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Twelve documentary films from prestigious international film festivals including three Polish films will be competing for a Golden Horn and Silver Horns in the international documentary competition at the 60th Krakow Film Festival which will now take place entirely online due to coronavirus pandemic.
The Italian Virtual Reality film Vajont from director Iolanda Di Bonaventura and producer Saverio Trapasso was selected at the close of the fourth edition of the Biennale College Cinema – VR to receive support from La Biennale to cover its production costs.
The darkly comical film Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney that world premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2019 will debut Saturday, April 25 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
Jamie Foxx, Tiffany Haddish, Bob Saget and Maria Bamford are among the featured talent in This Is Stand-Up, a two-hour documentary, which will have its world premiere with limited commercial interruption on Easter Sunday, April 12th at 10pm ET/PT on Comedy Central.
Showtime released the first-look clip for the upcoming feature-length documentary The Longest War, which hails from Emmy(R)-winning director Greg Barker (Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden) and Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, the executive producers of the Emmy(R) and Peabody-winning series Homeland. The Longest War premieres on Showtime on Sunday, April 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, immediately following the penultimate episode of Homeland .
To honor nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, Kino Lorber is offering a free streaming re-release of the acclaimed documentary, The American Nurse (www.americannurseproject.com).
Written and directed by Warren Fast, Finding Grace is the charming and loving story of a family who find their way back to one another by embracing faith and kindness. The film will be available to rent and buy for the first time on video-on-demand this April.
Corbin Bleu of High School Musical fame stars in the indie drama Ovid and the Art of Love, based on the life of the famous Roman poet Ovid along with John Savage (“The Deer Hunter”), Tara Summers (“Boston Legal”) and Tamara Feldman (“Gossip Girl”). The classic story gets a modern twist from filmmaker Esmé von Hoffman in a mash-up world of contemporary Detroit. and ancient Rome. Ovid and the Art of Love which won the award for for Best Director for Esmé von Hoffman at Festival of Cinema NYC 2019 will be released on all major streaming and VOD platforms on May 19, 2020 via Level 33 Entertainment.
Netflix released the trailer for the LA Originals, a documentary that was set to World Premiere at canceled SXSW, but is now available on the streaming network.
With more than 200+ theaters across North America supporting it’s new Virtual Cinema, Film Movement will offer its very first US theatrical premiere this April with A White, White Day, a thriller that was Iceland’s Official Oscar Submission.
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World tells the story of Norman Borlaug, an American agronomist who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in fighting global hunger. By increasing the world’s food supply, Borlaug made it possible for the planet to support far more people than had been thought possible, saving countless lives in the process. But in doing so, he unleashed a series of unintended consequences that tarnished his reputation and forever changed the environmental and economic balance of the world. Written, directed and produced by Rob Rapley and executive produced by Mark Samels and Susan Bellows, The Man Who Tried to Feed the World premieres Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video App.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced the official feature and short film selections for the festival’s 23rd edition which was originally scheduled to take place April 2-5 in downtown Durham, but was cancelled amid COVID-19 public health and safety concerns. The NEW DOCS program and Invited Program includes 44 features and 12 shorts from 26 countries