Makoto Shinkai’s hugely successful WEATHERING WITH YOU will open the third ‘Animation Is Film’ Festival taking place October 18 to 20 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Closing the festival will be France’s I LOST MY BODY from director Jeremy Clapin.
WAVES directed by Trey Edward Shults, presents the lives of a suburban African-American family as they navigate life following a tragic loss. The film stars Emmy Award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown, Tony Award-winning actress Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russell, and Alexa Demie will close the 2019 Hamptons International Film Festival.
Freaks directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky released two new official clips in advance of the film opening in theaters nationwide today Friday, September 13th, 2019. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, with Amanda Crew, along with Lexy Kolker.
Big World Pictures will release the documentary film A GERMAN YOUTH (Une Jeunesse Allemande) by Jean-Gabriel Périot in Los Angeles, with the film opening at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles on October 11th; other cities will follow.
The FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery program at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival was awarded to Heather Young for Murmur, which the jury selected “for its impressive, minimalist, and precise storytelling — both in its structure and its use of static camerawork and framing — and for its empathetic and powerful simplicity in deconstructing the effects of an addictive personality.”
Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden won the $20,000 CAD 2019 Toronto Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The 9th annual Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) scheduled to take place November 13 to 17, 2019, announced its Narrative and Documentary Feature Film lineups in core competition.
Following its first wave announcement, which included THE BEACH HOUSE as Opening Night Film and DANIEL ISN’T REAL as Centerpiece, the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) unveiled the rest of its 2019 slate. The fourth edition of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival will run from October 17 to 24 2019 with the New York Premiere of director Joe Begos’ new raucous, Fangoria-backed siege knockout VFW as the Closing Night Film.
The 15th Zurich Film Festival rolls out the green carpet from September 26 to October 6, 2019, with over 170 films from 58 countries. Among them are more films by women directors than ever before.
Greta Garbo, described as “one of the greatest divas in the history of cinema” is the star of the official poster of the 14th Rome Film Fest unveiled today by the festival. The fourteenth edition of the Rome Film Fest will take place from October 17 to 27, 2019.
SFFILM awarded five documentary films 2019 SFFILMDocumentary Film Fund awards totaling $125,000, which support feature-length documentaries in post-production. Lea Golb’s Apolonia, Apolonia, Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Landon Van Soest’s Light Darkness Light, David Osit’s Mayor, and CJ Hunt’s Neutral Ground were each awarded funding that will help push each project towards completion.
The grisly black comedy Harpoon, directed by Rob Grant and starring Munro Chambers, Emily Tyra and Christopher Gray, released the delightfully deranged new trailer. Harpoon opens in select US cinemas on October 4th and comes to Blu-ray/VOD on October 8th.