Colman Domingo leads the nominations across the motion picture categories for the 55th NAACP Image Awards with three nominations. Domingo is nominated for Entertainer of the Year, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for Rustin, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for The Color Purple.
RLJE Films revealed the official trailer for The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Bomani J. Story’s horror film inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and starring Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith, along with Keith Holliday.
The 47th Atlanta Film Festival + Creative Conference (ATLFF) taking place Thursday, April 20 through Sunday, April 30, 2023, revealed the full lineup, headlined by the Opening Night presentation of Polite Society. Starring Priya Kansara and Ritu Arya, the film follows a martial artist-in-training who enlists her friends to help save her older sister from her impending marriage in the name of independence and sisterhood.
The 23nd annual Boston Underground Film Festival returns to Harvard Square’s arthouse hub The Brattle Theatre from March 22nd through the 26th, featuring a lineup stacked with “fearsome folk horror, mendacious miscreants, harrowing horrors and hero/es/ines, godless god-complexes, eco-thrillers and chillers, sensational sci-fi, and all manner of midnight madness.”
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the second wave of the 2023 Film & TV Festival Lineup, including all Visions, Global, 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites plus numerous additions to Headliners, TV Premieres, Narrative and Documentary Spotlight, and other sections. The Festival also announced that Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s Swarm and Lee Sung Jin’s Beef will be the Opening and Closing Night TV premieres.