Sony Pictures Classics debuted the official trailer for Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, a documentary capturing the 50th anniversary of the iconic New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Featured in the documentary are Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffett, Katy Perry, Earth, Wind & Fire, and many others.
Film at Lincoln Center announced the lineup of 17 features and four shorts for the ninth edition of Art of the Real, the showcase for the world’s most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking, taking place March 31–April 7.
Magnolia Pictures released an official trailer for Anaïs in Love (Les amours d’Anaïs), the French romance comedy film directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. The film starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet, Xavier Guelfi, Christophe Montenez, Anne Canovas, and Bruno Todeschini, premiered in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes Film Festival.
Apple TV+ released the official trailer for They Call Me Magic, the four-part documentary series on the life and career of Earvin “Magic” Johnson. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa (“Dope”), the docuseries made its debut at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas ahead of its global premiere on Friday, April 22, on Apple TV+.
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog won Best Picture at the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards along with Best Director and Adapted Screenplay prize for Campion.
The Power of the Dog won the two top BAFTA awards – Best Film, and Director for Jane Campion at the 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards.
The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2021 were announced at the 74th Annual DGA Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills hosted by Judd Apatow.
Here is the official trailer for Vortex, the French drama film directed by Gaspar Noé about an elderly couple with advancing dementia.
Set in Haiti, the family drama film Freda, directed by Géssica Généus, won the $25,000 Knight MARIMBAS Award, at the 39th edition of Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Film Festival. The jury said, “this film resonated with all of us for its strong, female-centered narrative, and its exceptional performances from emerging actors. We couldn’t stop thinking about this world and these characters, and we appreciated being immersed in a place that we don’t often see onscreen – portrayed in such a realistic, but tender way.”
The documentary How to Survive a Pandemic, directed by acclaimed journalist and Academy Award -nominated filmmaker David France (HBO’s “Welcome to Chechnya” and “How to Survive a Plague”) debuts Tuesday, March 29 (9:00-10:50 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.
Check out the first clip from Jethica, a supernatural dark comedy shot in New Mexico in January 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, and world premiering at SXSW in the Visions section. Jethica boldly blends and bends genres, all at once shining as a sharp comedy and dire stalker thriller with an undead edge.
The new documentary Sheryl, an intimate story of song and sacrifice about musical icon Sheryl Crow, will premiere on Showtime on Friday, May 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.