The Brazilian film Dry Ground Burning (Mato Seco em Chamas) by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós wins the top award for Best Latin American Film of the Year at the 13th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards.
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Cinema Tropical Awards: Brazil’s DRY GROUND BURNING Named Best Latin American Film of the Year
Dry Ground Burning (Mato Seco em Chamas) by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
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Academy Reveals Feature Films Eligible for Animated, Documentary and International Categories for 95th Oscars
A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 95th Academy Awards.
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FIRE OF LOVE and THE TERRITORY Lead Nominations for 16th Cinema Eye Honors Nonfiction Film Awards
The Territory directed by Alex Pritz Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’ The Territory lead the nominees for the 16th Cinema Eye Honors Annual Awards celebrating outstanding artistry and craft in nonfiction filmmaking, with seven nominations each, tying the record for most Cinema Eye nominations in a single year. Shaunak Sen’s Cannes-winning feature, All That Breathes, received six nominations, and Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, received four.
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IDFA 2022 Announces Masters and Best of Fests + Premiere of Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only The 35th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) running from November 9 to 20 in Amsterdam announced its first competition lineups: the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary, in addition to the Masters and Best of Fests selections.
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BEBA Trailer. Rebeca Huntt’s Raw Cinematic Memoir Documentary in Theaters in June
Beba directed by Rebeca Huntt The official trailer debuted this week for BEBA, Rebeca Huntt’s poetic, raw and ruthless self portrait documentary in which the young, NYC-born Afro-Latina stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma. The documentary which premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival opens in theaters on June 24, 2022.
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Rooftop Films Announces 2022 Summer Series Feature Film Slate
Rooftop Films at Green Wood Cemetery Rooftop Films announced the lineup for the 2022 annual Rooftop Films Summer Series, and in keeping with their annual tradition, the Summer Series will open with a collection of exciting new short films on Friday, May 20th at Green-Wood Cemetery, along with a performance from New York Liberty’s own Timeless Torches, NYC’s favorite over-40 dance group, who are featured in Quitting Time, a short film that will play that evening.
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Tribeca Festival 2022 Announces Feature and Shorts Lineup, Closes with Reverend Al Sharpton Documentary ‘Loudmouth’
Reverend Al Sharpton stars in Loudmouth documentary [credit: Lorie Shaull] The 2022 Tribeca Festival, set to run from June 8-19, announced its lineup of feature and short narrative, documentary, and animated films. The festival will showcase 111 feature films and 16 online premieres from 151 filmmakers across 40 countries.
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Miami Film Festival 2022 Announces Lineup of 120+ Films
Plaza Catedral directed by Abner Benaim (Apertura Films) Miami Film Festival presents its 39th annual edition from March 4-13, 2022 in a hybrid format, with both in-theater and virtual presentations. The 2022 Festival will showcase more than 120 feature narratives, documentaries, and short films of all genres, from more than 35 countries worldwide.
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Berlin Film Festival 2022 Reveals First Films
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole in Against the Ice by Peter Flinth © Lilja Jonsdottir / Netflix Berlin International Film Festival confirmed the first films for the 2022 edition of the festival, including seven films for Berlinale Special, thirteen titles for Panorama, ten feature-length films and seven short films for Generation, and ten titles for the Forum.
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Watch First Clip for BEBA, Rebeca Huntt’s Deeply Personal Documentary Memoir of an Afro-Latina
Beba directed by Rebeca Huntt First-time feature filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt debuted the first look – clip from her remarkable coming-of-age documentary/cinematic memoir BEBA premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Beba reflects on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother and can be best described as “a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection.”
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Toronto Film Festival 2021 Unveils Documentary, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths Lineup
Attica directed by Stanley Nelson (TIFF) Toronto International Film Festival 2021 announced the films included in the TIFF Docs, Wavelengths and Midnight Madness programs and new additions to the Special Presentation and Contemporary World Cinema programs.
