Film Festivals

Alexis Gambis’ SON OF MONARCHS Wins Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at 2021 Sundance Festival

Kaarlo Isaacs appears in Son of Monarchs by Alexis Gambis, an official selection of the NEXT section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Son of Monarchs directed by Alexis Gambis has been awarded the 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival along with the $20,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character, and will be recognized at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival closing Awards Night.

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Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Sundance Documentary FLEE Acquired by Neon

Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, an official selection of the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

The documentary Flee directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, and executive produced by Riz Ahmed along with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, which made its debut on opening night of Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary Competition was acquired by Neon for release in the U.S.

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TRY HARDER! Trailer – Revisit the College Application Process in Sundance Documentary

Try Harder! by Debbie Lum, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Lou Nakasako.

Ahead of its online World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition, the first trailer debuted for Debbie Lum’s Try Harder!. The documentary follows seniors at Lowell High School in San Francisco as the pressure intensifies to impress admissions officers at elite universities with their report cards, test scores, and overall awesomeness.

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2021 Cannes Film Festival Postponed to July

Cannes Festival announced that the 74th edition of the festival originally scheduled to take place in May will now tentatively take place in July.

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HBO Releases First Look Clip for IN THE SAME BREATH Premiering at Sundance

A still from In The Same Breath by Nanfu Wang, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

HBO released a video clip from the documentary In the Same Breath, which recounts the origin and spread of the novel coronavirus from the earliest days of the outbreak in Wuhan to its rampage across the United States. The film will make its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

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‘Sound of Metal’ Riz Ahmed to Receive Impact Award at Miami Film Festival

Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed will receive the inaugural Impact Award at the upcoming 38^th Miami Film Festival. The award tribute and conversation moderated by Variety’s Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis will take place on March 6, 2021.

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44th Portland International Film Festival Announces First Wave of Films + Events

The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs

The 44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF 44) taking place March 5 – 14, 2021, announced the first wave of films and special events. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, PIFF 44 will be held as a hybrid event with a combination of virtual and drive-in screenings.

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Miami Film Festival 2021 Reveals International Feature Film Oscar Submissions on Lineup

A State of Madness (Mis 500 Locos)

Miami Film Festival announced its shortlist of International Feature Film submissions that will screen during its flagship ten-day fest, to be held from March 5-14, 2021. The 38^th annual Festival will be a hybrid event, with both virtual and in-theater presentations.

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Director Stanley Kwan Named Filmmaker-in-Focus of Hong Kong International Film Festival

Stanley Kwan

Director Stanley Kwan will be honored as this year’s Filmmaker-in-Focus at the 45^th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF45).

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PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Starring Nicolas Cage and Nick Cassavete Acquired by RLJE Films

Nick Cassavetes and Nic Cage appears in Prisoners of the Ghostland by Sion Sono, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Ahead of its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, RLJE Films acquired the US rights to the action/adventure film Prisoners of the Ghostland.

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Locarno Film Festival Dedicates Retrospective to Director Alberto Lattuada

Alberto Lattuada

The Retrospective of the 74^th edition of the Locarno Film Festival ( August 4-14, 2021) curated by Roberto Turigliatto will be dedicated to director Alberto Lattuada, an often under-rated filmmaker whose productive and fascinating career traversed more than four decades of Italian cinema, from his 1943 debut Giacomo l’idealista (Giacomo the Idealist) to Una spina nel cuore (A Thorn in the Heart) in 1986. In the years immediately after the Second World War, the “formalist” Lattuada successfully joined the current of Neo-Realist filmmaking, but without renouncing the refined and cultivated manner of his original background, blending that style with a taste for genre and popular storytelling.

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Sundance Film Festival Announces New Additions + Patton Oswalt to Host Awards Night

Sundance Institute today announced the latest additions to the programming slate of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday, January 28th at Festival.Sundance.org and via a network of Satellite Screens across the U.S.

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