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2019 Tribeca Film Festival Debuts Tribeca Celebrates Pride Day Event and World Premiere of Documentary WIG

LGBTQ, Tribeca Film Festival

Wig, directed by Chris Moukarbel

This year, the Tribeca Film Festival will debut the inaugural Tribeca Celebrates Pride, a day-long event on Saturday, May 4th at the Tribeca Festival Hub at Spring Studios concluding with the World Premiere of Wig, directed by Chris Moukarbel. The day will honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, including one-on-one interviews with LGBTQ+ luminaries including Neil Patrick Harris, John Cameron Mitchell, Larry Kramer and guest speaker Asia Kate Dillon. The program will reflect on the impact of this seminal moment for the LGBTQ+ community and include conversations with Raul Castillo, Patti Harrison, Angelica Ross, and more.

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17 BLOCKS, Documentary on Twenty Years in the Life of a DC Family, to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival

Emmanuel Manny Durant in 17 BLOCKS by Davy Rothbart

The documentary 17 Blocks, an intimate chronicle of a DC-based family’s struggles with addiction and gun violence, directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Davy Rothbart will premiere on Saturday, April 27 at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Documentary Competition section.

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Ashland Independent Film Festival to Honor B. Ruby Rich and THE INFILTRATORS Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra

Ashland Independent Film Festival

B. Ruby Rich; THE INFILTRATORS Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra

The Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF), scheduled for April 11 to 15, 2019, will present two special awards this year – the Pride Award to film critic B. Ruby Rich and the Rogue Award to artists Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, directors of the Sundance NEXT Jury and Audience award winner, The Infiltrators.

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2019 Cannes Film Festival to Open with Jim Jarmusch’s Zombie Thriller THE DEAD DON’T DIE

Cannes Film Festival

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

The 72nd Cannes Film Festival will open on Tuesday May 14th with Jim Jarmusch’s new film, The Dead Don’t Die. The independent filmmaker’s newest foray into genre film (after the western with Dead Man, Samurai/crime film with Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and his vampire film,Only Lovers Left Alive ) promises to be “the greatest zombies cast ever disassembled”: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez, RZA, Sara Driver, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, Eszter Balint, Carol Kane and Tom Waits. The Dead Don’t Die also reunites Jarmusch with many of his frequent collaborators including Director of Photography Frederick Elmes (Night on Earth, Paterson, Broken Flowers ) and Editor Affonso Gonçalves (Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson ).The Dead Don’t Die is Jim Jarmusch’s thirteenth feature film and stands as not just a humorous and sometimes scary subversion of the genre (with a nod to George Romero’s seminal film, Night of the Living Dead ) but also a tribute to cinema itself.

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Brooklyn Film Festival Announces 2019 Edition: THE GATHERING

Brooklyn Film Festival

Brooklyn Film Festival at Windmill Studios, photo credit Yuko Torihara

After receiving a record number of 2,659 films from 100 countries, Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) has closed submissions for its 2019 edition: THE GATHERING. The festival will select 120 film premieres to be announced in May. The films are divided in six categories: Feature Narrative, Feature Doc, Short Narrative, Short Doc, Experimental and Animation.

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Director John Waters to Receive Pardo d’onore Manor Award at Locarno Film Festival

Locarno Film Festival

John Waters will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor award during the 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival followed by one of the new “Crazy Midnight” screenings featuring his film Cecil B. DeMented (2000).

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Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin’s Syrian DocuDrama UNDER THE WIRE to Air on STARZ

Documentary

Photographer Paul Conroy and Sunday Times War Correspondent Marie Colvin. Under the Wire

The feature drama-documentary Under the Wire, based on the book of the same name by Paul Conroy, Under The Wire tells the incredible story of his and Marie Colvin’s fateful mission – and Conroy’s epic battle to escape the Syrian city. Under the Wire from BAFTA-nominated director Chris Martin (The War on Democracy) will premiere on Monday, April 22nd at 9 PM ET/PT on STARZ.

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Mudding Enthusiasts Documentary RED, WHITE & WASTED to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival

RED, WHITE & WASTED

Red, White & Wasted is a new documentary from directors Andrei Bowden-Schwartz and Sam B. Jones that follows a family of mudding enthusiasts as the last mudhole in Orlando, Florida. The documentary will World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, April 25.

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Watch Greenband Trailer for Olivia Wilde’s Directorial Debut BOOKSMART

Independent Film

Kaitlyn Dever stars as Amy and Beanie Feldstein as Molly in Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, BOOKSMART, an Annapurna Pictures release. Credit: Francois Duhamel / Annapurna Pictures

Annapurna Pictures tonight released the Official Greenband Trailer for Booksmart from actress Olivia Wilde making her directorial debut. Booksmart stars Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Will Forte and Jason Sudekis; and will be released in theaters everywhere on May 24, 2019

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Netflix Releases Trailer for HOMECOMING: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ, Beyonce’s Historic 2018 Coachella Performance Documentary

Documentary

Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce

Netflix today released the official trailer for Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce, a documentary film described as “an intimate look at Beyoncé’s historic 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to America’s historically black colleges and universities.”

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IFFBoston 2019 Announces Lineup, LUCE Starring Tim Roth and Naomi Watts to Open Fest

Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston)

Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Naomi Watts in Luce (Photo by Larkin Seiple)

LUCE directed by Julius Onah, will open the 17th IFFBoston on Wednesday, April 24 at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. A married couple (Naomi Watts & Tim Roth) is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher (Octavia Spencer) threatens his status as an all-star student.

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2019 Montclair Film Festival Announces Star Studded Lineup, Opens with WILD ROSE, Closes with TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM

Montclair Film Festival

WILD ROSE directed by Tom Harper

The 8th annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF) taking place May 3 to 12, 2019, in Montclair, NJ will feature over 150 films, events, discussions, and parties. The festival will open on Friday, May 3, with Tom Harper’s WILD ROSE, and on Saturday, May 11, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM will screen as the festival’s Closing Film.

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