The 2024 Overlook Film Festival honored the winners of the audience and juried prizes, with the feature film Audience Award, voted on by festival attendees, going to Damian Mc Carthy’s Oddity, a terrifying creepfest in which a blind medium resorts to desperate measures in an effort to find out the truth behind what happened to her sister.
The 21st Oxford Film Festival announced the winners with jury award for Best Narrative Feature going to Erika Arlee’s A Song for Imogene and Best Documentary Feature went to The Blues Society directed by Augusta Palmer. Rising Hope directed by Theo Avgerinos won the Audience Award Feature Film along with Best Mississippi Documentary Feature.
HBO revealed the official trailer for The Jinx – Part Two, a new six-episode continuation of the Emmy®-winning documentary series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” from director Andrew Jarecki, which debuted on HBO in 2015.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival set to take place May 14-25, 2024, unveiled the Official Selection films in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings.
Director and producer Sadhvi Siddhali Shree (Surviving Sex Trafficking) along with co-director and co-producer Sadhvi Anubhuti (For the Animals) are currently in production on Balance: A Perimenopause Journey, a four-part documentary series about the taboo and timely subject of women facing perimenopause, with their longtime collaborator – actress and activist Alyssa Milano.
Caroline Lindy’s debut feature film Your Monster starring Melissa Barrera opens the 14th Lower East Side Film Festival (“LESFF”) taking place Thursday, May 2 – Monday, May 6 at Village East Cinema and DCTV Firehouse Cinema in New York City.
Legendary director, screenwriter and producer George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’or on Saturday, May 25, at the Closing Ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes.
Sweet Dreams, the Dutch ‘surrealist satire on European colonialism’ film selected as Netherlands’ Official Selection for the 96th Academy Awards makes its US theatrical premiere opening at New York City’s Metrograph.
Kevin Costner will present the first part of his multi-episode Western film Horizon, An American Saga as a World Premiere, Out of Competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The film about the conquest of the American West, directed by Costner, who stars with Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington and Jena Malone, will be released in 4 episodes over several months.
Well Go USA Entertainment revealed the official trailer for The Last Stop in Yuma County, the crime thriller film starring Jim Cummings as a traveling knife salesman who gets caught up in a high-stakes hostage situation.
A24 revealed the official trailer for MaXXXine, the latest saga and final installment in Ti West’s horror trilogy in the world of ‘X’ starring Mia Goth reprising her role as Maxine.
Hollywoodgate by Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at took the Grand Jury Award at the 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. With an interpreter by his side Nash’at documents a Taliban group taking control of a former CIA base nicknamed “Hollywoodgate” just days after the U.S. Army’s controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.