Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton will narrate Goliath: Playing With Reality, a virtual reality experience directed by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla, set to World Premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 1.
Film Festivals
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Tilda Swindon Narrates ‘Goliath’, Venice Bound VR Experience
Tilda Swinton (Photo by Brigitte Lacombe)
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Actress Sharon Stone to Receive Golden Icon Award at Zurich Film Festival
Sharon Stone (Zurich Film Festival) Actress Sharon Stone will be honored for her acting career at the 17th Zurich Film Festival with the Festival’s highest accolade, the Golden Icon Award. Sharon Stone will be in Zurich to accept the award in person on Saturday, September 25. The award ceremony will be followed by a screening of Martin Scorsese’s thriller Casino, which earned the actress an Oscar nomination. Sharon Stone will also hold a ZFF Masters where she will offer the public insight into her creative process and remarkable career.
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Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2021 to Open with ‘Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust’
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) returns for the 37th edition of the Festival taking place from September 23 to October 2, 2021. Due to COVID, the festival will be a hybrid event, taking place both virtually and in person at select cinemas.
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Festival of Cinema NYC 2021 Returns to Queens With Over 120 Independent Films
John Carlucci by John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke Festival of Cinema NYC returns for its 5th year, as a live in-person 10-day event, taking place September 24-October 3, 2021, with over 120 independent films at the Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills, Queens.
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Ashland Independent Film Festival Showcases 14 Intl Films in 2021 World Film Week
The Ants and the Grasshopper directed by Raj Patel, Zak Piper Under the theme “See The World From Where You Are,” the Ashland Independent Film Festival presents 14 films from 15 countries for the 32nd annual World Film Week(s). The event will run virtually September 17-30, with a special outdoor screening of the documentary Torn at Lithia Park on September 18.
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New York Film Festival Announces Currents Lineup. Opens with ‘The Tsugua Diaries’
The Tsugua Diaries by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes The Currents section for the 59th New York Film Festival includes 15 features and 36 short films, representing 27 countries. The Opening Night selection is Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s (Arabian Nights, NYFF53) The Tsugua Diaries, a beguiling pandemic-era tale about three housemates in lockdown—one of several films in the section responding to the current health crisis through varying lenses; others include Shengze Zhu’s A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, a meditation on urban spaces before and after the COVID outbreak, and Denis Côté’s Social Hygiene, an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange barbs from a humorous distance.
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Toronto International Film Festival unveils Industry Selects, In Conversation With…, Special Events and Platform Prize Jury
Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer Toronto International Film Festival rounds out the 2021 lineup with the In Conversation With… series, Special Events. TIFF Industry Selects, and also announced is TIFF’s 2021 Platform Prize Jury
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The French Dispatch and The Power of the Dog to Compete for Audience Award at San Sebastian Festival
The French Dispatch directed by Wes Anderson Two new films – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award in the Perlak section at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition.
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Marion Cotillard to Receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival
Marion Cotillard French actress Marion Cotillard will receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition. She will collect the honorary award on Friday, September 17, during the Festival opening ceremony.
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Taliban Hostage Drama AND TOMORROW WE WILL BE DEAD Opens Zurich Film Festival
Sven Schelker and Morgane Ferru (front) in Michael Steiner’s And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead © Buena Vista International The world premiere of Michael Steiner’s hostage drama And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead (Und morgen seid ihr tot) about two Swiss Taliban hostages opens the 17th Zurich Film Festival on September 23, 2021.
