Sunny Side of the Doc offers Streamlined Connected 2020 Edition

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Tom Grater International Film ReporterSpain’s San Sebastian Film Festival is pushing on with plans to become one of the first major film festivals to hold a physical 2020 edition since the pandemic enforced cancellations and postponement across the calendar.Today, the fest revealed a preview of its official selection for this year.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Charles Booker, the Democratic senate candidate who narrowly lost to former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath in a close race in Kentucky, is set to have his campaign documented by American Relapse and Bernie Blackout director Pat McGee.Booker’s campaign was gaining steam right up until he lost to McGrath earlier this week by a narrow margin.McGee has been embedded with the Booker campaign after the Kentucky House of Representatives member handed him access

coronavirus crisis.The festival, which takes place from October 7-18, 2020 will host 50 virtual premieres and 12 previews of upcoming films held in theatres. Each of the 50 virtual premieres will play at a set time and feature additional elements including talent Q&As.The venues for the physical part of the festival are yet to be announced.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCannes’s virtual Marché du Film, which wrapped on June 26, attracted more than 10,002 participants over the course of five days. The U.S.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAs coronavirus continues to reshape the festival calendar, the London Film Film has revealed its altered plans for 2020.The upcoming edition of the festival (7-18 October) will feature live and digital screenings with 50 virtual premieres. It will be an online-heavy edition with a streamlined film selection and only a handful of physical events.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentColcoa, the Los Angeles-based French film festival, has decided to cancel its 2020 edition due to the continuing health crisis in the U.S.The next edition, which will mark the festival’s 25th anniversary celebration, will be held from Sept. 20-26, 2021.

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Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema, Japan Cuts, has selected 30 features and 12 shorts for a 2020 edition that will take place entirely online due to continued corona disruption.Running July 17-30, the traditionally New York-based event will instead be available across the country via a digital platform set up in partnership with Festival Scope and Shift72.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe Toronto Film Festival (September 10–19), North America’s largest festival, has unveiled its plan for this year’s edition.

Manori Ravindran International EditorU.S. documentary specialists Cargo Film & Releasing have snapped up world rights to an Alec Baldwin-narrated feature documentary investigating the water poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Ben Croll Even as outside circumstances forced Sunny Side of the Doc to pare down elements of this year’s edition, event programmers never jettisoned the theme they envisioned for 2020.“We wanted to maintain our original framework,” says Sunny Side director of strategy and development Mathieu Béjot.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterFilmart, the key Asian film and TV market which takes place in Hong Kong, has been forced to migrate its 2020 edition into an online format due to continuing challenges produced by the pandemic.The event had originally been scheduled to take place March 25-28 but moved to August 26-29.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: London-based production studio Pulse Films is expanding its global footprint with the addition of an office in Milan, Italy.The move is part of a larger partnership with local indie Indiana Production, which has recent credits including Liam Neeson pic Made In Italy and The Burnt Orange Heresy.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMagnolia Pictures will premiere “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” a new documentary about the Civil Rights icon and congressional leader, in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Juneteenth.

Beyoncé took her work advocating for Breonna Taylor, an unarmed 26-year-old Black woman who was killed by police while she was sleeping in her apartment when they entered with a no-knock search warrant in March, one step further yesterday. The singer posted an open letter to the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron on her site.

Mamma Mia! director Ol Parker is teaming with Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — to adapt and direct the book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together, by author Jon Mooallem. Concordia acquired the rights to develop and produce the feature film adaptation of the book that dramatizes the impact of a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska on March 27, 1964.

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Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of Europe's biggest documentary events, has announced the lineup for its 2020 edition, which is mostly taking place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than a hundred films, 115 to be exact, from 50 countries are taking part in the event, including 31 world premieres.