Film Independent Spirit Award-winner Patty Jenkins (Monster) along with Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, and Demi Moore have been signed to direct the Lifetime Original Movie Project Five, an anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives. The film’s fifth director will be announced in the coming weeks. Through its deeply interconnected story arc, Project Five will use humor and drama to focus on the effect that breast cancer and […]
Joe Wizan, a former head of 20th Century Fox‘s motion picture division and an independent producer of films such as “Jeremiah Johnson” and “… And Justice for All,” has died. He was 76. Among his credits as a producer or executive producer are “Junior Bonner,” “The Last American Hero,” “Audrey Rose” and “Along Came a Spider.” Click here to read more
AFI FEST, celebrating its 25th year in 2011, will take place November 3 through 10 in Hollywood, California at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, the Mann Chinese 6 Theatres at the Hollywood & Highland Center, the Egyptian Theatre of the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The American Film Market (AFM), will be held November 2 through 9. Submissions are now open and filmmakers are invited to submit narrative, documentary, experimental, animated and short […]
Four 2011 Tribeca Film Festival official selections THE BANG BANG CLUB, THE BLEEDING HOUSE, LAST NIGHT and NEDS, will be released nationwide via video-on-demand under the “Tribeca Film” banner simultaneously with the start of the Festival on April 20. The “Tribeca Film” VOD category will also offer other festival circuit titles, including Dax Shepard’s BROTHER’S JUSTICE and THE HIGH COST OF LIVING, starring Zach Braff. Tribeca Film is the comprehensive distribution label from Tribeca Enterprises. […]
The DALLAS International Film Festival scheduled for March 31 – April 10, 2011 have added two new Honorees to the slate of DALLAS Star Award recipients – writer, producer and director Scott Z. Burns (THE INFORMANT, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM) and posthumously to Texas legend and Academy-Award winner Horton Foote (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TENDER MERCIES). Horton Foote and Scott Z. Burns join Ann-Margret and Steve James on the 2011 roster of DALLAS Star Award recipients […]
The RiverRun International Film Festival officially released today the full list of competition jurors for the 13th annual Festival returning to Winston-Salem April 8 -17. These jurors will be responsible for determining the best film in RiverRun’s competitive sections: Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts and Animated Shorts. A number of jurors will also be presenting works in the non-competitive categories. Filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Narrative Features, will present her film, I Will Follow, […]
The 2011 San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival runs April 6- April 10, 2011 at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. The films in the festival represent the lives of women all over the globe and were directed and /or co-directed by women, including the opening night film from Uganda, Raymonde Provencher’s ‘riveting and jaw-dropping’ documentary, GRACE, MILLY, LUCY…CHILD SOLDIERS. The 7th Annual SFIWFF proudly opens with Raymonde Provencher’s riveting and jaw-dropping documentary, GRACE, MILLY, […]
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) will close with the world premiere of Edward Burns’ Newlyweds on Saturday, April 30, at BMCC TPAC.
Newlyweds is the tenth film written and directed by Ed Burns and the sixth to premiere at TFF. Burns, who wrote, directed and stars in Newlyweds, has had a strong connection with TFF since its founding. Ash Wednesday world premiered as part of the inaugural TFF lineup in 2002, and Looking for Kitty, Purple Violets and Nice Guy Johnny have also been Festival premieres over subsequent years.
The independent film “The Frontier Boys” which won 2011 Best Feature Drama at the Sabaoth International Film Festival in Milan, Italy, opens in its hometown Michigan this weekend. “We’ve taken ‘The Frontier Boys’ from Charlevoix to Milan, Italy to Hollywood, California, and I’m always thrilled to bring Michigan with me wherever we show the film,” said Director John Grooters. “The Frontier Boys is a Michigan movie through and through. It captures the essence of small […]
Patricia Richardson’s directorial debut, “Detour” will make its West Coast premiere this weekend at the “The Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival.” The Women’s International Film Festival runs March 25 – March 31 and showcases narratives, documentaries, animation and student short films created by women filmmakers featuring diverse roles for women. Written and completely funded by Richardson, the film depicts lesbian couples in every day life. DETOUR is a dramatic feature film about a 27 […]
The free events at 2011 Tribeca Film Festival are as follows:
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), is bringing back its free community events: the Tribeca Drive-In (April 21-23), Family Festival Street Fair (April 30), Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day (April 30), and free panel series, “Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper” and “Tribeca Talks: Industry” (April 23-30).
For the first time this year, Festival-goers, athletes and the general public will also have the opportunity to partake in the new NYFest (April 23), the city’s first Film and Entertainment Soccer Tournament