Pedro Almodovar’s Oscar-nominated Pain and Glory swept the top awards on Saturday at 34th Goya Awards, Spain’s version of the Oscars, winning a total of seven awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Antonio Banderas won the award for Best Actor, Julieta Serrano for Best Supporting Actress in addition to awards for Best Editing, and Best Original Music.
Richard Hobert’s The Birdcatcher’s Son won the the top prize – Audience Choice Award at the 35th Santa Barbara International Film Festival which wrapped over the weekend. Fatos Berisha’s The Flying Circus won the Jeffrey C. Barbakow award for Best International Feature Film, and the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema went to William Nicholson’s Hope Gap.
The directors of Honey Boy and American Factory won awards at the 72nd Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
The new trailer dropped this week for A Kid From Coney Island, a documentary about basketball player Stephon Marbury that premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. The film which follows Marbury’s journey from Coney Island all the way to Beijing, is directed by filmmakers Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah (Heart of Gold: The Noonie G. Story, Benji, The First To Do It); and will be released in select theaters on March 10 by 1091, formerly known as The Orchard.
Sony Pictures Classics released the trailer for Guiseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy, based on the novel by Charles Willeford, and starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland.
Showtime released the trailer for the upcoming season of the IDA Award-winning series The Trade ahead of its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Saban Films released the new trailer for the indie sci-fi thriller Vivarium, directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg and and Imogen Poots as a young couple in search of a starter home, who follow a mysterious estate agent and find themselves trapped in an even more mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Vivarium, which also stars Eanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris along with Senan Jennings will open in select US theaters starting March 27th, 2020.
The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) announced that in 2021 the Festival will permanently move to Playhouse Square. The move, which follows a 14-year run at the Cedar Lee Theatre and a 30-year run at Tower City Cinemas, will mark the Festival’s third home in the organization’s history.
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announce the complete lineup for the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual festival that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking, March 5–15.
The 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, will open with world premiere of My Salinger Year by writer/director Philippe Falardeau on February 20, 2020 at the Berlinale Palast.
Netflix released the official trailer for the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana which World Premieres as the opening film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. Directed by filmmaker Lana Wilson (After Tiller, The Departure) Miss Americana opens in select and on Netflix starting on January 31st, 2020.
Here is the new trailer for the desert crime thriller Emerald Run from director Eric Etebari, coming to Theaters in February.