The 2019 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival which ran from July 18th to July 28th, closed on Sunday night with “Before You Know It,” – a quirky Sundance favorite from director Hannah Pearl Utt, that infuses tenderness and complex emotion into the absurd misadventures of Rachel and Jackie, sisters living a dysfunctional life in New York City.
The US Premiere of Taika Waititi’s hilarious and tender anti-hate satire JOJO RABBIT will open the 15th edition of Fantastic Fest. In JOJO RABBIT a lonely young boy growing up in World War II Germany finds his world-view turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism. With Taika himself playing the phantom Fuhrer and a terrific cast, including Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson.
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story will make its New York premiere as Centerpiece of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 4, 2019. Marriage Story will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year.
The new documentary David Foster: Off the Record will have its World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. The film’s premiere will be followed with a special tribute to David Foster at the TIFF Tribute Gala.
Fourteen first or second films by European, American and Asian filmmakers have been selected to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 67th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Independent Indian director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s latest film, Chola (Shadow of Water), will compete at the 76th Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti program.
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will make its World Premiere as the Opening Night film of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 27, 2019. The Irishman will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year.
Chuskit, directed by Priya Ramasubban, won the Grand Prize at the 24th annual Stony Brook Film Festival. “When the jury and the audience rank the same film the highest then it receives a Grand Prize,” says Alan Inkles, Festival Director. This is the second year in a row and the ninth time in the Festival’s 24-year-run that a film has received a Grand Prize.
The Nashville Film Festival, taking place October 3-12, 2019 announced early music documentary features for 2019, including the world premiere of “Chuck Berry” by filmmaker Jon Brewer; “Born Into the Gig” by filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner; “Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore” from filmmakers Imogen Putler and Monika Baran; and “The Sheriff of Mars” from filmmakers Jason Ressler and Matthew Woolf.
Esmé von Hoffman’s new independent feature film Ovid and the Art of Love, about a young poet, played by Corbin Bleu from the High School Musical film series, will world premiere on August 10th at the Festival of Cinema NYC (formerly known as the KEW Gardens Festival.
Over its six-day run, the 23rd Annual Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival will screen 317 films including premieres of local films such as Steve Luna’s “To Be Heard,” Bronte Stahl’s “Terril,” Bat-Sheva Guez’s “In This Life,” Nastasya Popov’s “Pickle Man,” Oscar D’Angeac’s “Providence Lost,” Dave Ricci’s “The Craft: Rhode Island,” Ali Migliore’s “Twist,”Natalie Shirinian’s “Interior Motives,” Michael Formanski’s “The Iron Wall,” Rich Allen’s “Home Cookin’ – Over 100 Years in the Making,” Indy Dang’s “Influence,” Salvatore Mancini’s “Divine Providence: The Rebirth of an American City,” and Joseph Lovett’s “Children of the Inquisition”.
Mexican director, producer and screenwriter Alejandro G. Iñárritu and winner of two consecutive Best Director Oscar awards for his films THE REVENANT and BIRDMAN will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 25th annual Sarajevo Film Festival. The Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award will be given in recognition for his exceptional contribution to the art of film.