Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing With Fire is a powerful documentary about the fearless journalists behind Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit (“untouchable”) women.
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Sundance Winning Doc WRITING WITH FIRE, on All-Women News Outlet in India Opens on November 26 [Trailer]
Writing With Fire directed by Writing With Fire, Rintu Thomas/Sushmit Ghosh.
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San Pedro International Film Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Packed Weekend of Films
Wisper directed by Russ Emanuel The 10th Anniversary edition of the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) taking place November 4-14 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, will once again celebrate the work of emerging filmmakers from around the world, both in-person and virtually.
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Watch New Trailer for Mia Hansen-Løve’s ALL IS FORGIVEN Opening on November 5
All is Forgiven directed by Mia Hansen-Løve Here is the new official trailer for All is Forgiven, the debut feature of writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve opening in theaters and on digital exclusively at Metrograph on Friday, November 5.
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‘Women Is Losers’ ‘Holy Frit’ ‘Peace by Chocolate’ Win at 2021 Naples International Film Festival
Winners of 2021 Naples International Film Festival Lissette Feliciano’s Women Is Losers won the jury prize for Best Narrative Feature (and a cash prize of $2,500) and Justin Monroe’s Holy Frit won the jury prize for Best Documentary Feature (and $2,500) at the 2021 Naples International Film Festival. Audience Awards went to Jonathan Keijser’s Peace by Chocolate (Best Narrative Feature), Christopher Chambers’ A Fire Within (Best Documentary Feature) and Maria Brendle’s Ala Kachuu – Take and Run (Best Short Film). Both feature films received cash prizes of $1,000 and the short film winner received a cash prize of $500.
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Alanis Morissette Documentary JAGGED Debuts November 18 on HBO [Trailer]
Alanis Morissette in Jagged directed by Alison Klayman HBO takes viewers to 1995, when a 21-year-old Alanis Morissette burst onto the music scene with the first single off her ground-breaking album, “Jagged Little Pill” with the new documentary Jagged, directed by Alison Klayman (“The Brink,” “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”).
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Watch Trailer for ‘Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible’ Documentary
Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible (Showtime via Youtube) Showtime Sports released the official trailer for Kevin Garnett: Anything is Possible, a new documentary chronicling the life and legacy of one of the NBA’s all-time greats, Kevin Garnett, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year. The documentary premieres on Friday, November 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime
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Disfluency, Buried, Larry Flynt for President, Unsilenced Among Winners of 2021 Austin Film Festival
Larry Flynt for President Disfluency written and directed by Anna Baumgarten took the jury award for Best Narrative Feature, and Buried directed by Jared Drake and Steven Siig won for Best Documentary Feature at the 2021 Austin Film Festival (AFF).
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‘The Worst Person in the World,’ ‘Flee,’ ‘Dionne Warwick’ Among 2021 Montclair Film Festival Awards Winners
“The Worst Person in the World,” “Flee,” “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over” – 2021 Montclair Film Festival Awards Winners The Worst Person in the World directed by Joachim Trier was awarded the Fiction Feature Prize and Flee, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, took home the festival’s top Non-Fiction Competition prize at the 2021 Montclair Film Festival (MFF).
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IFC Films to Release ‘Hold Your Fire’ – Stefan Forbes’ Police Reform Documentary [Trailer]
Hold Your Fire by director Stefan Forbes IFC Films will release the searing police reform documentary Hold Your Fire by Emmy-nominated director Stefan Forbes (Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story). Hold Your Fire puts a spotlight on the longest hostage siege in NYPD history and the people instrumental in an event that birthed modern hostage negotiation and that could provide hope for repairing America’s broken policing system.
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‘Belfast’ Wins Best Film + Audience Award at Twin Cities Film Fest 2021
(L to R) Caitriona Balfe as “Ma”, Jamie Dornan as “Pa”, Judi Dench as “Granny”, Jude Hill as “Buddy”, and Lewis McAskie as “Will” in director Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, a Focus Features release. Credit : Rob Youngson / Focus Features Kenneth Branagh’s critically acclaimed drama Belfast took home the Best Feature Film prize at the 2021 Twin Cities Film Fest. A semi-autobiographical portrait of childhood and working class family life in Northern Ireland during the tumultuous period of the late 1960s, the film stars Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe.
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Louis Hothothot’s Personal Documentary ‘Four Journeys’ to Open 2021 IDFA Slate of 264 Documentary Films
Four Journeys directed by Louis Hothothot Four Journeys, the lyrical and intensely personal debut feature by Louis Hothothot (Louis Yi Liu) will open the 34th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). A first-person narrative of a filmmaker born in China in 1986 as an “illegal” second child, Louis and his family suffered devastating consequences at the hands of the authorities, with painful reverberations still felt to this day. After relocating to Amsterdam in his twenties, the filmmaker returns home to reunite with his parents and sister after a five-year hiatus, where he attempts to disentangle his densely knotted family history. Unfolding as a soft and sorrowful stream of memories, absences, and lingering shadows, Four Journeys premieres at IDFA bearing the mark of a new documentary poetics to come—one laden with wonder, nuance, and spirit.
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‘Commitment Hasan’ Selected as Turkey’s Oscar Entry for Best International Feature Film [Trailer]
Commitment Hasan (Bağlılık Hasan) directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu Turkey has selected Commitment Hasan (Bağlılık Hasan) directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, to compete as the country’s candidate for Best International Feature Film at the the 94th Academy Awards.