The 41st edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) will open on the November 20th with a premiere gala screening of Martin Scorsese’s eagerly awaited ‘The Irishman’ starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci at the prestigious Cairo Opera House.
HBO Max has greenlit travel docuseries Birth, Wedding, Funeral as part of an overall deal with Lisa Ling. Each episode of the series will immerse viewers in a different country to reveal their cultures through the lens of the three universal rituals – births, weddings, and funerals. In a quest to understand what connects us and celebrate the diversity of deeply rooted customs around the world, each episode is a riveting investigation of the human experience in a specific region, and a dramatic dive into an intimate moment in the lives of the people who live there.
Veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s Shooting The Mafia is a portrait of fearless photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, who spent her career documenting the life and crimes of the Sicilian Mafia. Featured at the 2019 Sundance and Berlin film festivals and soon to be seen at DOC NYC, Shooting The Mafia will open at the Quad Cinema on Friday, November 22 with a national rollout to follow.
The Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Middleburg Film Festival went to THE TWO POPES from director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Anthony McCarten, who also received the Festival’s Distinguished Screenwriter Award. The award for Best Documentary Film went to WILLIE about NHL legend, Willie O’Ree, who attended the festival with director Laurence Mathieu-Leger.
The documentary film Ready for War, which explores the phenomenon of deported United States military veterans, will premiere on the Showtime network on Sunday, November 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
The seventeenth annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) will take place in New York City from Wednesday, April 8, through Saturday, April 11, 2020.
The European Film Academy announced the five short films nominated for the award category European Short Film 2019.
Cheryl Haines, the curator of the exhibition @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, directs the documentary film Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, which will have its New York Premiere at DOC NYC 2019.
The many lives of prolific cartoonist, writer and artist, James Stevenson are showcased in the documentary Stevenson – Lost and Found directed by Sally Williams which will World Premiere at DOC NYC on Sunday, November 10.
Bora Kim’s HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD took home the Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature (and a cash prize of $15,000) at the 28th Heartland International Film Festival. Seung-Yun Lee who stars in the film was on hand to accept the award.
For the first time in the country’s history, Malaysia has picked a documentary feature film as its official submission for the Oscars®. The powerful documentary M for Malaysia, directed by Dian Lee and Ineza Roussille, has been selected as Malaysia’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 2020 Academy Awards®.
HBO Max has picked up the groundbreaking documentary 15 Minutes of Shame from executive producers Monica Lewinsky and Max Joseph (MTV’s Catfish). Produced by Six West, the documentary features Joseph with appearances by Lewinsky as they take an in-depth look at the public shaming epidemic in our culture and explore our collective need to destroy one another.