Pablo Larrain

spirit-awards-excerptThe nominations for the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards were announced today at the W Hotel in Hollywood by Jenny Slate and Edgar Ramirez. Leading the pack in nominations are American Honey and Moonlight, which garnered six nominations each. The drama Manchester by the Sea received five noms while the biopic Jackie got four.

Venice Film Festival ExcerptThe Venice International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world, dating back to 1932. Considered the most prestigious international film festival, it takes place in early fall, typically in August or September, and now, a little more than a month away from this year’s festivities, they have revealed their complete line-up of films.

Logline: Follows four priests living together in a secluded house in a small, seaside town. Each of them has been sent to this place to purge sins from the past. They live according to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker, when the fragile stability of their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth man, a newly disgraced companion, bringing with him the past they thought they had left behind.

Logline: A lonely 58-year-old woman’s inner secrets are revealed when she begins dating a retired naval officer seven years her senior.

Logline: On a trip through Chile Jamie, a boorish American expat, and three Chilean brothers set off in search of the prized San Pedro cactus and its promise of beachy hallucinations. But in the previous night’s drunken stupor Jamie invites a free-spirited fellow American whose devil-may-care worldview gives them more of an adventure than any of them had bargained for.<

Logline: Follows an uplifting political campaign that managed to oust dictator Pinochet and stop him from being in office for another eight years.

Logline: Follows the first four days in the life of First Lady Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.