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For the third year running, IndieWire announces the lineup for the 2025 edition of Upstate New York’s Hudson Film Festival. This year’s festival runs Thursday, August 7, through Sunday, August 10, opening with the local premiere of Kate Beecroft’s 2025 Sundance Next Audience Award winner “East of Wall.”

Pete Ohs’ “The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick” (which premiered at SXSW 2025), Rohan Kanawade’s “Cactus Pears” (2025 Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic winner), and “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story” from Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee also play the festival.

Among the expanded 17 films screened and special events throughout the festival, three are free for the community: the festival’s first-ever free Youth Film Workshop, its first-ever free Short Film Showcase, and the return of its popular Free Family Screening.

Co-founders John Maybee, Sarah Peters, and Sonia Marcela Freeman said, “In its third year, the Hudson Film...

Reigning Emmy champs Baby Reindeer and Shōgun were among the winners at the 2025 Peabody Awards, announced on Thursday. This year's winners will be honored during a formal ceremony June 1 in Los Angeles, hosted by Roy Wood Jr.

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors selected the prestigious honorees in the categories of arts, children's/youth, documentary, entertainment, interactive and immersive, news, public service, and radio/podcast. Baby Reindeer and Shōgun are among the seven entertainment winners, with the others being Fantasmas, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Ripley, Say Nothing, and We Are Lady Parts.

The winners were chosen by a unanimous vote of 27 jurors from more than 1,000 total entries. Together, they "encompass a wide range of contemporary and historical issues, including the war in Gaza, rural healthcare, a focus on disabilities, authoritarianism, and sexual violence,” said Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody. The eligibility period was the 2024 calendar year.

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Jackie Shane was a musical trailblazer. Born in 1940s Nashville, she rose to fame in the Toronto music scene of the 1960s with her distinctive soulful voice and dynamic stage presence. However, just as her star seemed destined to shine even brighter, she vanished from the public eye in 1971. While rumors swirled about what may have become of her, the truth of those missing years remained a mystery.

All of that changed with the 2019 release of the documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. Directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, the film sets out to rediscover the story of this lost icon and shine new light on both her musical brilliance and pioneering journey. As one of soul and R&b’s first black transgender performers, Jackie broke barriers just by living her authentic self. The film brings her taletback to the forefront through unearthed interviews and pictures...

The Frameline Film Festival has announced the winners from its 2024 program.

The top honors went to Luke Gilford’s “National Anthem,” which took home the Outstanding First Feature Award, and Chloé Barreau’s “Fragments of a Life Loved,” which won Outstanding Documentary Feature.

Frameline, the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ film festival, ran from June 19–29, with 120 screenings, programs and events held in theaters across the Bay Area, including the Herbst Theatre and Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.

Highlights of the festival included the Castro Theatre’s first-ever celebration of Juneteenth — a block party that featured the official re-lighting of the venue’s iconic neon blade sign and marquee, performances from the all-Black drag collective and a special outdoor screening of “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero.”

Other highlights included a special 30th anniversary screening of the 4K restoration of “Go Fish,” attended by Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner, the...

Exclusive: The 48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival aka Frameline48 wrapped over the weekend and presented it awards after a slate of 120 in-person screenings and programs featuring international LGBTQ+ filmmakers and Bay Area artists.

Frameline48 highlights included a 30th anniversary screening of the 4K restoration of Go Fish; the “queer premiere” of Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts; the U.S. premiere of Juan Pablo Di Pace and Andrés P. Estrada’s Duino, world premieres of Deborah Craig’s Sally! (co-directed by Jörg Fockele and Ondine Rarey) and Osama Chami’s Una película barata; and screenings of Harrison Xu, Ivan Leung and Katherine Dudas’ Extremely Unique Dynamic, Marco Berger’s The Astronaut Lovers (Los amantes astronautas) and Luke Willis’ Lady Like, which saw the director and Lady Camden, the film’s subject, in attendance.

The Frameline kickoff celebration featured a live performance by singer, songwriter and producer Linda Perry, followed...

Now in its 48th year, the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco once again celebrates LGBTQ stories and voices, starting with a free Juneteenth block party featuring movies and music. But the festival also screens “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story” as the third annual recipient of the Out in the Silence Award on June 23 at the iconic Palace of Fine Arts. Directed by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and with executive producers including Elliot Page, “Any Other Way” is a documentary portrait of ’60s Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane, and it’s been acclaimed on the festival circuit so far with appearances at Hot Docs and SXSW. In celebration of Pride month and Juneteenth, IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for the documentary below.

Why did R&b singer Jackie Shane, who died in 2019, disappear from the limelight after rousing audiences in the 1960s? That’s the question...

Canada’s Hot Docs documentary festival has wrapped its 31st edition in Toronto (May 5) and named Yintah the winner of its Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary.

The award, whose winner is determined by an audience poll, comes with a cash prize of Cad 50,000.

Directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano, Yintah is about the efforts of the Canadian First Nation Wet’suwet’en people to resist the construction of pipelines across their territory.

On Friday evening (May 3) Hot Docs announced the prize winners from its official competition line-up (full list below).

The festival’s Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award,...

Nishta Jain’s Farming the Revolution, a film about Indian farmers rising up against new laws, picked up the best international feature documentary prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Friday night.

The top jury prize win at the festival means Jain’s film, which world premiered at Hot Docs, will qualify for consideration in the best documentary feature category at the Academy Awards.

Other winners included the special jury prize for the international feature documentary went to Death of a Saint. The doc follows director Patricia Bbaale Bandak as she returns to her birthplace in Uganda after giving birth to her own daughter on the same day her mother was killed by two gunmen in that African country 24 years earlier.

The best emerging international filmmaker trophy went to Ismael Vasquez Bernabe, director of The Weavers’ Songs, a Mexican doc about weavers in San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca.

Nishta Jain’s “Farming the Revolution” has won Hot Docs’ Best International Feature Documentary Award, it was announced Friday at the festival’s awards ceremony, held in Toronto at the Centre for Social Innovation–Annex.

Produced by Jain (Raintree Films) and Valérie Montmartin (Little Big Story) and co-directed by cinematographer Akash Basumatari, the film follows the massive year-long gathering of Indian farmers protesting unjust new farm laws that they felt would impact their markets.

The jury said, “‘Farming the Revolution’ spotlights the power of ordinary people with an enduring cinematic sophistication and an indomitable lyrical presence.” The award comes with a Cnd. $10,000 cash prize.

The film, a co-production between India and Norway, now automatically qualifies for consideration in the Academy’s Best Documentary Feature category without the standard theatrical run, providing it complies with Academy rules. It is distributed by Cinephil.

Pablo Álvarez-Mesa’s “The Soldier’s Lagoon”—which traces...

A distinctive, dynamic R&b vocalist who seemed on the verge of major stardom through the 1960s, Jackie Shane disappeared soon after — so completely that many fans and former associates assumed her dead. It was a riddle rendered all the more mysterious by her singular status within that field as a more-or-less “out” transperson, her persona an assertive exercise in gender-blur before that term existed. Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s documentary “Any Other Way” combines archival materials, interviews and animated reenactments into a compelling investigation of an elusive life, as well as a talent so striking you’ll be amazed it remained forgotten for so long.

Born in 1940 Nashville to an unmarried teenage mother who quickly abandoned the child to be raised by relatives, Shane grew up teased by peers as a “sissy,” albeit nurtured by an accepting aunt and grandmother. Jackie was still pre-adolescent when asked to sing in the adult church choir.

A host of conspiracy theories surrounded the sudden disappearance of pioneering transgender soul singer Jackie Shane from the music world in 1971 after she packed Toronto nightclubs during the 1960s, only to resurface when news of her death in Nashville broke in 2019.

Despite leaving the public eye, the Nashville-born R&b performer’s celebrated, yet complicated legacy lived on in Jackie Shane Live, a bootlegged 1967 live set recording of Shane performing at Toronto’s famed Saphire Tavern that caught the ear of local filmmaker and music fan Michael Mabbott.

Mabbott talked to The Hollywood Reporter before his documentary, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story — which he co-directed with Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and is executive produced by Elliot Page — world premieres at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday.

“I was just so intrigued by her story, but no one knew anything besides she had disappeared, with very mysterious rumors and conjecture...