The Savannah College of Art and Design today announced the return of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival as an all-virtual presentation, from October 24 to 31, 2020. Audiences can connect with cinephiles worldwide as they experience live film premieres and unique, interactive programming from the comfort and safety of their homes.
Lance Oppenheim’s documentary feature debut Some Kind of Heaven which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures. Magnolia is planning an early 2021 release.
Lillian LaSalle’s award-winning, documentary My Name Is Pedro on South Bronx, Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana will be released in New York on September 17 at The Maysles Cinema, followed by Los Angeles on October 2 at Laemmle, with major cities to follow.
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YouTube unveiled the official trailer for “This is Paris” — an all-new documentary putting Paris Hilton under the lens as she speaks publicly for the first time about heartbreaking trauma and pivotal moments in her early life that forged who she is today.
Utopia Distribution is emerging as a leader in independent film acquisition and distribution. Utopia’s latest acquisition, sci-fi thriller Minor Premise, will have its world premiere at the renowned Fantasia Festival in Montreal, which kicks off the genre film festival season, and will take place virtually from August 20 to September 2, 2020.
From director Chad Hahne and producer Chris Panizzon, the documentary feature film, Transformistas set in Cuba about the queer and trans community will premiere at the OUTshine festival in Miami on August 25, 2020.
An unapologetic look at race, class and polarized politics manifest themselves in unexpected and very messy ways in director Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and Sam B. Jones’ Red White & Wasted. Dark Star Pictures released the new trailer ahead of the film’s release in September.
Amazon released the trailer for All In: The Fight for Democracy the new documentary featuring Stacey Abrams, that examines the issue of voter suppression in the United States. Directed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lisa Cortés, All In opens in theaters on September 9, and n Prime Video on September 18.
The new trailer debuted for Ryan Barton Grimley’s frighteningly funny Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers set to play at the Dances with Films film festival in Los Angeles later this month.
Sidewalk Film Festival announced the complete film lineup of official selections for the 22nd edition of the Birmingham-based film festival which will take place August 24-30. All 163 films (41 features, 122 shorts) and 23 music videos, will be screened at The Grand River Drive-In at The Backyard in Leeds.
Bentonville Film Festival announced the jury prize winners for their sixth annual festival, with Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca winning the jury award for Best Narrative Feature. In this beguiling drama, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s transgender.