Netflix released the trailer for their documentary “Pelé” directed by David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas, on the life of Edson Arantes do Nascimento – better known as the Brazilian football legend Pelé. The documentary launches globally on Netflix on Tuesday February 23rd, 2021.
Ahead of the release in select theaters this Friday, February 5, 2021, 101 Studios released a new video clip titled “Hide” from Dara of Jasenovac, Serbia’s official Academy Awards selection for Best International Feature. In “Hide,” 10-year-old Dara (Biljana Cekic) must save her baby brother from being taken away by a murderous Ustase soldier.
Anthony Hopkins is the recipient of the Palm Springs International Film Awards’ Career Achievement Award for The Father.
The Brazilian documentary film My Darling Supermarket (Meu Querido Supermercado), filmmaker Tali Yankelevich’s witty and humorous portrait of a Brazilian supermarket will get a U.S. virtual theatrical release via Cinema Tropical, opening on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at Film Forum in New York City, followed by other cities nationwide.
IFC Films has acquired Holler written and directed by Nicole Riegel, one of Variety’s ‘10 Directors to Watch’ in 2020. The film marks Riegel’s directorial debut, and stars a breakout performance from Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World), Gus Halper (Sing Street), Pamela Adlon (Better Things, Californication), Becky Ann Baker (Freaks and Geeks, Girls), and Austin Amelio (AMC’s The Walking Dead). Holler was selected by the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, and Deauville Film Festival in 2020, and IFC Films will release the film in June 2021.
Lily Collins and Daveed Diggs announced the nominees for the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®. Minari received 3 nominations including Steven Yeun for best actor, Youn Yuh-jung for best supporting actress and best ensemble.
Miami Film Festival will present its 38th annual edition from March 5 – 14, 2021 in a hybrid format, with both in-theater and virtual presentations of more than 100 feature narratives, documentaries and short films of all genres, from 40 different countries.
When corrupt officials illegally sell villagers’ land in China, the villagers rise up in an unprecedented experiment in democracy in first-time documentarian Jill Li’s Lost Course — Winner, Best Documentary Golden Horse Awards 2020, and Official Selections of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and Hong Kong Asian Film Festival.
Gravitas Ventures released the trailer for Kerry Mondragon’s stylized indie drama Tyger Tyger, starring Dylan Sprouse, set to be released in select theaters, drive-ins, digital/VOD on February 26, 2021.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced the nominees for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Indie films receiving multiple nominations include The Father, Nomadland, and Promising Young Woman received 4 nominations, and One Night In Miami… received 3 nominations
The 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival will mark the 100th anniversary of Shochiku Cinema with a retrospective program, showcasing ten masterpieces from ten revered Japanese maestros, including Ozu Yasujiro, Shimizu Hiroshi, Imamura Shohei, and Oshima Nagisa.
One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history occurred 100 years ago, May 31-June 1, 1921. Known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, a mob of white residents set fire to “Black Wall Street” – hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma – killing an estimated 100-300 Black residents and leaving an estimated 10,000 Black residents homeless.