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Alexis Gambis’ SON OF MONARCHS Wins Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at 2021 Sundance Festival

Sundance Film Festival

Kaarlo Isaacs appears in Son of Monarchs by Alexis Gambis, an official selection of the NEXT section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Son of Monarchs directed by Alexis Gambis has been awarded the 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival along with the $20,000 cash award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character, and will be recognized at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival closing Awards Night.

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Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Sundance Documentary FLEE Acquired by Neon

Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, an official selection of the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

The documentary Flee directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, and executive produced by Riz Ahmed along with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, which made its debut on opening night of Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary Competition was acquired by Neon for release in the U.S.

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TRY HARDER! Trailer – Revisit the College Application Process in Sundance Documentary

Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

Try Harder! by Debbie Lum, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Lou Nakasako.

Ahead of its online World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition, the first trailer debuted for Debbie Lum’s Try Harder!. The documentary follows seniors at Lowell High School in San Francisco as the pressure intensifies to impress admissions officers at elite universities with their report cards, test scores, and overall awesomeness.

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Watch New Clip from LAND, Robin Wright’s Directorial Debut in Theaters in February

Independent Film

Robin Wright appears in Land by Robin Wright, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Daniel Power Copyright Focus Features LLC 2020

Focus Features released a new video clip from Land, actress Robin Wright’s directorial debut, world premiering at Sundance Film Festival. Following the Sundance premiere, Land which also stars Robin Wright, along with Demián Bichir, and Kim Dickens, opens in theaters on February 12, 2021.

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Variety to Honor Steve McQueen with Creative Impact in Directing Award

Awards

Director Steve McQueen and John Boyega as Leroy Logan on the set of “Red, White and Blue.” Photo Credit: Will Robson-Scott / Amazon Prime Video.

Variety will honor director Steve M^cQueen with its annual Creative Impact in Directing Award for his work on Amazon Studios’ collection of films Small Axe. M^cQueen directed all five films in the anthology that includes Mangrove, Lovers Rock, and Red, White and Blue.

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THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 to Receive Palm Springs International Film Awards’ Vanguard Award

Awards

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Palm Springs International Film Awards announced that The Trial of the Chicago 7 is the recipient of the Vanguard Award, which is presented to the cast and director Aaron Sorkin. The Vanguard Award is a group honor distinguishing a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project.

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2021 Cannes Film Festival Postponed to July

Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Festival announced that the 74th edition of the festival originally scheduled to take place in May will now tentatively take place in July.

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DONNA: STRONGER THAN PRETTY Trailer – Powerful Indie Drama Stars Kate Amundsen

Independent Film

Donna : Stronger Than Pretty

Gravitas Ventures released the trailer for the powerful indie drama Donna: Stronger Than Pretty directed by Jaret Martino and starring Shameless star Kate Amundsen. Stronger Than Pretty premieres on streaming platforms on February 23.

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Academy Reveals Films Eligible for Animated, Documentary and International Feature Film Oscars

Awards

Dick Johnson Is Dead

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film categories for the 93rd Academy Awards®.

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Nominees Announced for 32nd GLAAD Media Awards -‘Ammonite’ ‘Circus of Books’ ‘Kajillionaire’

Awards

Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite

GLAAD announced the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. In the midst of a long overdue social movement against racial and ethnic discrimination, several of the nominees at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards include powerful and impactful stories about LGBTQ people of color. Those nominees include: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, I May Destroy You, The Half of It, Monsoon, Lingua Franca, The Boys in the Band, I Carry You With Me, Kajillionaire, The Wilds, Supergirl, Big Mouth, Dead to Me, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Wynonna Earp, and Dispatches from Elsewhere.

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HBO Releases First Look Clip for IN THE SAME BREATH Premiering at Sundance

Documentary, Sundance Film Festival

A still from In The Same Breath by Nanfu Wang, an official selection of the Premieres section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

HBO released a video clip from the documentary In the Same Breath, which recounts the origin and spread of the novel coronavirus from the earliest days of the outbreak in Wuhan to its rampage across the United States. The film will make its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

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‘Sound of Metal’ Riz Ahmed to Receive Impact Award at Miami Film Festival

Miami Film Festival

Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal star Riz Ahmed will receive the inaugural Impact Award at the upcoming 38^th Miami Film Festival. The award tribute and conversation moderated by Variety’s Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis will take place on March 6, 2021.

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