The SXSW and Hot Docs breakout documentary We Are The Thousand chronicles the journey taken by 1,000 musicians to create the Biggest Rock Band on Earth. The film gives a first-hand account of the group’s effort to play the iconic Foo Fighters anthem “Learn to Fly”, convince Dave Grohl to play a concert in Cesena, Italy, and the global sensation the event became.
Actress Juliette Binoche is featured on the official poster of San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, to run from September 16-24, 2022. Winner of an Academy Award for her work in The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996), the French actor will also receive one of this year’s Donostia Awards in recognition of an extensive career which has seen her play almost 75 characters, from power-wielding heroines to fragile beings with historical figures, drama roles and comedy parts along the way.
IFC Films debuted a teaser trailer for Resurrection, the psychological thriller starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
The official trailer debuted this week for BEBA, Rebeca Huntt’s poetic, raw and ruthless self portrait documentary in which the young, NYC-born Afro-Latina stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma. The documentary which premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival opens in theaters on June 24, 2022.
JULIA, from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West (RBG), will premiere for television on CNN on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30 at 8:00pm and 10:00pm Eastern (5:00pm and 7:00pm Pacific), with limited commercial interruption. The documentary celebrates the life and career of chef, cookbook author, and television and cultural pioneer, Julia Child.
The 2022 Mountainfilm announced the full lineup of 128 bold and inspiring films for its 44th edition and first fully in-person event since 2019, taking place this Memorial Day weekend, May 26-30, 2022 in Telluride Valley.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for Cha Cha Real Smooth, the comedy-drama film starring Dakota Johnson, Cooper Raiff, Vanessa Burghardt, Brad Garrett and Leslie Mann. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
The Story Won’t Die, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look at a young generation of Syrian artists who use their work to protest and process what is currently the world’s largest and longest ongoing displacement of people since World War II.
Here is the trailer for First Love, the romantic drama film starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Sydney Park, Diane Kruger and Jeffrey Donovan
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official for Bitterbrush, the observational documentary on two young women in the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, contemplating the future as they work alone herding cattle.
Lionsgate released the official trailer for Zero Contact, the thriller film starring Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) along with Veronica Ferres, Aleks Paunovic, Chris Brochu, Lilly Krug, TJ Kayama, and Martin Stenmarck, which was filmed entirely virtually via Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Directed by Tia Lessin (HBO’s “Trouble the Water”) and Emma Pildes (HBO’s “Jane Fonda in Five Acts”), the timely documentary The Janes takes a look at an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions in the 1970s. The Janes celebrated its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and debuts Wednesday, June 8 (9:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.