Movies News Desk - Page 16

In honor of Women's History Month, NFMLA presents another installment of its InFocus series, InFocus: Female Directors.

Winter Film Awards and the Aftab Committee are proud to present Film, Identity and Space: Indie Iranian Films, a panel discussion moderated by Lila Nazemian with panelists, Rodin Hamidi, Shoja Azari, and Ghasem Ebrahimian.

Sycamore Pictures (BEGIN AGAIN, THE HOLLARS, THE WAY WAY BACK) just announced the theatrical release of Speech & Debate, based on the critically acclaimed comedy by Tony Award winner Stephen Karam (THE HUMANS) and directed by Dan Harris, and we have a peek at stills from the movie below!

The Fourth Annual Adoption at the Movies Awards are coming on February 21, 2017.  Nominees will be announced to the public on Adoption at the Movies' website and social media. 

Audiences have a final chance to 'Seize the Day!' - tickets are now available for 'Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical!,' playing in U.S. movie theaters for three days only on Thursday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m., Saturday February 18 at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. (all local times). Leading up to the movie event, the team is giving fans tons of behind-the-scenes moments. Below, check out Tommy Bracco - the original 'Spot Conlon' - re-living his experience in the recording studio with the company of NEWSIES!

Rooftop Films is excited to host their first ever Gala on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at Saint Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan.

Hussein Hassan, the director of the award-winning Iraqi film Reseba - The Dark Wind, has withdrawn his visa application to the United States Consulate for clearance to attend the North American premiere of his film at the 34th edition of Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival.

Antonio Saillant will present 'An Intersection Between Film and Sustainability' at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 at Grinnell College's Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.

The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance is set for March 2,3, & 6, 2017 at The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street). The festival's all-day programming is free and open to the public!

The epic journey continues for MOANA fans as Walt Disney Animation Studios introduces an all-new sing-along version of the hit, critically-lauded comedy-adventure MOANA coming to theaters nationwide today, Jan. 27, 2017.

Acclaimed box office star, producer and humanitarian Richard Gere will open the 34th edition of Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival on March 3, 2017, followed by an Opening Night Gala screening of his new film, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, directed by 2-time Oscar-nominated Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar, with the KORBEL Opening Night Party to follow at Miami's Historic Alfred I. Dupont Building.

The Duluth Playhouse presents the 12th Annual Short Shorts Film Festival at The Underground Theater in Duluth, Minnesota on March 18, 2017.

Local film production companies will release an independent film featuring local stars and crew members, filmed on location in San Diego County.

Winter Film Awards is honored to unveil the official 2017 Indie Film Festival poster, created by award winning artist and School of Visual Arts Professor, Viktor Koen.

Native New Yorker Elsie Martinez-Ginsberg, founder of both TwitchTwitch Productions and the Macabre Faire Film Festival, will be honored with the 2017 Patron of the Cinema Award at the 6th annual Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival.

Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film from director Sam Wainwright Douglas will have its World premiere at The Museum of Modern Art's 16th annual Doc Fortnight film festival.

Museum of the Moving Image and its online publication Sloan Science & Film are pleased to join the nationwide film program Science on Screen, an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in presenting a series of screenings accompanied by discussions with scientists and filmmakers.

Five-time GRAMMY-winning and best-selling recording artist Celine Dion will perform an all-new original song, 'How Does A Moment Last Forever,' for Disney's live-action 'Beauty and the Beast.' The song will also be included on the film's soundtrack. Scroll down for a peek at the official artwork for the album!

In honor of Black History Month, NFMLA presents 'InFocus: Black Cinema' to open up this month's festival screening. The program consists of films that cover a range of stories and cultures seeking to underscore the importance of films that have starred, filmed, directed, or been produced by the black community.

In May 2015, after six years of working on his documentary One Life No Regrets, Vancouver filmmaker Patrick Stark was moments away from singing one song with U2 in front of 18,000 people. The goal: to conquer his lifelong fear of singing in public.