Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) celebrates its 25th edition, themed Unthinkable, from June 3-12, 2022, online via the festival website, as well as in-person at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with select programs also showing at Union Docs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Gilbert Gottfried, actor and comedian died today after a long illness, his family announced on Twitter. He was 67.
Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment will release LGBTQ romantic comedy Mascarpone starring Sarah T. Cohen, Alistair Stoneman, Jamila Martin-Wingett, Ray Whelan, Ricardo Freitas, Nicola Wright, and Tony Goodall.
Here is the new official trailer for Frank & Penelope, the horror thriller film starring Kevin Dillon, Billy Budinich, Caylee Cowan, Donna D’Errico, Johnathon Schaech, and Lin Shaye.
Dark Star Pictures debuted the official trailer for Human Factors, the psychological thriller starring Sabine Timoteo, Mark Waschke, Jule Hermann, and Wanja Valentin Kube that world premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
From the Hood to the Holler directed by Pat McGee won the Audience Choice Award for Best Film at the 2022 Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF46).The documentary follows Democratic candidate Charles Booker as he runs for Senate in Kentucky, and works to unite people of all colors across Kentucky, while fighting against big money in politics, voter suppression, and systemic corruption in a historically deeply red state.
Production has wrapped on Who Are the Marcuses?, a feature documentary directed by Matthew Mishory (Israel: A Concise History; Artur Schnabel; No Place of Exile) about a mysterious couple whose donated more than half a billion-dollar gift to Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The documentary tells both the story of a nice Jewish couple – and savvy investors – from Long Island, and re-imagines conflict resolution in the Middle East and peace through the Earth’s most precious resource: water.
The 34th Filmfest Dresden announced the award winners of the National, International and Regional Competitions with the Saxon Film Promotion Prize going to First Work, Then Play from Brenda Lien. The Brazilian-German co-production It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse but the Situation in Which They Live from Eduardo Mamede, Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes won both the LUCA GenderDiversity Film Award and the Dresden Short Film Award of the German Film Critics Association.
OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival Miami will open its 24th edition with the first Florida live screening of B-Boy Blues at The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater on April 22 at 7 p.m.
I Didn’t See You There directed by Reid Davenport won the Grand Jury Award at the 25th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Filmed in and around director Reid Davenport’s apartment in Oakland, California, this documentary is part essay, part travelogue, and part formal observational inquiry, all linked by the director’s subjectivity as a disabled filmmaker.
Netflix released the official trailer for Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes documentary series featuring never-before-heard audio from the interrogation of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Disney+ debuted the official trailers and two Earth Day documentary special from National Geographic – “Explorer: The Last Tepui” and “The Biggest Little Farm: The Return.” Both documentaries will premiere April 22, exclusively on Disney+.