The American Film Institute announced the films that will play in the New Auteurs, Cinema’s Legacy, Midnight, Shorts and AFI Conservatory Showcase sections at AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi, completing the festival’s program.
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NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival Announces 2019 Jury and Audience Award Winners
Temblores (Tremors) by Jayro Bustamante NewFest, one of the world’s most respected LGBTQ film festivals announced today the winners of its 31st edition with top honors going to Jayro Bustamante for TEMBLORES (Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature) and Theodore Collatos and Carolina Monnerat for QUEEN OF LAPA (Grand Jury Prize, Documentary Feature), while Levan Akin’s AND THEN WE DANCED and Cody Stickels’ A NIGHT AT SWITCH N’ PLAY picked up the top Audience Awards for narrative and documentary features respectively.
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Chicago International Film Festival Announces 2019 Audience Award Winners – JUST MERCY, AND THEN WE DANCED, READY FOR WAR
JUST MERCY by Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, The ballots have been tallied and the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 55th Chicago International Film Festival was awarded to Destin Daniel Cretton’s true story Just Mercy. The film chronicles young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) and his history-making battles for justice in Alabama. Stevenson refuses to back down as he fights a legal system without mercy stacked against him and his clients at every turn. One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a man whose clear innocence means nothing to the corrupt and compassionless forces Stevenson doggedly takes on.
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nîpawistamâsowin Wins Audience Award at imagineNATIVE Film Festival
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up directed by Dr. Tasha Hubbard nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (Canada) directed by Dr. Tasha Hubbard (Cree) won the The Audience Choice Award – Feature Film, along with a $1,000 cash prize presented by Air Canada, at the 20th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, which ran October 22 to 27, 2019 in Toronto.
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THE MAYOR OF COMEDY: A CANADIAN STAND-UP STORY Premieres at Ottawa Canadian Film Festival
The Mayor of Comedy: A Canadian Stand-Up Story The Mayor of Comedy: A Canadian Stand-Up Story is a disruptive, eye-opening documentary that follows Canadian comedian Sandra Battaglini as she rallies the biggest names in the Canadian comedy industry.
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20th Flickers’ Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Film Festival Announces Winners
Volition directed by Tony Dean Smith The 20th Annual Flickers’ Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Film Festival wrapped with the annual award ceremony. The Grand Prize Sci Film award went to Volition directed by Tony Dean Smith of Canada, and the Grand Prize Horror Film award went to Star Light directed by Lee Cummings and Mitchell Altieri.
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GANDEN: A JOYFUL LAND by Sundance Winner Ngawang Choephel to Premiere at DOC NYC
Ganden: A Joyful Land directed by Ngawang Choephel Ganden: A Joyful Land directed by Sundance Jury Award Winner ,Ngawang Choephel, and with Creative Consultant – Singer Annie Lennox, will have its World Premiere at DOC NYC on Tuesday November 12th.
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Morgan Neville to Direct Documentary on Late Anthony Bourdain
CNN Films, HBO Max, and Focus Features are partnering for a documentary film about the uncommon life of the late storyteller, explorer, and chef, Anthony Bourdain, to be directed and produced by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom). Focus Features will first release the documentary exclusively in theaters worldwide before the film premieres on television on CNN and streams via HBO Max. CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce the film. Neville’s Tremolo Productions will produce the film.
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Watch Trailer for Showtime Sports Doc PARIAH: THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF SONNY LISTON
Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston Showtime Sports released the official trailer for the upcoming documentary film Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston, premiering Friday, November 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Chicago International Film Festival 2019 Winners – PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Wins Gold Hugo
Portrait of a Lady On Fire (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France) by director Céline Sciamma, hailed by the jury as a portrayal of the all-consuming nature of love and the beauty of women’s solidarity, took home the top prize in the International Feature Film Competition at the 55th Chicago International Film Festival.
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2019 DTLA Film Festival Winners – PUSHOUT, QT8 and AMERICAN WOMAN Win Prizes
PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS directed by Jacoba Atlas The 11th annual DTLA Film Festival, announced its award winners for 2019, with PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS, directed by Jacoba Atlas winning the Audience Favorite Award. Other award winners include AMERICAN WOMAN Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress; QT8: THE FIRST EIGHT for Best Director and Best Documentary and a Special Remembrance Award for Robert Forster; JOSIE & JACK picked up Best Screenplay and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for William Fichtner; and Hong Chau has won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in AMERICAN WOMAN.
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20th imagineNATIVE Film Festival Announces Award Winners
Violet Nelson in a scene from ARRAY Releasing Presents “THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN” Courtesy of Array Releasing / Photo Credit Katrin Bragadottir The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open won the award for Best Dramatic Feature on Sunday at the Awards Presentation of the 20th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. The Alanis Obomsawin Award for Best Documentary Work Long Format went to Mothers of the Land (Sembradoras de vida).