The 18th Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) returns with its tradition of celebrating bold, boundary-pushing independent cinema at the Dendy Newtown in Newtown, Australia, from September 12th to 15th, 2024.
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‘Born Evil: The Serial Killer and The Savior’ – Michael Bay’s ID Docuseries Explores Serial Killer Hadden Clark | Trailer
Executive producer Michael Bay alongside Jack Truitt, Hadden Clark’s former cellmate (Credit Investigation Discovery) Investigation Discovery (ID) shared a first look trailer for Born Evil: The Serial Killer and The Savior, the first docuseries from executive producer Michael Bay featuring a deep dive into the actions of Hadden Clark, a lesser-known serial killer – exploring his life and crimes.
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‘Conclave’ Starring Ralph Fiennes Premieres as Closing Film of Mill Valley Film Festival
Conclave (Focus Features) The Vatican-set psychological thriller film Conclave, directed by Edward Berger, and starring Ralph Fiennes will make its West Coast premiere as the opening film of the 47th Mill Valley Film Festival on Thursday, October 3.
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Yorgos Lanthimos ‘Poor Things’ Named FIPRESCI 2024 Best Film of the Year
Emma Stone in Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos (courtesy SSIFF) Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, has been chosen the film of the year 2024 by the members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics and awarded the FIPRESCI Grand Prix. The organization selected the title from among all of the films premiered after July 1, 2023.
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22nd Tallgrass Film Festival Reveals First Films – Arrive Alive, The Sunshine Dreamer
The Sunshine Dreamer by Shawn Rhodes The 22nd Tallgrass Film Festival will be held in downtown Wichita, Kansas, October 24-27, 2024 . The festival will host more than 129 films at the Orpheum Theatre, the Advanced Learning Library (all downtown on 1st Street), and a new venue with three screens inside Century II, including the Mary J. Teall Theater.
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‘Close Your Eyes’ – Art Imitates Life in Victor Erice’s First Film in 31 Years | Trailer
José Coronado in Close Your Eyes. (Film Movement) Film Movement released the official trailer and the U.S. theatrical dates for ‘Close Your Eyes’, a drama film from celebrated Spanish director Victor Erice (The Spirit of Beehive). The film is Erice’s first feature length film since 1992’s ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. The semi-autobiographical film of director Victor Erice follows an aging filmmaker as he recalls his final and unfinished film following the mysterious disappearance of the lead actor.
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‘In The Summers’ – Residente and Sasha Calle Star in Alessandra Lacorazza’s Sundance-winning Family Drama | Trailer
In The Summers by Alessandra Lacorazza (Music Box Films) Music Box Films unveiled the official trailer for In ‘The Summers’, the directorial debut film of Colombian-American filmmaker Alessandra Lacorazza. Loosely based on Lacorazza’s childhood, the coming-of-age film follows two girls over the course of four formative summers on their yearly summer visits to their father’s home in New Mexico.
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Late ‘Parasite’ Actor Lee Sun-kyun Honored at Busan Film Festival with Special Program and Award
Lee Sun-kyun (Paju, Our Sunhi, A Hard Day, My Mister, Parasite, Land of Happiness | courtesy BIFF) The late Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun will be honored at the 29th Busan International Film Festival with a special program titled ‘In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun’, where six of the actor’s most beloved films will be screened. The festival will also honor the late actor with this year’s Korean Cinema Award.
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‘Paying For It’ Sook-Yin Lee’s Adaptation of Chester Brown’s Graphic Novel Premieres at TIFF
Emily Lê and Dan Beirne in Paying For It (Photo credit: Gayle Ye) Paying For It, the live-action adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel, “a comic-strip memoir about being a john”, co-written and directed by Sook-Yin Lee (Octavio is Dead! Year of the Carnivore) will have its world premiere in the Platform program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language Wins Top Prize at Melbourne Film Festival
Universal Language directed by Matthew Rankin (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language walked away with the top prize, the flagship Bright Horizons Award and $140,000AUD prize at the 2024 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). In the offbeat film set in a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.
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Mira Sorvino Boards ‘City of Dreams’ as Executive Producer, Sylvester Stallone and Martin Sheen as Ambassadors
Mira Sorvino, Sylvester Stallone, Martin Sheen (City of Dreams / screenshot) Ahead of the August 30, 2024 release of City of Dreams from writer-director-producer Mohit Ramchandani, Academy Award® winner Mira Sorvino has boarded as executive producer, with Sylvester Stallone, legendary coach Pat Riley, actor Martin Sheen (The West Wing), talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford, ‘Vikings’ and ‘Big Sky’ star Katheryn Winnick, and ’24’ and ‘Riverdale’ star Marisol Nichols joining as ambassadors for the film.
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‘Universal Language’ – Matthew Rankin Directs and Stars in Absurdist Comedy Film | Trailer
Universal Language. (Oscilloscope Laboratories) From filmmaker Matthew Rankin, the surreal absurdist comedy-drama film ‘Universal Language’. is set in a place between Tehran and Winnipeg, telling three unrelated stories that somehow interconects in the film.