Deep in the Heart Film Festival in Waco, Texas, announced the award winners for the 4th edition of the film festival with the top awards going to Chauncey Crail’s July Rising winning Best Narrative Feature, Aaron and Amanda Kopp’s Liyana took Best Documentary Feature, and Chris Hansen’s Seven Short Films About (Our) Marriage receiving the Audience Award.
The new documentary Madness in the Hills marking Rob Lowe’s documentary directorial debut, will premiere exclusively on Peacock this Friday, October 9th. In the documentary Lowe offers a gripping, emotional account of the deadly mudslides that devastated his neighborhood in Southern California in 2018.
IFC Midnight acquired writer-director Keith Thomas’ feature debut, The Vigil, a supernatural horror film with a Hasidic Jewish twist. The Vigil stars Dave Davis (Bomb City), Malky Goldman (Unorthodox), Menashe Lustig (Menashe), Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), and Lynn Cohen (Munich).
The comedic short film “Jersey”, written by Margaret M. Spirito and directed by and starring Lisa Ann Walter will screen at the 16th Annual LA Femme International Film Festival.
From acclaimed and award-winning filmmaker Noemi Weis comes the documentary Connecting the Dots, where youth take on the subject of mental health, globally, in their own words.
The 33rd Annual Virginia Film Festival will present a program of more than 50 films, conversations, and special events that will include a series of virtual conversations and a series of Drive-In Movies presented in two safe and socially-distanced settings.
The 29th Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF29) will showcase 90+ of the year’s most highly anticipated, critically acclaimed, and thought provoking feature length and short films.
After this years 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival originally scheduled for July 3 –11, 2020 was canceled due to the coronavirus epidemic, the festival will now instead hold Karlovy Vary IFF 54 ½ from November 18 – 21, 2020. With this non-competition showcase of films, the festival will Czech premiere an exclusive selection of the most distinctive films from Sundance, Berlin, Venice, and Cannes film festivals.
Hulu lands untitled “WeWork” documentary chronicling the meteoric rise and fall of WeWork and the shared workspace company’s founder and former CEO Adam Neumann.
The new trailer debuted for The German Lesson directed by Christian Schwochow which premiered at the 2019 Zurich Film Festival and set for release on digital platforms on November 6th. Based on the bestselling novel “Deutschestunde” by Siegfried Lenz, the film set in Germany, just after the Second World War, stars Ulrich Noethen, Tobias Moretti, Levi Eisenblatter, Johanna Wokalek, Sonja Richter, Maria Dragus, Tom Gronau, and Louis Hoffman.
The filmmakers behind the docu-thriller The Curve will stream the entire movie ad-free free on YouTube for the entire two weeks leading up to the election.
For the first time in the festival’s history, the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival announced its juried winners on opening weekend, with the top jury prizes going to No Ordinary Man directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt for Best Canadian Feature and No Hard Feelings directed by Faraz Shariat for Best First Feature.