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Eddie Alcazar’s Animated Short THE VANDAL Starring Bill Duke Featured on The New Yorker’s Screening Room [Trailer]

Animation | Anime, Short Films

The Vandal directed by Eddie Alcazar (screenshot via Youtube)

The New Yorker Studios will release the animated short film “The Vandal” on Monday, December 13th on The New Yorker’s digital platforms. The film is a stunning technical feat, executive produced by Darren Aronofsky; directed by award-winning filmmaker Eddie Alcazar; starring Bill Duke, Baadja-Lyne Odums, Harry Goaz, Maurice Compte, Thomas Hildreth, and Abbey Lee; and scored by Oscar-nominated filmmaker and composer Kris Bowers. “The Vandal” débuted in July at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and had its North American première at the Telluride Film Festival.

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Lady Gaga to Receive Icon Award for House of Gucci at Palm Springs International Film Awards

Awards, Palm Springs International Film Festival

House of Gucci Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, 2021. ph: Fabio Lovino / © MGM / Courtesy Everett Collection

Lady Gaga will receive the Icon Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for her performance in House of Gucci. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 6, 2022 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 17, 2022.

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MUNICH – THE EDGE OF WAR Trailer. Jeremy Irons, George McKay Star in Netflix British WWII Spy Drama

Independent Film

Munich – The Edge of War. George MacKay as Hugh Legat, in Munich – The Edge of War. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021

Netflix released the official trailer for Munich – The Edge of War, the British WWII drama starring George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner and Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons. Set in 1938, a British civil servant and a German diplomat cross paths in Munich and conspire to prevent war in Europe. Directed by Christian Schwochow, Munich – The Edge of War opens in select theaters on December 31, 2021 and on Netflix on January 21, 2022

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2022 Slamdance Film Festival Announces Lineup – 28 Features, 79 Shorts, and 7 Episodes

Slamdance Film Festival

Actual People directed by Kit Zauhar

Slamdance Film Festival announced the full lineup of 28 features, 79 shorts, and 7 episodes for its 28th edition hybrid festival, which returns to its original home in Park City, Utah for its physical festival January 20-23, 2022, bridged with an accessible and robust program of virtual screenings, running January 20-30, 2022.

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AFI Announces Top 10 Movies of 2021 + Special Awards for BELFAST and SUMMER OF SOUL

Awards

AFI Top 10 Movies of 2021, Special Award for Belfast and Summer of Soul

AFI announced the 2021 honorees – 10 outstanding films and 10 outstanding TV programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. Belfast and Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) were honored in a category for “Special Awards,” designated for works of excellence that fall outside of the Institute’s criteria of American film and television.

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Henry Vallejo’s Minimalist Film ‘Powerful Chief’ is Peru’s Oscar Entry [Trailer]

Awards, Foreign Language Films

Powerful Chief (Manco Cápac) directed by Henry Vallejo

Henry Vallejo’s film Powerful Chief (Manco Cápac) is Peru’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards taking place on March 27, 2022 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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Daniels’ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE to Open 2022 SXSW Film Festival

SXSW | South by Southwest Film Festival

Everything Everywhere All At Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (A24)

South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Everything Everywhere All At Once at the upcoming 29th edition, on March 11, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.

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IFC Films to Release NITRAM, Australian Drama Starring Cannes Best Actor Caleb Landry Jones

Independent Film

Nitram starring Caleb Landry Jones

IFC Films will release Justin Kurzel’s award winning film Nitram (True History of the Kelly Gang, Snowtown Murders Macbeth) which premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes International Film Festival to outstanding critical reception.

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‘The Harder They Fall,’ ‘Passing,’ ‘Belfast’ Among African American Film Critics Top 10 Films of 2021

Awards

The Harder They Fall starring Regina King and Idris Elba

The Harder They Fall directed by Jeymes Samuel and starring Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Zazie Beetz along with LaKeith Stanfield lead the African American Film Critics Association’s annual list of the top 10 films of the year. Other films on the list include King Richard, Respect, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Passing and Belfast.

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Dionne Warwick Documentary Headlines 33rd Palm Springs International Film Festival Line-Up

Palm Springs International Film Festival

Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over (Wooley Entertainment)

The 33rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will open with the screening of Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, directed by Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner, on Friday, January 7, with both directors and Dionne Warwick in attendance. The festival will close with The Duke, directed by the late filmmaker Roger Michell on Sunday, January 16. The festival will screen 129 films from 70 countries, including 32 premieres (4 World, 7 North American, 2 International and 19 U.S.) from January 6-17, 2022. The line-up includes Talking Pictures, International Feature Film Oscar® Submissions, New Voices New Visions, Modern Masters, Queer Cinema, Cine Latino, True Stories, World Cinema Now, and more.

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‘Secrets of Playboy’ Documentary Series Premieres on A&E Network [Trailer]

Documentary

Secrets of Playboy (A&E / screenshot via Youtube)

A&E Network’s documentary series event “Secrets of Playboy” explores the hidden realities behind the fable and philosophy of the Playboy empire through today’s lens. Four years after Hefner’s death, insiders, colleagues, executives, Playmates and employees from all levels of the brand share the full story of what life within the Playboy world was truly like. Across ten hours, the series delves into the complex world Hugh Hefner created and examines its far-reaching consequences on our culture’s view of power and sexuality.

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Overlook Film Festival Returns to New Orleans in June 2022

Overlook Film Festival

The Overlook Film Festival, showcasing exciting work in new and classic genre cinema, live events, and its trademark interactive activities returns to New Orleans, June 2 through June 5, 2022.

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