The 2021 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival announced this year’s filmmaker award winners with Xuan Liu’s Bloom winning Best Narrative Feature; and Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss’ Missing in Brooks County along with Paul Michael Angeli’s Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story tie for Best Documentary Feature.
The 5th annual MidWest WeirdFest wrapped last week and announced the winning films. The stunning socio-political allegory Externo, from brothers Jonathon and Leandro Taub, captured the fest’s “Best Film” award.
Hulu released the new trailer for the documentary WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn directed by Jed Rothstein and premiering at SXSW. The documentary will debut on Hulu in the Spring.
Film Independent named Judas and the Black Messiah filmmaker Shaka King as its Honorary Chair for the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. In his capacity as Honorary Chair, King helped announce the winners of three unrestricted $25,000 Spirit Awards cash grants given to emerging filmmakers: the Someone to Watch Award, the Producers Award and the Truer Than Fiction Award.
Hulu released the official trailer for Sasquatch, the documentary series from Duplass Brothers Productions and director Joshua Rofé on a wild investigation into rumors of a bizarre twenty-five year old triple homicide said to be the work of a mythical creature.
“The Present”, nominated for the 93rd Academy Awards for “Best Live-action short film” category, will be streaming exclusively on Netflix on March 18th. The film is directed by the Palestinian- British director Farah Nabulsi, marking her directional debut and starring renowned actor Saleh Bakri.
Ahead of the film’s release on April 2, Vertical Entertainment released the first trailer for The Voices, from award-winning filmmaker Nathaniel Nuon; and starring Ashley Bell, Jordan Ladd, along with Leslie Easterbrook.
Cannes Film Festival confirms that Spike Lee will be the President of the Jury of its 74th edition, which will be held this year from July 6 to 17, 2021.
Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas and singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas announced the 93rd Oscars® nominations today.
The new trailer for The 8th was released to coincide with International Women’s Day. Directed by Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy and Maeve O’Boyle’s The 8th is the first independently made documentary about the triumphant referendum campaign led by a group of women including Ailbhe Smyth and Andrea Horan to repeal the Eighth Amendment and change Ireland’s abortion laws after a 35-year long struggle.
The Balkan war drama Quo Vadis, Aida?, directed by Jasmila Žbanić, representing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission shortlisted for this year’s Academy Awards earned the top prize, the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award at the 2021 Miami Film Festival.
Horton Foote: The Road To Home, a documentary from director Anne Rapp, will have an in-person screening at the Oxford Film Festival on Sunday, March 28th at 5.30 PM.