The powerful new documentary film, Nasrin, centering on the life of the unstoppable Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh will have its world festival premiere at GlobeDocs Film Festival 2020 in Boston presented by the Boston Globe newspaper.
Artis – Naples announced the complete program lineup for the 12th Annual Naples International Film Festival (NIFF) to be held October 22-25, 2020 featuring both virtual and in-person events. NIFF’s in-person screenings will include two documentaries, opening on October 22 with Alice Gu’s award-winning documentary The Donut King, and closing on October 25 with Aurélia Rouvier and Seamus Haley’s festival favorite Banksy Most Wanted. Both screenings will be outdoors on a large screen in the Norris Garden on the Artis – Naples Kimberly K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson Cultural Campus.
From award-winning director Ondi Timoner, – whose directing credits include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning films DIG! and We Live in Public as well as Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith – Coming Clean is a feature documentary examining addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders, as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.
French filmmaker Maïwenn accepted the A Tribute To… Award at the 16th Zurich Film Festival. The festival’s most prestigious accolade for auteur filmmakers was presented to Maïwenn at the premiere of her most recent film ADN (DNA) at the Arthouse Le Paris cinema.
Edouard Joubeaud’s Haingosoa was named Best Narrative Feature, with George King’s Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley taking the award for Best Documentary Feature at the virtual edition of the 2020 Harlem International Film Festival (Hi). Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er’s Omar and Us was cited as Best World Film (Narrative) and Cam Cowan’s Opeka took the prize for Best World Documentary.
Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference (AFF) announced today the full schedule of films and panels for the 27th annual Festival, this October 22-29, to be held exclusively online.
Filmmaker Juliana Fanjul recipient of the most audience votes for her film Silencio Radio ‘Radio Silence,’ won the Cinelatino & DishLATINO Audience Choice Award at 2020 Hola Mexico Film Festival (HMFF).
This year 23rd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival running as an all-virtual experience October 24 – 31, will screen 148 films, including 20 narrative films, 17 documentary films and 111 shorts, with 14 world premieres, four U.S. premieres and four North American premieres.
The new political documentary The Accidental President directed by British filmmaker/journalist James Fletcher, and featuring subjects Anthony Scaramucci, Piers Morgan, Kellyanne Conway and many others, is described as a play-by-play from all angles on how Trump became President of the United States…and how he may do it again. The film opens in virtual theaters on October 16 and online everywhere on October 27.
The new documentary Los Hermanos/The Brothers co-directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider World Premiere as the opening night film of Woodstock Film Festival. The film looks at Cuban-born brothers – Ilmar Gavilan the violinist, and Aldo López-Gavilán the pianist – who live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half century wide. Linked by music and dreams, their unfolding story offers a nuanced, often startling view of nations long estranged, and a vision of what can happen when borders can be crossed.
Actress Juliette Binoche received the Golden Icon Award at the 16th Zurich Film Festival, becoming the first time in its history, the festival presented its most prestigious accolade for an actress to a star from France.
Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios will release Heart of the Shore, a documentary about hurricane Sandy’s devastation in New Jersey. Heart of the Shore will be available to rent and own on DVD and North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms through Freestyle Digital Media on October 23, 2020.