
Anora led the winners in the film categories of the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards with three wins, including Best Feature, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Lead Performance for Mikey Madison.
Girls Will Be Girls (2024)
Anora and I Saw the TV Glow lead the nominations for the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards with six each.
This year’s 55th Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), taking place from September 19–25, 2024 promises more than 150 films, including 44 feature-length films and more than 33 official selections making their U.S., North American and world premieres.
‘Girls Will Be Girls‘ the directorial debut film of Indian director Shuchi Talati, explores the life of an Indian teenager struggling with the clash between her cultural background and her own emerging sexual needs.
Girls Will Be Girls directed by Shuchi Talati won the Narrative Competition Award; and Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement directed by Quyên Nguyen-Le and Tadashi Nakamura won the Documentary Competition Award at Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest 2024. Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement also won the Audience Award for Documentary Feature.
The 29th Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) which will run from June 19 – 24, 2024, unveiled its lineup, honorees, and Signature Programs.
The 11th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London 2024, taking place from 6 to 9 June at Picturehouse Central announced the lineup of 11 feature fiction and documentary films, a specially curated program of UK short films and a strand of repertory titles to celebrate the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S.
The 50th Seattle International Film Festival will showcase a lineup of 261 films representing 84 countries/regions, including 92 features, 47 documentaries, five archival features, two special tributes, two secret screenings, and 115 short films. The festival takes place held May 9–19, 2024 at venues across Seattle and followed by a week of select virtual screenings on the SIFF Channel May 20–27.
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) announced the program lineup for CAAMFest 2024, taking place fully in-person May 9-19, 2024 in San Francisco and Oakland.
In The Summers directed by Alessandra Lacorazza won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. In the film two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.