Brendan Fraser, star of The Whale, will be honored with the American Riviera Award at the 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival at an in-person conversation about his career.
Film Festivals
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Brendan Fraser Honored at Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Brendan Fraser ( credit: Chad Griffith /A24 Films)
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WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story Opens and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Closes Newport Beach Film Festival 2022
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story by Eric Appel Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) will kick off its eight-day run on Thursday, October 13, with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story starring Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson and Quinta Brunson. fresh from the Toronto International Film Festival, where it generated huge buzz and won the People’s Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story. WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story is directed by Eric Appel and stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird Al” Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
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70th San Sebastian Festival Winners: THE KINGS OF THE WORLD Wins Golden Shell
The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo) by Laura Mora The Colombian film The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo) by Laura Mora has won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition. The film follows five Medellín teenagers from the streets on a desperate journey of survival. Genki Kawamura took the Silver Shell for Best Director for A Hundred Flowers (Hyakka), while the Best Screenplay Award went to Dong Yun Zhou and Wang Chao for their work on the Chao’s movie, A Woman (Kong Xiu); and City of Donostia / Sebastian Audience Award went to Argentina, 1985 by Santiago Mitre.
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THE GRAB Opens and RETROGRADE Closes Double Exposure 2022 Film Festival and Symposium
The Grab directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite 11 investigative feature films are set to be showcased at Double Exposure film festival and symposium series’ eighth season, taking place in-person October 13-16 in Washington, DC. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab is the opening night selection, Matt Heineman’s Retrograde takes the closing night spot, and Darren Foster’s American Pain will be the centerpiece screening.
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THE GOOD NURSE, THE INSPECTION, THE WHALE, SHE SAID Among Montclair Film Festival 2022 Tentpole Films
Eddie Redmayne as Charlie Cullen in The Good Nurse (2022). Credit: JoJo Whilden / Netflix Tobias Lindholm’s The Good Nurse screens as the Fiction Centerpiece of the 2022 Montclair Film Festival, taking place October 21-30, in Montclair, NJ, and Academy Award® winner Eddie Redmayne will be honored with the festival’s Performance Of The Year Award. Tobias Lindholm along with Eddie Redmayne will attend a post-screening Q&A with Stephen Colbert.
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Maryam Touzani’s THE BLUE CAFTAN Opens 2022 Arab Film Festival
The Blue Caftan directed by Maryam Touzani The Blue Caftan directed by Maryam Touzani opens the 2022 Arab Film Festival running November 11-20, 2022 with a hybrid program of in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA and virtual events.
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TILL and EMPIRE OF LIGHT Headline Twin Cities Film Fest 2022 Star Studded Lineup
Whoopi Goldberg and Danielle Deadwyler in Till directed by Chinonye Chukwy (Orion Pictures) In its 13th year, the 2022 Twin Cities Film Fest showcases more than 140 movies from October 20-29 in a hybrid format – at the Showplace ICON Theaters and Kitchen at The Shops at West End, and online.
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2023 Jacksonville Film Festival Unveils Official Films – 114 Films
The Artifice Girl directed by Franklin Ritch The 2023 Jacksonville Film Festival will showcase 114 films from 22 countries over four-days from February 3-6, 2023. The 2023 Festival lineup consists of an astonishing 60% produced or directed by women.
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BONES AND ALL, BROS, NO BEARS Among New Films Added to 66th BFI London Film Festival
Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell in Bones and All directed by Luca Guadagnino The 66th BFI London Film Festival added the UK Premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance, to the 2022 program, screening in a Special Presentation. Bones and All is the tender story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they embark on a thousand-mile odyssey through Reagan’s America.
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Mill Valley Film Festival Announces Nominees for 2022 Mind The Gap Creation Prize
The Unknown Country directed by Morrisa Maltz The Mill Valley Film Festival announced the 3 films nominated for the 2022 Mind The Gap (MTG) Creation Prize of $10,000. Awarded to a first- or second-time Mind the Gap filmmaker, the prize recognizes exciting new voices in cinema who demonstrate creativity of vision and exceptional use of the film medium.
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Joe Hall’s The Road to Galena Wins Grand Prix at 2022 Prague Independent Film Festival
The Road to Galena directed by Joe Hall The Road to Galena was awarded the Grand Prix and Best Director prize for Joe Hall at the 2022 Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF) in the stunning historical cinema Lucerna in the capital of Czechia. Other top prizes went to Troubled Mindsvby Raitis and Lauris Abele for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay prizes.
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9 Films by UK Filmmakers in Works-in-Progress Showcase at 66th BFI London Film Festival
The third edition of the BFI London Film Festival Works-in-Progress showcase will present nine new feature films and documentaries by UK-based filmmakers as part of the Festival’s UK Talent Days focus.