The 32nd Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF), taking place October 5-15, 2023, will showcase more than 120 feature films under the theme “You Can’t Look Away.”
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TIFF Awards – American Fiction Wins People Choice Award at 48th Toronto Film Festival
American Fiction American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson took the TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival which concluded on Saturday with the Closing Night screening of Thom Zimny’s Sly. Starring Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction is both a wickedly smart satire about the commodification of marginalized voices and a bittersweet portrait of an artist forced to re-examine the terms of his integrity.
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Cassandro Trailer – Bad Bunny and Gael García Bernal Lock Lips in Biopic on Wild Gay Wrestler
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio and Gael García Bernal in Cassandro. Photo by Alejandro Lopez Pineda © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Prime Video shared the official trailer for Cassandro, the biopic drama on gay wrestler Cassandro, the “Liberace of lucha libre.”
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31st Hamptons Film Festival Unveils Lineup, with Bradley Cooper’s Maestro as Closing Film
Maestro 31st Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) unveiled the full lineup of films with Bradley Cooper’s Maestro as closing night film along with “A Conversation with…” Series with Paul Simon. Filmmaker Celine Song will also attend the festival for a Special Screening of her latest narrative feature Past Lives, and will receive the festival’s Breakthrough Artist Award.
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Danny Madden’s ’15 Cameras’ Voyeurism Horror Film Sets a Fall Release Date | Trailer
15 Cameras Gravitas Ventures will release Danny Madden’s 15 Cameras, the horror thriller film starring Will Madden, Angela Wong Carbone, Hilty Bowen, James Babson, Shirley Chen, Hannah Mckechnie, Skyler Bible, Courtney Dietz, Erik Leupp, Donna Allen, Brianne Moncrief, Jim Cummings, Stephen Ruffin. Gravitas Ventures previously released the film’s predecessors 13 Cameras and 14 Cameras.
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NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival Unveils 35th Anniversary Year Lineup – Rustin, All Of Us Strangers
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All Of Us Strangers, from Andrew Haigh. Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved. NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival announced its full lineup of 132 films from 26 countries for the 35th milestone anniversary year set for October 12 – 22 in theaters within New York, and virtually throughout the United States on NewFest’s on-demand platform through October 24. The festival’s in-person premieres will take place in Manhattan at SVA Theatre and The LGBT Community Center, and in Brooklyn at Nitehawk Prospect Park and The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
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Jessica Chastain Receives Golden Icon Award and Premieres ‘Memory’ at Zurich Film Festival
Jessica Chastain © Giampaolo Sgura Academy Award-winner Jessica Chastain will be presented with the prestigious Golden Icon Award at the the Zurich Film Festival taking place September 28 to October 8. Alongside her director Michel Franco and co-star Peter Sarsgaard, Chastain will also present her new film, the romantic drama Memory.
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‘Mami Wata’ Trailer – C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi’s Sundance Winning Nigerian Fantasy Drama Opens in US Cinemas
Mami Wata Dekanalog debuted the official trailer for Mami Wata, the black and white Nigerian fantasy drama based on West African folklore directed by C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi.
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‘The Burial’ Trailer -Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx Star in David and Goliath Courtroom Drama Film
The Burial Prime Video debuted the official trailer for The Burial, the courtroom drama film starring Jamie Foxx as a personal injury lawyer in over his head helping funeral home owner Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe, played by Tommy Lee Jones, sue a large funeral home company over a contractual dispute.
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‘Silver Dollar Road’ Trailer – Black Family in North Carolina Battles Developers in Raoul Peck’s Searing Documentary
Silver Dollar Road (Credit: Wayne Lawrence) In his new documentary Silver Dollar Road, filmmaker Raoul Peck follows a Black family in North Carolina fighting a decades-long battle with land developers trying to seize their waterfront property.
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Graham Streeter’s ‘Unfix’ Wins Best Film at Prague Independent Film Festival
Prague Independent Film Festival 2023 Winners Graham Streeter’s “Unfix” won the prestigious Best Feature award at the Prague Independent Film Festival 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic. Streeter’s film delves into the poignant journey of Ari, who, after enduring Conversion Therapy at a young age, finds himself questioning his identity during a global pandemic. “Unfix” is a poignant exploration of self-discovery and the complexity of human emotions.
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Linh Tran’s Slamdance Winning Drama ‘Waiting For The Light’ Opens in Cinemas for 2 Week Run | Trailer
Waiting For The Light To Change Linh Tran’s debut film, the drama Waiting For The Light To Change stars Sam Straley (‘Jay’), who appeared in the Hulu series The Dropout, and as a series regular on The Kids Are Alright (ABC) and Welcome to Flatch (Fox), along with Eric Barrientos (‘Alex’), Qun Chi (‘Lin’), Joyce Ha (‘Kim’), and Jin Park (‘Amy’).