In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, HBO will premiere three short films from the 2019 Asian Pacific American Visionaries, a short film program in its third year featuring the works of emerging Asian American directors.
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HBO to Premiere 3 APA Visionaries Short Films for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
‘Zoetic,’ directed by Julie Zhan
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Watch Official Trailer for KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE Featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Knock Down The House Netflix released the trailer for the award winning documentary Knock Down the House that follows four women – US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez along with Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin as they mount grassroots campaigns against powerful incumbents in the the 2018 midterm elections. Knock Down the House will open in select theaters and launch globally on Netflix May 1, 2019.
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BARBARA RUBIN & THE EXPLODING NY UNDERGROUND Documentary Opens in Theaters on May 24
Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground Barbara Rubin and The Exploding NY Underground a documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Chuck Smith, shines the spotlight on Barbara Rubin, one of the creative women in NYC’s influential avant garde scene in the 1960’s. The film which won the Metropolitan Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC will open theatrically at the IFC Center in NYC on May 24, and at Laemmle Theaters in LA and Roxie in SF on June 14. Other cities will follow.
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Florida Film Festival 2019 Announces Grand Jury and Audience Award Winners
Chained for Life The Grand Jury and Audience Awards of the 2019 Florida Film Festival were presented at the Awards Ceremony on Saturday, with the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature going to Chained for Life directed by Aaron Schimberg, and the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature went to Roll Red Roll directed by Nancy Schwartzman.
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Cannes Critics’ Week Announces 2019 Lineup of 11 Features + 15 Short Films
Félix Maritaud – the winner of the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for his work in Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage (Wild) – on the poster of the 58th edition of Cannes Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) Eleven feature films, including eight first and three second films along with fifteen short films, have been selected for the 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week. Litigante, the second film by Colombian director Franco Lolli, will open the 58th edition, which will close with the first part of a trilogy, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Chun jiang shui nuan), the first film from the young Chinese prodigy filmmaker Gu Xiaogang.
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Mark Blanchard’s Award Winning Indie Adventure Film A WORLD AWAY at Myrtle Beach Intl Film Festival
A WORLD AWAY. Resting on the ridge of beneath the sweltering sun. (L-R): Frank Lawrence Catania, Daniel Jenks, Landry Bender, Nathaniel J Potvin, David DeLuise, Carmen Blanchard, and Rowan Blanchard Mark Blanchard’s award winning independent film A World Away will screen at the upcoming Myrtle Beach International Film Festival 2019 on Saturday, April 27, 2019. A World Away is Official Winner of Chicago Independent Film Festival 2019 for Best Film Feature, Best Ensemble Cast, Audience Choice For Best Film.
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THE CHAMBERMAID and MIDNIGHT TRAVELER Win Top 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival Awards
The Chambermaid, directed by Lila Avilés Nearly $40,000 in prizes and awards were presented to the winners of the juried Golden Gate Award (GGA) competitions at the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival. The top prizes New Directors Award and $10,000 cash prize went to The Chambermaid, directed by Lila Avilés and Documentary Feature Award and $10,000 cash prize went to Midnight Traveler directed by Hassan Fazili.
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NFL Cheerleaders Fight for Minimum Wage in A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM
A WOMAN’S WORK: THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM Director Yu Gu follows several former cheerleaders through their legal and personal journeys in a David and Goliath fight, as they fight for minimum wage and end 50 years of inequality inflicted by the NFL in her new documentary A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem. The documentary will have its World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, April 27, 2019.
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Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee’s Immigrant Indie Drama HAPPY CLEANERS to World Premiere at LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
HAPPY CLEANERS Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee wrote and directed Happy Cleaners, a true independent film, funded via Kickstarter with the support of KoreanAmericanStory that tackles the subject of growing up in an immigrant household. Happy Cleaners, starring Charles Ryu, Hyanghwa Lim, Yeena Sung, and Yun Jeong, will have its World Premiere at the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and is also screening at the 2019 CAAMFest in San Francisco.
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HBO Producing Documentary Series Exploring the Controversial NXIVM Organization
NXIVM leader Keith Raniere appears in videos titled “Keith Raniere Conversations,” published on YouTube (Keith Raniere Conversations/YouTube) HBO Documentary Films is currently in production on a documentary series exploring the NXIVM organization, by Oscar(R)-nominated, Emmy(R)-winning directors Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer (“The Square,” “Control Room,” “Startup.com”).
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Documentary AT THE HEART OF GOLD: INSIDE THE USA GYMNASTICS SCANDAL to Debut May 3 on HBO
Trinea Gonszar faces long time family friend Larry Nassar to give her victim impact statement in Ingham County, MI. AT THE HEART OF GOLD: INSIDE THE USA GYMNASTICS SCANDAL. COURTESY OF HBO. For more than two decades Dr. Larry Nassar was the osteopathic physician for the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team, as well as a physician at Michigan State University (MSU). During that time, he sexually abused hundreds of female athletes.
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Film Independent Selects 13 Filmmakers with 8 Film Projects for 2019 Documentary Lab
Lift Like a Girl by Mayye Zayed Film Independent has selected 13 filmmakers and eight projects for its 2019 Documentary Lab, an intensive two-week program designed to help filmmakers who are currently in post-production on their feature-length documentary films.