The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced the thirty-three films and series receiving nominations for the 29th Annual IFP Gotham Awards along with Gotham Tributes for actors Laura Dern and Sam Rockwell, director Ava DuVernay, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Glen Basner.
Incitement, the winner of the Ophir Award for Israel’s Best Feature Film of 2019 and Israel’s Official Selection to the 2019 Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film will open the 33rd Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, taking place November 12th – 26th.
Robert Redford will be a honored guest at the 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival, which will be held from November 29th to December 7th, 2019.
DANIEL ISN’T REAL was awarded best picture and best director at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival which closed out the fourth edition on October 24th with a sold-out screening of Joe Begos’ VFW.
Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft., which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received an honorable mention from the Platform Prize jury, was acquired by Cinema Guild for release in the U.S. in 2020.
Amazon Studios release a new trailer for The Aeronauts directed by Tom Harper, and starring Eddie Redmayne along with Felicity Jones. The Aeronauts opens in Theaters on December 6, and on Prime Video on December 20.
Just Mercy will have an American premiere screening as the opening night film for the fifth annual Asian World Film Festival in Culver City at the Arclight Cinemas on Wednesday, November 6, 2019.
The mystical award-winning short film The Cunning Man, created, written and produced by Ali Cook and directed by Zoë Dobson will celebrate its Latin-American premiere at the renowned genre film festival Morbido. The award-winning film stars Simon Armstrong and Ali Cook.
Film at Lincoln Center will present Rebel Spirit: The Films of Patricia Mazuy, the first American retrospective of the versatile French filmmaker’s work, November 15–17.
The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced the 35th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Nominees along with the Courage Under Fire Award honoree Waad Al-Kataeb, director and producer of For Sama. For the first time, the IDA will present an award for Best Director and, notably, all of the nominated films have female directors.
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.