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Utah Film Center announced today the 2017 Damn These Heels Film Festival will run July 14 - 16, 2017 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

Winter Film Awards, a New York City non-profit film organization, brought their 11-day Indie Film Festival to a rousing close on March 4, 2017 at a glittering Award Ceremony and Gala Red Carpet event at the beautiful Club 230Fifth with over 2000 attendees in New York City.

Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black, Hustle & Flow, Crossroads), Suzzanne Douglas (How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Lifetime's Whitney), Emma Myles (Orange is the New Black, Child of Grace) and Diane Guerrero (Jane the Virgin, Orange is the New Black) star in musical theatre mockumentary Happy Yummy Chicken, written by Brandon Monokian and directed by Anna Loyd Bradshaw.

The award-winning documentary Faberge: A Life of Its Own will be released on iTunes, On Demand, DVD, and Blu-ray on April 10, 2017, in the centennial year of the Russian Revolution.

The Academy Awards remind actress/writer Jeanne Marie Spicuzza about what could be. After all, her screenplay 'Breath of God' was a semi-finalist in the Academy sponsored Nicholl Fellowship, a prestigious competition that found sourced screenplays for films such as 'Arlington Road' and Aqueelah and the Bea.' Having just finished shooting her second feature length film, 'Night Rain,' in January, which aims for release later in 2017, Spicuzza is set to make 'Breath of God' as a European co-production, eyeing a start date in 2018.

The fifth anniversary of Pace University's annual Celebration of Individuals with Disabilities in Film is Thursday, March 23. The festival will be held from 4 pm to 9 pm in the Aniello Bianco Room at One Pace Plaza in lower Manhattan.

'Raisin/Rosedale,' a unique documentary film produced by LaGuardia Community College exploring the history of racial issues throughout the U.S., has been selected for the 2017 Queens World Film Festival, where it will be shown this Friday, March 17th at 6:30 p.m.

Walt Disney Animation Studios' MOANA the sweeping story of a spirited teenager who sets sail on a daring adventure to save her people, starring newcomer Auli'i Cravalho as THE VOICE of brave and tenacious Moana and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson (HBO's 'Ballers,' 'Central Intelligence') as the larger-than-life demigod Maui, has dazzled both critics and audiences. Now, 'Moana' sets a new course, arriving to homes on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and On-Demand today, March 7*.

Here 'lickety-split' comes a brand new film award lucky filmmakers and movie fans will find delicious enough to lick-'The Licky Award'--to be presented for the first time at the 22nd Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival.

Award-winning writer/director Del Shores ('Blues For Willadean,' 'Southern Baptist Sissies,' 'Queer A Folk') releases his latest film, A Very Sordid Wedding, the outrageously funny sequel to his play, movie and TV series Sordid Lives.

Sir Patrick Stewart is officially finished with X-MEN.

Oscar producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd announced the final slate of presenters for the 89th Oscars telecast.

She wanted a date; she got a million subscribers instead. Viral Beauty is a take on modern day society. First-time director David Tyson Lam, a software developer by day, describes his film as a romantic-tech comedy.

Written by Dawn Jones Redstone and Kjerstin Johnson and directed by Jones Redstone, Sista in the Brotherhood is a unique short film that follows a day in the life of a young American-American tradeswoman. This film highlights the often unseen struggles that women, particularly women of color, experience when trying to enter into a white and male dominated industry.

To kick-start our April 15th film festival, we're screening the documentary 'Desert Around Me: The ADHD Epidemic, a Challenge of Global Proportions.' The film follows a team as they prepare for an ultra marathon in the Sahara Desert, which serves to raise awareness to the ADHD community.

For most of his professional adult life, director Drew Gabreski's behind-the-camera work has centered on athletes, especially boxers. He's directed several sports documentaries and a few commercials featuring prominent boxers for brands like Adidas, too.

La La Land isn't the only vehicle opening the door for a new era of movie musicals. NYFA's original productions feature Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Hamilton, Aladdin), Tony Award nominee Charlotte d'Amboise (Pippin, A Chorus Line), Jen Perry (Kinky Boots) and others.

Dirty Looks, a bi-coastal platform for queer experimental film, video and performance, presents an afternoon film program, AFTERNOON DELIGHT BY DIRTY LOOKS, curated by Bradford Nordeen as part of Mx'd Messages, New York Live Arts 2017 Live Ideas festival.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center announces the third annual Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP).

Winter Film Awards' Walter Howard interviewed director Alex Hardy about the making of the film about the effects of PTSD on a female veteran.