Anthony Scott Burns’ (Our House) Come True will make its world premiere as part of the upcoming Fantasia International Film Festival, running digitally from August 20th – September 2nd.
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45th Toronto International Film Festival Lineup
Closing Night Presentation: A Suitable Boy, Mira Nair TIFF Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente announced the lineup of titles selected for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival running from September 10-19th.
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Bruce LaBruce’s “Saint-Narcisse” Set for Release in Canada via Northern Banner Releasing
Saint-Narcisse Saint-Narcisse, a film by Bruce LaBruce, recently selected as the Closing Night Gala of the Venice Days program (Giornate degli Autori) at the Venice Film Festival, has been picked up for distribution in Canada by Northern Banner Releasing.
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‘Freeland’ Closes Oxford Film Festival’s 15th Weekly Series
The Oxford Film Festival announced the dates for next year’s edition of the popular and critically-acclaimed film festival, which will take place March 24-28, 2021. The current plans for that upcoming edition of the film festival will feature a hybrid approach, including virtual and drive-in presentations, as well as the prospect of returning to theaters.
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Watch Max Powers’ Timely Documentary ‘Don’t Be Nice’
Ashley Octo in Don’t Be Nice The powerful and timely feature documentary film Don’t Be Nice, follows a New York City team of young African American, Afro-Hispanic, and queer slam poets as they fight to find the words to speak their truths to a nation awakening in Black Lives Matter protest and on the brink of a general election.
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Documentary “How It Feels To Be Free” on Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier Headed to PBS
Cicely Tyson American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free, is an upcoming documentary film that tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier – challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process. The film, which is slated to premiere in early 2021 on PBS and on documentary Channel in Canada, features interviews and archival performances with all six women, as well as original conversations with contemporary artists influenced by them, including Alicia Keys, an executive producer on the project, Halle Berry, Lena Waithe, Meagan Good, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson and other luminaries, as well as family members, including Horne’s daughter Gail Lumet Buckley.
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Mexican Director Michel Franco to Receive Sarajevo Film Festival Award and Retrospective
Michel Franco Mexican director, writer and producer Michel Franco will be awarded the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cinematic art as well as for his support of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Franco will also be honored with a retrospective of his works in the Festival’s Tribute to Program.
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‘Kill It and Leave This City’ To Open 20th New Horizons International Film Festival
One of the boldest projects in the history of Polish animation Kill It and Leave This City, made for 14 years, will open the 20th New Horizons International Film Festival in Wrocław.
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Sundance Institute Announces 2020 Creative Producing Lab Fellows
Sundance Institute officially announced the Fellows and Advisors for the five-day 2020 Creative Producing Labs, redesigned digitally to take place for the first time ever on Sundance Co//ab. The Labs begin July 27th and is a flagship convening for the Institute’s Creative Producing Program, which champions and develops current and rising generations of independent producers across fiction and nonfiction film.
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Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW will Open Locarno 2020
First Cow by Kelly Reichardt Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films will open on Wednesday August 5th with First Cow, the latest film from U.S. director and screenwriter Kelly Reichardt, who will also be one of three jurors judging the international projects in The Films After Tomorrow section.
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Watch The Stranger-Than-Fiction Trailer for ‘Song Without A Name’
Pamela Mendoza in Song Without A Name. Courtesy of Film Movement Melina Leon’s award-winning debut feature Song Without A Name about deep corruption in 1980’s Peru will premiere on film movement August 7th and in participating theaters around the country.
