Festival Perspectives
Committed to highlighting bold, new voices, from film festivals around the world.
Escape from Extinction
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Director: Matthew R. Brady Run Time: 88 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2020
Starring: Helen Mirren
Rare footage of endangered animals and interviews with the animal welfare specialists and conservation scientists racing to save millions of species from disappearing forever. Official Selection of San Diego International Film Festival.
The Projectionist
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Director: Abel Ferrara Run Time: 81 min. Rating: NR Language: English, Greek
Starring: Abel Ferrara, Nicolas Nicolaou
Official Selection of Tribeca Film Festival. Abel Ferrara's documentary portrait of independent theater owner Nicolas "Nick" Nicolaou charts a charming odyssey that begins in the cinephile paradise that was New York in the Seventies.
Possessor Uncut (2020)
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Director: Brandon Cronenberg Run Time: 103 min. Rating: NR
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Official Selection of Sundance. An arresting sci-fi thriller following elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos from the visionary mind of writer-director Brandon Cronenberg.
On the Rocks (2020)
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Director: Sofia Coppola Run Time: 96 min. Rating: R
Starring: Bill Murray, Jenny Slate, Marlon Wayans, Rashida Jones
Latest from Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray, straight from the World Premiere at NYFF 2020. A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.
The Walrus and the Whistleblower
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Director: Nathalie Bibeau Run Time: 89 min. Rating: NR
2020 Canadian documentary profile of Phil Demers, a former employee of Marineland who attempted to blow the whistle on allegedly inhumane treatment of animals at the institution.
