It is with great pleasure that we unveil the winners of the competitive award categories for the 59th Chicago International Film Festival!
The Gold Hugo in the International Feature Film Competition went to Gábor Reisz's Explanation for Everything. In the New Directors Competition, the Gold Hugo was awarded to Amr Gamal from The Burdened, while the International Documentary Competition Gold Hugo went to Tatiana Huezo's The Echo. Minhal Baig's We Gro...
Volker Bertelmann has won the Film Composer of the Year Award at the 23rd World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert on Saturday 21 October at Capitole Ghent. He had been nominated in this category once before, and has now returned victorious. Nicholas Britell received the Television Composer of the Year Award. It is the second time in a row he has won this award, the third time he has won in this category and his sixth WSAward overall. “Your Personal Trash Man Can” from&...
My poetic films of the silver age, Slavonic symbolism, represent a series of lyrical destinies. The Easterm branch of symbolism is rich and versatile. From the screen, I speak in verses of poets whose lifeline was complicated, intricate, bizarre. Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam and Pasternak, Blok and Beliy, Nabokov and Poplavsky. Their literary characters and novellistic plots were oftern encountered by myself neraky everywhere in the continental Europe. I lived their poetry, prose and publ...
My poetic films of the silver age, Slavonic symbolism, represent a series of lyrical destinies. The Easterm branch of symbolism is rich and versatile. From the screen, I speak in verses of poets whose lifeline was complicated, intricate, bizarre. Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam and Pasternak, Blok and Beliy, Nabokov and Poplavsky. Their literary characters and novellistic plots were oftern encountered by myself neraky everywhere in the continental Europe. I lived their poetry, prose and publ...
IPTA’s Inter Collegiate Drama Competition scores 50, marches on
Was it the first or was it the second? Was it 1972 or 1973? My introduction to the annual competition is nevertheless at least 49 years old. I had just finished college, and could not participate. How I wished I could! But I could watch the event, and, soon afterwards, write about it, extensively, in several publications, as a theatre critic. If memory serves me right, back then, it was called IPTA’s Inter Collegiate ...
Simón" and "We Dare To Dream" win $20,000 Grand Prizes. Matthew Modine honored with Pioneering Spirit Award. Audience Choice Awards include "Brave the Dark," "Rustin," "The Lionheart" and more.
INDIANAPOLIS - The 32nd Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) announced the 2023 award winners and presented more than $60,000 in cash prizes to recipients at the Awards Presentation at The Jazz Kitchen on Saturday, October 14. The 11-day...
“Red Monet” Opens The 16th Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival.
Posted by Robin Menken
Celebrating its 16th anniversary, the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival (LABRFF) runs Oct 23-26 at the new Culver Theater owned by Amazon Studios.An Opening Night Gala kicks off the festival with a red-carpet event and cocktail party surrounding the premiere of Halder Gomes’s “Vermelho Monet” (Red Monet), a seductive exploration of a painter and his perpetual muse.
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At the 50th edition of Film Fest Gent, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, one of Japan's greatest directors of the 21st century, was honoured with a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, a prize that recognises the filmmaker's piercingly beautiful oeuvre, including ten features that are all showcases of his eloquent style. Hamaguchi received the award after a Creative Partnership Talk with composer Eiko Ishibashi at the WSA Film Music Days.
On Friday afternoon, Film Fest Gent honoured d...
Happy to share the 2024 dates for the in-person and virtual Cinequest - Cinejoy Film Festivals: aword from our friend and festival director:
MARCH 2024 IS A CINEQUEST & CINEJOY FESTIVALS BONANZA
March 1-4: Cinejoy Live Spotlight Events. We've evolved these spectacular virtual experiences. One Global Spotlight Event occurs each evening/day.
March 5-20: the beloved Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival occurs in-person San Jose (Mar. 5-13) and Mountain View (Mar. 14-20)...
'Los delincuentes' by Rodrigo Moreno and music from 'Poor Things' grab top prizes at 50th edition Film Fest Gent FFG2023
Argentine director Rodrigo Moreno's beguiling tragicomedy Los delincuentes has won the Grand Prix for Best Film at the 50th anniversary edition of Film Fest Gent. The International Jury was taken by the unique rhythm and delicious absurdity of Moreno's enormously entertaining film. Debuting film composer's Jerskin Fendrix' ste...
