Cleveland International Film Festival will present Indian director Rima Das with its SOMEONE TO WATCH Award, given to mid-career filmmakers who are rising stars in international filmmaking.
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Dance Documentary IF THE DANCER DANCES Opens in Theaters on April 26
If the Dancer Dances The documentary If the Dancer Dances invites viewers into the intimate world of the dance studio. The film, an Official Selection of Dance On Camera 2018, and Raindance 2018, opens theatrically in New York (The Quad) on Friday, April 26th and in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3rd (Laemmle Music Hall) with a national release to follow.
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ANTHROPOCENE Jennifer Baichwal to Receive Director Spotlight Award at Cleveland International Film Festival
Jennifer Baichwal The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) will honor ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH co-director Jennifer Baichwal with the Director Spotlight Award at the upcoming 43rd edition of the festival. The purpose of the Director Spotlight Award program is to showcase directors with distinguished careers by featuring a retrospective of their past work and screenings of their most recent film available.
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11 Screenwriters Selected for Sundance Institute’s 7th Screenwriters Intensive
2015 June Screenwriters Lab Brent Green, Frances Bodomo, and Rashaad Ernesto Green at the 2015 June Screenwriters Lab. © 2017 Sundance Institute | Photo by Fred Hayes. Eleven screenwriters have been selected to participate in Sundance Institute’s seventh annual Screenwriters Intensive in Los Angeles, to take place February 28 – March 1, 2019. Part of the Institute’s commitment to introducing the industry to an inclusive pipeline of exciting new storytellers, the Intensive is a two-day workshop for writers or writer/directors from underrepresented communities developing their first fiction feature. Fellows at the Intensive will advance the art and craft of their work under the guidance of experienced filmmakers and in collaboration with Institute’s Feature Film Program.
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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Named Jury President of 72nd Cannes Film Festival
Alejandro González Iñarritu Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu has been named President of the Jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, taking place place from Tuesday May 14 to Saturday May 25, 2019.
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43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival to Open with BODIES AT REST and Close with BY THE GRACE OF GOD
Bodies at Rest directed by Renny Harlin The 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF43) will open on March 18 with the world premiere of Bodies at Rest, Renny Harlin’s Chinese language crime thriller starring Nick Cheung and Richie Jen.
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GREEN BOOK, ROMA, and FREE SOLO Win Oscars at 91st Academy Awards
“Green Book” directed by Peter Farrelly Green Book took home the Oscar for Best Picture at the 91st Oscars. Regina King, Mahershala Ali, Rami Malek and Olivia Colman won in the acting categories and Spike Lee brought home Oscar for the very first time for Adapted Screenplay as a co-writer of BlacKkKlansman, and Free Solo won for best documentary. Roma won three including, best foreign language and another directing Oscar for Alfonso Cuarón.
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2019 Spirit Awards – IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Wins Best Film
If Beale Street Could Talk If Beale Street Could Talk, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Suspiria, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Sorry To Bother You, The Wife and You Were Never Really Here. En El Séptimo Día, Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Roma received awards at Film Independent’s 34th Spirit Awards ceremony.
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Ralph Fiennes to Receive Prestigious Volta Award at Dublin International Film Festival
THE WHITE CROW directed by RALPH FIENNES Ralph Fiennes will be presented with the Volta Award, the most prestigious award at the 2019 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, by Irish actor John Kavanagh who Fiennes directed in The Invisible Woman after a screening of The White Crow. The film tells the story of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West and which Fiennes both directed and stars in. Alongside Carlos Acosta’s Yuli it is one of two ballet themed films at this year’s festival.
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Rashid Johnson’s Sundance Debut NATIVE SON Sets HBO Premiere Date
Ashton Sanders appears in Native Son by Rashid Johnson Native Son, directed by first-time director and renowned visual artist Rashid Johnson, that world premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, will debut Saturday, April 6 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on HBO. The film is based on the classic novel by Richard Wright and from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog”).
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17 Indie Films Awarded Rooftop Films 2018-19 Filmmakers Fund Grants
Dandelion Seed, courtesy of Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter Rooftop Films awarded seventeen cash and service grants to alumni filmmakers, including the Rooftop Films Water Tower Feature Film Grant, which was presented to director Anastasia Kirillova and co-directors Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter. Kirillova will receive $20,000 to help finish her film In the Shadows of Love, and Kuwahata & Porter will receive $10,000 to support their film Dandelion Seed.
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Yoga Doc IYENGAR: THE MAN, YOGA, THE STUDENT’S JOURNEY Sets April 19 Release Date
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey, directed by award-winning filmmaker Jake Clennell, focuses on the life and teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar, widely considered to have been instrumental in popularizing yoga in the Western world. An Official Selection of the Vancouver International Film Festival, this illuminating documentary was made with the support and cooperation of B.K.S. Iyengar and the Iyengar family, the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States, and students and supporters worldwide.