The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival opens its 18th annual edition on May 12th at the Oregon Electric Station in Eugene, Oregon. The five-day event offers film screenings and will also feature expert speakers, a guided tour, TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Media, a TAC Conference symposium on the search for Amelia Earhart and possibly other symposia, and a Saturday social gathering, and will conclude with an awards reception on May 16th.
Palm Springs International Film Awards announced that Daniel Kaluuya will be the recipient of the International Star Award, Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah.
Amanda Seyfried will receive the Montecito Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival for her career and performance in David Fincher’s Mank from Netflix, for which she recently received Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice nominations.
17 films makes up the 51st Berlinale Forum program and the Forum Expanded film selection consists of four short film selections, one medium-length film and two feature-length films, with a total of 18 films to be shown in March at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. Eight installations will also be shown in June.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Chris Smith the six-part HBO Sports Documentary series 100 Foot Wave premiering this spring, intimately captures the decade-long odyssey of surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara, who, after visiting Nazaré, Portugal in hopes of conquering a 100-foot wave, pushed the sport to ever-greater heights and alongside locals helped transform the small fishing village into the world’s preeminent big-wave surfing destination.
Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, the filmmakers behind the successful Emmy Award-winning, Sundance and SXSW audience film “Science Fair,” team up with National Geographic Documentary Films on the feature documentary “Own the Room”, which will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on March 12.
Berlinale Shorts 2021 program of the Berlin International Film Festival will showcase 20 short films from 16 countries featuring different languages and ranging from fictional formats to experimental films, animations, hybrid and documentary forms
Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari leads the nominations for the 2020 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the year’s best in film with 8 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Steven Yeun), Best Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung Youn), Best Ensemble Cast, Best Original Score, and Best Youth Performance (Alan Kim). The Korean-American film also scored a Best Film Not in the English Language nomination.
AARP The Magazine announced the nominees for the upcoming Movies for Grownups® Awards, with Minari, Nomadland, and One Night in Miami, among the films contending for the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category.
Netflix’s “Mank,” leads the film nominations for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards with an impressive 12 nominations including Best Picture. “Minari” (A24) followed closely behind with 10 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor for Steven Yeun, Best Supporting Actress for Yuh-Jung Youn, Best Young Actor/Actress for Alan Kim, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Lee Isaac Chung, Best Original Screenplay for Lee Isaac Chung, Best Cinematography for Lachlan Milne, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Score for Emile Mosseri.
The Palm Springs International Film Awards announced that Viola Davis is the recipient of the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Berlinale revealed the 15 films including seven world premieres and six debuts for the Generation program in the two competitions Kplus and 14plus.