The official trailer debuted for the Mister Organ, the investigative documentary from journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist) set to world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX followed by a premiere at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles.
The 2023 Jacksonville Film Festival will showcase 114 films from 22 countries over four-days from February 3-6, 2023. The 2023 Festival lineup consists of an astonishing 60% produced or directed by women.
The 66th BFI London Film Festival added the UK Premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance, to the 2022 program, screening in a Special Presentation. Bones and All is the tender story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they embark on a thousand-mile odyssey through Reagan’s America.
The Mill Valley Film Festival announced the 3 films nominated for the 2022 Mind The Gap (MTG) Creation Prize of $10,000. Awarded to a first- or second-time Mind the Gap filmmaker, the prize recognizes exciting new voices in cinema who demonstrate creativity of vision and exceptional use of the film medium.
The Road to Galena was awarded the Grand Prix and Best Director prize for Joe Hall at the 2022 Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF) in the stunning historical cinema Lucerna in the capital of Czechia. Other top prizes went to Troubled Mindsvby Raitis and Lauris Abele for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay prizes.
Dread debuted the official trailer for Among the Living, the post-apocalyptic horror thriller starring Dean Michael Gregory, George Newton, and Melissa Worsey
Brainstorm Media revealed the official trailer for Some Like It Rare, the French dark-comedy horror film starring Fabrice Éboué, Marina Foïs, Jean-Francois Cayrey, Lisa Do Couto Texeira, Victor Meutelet, Stephane Soo Mongo, Virginie Hocq and Christophe Hondelatte.
The cast of Andrew Ahn’s Fire Island will receive the Ensemble Tribute during the 32nd annual Gotham Awards ceremony taking place live and in person on Monday, November 28, 2022 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Dark Star Pictures will release Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, the award winning drama based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the legendary Japanese soldier who spent 30 years in the Philippine jungle, refusing to surrender because he was convinced World War II had not ended. The film stars Endō Yūya, Tsuda Kanji, Matsuura Yūya, and Chiba Tetsuya.
Filmmaker Carlos Saura, who had planned to present his latest film, The Walls Can Talk (Las paredes hablan), at San Sebastian Festival, will not be able to travel due to a fall suffered at the last minute. The mishap had no serious consequences, but it has prevented him from travelling to San Sebastian.
Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras will be honored with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs at the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam taking place in person from November 9 to 20, 2022. The festival will host two curated focus programs, Around Masculinity and Playing Reality, in addition to the IDFA DocLab theme of Nervous Systems – IDFA’s new media section of in-person digital and XR programming.
