
Regina Hall, Stephanie Hsu and Janelle Monáe were honored during Day 3 and Day 4 of the 2022 Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) Film, Food and Wine Showcase.
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Regina Hall, Stephanie Hsu and Janelle Monáe were honored during Day 3 and Day 4 of the 2022 Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) Film, Food and Wine Showcase.

The Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) honored Laura Dern, Frank Grillo, Luis Guzmán and Cooper Raiff during Day 1 and Day 2 of their 2022 NVFF Film, Food and Wine Showcase.

Here is an exclusive clip from Ellis, a new documentary on the life and times of pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr., directed by Sascha Just, and premiering at DOC NYC on November 10, 2022.

The 18th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) presented the main Golden Eye prizes in the three competition categories to Cascadeuses by Elena Avdija, Los Reyes del Mundo by Laura Mora Ortega and Sam Now by Reed Harkness.

Chris Smith’s (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, American Movie) documentary “Sr.”, a tribute to maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., will be released on Netflix later this year.

Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) will kick off its eight-day run on Thursday, October 13, with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson and Quinta Brunson. fresh from the Toronto International Film Festival, where it generated huge buzz and won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story. WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story is directed by Eric Appel and stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird Al” Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.

The Colombian film The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo) by Laura Mora has won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition. The film follows five Medellín teenagers from the streets on a desperate journey of survival. Genki Kawamura took the Silver Shell for Best Director for A Hundred Flowers (Hyakka), while the Best Screenplay Award went to Dong Yun Zhou and Wang Chao for their work on the Chao’s movie, A Woman (Kong Xiu); and City of Donostia / Sebastian Audience Award went to Argentina, 1985 by Santiago Mitre.

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won the People’s Choice Award at the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story directed by Eric Appel won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award and Black Ice directed by Hubert Davis won the People’s Choice Documentary Award.

Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 79th Venice Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her crusade to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic.

National Geographic released the teaser trailer for Retrograde, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman world premiering at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The documentary film captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives and offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.

Three Danish films are Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Forever by Frelle Petersen and As in Heaven by Tea Lindeburg have been shortlisted as Denmark’s candidate in the International Feature Film category for the 95th Oscars. The winners will be decided on September 27.

Here is a new clip from the South African caper heist comedy feature film, The Umbrella Men, making its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 10th, 2022, as a selection of the international arm of its Contemporary World Cinema slate.