The first trailer is here for the new documentary Gay Chorus Deep South chronicling The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ life-changing Lavender Pen Tour through five southern states in the fall of 2017.
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Geena Davis’ 5th Bentonville Film Festival Reveals Competition Feature Film Lineup
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, Geena Davis The 5th Annual Bentonville Film Festival will open on Wednesday, May 8, with Tom Donahue’s documentary THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, executive produced by Geena Davis, and featuring her, along with Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Zoe Saldana, Rosario Dawson, Cate Blanchett, and many others as it takes an incisive look into the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture.
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Emoji Documentary PICTURE CHARACTER to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival.
Picture Character. The inventor of emoji, Shigetaka Kurita, draws his original smiley face emoji. Picture Character, a documentary about emojis, will have its World Premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Directors Martha Shane and Ian Cheney take us deep into the world of Emojis (Japanese for “picture character”), from the private non-profit international consortium that standardized emoji offerings and decides on the introduction of new ones, to the campaigns for new emojis such as those depicting menstruation and Argentinian mate, and to the very beginnings of emojis in Japan.
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Watch Trailer for THE SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE, Documentary on Moe Berg, the Baseball Player Turned Spy
The Spy Behind Home Plate. Moe Berg as a catcher during his time in MLB – Courtesy of Irwin Berg The Spy Behind Home Plate, the film from award-winning documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner about Moe Berg, the baseball player turned spy, premiered the official trailer. The Spy Behind Home Plate is set for national release on Friday, May 24.
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Documentary Filmmaker Marshall Curry’s First Narrative Film THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW. Kiana (Maria Dizzia) and Jacob (Greg Keller). Photographer: Wolfgang Held. Marshall Curry is a three-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker. His documentary feature Street Fight followed Cory Booker’s first run for mayor of Newark, N.J., and was nominated for an Oscar® and an Emmy®. This year, Curry was nominated for an Academy Award® for his short documentary A Night at The Garden, about a Nazi rally that filled Madison Square Garden in 1939.
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Tim Disney’s Neanderthal Indie Sci Fi Drama WILLIAM Opens in Theaters on Friday, April 12
William directed by Tim Disney William, an interesting indie sci fi film directed by Tim Disney, follows star academics, Doctors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan, who fall in love with each other and with the idea of cloning a Neanderthal from ancient DNA. The film starring Will Brittain, Waleed Zuaiter, Maria Dizzia, and Beth Grant opens in theaters on Friday, April 12.
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Dance Documentary IF THE DANCER DANCES Releases Official Trailer + Poster
If the Dancer Dances The dance documentary If the Dancer Dances which follows one of New York City’s top modern dance companies preparing for a major performance, released the official trailer and poster. The documentary, directed by Maia Wechsler, opens theatrically in New York (The Quad) on Friday, April 26th and in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3rd (Laemmle Music Hall) with a national release to follow.
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WALKING ON WATER, A Window Into the Creative Process of Artist Christo, Opens May 17
Walking on Water Documented with uncensored access to Christo and his team, Andrey Paounov’s Walking on Water is a cinema vérité look at the celebrated artist and his process, from inception to completion of 2016’s most visited art event—The Floating Piers, a stretched 2-mile dahlia-yellow walkway that allowed over 1.2 million visitors to safely walk across stretches of Italy’s Lake Iseo to experience the sensation of floating and walking on water. Walking on Water opens in theaters beginning May 17.
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Documentary GENERAL MAGIC, on Rise and Fall of One of the Most Influential Tech Companies, Sets May Release Date
Engineer Megan Smith, General Magic. Megan Smith went on to become VP of Google, founder of Planet Out, The Malala Fund, shift7 and White House Chief Technology Officer under the Obama Adminstration. This incredibly insightful film General Magic from directors Matthew Maude and Sarah Kerruish, that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, looks at the rise and fall of the most influential Silicon Valley company you have never heard of called General Magic.
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Claire Denis Named President of Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury at 72nd Cannes Film Festival
Claire Denis French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis will lead the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Claire Denis will succeed Abderrahmane Sissako, Naomi Kawase, Cristian Mungiu and Bertrand Bonello.
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Teen Filmmaker Phillip Youmans’ BURNING CANE, Starring Wendell Pierce, to World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Burning Cane Burning Cane, the feature debut of 19-year-old New Orleans filmmaker Phillip Youmans, will World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, April 25 in the Narrative Competition section.
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QUIET STORM: THE RON ARTEST STORY, Intimate Look at the NBA Star, to Debut on Showtime
Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story The award-winning documentary Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story, directed by Johnny Sweet, and based on the turbulent life of one of the NBA’s most controversial figures will premiere on SHOWTIME during Mental Health Awareness Month on Friday, May 31 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.