Los Angeles-based filmmaker Garin Hovannisian took the Best of Fest award at the 2023 LA Shorts Film Festival for his film Nowhere, and punched his ticket for the Oscar race. Set in the city called Nowhere, shadows dream of a life without their human masters.
Roadside Attractions debuted the official trailer for Camp Hideout, comedy film starring Ethan Drew as a troubled teen sent to summer camp as punishment, but is hunted down by some bad guys in search of some stuff he stole.
The new Hulu Original documentary Sound of the Police, examines the “fraught relationship” between African Americans and the police from slavery to the present.
The 2023 Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase announced the winners of the nearly two dozen Showcase jury awards — including two $500 prizes to the overall Best Documentary and Narrative Showcase film. Fourteen films were also selected to move on to the 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival in November.
Michael Moshe Dahan’s Yes Repeat No, a challenging and engaging meta masterpiece film, won the Jury Award for Best Feature at the 28th Stony Brook Film Festival. “Thank you to all of the people who believe in human rights and democracy all over the world … and to all the people who want to make difficult material all over the world because finding the questions to ask is sometimes harder than getting the answers,” Dahan said in his acceptance speech.
Greenwich Entertainment debuted the official trailer for Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind, a documentary portrait of the iconic author of more than 100 books, including Them, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Blonde, described as “America’s foremost woman of letters.” Featuring readings by Oscar winner Laura Dern.
Ted Raimi led psychological thriller Failure! will have its World Premiere at FrightFest on August 28th. The film also stars Merrick McCartha (Senior Year), Melissa Diaz (Ruthless), John Paul Medrano (Seven Days) and Daniel Kuhlman (Voodoo MacBeth) and Noel Douglas Orput.
Directed by Sebastien Tobler, the romantic drama This Time will screen at the 46th Asian American International Film Festival on Saturday July 29 in New York City.
Women’s activist and politician Bella Savitzky Abzug “Battling Bella” is the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman titled Bella! which won the The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
Actor, Riz Ahmed who was set to receive the Davide Campari Excellence Award at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival will no longer be in attendance. His world premiere of Dammi (Yann Mounir Demange, 2023) will still take place on Opening Night in Piazza Grande and the screening of Mughal Mowgli (Mogul Mowgli, Bassam Tariq, 2020) in the Histoire(s) du cinéma section is also confirmed.
Anna Baumgarten’s Disfluency won Best Narrative Feature and Thaddeus D. Matula’s Into The Spotlight won Best Documentary Feature at Waco’s Deep in the Heart Film Festival 7th edition.
Michael Mann’s Ferrari will make its North American premiere as the Closing Night film of the 61st New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere on October 13 at Alice Tully Hall.