Director Joe Swanberg’s ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY, his next film after the indie-breakthrough hit from earlier this year, “Drinking Buddies” will be released theatrically in NYC on December 20, 2013 and and digitally on December 3, 2013, by Factory 25. “All the Light in the Sky” features what’s described as a leading performance from acclaimed veteran character actor Jane Adams.
Academy Award winning writer/director Oliver Stone will be honored at the 22nd Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), taking place November 14 to 24, 2013. Stone will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, November 22, 2013. Directors who have previously been honored with a SLIFF Lifetime Achievement Award include Paul Schrader, John Sayles, Michael Apted, and Joe Dante.
LETTERS TO JACKIE: REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY, the acclaimed documentary about JFK’s presidency which premiered at 2013 AFI DOCS film festival, will air at 9/8c on Sunday, November 17, 2013 on TLC. Directed and written by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturié, the film features 18 stars, including Anne Hathaway, Bérénice Bejo, Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst and Chris Cooper, reading from letters sent to Jacqueline Kennedy in the days following the loss of John F. Kennedy.
STARRED UP
STARRED UP led the nominations for the 16th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards with 8 nods including Best British Independent Film, Best Director for David Mackenzie, Best Screenplay for Jonathan Asser, Best Actor for Jack O’Connell, and two Best Supporting Actor nominations for Rupert Friend and Ben Mendelsohn. THE SELFISH GIANT picked up 7 nominations and Filth, Metro Manila and Le Week-end all picked up 5 nominations each. The winners will be announced at the 16th awards ceremony which will be hosted by actor and BIFA Patron, James Nesbitt, who returns for his eighth year on Sunday December 8, 2013, at the Old Billingsgate in London.
The Irish film RUN & JUMP which had its world premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and winner of Best Irish Feature and Best First Irish Feature at the 2013 Galway Film Festival, will be released theatrically and on premium VOD platforms in early 2014 by Sundance Selects. Directed by Steph Green, ‘RUN AND JUMP’ stars Will Forte (’30 Rock’), Maxine Peake (‘Shameless’) and Edward MacLiam (‘Holby City’), and tells the unconventional love story of a happy-go-lucky Irish family and the American neuroscientist who comes to stay with them after the husband suffers a stroke.
James Byrkit’s feature directorial debut, COHERENCE, which had its world premiere at 2013 Fantastic Fest in Austin, where it won the Next Wave Best Screenplay award, and has since gone on to play the Sitges Film Festival (where it again took home the Best Screenplay prize) and the Philadelphia Film Festival, will continue to play at festivals in the coming months on its way to a traditional theatrical release in 2014 by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Marc Silver’s documentary “WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?”, winner of 2013 Sundance Film Festival cinematography award and an official selection at 2013 New York Film Festival, will be released in the U.S in Spring 2004 by Kino Lorber. The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories which are so often ignored in the immigration debate.
If you’re a documentary fan, this would be a good weekend to free yourself up for going to the movies, new releases include THE ARMSTRONG LIE and AT BERKELEY. Of course, like most weekends there’s a good mix of indie films of all different types , including literary adaptations, dramas, and comedies such as ASS BACKWARDS .
GREASE director, Randal Kleiser has been selected to be the recipient of the first annual Stanley Kramer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Stanley Kramer Film Festival, which takes place November 15 to 17, 2013, at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs. Kleiser, whose first feature film, Grease (1978), launched his professional career as a Director, starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, and went on to became the most successful movie musical ever made. Mr. Kleiser’s other directorial film credits include The Blue Lagoon, Summer Lovers, Grandview, USA, Flight […]
“FERAL” directed by Daniel Sousa
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 86th Academy Awards®. Fifty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.
Mountainfilm in Telluride is headed on the road to New York City; the Film Society of Lincoln Center released the lineup for the 2013 Mountainfilm series, taking place from November 15 to 17, 2013 at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center in New York City. Films on the lineup include an exclusive sneak preview of MAIDENTRIP as its opening night selection about 14-year-old Laura Dekker who sailed around the world solo, complete with personal video she shot herself during her journey. In DUK COUNTY, world-class climber Dr. Geoff Tabin heads to Sudan to restore the sight of more than 200 blind people. Norwegian documentary NORDFOR SOLA (North of the Sun) follows two young men who spent most of the year on an isolated, cold beach north of the Arctic Circle with nothing but surfboards and sustaining comfortably off the garbage/waste of others – all the while discovering the world’s best surfing waves.
Scottish director David Mackenzie’s award-winning gritty prison drama STARRED UP, which stars Jack O’Connell (“Skins”, Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Unbroken), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises, The Place Beyond the Pines), and Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) will be released in the US by Tribeca Film in 2014.