Sundance Institute announced that Eugene Hernandez will be the next Director of the Sundance Film Festival and head of public programming. He is the fourth official Festival Director in the Sundance Film Festival’s history. He joins the Sundance Institute from Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), where he has spent the past 12 years, most recently as Senior Vice President of FLC, Executive Director of the New York Film Festival, and publisher of Film Comment.
Prime Video released the official trailer for My Policeman, the romance drama starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett.
British actor Sir Ben Kingsley will be honored at the 18th Zurich Film Festival with the Golden Icon Award and present the European premiere of his latest movie Dalíland, in which he portrays the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí. In addition, Sir Ben Kingsley will speak about his career in a ZFF Masters.
POV on PBS explores the shadowy nexus of pro sports and the migrant trail in the Cuban baseball documentary film The Last Out, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sami Khan (St. Louis Superman) and Michael Gassert. The documentary will make its national broadcast premiere on Monday, October 3, 2022, and available to stream free until November 2, 2022 at pbs.org, and the PBS Video app.
Ahead of the world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, here is the first look – an official clip, via Deadline, for Brother, the coming-of-age drama film directed by Clement Virgo (Dear Edward), and starring Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Kiana Madeira, and Marsha Stephanie Blake.
Three films – Animal directed by Cyril Dion, Comedy Queen directed by Sanna Lenken, and Dreams Are Like Wild Tigers directed by Lars Montag – have been selected by film experts and teenager from all over Europe in a two-step awarding procedure to be in the running for the Young Audience Award 2022.
The Fabelmans, the coming-of-age drama directed by AFI Life Achievement Award recipient and Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, will close AFI FEST 2022.
Netflix released the first look official teaser for All Quiet on the Western Front, the anti-war film selected as Germany’s official contender for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. Based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, the film stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Edin Hasanovic, Adrian Grünewald, with Thibault De Montalembert, with Daniel Brühl, and Devid Striesow.
Focus Features released the official trailer for Armageddon Time, the coming-of-age period drama starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Tovah Feldshuh, Ryan Sell, Anthony Hopkins.
Amazon Prime Video debuted the official trailer for Argentina, 1985, the thriller inspired by the true story of public prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, who dared to investigate and prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship in 1985. The film stars Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes, Wild Tales), and Peter Lanzani.
Academy Award®-winner Eddie Redmayne will be awarded a Golden Eye for his career achievements at the 18th Zurich Film Festival taking place September 22 – October 2, 2022. Redmayne will receive the award prior to presenting the European premiere of Tobias Lindholm’s thriller The Good Nurse, in which he plays a nurse who poses a deadly threat to his patients. He will also participate in a ZFF Masters session.
National Geographic released the teaser trailer for Retrograde, the new documentary from Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman world premiering at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The documentary film captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives and offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.