Claire Simon’s The Competition (Le Concours), the thrilling observational portrait of French film school La Fémis, will be the first theatrical release by Metrograph Pictures and the U.S. theatrical debut of the veteran filmmaker. The film opens Friday, February 22nd in New York at Metrograph, with a nationwide expansion to follow.
A24 dropped the U.S. trailer for High Life, a mind-shattering astral epic from the master Claire Denis in her English language debut, starring Juliette Binoche as a mad scientist specializing in bodily fluids, and Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth, and André 3000 (née Benjamin) as inmates condemned to life in an intergalactic space prison.
The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) unveiled its marketing campaign for the 43rd edition under the theme: WELCOME. The simple yet powerful theme is a nod to the inclusive nature the CIFF has built over its 43 years through its diverse on-screen programming and on-site programs. The campaign is also a celebration of the hospitable nature the northeast Ohio community has shown to the thousands of guest filmmakers who have visited Cleveland to take part in the Festival over the years.
The first-ever COVEN Film Festival, San Francisco’s new world-class short film festival featuring films made by women, will host a full day of curated short film screenings, complete with filmmaker Q&A’s on Saturday, February 9th, 2019 at the New People Cinema in San Francisco’s historic Japantown neighborhood. A private networking event will take place the evening before on Friday, February 8th for filmmakers and sponsors.
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the features and episodic premieres lineup for the 26th edition of the Film Festival, running March 8-17, 2019 in Austin, Texas.
The 13th Culinary Cinema in the Berlin International Film Festival will be held under the motto “A Taste for Balance” from February 10 to 15, 2019. Ten documentaries and two fiction films focussing on the relationship between food, culture, and politics are being presented this year.
Legendary action master Sammo Hung, who worked his way from actor, stuntman, martial arts choreographer, to director and producer for over half a century, is the 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Filmmaker in Focus. The 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival will be held from March 18 to April 1, 2019.
16 short and feature-length fiction and documentary films from the Pacific region will screen in the NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. Characteristic of the program is the presence of women on both sides of the camera: the special series’ opening film Vai alone features the collaborative efforts of a group of eight female filmmakers.
Hulu released their own documentary on the controversial Fyre music festival, just days before Netflix was scheduled to release their much hyped version. Titled “Fyre Fraud,” the film features an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland, the convicted con-man behind the festival and is now streaming on Hulu.
GVN Releasing has released the official poster and trailer for crime thriller A VIOLENT MAN written and directed by Matthew Berkowitz; and starring former NFL RB Pro-Bowler Thomas Q. Jones, UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell, Isaach De Bankolé, Bruce Davison and Denise Richards. A VIOLENT MAN will be released in theaters and on digital platforms February 8, 2019.
Harpoon from director Rob Grant (Mon Ami, 2012) and producers Michael Peterson (Alive, 2018), Kurtis David Harder (What Keeps You Alive, 2018) and Julian Black Antelope (Knuckleball, 2018) which makes its world premiere at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam has been acquired by NY/LA-based arthouse genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures.
After screening 226 films from 78 countries, the 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced this year’s audience award winners – with Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature going to The Grizzlies, and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature went to The Biggest Little Farm.