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New Indie Films, Documentaries in Theaters This Weekend Friday September 6

The good news about this first full September weekend is that there are MANY indie, foreign, and documentary releases that are being released, and most of them look interesting (particularly the documentaries). The bad news is that most of them are debuting in just a single theater, so you might have to wait a bit before you can see them in a theater in your area. However, some of them have a VOD release on the same day, so if you don’t mind watching it in the comfort of your own home (and who doesn’t?), you’re not out of luck!

SAVING MR. BANKS will Open, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS to Close AFI FEST 2013

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

The North American Premiere Gala of Disney’s SAVING MR. BANKS will open AFI FEST 2013 on Thursday, November 7, and the World Premiere Opening Weekend Gala of Sony Picture Classics’ FOXCATCHER on Friday, November 8 will launch a lineup of independent and auteur films that will screen over the course of the festival from November 7-14, 2013.

10 Fellows Selected for Film Independent’s 2013 Screenwriting Lab

FORBIDDEN STEPS by Iram Parveen Bilal

Film Independent announced the screenwriters selected for its 14th annual Screenwriting Lab, sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, West. The Screenwriting Lab is an intensive five-week program designed to help writers improve their craft, and take their current scripts to the next level in a nurturing yet challenging creative environment.

Christoph Rainer’s REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT Wins 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition at TIFF | WATCH FILM

Christoph Rainer

RBC and the Toronto International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. Christoph Rainer, Vienna, Austria is the national winner and received $20,000 prize. In Christoph Rainer’s film REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT, Rob, a worn out robot with a corrupt memory, drowns his sorrows of his ‘screwed’ existence in alcohol and asks himself the essential question: what did he do wrong?

James Gray, Richard Curtis, Paul Greengrass among Filmmakers and Shorts Program Lineup Confirmed for 2013 NYFF

Joanna Hogg's Exhibition Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition

Richard Curtis, Paul Greengrass, Agnieszka Holland and Frederick Wiseman have been selected to participate in the HBO Directors Dialogues and the popular HBO On Cinema conversation will feature James Gray at the upcoming 2013 New York Film Festival. The festival also announced the selection of Joanna Hogg and Fernando Eimbcke as the two filmmakers whose work will be screened and celebrated as NYFF’s Emerging Artists this year, as well as the selections for NYFF’s Shorts Programs.

Angelina Jolie, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi to Receive the Academy’s Governors Awards

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Angelina Jolie. All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 16, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.

12 Films to Compete in 2013 New Orleans Film Festival; Incl. FOREV, SEARCHING FOR BILL

FOREV FOREV

The 24th annual New Orleans Film Festival, taking place at venues across New Orleans October 10th- October 17th, 2013, announced the Narrative and Documentary Competition feature film selections that will compete for the grand jury prize. The twelve competing films include five world premieres and three U.S. premieres. The rest are Southern premieres. Several of the films have connections to Louisiana: Molly Green (one of the two directors of FOREV) is a New Orleans native; THE WHOLE GRITTY CITY is about marching bands in New Orleans; a significant portion of SEARCHING FOR BILL was filmed in Southern Louisiana; and Zack Godshall, a previous winner of the Louisiana Filmmaker of the Year award, is a Louisiana resident and his film profiles the coastal Louisiana town of Leeville.

San Francisco Film Society Selects Egyptian Filmmaker Mohamed Diab as Artist in Residence

Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab (CAIRO 678) has been selected for the San Francisco Film Society’s sixth Artist in Residence program, October 1 – 15. Diab’s schedule will include a screening of his debut feature film CAIRO 678, described as feminist drama exploring sexual harassment in Egypt.

Milwaukee Film Festival Announces 2013 Lineup; Opens with German Film BREAK UP MAN

BREAK UP MAN (Schlussmacher)

The Milwaukee Film Festival which runs September 26 – October 10, 2013, announced the entire film line-up of 240 films – 103 features and 137 shorts – from 44 different countries. The festival opens with the North American premiere of the German film BREAK UP MAN (Schlussmacher). BREAK UP MAN tells the very funny tale of Paul Voigt, a charming and ambitious professional who works for a ‘relationship break-up’ agency. A master at delivering bad news to husbands and wives on behalf of partners lacking the courage to say ‘it’s all over’. Paul is on the verge of a big promotion and seems to be staring at nothing less than a fabulously successful future. That is until he meets Toto, a needy and neurotic client who decides to cling to cool-and-calm Paul for dear life. Before long it’s Paul who needs counseling as his work performance nosedives and his romance with stunner Natalie heads in a similar direction.

Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy all Set for 2013; Announces Full Program and Guests

Chan-wook Park’s STOKER, which stars Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska

Finland’s largest film festival, Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, is scheduled to run for the 26th time from September 19th to 29th, 2013. This year the festival showcases a record number of films – 339 in total. For the first time in its history, HIFF also shows films in Espoo, where the nominees for the Nordic Council Film Prize will be screened in Kino Tapiola.

REVIEW: My Father and The Man in Black

With no disrespect intended to any ladies reading this, it’s been said that no story carries the emotional impact of a story about the relationship between a father and his son. From the days of the Bible and mythology, countless stories have used that relationship as a basis for emotional conflict, from fantasy films like Star Wars and Field of Dreams to biographical films like Walk the Line. Indeed, it is because of that last film that the documentary MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK exists.

Camden International Film Festival Unveils Lineup for Fifth Annual Points North Documentary Forum

The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has unveiled the lineup for its Points North Documentary Forum. Now in its fifth year, the Forum has quickly become the largest gathering in New England of filmmakers, key decision makers and thought leaders in the documentary field. The three-day conference program runs concurrently with the festival from September 27 – 29, 2013 at the historic Camden Opera House in Camden, Maine, and Union Hall in Rockport, Maine. This year’s program will feature a wide range of panel discussions, workshops, case studies, networking events and two public pitch sessions. Points North is dedicated to providing independent documentary filmmakers with unique opportunities for both professional development and creative inspiration, helping build a vibrant regional filmmaking community while sustaining a conversation about new directions in nonfiction storytelling.

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