Variety will honor Robert De Niro and Emmy-winning writer-producer-actor Lena Waithe with Creative Impact Awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Friday, January 3rd as part of Variety’s annual “10 Directors to Watch” brunch at the Parker Palm Springs. Variety will honor Robert De Niro with the Creative Impact in Acting Award and Lena Waithe with the Creative Impact in Producing Award.
Patrick DiCesare’s Artist Rights Distribution will release UK comedy The Bromley Boys, starring ‘”Game of Thrones” Brenock O’Connor, on digital January 1.
Ahead of it’s early 2020 digital release, Erwan Marinopoulos’s bloody, action-packed instant classic Kill Ben Lyk will screen in L.A theaters for one night only, Jan 15.
The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle announced their 2019 award winners with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood winning award for Best Picture of 2019. Best Foreign Language Film went to Parasite, Best Documentary went to Apollo 11 and Special Citation for Independent Cinema was given to Director Shin’ichiro Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead.
Shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards, Advocate directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche is a powerful portrait of the crusading and controversial Israeli Defense Attorney Lea Tsemeln. Nominated for Best Director and Best Feature at the IDA Awards and a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Film Movement will release the acclaimed feature-length documentary in theaters in New York at Quad Cinema and Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal opening on January 3, 2020.
Celebrating France’s rich tradition as a pioneer of animation, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) presents the 2020 Animation First Festival, showcasing the vast history, enduring ingenuity, and diversity of France’s renowned animation studios and schools.
Adam Driver will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor at the Film Awards Gala at the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) . The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.
Todd Phillips “Joker,” took Best Picture honors in the Phoenix Film Critic’s Society’s (PFCS) 2019 awards with Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean film “Parasite” winning for Best Foreign Language Film, and “One Child Nation” was honored for Best Documentary.
Focus Features dropped the official trailer for Eliza Hittman’s latest film Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always, which is set to premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, and Sharon Van Etten. Never Rarely Sometimes Always opens in select theaters on March 13th, 2020.
Magnolia released the official trailer for the indie dark comedy film Buffaloed starring Zoey Deutch that premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Tanya Wexler, the film also stars Judy Greer, Jai Courtney, Noah Reid, and Jermaine Fowler. Buffaloed will open in select theaters on February 14th, 2020.
Cynthia Erivo who plays Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Film Awards Gala of the 31st annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). The festival runs January 2-13, 2020.
ArtMattan Films acquired the award winning drama Made In Bangladesh by Rubaiyat Hossain, based on the life of Daliya Akter, a garment worker who escaped child marriage and went on to lead a trade union fighting for workers’ rights in Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.