Cannes Film Festival has chosen filmmaker Agnès Varda as the inspirational guiding light of the 72nd edition of the Festival and the official poster. Agnès Varda, who passed away earlier this year, has attended the Festival to present her films 13 times in the Official Selection, and was given the Honorary Palme d’or in 2015.
The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival, opens its 16th annual edition on May 1st at the Hotel Eugene in Eugene, Oregon. The five-day event offers film screenings and will also feature expert speakers, a guided tour, TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Media, a TAC Conference symposium on the search for Amelia Earhart and another symposium on archaelogy-related podcasts, and a Saturday social gathering, and will conclude with an awards reception at Capitello Wines.
The late Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti is the subject of the new documentary Pavarotti directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard, opening in select theaters on June 7, 2019. Pavarotti released the movie trailer offering the first look at the upcoming film.
Scary Stories, the highly anticipated documentary about Alvin Schwartz’ iconic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book series, will debut in select theaters beginning April 26 via Wild Eye Releasing.
The international documentary film competition of the 2019 Krakow Film Festival will showcase the most electrifying and fascinating stories from all over the world.
Jawline, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker, will open the 2019 CineYouth on Friday, April 26. Directed by Liza Mandelup, Jawline follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) in New York City announced the winners of the Golden Apple Awards for the 16th annual event with Bobo Jelčić ’s ALL ALONE winning the BHFF 2019 Golden Apple Jury Award for Best Feature; and Bojan Bodruzić’s THE MUSEUM OF FORGOTTEN TRIUMPHS won the BHFF 2019 Golden Apple Jury Award for Best Documentary. Marta Hernaiz Pidal’s THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIĆ won the BHFF 2019 Golden Apple Audience Award for Best Picture.
The two-part HBO Sports documentary What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali, chronicling the extraordinary life of Muhammad Ali, one of the 20th century’s most iconic figures, will debut Tuesday, May 14 (8:00-10:45 p.m. ET/PT), with both chapters airing back-to-back in a special television event on HBO.
Sheryl Crow will perform at the World Premiere of the documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Friday April 26.
Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang’s evocative documentary OUR TIME MACHINE released the first trailer ahead of its World Premiere later this month on Sunday, April 28th, at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
You’ve got to see it to believe it, check out the music video for “Can’t Wait” performed by The Akergirls (Cara Delevingne, Dylan Gelula, Ashley Benson), from Her Smell starring Elisabeth Moss.
SHOWTIME released a first-look trailer for XY CHELSEA, directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, which will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, May 1 and premiere on the cable channel on Friday, June 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Executive produced by Academy Award(R) winner Laura Poitras (RISK, Citizenfour), XY CHELSEA tells the historic story of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in a maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017.