
Kerry Condon, Brendan Fraser, Mark Hamill, Diane Lane, Francine Maisler, Noah Schnapp, Jenny Slate, Tessa Thompson and Steven Gaydos have been the named the recipients of 2025 Festival Honors at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Kerry Condon, Brendan Fraser, Mark Hamill, Diane Lane, Francine Maisler, Noah Schnapp, Jenny Slate, Tessa Thompson and Steven Gaydos have been the named the recipients of 2025 Festival Honors at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
South Africa has selected The Heart Is a Muscle, written and directed by Imran Hamdulay, to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards.

The road-trip family film Omaha by Cole Webley walked away with the Grand Jury Prize Best Overall Feature Film at the 14th Richmond International Film Festival.

The 37th Vancouver Queer Film Festival has announced the winners of 2025 Audience Awards with the top honors going to Really Happy Someday directed by J Stevens for Canadian Feature and Between Goodbyes directed by Jota Mun winning for International Feature.

Filmmaker Liza Mandelup’s documentary Caterpillar has been acquired by Good Deed Entertainment for release in movie theaters this fall.
Hola Mexico Film Festival wrapped its 17th edition with Café Chairel by Fernando Barreda Luna winning the Audience Award.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho’s 217 minutes long epic odyssey I Only Rest in the Storm will makes its North American premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival.
Actor Andrew Stevens chronicles the story of his mother, actress Stella Stevens (Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Poseidon Adventure (1972)) in the documentary Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet.
The HBO documentary The Alabama Solution shines a blistering light on America’s prison crisis, exposing secrecy and brutality behind Alabama’s prison walls.

The Chinese road film Gloaming in Luomu directed by Zhang Lü has won Best Film at the 30th Busan International Film Festival.