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“Chock full of beautiful and crazy sequences” … Film Threat

The sci-fi thriller King Car, hits theaters on January 7th.following its premieres at Rotterdam, Fantasia & Fantastic Fest. Check out this insane trailer:

Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American rights to Renata Pinheiro’s sci-fi thriller King Car. Dark Star Pictures will release the film in theaters and on VOD/Digital on January 7, 2022. King Car World Premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, North American Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival, and U.S. Premiered at Fantastic Fest.

A young man’s ability to surreally speak with cars sparks a revolution that could save his community. When his invention inadvertently accelerates the underlying problems, our hero’s quest puts him in a fight for survival with capitalism’s zombies.

Directed by Renata Pinheiro and written by Sergio Oliveira, Leo Pyrata, and Renata Pinheiro, King Car stars Matheus Nachtergaele, Luciano Pedro Jr,...

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to Lance Kawas’ thriller Good Thief, also claiming North American rights to Sonny Mallhi’s Hurt and Phil Harding’s The Reunion. The Red Arrow Studios company will release the first title on Tvod and digital platforms on November 30, with the second debuting in select theaters and on internet, cable, and satellite platforms on December 10, and the third arriving on all Tvod and digital platforms in February.

Good Thief follows a pair of thieves (played by Peter Donahue and newcomer Shomari Giles) on the outskirts of Detroit who rob a neighborhood pawnbroker (Jimmy Doom) of his valuable baseball card collection, only to find out they’ve unleashed something far more sinister. Aaron Sizemore penned the script for the film, which also stars Melanie Mahanna and Bobby Laenen. Kawas produced with Hicham Benkirane’s company, Hbk F.C. Myriad Pictures is handling international sales.

Luana Bajrami has won best director and the Discovery Award for best debut feature for “The Hill Where Lionesses Roar” at the 29th Raindance Film Festival (Oct. 27 – Nov. 6).

The film was nominated for the Golden Camera and Queer Palm at Cannes, and has also won awards at the Sarajevo and Warsaw festivals.

The debut feature by YouTuber and short filmmaker Luke Cutforth, “The Drowning Of Arthur Braxton” won best U.K. feature, while Anita Rocha da Silveira’s San Sebastián and Sitges winner “Medusa” won best international feature.

Daniel Lombroso’s “White Noise” was named best documentary feature, while Matthew Walker’s “I’m Wanita” won best music documentary.

Portuguese actor Lucia Moniz won best performance for her lead role in Ana Rocha’s “Listen,” for which she has won several awards previously.

Known for his work on “Frances Ha” and Lady Bird,” DoP Sam Levy won best cinematography for Karen Cinorre’s “Mayday.

Ela Bittencourt's column explores South America’s key festivals and notable screenings of Latin films in North America and Europe.In The Heart of the World“Our cinema is maximalist,” Gabriel Martins and Maurílio Martins told me at the 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (Iffr). The two (unrelated) Martins hail from the periphery of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, which these days boasts a booming film industry. In addition to the two, André Novais de Oliveira, also present at the festival with a short, Quintal (2015), and a new feature, Temporada (2018), and in the past, filmmakers such as Affonso Uchoa of Araby (2017) and Juliana Antunes of Baronesa (2018), all have come from Minas. In the case of Gabriel and Maurílio, their intense cinefilia, which encompasses the love for fluid camerawork of James Gray, for Sergio Leone’s westerns, for comedy and the 1970s and ‘80s American movies,...