Cinema Eye Honors unveiled the 16 films on the Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in five Broadcast categories, and the annual Shorts List — spotlighting 11 of the year’s top documentary short films for its 18th annual edition.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story dominated at the 9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards, winning all six of its nominated categories, including a tie with Will & Harper for Best Documentary Feature, along with wins for Best Director for Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Best Editing for Otto Burnham, Best Score for Ilan Eshkeri, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Biographical Documentary.
Sugarcane leads the Ninth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA) nominations with eight nods including Best Documentary Feature. Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Best Director and Best New Documentary Filmmakers, Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie for Best Cinematography, Nathan Punwar and Maya Daisy Hawk for Best Editing, Best Historical Documentary, Best Political Documentary, and Best True Crime Documentary.
The 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival taking place from October 26 to November 2 will screen 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, and 69 shorts, with 10 world premieres and six U.S. premieres.
Netflix debuted the trailer for ‘Daughters’, a documentary from co-directors filmmaker Natalie Rae and activist Angela Patton. The film follows a program by organization Camp Diva that reunites incarcerated fathers with their daughters for a father-daughter dance to bond their relationships and empower their children.
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) shared an impressive 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences running 8-25 August across Melbourne, around Victoria and online Australia-wide this August.
The 2024 Bentonville Film Festival announced the winners of their narrative, documentary, short film, and episodic competition program for the 10th anniversary of the festival which ran from June 10-16 in Bentonville, AR.
The 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest set for June 12-17, 2024 unveiled the full program of 109 films including the World premieres of Tilda Swinton’s feature directorial debut alongside filmmaker Bartek Dziadosz The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze and the latest film from Croatian director Goran Devic, Pavilion 6.
DC/DOX documentary film festival in the nation’s capital unveiled the lineup including films on Christopher Reeve in Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Luther Vandross in Luther: Never Too Much, Ani DeFranco in 1-800-ON-HER-OWN, and designer Diane Von Furstenberg in Diane Von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge.
The 2024 Bentonville Film Festival, set for June 10-16 in Bentonville, Arkansas, unveiled the competition program of narrative, documentary, short film, and episodic selections premiering in-person.
The 29th Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) which will run from June 19 – 24, 2024, unveiled its lineup, honorees, and Signature Programs.
Los Frikis directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz won the top jury prize, the $20,000 MARIMBAS Award, at the 41st edition of Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Film Festival.