The new trailer debuted for Ryan Barton Grimley’s frighteningly funny Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers set to play at the Dances with Films film festival in Los Angeles later this month.
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Sidewalk Film Festival Announces Lineup of 163 Films for This Year’s Special Drive-in Edition
BANKSY MOST WANTED Sidewalk Film Festival announced the complete film lineup of official selections for the 22nd edition of the Birmingham-based film festival which will take place August 24-30. All 163 films (41 features, 122 shorts) and 23 music videos, will be screened at The Grand River Drive-In at The Backyard in Leeds.
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LINGUA FRANCA and THE DONUT KING Win Top Jury Prizes at Bentonville Film Festival
Lingua Franca Bentonville Film Festival announced the jury prize winners for their sixth annual festival, with Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca winning the jury award for Best Narrative Feature. In this beguiling drama, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s transgender.
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Documentary SURVIVING THE SILENCE, Gets Spotlight at OUTshine Film Festival
SURVIVING THE SILENCE. Colonel Pat Thompson and Barbara Brass The feature documentary Surviving the Silence, directed and produced by Cindy L. Abel and produced by Marc Smolowitz, will screen virtually for Florida residents as part of this year’s OUTshine Film Festival. The documentary is the untold love story of two women who played an integral part in changing military policy.
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Watch Trailer for BUOYANCY, Australian Human Trafficking Thriller
Buoyancy Kino Lorber released the trailer for the award winning human trafficking thriller Buoyancy, which was Australia’s submission in the International Feature Film category for the 92nd Academy Awards. The film, the feature directorial debut of Australian filmmaker Rodd Rathjen, originally premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Ecumenical Jury Prize in Berlinale Panorama.
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Milwaukee Film to Hold 2 Virtual Fall Fests – Milwaukee and Minority Health Film Festivals
Milwaukee Film will hold two 15-day virtual film festivals this fall including the 12th annual Milwaukee Film Festival (MFF2020), which although virtual, will take place during its previously announced dates of Oct. 15-29. The second Minority Health Film Festival (MHFF), presented by the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin regional health network, will expand to 15 days, running from Sept. 10-24.
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Watch First Look Trailer for PROGENY, Sci-fi/Body Horror Short Film at Fantasia Fest
Progeny directed by Justin Daering Take a look at the first look teaser trailer for the award-winning sci-fi/body horror short film Progeny, an Official Selection at 2020 Fantasia International Film Festival. The film is being presented with another sci-fi/body themed film FRIED BARRY.
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77th Venice Film Critics Week to Showcase 7 Films. Closes with THE ROSSELLINIS
The Rossellinis Venice International Film Critics’ Week, the independent and parallel section organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) during the 77th Venice International Film Festival (September 2-12, 2020),
will showcase of seven debut films in competition and two special events out of competition, all presented as world premiere.
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Watch Trailer for Chino Moya’s UNDERGODS, Collection of Darkly Humorous Fantasy Tales
Underdogs directed by Chino Moya The official trailer debuted this week for Chino Moya’s debut Underdogs set to premiere at 2020 Fantasia Film Festival. Described as an otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline, Chino Moya’s debut Underdogs is a collection of darkly humorous fantasy tales about a series of men whose worlds fall apart through a visit from an unexpected stranger.
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Documentary PUBLIC TRUST Sets Release to Tie in with National Public Lands Day
Public Trust directed by David Garrett Byars The award-winning documentary feature Public Trust from director David Garrett Byars (No Man’s Land), executive producers Yvon Chouinard, Robert Redford and Patagonia Films, will be released on Friday, September 25 ahead of National Public Lands Day 2020, one day later. A series of Drive-In events will be held across the U.S. on or around September 1 ahead of the film’s release.
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13 Short Films to Participate in Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s Film Students’ Competition
PERFECT AS CATS directed by Kevin Vu Thirteen short films – seven by male filmmakers and six by female filmmakers, from schools in Argentina, Cuba, Germany, India, Spain, the UK and the USA, will be showcased in the XIX edition of Nest, San Sebastian Festival’s international competition for short films by film students.
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Nadia Hallgren to Direct New Documentary on Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump
Attorney Ben Crump announces a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis on behalf of the family of George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police officers. Photo by Tony Webster The life and career of groundbreaking civil rights attorney Ben Crump will be the subject of a new documentary feature from Peabody Award winning producer Kenya Barris, Oscar and Emmy Award winning documentary producer Roger Ross Williams and director Nadia Hallgren, a double Emmy nominee for her work on the Michelle Obama documentary Becoming.