While a big budget Hollywood production will open the 63rd Cannes Film Festival next month, cinema's most important annual event will debut an array of new films by acclaimed auteurs from around the world. Filmmakers ranging from Jean Luc Godard, Woody Allen and Oliver Stone to Takeshi Kita...
Read More »The 15th edition of the Gen Art Film Festival closed out in New York City on Tuesday night with "Tanner Hall," "happythankyoumoreplease" and "The Hirosake Players" among the top winners at the event.
Read More »Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to John G. Young's "Rivers Wash Over Me." The film - which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature from Reeling, the Chicago LGBT film festival and the Best Acting Award from Outfest - follows a fifteen-year-old from Brooklyn who is sent to l...
Read More »Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have pre-emptively purchased US and multiple foreign rights to "Calendar Girls" director Nigel Cole's "Made In Dagenham." Featuring an impressive cast in Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson and Bob Hoskins, the film - inspired by a true st...
Read More »Ten first time feature documentary filmmakers are taking part in the 2010 Independent Filmmaker Labs in New York City this week, the IFP announced today. As previously announced, the documentary lab is part of an expanded year-round program for 20 projects (ten each in narrative and documentary cate...
Read More »With a staggering nine awards, Denis Villeneuve's "Polytechnique" swept The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's controversial 30th annual Genie Awards, held on Toronto's waterfront Monday night. The Quebecois filmmaker's dramatization of the 1989 Montreal Massacre - where several female engine...
Read More »The Tribeca Film Festival has announced a star-studded batch of jurors for its April 21 - May 2 fest, made up of 35 individuals, ranging from creator, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, to acclaimed indie actors Hope Davis and Aaron Eckhart to more mainstream celebrities like Whoopi ...
Read More »Moving Pictures Film and Television (MPF&TV) has announced its acquisition of Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini's "Tanner Hall," the boarding school drama that premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival and will have its New York premiere tonight as part of the Gen Ar...
Read More »Strand Releasing has acquired the North American rights from TrustNordisk to 2010 Berlin International Film Festival Competition title "A Somehwhat Gentle Man." Directed by Hans Petter Moland, "Gentle Man" will hit theaters in the fourth quarter of 2010. The deal was negotiated between Co-President ...
Read More »Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath's "Enemies of the People" led the winners of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, announced last night in Durham, N.C. The film - which premiered at Sundance this past January - is an exploration of the Killing Fields of Cambodia, which have remained largely unexplai...
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