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OUT THERE: A National Parks Story.
Director: Brendan Hall
It took seven years for maverick director Brendan Hall to complete ‘Out there: A National Parks story’. It was worth the struggle, the resilience, the hard work, and the courage as this majestic film is a true “tour de force” and it will amaze you by its beauty and its spirituality. Watch Brendan and, his best friend, take a tour of various the National Parks across the USA. 10,000 miles and an amazing ...
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER – In Theaters October 6 2023
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Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo wit...
Big Apple Film Festival 2023 Official Selection, Of Things Past, a truly unique production, over 37 years in the making, at last will be enjoyed by North American viewing audiences beginning October 3rd on Amazon, Vudu and major cable systems’ VOD.
Tony Award, Golden Globe and three-time Emmy winner Michael Moriarty returns to the big screen, with co-stars Louise Caire Clark and Tara Reid in the drama, that first began filming in 1985. The movie was never released and has b...
The Great Indian Family, Review: Pandit pop’s bhajan singing son is a Muslim
What a roundabout route it has taken to emerge as The Great Indian Family! It began with the 2010 British film The Infidel, starring Omid Djalili (the D is silent), directed by Josh Appignanesi and a cast that included South Asian sounding names like Archie Panjabi, Saamiya Nasir, James Krishna Floyd, Nabi Nasir, Mina Anwar, Amit Shah, Uzma, Ravin J. Ganatra and Niraj Naik. Five years later, we had an Indian ad...
Tibetan Hearts had its world premiere on Saturday, September 9th at the Silicon Beach Film Festival. It was wonderful to see the film on the big screen. Tibetan Hearts is a romantic drama about two lovers from rival sheep herding villages in Tibet. It was filmed on location in Tibet and provides a rare look at this isolated culture from their own perspective.
The festival took place at the esteemed TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The premiere had a great turn out, with many members of the...
VOY! VOY! VOY!, HANGING GARDENS, FOUR DAUGHTERS
Film Clinic and its distribution arm, Film Clinic Indie Distribution, achieved a remarkable feat once again, with three titles from their production and distribution roster selected by their respective countries of origin — Egypt, Iraq, and Tunisia — to be their official submissions for Best Foreign Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
VOY! VOY! VOY!, was chosen by a majority vote of Egypt’s Film Selection Committee to re...
Cast: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Screenplay by: Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt
Based on the Novel by: Suzanne Collins
Produced by: Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Francis Lawrence
Executive Producers: Suzanne Collins, Mika Saito, Jim Miller, Tim Palen
Synopsis: Experience the story of THE HUNGER GA...
WIDOW CLICQUOT
TIFF 2023
With Director: Thomas Napper and Actress/Producer: Haley Bennett (widow Clicquot)
By Emmanuel Itier
In the late 18th century, in the region of Champagne in France, began the journey of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, who transformed a failing business into the world-famous brand know as ‘Veuve Clicquot’. This is a fantastic look at a woman who was able to transform herself, her business and the whole world of Champagne. ‘Widow C...
On September 18th, the Ukrainian Oscar Committee chose the film that will represent Ukraine among the contenders for the nomination for the Academy award in the category of "Best International Feature Film."
The chosen film is 20 Days in Mariupol directed by Ukrainian journalist and photographer Mstyslav Chernov. Alongside Chernov, the film was worked on by photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko. The movie depicts the beginning of a fu...
The sneak preview include new works from Ukraine, Netherlands, Belgium and Mexico. According to Festival Director Tiina Lokk, all four films deal with highly topical and relevant issues that affect and connect us all here and now. "A sharp social perspective will also characterise the rest of the main competition programme, which will provide a cross-section of today's major issues. I believe we have put together a very strong and interesting programm...
Courage Obayuwana (in spectatcles) speaks with crew members on set of Kill Boro
With its commitment to fostering creativity, diversity, and excellence in filmmaking, the First Features Project is dedicated to elevating Nigerian cinema to global prominence
Native Filmworks and Michelangelo Productions announce the resumption of their groundbreaking First Features project as the crew returns to set to shoot "Kill Boro."
The First Featur...
SWEET DREAMS
TIFF 2023
With director: Ena Sendijarevic
By Emmanuel Itier
Meet Ena Sendijaveric who directed one of the best surprise movie of TIFF 2023: “Sweet Dreams”. This mesmerizing movie follows the journey of the illegitimate son of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who died and living him his Indian ocean island estate. The child was born from the owner’s Indonesian housemaid. This is a visually enchanting movie with an intense dra...
THE RYE HORN
TIFF 2023
Director: Jaione Camborda and Actress: Janet Novas.
By Emmanuel Itier
Director Jaione Camorda, who did the charismatic ‘Arima’ in 2019, is back with a beautiful new film: ‘O Corno’ aka ‘The Rye Horn’. It follows the journey of Maria who earns a living fishing. Suddenly her life will swith into a fight for her survival. This is an intense and dramatic, so cinematographically compelling. It will moves you inside ...
Wildscreen has launched its first short film fund in partnership with On the Edge, to catalyse new and creative projects by emerging filmmakers to bring new perspectives and fresh approaches to the natural history filmmaking genre.
The fund will provide grants of up to £15,000 to 6 emerging filmmakers or teams, to produce new, innovative, out-of-the-box short films that resonate with GenZ audiences and spotlight Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) specie...
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, by French filmmaker Thomas Cailley, closes its 52nd edition with actor Paul Kircher on October 14 at the Impérial.
In modern-day France, an unknown disease affects certain human beings, who are gradually transformed into animals. Considered savage, these mutants, who supposedly "terrorize" the population, are interned in centers or flee to the forest. François heads south, accompanied by his teenage son Émile: their wife and mother is aff...
Brad Anderson is set to direct George A. Romero’s final film Twilight of the Dead, produced and financed by multi-platform production company Roundtable Entertainment. Roundtable recently announced a partnership with the Romero estate to bring Twilight of the Dead to the screen.
Anderson expressed: “George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead may have been the first real horror movie I ever saw and its shock value, its keen so...
$30,000 fund aims to support three creative teams each year, propelling them towards the realization of their cinematic visions over three years
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is proud to announce the CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund. In collaboration with CJ Cultural Foundation and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund’s goal is to foster, support, and champion Korean Canadian and American filmmakers looking to develop their first or second fea...
BAD BOY
TIFF 2023
Director Hagar Ben-Asher and producer/writer” Ron Leshem
By Emmanuel Itier
BAD BOY will, no doubt, rock TIFF this year so it is such an intense new series from Israel. This show was created by the original creators of ‘Euphoria’ and it’s the tale of a troubled teen sent to a brutal juvenile detention facility, and how his humor and talent is going to save him from this horrible fate. It’s a series full of humanity, of compassion ...
100 YARDS
TIFF 2023
With Actor/Producer, Jacky Heung and director: Junfeng Xu
By Emmanuel Itier
‘100 Yards’ the new movie from legendary director, Junfeng Xu (‘The Grandmaster’, ‘The Hidden Sword’), follows two bitter rivals, one of them played by the iconic kung fu fighter/actor Jacky Heung, for stewardship of a Wushu (a form of Kung Fu) academy. Presented at TIFF, this is a impactful, adrenaline driven film that will keep alive and kick...
THE CONVERT
TIFF 2023
Director: Lee Tamahori.
By Emmanuel Itier
Legendary director, Lee Tamahori, who is behind such iconic movies as ‘Once we were Warriors’, ‘The Edge’ and the James Bond classic, ‘Die Another Day’ is back again focusing on a passion of his: the Maori tribes. This time, master Tamahori is painting the story of a preacher, played by the splendid, mesmerizing Guy Pearce, who arrives at a British settlement in New Zealand in the 18...
The full programme of the 16th edition of the CinEast festival (Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg) will be announced at the Press Conference held on Tuesday 19 September 2023 at 11:00 a.m. at the Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg (17, Place du Théâtre, Luxembourg-City).
We are delighted to announce that the documentary "In the Rearview" by Polish director Maciek Hamela will be the Opening Film of the 2023 edition...
Jawan, Review: Eggs on the windshield
You can be pardoned for believing that Jawan is Pathaan rebooted, if you walked in as ShahRukh Khan (SRK) is lying half-dead on a bed somewhere near the Indian border (with which country?) and a chinky medicine man is spending days, and possibly weeks, using all kinds of herbs and other local Ayurvedic medicine to revive him. It was exactly the same in Pathaan, where he was nursed back by a Pathaan tribe. Obviously, the makers thought once is not enough, ...
By M.R. D’Amico
Dogman, horror and kindness
(in competition, 114 min)
Director, screenplay: Luc Besson. Cinematography: Colin Wandersman. Editor: Julien Rey. Music: Eric Serra.
Production: (France) An LBP, Europacorp, TF1 Films production. (World sales: Kinology, Paris.) Producers: Virginie Besson-Silla, Steve Rabineau.
With: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick, John Charles Aguilar, Grace Palma, Iris Bry, Marisa Berenson, Linc...
Photo Credit: Atsushi Nishijima
TIFF CEO, Cameron Bailey, is excited to announce that filmmaker Ava DuVernay will return to TIFF with her latest offering, Origin. DuVernay’s film will have a Gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall on Monday, September 11th. DuVernay will be in attendance.
Written, produced, and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, Origin chronicles the remarkable life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson (played...
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everyth...
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