In a three-city presentation, this year’s 25th Anniversary edition of Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival will take place November 13-17 in Minneapolis, December 5-8 in Rochester, and December 12-14, 2024 in Austin.
Film Festivals
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Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary Edition Across Three Cities
Devo directed by Chris Smith
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‘Men of War’ ‘Ernest Cole’ Among Double Exposure Film Festival in Washington, DC, 10th Anniversary Edition Lineup
Men of War by Jen Gatien and Billy Corben The Double Exposure Film Festival (DX) celebrates its 10th anniversary, from November 7 to November 10, 2024, under the theme ” In Flux | Out of Bounds”.
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Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés Pepe Estrada’s ‘Duino’ to New York Premiere at NewFest: LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Duino directed by Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés Pepe Estrada Duino, the feature directorial debut of co-directors actor-singer Juan Pablo Di Pace (Mamma Mia!) and Andrés Pepe Estrada, editor of the Oscar-nominated Argentine film Argentina, 1985, will have its New York premiere at the 36th edition of NewFest: New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.
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Pedro Almodóvar Named Recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award at Film at Lincoln Center
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) has named Spanish film director, screenwriter, and author Pedro Almodóvar as the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award. He will be honored at a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 28, 2025.
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27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival Unveils Full Lineup – ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Anora’ and More
The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet (A24) The 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival taking place from October 26 to November 2 will screen 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, and 69 shorts, with 10 world premieres and six U.S. premieres.
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‘Music by John Williams’ Producer Frank Marshall, Director Laurent Bouzereau to be Honored at Newport Beach Film Festival
Frank Marshall (Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios), Laurent Bouzereau (Travers Jacobs) The Newport Beach Film Festival has added Music by John Williams Centrepiece documentary, and will will honor Producer Frank Marshall with the Arts Champion Award, and Director Laurent Bouzereau will be honored as an Artist of Distinction for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking at the closing night program.
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‘Krzyk: Losing Control’ and ‘Miwene’ Win Top Award Prizes at 13th Greenpoint Film Festival
Krzyk: Losing Control directed by Ewa Wikiel Ewa Wikiel’s Krzyk: Losing Control is the winner of the Best Narrative Feature award; and Miwene, co-directed by Keith Heyward, Jennifer Berglund, Gange Anita Yeti Enomenga, and Obe Beatriz Nenquimo Nihua, won Best Documentary Feature at the Brooklyn’s 13th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival.
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‘Anora’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Headline 37th Virginia Film Festival Lineup
Anora directed by Sean Baker (Neon) The 37th edition of the Virginia Film Festival running from October 30 to November 3, 2024 in Charlottesville, Virginia, announced this year’s lineup of films including Oscar buzzed films Anora, Bird, Blitz, Emilia Pérez, The Fire Inside, The Last Showgirl, Memoir of a Snail, Nightbitch, Pavements, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, and The Room Next Door
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‘Resident Orca’ Documentary to Premiere in Canada as Closing Film of Planet in Focus Film Festival
Resident Orca directed by Sarah Sharkey Pearce and Simon Schneider The documentary feature film Resident Orca will premiere in Canada as the closing night presentation of the Planet in Focus International Film Festival on October 20, 2024, in Toronto.
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38th AFI FEST to Showcase Lineup of 158 Films
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point directed by Tyler Taormina This year’s 38th AFI FEST taking place in Los Angeles from October 23 to October 27 rounds out the slate of already announced titles with a full lineup of 158 films including September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man In America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski V Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969).
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11th Miami Film Festival GEMS Unveils Lineup, Opens with ‘The Room Next Door’
The Room Next Door (El-Deseo | Iglesias Mas) The 11th Miami Film Festival GEMS set to take place from October 30 to November 3, 2024, will feature 30 films from over 15 countries, kicking off with The Room Next Door, including three Centerpiece screenings of Emilia Pérez, Maria, and The Brutalist, and wrapping up with A Real Pain.
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‘Broken Borders (Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui)’ and ‘Onnamusha’ Win Audience Awards at 16th Hola Mexico Film Festival
The 16th annual Hola Mexico Film Festival announced this year’s award winners, with Rodrigo Alvarez Flores’ ‘Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui’ (Broken Borders) taking home the Audience Award and Ryan Lopez’s short, ‘Onnamusha’ taking home the Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Audience Award.