“CAVEMEN”, the debut romantic comedy film from writer and director Herschel Faber, will get a 2014 release by Well Go USA. The film, which world premiered at the 2013 Austin Film Festival and stars Camilla Belle, Skylar Austin, Chad Michael Murray, and Alexis Knapp, will be released in theaters and on VOD on February 7th, 2014.
20 Lies, 4 Parents and a Little Egg
The 36th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF), taking place November 6 to17, 2013, announced its full Festival line-up. SDFF 2013 will screen more than 250 features, shorts, music videos and student films, along with Denver Film Society’s signature programs such as Cinema Q, Reel Social Club and Women + Film. This year, SDFF shines a spotlight on cinema from the Netherlands, known for its wildly diverse range of cinematic treasures. Fourteen Dutch films are included in the Festival line-up.
HANK AND ASHA
The 2013 Savannah Film Festival, presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design, kicked off in downtown Savannah, Georgia on Saturday night, and runs October 26 to November 2, 2013. The 16th edition of the festival features more than 50 competition films, selected from more than 800 entries in the categories of feature, short, animation, documentary and student competition. Films on the lineup include HANK AND ASHA, THE PRETTY ONE and documentaries BROTHERS HYPNOTIC and DEAR MR. WATTERSON.
AT MIDDLETON
The 36th Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF) taking place November 6 to 17, 2013, opens November 6 with LABOR DAY, directed by Jason Reitman and starring a standout cast of Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet and Gattlin Griffith. Alexander Payne’s road trip dramedy, NEBRASKA, will be center stage for Big Night on November 9. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY directed by John Wells will anchor the newest Red Carpet Presentation for Centerpiece on November 15. Inaugural George Hickenlooper Award (2012) recipient Andy Garcia returns with his latest AT MIDDLETON, which costars Vera Farmiga to close the Festival on November 16.
NEBRASKA
AARP is bringing its Movies for Grownups film festival to Los Angeles, screening nine films that are also being considered for its annual Movies for Grownups Awards. Films such as SAVING MR. BANKS, LABOR DAY, and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY will screen November 14 to 17, 2013, at Regal Cinemas, L.A. LIVE. Actors Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 YEARS A SLAVE), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (ENOUGH SAID), Bruce Dern (NEBRASKA) and Margo Martindale (AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY), along with filmmakers Ben Stiller (THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY), Alexander Payne (NEBRASKA),Steve McQueen (12 YEARS A SLAVE), Jason Reitman (LABOR DAY) and John Lee Hancock (SAVING MR. BANKS) are just some of those confirmed to attend AARP’s Movies for Grownups film festival.
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma Equine Program Director, Ken McClellan astride Ioway Chief in a scene from “Lost Nation: The Ioway 2.”
Indie film “LOST NATION: THE IOWAY” directed by Kelly Rundle is the winner of the Best Feature-Length Documentary of the 2013 Iowa Independent Film Festival. “LOST NATION: THE IOWAY” tells the nearly forgotten story of the Ioway Indians, and their impact on American history, CAROL TILLEY: COMIC BOOK CRUSADER received the award for Best Short Documentary, and THE RIGHT REGRETS won the award for Best Short Feature
OXV: THE MANUAL
Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced its 2013 Jury Award Winners as well as Screenplay and Teleplay Competition winners. The Dark Matters Jury Award, awarding the best film from horror, sci-fi, or dark thriller genres, was featured for the first time ever and wen to writer/director Darren Paul Fisher for his film OXV: THE MANUAL. In addition, the Narrative Feature Jury award was given to first time writer/director, Chris Lowell for his film BESIDE STILL WATERS, and the Documentary Feature Jury Award went to director Christopher Englese, for his film POLITICAL BODIES.
Indie Vision Award: DELIVERY directed by Brian Netto
The 2013 Twin Cities Film Fest which ran October 17 to 26, singled out eight films for awards at this year’s festival, including AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, which walked away with the festival’s coveted Best Feature Film award and the indie horror film DELIVERY won the festival’s inaugural “Indie Vision Award.” The festival audience voted MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, starring Idris Elba, the TCFF Audience Award (feature), and the Mason Makram short THE FIRST DATE with the TCFF Audience Award (short).
FILL THE VOID (LEMALE ET HA’HALAL)
The European Film Academy announces the first winners in the categories cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, composer and sound design who will be honored at this year’s 26th European Film Awards. The 26th European Film Awards Ceremony. will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin on Saturday, December 7, 2013.
ILO ILO
The 22nd Philadelphia Film Festival announced the 2013 Jury Award winners; ILO ILO won the award for Best Narrative Feature Film, and GOD LOVES UGANDA won the award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Set in the late 1990s, the moving relationship between a rebellious Singaporean boy and his new Filipino nanny is lovingly captured in director Anthony Chen’s ILO ILO, winner of the Camera d’Or for Best First Feature at 2013 Cannes. In GOD LOVES UGANDA, the effects of the American evangelical fundamentalist movement on the religious and political climate of Uganda are scrutinized in this eye-opening documentary by Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams.
Frank Simon’s documentary WEEKEND OF A CHAMPION, described as an entertaining vérité look at world champion driver Sir Jackie Stewart as Roman Polanski follows his attempt to win the Monaco Grand Prix will be released in the US by Submarine Deluxe. WEEKEND OF A CHAMPION which had its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival, will be released theatrically across the country beginning November 22nd in NYC, with a nationwide rollout to follow.
On paper, the behind the scenes story being pushed about this joint North Korean-U.S. production is extraordinary: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN is a film that took six years to make and was a historical first-ever collaboration between North Korea and a U.S. film company. The film was actually shot in North Korea with a North Korean cast and crew and was written and produced by Joon Bai, who was born in North Korea but immigrated to the United States in 1959, and starting in the late 1990s has made dozens of humanitarian trips to North Korea. He decided to make this film to spread his message of the suffering people of North Korea and their hopes for reunification.