IFC Films released the official trailer for Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, a biography of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker Robert Weide, who set out to document it. The documentary plays at DOC NYC from November 11 – 19, 2021 and opens in theaters and on VOD on November 19, 2021.
Simon Rex (Red Rocket) will receive the Spotlight Award and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) will receive the Discovery Award during their respective film screenings at the upcoming 24th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival taking place in person and virtually October 23–30, 2021.
SING 2, the new animated feature film written and directed by Garth Jennings will World Premiere at AFI FEST 2021 as a Red Carpet Premiere. The film will screen in-person at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Sunday, November 14 and open in theaters on December 22, 2021.
After showcasing over 115 independent films, the 2021 Festival of Cinema NYC announced this year’s filmmaker award winners with Holger Borggrefe and Stefan Hering’s Two is a Magic Number winning Best Feature Film- Narrative, Loving Mona directed by Terry Katz winning Best Documentary and Samuel Tressler IV’s Leda won Audience Choice for Best Feature Film.
The German gay drama Boy Meets Boy from filmmaker Daniel Sanchez Lopez opens in select theaters and on streaming platforms on October 26.
The 2021 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) unveiled the selected films in premiere-only sections Luminous and Frontlight, along with its first competition selections in the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary. IDFA also announced the selected titles in interdisciplinary program IDFA on Stage, chief among them the world premiere of the newly restored Dziga Vertov film The History of the Civil War. The 34th edition of IDFA takes place from November 17 to 28 in Amsterdam.
Out on Film announced the filmmaker awards for the recently concluded 34th edition of the Oscar ® qualifying, Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival. Marley Morrison’s Sweetheart was a jury favorite, winning Best Narrative Feature and Best Ensemble. T.J. Parsell’s Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music won both the Jury’s favor for Best Documentary, as well as the Audience Award for Best Documentary, and filmmaker Lauren Hadaway announced herself with Jury nods for both Best First Feature for her film The Novice, as well as capturing the Best Director prize.
The 44th Mill Valley Film Festival came to a close after 11 days of films, panels, parties, and musical performances at the annual autumn showcase. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast was voted MVFF Overall Audience Favorite with other top audience awards going to Last Film Show by Pan Nalin won Audience Favorite / World Cinema, C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills won Audience Favorite / US Cinema and The Rescue by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin won Audience Favorite / Documentary.
DOC NYC documentary festival returns in-person November 10-18 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea in New York and continues online until November 28.
Check out the official first look at Being the Ricardos directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz of I Love Lucy.
The critically acclaimed drama film The Power Of The Dog, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Jane Campion, has been added to the AFI FEST 2021 lineup as a Red Carpet Premiere event.
The European Film Academy will honor British director Steve McQueen with the Award for Innovative Storytelling for his anthology film series Small Axe at the 34th European Film Awards.