Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s coming-of-age saga “In the Summers” took top honors at this year’s 50th edition of the Deauville American Film Festival, claiming both the Grand Prize and the Fondation Louis Roeder Revelation Prize, awarded by a parallel jury. At once intimate and expansive, the film traces a Latin-American family portrait, using four vignettes to […]

Poland’s American Film Festival is continuing to bet on U.S. independent films, ignoring the Hollywood blockbusters and bigger budget auteur films from the mini-majors. “The fest selects a very precise type of project – they are real independent films, not in that Indie Star Award, less-than-$40 million sense,” says director and producer Rob Rice. “The […]

The challenge is on: the industry sidebar of Poland’s American Film Festival, U.S. in Progress, is ready to top its “exceptionally successful” 2023 edition in November. “U.S. in Progress alumni are taking festivals by storm,” says AFF’s artistic director Ula Śniegowska. Presented as works-in-progress, India Donaldson’s “Good One” – awarded at the event last year […]