The new trailer debuted for Actor Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut, Falling, an intense intimate drama about a son’s relationship with his aging father. The film, also starring Viggo Mortensen, along with Lance Henriksen, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross, Laura Linney, and Grady McKenzie explores the fractures and contrasts that make up a modern family.
Netflix has unveiled a trailer for The 40-Year-Old-Version, “knockout” feature debut of Radha Blank that world premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic.
Artsploitation Films and Kino Lorber released Benjamin, a quirky, anxiety-fueled gay rom-com directed by Simon Amstell (“Nevermind the Buzzcocks”) and starring Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Happy Prince), on DVD and digital platforms including Kino Now.
IFC Films will release David Bowie glam-rock, road-trip film Stardust, starring award-winning actor and musician Johnny Flynn (EMMA.) as the legendary music icon, with comedian, podcaster, and actor Marc Maron (Glow, Sword of Trust) and indie starlet Jena Malone (Antebellum) as Bowie’s wife Angie. The film is directed by Gabriel Range and co-written with Christopher Bell.
IFC Films will release the deeply personal and intergenerational immigrant story, Farewell Amor, written and directed by breakout director and Sundance Institute fellow, Ekwa Msangi. The film marks Msangi’s feature directorial debut, and stars Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee, Marcus Scribner, and Nana Mensah.
The American Film Institute (AFI) and Universal Pictures announced the launch of a week-long AFI Movie Club event called “Black Stories Matter,” spotlighting diverse and unique narratives from celebrated Black films. Born from a recent AFI/Universal collaboration honoring Do the Right Thing and Academy Award®-winning director Spike Lee, the expanded partnership will pay tribute to notable films BlacKkKlansman, Get Out, Girls Trip, Loving and Straight Outta Compton with free digital movie rentals available all week. Enhanced AFI Movie Club content will feature new interviews with composer Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman), Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip), cinematographer and AFI Alum Matthew Libatique (Straight Outta Compton), Ruth Negga (Loving), writer Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Ron Stallworth (BlacKkKlansman) and more.
The family-friendly independent film The Terrible Adventure written, directed and produced by Florida father Kel Thompson, and starring his two kids Olivia Thompson (9) and Jackson Thompson (12), will premiere at Dances With Films.
The new trailer debuted for The Planters, a dark comedy written, directed, starring and crewed by longtime friends Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder. 1091 Pictures is set to release the film in theaters in September 2020 followed by a rollout on digital and on-demand December 8th.
Although the pandemic has slowed productions, filming began in florida on the dramatic horror film “Call Time” directed by 20/20 Vizion Derrick Hammond and written by Nicanson Guerrier. The movie is being shot on a closed set in adherence for COVID-19 regulation on precaution in a historic private location tucked away in Alachua, Florida.
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release actor turned director Craig Robert’s (Submarine, Neighbors) feature film Eternal Beauty, starring Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), David Thewlis (Justice League/Harry Potter Franchises), Alice Lowe (Prevenge), Billie Piper (Doctor Who) and Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), on-demand and digital on October 2, 2020.
