The 2022 Tribeca Festival announced its line-up for Tribeca Immersive program showcasing cinematic and cutting-edge virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and participatory experiences by top artists who push the boundaries of creative and emotional storytelling.
The world premiere of Father & Soldier directed by Mathieu Vadepied, starring Omar Sy, Alassane Diong and Jonas Bloquet will open Un Certain Regard program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
The Locarno Film Festival will honor U.S. composer, visual artist and filmmaker Laurie Anderson with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, a prize dedicated to creatives whose work has extended the horizons of the filmic image.
The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) announced the programming lineup for the 27th annual edition, which will run from June 22-27, 2022. The festival will open with National Geographic Documentary Film’s Fire of Love, directed by Sara Dosa. The documentary follows Katia and Maurice Krafft, who loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple were seduced by the thrill and danger of this elemental love triangle.
Annapurna Pictures released the official red-band trailer for On the Count of Three, the directorial debut of comedian Jerrod Carmichael. also starring Jerrod Carmichael, along with Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish with JB Smoove and Henry Winkler.
IFC Midnight debuted the official trailer for Watcher, the thriller film starring Maika Monroe (It Follows, Greta), Karl Glusman (Love), and Burn Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises).
The official trailer is finally here for Dashcam, the horror film starring Annie Hardy, Angela Enahoro, Amar Chandha-Patel.
The Overlook Film Festival 2022 will close with the new horror thriller film The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke. Based on an award-winning short story from Joe Hill’s best-selling 2005 collection 20th Century Ghosts, the new movie from the filmmakers of Sinister, marks the triumphant return to the genre for screenwriter C. Robert Cargill and director-screenwriter Scott Derrickson.
A24 released the official trailer for Bodies Bodies Bodies, the black comedy horror film starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, with Lee Pace and Pete Davidson.
Apple announced a new untitled feature film about the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox (“Back to the Future” franchise, “Spin City,” “Family Ties,” “Casualties of War,” “American President”), from Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth,” “Waiting for Superman,” “He Named Me Malala”). The film is currently in production in New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver.
Sundance Film Festival: London 2022, taking place from 9 to 12 June at Picturehouse Central will present 12 feature films from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A. The Festival opens on 9 June with the UK premiere of Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, directed by Sundance alumna and Best Director winner (at Sundance Film Festival 2022), Sophie Hyde.
48th Seattle International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2022 Golden Space Needle with Know Your Place directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi winning the Golden Space Needle Audience Award for Best Film along with New American Cinema Jury Award. Grand Jury Prizes went to Klondike, winner of the Official Competition, The Territory won for Best Documentary, Sublime won in the Ibero-American Competition, and Lonely Voices won for Best Performance. Other top awards including Best Documentary went to Radiograph of a Family Dale Dickey and A Love Song won Best Performance.