NewFest, in partnership with Outfest, today announced the lineup of their 27th annual celebration of the year’s best LGBT films from around the world. The program of nearly 100 narrative features, documentaries and shorts runs October 22-27 at the newly renovated Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas, and at the recently completed screening room at The LGBT…
Category: FILMS
The Write Teacher(s) Film Class – (a growing list)
Hello Beautiful People, Recently I took to polling colleagues about films. I wanted to know, what are great films that high school kids should know – stories that they can learn from, stories that they can relate to, and classic pieces of cinema that would be useful to their repertoire. Here’s what they came up…
COMING SOON: A Ballerina’s Tale
A Ballerina’s Tale opens in theatre’s and VOD on October 14th. Iconic ballerina Misty Copeland made history when she became the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer of the legendary American Ballet Theater. Get the incredible, behind-the-scenes story of how she overcame a tumultuous upbringing and near career-ending injuries to become one of…
COMING SOON: Little Glory
Lightyear Entertainment (www.lightyear.com), the Los Angeles and New York-based entertainment distributor of acclaimed films and music, announces that LITTLE GLORY, an emotionally gripping coming-of-age drama – starring Cameron Bright (The Twilight Saga), Hannah Murray (“Game of Thrones”) and rising star Isabella Blake-Thomas – will be released September 15th on DVD in the U.S. and Canada….
COMING SOON: The National Black Arts Festival
This summer, the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) continues its 27-year tradition of offering stellar artistic and educational programs in music, dance, film, visual arts, theater and literary arts and of attracting audiences and participants from the region and around the world to Atlanta. The season launches in mid-July with programming through mid-September that spotlights dance…
COMING SOON: CREEP
A B O U T T H E F I L M Looking for work, Aaron (Patrick Brice) comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain…
HUGH JACKMAN: Dukale’s Dream
T H E F I L M The 7th Floor presents DUKALE’S DREAM a feature length documentary by Josh Rothstein about Hugh Jackman’s unlikely friendship with an Ethiopian coffee farmer named Dukale, who had grown up in poverty and was deprived of an education. After working on Dukale’s farm, Hugh realized that something as…
COMING SOON: THE OVERNIGHT in Theaters!
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles’ Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at the home. But as it gets…
COMING SOON: BRAVETOWN
Josh Harvest, a hardened New York City teen from a broken home – and quietly one of the country’s top dance club DJs and remixers – is sentenced to counseling for a minor drug infraction, along with an extended stay with his estranged father, who lives in a small town in North Dakota. He is…
COMING SOON: Animal Crackers
Blue Dream Studios recently confirmed that Emily Blunt will join the animated feature film ANIMAL CRACKERS. She joins previously announced cast members John Krasinksi, Danny DeVito, Sylvester Stallone, and Sir Ian McKellen. Blunt and Krasinski will play Zoe and Owen Huntington, a couple who inherits a rundown circus and a mysterious box of Animal Crackers that…