Film Festivals

  • Women Texas Film Festival Announces Selections for its 5th Edition

    Gossamer Folds by Lisa Donata
    WTxFF Closing Night Selection, Lisa Donato’s Gossamer Folds

    Women Texas Film Festival (WTxFF) announced the official selections for the fifth year of the critically-acclaimed Dallas-based film festival. The festival focuses solely on visionary female filmmakers and features LGBTQIA+ stories, provocative documentaries, and Texas-based female filmmakers throughout its lineup. Pivoting to an all-virtual presentation, Olivia Peace’s teenage comedy Tahara will open the festival, and Lisa Donato’s Gossamer Folds is the Closing Night Selection for WTxFF, August 13-16. 

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  • Spike Lee’s Adaptation of David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ To Open TIFF 2020

    DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA

    Spike Lee’s filmed adaptation of the Broadway-acclaimed David Byrne’s American Utopia is the Opening Night Presentation of the 45th Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 10th.  

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  • Richmond International Film Festival Announces New 2020 Dates

    Richmond International Film Festival

    Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF) announced today that its rescheduled dates for the 2020 festival will be September 8-13, 2020. The festival plans to screen 30 plus film titles in physical theatres, pending approval from city and health officials, and the remaining festival will include its first ever virtual screenings, panels, live streaming events, and red carpets.

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  • Florida Film Festival Unveils 2020 Lineup of 177 Films

    Surviving Supercon – Directed by Steven Shea
    Surviving Supercon – Directed by Steven Shea

    Florida Film Festival, which was originally scheduled for April, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now take place August 7-20, 2020, in Maitland and Winter Park, Florida. This year’s 29th edition of the festival will screen 177 films representing 37 countries, kicking off with the World Premiere of Surviving Supercon, directed by Steven Shea.

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  • Anne Hui and Tilda Swinton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honors at Venice Film Festival

    Anne Hui and Tilda Swinton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honors at Venice Film Festival
    Anne Hui and Tilda Swinton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honors at Venice Film Festival

    Filmmaker Ann Hui and iconic actress Tilda Swinton will receive the honors of Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival to take place from September 2 – 12 September, 2020.

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  • Actor Willem Dafoe Featured on Poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition

    Willem Dafoe Featured on poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition
    Willem Dafoe Featured on poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition

    Actor Willem Dafoe is featured on the poster of the San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition, set to run from September 18-26. In 2018 the Festival launched a new line of posters with a composition combining photography and illustration and presided over by a figure from contemporary cinema. The actress Isabelle Huppert opened the series at the 66th edition and last year it continued with Penélope Cruz. The poster was created by the San Sebastian studio Patio based on an image by the photographer Martin Schoeller.

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  • International Film Community Calls for Release of Egyptian Film Producer Moataz Abdelwahab

    Moataz Abdelwahab
    Moataz Abdelwahab

    The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR) issued a press release calling for the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release film producer Moataz Abdelwahab.

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  • Hollyshorts Film Festival Reschedules 16th Edition

    Hollyshorts Film Festival

    The organizers behind the Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival have announced that they will be moving online and rescheduling their 16th annual year. Due to COVID-19, HollyShorts will now take place virtually between November 9-15, 2020 on the new streaming platform Bitpix.

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  • 5 Drive-In Film Festivals You Don’t Want To Miss

    Drive-in Theater - The Wellfleet Drive-In Theatre opened in 1957- Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism
    Credit: Flickr – The Wellfleet Drive-in Theater – Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism

    It’s been almost 90 years since the first drive-in movie theater opened in New Jersey in 1933, and thanks to the coronavirus, they are making a trendy comeback. During this time, festivals have had to find creative ways to showcase films, many opting for virtual cinemas and online screenings. The drive-in experience allows film-lovers and movie-goers to indulge in the community-shared experience that cinemas provide while also social distancing and staying safe. Check out the drive-in film festivals and their featured titles, happening between July and August.

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  • Cine Las Americas Virtual Showcase Premieres Today

    CLA2020 Mar De Dentro by Dainara Toffoli
    Mar De Dentro (The Sea Within) by Dainara Toffoli

    Cine Las Americas CLA2020 Virtual Showcase premieres this weekend, July 16-19, with a consecutive showcase July 23-26. The virtual event will present 49 films hailing from 12 different countries and will feature the work of over 30 female directors, Indigenous, POC, and LGBTQ+ filmmakers.

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  • Meet the Sundance Ignite x Adobe 2020 Fellows

    Sundance Institute Co//ab

    Sundance Institute and Adobe announced the class of 2020 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows, chosen from a global pool of more than 1,600 applicants. The ten emerging fellows hail from a broad geography, from Nashville to Hong Kong, and are rooted in a diverse array of creative disciplines from documentary filmmaking to narrative shorts. The selected fellows will be mentored and supported by the Sundance Institute and Sundance Ignite founding partner Adobe.

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  • Kate Winslet to Receive Tribute Award at Toronto Film Festival

    Kate Winslet in The Mountain Between Us
    Kate Winslet in The Mountain Between Us

    Academy Award–winning actress Kate Winslet is the recipient of this year’s TIFF Tribute Actor Award, to be presented on Tuesday, September 15, during the 45th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival which will be offered in a virtual form in 2020.

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