by Glenda Hambley took the top jury award, Best Film by Jury, at the 2024 The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival. This film focuses on the Donydji, a small Indigenous homeland in North East Arnhem Land in the far north of Australia. It charts the Donydji community’s transition from nomadic life to the digital age, starting in the 1960s and all the way to the present day. This is a moving and representative portrait of one family’s struggle to preserve their culture and remain on their homeland despite the severe obstacles they face: sub-standard education, deplorable service delivery, lack of job opportunities for youth, inadequate government policy, bureaucratic mismanagement, and pressure from mining interests.
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking directed by Maja Novaković, the Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary film following an elderly man living in isolation, won the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition at the 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest.
Grasshopper Film revealed the official trailer for The Human Surge 3 (El auge del humano 3), the sequel of the critically acclaimed film The Human Surge (2016), winner of Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival.
The drama thriller movie The Ghost Trap, which is based on the lobstering novel of the same name by Maine author and screenwriter, K. Stephens, makes its Maine premiere as the Centerpiece Film for the 2024 Maine International Film Festival (MIFF), set to take place July 12-21, 2024.
Ana Fahr’s Valley of Exile was named Best Film (Narrative Feature), and Asley Malcolm Morrison’s Back To Your Corner won the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 19th Harlem International Film Festival (Hi).
Directed by filmmaker Susanne Rostock, Following Harry, the documentary portrait of Harry Belafonte made its World Premiere to a packed house at the 2024 Tribeca Festival.
The 2024 Bentonville Film Festival announced the winners of their narrative, documentary, short film, and episodic competition program for the 10th anniversary of the festival which ran from June 10-16 in Bentonville, AR.
Don’t You Let Me Go (Agarrame fuerte), the most recent feature film by the Uruguayan directorial duo of Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge (So Much Water), will make its world premiere in the International Narrative Competition at the 23rd edition of the Tribeca Festival.
Hulu revealed the official trailer for the documentary “Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge,” set to have its world premiere as the opening night selection at the 2024 Tribeca Festival on June 5.
Hugh Bonneville is an accomplished actor best known for his role as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the popular drama series Downton Abbey. He will be honored for his 35-year vibrant and eclectic career at the Mostly British Film Festival at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco, California.
Anora directed by Sean Baker won the Palme d’or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The jury led by Greta Gerwig selected the comedy drama film of Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.