Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, an unconventional documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, one of the great cult figures of 20th-century American music has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures.
Say Goodbye, the debut feature film by director Paloma López Carrillo, will have its world premiere at Visions du Réel, the prestigious documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland. The festival will take place from April 4 to 13, 2025, and the film will be part of the competitive Burning Lights section, dedicated to international films that explore new and contemporary cinematographic perspectives.
Slanted directed by Amy Wang has won the Narrative Feature Competition and Shuffle directed by Benjamin Flaherty wins the Documentary Feature Competition at the 32nd SXSW Film & TV Festival.
Jason Priestley, Mena Suvari and Laurel Marsden star in “All There Is” the indie drama film on parent-child relationships and how the media shapes our society. Also starring in the movie are Elsie Fisher, Shiv Pai, Jack Wright, and Nick E. Tarabay.
In one of the first sales out of SXSW, Cartuna and Dweck Productions have teamed up on a new distribution venture, Cartuna x Dweck and acquired Grace Glowicki’s Dead Lover which made its Texas premiere at the festival.
Magnolia Pictures debuted the official trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, a new documentary from Executive Producers Sean Ono Lennon and Brad Pitt featuring never-before-seen footage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, and newly restored footage of their only full-length concert.
The 27th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival taking place April 3-6, 2025, in downtown Durham, North Carolina has unveiled a lineup of forty-nine films from 30 countries
The Canadian drama film Village Keeper directed by Karen Chapman has won Best Feature at Gender Equity in Media Society (GEMS)’s 20th annual GEMFest. It stars Oluniké Adeliyi (who won the award for Best Performance) as a widow living in the Lawrence Heights, Toronto, where she tries to protect her children from neighborhood violence.
Alejandro Zuno, director of the hit Netflix series The Secret of the River, makes his feature directorial debut with Newborn (Un mundo para mí), the first known Mexican film to address intersexuality.
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RLJE Films has acquired Neighborhood Watch (formerly Nowhere Men), the thriller film starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), Jack Quaid (The Boys), and Malin Akerman (Watchmen).
Artist Glorimar Marrero Sánchez makes her feature directorial debut with The Fishbowl (La pecera), the Puerto Rican ecofeminist drama starring Isel Rodriguez (Noelia), Modesto Lacén (Juni), Magali Carrasquillo (Flora), and Maximiliano Rivas (Jorge).