Factory 25 revealed a new theatrical trailer for writer/director/star Kit Zauhar’s sophomore feature film This Closeness, also starring Zauhar along with Zane Pais (Margot at the Wedding, Starz’s Three Women) and Ian Edlund (Vimeo Staff Picks Shorts “Mixtape Marauders” and “The Claw”). Actress and singer Jessie Pinnick (Princess Cyd) and multimedia artist Kate Williams round out the cast.
The 2024 Tribeca Festival unveiled its lineup of 87 short narrative, documentary, and animated films, including 65 films in competition and 10 music videos. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16, showcases 12 short film sections, presented by Starbucks, programmed to delight audiences with heartwarming and hilarious storytelling.
The 11th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London 2024, taking place from 6 to 9 June at Picturehouse Central announced the lineup of 11 feature fiction and documentary films, a specially curated program of UK short films and a strand of repertory titles to celebrate the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S.
Set in the early 1990s, Liu Jian’s latest animated feature film Art College 1994 is based on his own experiences on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts. It returns to the meticulous hand-drawn 2D animation style of predecessor Have a Nice Day.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Poster featuring a scene from the film Rhapsody in August, directed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time.
Vertical has acquired The Exorcism (fka The Georgetown Project), the horror film starring Academy Award®-Winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind).
Finding The Money is a new documentary on deficit spending, the national debt and the controversial Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) featuring economist, NY Times Bestselling author, Professor Dr. Stephanie Kelto.
A mother films her family’s life while sheltering from Israel’s attacks during the Second Intifada in the West Bank in the documentary Three Promises. In 2017, almost 20 years later, her son filmmaker Yousef Srouji discovered her archive of home footage.
Dark Sky Films debuted the official trailer for Faceless After Dark, the horror film written by and starring Jenna Kanell from the Terrifier franchise.
Brainstorm Media shared the trailer for New Life, the horror thriller starring Hayley Erin as a mysterious woman on the run, and Sonya Walger as the fixer assigned to bring her in.
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter was awarded the Eva Maria Daniels Award for Vital Filmmaking for her narrative short film FÁR at the Stockfish Film & Industry Festival (SFIF). The prestigious prize came with 1.5 million Icelandic Króna for the filmmaker to put towards their next project. The ceremony took place at the 25th annual Edda Awards, presented by the Icelandic Film and Television Academy.
XYZ Films shared the official trailer for Backspot, the drama film starring Devery Jacob as a queer cheerleader navigating the world of professional cheerleading.