David Vincent Smith’s directorial debut, He Ain’t Heavy, a drama inspired by true events, bagged an impressive four awards out of seven nominations at the 2023 WA Screen Culture Awards (WASCAs). Noteworthy recognitions include Innovation in Narrative Feature Film (budget over $1m), Outstanding Achievements in Cinematography or Visualisation (Lewis Potts), Performance (Sam Corlett), and Production Design (Emma Fletcher).
Rome Independent Film Festival (RIIF) announced the winners of the XXII edition of the RIFF Awards with the Award for Best Italian Feature Film going to Ciurè by Giampiero Pumo. The film won “because it is constructed with delicacy and courage. Because Pumo is very good in the dual role of director and protagonist. Because it is an independent film that has the tone of a refined product. A film that talks about two worlds distant from each other that despite this meet and clash, giving life to a fairy tale in reverse”. Ciuré also won the “Mario Mieli” Special Prize for the best LGBTQIA+ project.
Director Nicholas Gyeney (Beta Test, Ultra Low) and producer Kelsey Aho of Genie Productions will world premiere their latest feature film, the mind-bending thriller The Activated Man as the Closing Night Film of Dances with Films NYC on December 3rd at the Regal Union Square in Manhattan.
The 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) which ran from November 9 to 19, 2023 awarded four accomplished filmmakers for their contributions to the world of cinema and announced the winners of the juried competition and audience-choice awards.
Film Movement debuted the official trailer for How I Learned To Fly, the coming-of-age drama starring Marcus Scribner (black-ish), Lonnie Chavis (this is it), Method Man and Cedric the entertainer. The film tells the story of two teen brothers who learn to thrive and survive after been abandoned by their parents.
Cohen Media Group will release Bernard-Henri Lévy’s documentary Glory to the Heroes, an intimate look at the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians as they face invading Russian military forces.
Concrete Utopia, the disaster-thriller film selected as South Korean entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards debuted the official trailer and release date.
Jonathan Ogilvie’s post-punk coming-of-age comedy Head South will open the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Thursday 25 January 2024, with the festival running until Sunday 4 February.
Array Releasing shared the official trailer for Frybread Face and Me, the award-winning indie coming-of-age film following two adolescent Navajo cousins as they bond over a summer spent on their grandmother’s Arizona ranch.
Sony Pictures Classics debuted the official trailer for The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer), the German drama film selected as the German entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
Kino Lorber shared the official trailer for La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck), the French thriller starring Isabelle Huppert as Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse who becomes a whistle-blower and places her life in extreme danger.
The 39th IDA Documentary Awards announced this year’s nominees with Against the Tide, ANHELL69, Apolonia, Apolonia, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, In the Rearview, Milisuthando, Q, The Mother of All Lies and While We Watched nominated for Best Feature Documentary.