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Sundance Film Festival Award Winning Film 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH to Get U.S. Release

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard’s 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH, featuring musician and cultural icon Nick Cave has been acquired by Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, for release in the U.S. Fusing drama and reality by weaving the journey of a fictional day in Cave’s life, the film is an intimate portrayal of the artistic process. The film made its World Premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it was awarded both “Best Directing” and “Best Editing” Awards in the World Cinema Documentary category and receives its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. It is the debut directorial feature film by visual artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and is set to an original score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. A theatrical release is planned for 2014.

Oxford Film Festival Announces 2014 Winning Films; TEDDY BEARS, BENDING STEEL Win Top Awards

TEDDY BEARS directed by Rebecca Fishman and Thomas Beatty

The Oxford Film Festival, in downtown Oxford, Mississippi, announced the winners of this year’s festival, held February 6 to 9, 2014. TEDDY BEARS directed by Rebecca Fishman and Thomas Beatty won the award for Best Narrative Feature; and BENDING STEEL directed by Dave Carroll won the award for Best Documentary Feature. TEDDY BEARS is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend Andrew heal from the loss of his mother. The friends plan a week of laughter and rejuvenation. Andrew plans a therapeutic orgy.

Sundance Film Festival Award Winning Film 52 TUESDAYS to Get A 2014 U.S. Release

The Australian film, 52 TUESDAYS, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award, has been acquired by Kino Lorber for release in the U.S. Kino Lorber is planning a limited Spring 2014 release. 52 TUESDAYS is now playing at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival where it is screening in the Generation 14 Plus program.

ALOFT from 2014 Berlin International Film Festival to be Released in U.S.

ALOFT, written and directed by Claudia Llosa (MILK OF SORROW), and playing In Competition at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for release in the U.S.

20 FEET FROM STARDOM Wins 2014 ACE Eddie Awards for Best Edited Documentary

20 FEET FROM STARDOM

The editors of the Oscar-nominated 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival beat BLACKFISH and TIM’S VERMEER to win the award for Best Edited Documentary (Feature) at the 64th annual ACE Eddie Awards. THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY won the award for BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION).

HORIZON BEAUTIFUL Among Films on Lineup for Leeds Young Film Festival 2014 | VIDEO Watch Trailer for HORIZON BEAUTIFUL

The U.K.’s Leeds Young Film Festival 2014 runs from 31st March to 11th April featuring films, events, animation and filmmaking workshops, and activities ideal for young people. There will be plenty for older audiences including a Teen Gala, 25th Anniversary screenings of cinema classics and some of the most popular films from the 27th Leeds International Film Festival too. The festival announced a screening of the new film HORIZON BEAUTIFUL, described as a wonderful story about a 12 year old Ethiopian street kid who discovers something more important than fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer.

San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists for 2014 Documentary Film Fund

The San Francisco Film Society announced the 11 finalists for the 2014 SFFS Documentary Film Fund awards totaling more than $75,000, which support feature-length documentaries in postproduction. Winners will be announced in late March. Previous winners include Zachary Heinzerling’s CUTIE AND THE BOXER, which won Sundance’s Directing Award for documentary, was distributed theatrically by RADiUS-TWC and has been nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature; Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s AMERICAN PROMISE, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the festival’s Special Jury Prize in the documentary category; and Shaul Schwarz’s NARCO CULTURA, which premiered to strong reviews at Sundance the same year.

London’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival Unveils 2014 Film Lineup

DANGEROUS ACTS STARRING THE UNSTABLE ELEMENTS OF BELARUS

The 18th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London will run from March 18 to 28, 2014 with a lineup of 20 award-winning documentary and feature films. The festival will take place at the Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Soho, Ritzy Brixton and for the first time at the Barbican. This year’s program is organized around five themes: Armed Conflict and the Arab Spring; Human Rights Defenders, Icons and Villains; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Rights; Migrants’ Rights and Women’s Rights and Children’s Rights.

Video Services Corp Ink Deal With Magnolia Pictures; BIG BAD WOLVES, LIFE’S A BREEZE Among Films Set for Release in Canada

BIG BAD WOLVES

Video Services Corp (VSC) has inked a two-year multi-platform Canadian distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures to release up to 30 films a year exclusively for the Canadian market. In the past year VSC has enjoyed handling a successful string of theatrical releases of Magnolia films, including A HIJACKING, BAD MILO!, PRINCE AVALANCHE and TOUCHY FEELY. The deal starts off with the release of the award-winning Israeli film BIG BAD WOLVES in January 2014, followed in March by ALAN PARTRIDGE, already a hit in the UK, starring Steve Coogan. Other projected 2014 releases include the horror anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH 2 and Toronto International Film Festival selections LIFE’S A BREEZE and THE SACRAMENT.

Anne Ashbey to Step Down as Exec Director of Ashland Independent Film Festival

The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced on Friday that Anne Ashbey will be stepping down after two years as executive director. The non-profit organization’s board of directors officially accepted her resignation and has approved a transition plan and has formed a search committee to identify the new executive director. Ashbey has agreed to stay on through the transition period. The 13th annual Ashland Independent Film Festival will be celebrated April 3 to 7, 2014 at the Varsity Theatre, the historic Ashland Armory and the Ashland Street Cinema.

LOCKE Selected as Opening Night Film of 2014 Phoenix Film Festival

LOCKE has been selected as the opening night film of the 14th Phoenix Film Festival taking place April 3 to 10, 2014. Directed by filmmaker Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) and driven by what the festival describes as an unforgettable performance by Tom Hardy, LOCKE is a thrillingly unique cinematic experience of a man fighting to salvage all that is important to him.

COMING SOON: Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo Joins The Cast of Ian Olds’ THE FIXER

Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo Melissa Leo

Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo joins Ian Olds’ THE FIXER (written by Paul Felten and Ian Olds) as Gloria, the ex-hippie sheriff of a small, darkly eccentric Northern California town. Leo joins James Franco who plays Lindsay, an unstable hot-tub craftsman. Olds and Felten wrote the part of Gloria with Melissa Leo in mind, who previously worked with Olds’ in his short film BOMB (Sundance Film Festival, 2007).

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