With disco legend Gloria Gaynor in attendance, Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), will open the 54th annual event with the documentary film Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive.
Film Festivals
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Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive Documentary to Open Nashville Film Festival
Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
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Carolina Markowicz, Łukasz Žal, Andy Lau to Receive TIFF Tribute Awards at Toronto Fest
Andy Lau, Carolina Markowicz, Łukasz Žal | Photo credit: Courtesy of TIFF (Left), Carlyle Routh (Centre), Gotsia Karpiuk (Right) Award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Markowicz, Polish cinematographer Łukasz Žal and actor Andy Lau will receive a TIFF Tribute Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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61st New York Film Festival Unveils Revivals Selections
Household Saints The 61st New York Film Festival unveiled the Revivals section showcasing works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved.
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Tari Wariebi’s ‘We Were Meant To’ Wins Grand Prix at 19th HollyShorts Film Festival
We Were Meant To by Tari Wariebi The 19th HollyShorts Film Festival wrapped over the weekend and the 2023 HollyShorts Oscar-qualifying awards went to Tari Wariebi’s We Were Meant To (Grand Prix Best Short), Misan Harriman’s The After (Best Live Action), Rita Basulto’s Humo (Smoke) (Best Animation) and Elisa Gambino Every Day After (Best Documentary).
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Close Your Eyes Director Víctor Erice to Receive Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival
Víctor Erice, Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) 50 years after he won the Golden Shell for his first solo feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), filmmaker Víctor Erice will receive a Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The Festival pays tribute to a filmmaker who, with only four feature films to his name, has garnered the Silver Shell for Best Director, Golden Shell for Best Film and the Jury and International Film Critics Prizes at the Festival de Cannes, among many other distinctions.
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James Marsh’s ‘Dance First’ Starring Gabriel Byrne to Close San Sebastian Festival
Dance First Oscar winning director James Marsh’s Dance First, the biopic film on Irish Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Becket, will close the 71st San Sebastian Festival. The film closing out the Official Selection in out of competition stars Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, and Fionn O’Shea.
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Kibwe Tavares & Daniel Kaluuya’s ‘The Kitchen’ to World Premiere as Closing Night Film of London Film Festival
The Kitchen. (L to R) Kane Robinson as Izi, Jedaiah Bannerman as Benji in The Kitchen. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023 Kibwe Tavares & Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen will world premiere as the Closing Night Gala film of the 67th BFI London Film Festival. Starring in the film are Kane Robinson, Jedaiah Bannerman, Hope Ikpoku Jr, Teija Kabs, Demmy Ladipo, Cristale and BackRoad Gee.
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Calgary International Film Festival 2023 Unveils Films Competing for Canadian Narrative and Documentary Feature Awards
Red Rooms The Calgary International Film Festival 2023 unveiled the films in competition for Canadian Narrative Feature Award and DGC Canadian Documentary Feature Award.
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Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero Documentary to World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, a documentary on the Grammy award-winning rapper, singer and songwriter’s shot during the course of his first ever tour will world premiere at TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival.
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Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest and Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables Bookend Perlak Lineup of San Sebastian Festival
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest will open the Perlak lineup of San Sebastian Festival’s 71st edition. This free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Martin Amis, portraying the everyday life of a German family who live beside Auschwitz, earned the British director the Grand Prix at the Festival de Cannes.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron to Open San Sebastian Festival
The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka) will open the 71st edition of San Sebastian Festival – out of competition. Following the premiere at Toronto Film Festival, San Sebastian will host the European premiere of the latest film from the director of Spirited Away.
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New York Film Festival Unveils Spotlight Films – Foe, Hit Man, The Taste of Things, The Sweet East
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in Foe directed by Garth Davis New York Film Festival unveiled the films in the Spotlight section for the upcoming 61st edition of the festival taking place September 29 – October 15, 2023. World premieres in the Spotlight section are Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series The Curse starring Emma Stone; and Garth Davis’s superbly rendered science-fiction drama Foe, starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal.