Identifying Features, the debut feature from director Fernanda Valadez, is the winner of the 44th Portland International Film Festival’s Future/future competition. The film, an intriguing and confident first feature following a mother’s journey to find out what happened to her son along the Mexican border, was awarded the honor as well as a $1,000 prize.
Portland International Film Festival unveiled the films in the 2021 Future/future competition highlighting boundary-pushing new cinema from emerging filmmakers and represents some of the most exciting new voices in global cinema.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains won Best Picture, Cinematography and Debut Feature at this year’s International Cinephile Society Awards given annually by the International Cinephile Society, an online organization of professional film critics and journalists worldwide.
The 44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF 44) taking place March 5 – 14, 2021, announced the first wave of films and special events. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, PIFF 44 will be held as a hybrid event with a combination of virtual and drive-in screenings.
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland snagged the top awards for Best Feature along and Gotham Audience Award at the 30th annual Gotham Awards held on Monday night. Ramona Diaz’s A Thousand Cuts and Garrett Bradley’s Time tied for Best Documentary; and Fernanda Valadez’s Identifying Features won for Best International Feature.
The gripping Mexican border thriller, Identifying Features from debut filmmaker Fernanda Valadez will open January 22 on Kino Marquee and virtual cinemas nationwide including in New York at Film at Lincoln Center along with BAM; and in Los Angeles at Laemmle.
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art announce the return of the 49th annual New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), rescheduled from March for December 9-20. This year’s festival will introduce 24 features and 10 shorts virtually to audiences nationwide, with films scheduled over the course of 12 days and screening exclusively in the FLC Virtual Cinema.
Forty-one films and series are nominated for this year for the 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards, considered one of the leading awards for independent film and signaling the kick-off to the film awards season. Best Feature nominations went to The Assistant, First Cow, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Nomadland, and Relic, becoming the first time all of the best feature nominees are directed by women. In total, eleven competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series.
The 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival runs all-virtual from October 15 – 29, featuring 197 film titles. Opening the festival is “I Used to Go Here” directed by Kris Rey, featuring Gillian Jacobs and Jemaine Clement, a heartfelt crowd-pleaser about a 30-something writer who should be celebrating her success, but with all of her friends getting married and having kids, she feels like she’s missing out.
This year’s 49th annual New Directors/New Films (ND/NF) will introduce 27 features and 10 short films to New York audiences from March 25 to April 5.
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place last night, with top awards – Grand Jury Prizes awarded to Minari for U.S. Dramatic, Boys State for U.S. Documentary, Epicentro for World Cinema Documentary and Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness for World Cinema Dramatic.
Fernanda Valadez’s striking debut feature Identifying Features (Sin señas particulares), is set to have its world premiere in the World Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival taking place January 23 – February 2 in Park City, Utah.