Shot on 35mm, Ken Wardrop’s So This Is Christmas is a thought-provoking and emotional journey of five characters as they navigate a complicated lead-up to Christmas.
Film Festivals
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Ken Wardrop Irish Documentary ‘So This Is Christmas’ Premieres at Hot Docs | Trailer
So This Is Christmas (courtesy Autlook Filmsales)
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Patricia Bbaale Bandak’s ‘Death of a Saint’ Documentary Makes International Premiere at Hot Docs | Trailer
Death of a Saint (Troels Rasmus N’koya-Jensen, DFF) Directed by Patricia Bbaale Bandak, her personal documentary Death of a Saint will make its International Premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival in Toronto on Tuesday April 30.
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Greta Gerwig, Lily Gladstone, Omar Sy Among Cannes Film Festival Jury
Greta Gerwig © Ben Rayner / Ebru Ceylan © Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Lily Gladstone © Lindsay Siu / Eva Green © Xavier Torres-Bacchetta / Nadine Labaki © Jihad Hojeili / Juan Antonio Bayona © Germán Romani / Pierfrancesco Favino © Pablo Arroyo / Kore-eda Hirokazu © Mikiya Takimoto / Omar Sy © Selly SY (courtesy Cannes Film Festival) Chaired by Greta Gerwig, the Jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival will include Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green and Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu, and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
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‘Excursion’ and ‘Kiss the Future’ Win Top Prizes at 20th Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York City
Winners of 20th Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (courtesy Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival) The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) honored the winning films and filmmakers of the Golden Apple Awards for the 20th annual event with Kiss the Future directed by Nenad Čičin-Šain winning the the Audience Award and Una Gunjak’s Excursion captured the Jury Award for Best Feature Film.
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‘A Good Wolf,’ ‘Between the Mountain and the Sky’ and ‘Public Defender’ to World Premiere at Mountainfilm
A Good Wolf (courtesy Mountainfilm) The 46th Mountainfilm festival in Telluride set to take place May 23–27, 2024, will showcase 24 films including three feature films making their world premiere debut at the festival.
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Tribeca Festival Announces Lineup of Audio Storytelling and Games.
The 2024 Tribeca Festival announced its lineup of live events and official selections for audio storytelling and games. This year’s audio storytelling program takes place June 9-13 and the games lineup runs June 12-16.
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Cannes Classics 2024 Unveils Film Lineup with Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Henson
Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+) Featuring celebrations, restored prints and documentaries, the Cannes Classics selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival will be marked by the presence of great artists including Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more.
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‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ to Open DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Photo by Warner Bros / Alamy) For its second edition, DC/DOX documentary film festival will open with Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, and close with Every Little Thing, directed by Sally Aitkin. The Centerpiece Screening will be Lana Wilson’s Look into My Eyes, and the Spotlight Screening will be Luther: Never Too Much, Dawn Porter’s Luther Vandross biopic. The second annual DC/DOX festival will be held June 13-16, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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Cannes Film Festival Reveals 8 Projects in Inaugural Immersive Competition
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke (JAPC) Cannes Film Festival revealed the eight projects presented in the new Immersive Competition including collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works. These carefully selected immersive works showcase the cutting edge of this new era in storytelling, challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and above all celebrating new artists as well as old.
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Jane Campion to Receive the Pardo d’Onore Manor Award at Locarno Film Festival
Jane Campion © Patrick Swirc / Locarno Film Festival Director Jane Campion will be honored with the prestigious Pardo d’Onore Manor, the award for outstanding achievement in cinema, at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.
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29th Nantucket Film Festival Unveils Lineup – Thelma, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and More
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Photo by Herb Ritts / AUGUST.) The 29th Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) which will run from June 19 – 24, 2024, unveiled its lineup, honorees, and Signature Programs.
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Belgian Actress Lubna Azabal Heads Jury of Cannes Film Festival’s Shorts and La Cinef Competition
© Lubna Azabal © Dominique Charriau/Getty Images / Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar @ Guy Ferrandis / Paolo Moretti © Angèle Marignac-Serra ECAL / Claudine Nougaret © Raymond Depardon / Vladimir Perišić © Philippe Lebruman 11 short films from 10 countries and for its 27th edition La Cinef will present 14 live-action and 4 animated short films in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.