The new Hulu Original documentary Sound of the Police, examines the “fraught relationship” between African Americans and the police from slavery to the present.
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Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon’s ‘Sound of the Police’ Documentary Examines Relationship Between African Americans and Police | Trailer
Black Star International film festival, Documentary, Martha’s Vineyard African American Film FestivalSound of the Police directed by Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon
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23rd St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase Announces Award Winners, Bring Dat Mono Back and Captcha Win Best of Fest Essy Awards
Bring Dat Mono Back directed by Edward T Thornton The 2023 Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase announced the winners of the nearly two dozen Showcase jury awards — including two $500 prizes to the overall Best Documentary and Narrative Showcase film. Fourteen films were also selected to move on to the 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival in November.
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Michael Moshe Dahan’s YES REPEAT NO Wins Top Award at 2023 Stony Brook Film Festival
Michael Moshe Dahan’s Yes Repeat No, a challenging and engaging meta masterpiece film, won the Jury Award for Best Feature at the 28th Stony Brook Film Festival. “Thank you to all of the people who believe in human rights and democracy all over the world … and to all the people who want to make difficult material all over the world because finding the questions to ask is sometimes harder than getting the answers,” Dahan said in his acceptance speech.
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Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind Trailer – Iconic Author Says Yes to Revealing Documentary
Greenwich Entertainment debuted the official trailer for Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, a documentary portrait of the iconic author of more than 100 books, including Them, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Blonde, described as “America’s foremost woman of letters.” Featuring readings by Oscar winner Laura Dern.
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Ted Raimi in Psychological Thriller ‘Failure!’ to World Premiere at FrightFest | Teaser Trailer
Ted Raimi in Failure! directed by Alex Kahuam Ted Raimi led psychological thriller Failure! will have its World Premiere at FrightFest on August 28th. The film also stars Merrick McCartha (Senior Year), Melissa Diaz (Ruthless), John Paul Medrano (Seven Days) and Daniel Kuhlman (Voodoo MacBeth) and Noel Douglas Orput.
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Sebastien Tobler’s Romantic Drama ‘This Time’ at Asian American Film Festival | Trailer
This Time directed by Sebastien Tobler Directed by Sebastien Tobler, the romantic drama This Time will screen at the 46th Asian American International Film Festival on Saturday July 29 in New York City.
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Hilary Clinton, Barbara Streisand, Nancy Pelosi Featured in Bella Abzug Documentary | Trailer
Bella Abzug, 1979 (Photo Courtesy of Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress) Women’s activist and politician Bella Savitzky Abzug “Battling Bella” is the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman titled Bella! which won the The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
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Actors Riz Ahmed, Ben Platt Not Attending Locarno Film Festival Due to Actors’ Strike
Riz Ahmed in Mughal Mowgli Actor, Riz Ahmed who was set to receive the Davide Campari Excellence Award at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival will no longer be in attendance. His world premiere of Dammi (Yann Mounir Demange, 2023) will still take place on Opening Night in Piazza Grande and the screening of Mughal Mowgli (Mogul Mowgli, Bassam Tariq, 2020) in the Histoire(s) du cinéma section is also confirmed.
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‘Disfluency’ and ‘Into The Spotlight’ Take Top Awards at Waco’s Deep in the Heart Film Festival
Disfluency directed by Anna Baumgarten Anna Baumgarten’s Disfluency won Best Narrative Feature and Thaddeus D. Matula’s Into The Spotlight won Best Documentary Feature at Waco’s Deep in the Heart Film Festival 7th edition.
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Michael Mann’s Ferrari is Closing Night Film of 61st New York Film Festival
Ferrari directed by Michael Mann Michael Mann’s Ferrari will make its North American premiere as the Closing Night film of the 61st New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere on October 13 at Alice Tully Hall.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron to Open Toronto Film Festival
The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki The fantastical epic animated feature film, The Boy and the Heron, from Academy Award–winning visionary director Hayao Miyazaki, will be the Opening Night Gala Presentation for the 48th Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 7, at Roy Thomson Hall. The original story was written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker and produced by Oscar®-winning Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki co-founded.
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The Inventor Trailer – Stephen Fry is Leonardo da Vinci in Stop-Motion Film
The Inventor directed by Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Granjon Blue Fox Entertainment debuted the official trailer for The Inventor, a stop-motion animation adventure film featuring the voices of Stephen Fry, Daisy Ridley, Marion Cotillard, Gauthier Battoue, Matt Berry, that follows the life of inventor Leonardo da Vinci.