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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Hilary Clinton, Barbara Streisand, Nancy Pelosi Featured in Bella Abzug Documentary | Trailer
Bella Abzug, 1979 (Photo Courtesy of Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress)
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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.
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11 Films to Compete for Kutxabank-New Directors Award at San Sebastian Festival
Gamma Rays (Les Rayons Gamma) directed by Henry Bernadet Eleven films – seven first works and four second films – from nineteen countries will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 71st San Sebastian Festival running from September 22 to 30, 2023.
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Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop Trailer – MC Lyte, Queen Latifah Look Back at Influence of Women in Netflix Documentary
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Rah Digga, Latto, Tierra Whack and other female rappers look back at the influence and important role the women of hip hop played throughout the last 50 years in the Netflix documentary series Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop.
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Telemarketers Trailer – Office Buddies Expose a Billion-Dollar Scam in HBO Docuseries
Telemarketers directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern (HBO | screenshot) HBO unveiled the official trailer for Telemarketers, a three-part docuseries following two telemarketers as they go on a twenty-year mission to take down the telemarketing industry and expose a billion-dollar scam.
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World Premiere of Copa 71 Kicks Off Toronto Film Festival Documentary Lineup of 22 Films from Raoul Peck, Lucy Walker, Roger Ross Williams
Copa 71 directed by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine (TIFF) Documentary films on mountain climber Lhakpa Sherpa, Japan’s reality TV star Nasubi, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, Indigenous activist Layla Staats, historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and Canadian icon Mr. Dressup are among the 2023 selection for the Toronto International Film Festival’s TIFF Docs program featuring 22 titles from 12 countries around the world.
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Golda Trailer – Helen Mirren Stars as Tough Israeli President, Liev Schreiber as Henry Kissinger
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir Bleecker Street shared the official trailer Golda, the biopic drama set during the Yom Kippur War starring Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female Prime Minister.
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Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn Trailer – Carlos Ghosn Tells His Side for The First Time in Apple TV+ Documentary
Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn (Apple TV+) Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for “Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn,” the four-part documentary series telling the riveting story of CEO-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn and his relentless climb to the top of the corporate ladder, shocking arrest, and unbelievable escape that stunned the world.