The incredible true story of Ultimate Fighting Championship gladiator Matt “The Hammer” Hamill, by first-time feature film director Oren Kaplan, won the 2011 Miami International Film Festival’s Audience Award. The film, starring hearing-impaired actor Russell Harvard, whose credits include TV shows Fringe and CSI: NY and the Oscar-winning feature film There Will Be Blood, won accolades for breaking new ground in the cinematic treatment of the deaf and hearing-impaired while also depicting the physical […]
Sesame Street’s Elmo Documentary Leads All Star Film Lineup for 2011 DALLAS International Film Festival
The DALLAS International Film Festival revealed the full schedule of features and shorts that will be screened throughout the festival’s 11-day run (March 31- April 10, 2010); and also announced that Academy Award nominee Steve James will be the first documentary filmmaker in the festival’s history to receive the DALLAS Star Award. Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011, Constance Marks’ BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER’S JOURNEY will serve as the featured […]
More Films Announced for 10th Tribeca Film Festival; Spotlight and Cinemania Sections and Special Screenings, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival Lineup
The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Cinemania sections, as well as Special Screenings and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival lineup. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1, 2011, in lower Manhattan, New York.
REVIEW: Queen To Play (Joueuse)
Queen To Play (Joueuse) is the first feature from filmmaker Caroline Bottaro, which stars Kevin Kline and the incandescent Sandrine Bonnaire. The film is set in Corsica, and opens as a maid in a small hotel Helene (Sandrine Bonnaire) is cleaning up the elegant but messy room of an American Couple, who sits playing chess, still woozy and lounging from the night before; the woman (a radiant Jennifer Beals) sitting in her night gown, lovingly […]
Sony Picture Classics to Release ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ documentary from 2011 Sundance Film Festival
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the Michael Rapaport’s documentary BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST about the rap group group A Tribe Called Quest which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The documentary film had generated some controversy when Q-Tip, a member of the group, expressed his non-support for the film. However, early reviews of the film from the Sundance Film Festival were fairly positive. No release date […]
David Schwimmer’s ‘Trust’ + Complete Film Lineup for 2011 Bermuda International Film Festival
Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) announced the full line-up and schedule for the 14th annual Bermuda International Film Festival taking place this month, March 18 – 24, 2011. This year’s event will centred in Hamilton, with screenings taking place at Speciality Cinema & Grill and Liberty Theatre. BIFF 2011 promises something for everyone with more than 70 films across 8 categories. Programme highlights include: World Cinema – In a Better World. Winner of the Oscar […]
The World Premiere of “The Loving Story” Directed by Full Frame Founder Nancy Buirski at 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced the World Premiere of “The Loving Story,” directed and produced by Nancy Buirski, Full Frame’s founder. Buirski helmed the Festival from 1998 through 2007. “The Loving Story” will be featured as a Center Frame program at the 2011 Festival and will be presented outside of competition. The film chronicles the little known but significant civil rights battle of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple arrested in Virginia […]
HBO to show Harry Belafonte Documentary ‘Sing Your Song’ from 2011 Sundance Film Festival
HBO has picked up the U.S. TV rights for, SING YOUR SONG, filmmaker Susanne Rostock (“The Long Way Home,”) documentary on the life of Harry Belafonte. The documentary will debut in Fall 2011, exclusively on HBO. Inspired by singer and actor Paul Robeson, Belafonte rose to fame as a singer, despite trying tours across a segregated country and his provocative crossover into mainstream Hollywood. Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement, while impacting […]
11th New York Indian Film Festival Announces Opening + Closing + Centerpiece Films
Opening the Indo-American Arts Council’s 11th New York Indian Film Festival which runs May 4 to May 8 in Manhattan, New York, will be the North American premiere of Disney’s family comedy DO DOONI CHAAR starring the legendary husband-wife acting couple Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. The Habib Faisal-directed film marks the Hollywood studio’s first live-action production in India. It is a heart-warming comedy about the dreams and challenges of a middle-class family who take […]
Official Lineup + Project Nim to Open 20th Florida Film Festival
The 20th annual Florida Film Festival, sponsored by Full Sail University, will take place April 8 through 17, 2011, and this year’s lineup features more than 160 films from 25 countries with 43 female directors. The documentary, Project Nim, from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, James Marsh (Man on Wire), will serve as the Festival’s Opening Night Film on April 8. Humorous, eye-opening, and thought-provoking, Project Nim tells the tale of a chimp taken from its mother […]
2011 Canada International Film Festival To Kick Off In Vancouver, April 2
The 2011 Canadian International Film Festival (CIFF) returns to Vancouver to screen indie films including over 25 international productions, including 8 Canadian films. The festival will be held Saturday, April 2, to Sunday April 3, 2011, at Edgewater Casino’s Stadium Club Theatre. This year’s highlights include Fallen Before Falling, a film which follows a successful actress as she moves to her ‘safe place’ at an abandoned farm to face her fears, all while her mental […]
2011 Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival to open with Benefit Screening of Pink Skies
Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival will open Friday, March 25 at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in Hollywood with Pink Skies, a documentary feature directed by Gulcin Gilbert to be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers. Pink Skies is an inspirational film about the empowerment of women and overcoming obstacles as human beings. The film chronicles the extraordinary event ‘Jump for the Cause’ which brought together 181 women from 31 countries to create a world […]