The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) will hold its 12th Annual AAFCA Awards honoring outstanding achievement in film on April 7, 2021.
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African American Film Critics Association Sets Date for 2021 Awards
Honorees directors Ryan Coogler (L) and John Singleton attend the 7th Annual AAFCA Awards on February 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for AAFCA)
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Festival of Cinema Announces 2020 Full Lineup of 28 Independent Films
Goodbye Honey directed by Max Strand Festival of Cinema announced the lineup of films screening at this year’s festival taking place as a “Drive – In Movie Theater” format in the borough of Queens, New York. The film festival, taking place from October 1 to October 4 at St. John’s University’s Queens Campus, will be screening six ‘blocks’ of movies featuring 28 independent films.
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Vancouver Film Festival Unveils 2020 Lineup, Opens with Loretta Sarah Todd’s MONKEY BEACH
Monkey Beach directed by Loretta Sarah Todd For its 39th edition, Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will showcase more than 100 feature films and events, including a vibrant blend of boundary-pushing Canadian work, adventurous East Asian cinema, provocative and inspiring documentaries, elevated genre cinema, festival favorites and more.
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Luca Guadagnino will Chair Official Jury of San Sebastian Festival’s 68th Edition
Luca Guadagnino The Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) will be the president of the Official Selection Jury at San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition. Luca Guadagnino will also present the world premiere, out of competition, the series We Are Who We Are.
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Institutional Racism Faced By an Aboriginal Boy in Australia are Confronted in IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS, Premiering on PBS Television Series POV
In My Blood it Runs directed by Maya Newell Set in Australia’s Northern Territory, In My Blood it Runs follows Dujuan, a young Aborginal boy with a spiritual connection to, and vast knowledge of, his cultural ancestry. At home in Alice Springs, Dujuan is surrounded by his loving family, which includes his mother, his two brothers, and his maternal grandmother Nana Carol, with whom he has a special bond.
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BFI London Film Festival Adds New Strand of XR and Immersive Art
All Kinds of Limbo, National Theatre. Photographer: Simon Sorted The BFI London Film Festival unveiled LFF Expanded: the Festival’s new strand of XR and Immersive Art, featuring Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and including live immersive performance.
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Tommy Oliver’s 40 YEARS A PRISONER to Premiere at TIFF and Debut on HBO in December
40 Years a Prisoner Tommy Oliver (“1982”) directs, produces and shoots the documentary 40 Years a Prisoner, chronicling the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the radical back-to-nature group MOVE and the aftermath that led to a son’s decades long fight to free his parents.
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FLC Reveals New York Film Festival 2020 Poster, Designed by John Waters
John Waters Film at Lincoln Center unveiled the poster for the 58th New York Film Festival (September 17 – October 11), designed by filmmaker, artist, and “Pope of Trash,” John Waters.
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Watch First Trailer for Cooper Raiff’s SHITHOUSE, SXSW Grand Jury Prize Winner
Maggie and Alex talk by the baseball field in Shithouse. | Credit: Rachel Klein IFC Films debuted the first trailer for Shithouse, written, directed, and starring Cooper Raiff, in his feature debut. Shithouse won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the virtual 2020 SXSW Film Festival, where the film made its World Premiere in the Narrative Feature Competition section. Shithouse will open in in theaters and VOD on October 16.
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Watch Trailer for KINGDOM OF SILENCE, Showtime Documentary on 2018 Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Kingdom of Silence Showtime dropped the new trailer for the new documentary film Kingdom of Silence exploring the complicated dynamic between the United States and Saudi Arabia as a backdrop to the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi.
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4 Documentary Films Win SFFILM 2020 Documentary Film Fund Grants
SFFILM announced the four winners of 2020 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund grants totaling $80,000, which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Giovanni Buccomino’s After a Revolution (working title), Clarke Lyons and Gabe Dinsmoor’s Squeegee, Farah Kassem’s We Are Inside, and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing with Fire were each awarded funding that will help push each project towards completion.
