Co-directed by Aviva Kempner and Ben West, the documentary Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting is a comprehensive examination of the movement to eradicate the words, images, and gestures that many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive.
Directed by Brenda Akele Jorde, the documentary film The Homes We Carry will make its North American premiere at Hot Docs 2023 on April 28 in the festival program “The Changing Face of Europe”.
Inspired in part by filmmaker Sarah Watts’ own upbringing in a Jehovah’s Witness community, the Canadian drama film You Can Live Forever stars Anwen O’Driscoll as a teenager sent to live with her aunt in a devoutly religious Jehovah’s Witness, and develops a relationship with another young woman in the community.
Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, and Corey Hawkins will star in The Piano Lesson, directed by Malcolm Washington and based on the play ‘The Piano Lesson’ by August Wilson.
RLJE Films revealed the official trailer for The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Bomani J. Story’s horror film inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and starring Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith, along with Keith Holliday.
Watch the first two official clips from The Covenant, the action thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a U.S. Army Sergeant and Dar Salim as an Afghan interpreter during the war in Afghanistan. Also starring in the film are Antony Starr, Alexander Ludwig, Bobby Schofield, with Emily Beecham and Jonny Lee Miller
The Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival (HCSFF) returns for its 7th edition, and will take place April 21-23rd in person.
Sony Pictures Classics revealed the first look teaser trailer for The Miracle Club, the comedy film set in Ireland, starring Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, Stephen Rea and Agnes O’Casey.
Cinedigm dropped the official trailer for Giving Birth to a Butterfly, Theodore Schaefer’s hauntingly surreal debut feature film set to open in theaters followed by a streaming exclusive on Fandor, next month, in May.
Cannes Film Festival 2023 revealed the official feature films selected in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings.
The eye-opening documentary The Cure for Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz follows Tony McAleer, a former Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier, who went on to become a founding member of the anti-hate activist group Life After Hate.
