The 44th edition of the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) in Halifax, Nova Scotia announced its 2024 award winners. Sharp Corner won the Gordon Parsons Award for Best Atlantic Feature along with DGC Award for Best Atlantic Director for director Jason Buxton. In the thriller film based on the short story by Russell Wangersky, Ben Foster stars as Josh McCall, a man who becomes obsessed with saving car accident victims at the sharp road corner near his home.
For its 15th year, the Twin Cities Film Fest in Minnesota released its 2024 film slate of more than 140 movies set to screen October 17-26, 2024. More than 70 films will also simultaneously stream online via the TCFF STREAMS platform.
Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck wins the People’s Choice Award at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival which officially wrapped today with its annual awards. The People’s Choice Documentary Award went to The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal directed by Mike Downie; and the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award went to The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat.
The World Premiere of Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 will close the 38th edition of AFI Fest at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on October 27. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb and Kiefer Sutherland.
The 47th Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF) taking place October 3–13, 2024 revealed this year’s lineup featuring 129 films from 40 countries, including 77 premieres, with 51% of the films directed or co-directed by women or non-binary filmmakers..
Sundance Institute today named the three finalist cities moving forward into the concluding review process to determine a long-term host for the Sundance Film Festival beginning in 2027.
Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander will be honored at Zurich Film Festival with a Golden Eye Award “for her extraordinary and remarkable versatility”; and attend the Swiss premiere of her new film The Assessment by director Fleur Fortuné.
Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) announced its official “Living Reel” Project’s 2024 film, a short music video and documentary in collaboration with Youth Villages and Moraine Music Group.
The 20th Zurich Film Festival will open with director Justin Kurzel’s political thriller The Order starring and produced by Jude Law, with his company Riff Raff. On the opening night on October 3, the festival will also award Law a prestigious Golden Eye Award for his remarkable performance and career.
The 55th Nashville Film Festival has added new films to the lineup, with “Saturday Night,” directed by Jason Reitman as the 2024 Centerpiece Presentation.
Following its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, ‘Patrice: The Movie,’ a documentary on disabled couple Patrice and Garry makes its streaming debut on Hulu.
First announced at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival under the title ‘The Hanged,’ the crime/thriller film by Fernando Coimbra is finally making its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. under the new title, ‘Carnival Is Over.’ The film stars Leandra Leal and Irandhir Santos as a couple trying to break free of their family’s link to the mafia.