Academy Award–nominated New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi will be honored with the TIFF Ebert Director Award at this year’s new TIFF Tribute Gala awards event taking place during the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. The award recognizes and honors a distinguished filmmaker for their outstanding contribution to cinema. .
Tom Botchii’s feature debut, ARTIK, which world premieres at Popcorn Frights Film Fest this week released the poster and brand new trailer.
The Irishman, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, will be this year’s Closing Night Gala film of the 63rd BFI London Film Festival. The International Premiere of the film from the iconic filmmaker will take place on Sunday October 13 in London, with Martin Scorsese and cast expected to attend.
Legendary Film Critic and Historian Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie Maltin, co-host of the Maltin on Movies Podcast, are set to headline a Keynote Conversation and Screening Program at this year’s HollyShorts Film Festival. KEEP IT SHORT WITH THE MALTINS, A Special Conversation and Screening will take place Sunday, August 11 at 10am at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters. The special event is open to festival badge holders and festival ticket holders.
The retrospective of the San Sebastian Film Festival’s 67th edition will see the screening of twenty feature films directed by the Mexican Roberto Gavaldón between 1945 and 1974. The cycle, organized with Filmoteca Española, will be accompanied by a monographic book dedicated to the filmmaker.
James Franco, winner of the Golden Shell for The Disaster Artist (2017), returns to the Official Selection of San Sebastian International Film Festival with Zeroville, another movie set in the film world. The 67th edition of San Sebastian International Film Festival will also include films by six filmmakers as yet to compete at the San Sebastian Festival: Louise Archambault, Guillaume Nicloux, José Luis Torres Leiva, Ina Weisse, Adilkhan Yerzhanov and David Zonana.
Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn will make its New York premiere as Closing Night film of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 11, 2019. The film will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures later this year.
Over 400 films from 30 different countries will compete for this year’s top prizes during the Oscar-Qualifying 2019 HollyShorts Film Festival taking place from August 8-17 at TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood.
25 diverse and engaging Canadian short films that are set to premiere at this year’s 2019 Toronto International Film Festival including new works by Short Cuts alumni, award-winning directors, and emerging talents, and directorial efforts by acclaimed Canadian actors Aaron Poole and Sofia Banzhaf.
The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled today the 26 Canadian features that are part of the Festival’s 2019 lineup. The Canadian selection includes seven first features, 13 works by returning TIFF alumni, and almost 50% films directed by women.
Impossible Monsters written and directed by Nathan Catucci, will screen at the 2019 HBO New York Latino Film Festival on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:30pm.
