Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) will be honored with the Artist of Distinction Award and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) will be honored with the Spotlight Award at the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF). Both Cannavale and Qualley will be honored at the Festival’s annual Awards brunch taking place on Sunday, October 20.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the second directorial work by Rungano Nyoni won the Golden Eye award in the Feature Film Competition at the 20th Zurich Film Festival. Black Box Diaries by Shiori Itō won he Golden Eye award in the Documentary Competition along with Audience Award.
Louder: The Soundtrack Of Change, directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Kristi Jacobson (HBO’s “Solitary” and “No Accident”), debuts Thursday, October 17 on Max.
Directed by Emmy and Peaboy Award winner Bath Aala, and Executive Produced by Alicia Keys, the documentary Uncharted will premiere on Paramount+ in the US and Canada on Tuesday, October 22.
The horror-thriller film Please Don’t Feed The Children, the feature film directorial debut of Destry Allyn Spielberg, daughter of Steven Spielberg, will world premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival (the 57th Annual Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya), on Friday, October 11, 2024.
Directed by Banchi Hanuse (Nuxalk Radio), the documentary Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun is an intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and her family, as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world, the Indian Relay.
Celebrating its 15th edition, the 2024 DOC NYC will screen over 110 feature-length documentaries from November 13-21, 2024 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika in New York City, continuing online until December 1, 2024.
Shameik Moore (Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse) stars in The Gutter, a comedy film following an unemployed man who finds out he has a talent for bowling and decides to launch a pro career.
Thesis on a Domestication (Tesis sobre una domesticación) by award-winning writer-director Javier Van de Couter and based on the homonymous novel written and adapted by the film’s lead, acclaimed Argentine trans author Camila Sosa Villada, will world premiere at the 60th Chicago International Film Festival.
Based on the 1989 book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, The Order is a crime-thriller helmed by Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders) telling the true story of the 1983 series of crimes committed by a radical group of Neo-Nazis terrorists.
Helmed by two-time Emmy-winning director of Elton John: Never Too Late and Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, R.J. Cutler, “Martha” is a documentary centering on American businesswoman, media personality, and self-made billionaire Martha Stewart. The documentary features an in-depth interview with Stewart with the addition of voices of many of the most significant people from all different stages of her life.
Debuting at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s feature directorial debut All We Imagine as Light made history by being the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix Award, the festival’s second-most prestigious honor. The film tells the story of two nurses navigating the challenges of their love lives in the patriarchal society of India