“Can You Hear My Voice?” kicks off its film festival run with a U.S. premiere at the 2020 Nashville Film Festival (Music Features Competition), October 1-7. In the weeks to follow, the film will screen at several other U.S festivals, including the Heartland International Film Festival in Indiana (October 8-19). Other festival screenings in October and November include Doc Utah and the Twin Cities International Film Festival.
Filmmaker Yael Bridge’s new documentary The Big Scary “S” Word exploring the rich history of the American socialist movement, will have its World Premiere at Mill Valley, followed by screening at AFI FEST. The film was also an official selection of 2020 ;Hot DOCS Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.
The highly buzzed and acclaimed documentary Maxima directed by Claudia Sparrow follows Peruvian indigenous farmer Máxima Acuña in her fight to protect her land as she stands up to the largest gold producer in the world: US-based Newmont Mining Corporation.
Expulsion, a sci-fi thriller starring Colton Tapp (Three Days in August), Lar Park Lincoln (Friday The 13th: The New Blood), Michael Harrelson (Krampus: The Reckoning), directed by Sean C. Stephens and Aaron Jackson will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, Amazon Prime Video Direct, AppleTV, VUDU and Google Play digital platforms on Tuesday October 20, 202
Dark Sky Films released the trailer for the horror comedy It Cuts Deep, making its World Premieres At Nightstream Film Festival on October 8th; and available in select theaters and on VOD + digital platform on November 13th.
The powerful new documentary film, Nasrin, centering on the life of the unstoppable Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh will have its world festival premiere at GlobeDocs Film Festival 2020 in Boston presented by the Boston Globe newspaper.
From award-winning director Ondi Timoner, – whose directing credits include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning films DIG! and We Live in Public as well as Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith – Coming Clean is a feature documentary examining addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders, as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.
The new political documentary The Accidental President directed by British filmmaker/journalist James Fletcher, and featuring subjects Anthony Scaramucci, Piers Morgan, Kellyanne Conway and many others, is described as a play-by-play from all angles on how Trump became President of the United States…and how he may do it again. The film opens in virtual theaters on October 16 and online everywhere on October 27.
The new documentary Los Hermanos/The Brothers co-directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider World Premiere as the opening night film of Woodstock Film Festival. The film looks at Cuban-born brothers – Ilmar Gavilan the violinist, and Aldo López-Gavilán the pianist – who live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half century wide. Linked by music and dreams, their unfolding story offers a nuanced, often startling view of nations long estranged, and a vision of what can happen when borders can be crossed.
Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios will release Heart of the Shore, a documentary about hurricane Sandy’s devastation in New Jersey. Heart of the Shore will be available to rent and own on DVD and North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms through Freestyle Digital Media on October 23, 2020.
Nino Aldi’s role-reversal comedy Tribes, starring Internet celebrities Destorm Power (Punk’d), Adam Waheed (Pitch Please) and Daytime Emmy-winning producer/actor Jake Hunter (Class Act), from an award-winning screenplay by Andy Marlatt, will be presented online at the Oscar qualifying LA Shorts Fest.
Dark Star Pictures release the trailer for the award-winning Australian biopic Acute Misfortune set to preview in virtual theaters in L.A and Cleveland on October 2nd, before an On Demand release on November 3rd. The film, starring Daniel Henshall (The Babadook) and Toby Wallace (Romper Stomper), tells of tortured Australian artist Adam Cullen.