
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the award winning documentary film Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band on VOD and streaming platforms on November 24.

Samuel Goldwyn Films will release the award winning documentary film Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band on VOD and streaming platforms on November 24.

Tania Cypriano’s “Born to Be” which world-premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival, will have its exclusive NYC premiere in Film Forum’s Virtual Cinema beginning Wednesday, November 18. Born to Be looks at pioneering surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and his patients at Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival unveiled films selected for November’s special four-day event “KVIFF 541⁄2” including the psychological British-Canadian drama The Nest starring Jude Law from director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in January.

The 64th BFI London Film Festival came to a close on Sunday night with the audience award for Best Film going to Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round. Best Short Film was presented to Tommy Gillard for Shuttlecock, Best Documentary went to Benjamin Ree for The Painter and the Thief, and Best XR/Immersive Art was presented to Anna West and David Callanan for To Miss The Ending.

Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival announced the winners of the 38th edition of the festival. The festival was held virtually this year from September 24 to October 7. The prize for Best Narrative Feature Film Jury Award went to Trinh Dinh Le Minh’s heart-melting romantic dramedy Goodbye Mother (Thưa mẹ con đi) and for Best Documentary Jury Award went to The Many Lives of Kojin (Toutes les vies de Kojin) directed by Diako Yazdani.

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The 29th Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) announced the award winners and more than $60,000 in cash prizes via its virtual Awards Show this evening. Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak documentary “76 Days” is HIFF’s big winner, taking both the $20,000 Grand Prize for Documentary Feature and $2,000 Richard D. Propes Social Impact Award, Documentary Feature. Earlier this week MTV Documentary Films acquired the North American rights to “76 Days” at HIFF.

The HBO documentary series THE VOW “finale” aired last night October 18, 2020, but it is not over – the series will return with a second installment of episodes, to air in 2021. The Emmy-winning, Academy Award nominated team of Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer will again direct and executive produce.

The new documentary Restaurant Hustle 2020: All On The Line follows world-class chefs Maneet Chauhan, Antonia Lofaso, Christian Petroni,and Marcus Samuelsson as they each picked up a camera and with the help of friends and family to document the challenges their restaurants faced during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The film from Executive Producer Guy Fieri, will have its World Premiere at the virtual 2020 DOC NYC festival in November, and will premiere nationally on Food Network on Sunday, December 27th at 9pm ET/PT.

The powerful indie drama The World Without You starring Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black) and Perrey Reeves (Entourage) released the new trailer ahead of the VOD release on November 1, 2020.

Things We Dare Not Do (Cosas que no hacemos), the second feature film by Mexican director and cinematographer Bruno Santamaría has its U.S. premiere in the Documentary and Out-look competitions at the 56th Chicago International Film Festival, followed by its participation at the 11th edition of DOC NYC.

Get the first look at a video clip from Lauren DeFilippo and Katherine Gorringe’s Red Heaven, a prescient exploration of self-imposed quarantine that chronicles a one-year mission in a Mars simulation pod by six volunteers, set to World Premiere at the online edition of DOC NYC 2020.