The 2022 Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) Film, Food and Wine Showcase takes place at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Copia on November 10 – 13 featuring a curated group of films and honoree tributes.
Film Festivals
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Laura Dern, Regina Hall, Frank Grillo Among Honorees for 2022 Napa Valley Film Festival Film, Food and Wine Showcase
Regina Hall stars as Trinitie Childs in Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.., a Focus Features release. Credit: Steve Swisher / © 2021 Pinky Promise LLC
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EMPIRE OF LIGHT and WOMEN TALKING Headline 2022 St. Louis International Film Festival Lineup
Empire of Light starring Olivia Colman The 31st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) runs November 3-13, 2022, showcasing 256 films, including more than 100 documentary and narrative features and 21 short film programs. A small selection of films will also be available online.
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MOTHER SUPERIOR, SICK OF MYSELF, and FALCON LAKE Win Multiple Awards at 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Mother Superior directed by Marie Alice Wolfszahn The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended its 7th edition with the U.S. Premiere of the new 20th anniversary 2K restoration of Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible: Straight Cut. The horror fantasy thriller Mother Superior was awarded the top honors of Best Feature and Best Director for Marie Alice Wolfszahn in the Main Competition Features program.
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SWALLOWED, THE BLUE CAFTAN and THE RISING FOREST Win Top Jury Awards at 2022 NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Swallowed (Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature), The Blue Caftan (Grand Jury Prize, International Feature), Uyra – The Rising Forest The 34th NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival announced the winners of the juried awards, with top honors going to director Carter Smith for Swallowed (Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature), director Maryam Touzani for The Blue Caftan (Grand Jury Prize, International Feature), director Juliana Curi for Uyra – The Rising Forest (Grand Jury Prize, Documentary Feature), as well as director Nyala Moon for How Not to Date While Trans (Grand Jury Prize, New York Short).
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2022 imagineNATIVE Film Festival Announces Award-Winning Films – We Are Still Here, Šaamšiǩ – Great Grandmothers Hat
We Are Still Here and Šaamšiǩ – Great Grandmothers Hat We Are Still Here won the Dramatic Feature Award, and Šaamšiǩ – Great Grandmothers Hat took the Documentary Feature Award at the 2022 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
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OUR FATHER, THE DEVIL and SAM NOW Win Top Awards at 2022 Indie Memphis Film Festival
Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, The Devil and and Reed Harkness’ Sam Now The 25th Indie Memphis Film Festival announced the 2022 award winners with the top jury prizes going to Ellie Foumbi’s Our Father, The Devil for Best Narrative Feature and Reed Harkness’ Sam Now for Best Documentary Feature.
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SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2022 Announces More Award Honorees – Anna Diop, Banks Repeta, Vanessa Burghardt and More
Vanessa Burghardt, Anna Diop, Banks Repeta The 25th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival announced the Entertainment Weekly’s Breaking Big honorees as well as additional honorees and guests.
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THE ‘VOUS Trailer: Documentary on Famous Memphis BBQ Spot to NY Premiere at DOC NYC
The ‘Vous directed by Jack Porter Lofton and Jeff Dailey From filmmakers Jack Porter Lofton and Jeff Dailey, The ‘Vous is a fascinating documentary on the people behind Memphis BBQ institution The Rendezvous. The film will make its New York debut at DOC NYC 2022.
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2022 Key West Film Festival Announces Lineup – GLASS ONION, WOMEN TALKING, WHITE NOISE and More
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery The 11th Annual Key West Film Festival announced its official 2022 lineup of more than 75 films including major fall films from Rian Johnson, Sarah Polley, Noah Baumbach, Ethan Coen, Hirokazu Kore-ada, Luka Dhont, Ondi Timoner and Billy Corben. The 5-day festival runs November 16th-20th, 2022.
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IDFA 2022 to Open with Niki Padidar’s ALL YOU SEE, Announces Main Competition Lineup
All You See by Niki Padidar International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022 will open with the world premiere of All You See by Niki Padidar. Padidar’s multi-layered feature powerfully foregrounds the sensation of being looked at. Honest, painful, and even humorous encounters with three other immigrants to the Netherlands are stylistically interwoven between Padidar’s own personal history, opening up a vulnerable space of articulation with global resonance. A confessional collage with no simple outs, All You See turns the spotlight on all of us, while simultaneously asking: who is “us”?
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Toronto’s Shorts Not Pants Film Festival Unveils 10th Anniversary Edition Lineup of 57 Short Films
For The Bees directed by Chloë Fitzmaurice Returning this year with a hybrid edition, the 10th anniversary edition of Shorts Not Pants Film Festival will take place November 18 – 27, 2022, in-person at Innis Town Hall, in Toronto, from November 18 – 20, and a virtual edition making its program of short films and filmmaker Q&As available across Canada from November 21 – 27.
