Toronto International Film Festival and the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR*) and its founding institutions, the European Film Academy, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and International Film Festival Rotterdam have issued calls for the Sudanese authorities to release filmmaker Hajooj Kuka and the four artists imprisoned with him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.