Bleecker Street released new official clips from dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense directed by Riley Stearns, and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, along with Imogen Poots. The Art of Self-Defense opens in select theaters today, July 12, and nationwide on July 19, 2019.
The 15th edition of the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) which runs September 26 through October 6, will shine a light on Colombian cinema. The program will highlight a new generation of filmmakers whose work reflects on the country’s recent history.
Breaking Glass will release One Bedroom from Brooklyn-native writer/director Darien Sills-Evans (“X-Patriots”) in theaters on July 12 in Los Angeles, followed by a DVD & VOD release on July 16, 2019.
The film-scandal of the 2nd Venice International Film Festival in 1934, Extase (Ecstasy, 1932) written and directed by Gustav Machatý, with Hedy Kiesler (later known as Hedy Lamarr in Hollywood), is the film selected for the Pre-opening event on Tuesday August 27th of the 76th Venice International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia, to be held in the Sala Darsena (Palazzo del Cinema) on the Lido.
Actress Tantoo Cardinal will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award and introduce the film Falls Around Her at the 2019 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, on Saturday, October 19th at 6:30 pm. The 11th Annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival takes place October 16th to 20th, 2019 in downtown Santa Fe.
Well Go USA Entertainment released the official trailer for Freaks, directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky; and starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, with Amanda Crew, and introducing Lexy Kolker.
Last night, Bethany Hamilton and friends celebrated the Los Angeles premiere of Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable with a surf themed blue carpet and screening at the ArcLight Hollywood on Tuesday, June 9.
The neo-noir thriller, Blood On Her Name, the feature debut from Mathew Pope and starring Bethany Anne Lind (Ozark), Will Patton (Remember The Titans, Armageddon) and Elisabeth Röhm (Joy, American Hustle), released the first teaser trailer ahead of the World Premiere at 2019 Fantasia Film Festival.
Breaking Glass Pictures will release Is That You? (¿Eres tú, papá?), the gripping and suspenseful debut feature by filmmaker Rudy Riverón Sánchez and the first psychological horror film made in Cuba. Is That You? opens Friday, August 2 at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles, followed by a DVD & VOD release on Tuesday, August 13.
The 2019 British Urban Film Festival which takes place September 1 to 7, will open with Tosin Coker’s ‘Lara and the Beat’, a Nigerian romantic comedy drama about two sisters coming to terms with the legacy of their family’s media empire. British interest comes in the form of lead actress Seyi Shey who was born in Tottenham. The film also stars Wale Ojo (Meet the Adebanjo’s).
Independent filmmaker Christopher Garetano, whose award-winning documentary film “Montauk Chronicles” inspired the hit show “Stranger Things,” has spent a lifetime searching for the truth behind some of America’s most unusual stories. Now, he begins a boots-on-the-ground investigation into the legends, mysteries and first-person accounts that fuel this country’s creepiest conspiracy theories and unexplained occurrences in the new Travel Channel series, “Strange World,” premiering on Sunday, August 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Epic Pictures wraps production on LUCKY, a dark feminist thriller written by Brea Grant (THE ARRANGEMENT, Heroes) and directed by Natasha Kermani (IMITATION GIRL). Grant also stars in the feature, which shot in Los Angeles, CA and will see release in the US by Epic’s genre label, DREAD.