Festival of Cinema announced the lineup of films screening at this year’s festival taking place as a “Drive – In Movie Theater” format in the borough of Queens, New York. The film festival, taking place from October 1 to October 4 at St. John’s University’s Queens Campus, will be screening six ‘blocks’ of movies featuring 28 independent films.
In Spiral, directed by Kurtis David Harder (Summerland, Incontrol), a gay couple moves to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life, but nothing is as it seems in their new neighborhood
For its 39th edition, Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will showcase more than 100 feature films and events, including a vibrant blend of boundary-pushing Canadian work, adventurous East Asian cinema, provocative and inspiring documentaries, elevated genre cinema, festival favorites and more.
The Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) will be the president of the Official Selection Jury at San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition. Luca Guadagnino will also present the world premiere, out of competition, the series We Are Who We Are.
Set in Australia’s Northern Territory, In My Blood it Runs follows Dujuan, a young Aborginal boy with a spiritual connection to, and vast knowledge of, his cultural ancestry. At home in Alice Springs, Dujuan is surrounded by his loving family, which includes his mother, his two brothers, and his maternal grandmother Nana Carol, with whom he has a special bond.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.