The 2020 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF), which had been scheduled to take place in March, but was cancelled due to Covid-19, still awarded numerous prizes and mentorship opportunities to independent filmmakers whose films were either confirmed to screen or were eligible for prizes.
The story of how a shy young Princess Elizabeth became a beacon of hope for a nation and ultimately a legendary queen is revealed in the new documentary film The Queen at War set to air on PBS in May.
Twelve documentary films from prestigious international film festivals including three Polish films will be competing for a Golden Horn and Silver Horns in the international documentary competition at the 60th Krakow Film Festival which will now take place entirely online due to coronavirus pandemic.
The Italian Virtual Reality film Vajont from director Iolanda Di Bonaventura and producer Saverio Trapasso was selected at the close of the fourth edition of the Biennale College Cinema – VR to receive support from La Biennale to cover its production costs.
The darkly comical film Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney that world premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2019 will debut Saturday, April 25 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
Jamie Foxx, Tiffany Haddish, Bob Saget and Maria Bamford are among the featured talent in This Is Stand-Up, a two-hour documentary, which will have its world premiere with limited commercial interruption on Easter Sunday, April 12th at 10pm ET/PT on Comedy Central.
Showtime released the first-look clip for the upcoming feature-length documentary The Longest War, which hails from Emmy(R)-winning director Greg Barker (Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden) and Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, the executive producers of the Emmy(R) and Peabody-winning series Homeland. The Longest War premieres on Showtime on Sunday, April 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, immediately following the penultimate episode of Homeland .
To honor nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, Kino Lorber is offering a free streaming re-release of the acclaimed documentary, The American Nurse (www.americannurseproject.com).
Written and directed by Warren Fast, Finding Grace is the charming and loving story of a family who find their way back to one another by embracing faith and kindness. The film will be available to rent and buy for the first time on video-on-demand this April.
The coming-of-age drama The Sharks (Los Tiburones), the directorial debut from Lucía Garibaldi, which world premiered at Sundance, where Garibaldi took home the prestigious Directing Award in World Cinema – Dramatic, will be released on VOD on April 14 and DVD on April 28.
Corbin Bleu of High School Musical fame stars in the indie drama Ovid and the Art of Love, based on the life of the famous Roman poet Ovid along with John Savage (“The Deer Hunter”), Tara Summers (“Boston Legal”) and Tamara Feldman (“Gossip Girl”). The classic story gets a modern twist from filmmaker Esmé von Hoffman in a mash-up world of contemporary Detroit. and ancient Rome. Ovid and the Art of Love which won the award for for Best Director for Esmé von Hoffman at Festival of Cinema NYC 2019 will be released on all major streaming and VOD platforms on May 19, 2020 via Level 33 Entertainment.
When the City of Austin had to cancel this year’s SXSW Film Festival, hundreds of filmmakers lost the opportunity for their work to be seen.