Rodrigo Reyes’ Sansón and Me won the jury prize for Best U.S. Feature, and Violet Du Feng and Zhao Qing’s Hidden Letters won the jury prize and the Audience Choice Award for Best International Feature at the 31st edition of Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for In Her Hands, the documentary on Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor braving mortal danger to lead a fight for education for the next generation of Afghans.
The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) handed out its 2022 awards, with The Quiet Girl, the Irish film on a quiet, neglected girl sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer, winning the Jury award for Best Film. Lovely Jackson, the true life story of Rickey Jackson who spent 39 years on death row and in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, won for Best Feature Documentary.
The 14th edition of Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival takes place Tuesday, November 15 through Saturday, November 19, in Los Angeles. The festival will open with Gabriel Martins’ Mars One (Marte Um), which had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and is the official selection to represent Brazil for Best International Feature at the upcoming Oscars®.
The 2022 Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) Film, Food and Wine Showcase takes place at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Copia on November 10 – 13 featuring a curated group of films and honoree tributes.
The 31st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) runs November 3-13, 2022, showcasing 256 films, including more than 100 documentary and narrative features and 21 short film programs. A small selection of films will also be available online.
What Comes Around – formerly titled Roost – directed by Amy Redford (The Guitar), stars Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things, Charlie Says), Summer Phoenix (The Believer, The Faculty), Jesse Garcia (Flamin’ Hot) and Kyle Gallner (Scream, Smile).
Oscilloscope Laboratories will release a never-before-seen 4K re-edit of Mark Pellington’s Sundance Film Festival hit Going All The Way: The Director’s Edit.
A Massacre. A Cover-up.
And One Man’s Quest to Finally Expose the Truth.
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended its 7th edition with the U.S. Premiere of the new 20th anniversary 2K restoration of Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible: Straight Cut. The horror fantasy thriller Mother Superior was awarded the top honors of Best Feature and Best Director for Marie Alice Wolfszahn in the Main Competition Features program.
Todd Fields’ Tár led the nominations for the 32nd Annual Gotham Awards with five nods including Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Performance for Cate Blanchett and two in Best Supporting Performance for Nina Hoss and Noémie Merlant.
Panorama Films will release Black Notebooks: Ronit, a documentary film on Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz by Shlomi Elkabetz (co-director of GETT and the star of Our Boys on HBO) in the U.S. The film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival and went on to win the 2022 Ophir Award (Israeli “Oscar”) for Best Documentary.