Director Nicholas Gyeney (Beta Test, Ultra Low) and producer Kelsey Aho of Genie Productions will world premiere their latest feature film, the mind-bending thriller The Activated Man as the Closing Night Film of Dances with Films NYC on December 3rd at the Regal Union Square in Manhattan.
The 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) which ran from November 9 to 19, 2023 awarded four accomplished filmmakers for their contributions to the world of cinema and announced the winners of the juried competition and audience-choice awards.
Jonathan Ogilvie’s post-punk coming-of-age comedy Head South will open the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Thursday 25 January 2024, with the festival running until Sunday 4 February.
Emmy winner and three-time Academy Award® – nominee Mark Ruffalo will be honored with the American Riviera Award at the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for her performance in The Holdovers. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.
Michael Sarrow’s Smile As You Kill won Best Narrative Feature and Lana Pavic’s Opera Selecta took the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) 2023 Fall Edition
Cillian Murphy will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his performance as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.
Emma Stone will be honored with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the Palm Springs International Film Festival running through January 15, 2024.
Santa Barbara International Film Festival will honor Robert Downey Jr. with the Maltin Modern Master Award, its highest accolade, at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Downey Jr. will receive the prestigious award on Friday, February 9, 2024.
The cast and director of Killers of the Flower Moon is the recipient of the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Vanguard Award is a group honor distinguishing a film’s cast and director in recognition of their collective work on an exceptional film project. The award will be presented to Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Academy Award winner and Executive Producer Leonardo DiCaprio and Gotham Award nominee Lily Gladstone, all of whom will be in attendance.
51 films representing all 27 EU member gets the spotlight at this year’s 36th AFI European Union Film Showcase, taking place November 30–December 19, 2023, at the American Film Institute’s historic theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The Finnish-Swedish Christmas drama “Family Time” (“Mummola”) by Tia Kouvo won the NDR Film Prize, at 12,500 euros, the award with the highest cash prize, at the 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck.