
The Key West Film Festival announced screen legend Chris Cooper and Elegance Bratton, director of The Inspection as the recipients of its 2022 Golden Key Awards.

The Key West Film Festival announced screen legend Chris Cooper and Elegance Bratton, director of The Inspection as the recipients of its 2022 Golden Key Awards.

The 34th NewFest: New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival will take place from October 13 – 25, 2022, showcasing more than 130 films, in theaters in NYC and virtually throughout the United States.

The 23rd edition of Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival returns as a two-city film festival, from November 3-6 in Austin, and November 9-13 in Minneapolis.

Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery opens the line-up for the 9th annual Miami Film Festival GEMS taking place November 3-10. GEMS 2022 festival will feature two Centerpiece Screenings of the ensemble drama Women Talking and Brendan Fraser drama The Whale, and close with Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans.

As Southwest Florida grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, the 2022 Naples International Film Festival will take place as planned October 27-30, screening 64 films (13 narrative features, 9 documentary features and 42 short films) from 17 countries.

The war epic film Devotion directed by JD Dillard, and starring Jonathan Majors opens this year’s 26th Urbanworld Film Festival, boasting a strong film slate. Majors will also serve as the festival’s official ambassador.

The 14th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival will close with the film Enfermo Amor (Love Sick) directed by Marco Polo Constandse and Rodrigo Nava; starring Camila Sodi, Mónica Huarte, Andrés Palacios, Fernanda Castillo, Adriana Louvier, Maya Zapata and Juan Pablo Medina. and an exciting musical performance by Mexican cumbia star Amandititita.

The Brazilian film Mars One, written and directed by Gabriel Martins, was named Best Narrative Feature, and Tracey Arcabasso Smith’s Relative earned the Best Documentary Feature award at the 53rd Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm).

Actor and musician Gary Farmer will receive the 2022 August Schellenberg Award of Excellence, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

The Savannah College of Art and Design hosts this year’s 25th anniversary edition of SCAD Savannah Film Festival in person, October 22–29, 2022. The SCAD Savannah Film Festival will screen 143 films, including 53 narrative feature films, 20 documentary feature films, and 79 shorts, with eight world premieres and six U.S. premieres.