WarnerMedia OneFifty and HBO Max have partnered to acquire Talia Lugacy’s independent feature This Is Not a War Story for a tentative release date in November 2021. Lugacy wrote, directed, edited, produced, and starred in the film. The film also features Sam Adegoke, Danny Ramirez, Brian Delate, and Frances Fisher.
Chicago International Film Festival returns to theatrical, outdoor, and virtual screens for its 57th edition running October 13 – 24, 2021.
Amazon released the official trailer for Encounter, the sci-fi thriller film starring Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Janina Gavankar, Rory Cochrane and Lucian-River Chauhan.
Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced the second wave of film including six Austin-connected films and three first-time feature filmmakers joining the 2021 AFF film lineup for the festival running October 21-28, 2021.
Focus Features released the new official trailer for Last Night in Soho, director Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller that had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
Filmmaker Gian Cassini revealed the first look trailer for his debut documentary Comala set to World Premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The captivating and daring true-crime odyssey follows the director on his personal journey in search for his absent father, discovering the ghosts of Mexico’s failed war on drugs along the way.
CineFAM Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, celebrates its 5th year October 23rd-24th, 2021 under the theme ”5 Years of Limitless Imagination.” CineFam Film Festival introduces audiences around the globe to bold and original stories by women and non-binary creators of colour.
IFC Films released the first look clip from Huda’s Salon, the “feminist thriller” film written and directed by Academy Award-Nominee Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now, Omar) and premiering at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
IFC Midnight shared a new clip from first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton’s new film, A Banquet set to make its World Premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival this Friday. The slow-burning psychological horror film starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes and Lindsay Duncan CBE, explores the complicated bonds between three generations of mothers and daughters.
Calgary International Film Festival announced its exciting 2021 lineup of over 175 films set to screen both online and in-cinema in Downtown Calgary from September 23 to October 3, 2021.
Janet Jackson shared on her Instagram a first look of her two-night, four-hour documentary event, “Janet” set to premiere cross-network on Lifetime & A&E in January 2022.
Following its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival, A24 released the official trailer for C’mon, C’mon, Mike Mills’ deeply moving moving black and white film starring Academy Award winner Joaquin Phoenix as an artist left to take care of his precocious young nephew after his mother’s death.