The 2022 Tribeca Festival will kick off with the world premiere of Halftime, a new Netflix documentary film by director and Tribeca Alum Amanda Micheli that follows global superstar Jennifer Lopez, as she reflects on her milestones and evolution as an artist, and navigates the second half of her career continuing to entertain, empower, and inspire.
The 23rd annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival welcomes artists and audiences back to Toronto/Tkaronto for IN-PERSON screenings and events October 18 – 23, 2022. imagineNATIVE will also present the Festival ONLINE from October 24 – 30, 2022.
Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) celebrates its 25th edition, themed Unthinkable, from June 3-12, 2022, online via the festival website, as well as in-person at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with select programs also showing at Union Docs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
From the Hood to the Holler directed by Pat McGee won the Audience Choice Award for Best Film at the 2022 Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF46).The documentary follows Democratic candidate Charles Booker as he runs for Senate in Kentucky, and works to unite people of all colors across Kentucky, while fighting against big money in politics, voter suppression, and systemic corruption in a historically deeply red state.
The 34th Filmfest Dresden announced the award winners of the National, International and Regional Competitions with the Saxon Film Promotion Prize going to First Work, Then Play from Brenda Lien. The Brazilian-German co-production It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse but the Situation in Which They Live from Eduardo Mamede, Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes won both the LUCA GenderDiversity Film Award and the Dresden Short Film Award of the German Film Critics Association.
OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival Miami will open its 24th edition with the first Florida live screening of B-Boy Blues at The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater on April 22 at 7 p.m.
I Didn’t See You There directed by Reid Davenport won the Grand Jury Award at the 25th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Filmed in and around director Reid Davenport’s apartment in Oakland, California, this documentary is part essay, part travelogue, and part formal observational inquiry, all linked by the director’s subjectivity as a disabled filmmaker.
EarthX Film Festival 2022 unveiled its lineup of over 75 feature-length and short films screening during its four-day run May 12-15 under the theme “A Celebration of the Outdoors.” This year for the first time, the EarthX Film Festival will be held in the Dallas Arts District, providing easy walking for attendees to the five theater venues tapping into the vibrant downtown community and making it an exciting cultural touchstone for the city. Each night of the Film Festival will feature a musical act performing before a showcase screening.
The 18th Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF), running from Wednesday, April 20th through Sunday, April 24th in-person at the SVA Theatre in New York City and online, announced the lineup of 10 films with an additional 4 films being shown online.
DocLands Documentary Film Festival 2022 set to take place Thursday, May 5 through Wednesday, May 11, 2022, announced the full lineup of films.
Australian director Baz Luhrmann will attend the 2022 Cannes Film Festival to present the world premiere of his latest feature film Elvis, biopic of legendary rock and roll star, Elvis Presley.
The 2022 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF), announced this year’s award winners with We Feed People, directed by Ron Howard winning the Audience Award; and top juried prizes going to Linoleum, directed by Colin West for Best Narrative Feature Film and Mama Bears, directed by Daresha Kyi for Best Documentary Feature Film.