Ahead of the world premiere, here is the first look trailer for “The Death Tour”, the Slamdance Competition Documentary Feature Film that follows wrestling hopefuls across remote Indigenous communities in Canada’s far North on ‘the most grueling tour in indie wrestling’.
The 35th Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced this year’s juried award winners with Four Daughters directed by Kaouther Ben Hania winning the FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Feature Film.
12.12: The Day and Evil Does Not Exist lead the nominations for the 17th Asian Film Awards (AFA) celebrating excellence in Asian cinema. Based on the real-life “12.12 Military Insurrection” of 1979 in South Korea, the political drama 12.12: The Day follows the intense struggles of military personnel during the mutiny. The film was nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. Also receiving six nominations is the film Evil Does Not Exist by Japanese director Hamaguchi Ryusuke whose earlier work Drive My Car won Best Film at the 16th Asian Film Awards. It is nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music.
Actress Annette Bening and filmmaker David O. Russell will be honored with Vision Award at the 13th annual Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) taking places February 28 – March 3, 2024.
The 8th MidWest WeirdFest film festival taking place March 1-3, 2024 at the Micon Downtown Cinema in Eau Claire, Wisconsin announced its first programming wave of “all things fantastic, frightening, paranormal, and just plain weird.”
The 21st annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival returns February 16-25, 2024 in Missoula, Montana featuring over 150 nonfiction films, and a virtual program streaming online February 19-29.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for The Greatest Night in Pop, the music documentary film on the rollercoaster ride to write and record the 1985 charity hit song “We are the World”. This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic event.
Nicola Peltz Beckham makes her directorial debut, and also stars in Lola, as 19-year-old Lola James who is working to save enough money to get her little brother out of their toxic home.
Nominations announced for the 51st Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.
RLJE Films revealed the official trailer for No Way Up, the underwater survival thriller film starring Sophie McIntosh, Will Attenborough, Jeremias Amoore, Manuel Pacific, Grace Nettle, Phyllis Logan, and Colm Meaney as passengers thrown together when the plane they’re traveling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The survivors face a race against time to escape the airlocked galley they are trapped in.
Kino Lorber and Milestone Film & Video will release a new 4K restoration of Bushman, the 1971 indie film by David Schickele that follows Nigerian immigrant through the tumultuous social movements of 1960s San Francisco.
Quiver revealed the official trailer for Willie and Me, the comedy drama film starring Eva Hassmann as a German housewife who will do whatever it takes to travel to America to see her idol Willie Nelson’s farewell concert.