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.
At the 2019 edition of Berlinale Shorts at the Berlin International Film Festival, 24 films from 17 countries will be competing for the Golden and Silver Bear, the Audi Short Film Award, endowed with 20,000 euros, v
“Roma” took home four awards, the most of the night at last night’s 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography for Alfonso Cuarón, and Best Foreign Language Film.
The 34th Edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival taking place from January 30 to February 9, 2019, will feature 63 world premieres and 59 U.S. premieres from 48 countries, along with tributes with the year’s top talent, panel discussions, and free community education and outreach programs. The 34th Festival Poster was unveiled, again created by Barbara Boros who has designed the SBIFF poster each year for 16 years, this year highlighting Butterfly Beach.
The 30th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) announced this year’s juried award winners with the top prize, FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year going to Shoplifters (Japan), directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Shoplifters is far more than a heist story. This haunting exploration of love and compassion for marginalized people poses the question of what really defines a family.
Remember the much overhyped Fyre Music Festival that never was? Netflix has released the trailer for the appropriate titled documentary “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” promising an exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival. FYRE launches globally on Netflix on January 18.
The indie thriller TEJANO is the feature-length directorial debut of Austin-based filmmaker David Blue Garcia who has been called “an exciting new filmmaking voice,” by the Calgary International Film Festival.
37 new feature film projects whose producers are looking to team up with co-production partners from other countries have been chosen to participate in the 16th edition of Berlinale Co-Production Market, taking place From February 9 to 13, 2019.
STYX stars Susanne Wolff as Rike, a German emergency room physician, who leaves behind her everyday life to fulfill a long-held dream: a solo crossing of the Atlantic. But when she boards the Asa Gray, her gleaming white sailboat, in Gibraltar, she has no way of knowing the troubles or personal transformations that await her on the open seas.
A total of 62 long and short films are showcased in the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus programs of the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival.
The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival returns for the 4th edition with its annual showcase of horror films that were directed, written, and/or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers from across the globe.