Penélope Cruz will receive the International Star Award, Actress for her performance in Parallel Mothers at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place in-person on January 6, 2022 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 17, 2022.
The Georgian film Brighton 4th directed by Levan Koguashvili won the Snow Leopard Award for Best Film at the 2021 Asian World Film Festival (AWFF). The jury awarded the Snow Leopard for Best Actor to Tolepbergen Baisakalov for Fire (Kazakhstan) and Best Actress to Arawinda Kirana for Yuni (Indonesia). Eran Kolirin, director of Let it Be Morning (Israel), was honored with the Snow Leopard Distinction Award for Directing and Yusif (Lebanon) was recognized with Snow Leopard Special Jury Award for the film’s production (Houssein Haidar, producer, actor, and screenwriter and Mohammed Kazem Fayad, director).
Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis will receive the Outstanding Performers of the Year Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Smith and Ellis will be honored at an in-person conversation about their cinematic careers leading up to their outstanding performances in this year’s King Richard from Warner Bros Pictures. .
Filmocracy will reprise its groundbreaking Film Festival with the second Festival set to run December 9th through December 12th. Filmocracy will present a robust slate of features and shorts, many of them award winners and social impact documentaries.
King Richard starring and produced by Will Smith and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, is the winner of the MIAMI GEMS 2021 Audience Award. The film served as the Centerpiece screening for the Miami Film Festival’s annual fall event which took place from November 4-10 at MDC’s Tower Theater Miami.
The Cannons, a new documentary on America’s oldest minority hockey program in Southeast, Washington DC, directed by Steven Hoffner and AJ Messier will World Premiere at DOC NYC film festival.
Filmmaker Holly Morris debuted the teaser – first look trailer for Exposure, her documentary receiving its New York Premiere at DOC NYC on November 13. Led by polar explorer Felicity Aston, the films follows eleven novice women explorers, from the Arab World and the West, embark on a physically and emotionally demanding journey to the top of the world.
“The Gravedigger’s Wife” directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed won two major awards – the NDR narrative Film Prize award and the Interfilm Church Prize at the 63rd Lübeck Nordic Film Days (Nordische Filmtage).
CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival announced the lineup of 19 features and 20 shorts documentary films that will play the 9th doc fest returning to Globe Cinema from November 24-28 for its first in-person festival in two years. In addition to theatrical screenings, this year’s hybrid festival has an online component with additional selections, including two shorts packages, available to stream on-demand.
The IV Rock Horror Film Festival 2021 is rolling in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil until November 14th with a selection of 54 genres films from 20 countries ranging from hard rock to soft blues fear levels.
The Irish documentary Young Plato from filmmakers Neasa Ní Chianáín (School Life) and Declan McGrath profiles school headmaster Kevin McAreve, who is determined to change the fortunes of an inner-city community in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The documentary film will World Premiere at the 2020 DOC NYC film festival
Refuge, a powerful and inspiring new documentary film about fear and love in the American South from executive producer Katie Couric will World Premiere at the 2021 DOC NYC film festival. Directed by Erin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship, the film profiles a leader in a white nationalist hate group who finds healing from the people he once hated – a Muslim heart doctor and his town of refugees.