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48th Seattle Intl Film Festival Announces Winners – Know Your Place, Klondike, The Territory Win Awards

Seattle International Film Festival

Know Your Place directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi

48th Seattle International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2022 Golden Space Needle with Know Your Place directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi winning the Golden Space Needle Audience Award for Best Film along with New American Cinema Jury Award. Grand Jury Prizes went to Klondike, winner of the Official Competition, The Territory won for Best Documentary, Sublime won in the Ibero-American Competition, and Lonely Voices won for Best Performance. Other top awards including Best Documentary went to Radiograph of a Family Dale Dickey and A Love Song won Best Performance.

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Zach Carver’s Adventure Documentary THE RACE TO ALASKA Opens in Theaters in May | Trailer

Documentary

The Race to Alaska directed by Zach Carver

From filmmaker Zach Carver (TV series “Textual Intercourse”), the adventure documentary The Race to Alaska is a visceral film, embodying the triumph over adversity of a real-life Amazing Race test of endurance – picture the Iditarod on a boat, no motors, no support and 750 miles of tumultuous waters.

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Karl Malakunas’ DELIKADO Documentary Follows the Fight to Save Palawan island in the Philippines

Documentary, Hot Docs

Delikado directed by Karl Malakunas

Set in Palawan, an archipelagic province of the Philippines, the new documentary Delikado follows three environmental crusaders, as they try to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier.”

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Dale Dickey and Michael Showalter to be Honored at San Luis Obispo Intl Film Festival

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival

Dale Dickey and Michael Showalter (Photo by Brouk Peters)

Dale Dickey (A Love Song) will receive the King Vidor Award and Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) will be this year’s Spotlight Award honoree at the 28th Annual San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (April 26-May 1). Stacy Peralta’s The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez was also announced as the featured film for this year’s Surf Nite at the Drive-in.

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Indian Film Festival of LA Announces Closing Night Events + Anurag Kashyap Master Class

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Anurag Kashyap

The 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) will wrap up with a first look at IFFLA alum Kahlil Maskati’s feature screenplay, Alim Uncle, presented as a live table read and a preview of Nimisha Mukerji’s New Country. The evening, taking place at Regal LA Live (1000 W. Olympic Blvd.), will also include the Awards Ceremony.

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CATEGORY: WOMAN. Phyllis Ellis’ Documentary Asks ‘Who is a woman and who gets to decide?’ | Video – Watch Clips

Documentary, Hot Docs

Category: Woman directed by Phyllis Ellis (image via screenshot)

Who is a woman and who gets to decide?

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17th Harlem Intl Film Festival Announces Lineup with 3 World Premieres on Opening Night

Harlem International Film Festival

Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South directed by Crystal Lee Kwok

The 2022 Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) announced official selections for its 17^th edition – a hybrid event taking place May 5-15. The film festival will open with a gala presentation of three films making world premieres at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd.). The films include Jamal Joseph’s A Gorgeous Mosaic, Ano Okero’s An American Street Mural in Harlem, and Myra Lewis’ Love is in the Legend.

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IMAGES OF A NORDIC DRAMA, Art Documentary by Nils Gaup to Intl Premiere at Hot Docs | Teaser Trailer

Documentary, Hot Docs

Haakon Mehren in his tiny art-crowded apartment in Oslo in Images of a Nordic Drama directed by Nils Gaup

Directed by Nils Gaup, the feature documentary Images of a Nordic Drama will have its International Premiere at Hot Docs 2022.

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Pakistani Film JOYLAND by Saim Sadiq to World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival, Foreign Language Films

Joyland directed by Saim Sadiq

Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, Joyland will be the first Pakistani feature ever to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Joyland will compete in the Official Selection’s Un Certain Regard and will also vie for the Caméra d’Or.

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MENUDO: FOREVER YOUNG Documentary to Premiere at Tribeca Fest and Debut on HBO Max

Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival

Menudo (album cover)

Menudo: Forever Young, the four-part documentary from filmmakers Angel Manuel Soto (Max Original “Charm City Kings”) and Kristofer Ríos (“Havana Skate Days”), will have its world premiere at the 2022 Tribeca Festival on June 11 in New York.

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PREHISTORIC PLANET Trailer. Sir David Attenborough Narrates Apple TV+ Natural History Documentary

Documentary

Prehistoric Planet | Apple TV+

Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for Prehistoric Planet, the natural history documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

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MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON to Close 2022 Calgary Underground Film Festival

Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On starring Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini

Calgary Underground Film Festival will close on Friday, April 29 with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a live-action comedy starring Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini, based on the short YouTube films of the same name.

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