The 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF45) will highlight the works of a new generation of filmmakers from Iran and Italy this year. HKIFF45 will feature eight films by talented and innovative filmmakers in a curated section entitled Iranian New Cinema.
South by Southwest (SXSW) announced the 2021 Jury and Special Award winners of the 28th SXSW Film Festival. The Fallout directed by Megan Park won the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature and Lily Topples the World directed by Jeremy Workman won for Documentary Feature.
The 6th Annual Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) announced Festival award winners with Circus of Life directed by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, the Oscar submission from Pakistan, taking the Snow Leopard Award for Best Film.
Florida Film Festival announced the program lineup of 164 films for the 30th Annual Festival, April 9-22, 2021, taking place online and in Maitland and Winter Park, Florida.The festival kicks off with the World Premiere of Because of Charley directed by Jon Binkowski, USA. Spotlight films include Mandibles directed by Quentin Dupieux, Mogul Mowgli directed by Bassam Tariq, Squish directed by Xavier Seron, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street directed by Marilyn Agrelo and Together Together directed by Nikole Beckwit.
Check out the official trailer for the horror film Jakob’s Wife directed by Travis Stevens world premiering at SXSW Film Festival 2021. The film starring horror legend Barbara Crampton, along with Larry Fessenden, Nyisha Bell, Mark Kelly, Sarah Lind, Robert Rusler, Bonnie Aarons, and Phil Brooks (aka CM Punk) opens in theaters, on demand and digital on April 16, 2021.
The 2021 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival announced this year’s filmmaker award winners with Xuan Liu’s Bloom winning Best Narrative Feature; and Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss’ Missing in Brooks County along with Paul Michael Angeli’s Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story tie for Best Documentary Feature.
The 5th annual MidWest WeirdFest wrapped last week and announced the winning films. The stunning socio-political allegory Externo, from brothers Jonathon and Leandro Taub, captured the fest’s “Best Film” award.
Hulu released the new trailer for the documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn directed by Jed Rothstein and premiering at SXSW. The documentary will debut on Hulu in the Spring.
Hulu released the official trailer for Sasquatch, the documentary series from Duplass Brothers Productions and director Joshua Rofé on a wild investigation into rumors of a bizarre twenty-five year old triple homicide said to be the work of a mythical creature.
Cannes Film Festival confirms that Spike Lee will be the President of the Jury of its 74th edition, which will be held this year from July 6 to 17, 2021.
The Balkan war drama Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Žbanić, representing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission shortlisted for this year’s Academy Awards earned the top prize, the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award at the 2021 Miami Film Festival.
Horton Foote: The Road To Home, a documentary from director Anne Rapp, will have an in-person screening at the Oxford Film Festival on Sunday, March 28th at 5.30 PM.