Cannes Doc Pair To Stream For Free; Venice Gap-Financing Market Includes Wim Wenders Project – Festival Briefs

The Fantasia International Film Festival said Wednesday that Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War – Guardians will be the closing-night film of the Montreal-based genre fest’s 25th edition, which runs August 5-25 as a hybrid online/in-person event.

Recently, I was back in the United States — Texas, to be exact — and as any Texan will tell you, it is its own thing. While visiting my ailing father, we watched television together, and I came across a show on HGTV that caught my imagination.

“Parallel Mothers,” the next film from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar that stars Penélope Cruz, will be the opening night film for 2021’s Venice Film Festival.This year’s Venice, now in its 78th year, will run from September 1-11. “I was born as a film director in 1983 in Venice,” Almodóvar said in a statement.

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar‘s latest film, “Parallel Mothers,” starring Penelope Cruz, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, will open up the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in September. “Parallel Mothers,” or “Madres Paralelas,” as it’s known in Spain, centers on the story of two mothers who give birth the same day.

The Rock is ready to roll. Dwayne Johnson has tweeted out that his eagerly awaited new film Black Adam has wrapped.

EXCLUSIVE: Indie distributor and SVOD service MUBI is continuing its remarkable buying spree at Cannes 2021. The growing player has now taken rights from The Match Factory to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cannes Competition drama Memoria for Germany, Italy, Latin America (excluding Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) and India.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterOliver Stone is not pleased that American financiers refused to step up and help make his new documentary about the late John F. Kennedy.Stone and his producer Robert S.

The new documentary “Pray Away” takes on the rise of the religious conversion therapy movement and its attempts to “pray away the gay” and cure homosexuality.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNetflix has released the first trailer for “Pray Away,” the Ryan Murphy- and Jason Blum-produced documentary about the so-called “ex-gay” movement.The Kristine Stolakis-directed film, which will premiere Aug. 3 on the streamer, chronicles the rise of Exodus International, a group founded in the 1970s by five members of an evangelical church that claimed gay people could become straight if they “pray away” their homosexuality.

annual event on the Riviera will file past a pair of sniffer dogs posted at the entrance to the Palais where screenings are held, Cannes town hall has said. The hounds handled by the local Municipal Police have been trained to detect Covid-19 through human sweat as part of a prevention program trialled in France.

Peru Two ', Michaella McCollum. Appearing on High: Confessions Of An Ibiza Drug Mule, Michaella, from Dungannon in Northern Ireland, speaks publicly about her time in prison with accomplice Melissa Reid from Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is not only a multifaceted renaissance woman, actor, model, singer; she’s also French royalty, the daughter of louche French pop singer Serge Gainsbourg and model/actress/singer Jane Birkin. She’s also now a filmmaker, having made her first documentary, “Charlotte By Jane,” which melds all of these ideas together.

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Convicted drug mule Michaella McCollum is to feature in a new BBC true crime documentary that delves into the Peru Two scandal. The Irish woman will feature in the upcoming series which kicks off on the BBC tonight but a disclaimer at the start warns that ‘only some of the facts can be verified’.

Two days before the start of the much delayed, and anticipated, Cannes Film Festival, the town awoke to a rainy, muggy Sunday with little action on the ground. And while the skies cleared later in the day, it remained difficult to discern the festival vibe. Apart from at the Palais proper, there’s no sign of the promotions we’re used to seeing here. That goes for posters adorning hotels or piers for any film, regardless of provenance.

Only two films announced so far, and the 78th Venice International Film Festival already looks like it’ll be one of the biggest festivals of 2021. Denis Villeneuve‘s highly-anticipated “Dune” is already scheduled to appear, and now Venice organizers have revealed that David Gordon Green‘s “Halloween Kills” will make its world premiere at the festival.