The new trailer debuted for Ryan Barton Grimley’s frighteningly funny Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers set to play at the Dances with Films film festival in Los Angeles later this month.
Film Festivals
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Watch Frighteningly Funny HAWK AND REV : VAMPIRE SLAYERS Trailer
Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers
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Sidewalk Film Festival Announces Lineup of 163 Films for This Year’s Special Drive-in Edition
BANKSY MOST WANTED Sidewalk Film Festival announced the complete film lineup of official selections for the 22nd edition of the Birmingham-based film festival which will take place August 24-30. All 163 films (41 features, 122 shorts) and 23 music videos, will be screened at The Grand River Drive-In at The Backyard in Leeds.
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LINGUA FRANCA and THE DONUT KING Win Top Jury Prizes at Bentonville Film Festival
Lingua Franca Bentonville Film Festival announced the jury prize winners for their sixth annual festival, with Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca winning the jury award for Best Narrative Feature. In this beguiling drama, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s transgender.
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Documentary SURVIVING THE SILENCE, Gets Spotlight at OUTshine Film Festival
SURVIVING THE SILENCE. Colonel Pat Thompson and Barbara Brass The feature documentary Surviving the Silence, directed and produced by Cindy L. Abel and produced by Marc Smolowitz, will screen virtually for Florida residents as part of this year’s OUTshine Film Festival. The documentary is the untold love story of two women who played an integral part in changing military policy.
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Milwaukee Film to Hold 2 Virtual Fall Fests – Milwaukee and Minority Health Film Festivals
Milwaukee Film will hold two 15-day virtual film festivals this fall including the 12th annual Milwaukee Film Festival (MFF2020), which although virtual, will take place during its previously announced dates of Oct. 15-29. The second Minority Health Film Festival (MHFF), presented by the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin regional health network, will expand to 15 days, running from Sept. 10-24.
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Watch First Look Trailer for PROGENY, Sci-fi/Body Horror Short Film at Fantasia Fest
Progeny directed by Justin Daering Take a look at the first look teaser trailer for the award-winning sci-fi/body horror short film Progeny, an Official Selection at 2020 Fantasia International Film Festival. The film is being presented with another sci-fi/body themed film FRIED BARRY.
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77th Venice Film Critics Week to Showcase 7 Films. Closes with THE ROSSELLINIS
The Rossellinis Venice International Film Critics’ Week, the independent and parallel section organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) during the 77th Venice International Film Festival (September 2-12, 2020),
will showcase of seven debut films in competition and two special events out of competition, all presented as world premiere.
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Watch Trailer for Chino Moya’s UNDERGODS, Collection of Darkly Humorous Fantasy Tales
Underdogs directed by Chino Moya The official trailer debuted this week for Chino Moya’s debut Underdogs set to premiere at 2020 Fantasia Film Festival. Described as an otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline, Chino Moya’s debut Underdogs is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about a series of men whose worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger.
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13 Short Films to Participate in Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s Film Students’ Competition
PERFECT AS CATS directed by Kevin Vu Thirteen short films – seven by male filmmakers and six by female filmmakers, from schools in Argentina, Cuba, Germany, India, Spain, the UK and the USA, will be showcased in the XIX edition of Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s international competition for short films by film students.
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Rhode Island International Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners
Grand Prize winner for Best Live Action Short: “Ivo”directed by Christina Lande The Academy Awards qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) announced the Award Winners for its 38th Anniversary edition.
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Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights Join Forces to Launch Virtual Film Festival
Nightstream In response to the challenges impacting the film community amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Boston Underground Film Festival (MA), Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (NY), North Bend Film Festival (WA), the Overlook Film Festival (LA), and Popcorn Frights Film Festival (FL) will join forces under the banner of NIGHTSTREAM to present a dynamic and accessible virtual festival, to run from October 8 – 11.
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Atlanta Film Festival Reveals New 2020 Dates and Official Selections
BLACK CONFLUX directed by Nicole Dorsey The 44th Atlanta Film Festival + Creative Conference (ATLFF) which was originally scheduled to take place in the spring, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now take place from Thursday, September 17 – Sunday, September 27, 2020. The festival shared the lineup of creative works, feature-length and short films selected from a record-breaking 8,500+ submissions for the 2020 event.