Breaking Glass Pictures will release the indie thriller This Teacher, from multi-award-winning director Mark Jackson (“Without”, “War Story”, which premiered as the Closing Night film at Slamdance Film Festival. This Teacher stars Hafsia Herzi as a French Muslim woman who travels to New York City to visit her childhood best friend but when their reunion turns disastrous, she escapes to a cabin upstate. However, she soon finds she is not alone, and her peaceful getaway devolves into a nightmare.
Ahead of the film’s release in July, Utopia dropped the teaser trailer for award-winning filmmakers Bill and Turner Ross’s Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, an official selection of this year’s Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival.
Vertical Entertainment released the trailer for writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth, which world premiered earlier this year at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the Louis Black “Lone Star” Award at the SXSW in March.
The dark comedy “Mope” starring David Arquette, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Max Adler released a new trailer ahead of its release online on June 16. The film is the darkly hilarious and tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong as they struggle to make it as porn stars, but end up getting hired as “mopes,” the porn equivalent of movie extras.
IFC Midnight released a new teaser trailer for Relic, the feature film debut of writer/director Natalie Erika James and starring Emily Mortimer. Relic had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and is scheduled to open July 10, 2020 in theaters and On Demand / Digital Rental.
Kino Lorber released the official trailer for Tommaso that premiered in the Special Screenings section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), the autobiographically inspired film stars Willem Dafoe as a charismatic artist riddled with self-doubt, alongside cast including Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac, Stella Mastrantonio andAlessandro Prato.
Vision Films will release the heartwarming indie family film Horse Camp: A Love Tail starring Home Improvement’s Richard Karn, Dazed and Confused’s Jason London, Kristin Mellian, Teri Lee, Kristen Ryda, Rachel Sowers, and Jo Ambrosia, Horse Camp: A Love Tail on DVD and VOD from May 19, 2020.
Gravitas Ventures released the official trailer for the Ireland set road-trip drama End of Sentence directed by Elfar Adalsteins, and starring Logan Lerman (Hunters) along with John Hawkes (The Peanut Butter Falcon).
The indie drama The Aerialist is the much anticipated sequel to the award winning lesbian film The Gymnast and stars Dreya Weber. Dreya Weber is not only an accomplished actress but is one of the leading aerial performers and trainers having choreographed Pink, Cher, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and many others on their national tours. She recently trained the Magic Mike Live cast on their Las Vegas run.
The family food drama Abe starring Noah Schnapp of Stranger Things, arrives on DVD on June 2. Noah Schnapp stars as twelve-year-old Abe, an aspiring chef, who wants his cooking to bring people together–but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn’t end in a fight. He soon meets an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines.
