Tár, Todd Field’s drama starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional renowned musician Lydia Tár, won the Overall Audience Favorite award at the 45th Mill Valley Film Festival. Other audience awards went to The Whale for Audience Favorite | US Cinema; Our Father, The Devil for Audience Favorite | US Indie; The Banshees of Inisherin for Audience Favorite | World Cinema; Close for Audience Favorite | World Cinema (foreign language); and The Grab for Audience Favorite | Documentary.
BAFTA nominated costume designer Jennifer Johnson will be honored with the seventh annual Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design at the 2022 Key West Film Festival.
In a time of war, one voice changed the tide.
Written and directed by A.V. Rockwell in her feature-length directorial debut, A Thousand and One from Focus Features will be released in theaters on March 31, 2023.
Magnolia Pictures released the official trailer for There There, the comedy film starring Jason Schwartzman, Lili Taylor, Lennie James, Molly Gordon, Annie La Ganga, Avi Nash, that “sensitively captures the humor and heartbreaking fragility of life and love in the 2020s.”
Gabriel Martin’s Mars One was a three-time winner at the 35th edition of Out on Film, the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival, taking the jury awards for Best Narrative Feature, Best International Film and Best Ensemble. Magnus Gertten’s Nelly & Nadine won the jury prize for Best Documentary.
Saban Films debuted the official trailer for Hunted, an intensely thrilling, provocative film from director Tommy Boulding, starring Malachi Pullar-Lachtman, Samantha Bond, James Lance and Hannah Traylen.
Hidden Letters from director Violet Du Feng and co-director Qing Zhao won the $20,000 Documentary Feature Grand Prize at the 31st Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF), with the other top prizes going to Our Father, the Devil from director Ellie Foumbi for the $20,000 Narrative Feature Grand Prize, and Wildcat from directors Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost took the $5,000 Jimmy Stewart Legacy Award.
Fire of Love leads the nominations for the 7th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA) with seven nods, including for Best Documentary Feature, Sara Dosa for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Narration, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Science/Nature Documentary.
Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer wins Best Film Award at the 66th BFI London Film Festival. Marie Kreutzer said: “I want to say thank you to the members of the jury for choosing our film and giving us this beautiful award. For me this award, which is an award for the film, is not only my award it belongs to all of us. The most beautiful thing about my job is to collaborate with so many great creatives and artists and create something together day by day without knowing how it will turn out. For all of us I’m so happy that it turned out so well and that people love the film so much. This award is for everyone on my team. It’s hard to find the right words right now, I’m happy!”
Close directed by Lukas Dhont won Best Narrative Feature and Pray For Us Sinners, directed by Sinéad O’Shea, won Best Documentary Feature at this year’s 30th anniversary edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Directed by Nick Sweeney (“AKA Jane Roe”), the documentary film Santa Camp will have its world premiere at DOC NYC – America’s largest documentary festival, and then debut on HBO Max in November.