The documentary films Batata, Fire of Love, Aftershock and Mariupol: The People’s Story are among the 35 winners of the 83rd Peabody Awards, recognized as the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting, streaming, and interactive media during 2022.
Peabody Awards announced the 27 nominees for the Documentary and News categories selected to represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in 2022 across broadcasting and streaming media.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film categories for the 94th Academy Awards®.
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (CLAIFF) in Austin, Texas announced the feature films selected for this year’s 23rd edition taking place as a hybrid event from June 9-13; and opening with Mariem Pérez Riera’s documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It.
The 23rd annual Sarasota Film Festival (SFF) announced its full line-up, including its Spotlight Section, Narrative Feature Competition, Independent Visions Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Documentary, and Short Films. The festival will take place from April 30th to May 9th with virtual and in-person events.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival released the complete schedule for its 20th annual festival presented this year as a “double feature”– online, with most films available coast-to-coast from April 15-29, and live and outdoors in Ashland and Medford from June 24-28. AIFF’s 2021 festival will present approximately 100 new independent films, including 35 feature films and a dozen shorts programs, accompanied by Q&A’s with filmmakers, virtual parties, mixers, and panels.
The 2021 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival announced this year’s filmmaker award winners with Xuan Liu’s Bloom winning Best Narrative Feature; and Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss’ Missing in Brooks County along with Paul Michael Angeli’s Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story tie for Best Documentary Feature.
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival announced the award winning films and filmmakers for this year’s 29th edition of the festival with Jessica Earnshaw’s Jacinta winning the jury prize for Best US Feature as well as earning a Special Jury Mention for the Critics Prize. Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’ Once Upon a Time in Venezuela won the jury prize for Best International Feature, and Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss’ World Premiere of Missing in Brooks County earned the award for Best Southern Feature. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s The Viewing Booth was the recipient of this year’s HSDFF Critics Prize, and Sami Khan and Michael Gassert’s The Last Out won the Matt DeCample Audience Choice Award.
