Inspired by an original story by Peter Yoakum, the documentary “Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat” takes audiences behind the lines of America’s volunteer fire service community. The film is a tribute to the nearly 700,000 volunteer firefighters around the country – highlighting their selfless bravery, compassion, motivation, and unfaltering sense of community.
20,000 Species of Bees directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren won the Outstanding First Feature award at the 47th Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival. In the film, an eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. Frameline presents the annual juried Outstanding First Feature Award to a notable narrative feature from an emerging voice in LGBTQ+ cinema.
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Liam Neeson stars in the new action thriller movie Retribution, a remake of the Spanish film El Desconocido directed by Dani de la Torre. Neeson stars as Matt Turner who is threatened by a mysterious caller with a bomb under his car seat.
Showtime revealed the official trailer or Goliath, a three-part documentary series examining the historic life, career and impact of Wilt Chamberlain.
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official trailer for A Compassionate Spy, the documentary on Manhattan Project scientist Theodore Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia. The story is told through a long interview with Hall and his wife Joan, archive footage and some dramatic reenactments.
The French biographical drama film, Simone: Woman of the Century (Simone, le voyage du siècle) directed by Olivier Dahan is set to hit theaters in the US this Summer.
Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins, a soccer comedy directed and co-written by the New Zealand filmmaker, will make its World Premiere at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival taking place September 7–17, 2023.
The world premiere of Silent Roar, the debut feature from Scottish writer and director, Johnny Barrington will open the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) taking place from August 18 – 23, 2023. The Festival will close with the UK premiere of Fremont, directed by BAFTA-nominated director Babak Jalali (whose debut Frontier Blues played EIFF in 2010).
Locarno Film Festival will honor film editor and two-time Oscar winner Pietro Scalia with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, the prize “dedicated to creatives whose work has extended the horizons of the filmic image”.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks and editor Carol Littleton and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter.
Kino Lorber dropped the full official trailer for Final Cut, Oscar® winner Michel Hazanavicius’ (The Artist) remake of the Japanese cult hit One Cut of the Dead.