Writer-director Jordan Peele’s Nope has been added to the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival lineup as a special screening. Nope will screen as a special IMAX® presentation at the Cinesphere Theatre at Ontario Place, which has the distinction of being the world’s first permanent IMAX® theatre. Following the screening, TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey will lead an engaging Q&A session with Jordan Peele.
Thirteen feature films will be showcased in Made in Spain, the non-competitive section for a selection of the year’s Spanish films at the 70th edition of San Sebastian Festival.
IFC Films has snagged the comedy film Four Samosas written and directed by Ravi Kapoor (Miss India America). The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. IFC Films will release the film in theaters and on demand December 2, 2022.
Paramount+ released the official trailer for On The Come Up, the feature directorial debut of actress Sanaa Lathan world premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
Michelle Yeoh will receive the inaugural TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award presented by BVLGARI at TIFF Tribute Awards during the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Roku debuted a new official trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a satirical biographical film on the life and career of the parody musician starring Daniel Radcliffe and Evan Rachel Wood. Also starring in the film are Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, and Quinta Brunson.
Tallgrass Film Festival celebrate its 20th Anniversary on September 28-October 2, with a lineup including 53 features and 14 short film programs with 195 films; opening with Ravi Kapoor’s Four Samosas, joining the other gala presentations, which include the world premiere of Daniel Fetherston and Danny Szlauderbach’s, We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment, Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s All Man: The International Male Story, Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Butterfly in the Sky, and Camille Hardman and Gary Lane’s Still Working 9 to 5.
Following the premiere earlier this year at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, here is the trailer for Kaepernick & America, a documentary exploring the intersection between Colin Kaepernick’s anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America’s ongoing racial turmoil.
RLJE Films debuted the official trailer for Section 8, the action-packed thriller starring Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney, Scott Adkins and Mickey Rourke.
3rd i’s 20th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond (SFISAFF) will take place at the Roxie and Castro theaters in San Francisco from September 23-25!
