SFFILM Unveils Lineup for 10th Anniversary of Doc Stories

SFFILM Unveils the Complete Lineup for The 10th Anniversary of Doc Stories, A Milestone Celebration of Documentary Storytelling

The upcoming documentary festival promises an exciting lineup featuring Kevin Macdonald's ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO as the opening night showcase and Robinson Devore's SUBURBAN FURY set to close the four-day event

L to R: One to One: John and Yoko courtesy of Cinetic; Suburban Fury courtesy of Suburban Fury.

SFFILM announced the full lineup for Doc Stories celebrating its 10th anniversary of bringing the year’s most compelling nonfiction films and filmmakers to the Bay Area. The four-day program takes place October 17–20 and includes 10 features, two shorts blocks, two filmmaking and industry talks, and a documentary filmmaking workshop for teens. SFFILM will welcome new and returning filmmakers to Doc Stories including Kevin Macdonald, Robinson Devor, Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, Elizabeth Lo, Ben Proudfoot, Brett Story and Stephen Maing, Amy Berg, and Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos, and Jon Shenk and many more. Doc Stories Talks will feature onstage conversations with film industry veterans including Laura Kim, Carrie Lozano, Justine Nagan, and Keri Putnam. SFFILM is also proud to announce that over 40 Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) will be the co-hosts of the Doc Stories Brunch sponsored by Netflix, and will be joined by Deadline journalist Matt Carey and filmmaker John Ridley who will be on the ground to record a future episode of their podcast, Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast.

Line-up for the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal

The Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal is pleased to unveil its full program! From October 9 to 20, discover the best of today's cinema, through a national and international program of 102 feature films and 98 shorts.
Enjoy a festive, social experience at our many events, including the not-to-be-missed free Soirées de la Louve evenings at our headquarters!
Discover all the programming

BERGERS : Interview de la réalisatrice Sophie Deraspe et de l’acteur Félix-Antoine Duval (“Mathyas”)

BERGERS (TIFF 2024) Sortie France: 30 Avril 2025 chez Pyramide

Interview de la réalisatrice Sophie Deraspe et de l’acteur Félix-Antoine Duval (“Mathyas”)

Par Emmanuel Itier

Q: Comment as-tu décroché ce rôle?

Félix-Antoine: En fait je suis arrivé sur “Bergers” après un processus d’auditions. Par contre, ce processus là a été plus long que d’autres. En effet, j’ai passé ma première audition en Novembre 2019 mais ensuite il y a eu cette pandémie mondiale du Covid qui a tout mis en arrêt. D’autant que nous avons dû tourner le film en Provence, dans le Sud de la France et donc c’était impossible de se rendre là-bas vu que nous sommes Canadien et nous vivons sur Montréal. J’ai passé ainsi une seconde audition après la levée des mesures de restrictions en Janvier 2023. Enfin, en Février 2023, j’ai passé un dernière audition et Sophie, la réalisatrice, a confirmé mon rôle dans “Bergers” et pour jouer “Mathyas”.

The DPA pre Emmys gift suite at The Luxe Hotel

 By Emmanuel ITIER

Nathalie Dubois, founder of DPA (https://dpagroup.org ) has done it again with a fantastic pre Emmys gift suite lounge based at The Luxe Hotel (https://dpagroup.org ). As in the Ali Baba’s cave straight from the Arabian night, there are treasures to be encountered in this year’s gift suite. I was welcomed by publicist Louisa Sharamatyan who is working with Nathalie Dubois and to help the many invited nominees to navigate the two large suites full of wonders. And so, we met actors, Jimmy Jean Louis, Radha Mitchell, Mychal Bella and Blanca Blanco as well as writer Justin Tan. But many more came after our short visit. Nathalie’s gift suite is the must stop for all journalists covering the Emmys as well as for all nominees. She is in business for over 20 years, and she is also known for our legendary gift suites for the Oscars, the Golden Globes as well as the French Césars.

CFF2024 Opening Film Announced

A film celebrating tenacious, bold female characters, AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY, is an exploration of love, legacy, and greed that flips the heist and western genre on its head by telling the story through the female gaze. Set in West Texas in 1994, the town of Valentine is a character in itself. When two men from Chicago travel to West Texas to find thief, Landon Mooney and bring back the stolen $150,000, they get more than they bargained for. They meet Eve, a young woman desperate to get out of town and find Landon Mooney. When Landon tells them the money is gone, a plan is hatched to rob the local check cashing place, where all hell breaks loose.

OPENING FILM

"Emilia Pérez" and "The Count of Monte Cristo" to Open and Close The American French Film Festival in LA

Sweeping Cinematic Tour-de-Force The Count Of Monte Cristo to Screen Closing Night of the Festival

The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) will bookend it’s 28th annual edition with two of France’s most-talked-about films this awards season: Emilia Pérez, the Opening Night film, and The Count of Monte Cristo, which will wrap up the six-day event that runs October 29 to November 3 at the Director’s Guild of America Theatre Complex. The announcement was made today by The Franco-American Cultural Fund (FACF), the originator of The American French Film Festival.

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, a genre defying musical drama about love and redemption, will be celebrated at The American French Film Festival with a gala, red-carpet Opening Night screening on October 29, presented in association with Netflix. Written and directed by Jacques Audiard, the film was the toast of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, earning the four actresses - Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz - a collective “Best Actress” award. The film will be rerun on October 30 at the Festival.

The period drama The Count of Monte Cristo, France’s most-expensive film of 2024, will be the Closing Night film, November 3. Written and directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, the film had its world premiere as part of the Official Selection of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Both films will compete for the 2024 TAFFF Awards, which will be awarded during a ceremony held in Paris on November 8.

Robert Zemeckis's HERE to Close 60th Chicago Int'l Film Festival

Legendary Director To Receive Founder’s Legacy Award October 27, 2024

The Chicago International Film Festival announced today that legendary director Robert Zemeckis’s HERE will close the 60th edition of North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, with the director set to receive the Founder’s Legacy Award, presented by Chicago International Film Festival founder Michael Kutza, at the Closing Night presentation on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at the Music Box Theatre. Miramax’s HERE is set for theatrical release via TriStar Pictures on November 1, 2024.

Reuniting the director, writer, and stars of FORREST GUMP, HERE is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit. The story travels through generations, capturing the most relatable of human experiences. Robert Zemeckis (FORREST GUMP, CASTAWAY, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, CONTACT, BACK TO THE FUTURE) directs from a screenplay by Eric Roth (FORREST GUMP, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, DUNE, A STAR IS BORN) and him. Told much in the style of the acclaimed graphic novel by Richard McGuire on which it is based, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star in a tale of love, loss, laughter, and life, all of which happen right HERE. The film also stars Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, and Michelle Dockery, and is produced by Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Jack Rapke, and Bill Block.

Le palmarès de la 50ème édition du Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville

 

 

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Palmarès

Awards

 

Le Jury de la 50e édition du Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville, présidé par Benoît Magimel, entouré de Ludivine Sagnier, Emilie Dequenne, Agathe Riedinger, Damien Bonnard, Lou Lampros, et Martin Bourboulon a décerné les prix suivants :

The Jury of the 50th edition of the Deauville American film festival, presided over by Benoît Magimel, with Ludivine Sagnier, Emilie Dequenne, Agathe Riedinger, Damien Bonnard, Lou Lampros and Martin Bourboulon awarded :

Grand Prix

IN THE SUMMERS d'Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

(production : Lexicon)

Grand Prize

IN THE SUMMERS by Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio

(production : Lexicon)