DOC NYC announced the lineup of over 200 films for its eleventh edition, running online from November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. Fifty-seven features (53% of the lineup) are directed or co-directed by women and 36 by BIPOC directors (34% of the feature program).
The 21st Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival will take place online October 20 – 25, 2020, showcasing work by Indigenous artists. imagineNATIVE will open the Festival with the shorts program YELLOW, composed of works created by artists from seven different nations. imagineNATIVE will close October 25 with the Canadian premiere of Compañía by Bolivian director Miguel Hilari.
Because of the Covid-19 health crisis, the 29th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), will be presented virtually and extending by a week to now run 18 days from November 5-22.
418 short films, including 128 international short films from 36 countries, have been selected to screen at the upcoming 16th edition of the Oscar®-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival.
Writer-Director Cevin Soling’s animated short “Tiffany Brittany Brooke” will make its festival debut at the 16th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival, November 9th–15th on the Bitpix platform.
MTV Documentary Films acquired the documentary “76 Days,” directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and Anonymous, currently playing at the 29th Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF).
The 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Antalya, Turkey awarded the Golden Orange’s Best Film in the National Competition to Ghosts (Hayaletler), directed by Azra Deniz Okyay and Best Film in the International Competition to Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Žbanić.
HBO’s The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and Amazon’s Sound of Metal starring Riz Ahmed tied for the MIAMI GEMS 2020 Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival GEMS. Miami Film Festival’s annual fall event took place from October 8-11 as a hybrid event that included virtual screenings and panels.
Directed by Frank Marshall, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart is an emotional documentary through the memories of the brother band’s only surviving member, Barry Gibb, as he recalls how the best-selling music act evolved their unique sound after relocating to Miami in the mid-1970s.
The 28th Hamptons International Film Festival announced their award winners at a virtual ceremony. This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, won the Award for Best Narrative Feature and Collective (Colectiv), directed by Alexander Nanau, received the Award for Best Documentary Feature.
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ film festival revealed the 2020 lineup of Special Events and Panels as well as the juries.
The 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival runs all-virtual from October 15 – 29, featuring 197 film titles. Opening the festival is “I Used to Go Here” directed by Kris Rey, featuring Gillian Jacobs and Jemaine Clement, a heartfelt crowd-pleaser about a 30-something writer who should be celebrating her success, but with all of her friends getting married and having kids, she feels like she’s missing out.
The 40th edition of the Hawai‘i International Film Festival set to open on November 5th through the 29th, will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual screenings, with over 200 films from 25 countries, and 17 world premieres.