Bella!, directed by Jeff L. Lieberman, and Philly on Fire, directed by Ross Hockrow and Tommy Walker are the two winners of the fourth annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. The filmmakers will each receive a $200,000 finishing grant to help with final production and distribution.
The Polish drama Prophet, the first feature film on the life of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, will be released in U.S. theaters on November 15 and 17. The story will introduce audiences to a heroic Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who exhibited an unwavering witness amid rising communist forces, fearlessness during imprisonment and a vision of the future Pope John Paul II.
Here is the first official trailer for Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, the award-winning documentary chronicling the iconic singer Dionne Warwick’s six-decade career in both music and Black and LGBTQ activism.
Returning this year with a hybrid edition, the 10th anniversary edition of Shorts Not Pants Film Festival will take place November 18 – 27, 2022, in-person at Innis Town Hall, in Toronto, from November 18 – 20, and a virtual edition making its program of short films and filmmaker Q&As available across Canada from November 21 – 27.
Tár, Todd Field’s drama starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional renowned musician Lydia Tár, won the Overall Audience Favorite award at the 45th Mill Valley Film Festival. Other audience awards went to The Whale for Audience Favorite | US Cinema; Our Father, The Devil for Audience Favorite | US Indie; The Banshees of Inisherin for Audience Favorite | World Cinema; Close for Audience Favorite | World Cinema (foreign language); and The Grab for Audience Favorite | Documentary.
BAFTA nominated costume designer Jennifer Johnson will be honored with the seventh annual Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design at the 2022 Key West Film Festival.
In a time of war, one voice changed the tide.
Written and directed by A.V. Rockwell in her feature-length directorial debut, A Thousand and One from Focus Features will be released in theaters on March 31, 2023.
Magnolia Pictures released the official trailer for There There, the comedy film starring Jason Schwartzman, Lili Taylor, Lennie James, Molly Gordon, Annie La Ganga, Avi Nash, that “sensitively captures the humor and heartbreaking fragility of life and love in the 2020s.”
Gabriel Martin’s Mars One was a three-time winner at the 35th edition of Out on Film, the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival, taking the jury awards for Best Narrative Feature, Best International Film and Best Ensemble. Magnus Gertten’s Nelly & Nadine won the jury prize for Best Documentary.
Saban Films debuted the official trailer for Hunted, an intensely thrilling, provocative film from director Tommy Boulding, starring Malachi Pullar-Lachtman, Samantha Bond, James Lance and Hannah Traylen.
Hidden Letters from director Violet Du Feng and co-director Qing Zhao won the $20,000 Documentary Feature Grand Prize at the 31st Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF), with the other top prizes going to Our Father, the Devil from director Ellie Foumbi for the $20,000 Narrative Feature Grand Prize, and Wildcat from directors Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost took the $5,000 Jimmy Stewart Legacy Award.