SXSW Film Festival announced the Audience Award winners of the 29th edition of the festival. The Audience Awards follow the previously-announced 2022 Jury Awards and the 40 Years of Massive Talent Award presented to Nicolas Cage at The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent screening on Saturday night.
A24 released the official trailer for Men, the new horror film described as “a wholly original vision” written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Alex Garland. The film starring Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, and Paapa Essiedu opens in theaters on May 20, 2022.
Heymann Brothers Films will release Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, a new documentary film about Israeli porn star Jonathan Agassi by filmmaker Tomer Heymann (“Mr. Gaga”). Winner of the Ophir Prize (Israeli Oscar) for Best Documentary, Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life screened at numerous international and LGBTQ film festivals including IDFA, Newfest and Outfest. The reedited version of the film will open theatrically at the Village East by Angelika in New York on May 13, and at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles on May 20th. Other cities will follow.
Greenwich Entertainment will release A Taste of Whale, the documentary directed by Vincent Kelner (World Medicine) in North American theaters and on Amazon and Apple TV on Friday, May 27, 2022.
Netflix debuted the official trailer for Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, a documentary on the late English DJ, television and radio personality who sexually abused hundreds of children and women at the height of his fame.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival revealed the 37 official festival selections for the virtual 25th edition of the festival, which takes place April 7–10, 2022. Thirty films will screen as part of NEW DOCS and are eligible for juried cash awards.; and the Invited Program includes seven feature films screening out of competition.
The 19th Calgary Underground Film Festival announced the first wave of films playing the upcoming hybrid festival, taking place from April 21 – May 1, 2022.
Good Deed Entertainment, the studio behind the worldwide animated box office smash Loving Vincent, released the official trailer and clip for Charlotte, the new animated biopic of the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist who comes of age on the eve of the Second World War and defies incredible odds to create a timeless masterpiece.
Oscilloscope Laboratories released the official trailer for Stanleyville, the satirical dark comedy starring Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mommy) and Julian Richings, which premiered at the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival.
IFC Films debuted the official trailer for Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades), the French black-and-white drama film starring stars Lucie Zhang, Makita Samba, Jehnny Beth and Noémie Merlant as four young people who fall in and out of love (and sex) with each other while figuring out their lives in Paris.
CODA continued its impressive underdog awards run, winning the award for Adapted Screenplay and Exposing Muybridge won for Documentary Screenplay at the 74th Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards.
CODA won the top prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the 33rd Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards. Summer Of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) won the Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures.