Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) will receive the 2024 SBIFF Directors of the Year Award at the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival at an in-person conversation about their respective films.
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals, set to take place March 8-16, 2024, unveiled the rest of the 2024 film lineup, including exciting Headliners, and a range of narratives, documentaries and XR projects.
The Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF), running from February 28 – March 3, 2024 will screen 20 narrative and documentary features, 37 shorts, and three episodics. The festival will kick off with opening night film Ezra directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and Robert DeNiro; and closing night film is the documentary Sugarcane directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.
The Western ‘Outlaw Posse’ directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles featuring Whoopi Goldberg and Cedric The Entertainer, will premiere as the closing night feature at the 2024 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles on February 18th.
Rei the directorial debut of Japanese filmmaker Tanaka Toshihiko won the Tiger Award at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The drama follows thirtysomething Matsushita Hikari who on a trip into the mountains of Hokkaido encounters a Deaf landscape photographer, Masato, who takes her on a journey that will transform her sense of being and connectedness with the world.
Alison Tavel was just ten weeks old when her father, inventor Don Tavel died, and now in her new documentary Resynator, she unearths the Resynator, the revolutionary synthesizer he invented in the 1970s.
Berlin International Film Festival unveiled the 2024 jury who decides who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears. The International Jury presided over by actor, director, producer and writer Lupita Nyong’o includes actor and director Brady Corbet (USA), director Ann Hui (Hong Kong, China), director Christian Petzold (Germany), director Albert Serra (Spain), actor and director Jasmine Trinca (Italy) and writer Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine). 20 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition.
Fresh from its world premiere at Sundance, Amrou Al-Kadhi’s debut feature film Layla will make its European Premiere as the opening film of the 38th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival taking place March 13th – 24th, 2024.
Actress Annette Bening will be honored with the inaugural Arlington Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Bening will receive the award on Friday, February 16th, 2024 at an in-person conversation about her career leading up to her acclaimed performance in this year’s Nyad, directed by Oscar winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.
The World Premiere of two-time SXSW Audience Award winning director Michael Showalter’s The Idea of You, starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine will close this year’s South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals taking place March 8-16, 2024.
Paul Giamatti will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his moving portrayal of curmudgeonly prep school teacher Paul Hunham in Focus Features’ The Holdovers.
Actress and singer Karena Lam has been named the ambassador for the 48th edition of Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF48), set to take place from March 28 to April 8, 2024.