2009 DocuWeeks participant Severe Clear will make its international premiere at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival. This film will also play Nov. 21 at the St. Louis International Film Festival. The film is also coming back to Texas for the 3rd Annual Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth, Nov. 11-15.
WorldScreen.com reports that Lorber Films has scored the North American rights to another 2009 DocuWeeks participant Kimjongilia, along with picking up the feature-length documentary Nobody’s Perfect.
Another DocuWeeks alum, Debra Anderson's Split Estate, premieres on Planet Green this week. The film, which documents the struggle between a community in Colorado and an energy company bent on drilling on private property, has inspired debates in other towns across the country, including upstate New York, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, where State Representative Brian Egolf commented in a press release, "It is impossible to over-estimate the impact Split Estate had in the greater Santa Fe Community when it was threatened with wildcatting oil development. The film made a difference; we now have an educated community and the best natural resource ordinance in the United States."
Michael Jackson's This Is It has soldout more than 1,600 screenings--two weeks ahead of its opening, the New York Daily News reports. Let the eBay madness commence! Also, MovieTickets.com reports that the King of Pop's music doc is now No. 23 on its list of the Top-25 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time, moving ahead of both Quantum of Solace and The Departed. Didn't get a ticket? Well, here's the trailer at least: