Film Festivals

‘Brighton 4th’ Wins Best Film at 2021 Asian World Film Festival

(l. to r.) Levan Tediashvili (Kakhi) and Giorgi Tabidze (Soso) shopping on the boardwalk of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in Brighton 4th, directed by Levan Koguashvili. Image courtesy of Kino Iberica.

The Georgian film Brighton 4^th directed by Levan Koguashvili won the Snow Leopard Award for Best Film at the 2021 Asian World Film Festival (AWFF). The jury awarded the Snow Leopard for Best Actor to Tolepbergen Baisakalov for Fire (Kazakhstan) and Best Actress to Arawinda Kirana for Yuni (Indonesia). Eran Kolirin, director of Let it Be Morning (Israel), was honored with the Snow Leopard Distinction Award for Directing and Yusif (Lebanon) was recognized with Snow Leopard Special Jury Award for the film’s production (Houssein Haidar, producer, actor, and screenwriter and Mohammed Kazem Fayad, director).

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King Richard’s Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis to Receive Performer Awards at Santa Barbara Film Festival

(L – r) AUNJANUE ELLIS as Oracene “Brandy” Williams, MIKAYLA BARTHOLOMEW as Tunde Price, WILL SMITH as Richard Williams, SANIYYA SIDNEY as Venus Williams, DEMI SINGLETON as Serena Williams and DANIELE LAWSON as Isha Price in Warner Bros. Pictures’ inspiring drama KING RICHARD, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Chiabella James

Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis will receive the Outstanding Performers of the Year Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Smith and Ellis will be honored at an in-person conversation about their cinematic careers leading up to their outstanding performances in this year’s King Richard from Warner Bros Pictures. .

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Filmocracy Fest 2021 Returns With Hybrid Digital and In-Person Lineup

End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock

Filmocracy will reprise its groundbreaking Film Festival with the second Festival set to run December 9th through December 12th. Filmocracy will present a robust slate of features and shorts, many of them award winners and social impact documentaries.

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KING RICHARD Starring Will Smith Wins Miami Film Festival GEMS Audience Award

King Richard, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Chiabella James

King Richard starring and produced by Will Smith and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, is the winner of the MIAMI GEMS 2021 Audience Award. The film served as the Centerpiece screening for the Miami Film Festival’s annual fall event which took place from November 4-10 at MDC’s Tower Theater Miami.

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THE CANNONS Trailer – Inspiring Docu on America’s Oldest Minority Hockey Program in Washington DC

Coach Neal in The Cannons. Credit Steven Hoffner

The Cannons, a new documentary on America’s oldest minority hockey program in Southeast, Washington DC, directed by Steven Hoffner and AJ Messier will World Premiere at DOC NYC film festival.

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Watch EXPOSURE Trailer – Remarkable Story of an All-Women Arab/Euro Trek to the North Pole

Exposure directed by Holly Morris

Filmmaker Holly Morris debuted the teaser – first look trailer for Exposure, her documentary receiving its New York Premiere at DOC NYC on November 13. Led by polar explorer Felicity Aston, the films follows eleven novice women explorers, from the Arab World and the West, embark on a physically and emotionally demanding journey to the top of the world.

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63rd Lübeck Nordic Film Days Announces Award Winners, ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ Wins NDR Film Prize

“The Gravedigger’s Wife” directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed

“The Gravedigger’s Wife” directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed won two major awards – the NDR narrative Film Prize award and the Interfilm Church Prize at the 63rd Lübeck Nordic Film Days (Nordische Filmtage).

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CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival Announces 2021 Lineup

Joyride starring Dana Gould and Bobcat Goldthwait

CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival announced the lineup of 19 features and 20 shorts documentary films that will play the 9th doc fest returning to Globe Cinema from November 24-28 for its first in-person festival in two years. In addition to theatrical screenings, this year’s hybrid festival has an online component with additional selections, including two shorts packages, available to stream on-demand.

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IV Rock Horror Film Festival 2021 Rolls in Rio de Janeiro with 54 Genre Films

Girl Next by Larry Wade Carrel

The IV Rock Horror Film Festival 2021 is rolling in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil until November 14th with a selection of 54 genres films from 20 countries ranging from hard rock to soft blues fear levels.

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Watch First Look Trailer for YOUNG PLATO, Documentary on Maverick Irish School Headmaster, Kevin McAreve

Kevin In Classroom in “Young Plato” – (Photo Credit Soilsiu Films)

The Irish documentary Young Plato from filmmakers Neasa Ní Chianáín (School Life) and Declan McGrath profiles school headmaster Kevin McAreve, who is determined to change the fortunes of an inner-city community in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The documentary film will World Premiere at the 2020 DOC NYC film festival

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Documentary REFUGE from Exec. Producer Katie Couric Debuts at DOC NYC [Teaser Trailer]

Refuge directed by Erin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship

Refuge, a powerful and inspiring new documentary film about fear and love in the American South from executive producer Katie Couric will World Premiere at the 2021 DOC NYC film festival. Directed by Erin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship, the film profiles a leader in a white nationalist hate group who finds healing from the people he once hated – a Muslim heart doctor and his town of refugees.

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Tommy Haines’ HOCKEYLAND Documentary Set in Minnesota’s North Country Premieres at DOC NYC [Watch Teaser]

Hockeyland directed by Tommy Haines

Tommy Haines’ new documentary Hockeyland takes a look at a long tradition in Minnesota’s unforgiving North Country, where senior boys from rival communities skate for a last chance to etch their names into local lore. The documentary will World Premiere at 2021 DOC NYC.

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