Los Angeles, Calif. – The formerly known as The Orchard Film Group has officially launched today as 1091, a new global commercial distribution platform company for independent film and television content creators. The new company will invest in technology, new delivery options and business intelligence that will offer superior levels of transparency for its clients. The announcement was made today by Daniel Stein and Joe

With "Birds of Passage" Ciro Guerra, alongside co-director Cristina Gallego, continues his work as historiographer of South America. Guerra is known for his previous work, “El Abrazo de la Serpiente” (“Embrace of the serpent” in the Spanish original), in which a shaman from the Amazon teams up with scientists in searching for a sacred healing plant. This is the first time that Gallego goes behind the camera. She has produced

Presided over by filmmaker Claire Denis the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be awarding three prizes in ceremony on the 23rd of May. The Short Film Palme d'or will be awarded during the closing ceremony, to be held on May 25th.The 2019 Short Films Competition includes eleven (nine fiction-based shorts, one documentary and one animated film) from countries as diverse as Albania, Argentina

PARIS - It will take place under the unofficial theme of "Love & Politics," with this year's festival taking place in the lead-up to European elections, as festival programmer Thierry Frémaux remarked this morning. This 2019 selection includes more women than ever before (four women-made films in the competition section alone), no films from Japan or Iran and a Tarantino film whose coming to Cannes is shrouded in mystery

Throughout the sixties and beyond, and today, still, you could ask many a woman (man?) from Tehran to Trieste or Tucson who their favorite on-screen male heartthrob was and, chances are they would've told you, with misty eyes, Alain Delon. The slightly-gloomy actor with killer eyes from France made an impression on many a film viewer, too. Delon has appeared in some of cinema's greatest opuses. This year, the Cannes Festival is celebrating Alain Delon with the greatest prize

After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival last January, “This is not Berlin” (“Esto no es Berlín” in the original Spanish), the fifth feature by writer-director Hari Sama, will have its New York premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Festival, as part of its inaugural Tribeca Critics' Week slate. The festival takes place during April 24 – May 5, 2019.A persuasive autobiographical bildungsroman

Summer 2011. Los Angeles. After he has breakfast, Sam goes home and tears up a note that's stuck to his door. It says that he has five days to pay his rent or else. Between taking a call from his mother, smoking his morning cigarette and oggling his neighbor, Sam doesn't do much else. He's a bit of a dilettante. He notices a strange woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), swimming in his apartment's swimming pool. After she disappears