The Irishman, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, will be this year’s Closing Night Gala film of the 63rd BFI London Film Festival. The International Premiere of the film from the iconic filmmaker will take place on Sunday October 13 in London, with Martin Scorsese and cast expected to attend.
Showtime will premiere the network’s first true crime docu-series, Murder In The Bayou, on Friday, September 13 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, from director Matthew Galkin (Kevorkian) and author Ethan Brown, whose New York Times Best Selling book Murder In The Bayou is the inspiration for the series. The five-part docu-series investigates the unsolved murders of eight women whose bodies were discovered between 2005 and 2009 in drainage canals and on desolate back roads in and around the town of Jennings, Louisiana in rural Jefferson Davis Parish.
Dito Tsintsadze’s movie ‘Shindisi’ based on the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008 was announced by Georgian National Film Center as the country’s submission for the Best International Feature category (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) in the 92nd Academy Awards.
Genèse (Genesis), the second feature film from Canadian documentary filmmaker Philippe Lesage is a coming-of-age drama about three teenagers going through all the ups and downs of first love experiences. The film starring Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Émilie Bierre, Maxime Dumontier and Paul Ahmarani, will make its US theatrical premiere on August 23 at at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Legendary Film Critic and Historian Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie Maltin, co-host of the Maltin on Movies Podcast, are set to headline a Keynote Conversation and Screening Program at this year’s HollyShorts Film Festival. KEEP IT SHORT WITH THE MALTINS, A Special Conversation and Screening will take place Sunday, August 11 at 10am at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters. The special event is open to festival badge holders and festival ticket holders.
SFFILM and the Catapult Film Fund have announced the three filmmaking teams that have been awarded 2019 SFFILM Catapult Film Fellowships: Ilse Fernandez, Allison Otto, andYusef Srouji. These fellowships are awarded to filmmakers working in the early stages of developing compelling, story-driven documentary features, and run August through December of this year.Also, in keeping with SFFILM’s broader commitment to the Bay Area’s documentary filmmaking community, SFFILM’s popular Doc Talks series of nonfiction filmmaking workshops will continue at the organization’s FilmHouse residency space through a renewed grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Sundance Institute, in collaboration with Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation, announced the expansion of the Science Sandbox Nonfiction Initiative, alongside the initial nine science-focused independent projects selected for support this year. The initiative, first introduced in 2018, aims to elevate the voices of independent artists working at the intersection of science and nonfiction storytelling, as well as to encourage critical thinking, promote educated discourse and highlight the overlap of science and art.
The retrospective of the San Sebastian Film Festival’s 67th edition will see the screening of twenty feature films directed by the Mexican Roberto Gavaldón between 1945 and 1974. The cycle, organized with Filmoteca Española, will be accompanied by a monographic book dedicated to the filmmaker.
FREAKS directed Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, and starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, with Amanda Crew, and introducing Lexy Kolker dropped a new trailer along with a new poster designed by Chris Shy of Studio Ronin. The science-fiction thriller also dropped a new release date and will now open in theaters nationwide on September 13th.
Here is the first video clip from the UK comedy The Bromley Boys set around football from Steve Kelly, and starring Brenock O’Connor of Game of Thrones, in theaters this August.
James Franco, winner of the Golden Shell for The Disaster Artist (2017), returns to the Official Selection of San Sebastian International Film Festival with Zeroville, another movie set in the film world. The 67th edition of San Sebastian International Film Festival will also include films by six filmmakers as yet to compete at the San Sebastian Festival: Louise Archambault, Guillaume Nicloux, José Luis Torres Leiva, Ina Weisse, Adilkhan Yerzhanov and David Zonana.
Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn will make its New York premiere as Closing Night film of the 57th New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13), at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 11, 2019. The film will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures later this year.