The 30 Anniversary of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York City will showcase 13 timely and provocative films, from June 13 to 20, 2019. As racism and xenophobia continue to rise within the highest echelons of power, this year’s festival presents cinematic works that expose and humanize cases of legalized and legitimized oppression of the disenfranchised that demand the world’s attention.
Rooftop Films announced the lineup for the first three weeks of Summer Series 2019, including an outdoor sneak-preview screening of David Modigliani’s behind-the-scenes HBO documentary, Running with Beto; a special free presentation of Melvin Van Peeble’s ground-breaking classic Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song in Fort Greene Park, with a live score performance by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber; and a free short film program of audacious and Dangerous Documentaries, at MetroTech Commons.
The highly anticipated Elton John biopic ROCKETMAN, starring Taron Egerton will kick off this year’s 29th annual Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival (Inside Out), and the festival will close with the Canadian premiere of the Sundance crowd-pleaser LATE NIGHT, from director Nisha Ganatra, starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling.
Sophie Huber’s Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, is a revelatory journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the most ground-breaking jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The film opens June 14th in New York City, and June 28th in Los Angeles with a nationwide theatrical release to follow.
Burning Cane, directed and written by teen filmmaker Phillip Youmans won the top honor at the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival – the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. The film also won the prizes for Best Cinematography and Best Actor for Wendell Pierce. Other top awards went to House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) for Best International Narrative Feature, and Scheme Birds for Best Documentary Feature.
Here is an exclusive clip from IN A NEW YORK MINUTE from first time writer/director Ximan Li. IN A NEW YORK MINUTE stars Celia Au, Amy Chang, Yi Liu, with Ludi Lin, along with Cheng Pei Pei, and will be in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Tuesday, May 7, 2019.
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino is finally ready to go, and will World Premiere in Competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Amazon Studios released the trailer for Late Night directed by Nisha Ganatra (Chutney Popcorn, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) from a screenplay by Mindy Kaling (“The Mindy Project,” “The Office”). Late Night world premiered earlier this year at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters on June 7th.
15 Down, an award-winning short film, directed by Mike Hayhurst and written/produced by Allison Moy Hayhurst, will have its Oklahoma Premiere at Twister Alley International Film Festival on Saturday, May 4th. 15 Down is nominated in two categories, Best Drama Short and Best Drama Ensemble.
The European Premiere of the riotous social satire Boyz in the Wood will open the 73rd edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival on Wednesday June 19th at Festival Theatre.
The Seattle International Film Festival announced today the complete lineup and as part of this year’s celebration of women in comedy, the Festival will celebrate the work of Regina Hall by presenting her with the Seattle International Film Festival Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema. In addition to the award presentation, the acclaimed actor is slated for an on-stage interview on Sunday, June 2 at 2:00 PM at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Following Ms. Hall’s tribute, she will introduce Support the Girls, Andrew Bujalski’s film which won her the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
The 2019 Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced the complete lineup of films, as well as special tributes for writer/director/actor John Cameron Mitchell and actress/producer Jillian Bell .