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.
Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed will receive the inaugural Impact Award at the upcoming 38th Miami Film Festival. The award tribute and conversation moderated by Variety’s Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis will take place on March 6, 2021.
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.
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 38th annual Festival will be a hybrid event, with both virtual and in-theater presentations.
Director Stanley Kwan will be honored as this year’s Filmmaker-in-Focus at the 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF45).
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.
The Retrospective of the 74th 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.
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.
45 short films have been selected to screen in the 14th edition of the BFI Future Film Festival, which will take place online from February 18-21, 2021. The films, which will all be available to watch for free on BFI Player during the Festival (UK only), are eligible for the BFI Future Film Festival Awards, supported by Netflix.
BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival will hold the 35th edition of the Festival online from March 17th- 28th 2021. BFI Flare will deliver virtual festival premieres via BFI Player to UK audiences, in a dynamic and thought-provoking program of the best new LGBTIQ+ cinema from around the world, alongside a program of virtual events, which will be available to audiences for free.
Tony-, Emmy- and Grammy-winning actress Cynthia Erivo, filmmakers Julie Dash, Joshua Oppenheimer and Lana Wilson are among 22 celebrated voices across film, art and culture adjudicating this year’s awards on feature-length and short films at the Sundance Film Festival, presented at a digital ceremony taking place February 2nd.
Now in its 5th year, the MidWest WeirdFest taking place March 5 -7, 2021 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, announced its first programming wave of films.