The official trailer is here for The Campaign of Miner Bo, a new documentary about the unemployed coal worker that decided to run for Senate after a chance meeting with Hilary Clinton.
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BEGINNING Wins FIPRESCI Prize and GAZA MON AMOUR Wins NETPAC Prize at Toronto Film Festival 2020
Beginning directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili The Toronto International Film Festival, alongside the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and the Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema (NETPAC), announced FIPRESCI and NETPAC award winners for work screened at TIFF 2020.
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Billy Corben’s 537 VOTES, Documentary on Contested 2000 Presidential Election to Premiere on HBO in October
537 Votes directed by Billy Corben From director Billy Corben comes the high-octane feature documentary 537 Votes chronicling the political machinations that led to the unprecedented, contested outcome of the 2000 presidential election. What transpired was a chaotic voter recount in Florida that ended with George W. Bush winning by a razor-thin margin. The film will debut on Wednesday, October 21 (9:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
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Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2020 Winners – NOMADLAND Wins People’s Choice Award
Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved The 45th edition of Toronto International Film Festival wrapped last night with the Closing Night Presentation of Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy at the RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place, and announce its award recipients for 2020. The People’s Choice Award winner is Nomadland directed by Chloé Zhao, People’s Choice Documentary Award winner is Inconvenient Indian directed by Michelle Latimer, and the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner is Shadow in the Cloud directed by Roseanne Liang.
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Beyond Fest Announces 2020 Lineup, World Premiere of THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW, ARCHENEMY and FREAKY
THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW Beyond Fest announced the complete slate of 2020 programming including world premieres of Christopher Landon’s from Blumhouse Freaky, Adam Egypt Mortimer’s Archenemy, and Jim Cummings’ The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Beyond Fest will take place this year at the Mission Tiki Drive-In, from Friday, October 2nd – Thursday, October 8th.
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Five Latin Films to Compete for Cooperación Española Award at 68th San Sebastian Festival
LAST DAYS OF SPRING (LA ÚLTIMA PRIMAVERA) Five films will compete for the Cooperación Española Award given by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) at San Sebastian Festival’s 68th edition. The accolade goes every year, since 2015, to the producer of the Latin American film (including Spanish and Portuguese films) making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercising of human rights.
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Inspiring Documentary About a High School Senior Who Runs for Houston City Council, READY OR NOT Debuts on Fuse in October
Ready Or Not From filmmaker David Modigliani (Running with Beto, Crawford) and co-directed by Paloma Martinez, the new coming-of-age documentary film Ready Or Not will premiere on Fuse on October 3, 2020 at 9pm ET.
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Watch Trailer for IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, Documentary Profiling Heroic ER Nurses from Director Carolyn Jones
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. NJ nurses huddle before their shift during COVID Kino Lorber will release the new documentary feature film In Case of Emergency from award-winning director and photographer Carolyn Jones (The American Nurse, Defining Hope) with a live virtual premiere on Wednesday, October 14, followed by a week of free streaming on its Kino Now service ahead of a wider on demand release.
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RIP Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dies At 87
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in RBG by Betsy West and Julie Cohen Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and profiled in the 2018 award winning documentary RBG died Friday. She was 87. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
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David Oyelowo’s THE WATERMAN to Open Virtual Urbanworld Film Festival 2020
David Oyelowo’s “The Water Man” David Oyelowo’s feature directorial debut, The Water Man, will open the 24th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Oyelowo also stars in the fantasy-adventure film that follows a boy who sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers.
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Chloé Zhao’s NOMADLAND to Open and Regina King’s ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI will Close 9th Montclair Film Festival
Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved This year’s 9th edition of the Montclair Film Festival (MFF) will open on Friday, October 16, with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and close on Saturday, October 24, with Regina King’s One Night in Miami…. The festival taking place October 16-25, 2020 in Montclair, NJ will screen the Opening, Closing, and Centerpiece Films at the Montclair Film Festival’s Carpool Theater drive-in, with the Virtual Centerpiece screening on Montclair Film’s new Virtual Cinema platform.
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Hamptons Film Festival Announces Full 2020 Slate – AMMONITE, MINARI, SOUND OF METAL, WANDER DARKLY
Steven Yeun appears in Minari by Lee Isaac Chung Hamptons International Festival (HIFF), has added new films to the 2020 lineup including the Spotlight section, as well as Signature Programs including Views From Long Island; Air, Land & Sea; and Compassion, Justice & Animal Rights. The 28th Annual Festival will run October 8 – 14, 2020 with both Virtual & Drive-In screenings.