The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled today the 26 Canadian features that are part of the Festival’s 2019 lineup. The Canadian selection includes seven first features, 13 works by returning TIFF alumni, and almost 50% films directed by women.
Impossible Monsters written and directed by Nathan Catucci, will screen at the 2019 HBO New York Latino Film Festival on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 10:30pm.
A24 delivers again, dropping the first official trailer for THE LIGHTHOUSE , a nautical psychodrama from Robert Eggers, the acclaimed director of The Witch. Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson “The Lighthouse,” which had its world premiere at 2019 Cannes Film Festival, will open in theaters on October 18.
The 2019 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival which ran from July 18th to July 28th, closed on Sunday night with “Before You Know It,” – a quirky Sundance favorite from director Hannah Pearl Utt, that infuses tenderness and complex emotion into the absurd misadventures of Rachel and Jackie, sisters living a dysfunctional life in New York City.
Scientology Network’s Documentary Showcase, the weekly series providing a platform for independent filmmakers whose goal is to improve society by raising awareness of social, cultural and environmental issues, presents Unbranded on Friday, August 2, a journey that celebrates the return of an icon of the American West, the wild mustang.
The US Premiere of Taika Waititi’s hilarious and tender anti-hate satire JOJO RABBIT will open the 15th edition of Fantastic Fest. In JOJO RABBIT a lonely young boy growing up in World War II Germany finds his world-view turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism. With Taika himself playing the phantom Fuhrer and a terrific cast, including Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen, with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson.
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story will make its New York premiere as Centerpiece of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 4, 2019. Marriage Story will be released in select theaters and on Netflix later this year.
The new documentary David Foster: Off the Record will have its World Premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. The film’s premiere will be followed with a special tribute to David Foster at the TIFF Tribute Gala.
Dark Star Pictures dropped the trailer for Yedidya Gorsetman’s sci-fi thriller EMPATHY INC which opens in theaters this Fall on September 13 and VOD on September 24..
Fourteen first or second films by European, American and Asian filmmakers have been selected to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 67th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Independent Indian director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s latest film, Chola (Shadow of Water), will compete at the 76th Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti program.
A new documentary on EGOT-winning entertainer Rita Moreno, AMERICAN MASTERS “Rita Moreno: The Girl Who Decided to Go For It” is in the works from Norman Lear’s Act III Productions and executive producer Lin-Manuel Miranda, and is slated to premiere in 2020 on the PBS series AMERICAN MASTERS.