Congratulations to our AFF 2020 award winners!
Best of Fest: "9 to 5" Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar
Joe Cantwell Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking: "Trust Me" Roko Belic, Joe Phelps, Michael Fallavollita
Audience Award: "The Legacy Sessions" David Ashton and Silas Brigham
Special Jury Prize: "Anacronte" Raul Koler and Emiliano Sette
Best Foreign Language Film: "Snowland" Jonni Kicoltz
Regional Award: "Beat...
exground filmfest 33 I 13–22 November 2020 I online
KEEP SHIFTIN’ wins German Short Film Competition // Mexican production NIGHTCRAWLERS takes Best International Short Film // ALBTRÄUMER wins Jury and Audience Awards at exground youth days // Audience Award DAS BRETT goes to WALCHENSEE FOREVER // goEast Audience Award for ZANA
This past Sunday evening, the awards for the online edition of exground filmfest 33 were presented in Wiesbaden, Germany....
My Mexican Bretzel wins the €25,000 International Newcomer Award and the FIPRESCI Award +++ Audience and Student Award to Lorelei +++ Single Cycle receives first Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award +++ Prizewinners reflect the diversity of the competition
INTERNATIONAL Jury
Jury members: Jessica Kiang, Jan Bonny, Mathilde Henrot
International Newcomer Award – Best Director (€25,000)
MY MEXICAN BRETZEL
Director: Nuria Giménez Lorang, Spain
Rainer W...
IFP has revealed the nominees for the 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards.
The IFP Gotham Awards is one of the leading awards for independent film and signals the kick-off to the film awards season. As the first major awards ceremony of the season, the IFP Gotham Awards provide critical early recognition and media attention to worthy independent films. The awards are also unique for their ability to assist in catapulting award recipients prominently into national awards seas...
Nominees in the prestigious 59th Rose d’Or Awards have been announced, selected from 766 entries across 12 categories, for the 2020 digital edition.
The shortlist was voted for by over 80 international judges from across the television industry and includes entries from every major territory in the world.
Given the extraordinary challenges faced in 2020, this year’s awards also includes a special category to recognise Innovation In The Time of COVID, with finalists from Spain, It...
Award Recipients Include: Minari, Beyond Zero, Nomadland, Atlantis, The Reason I Jump, and Hudson Geese
The Denver Film Festival (DFF) has announced the recipients of its annual Audience Awards and Festival Juried Awards in multiple categories following the conclusion of its 43rd annual event.
“The curatorial excellence of DFF43 was on full display and in line with the elevated level we have exhibited to our audiences for decades,” said Festival Director, Britta ...
Miriam Margolyes stars in a love story between two Land Army girls during World War II, spanning over six decades.
Wings, directed by Jamie Weston, has been confirmed the winner of the inaugural Co-op Audience Award at the 2020 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. The heart-warming love story between two Land Army girls during World War II spans over six decades.
The film stars Miriam Margolyes who said:
“The Audience Award is fantastic news! Truly thrilled to have...
Hirokazu Kore-eda to receive Spirit Of Cinema award in digital edition
The International Film Festival & Awards • Macao (IFFAM) today announced its programme for the 5th edition of the festival, taking place digitally between Thursday 3 December and Tuesday 8 December.
Films across all sections will be available online via a dedicated video streaming platform. In addition, five In Conversation events will take place virtually during the festival. The awar...
SAFF Project Market and SAFF Forum go fully virtual at ATF Online+
Singapore - Nov 6, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - ScreenSingapore today announced finalists for the Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project Market 2020.
Ten projects from China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand were selected based on the project's co-production viabilities and the strength of the filmmaking team.
Th...
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS
Audience Choice: Best Narrative Feature
Small Town Wisconsin
Directed by Niels Mueller
Audience Choice: Best Documentary Feature
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
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Gagarine, the feature debut of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, wins the Explore Zone Award 2020. The French directing duo were in Ghent last week to present their debut. The Explore Zone Award, presented to them by the Explore Zone youth jury, gives them a promotional boost thanks to a media campaign in De Morgen, Knack Focus and at Studio Brussel worth 27,000 euros. The intimate coming-of-age drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman ...
Once again, this week we face incertitude. It was fantastic and reassuring to see that Vevey, Avenches, Winterthur and Geneva are going ahead with their film festivals this autumn. Will new cancellations happen however? We hope it will not.
Let’s take a look in the future and rejoice: the FIFF team is busy organising the Festival's 35th edition. We are glad to announce the content of one section already – the brand-new Audience Choice section!
Audience ...
SFFILM’S Awards Season Celebration and Fundraiser Is Going Online to Support the Organization’s Year-Round Work Cultivating the Next Generation of Film Artists
San Francisco, CA – SFFILM has announced two notable filmmakers that will accept honors at SFFILM Awards Night, the organization’s annual fundraising celebration honoring achievement in filmmaking craft. This year’s highly anticipated awards show has shifted from its traditional seated dinner and onst...
Our partner (Bruno Chatelin sitting in the advisory board): the 8th Annual Edition of Chelsea Film Festival (CFF) announced its winners on Sunday, October 18th (rf. below by category) broadcasted live on FilmFestival+. The Closing Awards show was presented by Festival Founder & Director Ingrid Jean-Baptiste and Actor, Producer James Donahower.
CFF held its 2020 Edition virtually on FilmFestival+ (also accessible through AppleTV) from October 15-19, 2020 and introduced American ...
The "Audience Favorite" Award goes to....It's a tie! "The Beaver Believers" and "Saliega's Lineage, The Return of the Iberian Lynx" have won the 2020 NatureTrack Film Festival "Audience Favorite" Award!
Congratulations to Sarah Koenigsberg and Javier Ortega Martinez.
In case you missed the announcement of the juried award winners...Here's the list!
Best in Festival - Feature - It's a tie!
Lost Kings of Bioko ~Oliver Go...
'Tussen de bijen en de tarbot', the poetic animated short by Linnea Lidegran Correia (KASK) received the Award for Best Belgian Student Short at the closing evening of the short film weekend at Film Fest Ghent. The winner of the ACE Image Factory & The Fridge Audience Award for Best Belgian Short is 'Versailles' by Hyun Lories. 'Perpetual Night' by Pedro Peralta won the Best International Short Award.
On Sunday 18 October, the ...
The Votes Are In!
SANTA FE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS 2020
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival's 12th edition is our most unique festival to date, having faced the adversity that most film festivals, non-profit groups, and other arts organizations encountered during 2020. While SFiFF has adjusted to the circumstances, our mission remains the same, ...
Congratulations to the Directors
of the following films:
Best in Festival - Feature - It's a tie!
Lost Kings of Bioko ~Oliver Goetzel
Realm of the Robber ~Moritz Katz & Braydon Moloney
Best in Festival - Short
Kokoly ~Blue Ventures, Garth Cripps & Paul Antion
Kids Connecting with Nature - The Dan Conaway Award
Traces ~Sébastien Pins
Igniting Passion for (and with) Nature
By Hand ~Kellen Keene
&n...
SHORT FILMS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Last night was the ceremony of the short film awards, we are happy to share with you the list of this 49th edition winners.
The short film awards are presented but all the FNC programming is still available online until October 31! Discover the best of current cinema.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – SHORT FILMS
The International Short Film Competition jury was composed of Odile JOANNETTE, Deragh CAMPBELL and Carmine PIERRE-DUFOU...
Tryon International Film Festival 2020 Was Virtual; Viewings Available Through Oct. 19
Film Festival Winners
The overall winner in the Tryon International Film Festival 2020 is Invitation to the Dance, a short documentary that chronicles five special needs adults who take ballet lessons for a year.
The 40-minute film was directed by Sarah Shoemaker, a professional dancer, actress, producer, and the Executive Director for Int...
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The juries of the seventeenth edition of Curtocircuíto - Internacional Film Festival have decided to award the following prizes.
● Radar Award: Sun Dog, by Dorian Jespers.
● Special mention Radar: Dustin, by Naïla Guiguet.
● Explora Award: Look Then Below, by Ben Rivers.
● ...
SEE THE SOUND (October 14 – October 18, 2020), the film festival of SoundTrack_Cologne, will once again award the prize for the best music documentary. Eight films have been nominated for the competiton, five of which are celebrating their German premieres, one NRW premiere and one it’s German premiere. The full programme, which contains 26 films and a lecture performance, is attached.
The nominees are Lima Grita by Dana Bonilla and Ximena Vakdivia, Underground Inc: The Rise &a...
Short Calf Muscle, directed by Victoria Warmerdam, has been announced the winner of the Iris Prize 2020, Cardiff’s International LGBT+ Short Film Prize, supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation. This was the first time in the festival’s 14-year history that a film from the Netherlands has won. The £30,000 prize enables Victoria to make a new short film in Wales, becoming the thirteenth Iris production. Better, directed by Michael J. Ferns, wins Be...
