The 47th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) kicks off on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 with Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about the PBS series Reading Rainbow, which inspired millions of children to “take a look, it’s in a book.”
Film Festivals
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BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY, BEING MARY TYLER MOORE and I LIKE MOVIES to Headline Cleveland Film Festival
LeVar Burton in Butterfly in the Sky by Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb
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7th MidWest WeirdFest Reveals Final Wave of Films incl. BRAEK
Braek directed by John Fallon. MidWest WeirdFest 2023 announced the full program for the 7th annual edition taking place March 3-5, 2025 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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26.2 TO LIFE Wins Audience Award at 2023 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Winners of the Audience Choice Award for ‘26.2 To Life’ Carolyn Mao, Christine Yoo, and Sara Jane Sluke at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for SBIFF) 26.2 To Life directed by Christine Yoo won the Audience Choice Award at 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival which took place February 8 – February 18, 2023.
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Little Richard: I am Everything to Open Oxford Film Festival 20th Anniversary Lineup
Little Richard in Little Richard: I Am Everything by Lisa Cortes The 2023 Oxford Film Festival taking place March 1-5, 2023 announced the lineup of 143 films and media projects for the 20th Anniversary annual edition.
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BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 Reveals Lineup
XX + XY directed by Soh-Yoon Lee The 37th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival revealed its full program of 58 features and 90 shorts from 41 countries, divided into three thematic strands: Hearts, Bodies and Minds.
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AMERICAN OUTLAWS Trailer. Sean McEwen’s True Crime Drama Premieres at Santa Barbara Film Festival
American Outlaws directed by Sean McEwen Here is the first look trailer for American Outlaws, the true crime drama of three siblings facing the possibility of prison take matters into their own hands with a cross-country crime spree. The film is based on a true story and the GQ article “The Whole True Story of the Dougherty Gang” by Kathy Dobie.
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Andor Actor Diego Luna to Receive Variety Virtuoso Award at Miami Film Festival
Diego Luna in Lucasfilm’s ANDOR ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. Andor actor Diego Luna will be honored with the first Variety Virtuoso Award at the Miami Film Festival, which will take place from March 3-12, 2023. The award presentation will take place on Saturday, March 4, to celebrate Luna’s excellence in acting, directing and producing over the years.
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LET’S MEET HALFWAY, CIRCUS OF THE SCARS, BROADWAY and THIS IS NATIONAL WAKE Win at 25th SF IndieFest
Circus of the Scars directed by Cory Wees – The Torture King 1992 photo by Jan Gregor San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest) announced the award winners for the 25th anniversary of the festival, which came to an end this Sunday, February 12th.
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Delikado and Theatre of Violence Headline Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London’s Documentary Film Line-up
Delikado directed by Karl Malakunas The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 27th year in London, presents a line-up of 10 award-winning, international documentary films at the Barbican from March 16-24, 2023, and digitally across the UK and Ireland on the festival website from March 20-26, 2023.
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THIS WORLD IS NOT MY OWN, Innovative Documentary on Folk Artist Nellie Mae Rowe Premieres at SXSW
This World is Not My Own directed by Opendox (Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell) Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and the segregated south – it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe.
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Melissa Tittl’s UFO WITNESS Documentary to World Premiere at MidWest WeirdFest
Melissa Tittl with researcher Willia Henry in Code 12 Directed and presented by Melissa Tittl, Code 12, a new documentary on the secret nature of reality world premieres at the 7th annual MidWest WeirdFest.
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Omar El Zohairy’s Feathers Wins Best Film at Joburg Film Festival
Feathers directed by Omar El Zohairy The Egyptian feature film Feathers directed by Omar El Zohairy, was named Best Film at the 5th edition of the Joburg Film Festival in in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. This absurdist tale about a patriarch transformed into a chicken has a lot to say about Egyptian culture and the role of women.