From March 21st to 31st , the 33rd edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival will showcase the best in contemporary global LGBTQ+ films, over 50 features, more than 80 shorts and a wide range of special events, guest appearances, club nights and much more.
Jan Haaken’s latest documentary feature, Our Bodies, Our Doctors will premiere at the 42nd Annual Portland International Film Festival on International Women’s Day – Friday March 8, 2019.
When criminal court Judge Craig Mitchell starts a running club on LA’s notorious Skid Row and begins training a motley group of addicts and criminals to run marathons, lives begin to change. Directed by Mark Hayes, SKID ROW MARATHON follows Judge Mitchell and the members of the Midnight Mission Runners Club over a period of four years. The Judge, who suffers from a painful spinal condition, has been told by his doctors to stop running, but he chooses to ignore their advice. He needs the club and the balance it provides in his life, giving him the opportunity to change the world in a way that he can’t in his own courtroom. If club members stay clean, off the streets and out of jail, the Judge will take them around the world to run marathons. The runners fight the pull of addiction and homelessness at every turn. Not everyone crosses the finish line. Their story is one of hope, friendship and dignity.
The first trailer is released for the upcoming cosmic horror Starfish, featuring a dazzling lead performance from Virginia Gardner (Halloween 2018, Marvel’s The Runaways). The film begins its theatrical roadshow tour starting in NYC on March 13 with a rollout in other cities through late April, followed by the Digital/VOD release May 28.
Writer/director Matthew Montgomery’s Devil’s Path follows two men who meet up in a popular wilderness park for a casual hookup. Winner of Best First Narrative Feature and Best Supporting Actor at FilmOut San Diego, Devil’s Path opens in Los Angeles on March 1, DVD and VOD on March 5.
The Brink is a startling new documentary directed and filmed by Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Take Your Pills) that follows former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as he takes his effort to spread extreme nationalism from the U.S. to the rest of the world. With unprecedented access, Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall historical document employs a vérité approach that aims to expose Bannon’s tactics, including his relationship with the media. The Brink received its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and opens theatrically in New York at the IFC Center (and in Los Angeles) on Friday, March 29. A national expansion will follow.
The Wedding Guest, the globetrotting thriller from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is described as a breathless tour through the shadowy underworlds and hidden realms of Pakistan and India. The film starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte and Jim Sarbh will open in theaters on Friday, March 1st, 2019 in New York and Los Angeles.
The award-winning, satiric comic fantasy “2050” starring Dean Cain, will kick off its theatrical release, beginning on Valentine’s Day, at “home” in New York City, where the film was shot. The film will open in NYC on February 14th, before heading to several other cities thereafter.
Drawing on extraordinary access to never-before-seen footage, Oscar winner Alex Gibney (HBO’s Emmy-winning “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief“) directs the riveting documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, which reveals what happened and explores the psychology of deception behind Silicon Valley’s ”fake it till you make it” mindset. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley debuts Monday, March 18, exclusively on HBO.
THE GO-GO’S, a feature documentary about the most successful female rock band of all time, directed by Alison Ellwood (HISTORY OF THE EAGLES, American Jihad), will premiere later this year on SHOWTIME. The band granted full access for this textured biography featuring candid interviews and archival footage to tell the real story of their meteoric rise to fame and the journeys, triumphs, laughter and struggles along the way.
David Modigliani’s behind-the-scenes documentary RUNNING WITH BETO, following Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s rise from virtual unknown to national political sensation, will debut exclusively on HBO after its world premiere in March at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival.
The controversial documentary LEAVING NEVERLAND recently had its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where among the early critical raves for the documentary, Rolling Stone described it as “hard to watch, tougher to ignore, impossible to forget… a portrait of bravery,” and the Hollywood Reporter called it “harrowing, complicated and heartbreaking,” while Variety hailed the documentary’s “devastatingly powerful and convincing testimony.”