Filmmaker Jen Muranetz chronicles the 2020-2021 Canada’s Fairy Creek old-growth protests – the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history – in the documentary film Fairy Creek. The film will world premiere at the 2024 Planet in Focus International Film Festival on October 17, 2024 at the Paradise Theatre in Toronto. Ahead of the premiere, Cinema Politica has acquired the film’s distribution rights.
Here is the first look teaser trailer for the animated feature film The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, a biographical film on the life of French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a new four part docuseries from Emmy nominated executive producer, host and writer Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, premieres January 28, 2025, 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS.
The romantic drama On Swift Horses from Emmy Award winning director Daniel Minahan (Fellow Travellers, Deadwood: the Movie, Halston, Series 7: The Contenders) and screenwriter Bryce Kass (Lizzie) which recently world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for release.
The European Film Academy has unveiled the official nominees for the European Animated Feature Film category at this year’s European Film Awards. Chosen by a committee comprised of representatives of the European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association for Animation Film, five animated films have been chosen to compete in the category.
Agent of Happiness is a documentary following Amber Gurung, a Bhutanese ‘Happiness Agent’ tasked by the government to collect data on the citizens’ happiness for Bhutan’s Center for Gross National Happiness census. The documentary, co-directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó, is set to open in US theaters on November 1, 2024.
The Salmon’s Call, a feature documentary by Joy Haskell on the spiritual and cultural relationship between wild salmon and indigenous people, will make its debut at the 2024 Red Nation International Film Festival in Los Angeles on Friday, November 15th.
The Double Exposure Film Festival (DX) celebrates its 10th anniversary, from November 7 to November 10, 2024, under the theme ” In Flux | Out of Bounds”.
Duino, the feature directorial debut of co-directors actor-singer Juan Pablo Di Pace (Mamma Mia!) and Andrés Pepe Estrada, editor of the Oscar-nominated Argentine film Argentina, 1985, will have its New York premiere at the 36th edition of NewFest: New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.
Produced by Sylvester Stallone, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is an adventure-drama film about a boy, Donn Fendler, who got lost in 1939 during a storm near the summit of Maine’s Mount Katahdin. The film is based on the book of the same name that Fendler wrote himself, about his experience surviving in the wilderness. The film world premiered on July 13, 2024, at the Maine International Film Festival.
Helmed by two-time Oscar-nominated director of Logan and Ford v Ferrari, James Mangold, A Complete Unknown is a biographical film on the legendary musician Bob Dylan. The film follows a 19-year-old Dylan played by Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name, Dune).
Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Being the Ricardos, Red One), BAFTA nominee and Tony winner Nina Arianda (Billions, Being the Ricardos), Olivia Simmons (You Can’t Run Forever, Honor Student) and Jake Ryan (Asteroid City, Eighth Grade) have joined the ensemble cast of 109 Billion Followers, the new film from Thier Productions and Darius Films, which begins filming this November in New York City.