Directed by Lauren Greenhall, the erotic thriller Perfectly Good Moment will have its world premiere at the 25th Sarasota Film Festival on March 29, 2023. This psychosexual thriller asks the question: what happens when the things that make your relationship passionate and exciting are the same things that make it toxic?
Ben Affleck’s AIR will make its surprise debut as this year’s Closing Night Film of South by Southwest® (SXSW®) film festival on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at the Paramount Theatre.
Emmy award-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks’ Stephen Curry: Underrated will open the 66th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival) on Thursday, April 13th. Returning to the Festival for the fourth time, Nicks’ latest film is an intimate documentary of the celebrated and iconic NBA superstar Stephen Curry.
Everything Everywhere All at Once dominated the 95th Academy Awards awards, winning Best Picture along with best director plus Oscars for writing (original screenplay) for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, best actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis, and film editing for Paul Rogers.
Drive My Car won Best Film at the 16th Asian Film Awards held in Hong Kong on March 12. The film also won Best Editing, and Best Original Music.
G.B. Shannon’s Show Business Is My Life (But I Can’t Prove It) won Best Documentary Feature and Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers was named Best Narrative Feature at the 2023 Oxford Film Festival.
The Asian premiere of Soi Cheang’s noir thriller, Mad Fate, starring Gordon Lam and Lokman Yeung, and the world premiere of Elegies, Ann Hui’s lyrical documentary portrayal of the topography of contemporary local poetry, will open the 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF47) on March 30, 2023.
Cargo revealed the first look – teaser trailer for Satan Wants You, a documentary on the Satanic Panic of the 1980s ignited by the bestselling book Michelle Remembers.
Focus Features will release Every Body, the documentary on the lives of intersex people from Academy Award nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Julie Cohen (RBG) on June 30, 2023.
Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) announced the initial slate of programming for the milestone 25th anniversary event, taking place across Sarasota March 25 through April 2, 2023. The complementary virtual platform will launch on Friday, March 24 offering exclusive, pre-opening access to select titles.
Here is a first look – clip from Scrambled, a hilarious millennial-comedy, and the feature directorial debut from Leah McKendrick set to world premiere at SXSW film festival, based on Leah’s real journey through egg freezing and 30-something singledom.
National Geographic revealed the official trailer for Wild Life, a documentary spotlighting former Patagonia CEO and president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine Tompkins, on an epic, decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she has dedicated her life to protecting. After falling in love in midlife, Kris and outdoorsman and entrepreneur Doug Tompkins left behind the world of the massively successful outdoor brands they’d helped pioneer — Patagonia, The North Face and Esprit — and turned their attention to a visionary effort to create National Parks throughout Chile and Argentina. Wild Life chronicles their journey to effect the largest private land donation in history.