James Byrkit’s feature directorial debut, COHERENCE, which had its world premiere at 2013 Fantastic Fest in Austin, where it won the Next Wave Best Screenplay award, and has since gone on to play the Sitges Film Festival (where it again took home the Best Screenplay prize) and the Philadelphia Film Festival, will continue to play at festivals in the coming months on its way to a traditional theatrical release in 2014 by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Marc Silver’s documentary “WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?”, winner of 2013 Sundance Film Festival cinematography award and an official selection at 2013 New York Film Festival, will be released in the U.S in Spring 2004 by Kino Lorber. The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories which are so often ignored in the immigration debate.
If you’re a documentary fan, this would be a good weekend to free yourself up for going to the movies, new releases include THE ARMSTRONG LIE and AT BERKELEY. Of course, like most weekends there’s a good mix of indie films of all different types , including literary adaptations, dramas, and comedies such as ASS BACKWARDS .
GREASE director, Randal Kleiser has been selected to be the recipient of the first annual Stanley Kramer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Stanley Kramer Film Festival, which takes place November 15 to 17, 2013, at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs. Kleiser, whose first feature film, Grease (1978), launched his professional career as a Director, starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, and went on to became the most successful movie musical ever made. Mr. Kleiser’s other directorial film credits include The Blue Lagoon, Summer Lovers, Grandview, USA, Flight […]
“FERAL” directed by Daniel Sousa
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 86th Academy Awards®. Fifty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.
Mountainfilm in Telluride is headed on the road to New York City; the Film Society of Lincoln Center released the lineup for the 2013 Mountainfilm series, taking place from November 15 to 17, 2013 at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center in New York City. Films on the lineup include an exclusive sneak preview of MAIDENTRIP as its opening night selection about 14-year-old Laura Dekker who sailed around the world solo, complete with personal video she shot herself during her journey. In DUK COUNTY, world-class climber Dr. Geoff Tabin heads to Sudan to restore the sight of more than 200 blind people. Norwegian documentary NORDFOR SOLA (North of the Sun) follows two young men who spent most of the year on an isolated, cold beach north of the Arctic Circle with nothing but surfboards and sustaining comfortably off the garbage/waste of others – all the while discovering the world’s best surfing waves.
Scottish director David Mackenzie’s award-winning gritty prison drama STARRED UP, which stars Jack O’Connell (“Skins”, Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Unbroken), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises, The Place Beyond the Pines), and Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) will be released in the US by Tribeca Film in 2014.
IT FELT LIKE LOVE, directed by Eliza Hittman
IT FELT LIKE LOVE, directed by Eliza Hittman won the Jury award for Best Narrative Feature; and BROTHERS HYPNOTIC, directed by Reuben Atlas won the Jury award for Best Documentary Feature at the Indie Memphis film festival which took place October 31 to November 3, 2013. The audience, on the other hand, voted for SHORT TERM 12, directed by Destin Cretton to win the Narrative Feature Audience award and A WHOLE LOTT MORE, directed by Victor Buhler took home the Documentary Feature Audience award.
THE RAILWAY MAN starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman
The 10th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) which takes place from the December 6th to 14th, 2013, unveiled the line-up of international films in the Cinema of the World section. Films on the lineup include award-winning indie film FRUITVALE STATION; THE RAILWAY MAN starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman; Polish Oscar contender WALESA. MAN OF HOPE; Georgia Oscar contender IN BLOOM; documentary THE UNKNOWN KNOWN; Italian film THE REFEREE, and Slovenian film CLASS ENEMY.
FROZEN
Nineteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 86th Academy Awards®.
The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 6, 2014 with the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL,shot on location in Germany, recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
THE CRASH REEL
The 13th Whistler Film Festival (WFF) taking place from December 4th to 8th, 2013, in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada has unveiled its lineup of films . WFF’s Closing Night Gala film is the Western Canadian Premiere of THE CRASH REEL by two time Academy Award nominated documentary director, Lucy Walker, and is about champion half-pipe snowboard legend Kevin Pearce’s inspiring rehabilitation following a devastating neck injury.