Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF) in Austin, Texas announced the feature films selected for this year’s 23rd edition taking place as a hybrid event from June 9-13; and opening with Mariem Pérez Riera’s documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It.
Focus Features released the official trailer for the documentary film The Sparks Brothers directed by Edgar Wright which opens in theaters on June 18, 2021.
Sundance Film Festival announced that the 2022 festival will take place in-person and online January 20-30, 2022.
IFC Midnight is acquiring the horror film We Need To Do Something directed by Sean King O’Grady in his debut narrative feature and written by Max Booth III, based on his novella of the same name. The film stars Sierra McCormick (The Vast of Night), Vinessa Shaw (Hocus Pocus, Eyes Wide Shut), Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills, The Innkeepers), John James Cronin (NOS4A2), and newcomer Lisette Alexis.
AFI DOCS 2021 will open with the world premiere of Naomi Osaka, directed by Academy Award® nominee Garrett Bradley, and will close with Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt’s celebrated coming-of-age film Cusp. This year’s Centerpiece Screening will be Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, directed by Academy Award® winner Morgan Neville.
Apple will partner with A24 to release the drama film “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, directed by Academy Award winner Joel Coen. The film will be released in theaters worldwide later this year ahead of a global launch on Apple TV+.
Muhammad Ali, a new four-part documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, will air on PBS September 19-22, 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET. The new series, which was in development for six years, was also written and co-directed by Sarah Burns and David McMahon, whose previous collaborations with Burns include The Central Park Five (2012), Jackie Robinson (2016) and East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story (2020).
Apple released the trailer for the innovative new docuseries “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” directed by Danielle Peck and James Rogan. All eight episodes of this immersive exploration of the musicians and soundtracks that shaped the culture and politics of 1971 will premiere on Friday, May 21, exclusively on Apple TV+.
Cathy Yan’s feature film debut, Dead Pigs, winner of Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at Sundance Film Festival opens via Metrograph’s virtual cinema on May 13, then nationally on May 28.
MUBI released the trailer for the drama film Sweat, billed as “a shocking glimpse beneath the candy-colored surface of internet celebrity,” set to open in select theaters on June 18. The breakout second feature from writer-director Magnus von Horn, Sweat was an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Told with the pulse-pounding intensity of a thriller, this riveting drama exposes the real-life repercussions of our digital culture.
National Geographic Documentary Films debuted a first look teaser trailer for Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, filmmaker Dawn Porter’s (“The Way I See It,” “Good Trouble: John Lewis”) feature documentary that sheds new light on a century-old period of intense racial conflict.
Following its Sundance Film Festival debut, MGM’S American International Pictures acquired Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein’s comedy film ‘How It Ends’. How It Ends will be released in theaters and on digital on July 20, 2021.