From first love to first heartbreak, and everything in-between.

An Education (2009)
Carey Mulligan stars as a teen leading a normal — what she calls “boring” — existence until she gets swept up in a romance with an older man (Peter Sarsgaard). It all takes place in 1960s London, so the setting and costumes add to the overwhelming romantic feelings.

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In 2003, Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) arrived on the festival circuit and established itself as a platform to “Discover emerging talent and celebrate the leading edge of cinematic storytellers.” And based on IFFBoston’s 2019 lineup, they’ve wildly succeeded. This seventeenth annual IFFBoston offers a solid mix of buzz-worthy indie flicks and hotly anticipated docs, as well as a narrative and documentary shorts program. The festival kicks off opening night with Julius Onahs’ Luce. Lulu Wangs’ The Farewell serves as the closing night movie. Other notable films include Riley Stearns’ comedy The Art of Self-Defense, Alex Ross Perry’s punk-rock drama Her Smell, and Nanfu Wang’s documentary One Child Nation.

Other notable films screening at the festival include:
THE SOUND OF SILENCE directed by Michael Tyburski. Director will be in attendance. Starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones

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The Montclair Film Festival announced their lineup that includes films and events with stars like Ben Stiller, Mindy Kaling, Lily Collins, Olympia Dukakis, Dome Karukoski, and Ben Stiller. Also proud to announce that your AwardsCircuit founder and editor Clayton Davis, will be serving on the jury for the New Jersey films competition.

The festival’s fiction film highlights include Michael Tyburski’s THE SOUND OF SILENCE starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones

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IFC Films has bought U.S. rights to Peter Sarsgaard’s drama “The Sound of Silence,” two months after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Read More here

The Looming Tower has found a second UK home. BBC Two has acquired the linear rights to Hulu’s 9/11 event series starring Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom). Legendary Television, who produced the series for Hulu, handle international distribution. The Looming Tower examines the chain of events that led to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Of particular focus is the rising threat of Bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda network throughout the 1990s and how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Read More here

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (MARCH 12, 2019) – The RiverRun International Film Festival today announced the full lineup of films for the 21st anniversary Festival, running April 4 – April 14, 2019. This year RiverRun will screen 172 films, including 71 features and 101 shorts from 47 countries. “Our 2019 RiverRun International Film Festival features a diverse collection of over 170 films from nearly four dozen countries across the globe,” said RiverRun Executive Director Rob Davis. “Each of these films is reflective of our mission to engage our audiences in an exploration of new and divergent cultures and perspectives through the art of film.”

THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Director: Michael Tyburski
USA / 2019 / 85 MIN. / ENGLISH / NARRATIVE
A successful “house tuner” in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people’s homes in order to adjust their moods, meets an insomniac client with a problem he can’t solve. Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones star in this offbeat, high-concept comedy, a standout at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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The series, starring Peter Sarsgaard, Kyle Gallner, Kodi Smit-McPhee and David Strathairn, is based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years, in which a young man (Gallner) was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Read more here

Danny DeVito, Phantom Thread actress Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Saro Emirze, and Dar Zuzovsky are set for Harry Haft, the Barry Levinson-directed film based on the novel Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft. The group joins previously announced titular star Ben Foster as production is currently underway with plans to shoot on location in Hungary and New York. Read More here