The World Premiere of Blitz, directed by Academy Award and BAFTA winner Steve McQueen will open the 68th BFI London Film Festival taking place October 9-20, 2024.
Film Festivals
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ Starring Saoirse Ronan to Open 68th BFI London Film Festival
Blitz (Courtesy of Apple)
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Films with Seth Rogen, Michael K. Williams, Nolan Gould Among 7th Indy Shorts Film Festival Lineup
Seth Rogen in Taking Care The Academy Award®-Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Indy Shorts) returns to Indianapolis for its seventh edition, running July 23-28, 2024. The lineup includes titles featuring Seth Rogen, Michael K. Williams, Nolan Gould, Richard Kind and more.
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Sigourney Weaver to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice Film Festival
Sigourney Weaver (Andrew H. Walker, Variety, REX, Shutterstock) Actress Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Gorillas in the Mist, Galaxy Quest) has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival set to take place August 28 to September 7, 2024.
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Cuban Drama ‘Los Frikis’ and Ukraine Docu ‘Porcelain War’ Win Top Awards at 29th Nantucket Film Festival
Porcelain War directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s Cuba-set early ‘90s coming of age tale Los Frikis won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 29th annual Nantucket Film Festival® (NFF). Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev’s Porcelain War, focused on Ukrainians using their art to resist during war, was the recipient of the Documentary Feature Audience Award. Puppy Love, directed by Daniel Rashid and written by Rashid and Elizabeth Valenti, about a woman who has to decide if her connection with a new man is a deep one or if she just likes his dog, received the Narrative Short Film Audience Award. Tom Dey’s Jumpman, profiling the photographer behind the iconic Michael Jordan mid-air shot, took home the Documentary Short Film Audience Award.
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Christos Nikou’s ‘Fingernails’ to Close 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Fingernails The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will close with Fingernails, Christos Nikou’s English-language debut starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White.
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Ben Burtt, Sound Designer for Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Voice of Wall-E, to be Honored at Locarno Film Festival
Ben Burtt (courtesy Locarno Film Festival) Ben Burtt, legendary sound designer, editor, and voice actor behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and winner of four Academy Awards will be honored with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.
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30th Palm Springs ShortFest Awards – ‘Bogotá Story’ Wins Best of the Festival
Bogotá Story The 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest presented Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 to the Festival juried and audience award winners including five Academy Award® qualifying awards selected from the 310 short films that were part of the Official Selection.
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Itu Ninu (Where the Cornfields Are) and Igualada Win 26th Cine Las Americas Film Festival Top Awards
Itu Ninu (Where the Cornfields Are) 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 Anniversary edition of the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF).
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Vigo Mortensen’s ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ to Open 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Dead Don’t Hurt directed by Vigo Mortensen (courtesy KVIFF) The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will open with Vigo Mortensen’s film The Dead Don’t Hurt and honor Mortensen with this year’s President’s Award at the opening ceremony.
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Glenda Hambley’s ‘Homeland Story’ Wins Best Film by Jury at The Archaeology Channel Film Festival
Homeland Story Homeland Story directed by Glenda Hambley took the top jury award, Best Film by Jury, at the 2024 The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival. This film focuses on the Donydji, a small Indigenous homeland in North East Arnhem Land in the far north of Australia. It charts the Donydji community’s transition from nomadic life to the digital age, starting in the 1960s and all the way to the present day. This is a moving and representative portrait of one family’s struggle to preserve their culture and remain on their homeland despite the severe obstacles they face: sub-standard education, deplorable service delivery, lack of job opportunities for youth, inadequate government policy, bureaucratic mismanagement, and pressure from mining interests.
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Waco Independent Film Festival Debuts First Lineup Under New Name, Opens with ‘The Cigarette Surfboard’
The Cigarette Surfboard directed by Ben Judkins Previously known as the Deep in the Heart FF for the past 7 years, The Waco Independent Film Festival reveals its first lineup under the new name. The festival will combine offline in-theatre screenings at July 18-21, followed by an online encore at July 21-27.
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‘At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking’ Wins Grand Jury Award at 31st Sheffield DocFest
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking directed by Maja Novaković, the Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary film following an elderly man living in isolation, won the Grand Jury Award for the International Competition at the 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest.