
Emmy Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay will be honored with the 2022 Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award at the 30th Anniversary Hamptons International Film Festival in October.

Emmy Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay will be honored with the 2022 Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award at the 30th Anniversary Hamptons International Film Festival in October.

On the Fringe (En los márgenes), Juan Diego Botto’s debut behind the camera, joins the titles in the Perlak section at the 2022 San Sebastian Festival. Juan Diego Botto directs and plays the lead part in a film featuring Penélope Cruz, who is also its producer, and Luis Tosar. Prior to screening at the San Sebastian Festival the movie will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival.

Director, writer and producer Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Last Man Standing) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 79th Venice International Film Festival. The award is dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.

Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) announced the winners of the 2022 MIFF Shorts Awards, which reward filmmakers with more than $63,500 in prizes. A jury consisting of filmmaker Tiriki Onus (Ablaze), director James Vaughan (Friends and Strangers), and film writer Jourdain Searles selected seven out of the 78 films in the program

Twelve films set in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico complete the Horizontes Latinos section at the 2022 San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Zurich Film Festival announced the first seven titles in Gala Premieres section at the upcoming 18th edition, including the star-studded drama The Banshees of Inisherin by Oscar-winning director Martin McDonagh, the European premiere of the German film adaptation All Quiet on the Western Front by Edward Berger as well as the world premieres of Der Nachname by Sönke Wortmann and Die Goldenen Jahre by Barbara Kulcsar.

Empire of Light by Oscar® and BAFTA winning filmmaker Sam Mendes will receive its European Premiere as the American Express Gala film of the 66th BFI London Film Festival.

The retrospective at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition will show thirteen features films directed by French filmmaker Claude Sautet between the years 1956 and 1995.

The Tallgrass Film Festival announced a preview of gala film selections and special presentations for this year’s 20th Anniversary edition of the popular film festival, taking place September 28-October 2. Troma Films legend Lloyd Kaufman will be a recipient of the festival’s Ad Astra Award, and the all-documentary gala presentations will include the world premiere of Daniel Fetherston and Danny Szlauderbach’s documentary, We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment, Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s All Man: The International Male Story, Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Tribeca hit, Butterfly in the Sky, and Camille Hardman and Gary Lane’s Still Working 9 to 5.

Waco’s Deep in the Heart Film Festival announced the award winners for the 6th edition of the film festival led by Aaron Hosé’s One Pint at a Time, which took three awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, and the Audience Award for Best Feature. Individual awards were led by The Sisters Karras’ Micah Stathis (Best Feature Film Director), and A Place Among the Dead’s’ Juliet Landau (Best Performance – Feature Film).

New York Film Festival (NYFF) announced the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 60th edition of the festival taking place September 30–October 16, 2022.