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EXCLUSIVE: Toronto-based levelFILM has acquired the comedy-drama Hey Viktor!, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and played TIFF this past week for Canadian distribution. The pic is written and directed by indigenous actor Cody Lightning, who also stars. The plot is a semi-meta narrative…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first look at the Tribeca Competition documentary The Gullspång Miracle from director Maria Fredriksson, which has also inked a series of international deals for MetFilm Sales.  MetFilm has sold the pic in the following territories: North America (Film Movement), the UK (BBC…

Angela Bassett is a force of nature in Hollywood. Her talent, strength, and longevity in an industry known for its fleeting moments of fame speak to her relevance and influence. Her rise as a distinguished African American actress in Hollywood has had an impact on the entertainment industry and the…

Written and directed by Chelsea Peretti, First Time Female Director lives in the self-deprecating world of meta storytelling. Debuting at the Tribeca Festival in the Spotlight Narrative section, Peretti put so much of herself into this narrative, it could…

In the buzzing atmosphere of Tribeca's Storytellers Panel, there was a great conversation between two longstanding peers, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel. Born out of shared experiences in musical theater, their friendship spans several decades, revealing a mutual respect between…

In hindsight, it's quite amazing that anyone could watch Adrienne Shelly's final film as a director and see it as anything but a movie. It was a good one, a simple story about a small-town woman who falls pregnant by her abusive lover and complicates matters…

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based sales company Visit Films has acquired world rights to the Canadian comedy-drama Hey Viktor!, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this week. Pic is written and directed by indigenous actor Cody Lightning, who also stars. The plot is a semi-meta narrative…

Complicated sibling relationships are the basis of Dustin Guy Defa's The Adults. The film depicts the emotional journey of three siblings — played by Michael Cera, Hannah Gross and Sophia Lillis — reuniting after their mother's death, a scenario that, while…

Sometimes it feels as though A.I. is already here, given the number of films resembling Garden State that pop up on the festival circuit every year. Robert Schwartzman's The Good Half is only the latest, and his attempt to out-emo Zach Braff's legacy film falls disappointingly short, given that his last…

It is always an occasion for celebration when Jon Hamm and Tina Fey are back together on screen — big or small — having shared credits on various 30 Rock and SNL episodes (and the upcoming film version of Fey’s Mean Girls). But their latest collaboration is…

In the expanding universe that is science fiction cinema, I.S.S. (International Space Station) directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and penned by Nick Shafir makes a solid new entry into the genre. While the performances from its stars, Ariana DeBose, Chris…

In the proliferation of subgenres, the media noir is perhaps the rarest. From the '50s alone, Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole, Fritz Lang's While the City Sleeps, and Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success spring to mind. Just lately, with the exception of Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler (2014), there…