The Cambodian drama film In the Life of Music, selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, released the official trailer ahead of the release on VOD starting August 14th. Co-directed by Caylee So and Sok Visal, the film world premiered at the 2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Van Ditthavong’s feature directorial debut All Roads To Pearla (formerly known as Sleeping In Plastic), which had its world premiere at the 2019 Austin Film Festival will be released in the Fall via Gravitas Ventures.
THE VOW, a nine-part documentary series directed by Emmy-winning and Academy award nominated Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer debuts Sunday, August 23 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), with new episodes airing subsequent Sundays at the same time. The series explores the world of the controversial self-improvement group NXIVM.
Vertical Entertainment released the official trailer for the upcoming Robin Williams documentary Robin’s Wish directed by Tylor Norwood (The United States of Detroit, Paper Tigers), that chronicles Williams’ fight against the deadly neurodegenerative disorder known as Lewy Body Dementia.
Oscar nominee and Emmy Award winner Ava DuVernay will executive produce and narrate One Perfect Shot, a half-hour unscripted series, inspired by a popular Twitter account of the same name. The new docuseries celebrating iconic movie moments guided by Hollywood’s most exhilarating cinematic voices will debut on HBO Max.
Magnolia Pictures released the official trailer for the thriller Alone, the English-language remake by director John Hyams (One Dog Day, Universal Soldier: Regeneration, Dragon Eyes, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning) of Mattias Olsson’s 2011 Swedish film Gone. In the film, a recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold-blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
A24 released the first look teaser trailer for Janicza Bravo’s Zola that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The indie comedy/drama film is based on the Twitter thread that went viral after stripper A’ziah “Zola” King posted it in October 2015.
The official trailer debuted today for Mangrove, one of five films featured in Small Axe, the highly anticipated anthology series from Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years A Slave).
Lionsgate will release the upcoming horror film Antebellum, starring Janelle Monáe and written and directed by the advocacy filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, as a Premium On-Demand release, debuting on all platforms on September 18. The film will be released theatrically in select international markets.
ArtMattan Films has set a virtual theatrical release date of August 28 for the award winning drama film Made In Bangladesh by Rubaiyat Hossain, based on the life of Daliya Akter, a garment worker who escaped child marriage and went on to lead a trade union fighting for workers’ rights in Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.
