Fri Jun 14, 2013
Call Me Kuchu
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers follow David Kato – Uganda’s first openly gay man – and his fellow activists as they work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. No one is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to the its core and sends shock wave …
Fri Jun 14, 2013
In the Fog
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Sergei Loznitsa
It is 1942 and the western edge of the USSR is under German occupation. In the region, local partisans are waging a brutal battle against their foreign enemies. Sushenya, an innocent rail worker, is arrested with a band of saboteurs when a train is derailed not far from his village. The German officer decides to set him free rather than hang him with the others, but rumors of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly and pa …
Fri Jun 14, 2013
Fri Jun 14, 2013
Storm Surfers 3D
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Chris Nelius, Justin McMillan
Combining cutting-edge 3D technology and bravura filmmaking, STORM SURFERS 3D is the ultimate big-wave thrill ride. The film follows best friends and surfing legends Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones, along with surf forecaster Ben Matson, as they track and chase giant storms in their quest to ride the Pacific’s biggest and most dangerous waves. Using state-of-the-art miniature 3D cameras that put audiences inside …
Fri Jun 14, 2013
The Bling Ring
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Sofia Coppola
Based on Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins” about actual events (a group of mostly teenagers based in and around Calabasas, California, who burglarized the homes of several celebrities over a period believed to have been from around October 2008 through August 2009), this is about a group of fame-obsessed teenagers who use the Internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order to …
Fri Jun 14, 2013
Twenty Feet from Stardom
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Morgan Neville
The film is a celebration of the voices from the edge, which brought shape and style to the soundtracks of our lives. Neville follows half a dozen diverse and gifted back up singers from throughout music history, each of whom has a story to tell of life in the shadows of superstardom (Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Joe Cocker, Bette Midler to name just a few). These talented artists repr …
Fri Jun 21, 2013
A Hijacking
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Tobias Lindholm
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Among those on board are the ship’s cook Mikkel and the engineer Jan who, along with the rest of the seamen, are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars, a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates.
Fri Jun 21, 2013
Maniac
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Franck Khalfoun
Scripted by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, in the remake of William Lustig’s 1980 movie of the same name about a serial killer, Wood plays the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store who becomes obsessed with a young artist, played by Nora Arnezeder. The entire movie is told from the killer’s point of view.
Fri Jun 21, 2013
Monsters University
Wide Release
Director(s): Dan Scanlon
Written by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter, this is the sequel to the 2001 animated family film, “Monsters Inc.” This is a look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at the University of Fear — when they weren’t necessarily the best of friends.
Fri Jun 21, 2013
The Attack
Limited Release
Director(s): Ziad Doueiri
Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture perfect life is turned upside down after a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, Sihem (Reymonde Amsellem) who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of …
Fri Jun 21, 2013
Three Worlds
NY and/or LA Release
Director(s): Catherine Corsini
Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying his boss’s daughter and succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where he has worked almost his entire life. While driving home drunk from his bachelor party, Al commits a hit-and-run and flees the scene at the behest of two childhood friends who are with him in the car. The next day, gnawed by guilt, he goes to the hospital to inquire …
Fri Jun 21, 2013
Unfinished Song
Limited Release
Director(s): Paul Andrew Williams
Scripted by Paul Andrew Williams, formerly titled “Song for Marion”, this is a London-set comedic drama, about grumpy pensioner Arthur (Stamp) who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion (Redgrave) to join a highly unconventional local choir. At odds with his son James (Eccleston) it is left to choir director Elizabeth (Arterton) to try and persuade Arthur that he can learn to embrace life. Arthur must con …
Fri Jun 21, 2013
World War Z
Wide Release
Director(s): Marc Forster
Scripted by J. Michael Straczynski and Matthew Michael Carnahan, World War Z is based on Max Brooks’s best-selling book, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Set in the near future, it revolves around UN employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling its armies and governments, and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Mireil …
