Films

31st Filmfest Dresden Award Winners: MY LITTLE GOAT, SEALAND, IKTAMULI

MY LITTLE GOAT by Tomoki Misato

A total of eleven Golden Horsemen trophies and three special prizes worth 67,200 euros were awarded at the Awards Ceremony of the 31st Filmfest Dresden with two of the coveted trophies going to the Japanese animation MY LITTLE GOAT by Tomoki Misato. Regional productions were also awarded Golden Horsemen trophies: SEALAND by Till Giermann (Greenhouse Production), which celebrated its world premiere at the Filmfest Dresden, and Anne-Christin Plates’ IKTAMULI (Balance Film), which also received a special mention from the Youth Jury in the National Competition.

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4th Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

Over 200 of the world’s top short comedies have been selected to screen at this year’s 2019 Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival (HCSFF). The highly anticipated CollegeHumor Originals’ series Downbeat produced by Big Breakfast, will open the 4th year with two exclusive episodes. Laugh Factory will once again be presenting the Opening Panel, “The State of the Business: The Explosion of Short Form Comedy.”

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Aretha Franklin’s AMAZING GRACE Expands to More Cities and Opens Wide in Theaters April 19

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace the riveting concert film of the live recording of the late “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin’s 1972 Grammy-winning gospel double album, Amazing Grace which opened April 5 at four theaters in New York City (Lincoln Square 13, Angelika Film Center, E-Walk 13, and City Cinemas 1, 2, 3) and Los Angeles (Arclight Hollywood, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 15, AMC Burbank 16, Landmark 12), today, expands to theaters in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

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First 10 Documentaries Announced for 2019 Maryland Film Festival Featuring Miles Davis, Mike Wallace

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Stanley Nelson’s Miles Davis documentary and an eye-popping expose on the world of competitive dog grooming (scored by Baltimore’s own Dan Deacon) are among the first 10 documentaries selected for the 2019 Maryland Film Festival. The Festival will run Wednesday, May 8 through Sunday, May 12 in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District!

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Peter Webber’s Reggae Documentary INNA DE YARD: THE SOUL OF JAMAICA to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica

More than 30 years after their golden age, some of the legendary voices of Reggae including Ken Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I, and Cedric Myton are back on a World Tour all captured in the new documentary Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica. The film directed by Peter Webber will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Monday, April 29. After the Premiere Screening there will be a special performance by reggae legend Ken Boothe.

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NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB and BROTHERHOOD Win Top Prizes at 2019 Aspen Shortsfest

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB directed by Yves Piat

The Oscar®-qualifying 28th Aspen Shortsfest, announced this year’s Award winners with NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB, receiving both Audience Award and Jury Award for Comedy, and BROTHERHOOD, honored with The Ellen Award, as well as Jury Award for Drama.

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Award-Wining Hockey Docu-Thriller THE RUSSIAN FIVE Opens in LA and NYC in May

The Russian Five

The acclaimed documentary film The Russian Five directed by Joshua Riehl is now playing in U.S. movie theaters ahead of a national expansion to Seattle (4/26), Los Angeles (5/3), New York (5/31) and many more to be announced soon.

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ARTIFISHAL, Patagonia Documentary on Fight to Save Fish and Rivers to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

“Concerned citizens protest net-pen salmon farms at a Cooke Aquaculture facility. Eight months later, the state legislature voted to stop renewal of leases for Atlantic salmon net pens in Puget Sound. Bainbridge Island, Washington.” PATAGONIA FILM “ARTIFISHAL” Photo credit: Ben Moon

Executive produced by Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard and directed/produced by Josh “Bones” Murphy, ‘Artifishal’ tells the story of fish hatcheries and fish farms from California to Norway. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature. The film will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, April 25, 2019.

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Kazakhstan’s Oscar Submission THE ROAD TO MOTHER Sets a May US Release Date

THE ROAD TO MOTHER

The Road to Mother (Anaga aparar jol), Kazakhstan’s official submission for the 2017 Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Language Film will be released in theaters throughout the U.S. starting May 10, 2019 via World Wide Motion Pictures Corporation.

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DOLORES, MINDING THE GAP, SHIRKERS Among Nominees for Peabody Awards

Minding the Gap

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the 60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2018. Thirty winners selected from amongst these nominees will be announced beginning next week.

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Award-Winning LGBTQ Documentary THE LAVENDER SCARE Opens Theatrically on June 7

THE LAVENDER SCARE. Frank Kameny Picketing: Frank Kameny leads a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965. Forty activists joined the protest, making it (at the time) the largest public demonstration for LGBT rights in world history.

The Lavender Scare, the award-winning documentary film tells the story of the vicious witch hunt where tens of thousands of gay men and lesbians were fired from their jobs in a decades-long effort by the U.S. government to rid the federal workforce of homosexuals.

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2019 Tribeca Film Festival Debuts Tribeca Celebrates Pride Day Event and World Premiere of Documentary WIG

Wig, directed by Chris Moukarbel

This year, the Tribeca Film Festival will debut the inaugural Tribeca Celebrates Pride, a day-long event on Saturday, May 4th at the Tribeca Festival Hub at Spring Studios concluding with the World Premiere of Wig, directed by Chris Moukarbel. The day will honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, including one-on-one interviews with LGBTQ+ luminaries including Neil Patrick Harris, John Cameron Mitchell, Larry Kramer and guest speaker Asia Kate Dillon. The program will reflect on the impact of this seminal moment for the LGBTQ+ community and include conversations with Raul Castillo, Patti Harrison, Angelica Ross, and more.

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