Devour! the Food Film Fest honored the winning films with the 2019 Golden Tine awards with the prize for Best Feature Drama going to From the Vine directed by Sean Cisterna. The jury noted that this is a funny, touching and poignant film about doing the right thing and finding hope in unexpected places.
Noah Baumbach’s critically-acclaimed relationship drama Marriage Story starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, was named the Best Feature Film of 2019 at the Twin Cities Film Fest.
Princess of the Row was named Best Narrative Feature and Fire on the Hill took home Best Documentary Feature at the 8th Annual Portland Film Festival. Princess of the Row is director Max Carlson’s inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to get back to the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA’s skid row.
The 2019 Byron Bay Film Festival (BBFF) came to a close with the announcement of the winners of the BBFF Best Film Awards. The winner of both Best Film and Best Documentary was the powerful and enlightening In My Blood It Runs which offers a rare and compelling insight into the life of 10-year-old Arrente and Garrawa boy, Dujuan.
“It required great courage to make this film: Richard Ladkani and Andrea Crosta, both good friends of mine, risked their lives tracking down and investigating both the Chinese and Mexican cartels involved. We must try to save the vaquita, because every species matters. I hope this film can inspire real action, before it is too late.”
Jane Goodall
The documentary Santa Subito by Alessandro Piva is the winner of the “BNL People’s Choice Award” at the 14th Rome Film Fest, awarded by the viewers of the Festival.
The world premiere of Sunless Shadows (Mehrdad Oskouei) will kick off the 32nd edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Filmed in a small juvenile detention center, Sunless Shadows steps into the enclosed world of five young Iranian women, all accomplices in the murder of their abusive husbands, fathers, or brothers-in-law. Through breathtaking monologues and whip-smart interactions, the beauty, humor, and tragedy of the characters’ daily lives confirms that a murder story is never simple.
New York filmmaker Laura Naylor’s VAS-Y COUPE!, a beautifully observed portrait of seasonal labor at a family-owned vineyard in France’s Champagne region, will World Premiere at DOC NYC 2019.
Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce and actor Tom Skerritt will receive the prestigious Golden Key Awards at this year’s Key West Film Festival, running November 20 to 24, 2019.
The DocLands Documentary Film Festival announced the dates for the upcoming 4th edition will run Thursday, April 30 – Sunday, May 3, 2020 in Marin County, California.
The American Film Institute (AFI) unveiled the program lineup for the inaugural AFI Summit that will take place at AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi.
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced the thirty-three films and series receiving nominations for the 29th Annual IFP Gotham Awards along with Gotham Tributes for actors Laura Dern and Sam Rockwell, director Ava DuVernay, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Glen Basner.