La Femme International Film Festival honored the best and brightest work of female actors, writers, producers and directors at the Sunday night award show for its 21st edition, with the top prize of Best Feature Film going to Lila McLaughlin’s Don’t Let Them Out.
HBO Documentary Films and Raw are currently in production on an untitled documentary series which will tell the story of the release of Keiko, a captive orca and star of the blockbuster hit, Free Willy. The film will be directed by Becky Read.
From Confederate statues across the South being taken down, to the removal of teachings of critical race theory, America has long struggled with how to look back on its history. Suzannah Herbert captures this disagreement and confusion and turns it into Natchez, a film about the Mississippi town of the same name, where its citizens are beginning to come to a head on how its past should really be remembered.
The dark spin on the innocuous Christmas classic “White Christmas” is no joke. The Mike P. Nelson-directed Silent Night, Deadly Night, starring Rohan Campbell and Ruby Modine, aims to give yet another spin to the 1984 holiday horror film of the same name.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein will receive the Gotham Vanguard Tribute at the 35th Annual Gotham Film Awards.
Ahead of its theatrical release slated for mid-November, The Things You Kill was submitted as the Canadian Oscar entry for Best International Film at next year’s Academy Awards.
“Diario, Mujer & Café” is a Puerto Rican drama directed by Roselyn Sánchez, that follows four lifelong friends, known as the “Tiki Tikis,” who reunite for a road trip across Puerto Rico.
The President’s Cake directed by Hasan Hadi won the Award for Best Narrative Feature; and To the West, in Zapata directed by David Bim received the Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 33rd edition of Hamptons International Film Festival.
Lucrecia Martel’s documentary Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra) has won the Best Film Award at the 69th BFI London Film Festival.
Peter Hujar’s Day, directed by Ira Sachs, is a dramatic retelling of a day in the life of photographer Peter Hujar.
DOC NYC, the film festival for documentaries in New York City, will close its 16th edition with the NYC premiere of Ivy Meerpol’s Ask E. Jean.
