October 22, 2019
RICHARD JEWELL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription World Premiere The legendary Clint Eastwood tells the tragic true-life saga of Richard Jewell, the security guard hailed as a hero who then became the prime suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Paul Walter Hauser stars as Jewell and featuring the stellar cast of Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates,...
October 22, 2019
ROCKS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Theresa Ikoko (Writer) In east London, teenager Shola is known as “Rocks” after protecting her childhood friend from bullies. Rocks has big dreams, loves makeup and enjoys hanging out with her diverse, all-girl crew after school. One day she returns home from school to discover her life radically altered: her troubled, single...
October 22, 2019
ROMANTIC COMEDY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Elizabeth Sankey (Director), Jeremy Warmsley (Producer) There’s no question about it, Romantic Comedies are having a cultural resurgence right now. What is it about the meet cute, the trusty sidekick, and the tearful confessions that draw audiences in time and time again? In this unique essayistic film, director Elizabeth Sankey examines and...
October 22, 2019
SAINT MAUD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Rose Glass (Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer) Fresh from its Midnight Madness premiere at TIFF, director Rose Glass delivers a thrilling and rich psychological horror story of religious devotion that will make you shiver long after leaving the theater. Maud leaves a hazy traumatic past behind, beginning a new job as a hospice...
October 22, 2019
A RODEO FILM
DescriptionDescription A bull rider who falls out of love with the sport must choose between his family’s legacy of rodeo and his own aspirations. Part of SHOWCASE 5
October 22, 2019
PROXIMA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Ask any mother and she will have a story of “working mom guilt:” the internal (and physically exhausting) struggle of raising a child while pursuing a beloved career and never feeling adequate enough. What if that dream career sent you to space, leaving your loved ones looking for you in the stars?...
October 22, 2019
READY FOR WAR
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Nick Boak (Producer), Andrew Renzi (Director) Since the Revolutionary War, immigrants have enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services, fought on our country’s behalf, and were presented with a path to legal citizenship. In present day America, thousands of immigrants who have proudly served in the military, find themselves not only without citizenship,...
October 22, 2019
PROGENY
DescriptionContactDescription This is a world exactly like ours, except that the wealthy elites are aliens, living and working among us, but with one key difference: they reproduce by implanting their offspring in a human host who raises the alien child as his own. When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss's parasitic...
October 22, 2019
QUEEN & SLIM
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription World Premiere Talent attending: Pamela Abdy (Producer), Daniel Kaluuya (Talent), Lena Waithe (Writer), Brad Weston (Producer) On a cold night in the Midwest, a black man and a black woman have a forgettable first date. As the two drive home, a police officer pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. The situation quickly...
October 22, 2019
PRESENT.PERFECT. (WAN MEI XIAN ZAI SHI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An immersive depiction of the proliferation of self-documentation in China before its suppression by the country’s 2017 Cybersecurity Law, Zhu Shengze’s enthralling found-footage documentary compiles live streaming footage assembled from over 800 hours of material. By enabling individuals — many of whom are disabled, marginalized or from the working class — to candidly engage...
