The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival revealed its lineup for this yr’s pageant, going down from Could 22 – 26 at venues throughout Mammoth Lakes.
The pageant will open with the California premiere of director Lucy Lawless’ “By no means Look Away,” which follows a CNN fight camerawoman who will get injured and should discover the energy to hold on. The closing night time options “Black Field Diaries,” directed by Shiori Ito, who investigates her personal sexual assault by way of the movie.
A Quick Movies Program will even be featured on the pageant, consisting of 38 narrative shorts, 20 documentary shorts, 10 animation shorts and a program of music movies and a screenplay competitors.
The MLFF movie lineup is as follows:
NORTH AMERICAN NARRATIVE FEATURES:
All I’ve Obtained and Then Some
Tehben Dean and Rasheed Stephens | United States
Atikamekw Suns
Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Canada
A Troublesome Yr
Chloé Leriche | France
Psykhodrame
Miles Blim | United States
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURES:
Brando with a Glass Eye
Antonis Tsonis | Greece
The Complicated Varieties
Fabio D’Orta | Italy
Cu Li By no means Cries
Phạm Ngọc Lân | Vietnam
Offal Broth
Nicholas Tuck | United Kingdom
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
Inheritance
Matt Moyer & Amy Toensing | United States
Mediha
Hasan Oswald | United States
Punishment
Øystein Mamen | Norway
The Different Profile
Armel Hostiou | France, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Winter Threshold
Soudabeh Beizaei | Iran
SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATIONS:
Black Field Diaries
Shiori Ito | United States, United Kingdom, Japan
By no means Look Away
Lucy Lawless | New Zealand
Union
Brett Story and Stephen Maing | United States
Welcome Filmmakers!
Noel David Taylor | United States
Gold Home Launches ‘Gold Lights’ Initiative, Releases A100 Record and Honors Lucy Liu and Padma Lakshmi
Gold Home’s “Gold Lights” initiative is about to launch on Wednesday, Could 1 in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, in addition to the 2024 A100 List, which honors 100 Asian Pacific leaders who made a major impression on society over the previous yr.
A number of landmarks and websites together with California State Capitol, L.A. Metropolis Corridor, Paramount Photos Water Tower, Honolulu Metropolis Corridor and Willis Tower in Chicago will gentle up gold to commemorate the primary documented arrival of Asians within the U.S. The Empire State Constructing and One World Commerce Middle will even gentle up for the primary time for APAHM.
“Gold Lights goal to unify the worldwide Asian Pacific neighborhood that will not have a shared historical past however withholds an plain shared future: we’re collectively dedicated to reshaping excellence in industries equitably,” mentioned Bing Chen, CEO and co-founder of Gold Home.
Lucy Liu and Padma Lakshmi will each be honored on the third annual Gold Home Gala on Could 1, together with the announcement of the A100 honorees.
Frameline Voices Reveals 2024 Program, Together with Assortment of Shorts Celebrating Queer Kinship
Frameline, the humanities nonprofit that hosts San Francisco’s Worldwide LGBTQ+ Movie Pageant has introduced 4 new initiatives for his or her annual Frameline Voices brief movie distribution program. A brand new movie will stream every Friday beginning Could 3 and will likely be accessible by way of the month of Could on Frameline’s web site, YouTube channel and Instagram.
Frameline Voices is a curated program of brief movies and episodic content material representing experiences distinctive to LGBTQ+ individuals and communities. This yr’s assortment celebrates Queer Kinship, with every movie exploring the ways in which LGBTQ+ individuals create connections by way of romantic relationships, chosen and organic household and neighborhood.
This yr’s program additionally contains three Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant recipients: Daisy Friedman’s “As You Are” (2023), Dandashi’s “Cousins” (2023) and Emilio Subía’s “Ñaños” (2023). Every filmmaker acquired $15,000 of economic assist to proceed their work.
The listing of alternatives contains the three grant recipients’ movies together with Sarah Taborga and Aïma Paule’s “Femme Rage” (2023).
San Francisco’s SFFILM Winners Introduced
The jury and viewers winners of the 67th San Francisco Worldwide Movie Pageant have been introduced, with the viewers award for narrative characteristic going to “A Trainer.” The viewers documentary award went to “Agent of Happiness.”
International Visions award-winner was “Nice Absence,” whereas the documentary award went to “Sugarcane,” and the Bay Space documentary award went to “Searching for Mavis Beacon.”
Quick movie awards included “Bogota Story” for narrative brief and “The Medallion” for documentary brief, “A Movie Is a Goodbye That By no means Ends” for Bay Space Shorts and “La Perra” for animated brief.
The Household Movie Award went to “Dynasty and Future,” whereas the Youth Works winner was “Sil-tteu-gi.”
Slamdance Strikes to Los Angeles
Slamdance introduced that its annual movie pageant would transfer to Los Angeles beginning in February, 2025.
The pageant will run Feb. 20-26 on the Landmark Theatres and DGA in Hollywood, with extra areas to be introduced.
“Slamdance is coming to Los Angeles! Constructing upon our success in Utah, we’ll develop the pageant with better accessibility in Los Angeles and proceed our work in launching new movies, new careers, and new concepts in filmmaking,” mentioned Slamdance President and Founder Peter Baxter. “With new and present collaborators, our mission is to extend the worldwide worth of impartial movie and digital media and serve the Los Angeles arts neighborhood.”
DNEG Launches New Division DNEG 360 in Collaboration with Dimension Studio
DNEG, the visible results studio behind “Dune” and “Oppenheimer,” has launched a brand new division, DNEG 360, operated by real-time manufacturing firm Dimension Studio.
DNEG and Dimension first introduced their collaboration in February 2021, and the launch of DNEG 360 expands their partnership to incorporate visualization, digital manufacturing, content material creation and improvement providers.
“DNEG 360 is the one end-to-end, real-time powered service supplier working at this sort of scale wherever on the earth,” mentioned Steve Griffith, managing director of DNEG 360 and Dimension Studio. “We’ve got taken the promise of the expertise and made it work at scale, mapping out and defining the inventive journey by way of the digital manufacturing course of, from improvement by way of to supply.”
New York Movie Critics Circle Units 2025 Gala Awards Dinner Date
The New York Movie Critics Circle introduced it can maintain its annual Gala Awards dinner on Jan. 8, 2025 at TAO Downtown in New York Metropolis, marking the 90th anniversary of the Circle.
This yr’s awards ceremony noticed Martin Scorsese and his solid members accepting the award for Finest Image for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Lily Gladstone accepting the award for Finest Actress, Christopher Nolan accepting the award for Finest Director for “Oppenheimer,” Paul Dano presenting the award to Justine Triet for Finest Worldwide Movie for “Anatomy of a Fall,” Steve Buscemi presenting the award for Finest First Movie to Celine Track for “Previous Lives,” and Richard Jenkins presenting the award for Finest Supporting Actress to Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph for “The Holdovers.”
The NYFCC will proceed awarding money prizes and gala tickets to graduate and undergraduate college students pursuing movie criticism and journalism from faculties within the surrounding New York metropolitan space, with member Keith Uhlich spearheading the trouble. David Sims will function the 2024 chair of the group and Stephen Garrett will proceed because the group’s normal supervisor.
Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon Nazi Historic Thriller ‘Nuremberg’ to Launch Gross sales By means of WME Impartial in Cannes
“Nuremberg,” a historic thriller set in post-war Germany, will launch its gross sales by way of WME Impartial on the Cannes Movie Pageant subsequent month. The movie stars Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon. Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Lydia Peckham, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek and Andreas Pietschmann spherical out the solid.
The official logline reads: “‘Nuremberg’ chronicles the eponymous trials held by the Allies in opposition to the defeated Nazi regime. The movie will heart on American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Malek), who’s tasked with figuring out whether or not Nazi prisoners are match to face trial for his or her struggle crimes, and finds himself in a fancy battle of wits with Hermann Göring (Crowe), Hitler’s right-hand man. Shannon will play Supreme Court docket Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials.”
James Vanderbilt is directing from the script he tailored from the guide “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” by Jack El-Hai. Richard Saperstein, William Sherak, Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt, Istvan Main and Paul Neinstein are producing, together with Walden Medias’s Frank Smith, Benjamin Tappan and Cher Hawrysh. Government producers embrace Annie Saperstein, Brooke Saperstein, Beau Turpin, W. Porter Payne, Jr., Géza Deme and Tamás Hajnal.
American Black Movie Pageant and Walmart’s Black & Limitless Announce “Black & Limitless Fatherhood Venture” Competitors Winners
ABFF and Walmart teamed up for the second annual content material creators’ competitors which spotlights rising administrators and champions impartial filmmaking whereas offering a platform to showcase a variety of tales about Black males as fathers.
Three brief movies have been chosen to display on the pageant, which takes place in Miami Seaside, Fla. from June 12-16. Final week, Selection solely introduced the pageant’s competitors lineup of narrative and documentary features, together with Jussie Smollett’s return to appearing in “The Misplaced Holliday.”
The profitable movies for this yr’s Black & Limitless Fatherhood Venture are:
After These Messages (World Premiere)
A single father battling college politics as a professor should select between his job and his daughter whose want to be authentically herself threatens their livelihood.
USA | 26 min
Director: Khalid Abdulqaadir
Author: Khalid Abdulqaadir
Producers: Corey McCartney, Kevin Willmott, Talib Kweli, Khalid Abdulqaadir
Forged: Petey McGee, Sanaa Salaam
Black Santa
Yearly Henry appears ahead to his job working as a mall Santa alongside his son Otis. However as Otis grows older, this will show to be their final vacation season as a duo.
USA | 10:06 min
Director: Travis Wooden
Writers: Travis Wooden, Weston Auburn
Producers: Gabriela Díaz Arp, Kiah Clingman
Forged: Theo Haddon, Andrew Tull, Michael Silverblatt
It Takes A Village (World Premiere)
In Nineteen Sixties Georgia, Lawrence Cooke prepares his son, Isaiah, for his ascension to manhood.
USA | 13:37 min
Director: Joshua Kissi
Writers: Joshua Kissi, Keyla McNeely
Producer: Kagan Sant
Forged: Jackson Abram, Michael Ealy, Nadine Ellis, Mccolm Cephas, Antonio Shamori Washington, Zakai Biagas-Bey, Jamald Gardner, Myron Primes, Newton N Mayenge
The three profitable administrators will likely be chosen to every obtain trade mentorship, a $10,000 money award and the chance to attend and display their movies on the pageant, throughout a program that additionally contains an onstage panel with an artist and their youngster to debate fatherhood and their relationship. Every movie will even be featured on the pageant’s on-line international platform, ABFF PLAY, and Walmart’s Black & Limitless YouTube page from June 17-24.
Gravitas Ventures Acquires ‘Istikhara, New York’ for North American Distribution
Movie distribution firm Gravitas Ventures has acquired the North American rights to Invention Studios’ “Istikhara, New York.” Written and directed by Yasir Masood, the movie is about to launch Could 14 on Apple TV+ and different suppliers for a restricted time. Moreover, Bryn Mooser and Mohannad Malas have signed on as government producers.
Shot initially with a price range of $15,000 in Brooklyn, New York, the movie follows Reza, a 25-year-old aspiring Broadway actor who’s hustling as a meals supply courier to make ends meet. “Istikhara, New York” received the Rising Filmmaker Award on the Los Angeles Asian American Movie Pageant in 2022.
