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.
Making its world premiere earlier this year at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, Heavier Trip is the sequel to the 2018 metal cult classic, Heavy Trip. The film, helmed by returning co-directors Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio, follows the story of the first film, with the death metal band Impaled Rektum returning to escape prison and perform at a legendary music festival.
Whistler Film Festival (WFF) unveiled the lineup of 12 Canadian feature films in its Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature.
Ralph Fiennes will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his performance as Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave.
Calgary Underground Film Festival has revealed the 16 features and nine shorts selected for the 12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival taking place from November 20-24, 2024 at Globe Cinema.
Emilia Pérez’s director Jacques Audiard and cast – Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Edgar Ramírez will receive 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 Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running January 2-13, 2025.
Unstoppable is the feature film directorial debut of William Goldenberg, Academy Award-winning editor of Argo. The film tells the incredible true story of Anthony Robles (played by Jharrel Jerome), an American wrestler who won the 2011 NCAA individual wrestling national championship despite being born with only one leg.
Color Book directed by David Fortune won the award for Narrative Feature and Desert Angel directed by Vincent DeLuca won for Documentary Feature at the 31st Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference in Austin, Texas.
Documentarian Rory Kennedy will receive the Pennebaker Award at the Ninth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday, November 10, 2024. The late Critics Choice Lifetime Achievement Award winner D. A. Pennebaker inspired the name of the award, and Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s producing partner and widow, will present it.
Helmed by H. Nelson Tracey in his feature film directorial debut, Breakup Season is a romance/drama film following the story of a recently broken-up couple who got stuck at a family Christmas visit. The film initially premiered at the 2024 Desertscape Film Festival on March 29th. The independent film also screened at the 13th Richmond Film Festival, the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival, and the 2024 Waco Indie Film Festival where it won the Best Narrative Feature and Best Performance for lead actor Chandler Riggs.
The American Film Institute (AFI) today named Francis Ford Coppola the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a career in film.
Celebrating its world-premiere earlier this year at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, Lake George marks the return to feature film directing for veteran TV director Jeffrey Reiner (Fargo, Friday Night Lights). Led by Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon, the film follows two people as they attempt to steal money from a group of mobsters who plans to kill them.