Directed by Nneka Onuorah and Giselle Bailey, the documentary The Legend of the Underground premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and debuting Tuesday, June 29 on HBO, is a searing and timely look at the struggle against rampant discrimination in Nigeria today.
Director Steven Soderbergh’s highly anticipated crime drama No Sudden Move will world premiere as the Centerpiece Gala selection for the Tribeca Festival’s 20th anniversary. The outdoor premiere of the film will take place at The Battery in New York City on Friday, June 18 as part of Tribeca’s 12-day celebration to re-open New York and bring live entertainment back.
Vertical Entertainment will release writer/director Eytan Rockaway’s gangster biopic Lansky partially based on actual conversations that took place between Eytan’s father, history professor Robert Rockaway and gangster Meyer Lansky before his death.
AFI DOCS, the American Film Institute’s documentary film festival will honor filmmaker Dawn Porter as the 2021 Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree.
The official trailer debuted for All Light, Everywhere, the documentary film directed by Theo Anthony on the history of police body cameras, weapons, policing and justice. The film, winner of the Sundance 2021 Special Jury Prize for Nonfiction Experimentation opens in theaters on June 4th.
Magnet Releasing debuted the official trailer for the horror film Censor, directed by Prano Bailey-Bond and starring Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller along with Michael Smiley. The film which premiered in the Midnight section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, opens in theaters on June 11th, 2021 and on demand on June 18th, 2021.
Fantasia International Film Festival announced the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set to run from August 5 – 25, 2021 as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada.
A multi-part documentary series that will tell the story of Derek Jeter, one of the greatest icons in modern sports and reveal the man behind the icon is slated to premiere on ESPN and ESPN+ in 2022.
After ten days of virtual and in-person screenings at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, the 2021 DocLands Documentary Film Festival ended with the awards ceremony. The 2021 DocLands Audience Favorite Award went to Jennifer Abbott for her deeply intimate and thought-provoking feature-length documentary The Magnitude of All Things.
The international premiere of the film “Polański, Horowitz. Hometown” by Mateusz Kudła and Anna Kokoszka-Romer will open the 61st Krakow Film Festival on May 30th. The film featuring director Roman Polański and his friend, world-famous photographer Ryszard Horowitz is described as a colorful story about childhoods, friendship, the common Jewish fate of the protagonists and about Krakow. Polański, Horowitz. Hometown will be presented in the Polish competition of this year’s Festival.
discovery+ will premiere the documentary No Responders Left Behind that follows 22-time Primetime Emmy award-winner and former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, first responder and 9/11 social activist, John Feal and FDNY hero, Ray Pfeifer, in their fight to get health benefits and compensation for 9/11 first responders. The film directed by Rob Lindsay, will stream on discovery+ globally this September.
The World to Come by Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona Fastvold opens the 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Wednesday June 2. The European premiere of Japanese animation Poupelle of Chimney Town by director Hirota Yusuke closes the festival on Sunday June 6.