SXSW Film Festival announced the Audience Award winners of the 29th edition of the festival. The Audience Awards follow the previously-announced 2022 Jury Awards and the 40 Years of Massive Talent Award presented to Nicolas Cage at The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent screening on Saturday night.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival revealed the 37 official festival selections for the virtual 25th edition of the festival, which takes place April 7–10, 2022. Thirty films will screen as part of NEW DOCS and are eligible for juried cash awards.; and the Invited Program includes seven feature films screening out of competition.
The 19th Calgary Underground Film Festival announced the first wave of films playing the upcoming hybrid festival, taking place from April 21 – May 1, 2022.
Here is the official trailer for Maybe Someday, an LGBTQ drama film set to world premiere at Cinequest’s virtual film festival “Cinejoy” April 1-17. An LGBTQ feature film highlighting different aspects of love and heartbreak, Maybe Someday is a nostalgic and moving journey written and directed by Michelle Ehlen. The film is Ehlen’s fifth feature and first dramedy, her prior films most notably being the first lesbian comedy trilogy – Butch Jamie, Heterosexual Jill, and S&M Sally. Maybe Someday stars Ehlen along with Shaela Cook from Heterosexual Jill and S&M Sally, and Charlie Steers.
Screenwave International Film Festival (SWIFF) unveiled its 2022 program, bringing over 130 sessions and exclusive events to the Coffs Harbour region in Australia over 16 jam-packed days, from Thursday 21st April to Friday 6th May, 2022.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired the documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker — Featuring Brandi Carlile directed by Kathlyn Horan (The If Project) which world premiered at South by Southwest film festival.
Daniel Roher’s “pulse-pounding” documentary Navalny will open the 48th Seattle International Film Festival on Thursday, April 14 at The Paramount Theatre.
South by Southwest (SXSW) announced the 2022 Jury and Special Award winners of the 29th SXSW Film Festival.
Bryan Russell is billed as the first person in the world with Down syndrome to ever run for public office.
Film at Lincoln Center announced the lineup of 17 features and four shorts for the ninth edition of Art of the Real, the showcase for the world’s most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking, taking place March 31–April 7.
Set in Haiti, the family drama film Freda, directed by Géssica Généus, won the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award, at the 39th edition of Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Film Festival. The jury said, “this film resonated with all of us for its strong, female-centered narrative, and its exceptional performances from emerging actors. We couldn’t stop thinking about this world and these characters, and we appreciated being immersed in a place that we don’t often see onscreen – portrayed in such a realistic, but tender way.”
Check out the first clip from Jethica, a supernatural dark comedy shot in New Mexico in January 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, and world premiering at SXSW in the Visions section. Jethica boldly blends and bends genres, all at once shining as a sharp comedy and dire stalker thriller with an undead edge.