Courage Obayuwana (in spectatcles) speaks with crew 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 , 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 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, , 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 comion ...

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 ion 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: () 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...

  World Premiere of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND October 25 We’re excited to share that LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND – starring Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts, Academy Award® winner Mahershala Ali, Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, Myha’la and more – will make its World Premiere at AFI FEST on October 25! This highly anticipated apocalyptic thriller writt...

HBF+Europe 2023 filmmaker portraits    Four projects awarded in first Post-production selection, alongside eight for Minority Co-production .   The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announces the 12 globe-spanning co-productions selected for its HBF+Europe schemes, including the four in the inaugural HBF+Europe: Post-production selection. All but one of the projects are from filmmakers embarking on their d...

Cindy Drukier (USA), The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told has been awareded in the followin Categories Award of excellence: Documentary Feature  Award of Merit Liberation:  Social Justice / Protest  Award of excellence:  Special Purpose Productions Award of Merit: Women Filmmakers      THE COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS   ...

Best of Show for Aly Yeganeh (), Sibel's Silence, Film Feature   In addition to Best of Show, the film also received the following awards: Award of Excellence: Direction Award of Excellence:  Actress: Leading (Laëtitia Eïdo as Hana) Award of Excellence: Actress: ing (Mélissa Boros as Sibel) Award of Excellence: Ensemble Cast   ...

  As August draws to a close, we are excited to present you a sneak peek into the IDFA 2023 program. This newsletter also offers sustainable travel routes with Choo-Choo, an open call for Young Producers, and last call for Docs for Sale submissions. We also are proud to announce Marina Burić as our new Senior Producer Industry. Get all the news below!   IDFA celebrates filmmakers Wang Bing and Peter Greenaway We proudly p...

Posted by Robin Menken "In February 1974, Brazilian musical stars Elis Regina and Tom Jobim met in Los Angeles, to record an album that would become a reference work in the history of Brazilian popular music.” Digitally remastered from 16 millimeter footage, the film drops us into this historic, troubled and ultimately victorious meeting between two creative giants. The filmed session is a intimate look at a Who’s Who of Brazilian musicians : guitarist-compo...

Kaala, Trailer launch: Reverse osmosis – turning white money into black There has been an ongoing illegal operation conducted in India over many a decade: it is called the generation and circulation of ‘black money’. ‘Black money’ is uned wealth, on which no tax has been paid. Most black money transactions have been conducted in cash, to avoid leaving any trace. There is no record of the amount of money that has been floating in the market, as black money....

Goldfish, Review:  Without your memory, you are like a goldfish out of water Probably used as a metaphor for the memory lapses of its central character, who is suffering from dementia, the goldfish, believed to have a memory span of three seconds, has, in fact, a rather long memory. On the website Live Science, the short-memory theory has been debunked, “In reality, goldfish (Carassius auratus) have much longer memories — spanning weeks, months and even years. And the science...

The film stars Piersco Favino, and had its world premiere on Wednesday 30 August in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema.   COMANDANTE Comandante, directed by Edoardo De Angelis, starring Piersco Favino, is the new opening film, a world premiere in Competition, of the 80th Venice International Film Festiv...

After a one-year pause, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will return to Durham in 2024.   The four-day festival, which routinely draws huge crowds for films and discussions, will be presented again at the Carolina Theatre and Durham Convention Center April 4-7.   “Full Frame is an extraordinary cultural event for Duke, Durham and the broader documentary film community,” said Ed Balleisen, Duke’s vice provost for interdisciplinary studies. “Re...