The Urbanworld Film Festival unveiled the lineup (exclusively via Variety) of more than 88 official selections, panels and conversations for its 25th anniversary set to run virtually on urbanworld.org, from Wednesday, September 29 – October 3, with select in-person events held at Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas, Chelsea at 260 West 23rd Street in New York.
The North American premiere of the Netflix feature, The Summit Of The Gods will kick off the fourth edition of Animation Is Film (AIF) which takes place in-person October 22-24 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood.
The 7th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (MLFF) announced this year’s juried and audience award winners at the Closing Night Award Ceremony in Mammoth Lakes on Sunday.
MGM released the official trailer for Licorice Pizza, the coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, that tracks the treacherous navigation of first love.
Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz’s Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, the new documentary on folk singer Karen Dalton opens on Friday, October 1 at Film Forum in New York, followed by Los Angeles, Oklahoma City and Tulsa on October 8.
Here is the first look at Iké Boys starring Quinn Lord, Ronak Gandhi, Christina Higa, Billy Zane, Yumiko Shaku, Ben Browder world premiering at Fantastic Fest.
Netflix released the first look clip trailer for Jeen-Yuhs, a new documentary on Kanye West; and the official trailer for the documentary “Britney vs Spears”.
The Romanian film Blue Moon (Crai nou) directed by Alina Grigore won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition. For the third year running, the movie winning the Golden Shell went to a debut film: in 2019 the winner was Pacificado / Pacified, by Paxton Winters, and in 2020, Dasatskisi / Beginning, by Dea Kulumbegashvili. This is the first time that a Romanian film will have won the Golden Shell in the Festival’s history.
Montclair Film Festival announced the program lineup for the 10th edition of the festival running October 21-30, 2021, along with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut The Lost Daughter. Maggie Gyllenhaal will receive the festival’s Breakthrough Director & Writer Award for her work on the film and join Stephen Colbert in Conversation as part of the festival’s Storyteller Series.
Speer Goes to Hollywood, a documentary film directed by Vanessa Lapa on the self-proclaimed “good Nazi” Albert Speer will open at the Film Forum in New York on October 29, and at Laemmle Royal and Laemmle Town Center in Los Angeles on November 5th. Other cities will follow.
Vertical released the official trailer for The Estate, the dark comedy thriller film starring Eliza Coupe, Greg Finley, Chris Baker, Lala Kent, Heather Matazarro, and Eric Roberts. Directed by James Kapner, the film opens in theaters and VOD on October 22.
The Middleburg Film Festival is returning for its ninth year, with a fully in-person selection of film screenings, conversations and events taking place October 14-17 in Northern Virginia’s historic wine and horse country.