• Toronto International Film Festival Showcases 10 Eclectic Films on 2019 Midnight Madness Lineup

    Crazy World directed by Isaac Nabwana
    Crazy World directed by Isaac Nabwana

    The Toronto International Film Festival announced the 10 eclectic films that will make up this year’s Midnight Madness lineup. Midnight Madness welcomes new genre filmmakers with remarkable debuts, including Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s dystopian sci-fi film The Platform; Rose Glass’s unnerving psychological thriller Saint Maud, starring Morfydd Clark (Love & Friendship) and Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty); Andrew Patterson’s paranormal period piece The Vast of Night, which won the audience award for Best Narrative Feature at Slamdance and features breakout performances by Jake Horowitz and Sierra McCormick; and Keith Thomas’s supernatural horror film The Vigil.

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  • Toronto International Film Festival Reveals Women Dominated 2019 Discovery Program Lineup

    Simple Women directed by Chiara Malta
    Simple Women directed by Chiara Malta

    The revamped Discovery program at this year’s 2019 Toronto International Film Festival features a lineup of 37 films from emerging filmmakers representing 35 countries, with 54% of its selection directed by women.

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  • Toronto International Film Festival Unveils 2019 Documentary Lineup, Films from Feras Fayyad, Bryce Dallas Howard, Alex Gibney

    The Cave directed by Feras Fayyad
    Al Ghouta, Syria – Dr. Amani in the underground tunnels. (Photo credit: National Geographic) (The Cave directed by Feras Fayyad)

    The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its lineup of 25 documentary films covering high-profile figures including Truman Capote, Merce Cunningham, Ron Howard, Bikram Choudhury, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Imelda Marcos; as well as a broad range of themes, including journalism, immigration, global politics, environmentalism, capitalism, and racism.

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  • Shia LaBeouf’s HONEY BOY Releases Official Trailer

    Honey Boy
    Honey Boy

    Amazon Studios released the trailer for Honey Boy written by Shia LaBeouf and also starring Shia LaBeouf, along with Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe and FKA twigs. Honey Boy directed by Alma Har’el will open in theaters on November 8 .

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  • Joe Begos’ BLISS Drops Bloody Trailer + Release Date

    BLISS directed by Joe Begos
    BLISS directed by Joe Begos

    Dark Sky Films premiered the official trailer and announced the release date info for the horror film Bliss, directed by Joe Begos. Bliss starring Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Jeremy Gardner, George Wendt, and Rhys Wakefield opens in theaters and on digital platforms on September 27, 2019.

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  • THE KINGMAKER Documentary on Imelda Marcos to World Premiere at Venice Film Festival

    THE KINGMAKER
    Imelda Marcos on her 85th birthday in KINGMAKER. Photo Credit: Lauren Greenfield.

    Emmy winning director Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles), latest film The Kingmaker, will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this August. The documentary centers on the indomitable character and controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines whose behind-the-scenes influence of her husband Ferdinand’s presidency rocketed her to the global political stage.

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  • Avengers Director Anthony Russo Set For Special Conversation at HollyShorts 2019

    Anthony Russo
    Anthony Russo

    Anthony Russo, one of the leading directors and creators in the entertainment industry, will take part in a Special Conversation at this week’s HollyShorts Film Festival; the 15th edition of the annual Oscar Qualifying Festival. The special Conversation with Russo will take place on Friday, August 9, 2019 at 10:30am at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters located in Hollywood, CA. Buffalo 8 Partner and Producer Steven Adams will moderate the Conversation.

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  • Toronto International Film Festival Unveils 2019 Platform Competition Lineup

    Anne at 13,000 ft directed by Kazik Radwanski
    Anne at 13,000 ft directed by Kazik Radwanski

    The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled the 10 features that comprise the Platform competition for 2019. Of the 10 features in this year’s Platform selection, 40% are directed by women. The films hail from a wide range of regions, including Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and the US. Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft is the standout Canadian title in the program’s 2019 lineup, grounded in a career-best performance by
    Deragh Campbell (TIFF 2015 Rising Star).

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  • Pietro Marcello’s MARTIN EDEN will Close 2019 Platform Program of Toronto Film Festival

    MARTIN EDEN directed by Pietro Marcello
    MARTIN EDEN directed by Pietro Marcello

    The International Premiere of Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, a “daring and singular” adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same title will close the 2019 edition of Platform at Toronto International Film Festival. The film is Marcello’s much anticipated second narrative film, following his debut, Lost and Beautiful, and several documentary shorts and features.

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  • World Premiere of Sarah Gavron’s ROCKS will Open Platform Program of Toronto Film Festival 2019

    ROCKS directed by Sarah Gavron
    ROCKS directed by Sarah Gavron

    The World Premiere of Rocks, director Sarah Gavron’s “intimate, honest, and precise” third feature, will open the 2019 Platform program of the Toronto International Film Festival. The follow-up to her earlier Suffragette and Brick Lane stars Bukky Bakray in a career-launching role as Rocks, a teenager who suddenly finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother.

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  • Films by Jayro Bustamante, Patricio Guzmán, Gael García Bernal and more in Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastian Film Festival 2019

    La cordillera de los sueños (The Cordillera of Dreams)
    La cordillera de los sueños (The Cordillera of Dreams)

    Fifteen films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay will be showcased in the Horizontes Latinos section of the 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival. The films cover a wide range of issues including the Guatemalan genocide, the Chile of the 70s, the crisis of the Cuban rafters, legal abortion in Argentina, and life in Mexico, but also narratives given no space in the history books: the passage into adult life, the crises of life and family relationships.

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  • New Films by Nate Parker, Graeme A. Scott and Buddy Squires to World Premiere at Venice Film Festival

    Nate Parker
    Nate Parker directs AMERICAN SKIN

    The world premiere of two new films – American Skin by American director, actor, screenwriter and producer Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation) and Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope, a documentary about the work of the NGO, ‘Emergency’, the debut as a director of English film producer Graeme A. Scott and American cinematographer Buddy Squires, will complete the line-up in the Sconfini section of the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

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