
Actors Regina Hall, David Oyelowo and Yvette Nicole Brown will share their creative journeys as they headline the 10th BronzeLens Film Festival (BronzeLens), taking placeAugust 21 to 25, 2019.

Actors Regina Hall, David Oyelowo and Yvette Nicole Brown will share their creative journeys as they headline the 10th BronzeLens Film Festival (BronzeLens), taking placeAugust 21 to 25, 2019.

Filmmaker Aaron Schimberg’s Chained For Life which World Premiere at BAM cinemaFEST 2018 will open in theaters in New York on September 11 at IFC Center and in Los Angeles, September 13 at Landmark Nuart, followed by national rollout. Chained For Life stars Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson, Charlie Korsmo, Sari Lennick and Stephen Plunkett

HollyShorts Film Festival announced their top prizes for their landmark 15th year with “Balloon,” starring PEN15’s Jonah Beres and The League’s Paul Scheer, taking home the Best Short Film Grand Prix.

The horror thriller The Whistler (El silbón: orígenes) by Gisberg Bermúdez, based on a popular South American folk tale, will open in the US on Friday, September 6 at the Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles, followed by other U.S. cities., and a VOD release in the fall.

Reeling, the second-oldest LGBTQ film festival in the world and a beloved Chicago cultural institution for more than 35 years, kicks off the 37th edition in the Fall with an exciting slate of 35 features and 13 shorts programs, nearly all of them Chicago premieres.

With support from Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship, Tell It Media, Multitude Films and Fourth Act will distribute Jacqueline Olive’s award winning documentary Always in Season, winner of a Special Jury Prize for Moral Urgency at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary film will open in New York City on Friday, September 20th at The Metrograph, followed by runs in Los Angeles and select American Multi-Cinema Inc (AMC) theaters across the country. The broadcast premiere will air and stream on Independent Lens on PBS Winter 2020.

The 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival closed with the award ceremony, and VITALINA VARELA by Pedro Costa was awarded the top prize, the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard), Grand Prize of the City of Locarno. The film follows Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, who arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. For her performance Vitalina Varela was awarded the Leopard for Best Actress.

Six debut films, have been selected for Films in Progress 36, a professional initiative called twice yearly by the San Sebastian Festival and Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse with the purpose of supporting Latin American cinema.

Painted Creek Productions (“Painted Creek) and Vision Films Inc. (“Vision) released the new trailer for Harley Wallen’s action thriller feature film Eternal Code.

Epic Pictures and DREAD released the brand new eerie trailer for Josh Hasty’s Halloween horror film, Candy Corn, coming to select US cinemas September 13th and releasing on VOD/Blu-ray September 17th!

Stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Zoe Chao, Troian Bellisario, director Richard Linklater, novelist Maria Semple, producer Ginger Sledge, and co-writers Holly Gent and Vince Palmo were all in attendance at a special screening of Where’d You Go, Bernadette at the Metrograph Theater in New York on Monday night.

This year’s Convergence section of the 57th New York Film Festival features three VR programs as well as special events to showcase today’s wide-ranging landscape of immersive storytelling, featuring virtual reality and 360-degree filmmaking from around the globe.