
The Intercept released “Drowning by Sunrise,” a short documentary focused on an investigation into the death of 16-year-old Damain Martin in Broward County, Florida.

The Intercept released “Drowning by Sunrise,” a short documentary focused on an investigation into the death of 16-year-old Damain Martin in Broward County, Florida.

21 short films are selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) with the jury consisting of Nathanja van Dijk, Safia Benhaim and Greg de Cuir Jr.

The new trailer dropped for the indie comedy Reality Queen! from director Steven Jay Bernheim, featuring Denise Richards, Mike Tyson along with the late John Witherspoon. Reality Queen! will be available on DVD and Digital as well as in select theaters across America on January 10.

The nominations were announced today for the 47th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. This year’s Best Animated Feature nominations include: Frozen 2 (Walt Disney Animation Studios), How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (DreamWorks Animation), Klaus (Netflix presents a Production of the Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine), Missing Link (Laika, LLC) and Toy Story 4 (Pixar Animation Studios).

Showtime Documentary Films announced a new limited docu-series, Gossip Starring Cindy Adams, profiling the longtime columnist whose work at the New York Post made her the reigning queen of gossip. Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are executive producing, with Emmy and BAFTA(R) nominee Jenny Carchman (The Fourth Estate) producing and directing. Scheduled to premiere in 2021, the series will be produced by Imagine Documentaries in cooperation with the New York Post.

The indie LGBT film ‘As I Am’ directed by Anthony Bawn will be released in theaters in December via Bawn Incorporated and APB Productions LLC.

Writer/director C.J Renner’s critically acclaimed American Tender will open in theaters starting on Thursday December 5.

Amazon released the trailer for Invisible Life, Brazil’s Official Submission for International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Invisible Life directed by Karim Aïnouz and starring Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler and Fernanda Montenegro opens in theaters on December 20th.

CUFF.Docs, the 7th Annual Documentary Film Festival presented by Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF), starts this Wednesday night, November 27, with the Sundance hit THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY, about the final tour of a dying magician, “The Amazing Johnathan”, which turns into an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion. The 5-day festival runs until Sunday, Dec 1 at Globe Cinema.

Gille Klabin’s psychedelic sci-fi adventure-comedy The Wave starring Justin Long and Donald Faison, which world premiered at Austin’s famous Fantastic Fest is headed to nationwide theaters and VOD on January 17th, 2020 from Epic Pictures Group.

Film at Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical announce Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers, December 6 to 11. The range of boundary-pushing works of Brazilian film has had few parallels in recent years, with filmmakers such as Kleber Mendonça Filho, Gabriel Mascaro, Karim Aïnouz, Juliana Rojas, João Dumans, and Affonso Uchôa radically revising the world’s understanding of their national cinema.

The award-wining horror-fantasy film Zombi Child, from director Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama, Saint Laurent) blending mysticism, social commentary and horror will open in New York City at Film at Lincoln Center and Quad Cinema on January 24, 2020.