The BFI London Film Festival unveiled LFF Expanded: the Festival’s new strand of XR and Immersive Art, featuring Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and including live immersive performance.
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BFI London Film Festival Adds New Strand of XR and Immersive Art
All Kinds of Limbo, National Theatre. Photographer: Simon Sorted
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Tommy Oliver’s 40 YEARS A PRISONER to Premiere at TIFF and Debut on HBO in December
40 Years a Prisoner Tommy Oliver (“1982”) directs, produces and shoots the documentary 40 Years a Prisoner, chronicling the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the radical back-to-nature group MOVE and the aftermath that led to a son’s decades long fight to free his parents.
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FLC Reveals New York Film Festival 2020 Poster, Designed by John Waters
John Waters Film at Lincoln Center unveiled the poster for the 58th New York Film Festival (September 17 – October 11), designed by filmmaker, artist, and “Pope of Trash,” John Waters.
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Watch First Trailer for Cooper Raiff’s SHITHOUSE, SXSW Grand Jury Prize Winner
Maggie and Alex talk by the baseball field in Shithouse. | Credit: Rachel Klein IFC Films debuted the first trailer for Shithouse, written, directed, and starring Cooper Raiff, in his feature debut. Shithouse won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the virtual 2020 SXSW Film Festival, where the film made its World Premiere in the Narrative Feature Competition section. Shithouse will open in in theaters and VOD on October 16.
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Watch Trailer for KINGDOM OF SILENCE, Showtime Documentary on 2018 Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Kingdom of Silence Showtime dropped the new trailer for the new documentary film Kingdom of Silence exploring the complicated dynamic between the United States and Saudi Arabia as a backdrop to the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi.
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4 Documentary Films Win SFFILM 2020 Documentary Film Fund Grants
SFFILM announced the four winners of 2020 SFFILM Documentary Film Fund grants totaling $80,000, which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Giovanni Buccomino’s After a Revolution (working title), Clarke Lyons and Gabe Dinsmoor’s Squeegee, Farah Kassem’s We Are Inside, and Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing with Fire were each awarded funding that will help push each project towards completion.
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Daria Woszek’s MARYGOROUND Sweeps Awards of Fantasia Film Festival 2020
MARYGOROUND directed by Daria Woszek Daria Woszek’s debut Marygoround swept the film awards of the Fantasia International Film Festival which closed out its digital 2020 edition. Marygoround won the awards for Best Film, Best Director for Daria Woszek, Best Actress for Grazyna Misiorowska, and a Special Jury Mention.
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Watch First Trailer for THE GLORIAS, Starring Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander as Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem
Julianne Moore and Janelle Monáe in THE GLORIAS – Photo Credit Dan McFadden – Courtesy of LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions Roadside Attractions revealed the first trailer for The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor and based on the book ‘My Life on the Road’ by Gloria Steinem. The Glorias stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monáe, Lorraine Toussaint, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and Kimberly Guerrero will be released on September 30th, 2020.
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The Method Fest 2020 Announces Winners – BREAKING THEM UP, OUR LADY OF THE NILE
Notre-Dame du Nil | Our Lady of the Nile by Atiq Rahimi For the first time, this year’s 14th edition of The Method Fest Independent Film Festival showcased a total of 27 feature films and 29 short films as a Drive-In movie experience. The festival which wrapped on August 30, announced the Grand Jury selections of award winning films and actors.
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Pablo Larrain’s EMA Opens 2020 Online Edition of AFI Latin American Film Festival
Pablo Larrain’s Ema, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Mariana Di Girolamo The American Film Institute (AFI) announced the full slate of 26 films from 20 countries being presented online for the 2020 AFI Latin American Film Festival, which will take place September 25–October 7, 2020.
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Maïwenn to Receive ‘A Tribute to… Award’ + Premiere Her Film “DNA” at Zurich Film Festival
Maïwenn Zurich Film Festival will honor French director, producer and actress Maïwenn with The A Tribute to… Award for her contribution to the resurgence of auteur cinema, and screen her directorial works in a retrospective. Maïwenn receives the award on October 1, and presents her most recent film ADN (DNA).
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2020 Sidewalk Film Festival Announces Winners – TRANSHOOD, JASPER MALL
TRANSHOOD, directed by Sharon Liese This year’s All Drive-in Edition of the Sidewalk Film Festival which ran August 24-30, announced the awards winners. The Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature went to The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain directed by Dwight Cameron; and for Best Documentary Feature to Transhood directed by Sharon Liese. Transhood also won the prize for Best SHOUT Feature.