Yuh-Jung Youn along with Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, and Daniel Kaluuya were honored for performances in motion pictures at the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which aired Sunday, April 4, 2021. Yuh-Jung Youn received the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her role as Soonja in “Minari.”
Mexican-Argentine filmmaker Luciana Kaplan (Eufrosina´s Revolution; Rush Hour) is set to return to Toronto’s Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival for the highly-anticipated international premiere of her latest documentary The Spokeswoman (La vocera), a captivating and personal campaign-trail portrait of María de Jesús Patricio, better known as Marichuy, the first indigenous woman to run for president in Mexico’s 2018 election.
MTV Documentary Films’ Academy Award® nominated short subject documentary Hunger Ward from director Skye Fitzgerald chronicling Yemen’s devastating humanitarian crisis and the disproportionate impact on its children, will be released on Paramount+ this Friday, April 2nd.
The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), available April 28 – May 8 via virtual cinema, with in-person screenings extending through May 13 at FLC. This year’s festival will introduce 27 features and 11 shorts to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and FLC virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center.
The 2021 Oxford Film Festival announced the award winning films and filmmakers with Lissette Feliciano’s Women is Losers taking the prize for Best Narrative Feature; and Caren Zucker and Jon Donvan’s In a Different Key won Best Documentary Feature.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always was the big winner of the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film 27th annual awards winning 3 Trudies, including two for Eliza Hittman as Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, for its intimate portrayal of two teenaged girls on an out of state journey, faced with a momentous decision.
Perfectly coinciding with International Transgender Day of Visibility, the official trailer debuted today for the ground breaking documentary, The Sound Of Identity, winner of the 2020 Outshine Film Festival’s prestigious Programmers Award of Excellence. Shout! Studios will release the documentary film on digital and on demand on June 1, 2021, timed with the kick off of global Pride Month celebrations.
Yes Studios, the Tel Aviv-based producer and distributor, unveiled a first look trailer for their new feature documentary film Dirty Tricks which will hold its world premiere at the upcoming Hot Docs Festival in the prestigious “Special Presentation” section.
Three new feature films have been added to the lineup of the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival (April 9-18) along with free talks, a special tribute to Vanessa Kirby, a live drag show, and a unique screening accompanied by live performance from Grammy-winning musician Fantastic Negrito.
Bleecker Street released the trailer for Together Together, a smart, funny and endearing film about contemporary connections and the particulars of love, directed by Nikole Beckwith.
The Tribeca and Vancouver film festivals award-winning drama film My Wonderful Wanda will open in theaters and virtual cinemas at BAM in New York, at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles, and in many cities across the US on April 23, 2021.
Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference (AFF), will return to an in-person Festival and Conference for its 28th year. The eight-day Festival will take place from October 21 – 28 in Austin, Texas.