Julia Verdin Director Angie: Lost Girls, Lost Girls (short) Julia Verdin Writer   Jason Piette Producer Head In The Clouds, Perfect Creatures, I Melt With You, Iron Sky ...

  Director / Cast: MAYA is directed by award-winning independent British filmmaker Julia Verdin, and stars actors Patricia Velasquez, Rumer Willis, Rena Owen, Gian Franco Rodriguez, Anthony Montgomery , Billy Budnich, Betzaida Landin and Isabella Feliciana as Maya.    Genre: Social Impact Thriller   Logline: When a teenager seeking an escape from her alcoholic mother's abusive boyfriend is lured into a traff...

Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of a selection of the best restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. Curated by Alberto Barbera with the collaboration of Federico Gironi, Venice Classics also presents a selection of documentaries about cinema or its practitioners.   “Once again this year, the line-u...

There was a chance that when they pushed that button, they'd destroy the world. Get a behind-the-scenes look at OPPENHEIMER with Christopher Nolan, the cast and filmmakers. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.   The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his w...

This holiday season, Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family vacation like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration.  The Mallard family is in a bit of rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around the...

Pre-opening event of the 80th Venice International Film Festival dedicated to Gina Lollobrigida Double-feature screening: Portrait of Gina (1958, 27’) by Orson Welles La provinciale (The Wayward Wife, 1953, 113’) by Mario Soldati presented as world premieres in a restored version Tuesday August 29th 2023 at 9:00 pm, Sala Darsena (Lido di Venezia)     The Pre-opening event of the 80th Venice International Film Festival (30 August – 9 Septe...

The opera-inspired film stars Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine Special Avant-première screening, in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, to take place at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 8 “First look” image also released Photo credit: Courtesy of Amanda Matlovich    TIFF is delighted to announce that legendary filmmaker Atom Egoyan returns to the Festiva...

By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.telechargertorrent.org   The Golden Apricot Film Festival,  now in its twentieth year, always tends to spotlight films from countries in the region which are not likely to get much exposure at other festivals.  This, in addition, of course, to a wide selection of other films from around the world and prize winners from top festivals such as  Cannes and  Venice. On Bastille Day, July 14th, I caught up with two off-beat Georgian features a...

  By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.telechargertorrent.org The Golden Apricot Film Festival,  now in its twentieth year, always tends to spotlight films from countries in the region which are not likely to get much exposure at other festivals.  This, in addition, of course, to a wide selection of other films from around the world and prize winners from top festivals such as  Cannes and  Venice. On Bastille Day, July 14th, I caught up with two off-beat Georgian features a...

Final Cut in Venice 11th edition (September 3rd – September 5th) The 7 work-in-progress films have been selected   The seven work-in-progress films of the 11th edition of Final Cut in Venice have been selected. Final Cut in Venice is the industry program that has been providing since 2013 concrete in the completion of films from all African countries and from five countries of the Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. Final Cut in Venice is one of the p...

Southbox Adds Former ICM Exec Chandler Heinz Laun and Finance Industry Veteran Jonathan Hecht to Leadership Team to Help Navigate Company’s Aggressive Growth   The team in Cannes Chandler Heinz, Jonathan Hecht and Jon Gosier Southbox Entertainment, a film and TV production company founded by investor Jon Gosier, has secured a $25 million partnership with sister company FilmHedge to greenlight scripted series and feature films. The company is in the process of raising an ad...

In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can ...

      Of the nineteen projects presented within the New Dutch, Stories & Beyond and BoostNL categories, the majority are fiction features with the subprogramme Stories & Beyond placing special emphasis on Dutch genre films this year. Additionally, one project this year is a creative documentary, and one is a feature-length animation.  New Dutch Selection  New Dutch is a curated selection of the most exciting new projects from the Netherlands w...

Thriller satire short Day9 will have its world premiere at the LA Short International Film Festival on July 25, 2023, at 3:15 p.m. PST at Regal LA Live Cinemas in downtown Los Angeles. In the film, Dobroth, a merciless millionaire, assembles a team of resilient workers and forces them to toil in an uninhabitable wasteland until they are pushed to their limits, both mentally and physically. Official Trailer:    Day-9 trailer.mov from Alliance Of Light on ...

Third Edition, September 22-29, 2023   The Marrakech Short Film Festival (MARRAKECHsFF) is back for its third edition, showcasing Moroccan talent in the realm of short films through an international selection in iconic venues in Marrakech. As the first open-air cinema festival founded by women in Morocco, this event continues to bridge the gap between the short film industry and the city of Marrakech, while highlighting Moroccan and international talents through an engag...

Only 20 miles away from Dubuque I had to pay a visit to the movie site of Field of Dreams, a film which I have distributed in during my Sony Days!         ...

This superbly crafted biographical documentary by Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszien premiered in North America in a May 2023 screening arranged in New York by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and the Leo Baeck Institute. The focus of the film, writer Walter Kaufmann, ed away at the age of 97 in 2021. Every stage of his life is chronicled and accompanied by his visual participation and recorded commentaries from his texts including childhood and youth; age as a Jewish child refugee from ...

Mike Faist as Art, Zendaya as Tashi and Josh O'Connor as Patrick in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.   Challengers, directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist is the Opening Film, Out of Competition, of the 80th Venice International Film Festival within La Biennale di Venezia, directed by Alberto Barbera (30 August > 9 September 2023).   Challengers will have its worl...

The 10th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 1 - September 3, 2023), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place during the forthcoming 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th - September 9th, 2023) and will offer selected projects from Europe and around the world the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with international decision-makers.   The 3...

The "Best for Fests" curated by the filmfestivals.telechargertorrent.org founder and editor, veteran film marketing expert, former head of Fox and Sony distribution in founder of the consulting boutique Major Buzz Factory. Ask for Screeners, follow their success on Facebook and IMDB   IMDB Profile I BEST FOR FESTS List on IMDB Dear Festival programmers: I am really proud to share with the festival community and our network these...

  The "Best for Fests" curated by the filmfestivals.telechargertorrent.org founder and editor, veteran film marketing expert, former head of Fox and Sony distribution in founder of the consulting boutique Major Buzz Factory. Ask for Screeners, follow their success on Facebook and IMDB IMDB Profile I BEST FOR FESTS List on IMDB Dear Festival programmers: I am really proud to share with the festival community and our network these ...

The "Best for Fests" curated by the filmfestivals.telechargertorrent.org founder and editor, veteran film marketing expert, former head of Fox and Sony distribution in founder of the consulting boutique Major Buzz Factory. Ask for Screeners, follow their success on Facebook and IMDB IMDB Profile I BEST FOR FESTS List on IMDB Dear Festival programmers: I am really proud to share with the festival community and our network these amazing films which ...

Through the real-life experience of several transgender youth and expert interviews, this docudrama provides an uncensored look into the forces behind this movement and reveals untold stories you have never heard.   The transgender movement has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. From transgender athletes who by far win over female competitors, male prisoners who call themselves trans moving to women's prisons, to creating additional bathrooms for third gender, now chil...

MEDIA RELEASE July 5, 2023   TIFF announces World Premiere of Ladj Ly's new powerful film, Les Indésirables Making his return to the Festival, Ly’s highly anticipated film is set to captivate Toronto audiences with this World Premiere Photo credit: Luis Mora TIFF is thrilled to announce the first international title to make its World Premiere at TIFF 2023. Ladj Ly, the acclaimed French filmmaker be...

Award-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander recently was honored in the Czech Republic at the 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with the President’s Award, in advance of the screening of her latest feature, the historical drama Fireband by director Karim Ainouz. In the film, Vikander plays the role of Queen Catherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII, played by Jude Law. Firebrand Incidentally, Vikander’s first international film A Royal Affair in which she played Caroline M...