Film Independent has selected five up and coming directors for its 19th annual Directing Lab, an intensive eight-week program designed to support emerging independent film directors on their feature films. This year’s creative advisors and guest speakers include Andrew Ahn, Ruth Atkinson, Daniel Barnz, Ava Berkofsky, Destin Cretton, Catherine Hardwicke, Tina Mabry, Alex O’Flinn, Lisa Robertson, and Emily Schweber.
After successfully suing Sony over their attempts to stop the movie from being released, the indie film Flay has not only won the case but set a release date for the title and release the first trailer
Melbar Entertainment Group has begun production on the feature documentary about the infamous Knoedler Gallery art scandal that involved one of the largest art forgeries in history. Over 60 forged abstract expressionists works of art sold to high society collectors and prestigious art institutions for over $80 million in total. The film will be completed in late 2019.
The Dallas premieres of the Beto O’Rourke documentary Running With Beto, Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, and Zhang Yimou’s Shadow are among the first ten film titles announced for the 13th annual Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) powered by Capital One, held from April 11 to April 18.
Actress Julie Andrews, the star of classic movies Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Victor Victoria (1982), has been awarded the Golden Lion for Career Achievement of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019).
A new generation of Palestinian youth overcome obstacles through their love of the sport parkour, in the shadow of a border wall, as chronicled in Dallas filmmaker Michael Rowley’s feature documentary directorial debut Hurdle. Hurdle will World Premiere at the Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) taking place April 11-18.
IFC Center announced the full slate of the 2019 What The Fest!? film festival, a five-day showcase of outrageous content — horror, sci-fi, documentary, thrillers, and beyond — from March 20th through March 24th.
Tribeca Immersive, at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, where top VR creators choose to debut their latest work, will showcase more than 30 cinematic and cutting-edge virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality experiences by top artists who push the boundaries of storytelling with technology. Tribeca Immersive encompasses two events that run the duration of the Festival, Virtual Arcade, presented by AT&T, and Tribeca Cinema360. The Tribeca Film Festival takes place from April 24 to May 5.
The River and The Wall follows five friends on a 1,200 mile journey along the US-Mexico border from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico. Riding horses, bicycles, and paddling canoes, they travel along the Rio Grande and meet with landowners, border patrol agents, congressmen on both sides of the aisle, immigrants, wildlife biologists, and folks on either side of the Rio to better understand where a physical border wall would go and the impacts it would have.
The Spy Behind Home Plate, set for national release on Friday, May 24, is the first feature-length documentary about Moe Berg, the enigmatic and brilliant baseball player who turned spy for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The film from award-winning documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner will play film festivals and theaters across the U.S. and internationally.
The powerful film Sobibor tells the true story of the only successful revolt in a Nazi death camp during World War II. Directed by Konstantin Khabenskiy, the film was Russia’s Official Selectionon for Foreign-Language Oscar. Samuel Goldwyn will release Sobibor March 29, 2019 in Los Angeles at Laemmle Music Hall, and nationwide on digital/VOD.
In The Burial Of Kojo filmmaker Blitz Bazawule weaves African mythology and social political issues into a stunning tapestry punctuated by both drama and dreams. The film won the 2018 Urbanworld Film Festival Best Narrative Feature and was also an official selection of the 2019 Pan African Film Festival (PAFF).