Based on his personal experience as a medical transport driver and an immigrant, director Kirill Mikhanovsky, with writer Alice Austen, create a raw feature film about the comedy and heartbreak of people in the underprivileged communities living in a struggling American city.
Bleecker Street released a new featurette of the award winning film Brian Banks that goes behind the untold story of “lost opportunity and false accusation.”
Bleecker Street released new official clips from dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense directed by Riley Stearns, and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, along with Imogen Poots. The Art of Self-Defense opens in select theaters today, July 12, and nationwide on July 19, 2019.
Breaking Glass will release One Bedroom from Brooklyn-native writer/director Darien Sills-Evans (“X-Patriots”) in theaters on July 12 in Los Angeles, followed by a DVD & VOD release on July 16, 2019.
Following the New York City premiere at the Chelsea Film Festival and a theatrical run in the Seattle and Los Angeles, RETURN TO SEATTLE, the debut feature film from Brock Mullins, will be broadcast in primetime on NBC in the Seattle market on KING 5 on Saturday July 6 at 8 p.m.
Datari Turner Productions’ critically-acclaimed film A Boy. A Girl. A Dream, starring Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good has been acquired by Starz. The Sundance Film Festival selection, directed by Qasim Basir and produced by prolific film/television producer Datari Turner, will make its television debut on Starz on Tuesday, August 6.
The Sweet Requiem (Kyoyang Ngarmo), the award-winning film by Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin (a husband and wife filmmaking team) which had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival will open theatrically at IFC Center in New York on July 12. Other cities will follow.
Following its world premiere at the 23rd annual American Black Film Festival in Miami, Florida, UMC (Urban Movie Channel) acquired the romantic comedy film His, Hers and the Truth. Written and directed by Coke Daniels, the film will premiere on UMC in December of this year.
Such a Funny Life, a powerful new drama from writer/director Oliver Mann, starring Jesse Ray Sheps, and Kobi Frumer, will open in theaters from August 13, 2019.
Amazon released the new trailer for Brittany Runs a Marathon, winner of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. Brittany Runs a Marathon is written and directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo; and stars Jillian Bell (22 Jump Street, “Workaholics”), Michaela Watkins (“Casual,” “Trophy Wife”), Tony Award nominee Micah Stock (“Escape at Dannemora,” “Bonding”), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect, “The Mindy Project”), Alice Lee (“Take Two,” Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Lil Rel Howery (Get Out, Bird Box). The film opens in Theaters on August 23rd, 2019.
Indie film maker and former member of the Grammy winning comedy group the Jerky Boys, Kamal Ahmed will release his latest film “The Martyr Maker” starring Golden Globe nominated actor Tom Sizemore (Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down). The Martyr Maker also features a slew of upcoming talented New York actors including Shiek Mahmud -Bey, Cory Duval and Alexander Mercier.
Woody Allen will start production on his 51st film in San Sebastian, Spain from July 10th to August 23rd . The film features a first-rate cast made up of international and Spanish actors including Elena Anaya (Wonder Woman, The Summit, The Skin I Live In, Sex and Lucia), Louis Garrel (Godard Mon Amour, Love Songs, The Dreamers, and A Faithful Man, which he also directed), Gina Gershon (Killer Joe, Bound, The Insider and Face Off), Sergi López (A Perfect Day, The Next Skin, Pan’s Labyrinth, With a Friend Like Harry…), Wally Shawn (veteran actor who has worked with Woody Allen in films such asRadio Days, Shadows and Fog and Manhattan), and Cristoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglorious Bastards, -and Oscar® award-winning roles, in Carnage and Spectre).