Film Festivals

Documentary PARKLAND RISING to World Premiere at Woodstock Film Festival

PARKLAND RISING. Artist and activist Manuel Oliver with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High student Tyra Hemans

Timely and vital, the documentary Parkland Rising directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Cheryl Horner McDonough, follows the high-school students and families who became fierce leaders of the national movement for gun reform after the February 2018 shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. The documentary film, executive produced by Katie Couric and will.i.am, will World Premiere at the upcoming 20th anniversary Woodstock Film Festival, taking place October 2 to 6, 2019.

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Melina Matsoukas’ QUEEN & SLIM to Open AFI FEST 2019

QUEEN & SLIM (Photo credit: Campbell Addy/Universal Pictures)

The 33rd edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi will open with the World Premiere of Makeready and Universal Pictures’ QUEEN & SLIM directed by two-time Grammy winner Melina Matsoukas (AFI Class of 2005) and written by Emmy winner Lena Waithe from a story by Waithe and James Frey. The film is a consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence.

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3 Modern Film Classics incl. Paul Schrader’s MISHIMA in Featured in Klasikoak Section of San Sebastian Festival 2019

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), by Paul Schrader

Three modern classics, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), by Paul Schrader; Dao ma zei / The Horse Thief (1986), by Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Sátántangó (1994), by Béla Tarr, are the films featuring in this year’s Klasikoak section of the 2019 San Sebastian International Film Festival. Following last year’s screening of Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (1948), the section increases from one to three films programmed for screening in their restored versions in the Tabakalera cinema.

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Jane Seymour to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

Jane Seymour

Actress Jane Seymour will receive the SFiFF Lifetime Achievement Award before introducing the film Somewhere in Time (1980) at the Lensic Performing Arts Center Friday, October 18th at 6:30 pm. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented during the 11th Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, October 16th-20th, 2019 in downtown Santa Fe.

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New York Film Festival Announces 2019 Retrospective and Revivals Lineup

Dave Chapelle’s Block Party

Film at Lincoln Center announced the Retrospective and Revivals sections lineup for the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27–October 13).

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CIRCLE OF BOOKS and VILLAINS Win Top Awards at North Bend Film Festival 2019

CIRCUS OF BOOKS directed by Rachel Mason

The second edition of the North Bend Film Festival came to a close in the scenic town of North Bend, Washington with closing night film Rachel Mason’s personal queer doc Circus of Books taking home the Audience Award. Villains won the prizes for Best Film along with Best Actor for Bill Skarsgård.

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Donald Sutherland to be Honored at San Sebastian Film Festival

Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland will be honored with the Donostia Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, recognizing his more than fifty years of acting career. Sutherland will will receive the accolade prior to the screening of The Burnt Orange Heresy, a thriller directed by Giuseppe Capotondi. The film, with a cast featuring Mick Jagger, Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki will close the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival.

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François Girard’s THE SONG OF NAMES to Open 2019 Calgary International Film Festival

THE SONG OF NAMES Starring Tim Roth, Catherine McCormack and Clive Owen

François Girard music themed THE SONG OF NAMES will kick off the 2019 Calgary International Film Festival on Wednesday September 18th, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Jack Singer Concert Hall.

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Watch Trailer for Paula Hernandez’s THE SLEEPWALKERS World Premiering at Toronto Film Festival

The Sleepwalkers (Los Sonámbulos)

The Argentinian film, The Sleepwalkers (Los Sonámbulos), written and directed by Paula Hernández, and starring Érica Rivas (WILD TALES), Ornella D’Elia, Marilu Marini, Luis Ziembrowsky, Daniel Hendler (FAMILY LAW, QUEENS), Valeria Lois, Rafael Federman will World Premiere, at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Thomas Heise’s Award-Winning Documentary HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME Premieres at Toronto Film Festival

Heimat Is A Space in Time (Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit) directed by Thomas Heise. Courtesy Icarus Films

Thomas Heise’s Berlin Film Festival award winning (Caligari Film Prize) documentary Heimat Is A Space in Time (Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit) will be making its North American Premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.

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New Orleans Film Festival 2019 to Close with HARRIET + Announces Centerpiece and Competition Films Lineup

Harriet directed by Kasi Lemmons

For its 30th anniversary, the Oscar-qualifying New Orleans Film Festival will showcase a slate of 232 visionary, thought-provoking films from October 16 through October 23, 2019. The festival will close with Harriet biopic about renowned abolitionist Harriet Tubman, and the Tribeca Film Festival award-winning film Burning Cane, directed by 19-year-old Phillip Youmans, will serve as the Centerpiece Film.

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JUST MERCY Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx will Open Hamptons Film Festival 2019

JUST MERCY Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx

The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) will open the 2019 festival on Thursday, October 10, at Guild Hall, with the East Coast Premiere of JUST MERCY. A powerful and thought-provoking true story, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, JUST MERCY follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice as he fights a merciless legal system stacked against him and his clients at every turn. The film also stars Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Karan Kendrick and Brie Larson.

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