The 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and Filmoteca Española will dedicate a retrospective to the Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón.
Film Festivals
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San Sebastian Festival to Dedicate a Retrospective to Mexican Director Roberto Gavaldón
Roberto Gavaldón
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LITTLE MONSTERS Starring Lupita Nyong’o to Open 2019 Calgary Underground Film Festival
LITTLE MONSTERS The 16th edition of Western Canada’s biggest genre film festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival will open with the Canadian Premiere of the Australian zombie horror rom-com LITTLE MONSTERS.
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WOMAN AT WAR, OUR BODIES OUR DOCTORS Win Audience Awards at 42nd Portland International Film Festival
Woman at War Throughout the 42nd Portland International Film Festival, attendees were given the opportunity to register their opinions on each of the 90 features and 55 shorts. Earning top audience accolades for Best Narrative Feature is Woman at War (Iceland/France/Ukraine) by director Benedikt Erlingsson. Our Bodies Our Doctors (United States) by director Jan Haaken took the Best Documentary Feature award. Director Lila Avilés is the winner of this year’s Best New Director award for her debut feature, The Chambermaid (Mexico). The Wolf House (Chile/Germany) director Joaquín Cociña & Christóbal León takes home the Audience Award for Best Animated Feature. Fish Out of Water (United States) by director Josh Brine is the recipient of the Best Oregon Short Film Award.
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GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ Tour to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH. After an emotional performance in Charlotte, chorus members console each other. Gay Chorus Deep South, the powerful new documentary feature chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ life-changing Lavender Pen Tour through five southern states in the fall of 2017, will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday, April 29, 2019 followed by a special performance from members of The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
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OUR TIME MACHINE Docu on Chinese Artist Maleonn to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
OUR TIME MACHINE. Maleonn working on bird sculpture. Courtesy Maleonn Studio. Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang’s OUR TIME MACHINE is an intimate look at Chinese artist Maleonn(Ma Liang) as he sets out to stage an ambitious performance piece about time and memory when his father, the former artistic director of the Shanghai Chinese Opera Theater, is diagnosed with dementia. Maleonn hopes the work will bring the them together artistically and personally but as time goes on, and his father’s condition deteriorates, he is torn between the original goal to honor his father and the pressure of finding commercial success.
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Polish Premiere of THE WIND. A DOCUMENTARY THRILLER to Open Krakow Film Festival
The wind. A documentary thriller The Polish premiere of “The wind. A documentary thriller,” an emotional story about the “halny” wind – one of the most unpredictable winds in the Polish mountains, directed by Michał Bielawski, will open the 59th Krakow Film Festival on May 26th. The film will be showcased as a part of the international documentary competition and the Polish competition.
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First 10 Films Revealed for 12th Las Vegas Film Festival
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Knock Down The House The 12th Annual Las Vegas Film Festival will spotlight a mix of feature films and documentaries that have been favorites on the international festival circuit, as well as films with Las Vegas ties, including a documentary about The Amazing Johnathan, and Robin Greenspun’s personal portrait of local businesswoman Amy Ayoub. Additionally, one of the documentaries, Knock Down the House, follows the campaigns of four progressive women who ran against incumbents in the elections last fall, including Amy Vilela who ran for Congress in Nevada’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House.
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Zack Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein’s FREAKS Wins Audience Award at 2019 What The Fest!?
Lexy Kolker and Emile Hirsch in FREAKS The second annual What The Fest!? is over, and Zack Lipovsky & Adam B. Stein’s FREAKS, which made its New York Premiere at the festival was voted winner of the Audience Award. FREAKS tells the warped tale of Chloe (Lexy Kolker), a young girl sheltered by her father (Emile Hirsch) from the world outside their door… until an ice cream man (Bruce Dern) tries to lure her out of her safe haven.
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Cult Legend, Director Jeff Lieberman is Guest of Honor at Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival
Jeff Lieberman Dead by Dawn International Horror Film Festival, returns to Filmhouse, in Edinburgh, Scotland, for it’s 26th Edition, April 18 to 21 with cult favorite, director Jeff Lieberman as the Guest of Honor. Jeff will host a retrospective of his films Blue Sunshine, Remote Control, Just Before Dawn, Squirm and Satan’s Little Helper.
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Watch Trailer for FRAMING JOHN DELOREAN Starring Alec Baldwin, Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival
Framing John Delorean Sundance Selects debuted the trailer for Framing John Delorean directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce; and starring Alec Baldwin, Josh Charles (The Good Wife) and Morena Baccarin (Deadpool, Gotham). Framing John Delorean will World Premiere at 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on April 30, 2019, and released in select theaters and VOD on June 7th, 2019.
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Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL Starring Awkwafina is Centerpiece of 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival
The Farewell directed by Lulu Wang The Farewell, directed by Lulu Wang will screen at the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival as a special Centerpiece event on Thursday, April 18 at the historic Castro Theatre. A crowd favorite during its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the film is based on an “actual lie,” as labeled by director and screenwriter Lulu Wang.
