After screening 162 films, the 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival announced the award winners with Los Frikis directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson winning Best Narrative Feature and Champions Of The Golden Valley, directed by Ben Sturgulewski winning Best Documentary Feature.
Mongrels, the debut feature film by award-winning Korean Canadian director Jerome Yoo, will premiere internationally in the First Feature Competition program at the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) in Estonia.
Produced by Ron Howard, Churchill at War is the latest project from Imagine Documentary. This four-part documentary series explores the pivotal role played by former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II. It features archival recordings narrated by Churchill himself and includes interviews with historians and notable figures, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie will receive the Performer Tribute at the 34th The Gothams awards for her performance as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s Maria.
Movies released on November 1 weekend includes a diverse lineup of titles that span genres and styles, from Cannes-winning musical to hard-hitting dramas and thrilling tales of survival. Best Actress and Jury Prize Cannes-winning Emilia Pérez is a daring musical from French auteur Jacques Audiard. Jesse Eisenberg’s comedy-drama A Real Pain explores the process of mourning. Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) returns with a touching WWII drama, Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan. Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) also returns in a small-town thriller, Small Things Like These. The Shameik Moore-starring comedy The Gutter tells the story of an unlikely bowling hero. The Sylvester Stallone-produced drama Lost on a Mountain in Maine follows the true story of a 12-year-old boy’s survival. Hannah Peterson’s Tribeca-winning The Graduates is a coming-of-age film that explores the theme of trauma. Robert Zemeckis reunites with Tom Hanks in Here, capturing human experiences with a unique twist. Finally, Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Juror #2, stars Nicholas Hoult in the leading role.
Pamela Anderson will be recognized for her starring role in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl with the Marquee Award at the 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Anderson will receive the award before the film’s Southeast premiere and she will join Coppola for a Q&A. The 2024 SCAD Savannah Film Festival kicked off on October 26 and runs through November 2.
Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson snagged the audience award for Best U.S. Narrative, and Music by John Williams directed by Laurent Bouzereauat won for Best U.S. Documentary at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival.
Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean’s series) returns with Presence, a new psychological horror film. Shot entirely from the first-person perspective of the “presence,” the film follows a family moving into a new home haunted by a mysterious entity.
Oscar-nominated actress Lily Gladstone has boarded the award-winning documentary Sugarcane as executive producer.
Colman Domingo and the cast of Sing Sing, directed by Greg Kwedar, will receive The 2024 Gotham Social Justice Tribute at the 34th The Gothams, taking place live and in person on Monday, December 2, 2024 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Making its world premier earlier this year at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, The Damned marks the feature film directorial debut of Thordur Palsson. Written by Jamie Hannigan, this period psychological horror film follows a widow who faces a dilemma when a ship becomes stranded in her isolated fishing outpost.
A year after its US premiere at the 2023 Fantastic Fest, Doppelgänger Releasing is releasing You Are Not Me, the Christmas queer thriller from co-directors Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera. The film follows the story of a woman introducing her wife and adopted child for the first time to her conservative family at a Christmas gathering.