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.
Film Festivals
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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
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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.
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TÁR, THE WHALE,’OUR FATHER,THE DEVIL’ Win Audience Favorite Awards at 2022 Mill Valley Film Festival
Tár starring Cate Blanchett Tár, Todd Field’s drama starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional renowned musician Lydia Tár, won the Overall Audience Favorite award at the 45th Mill Valley Film Festival. Other audience awards went to The Whale for Audience Favorite | US Cinema; Our Father, The Devil for Audience Favorite | US Indie; The Banshees of Inisherin for Audience Favorite | World Cinema; Close for Audience Favorite | World Cinema (foreign language); and The Grab for Audience Favorite | Documentary.
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‘Blonde’ and ‘Women’ Costume Designer Jennifer Johnson Honored at Key West Film Festival
Costume designer Jennifer Johnson [Key West Film Festival] BAFTA nominated costume designer Jennifer Johnson will be honored with the seventh annual Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design at the 2022 Key West Film Festival.
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Mars One, Colman Domingo’s North Star, Mama Bears, Among Winners of 2022 Out on Film – Atlanta’s LGBTQ Fest
Mars One by Gabriel Martin Gabriel Martin’s Mars One was a three-time winner at the 35th edition of Out on Film, the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival, taking the jury awards for Best Narrative Feature, Best International Film and Best Ensemble. Magnus Gertten’s Nelly & Nadine won the jury prize for Best Documentary.
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‘Hidden Letters’, ‘Our Father, the Devil’, ‘Wildcat’ Win Top Awards at 2022 Heartland Film Festival
Hidden Letters directed by Violet Du Feng and Qing Zhao Hidden Letters from director Violet Du Feng and co-director Qing Zhao won the $20,000 Documentary Feature Grand Prize at the 31st Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF), with the other top prizes going to Our Father, the Devil from director Ellie Foumbi for the $20,000 Narrative Feature Grand Prize, and Wildcat from directors Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost took the $5,000 Jimmy Stewart Legacy Award.
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CORSAGE Wins Best Film, BLUE BAG LIFE Wins Audience Award at 2022 BFI London Film Festival
Vicky Krieps in Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer wins Best Film Award at the 66th BFI London Film Festival. Marie Kreutzer said: “I want to say thank you to the members of the jury for choosing our film and giving us this beautiful award. For me this award, which is an award for the film, is not only my award it belongs to all of us. The most beautiful thing about my job is to collaborate with so many great creatives and artists and create something together day by day without knowing how it will turn out. For all of us I’m so happy that it turned out so well and that people love the film so much. This award is for everyone on my team. It’s hard to find the right words right now, I’m happy!”
