Over $40,000 in prizes were given to the winners of the 2019 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Toronto with top honors going to Garin Nugroho for MEMORIES OF MY BODY for Inside Out Special Award for Innovation, Xiang Zi for A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON for Best First Feature, and Megan Wennberg for DRAG KIDS for Best Canadian Feature.
The Seattle International Film Festival honored actress Regina Hall with the Seattle International Film Festival Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema on Sunday, June 2nd.
The Academy will present Honorary Awards to David Lynch, Wes Studi and Lina Wertmüller, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Geena Davis at the Academy’s 11th Annual Governors Awards on Sunday, October 27.
Narrated by actor Michael Rapaport and featuring original conversations with everyone from Mark Wahlberg to Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Deion Sanders, the new documentary film 100%: Julian Edelman is an imaginative look inside Julian Edelman’s underdog journey from major injury and NFL suspension to Super Bowl MVP in 2019. Showtime will air the new documentary film 100%: Julian Edelman, premiering on Friday, June 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
The 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival, taking place June 19th to 30th, will screen around 121 new features, including 18 feature film World Premieres, alongside a tribute to French filmmaker Agnes Varda.
IFC Midnight will release Trespassers directed by Orsin Oblowitz starting Friday, July 12 in New York at IFC Center, Los Angeles at the Arena Hollywood and On Demand. The film starring Angela Trimbur “Trash Fire”, Janel Parrish “Pretty Little Liars and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”, Fairuza Balk “Almost Famous”, Jonathan Howard “Thor: The Dark World” and Zach Avery had its World Premiere at Frightfest London 2018.
The thriller Use Me from award-winning film maker, director and actor Julian Shaw will have its world premiere at this year’s Brooklyn Film Festival. Use Me will World Premiere on Sunday, June 2nd with a second screening on Monday, June 3rd.
A24 released the trailer for In Fabric from acclaimed horror director Peter Strickland described as “an unforgettably twisted, darkly hilarious vision of a killer dress.” In Fabric stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, Leo Bill, and Gwendoline Christie.
Last Call, a real-time split-screen feature film shot in two true single takes with an original musical score also recorded live to picture, will have its West Coast premiere at Dances with Films at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, June 18th at 7:15pm. The film is directed by Gavin Michael Booth (The Scarehouse), written by Gavin Michael Booth and Daved Wilkins (“The Mindy Project”), and starring Sarah Booth (“Law & Order: SVU”) and Daved Wilkins.
The international jury of the 59th Krakow Film Festival awarded prizes to the best documentary, short and animated films with “Advocate”, “Portrait of Suzanne”, “My Country So Beautiful” and “Once Aurora” winning the top awards.
RocKabul directed by Australian filmmaker Travis Beard examines the counter culture campaign that the US government waged in Afghanistan, told through the eyes of a young band in the war torn capital of Kabul, where rock music is forbidden.
Amazon Studios released the new trailer for the documentary One Child Nation from directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. One Child Nation which opens in select theaters on August 9, 2019, uncovers the untold history of China’s One-Child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.