The 2019 Jury and Special Award winners of the 26th SXSW Film Festival Awards were announced at the historic Paramount Theatre with the top awards going to Alice directed by Josephine Mackerras winning Best Narrative Feature Film and For Sama directed by Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts winning Best Documentary Feature Film. Short films and other juried sections, including Film Design Awards, were also presented.
Birds of Passage, a viscerally stunning epic on the origins of the Colombian narcotics trade directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, won the $40,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award, the top Grand Jury prize of the 36th season of Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival.
Actress Laura Dern will be honored during the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival with a special tribute, followed by an advance screening of her upcoming film Trial by Fire, directed by Edward Zwick. The moderated onstage conversation with Dern and the screening will take place Sunday, April 14, at 3:30 pm at the Castro Theatre. Zwick will also participate in the onstage conversation preceding the film.
The 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival will showcase 63 diverse and engaging short films in competition, including 31 world premieres. There will also be special screening programs for the annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival and the debut of shorts from The Queen Collective, a program aimed at accelerating gender and racial equality behind the camera. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 24 – May 5.
Annapurna Pictures released the redband trailer today for Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart, that premiered last night at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas at the Paramount Theater.
Bleecker Street released the first trailer for dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense, from writer/director Riley Stearns, and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola and Imogen Poots. Jesse Eisenberg stars as timid bookkeeper Casey, who after he’s attacked on the street at night by a roving motorcycle gang, joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. The Art of Self-Defense will World Premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival on Sunday, March 10.
Here is the new trailer for the documentary Well Groomed – written and directed by Rebecca Stern, making its world premiere on Sunday at 2019 SXSW Film Festival.
Emily Ting’s Go Back To China has released the first trailer clip on the eve of the film’s world premiere at the 2019 SXSW on Saturday, March 9. The film starring Anna Akana, Richard Ng, Lynn Chen, Kelly Hu, Kendy Cheung, Aviva Wang will premiere in the Narrative Competition program.
The 28th Aspen Shortsfest will bring 69 films from 26 countries – 41% of which are female-directed to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House and Carbondale’s Crystal Theatre from April 2 to 7, 2019.
Thee world premiere of Ashland filmmakers Gary and Annie Lundgren’s Phoenix, Oregon, starring James Le Gros and Jesse Borrego as two friends who, defying midlife haze, seize an unlikely opportunity to reinvent their lives, quitting their jobs to restore an old bowling alley and serve the “world’s greatest pizza” along with nine additional films are the first titles revealed for the 18th Ashland Independent Film Festival.
Multidisciplinary artist Caroline Leaf, who has gained a special place among the world’s animators, will receive this year’s Dragon of Dragons at the 2019 Krakow Film Festival, for “a unique contribution to the development of the animated film worldwide.”
The Dallas premieres of the Beto O’Rourke documentary Running With Beto, Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, and Zhang Yimou’s Shadow are among the first ten film titles announced for the 13th annual Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) powered by Capital One, held from April 11 to April 18.