Film Festivals
Sigourney Weaver, in accepting, said, “I am truly honored to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from the Biennale di Venezia. To be gifted this award is a privilege I share with all the filmmakers and collaborators I have worked with throughout the years.”
The Cuba-set early ‘90s coming of age tale Los Frikis won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 29th Nantucket Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will close with Fingernails, Christos Nikou’s English-language debut starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White.
Ben Burtt, Oscar winning sound designer, editor, and voice actor behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises will be honored at Locarno Film Festival.
Palm Springs International ShortFest presented Awards and cash prizes to the Festival award winners with Bogotá Story taking home the Best of the Festival.
Itandehui Jansen’s Itu Ninu (Where the Cornfields Are) won Best Narrative Feature, and Juan Mejía Botero’s Igualada took the award for Best Documentary Feature at the 26th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will open with Vigo Mortensen’s film The Dead Don’t Hurt and honor Mortensen with the President’s Award at the opening ceremony.
Homeland Story directed by Glenda Hambley took the top jury award, Best Film by Jury, at the 2024 The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival.
Waco Independent Film Festival kicks off on Opening Night with Ben Judkins’ The Cigarette Surfboard, and Troy Paff’s Texas Music Revolution as the Closing Night film.
The Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking directed by Maja Novaković, won the Grand Jury Award at Sheffield DocFest.
The 23rd New York Asian Film Festival unveiled the nominees for the Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition, and Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In as closing night film.
Amy Adams and David Cronenberg revealed as the first honorees of this year’s Tribute Awards, with Sandra Oh as Tribute Awards Honorary Chair.