South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival announced the second round of its Film Festival program, including the Midnighters, Festival Favorites, Shorts, Episodic Pilot Competition, Virtual Cinema, Music Video and Title Design lineup, plus late-addition Features and the Closing Night Film for the 26th edition of the Festival, running March 8 to 17, 2019 in Austin, Texas.
The horror film, Girl On The Third Floor, the debut film from Travis Stevens today released the first look – complete with official teaser trailer. Girl On The Third Floor which stars Phil “CM Punk” Brooks will have its world premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival on Sunday, March 10th.
When Tomatoes Met Wagner, Marianna Economou’s new humorous and uplifting story of two ingenious Greek cousins and five village women, who tackle the world market with their homegrowntomatoes, will premiere at the prestigious 2019 Berlin International Film Festival.
Following their big win at the Sundance Film Festival, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will honor filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert with its 2019 Tribute and showcase a curated selection from their significant body of work at the 22nd annual festival, April 4 to 7 in Durham.
The documentary Knock Down the House that followed four women political candidates, including U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, during the 2018 mid-term elections, was voted the winner of the Festival Favorite Award of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Runners-up and other strong contenders for the Festival Favorite Award included Ask Dr. Ruth, The Biggest Little Farm, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and Blinded by the Light.
The trailer debuted for Wayne Blair’s highly anticipated Australian romantic comedy Top End Wedding starring Miranda Tapsell, and Bohemian Rhapsody breakout Gwilym Lee. Top End Wedding which also stars Kerry Fox, Huw Higginson, Ursula Yovich and Shari Sebbens, had it’s World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories won at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to Clemency for U.S. Dramatic, One Child Nation for U.S. Documentary, Honeyland for World Cinema Documentary and The Souvenir for World Cinema Dramatic.
Winners of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival jury prizes in short filmmaking were announced at a ceremony in Park City, Utah with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize, going to Aziza, directed by Soudade Kaadan and co-written by Kaadan and May Hayek.
The Retrospective of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival will be dedicated to the American filmmaker Blake Edwards, featuring his complete filmography as director – 37 titles from 1955 to 1993, plus a survey of films by other directors, in particular Richard Quine, for which he wrote the screenplay. The program will also include a selection of his acclaimed work for television.
This Changes Everything, a pivotal documentary examining historic and contemporary gender inequity in the American film and television industries, will open the 36th edition of Miami Dade College’s acclaimed Miami Film Festival, on Friday, March 1st at the historic Olympia Theater. Appearing on camera are leading Hollywood women Meryl Streep, Geena Davis, Sandra Oh, Rosario Dawson, Zoe Saldana, Jessica Chastain, Taraji P. Henson, Cate Blanchett, Amandla Stenberg, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, Jill Soloway and many more advocating for meaningful change.
Present.Perfect. directed by Zhu Shengze, described as a “daring film” by the jury, won the top prize – Tiger Award at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević won the Special Jury Award for Take Me Somewhere Nice. Audience favorite Capharnaüm by Nadine Labaki won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award. The VPRO Big Screen Award was awarded to Transnistra by Anna Eborn from Sweden.
Since 1986, the Berlinale Camera has been awarded to individuals and institutions that have a connection with the festival and have made an extraordinary contribution to the world of filmmaking. At the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, US producer and IFP founder Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, who headed the Berlinale’s Panorama section for many years, French filmmaker Agnès Varda, and German director and screenwriter Herrmann Zschoche will be honored with the Berlinale Camera.