
Emmy winner and three-time Academy Award® – nominee Mark Ruffalo will be honored with the American Riviera Award at the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

HBO revealed the official trailer for Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing A Family’s Secrets, the documentary following photojournalist Amanda Mustard as she investigates the multiple sexual abuse crimes committed by her grandfather.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for her performance in The Holdovers. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.

Cohen Media Group shared the official trailer for Driving Madeleine (Une belle course), the French drama film starring Line Renaud (Dirty Money, Cop or Hood) as a 92-year-old woman in Paris who is moving into a nursing home and on the way she asks the taxi driver to make some stops along the way to locations that have meant something to her in her life.

Drafthouse Films debuted the official trailer for Everyone Will Burn (Y todos Arderán), the Spanish horror film starring Macarena Gómez as María José a mother on the brink of suicide after failing to get over the suicide of her bullied son years before.

Michael Sarrow’s Smile As You Kill won Best Narrative Feature and Lana Pavic’s Opera Selecta took the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the San Pedro International Film Festival (SPIFF) 2023 Fall Edition

Cillian Murphy will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, at the Palm Springs International Film Awards for his performance as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through January 15, 2024.

Vertical shared the official trailer for Fast Charlie, the action thriller film, adapted from Victor Gischler’s novel Gun Monkey, and starring Pierce Brosnan as a hitman named Fast Charlie. Also starring in the film are Morena Baccarin, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Toby Huss, with Sharon Gless and James Caan.

Emma Stone will be honored with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Film Awards will take place on January 4, 2024 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the Palm Springs International Film Festival running through January 15, 2024.

New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow called for a “reverse Great Migration” of African Americans from the North back to the South in his book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto.

Janus Films debuted the official trailer for Tótem, the drama film selected as Mexico’s Official Entry for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards.