
Nomadland director Chloé Zhao will be honored with the American Perspectives Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema at the 33rd Annual Virginia Film Festival running October 21-25.

Nomadland director Chloé Zhao will be honored with the American Perspectives Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema at the 33rd Annual Virginia Film Festival running October 21-25.

The 43rd Denver Film Festival (DFF43) kicks off tonight, Opening Night, October 22 with Searchlight’s NOMADLAND. The film will also receive DFF43’s Rare Pearl Award which will be accepted by director, Chloé Zhao, in a video presentation before the film screening. The Rare Pearl Award highlights a film whose beauty and uniqueness stand out as finest of the year. Recent Rare Pearl Award winners include Portrait of a Lady on Fire (DFF42) and Roma (DFF41).

The 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF43) and the DocLands Documentary Film Festival (which ran in tandem this year) concluded on October 18th after 11 days of virtual and drive-in screenings, panels, and special events.

Philadelphia Film Society unveiled the first wave of 45 films for the 29th Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF29) that will be available via the Digital Streaming Platform, along with the first announced Centerpiece Films to premiere at the PFS Drive-In at the Navy Yard from October 23 – November 2.

The 21st Woodstock Film Festival announced the winners of its annual Maverick Awards competition, with Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao winning the award for Best Narrative Feature and Los Hermanos/The Brothers, directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider winning for Best Documentary Feature

The Middleburg Film Festival will launch on Thursday, October 15th with Chloé Zhao’s (“The Rider”) Nomadland starring Frances McDormand in her first role since winning the Academy Award for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

The re-imagined 2020 San Diego International Film Festival (October 15-18) will open with the third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND. Other spotlight features include HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING, BLITHE SPIRIT, FAREWELL AMOR, STARDUST, DRUNK BUS, ONE OF THESE DAYS and HONEYMOOD.

Chicago International Film Festival today unveiled the full lineup for the 56th edition, screening both virtually and at the drive-in from Wednesday, October 14 – Sunday, October 25, 2020.

The 45th edition of Toronto International Film Festival wrapped last night with the Closing Night Presentation of Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy at the RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place, and announce its award recipients for 2020. The People’s Choice Award winner is Nomadland directed by Chloé Zhao, People’s Choice Documentary Award winner is Inconvenient Indian directed by Michelle Latimer, and the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner is Shadow in the Cloud directed by Roseanne Liang.

This year’s 9th edition of the Montclair Film Festival (MFF) will open on Friday, October 16, with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and close on Saturday, October 24, with Regina King’s One Night in Miami…. The festival taking place October 16-25, 2020 in Montclair, NJ will screen the Opening, Closing, and Centerpiece Films at the Montclair Film Festival’s Carpool Theater drive-in, with the Virtual Centerpiece screening on Montclair Film’s new Virtual Cinema platform.