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The Boston Jewish Film Festival announces “Luminaries and Legends,” its major fall fundraiser. Three Luminaries will be honored for their leadership in film in New England on Oct. 22 – Judy Ganz, Lisa Gossels and Kaj Wilson.
Judy Ganz, Festival architect and visionary. Judy has been at the heart of the Festival since its inception, serving as Board Chair from 2002 - 2009. During her tenure, the Festival enjoyed exponential growth in attendance and stature. Judy is an indefatigable l...
At the 64th edition of the Festival del film Locarno, the Pardo d’onore Swisscom (Leopard of Honour) to go to the american filmaker Abel Ferrara.
Every year the Locarno Festival’s Pardo d'onore celebrates one or more major contemporary filmmakers. Previous recipients include Manoel de Oliveira, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Aleksandr Sokurov, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Amos Gitai, William Friedkin and, in 2010, Alain T...
After four days of packed houses and 18 extraordinary programs, the 16th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival ended on a spectacular note.
Alexander Payne introduces the Closing Night Film Photo © Pamela Gentile
The festival concluded with Victor Sjöström's masterpiece HE WHO GETS SLAPPED and the brilliant accompaniment by the Matti Bye Ensemble from Sweden. In their excellent introductions of the film, Guest Director...
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, wishing to honor the memory of celebrated director Michael Cacoyannis who passed away early last week, institutes the Michael Cacoyannis Award.
The award will be presented to a feature-length Greek film and will be given for the first time during the upcoming 52nd TIFF (November 4-13). It is a symbolic token of appreciation for an artist who paved the way for Greek filmmakers and Greek cinema, thus providing access to the global cinema industr...
Juliette Bennett (www.juliettebennett.com) has won the Best Actress at the 2011 Manhattan Film Festival (www.manhattanfilmfestival.org) for her performance in the comedy short The Couple. This year the festival presented 132 films, including more than 30 international selections, at Symphony Space and The Producers Club in New York City.
Juliette Bennett and Ken Forman
The Couple is a hilarious ensemble comedy about an actress and a screenwriter who sit down with a magazine rep...
photo from SFF official site: http://www.sff.ba/news/show/id/834
Sarajevo Film Festival Proudly Presents Award Winners 201117th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL AWARDS
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
Jury:Jury President:ARI FOLMAN, Director, Israel
Jury members:ALBERTO BARBERA, Director of the National Museum of Cinema, ItalyZANA MARJANOVIĆ, Actress, Bosnia and Herzegovina MICHELE OHAYON, Director, producer, writer, USARIZVAN RADULESCU, Scriptwriter and direct...
The 32nd edition of the Durban International Film Festival, with principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, last night announced its award-winners, prior to the closing film.
Winner of the Best Feature Film award, Nader and Simin, A Separation (Iran), directed by Asghar Farhadi, was lauded by the International Jury as a “masterpiece” with “astonishing performances from the ensemble cast”.
The Best Feature Film award carries a cash prize of R50 000. ...
In front of a dedicated vampire crowd, we have announced this year's winners of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Without further ado, let us list them:
VICIOUS CAT
International jury consisting of Dinko Tucaković, Phillip Bergson and Lars Nilsen has decided that Vicious Cat (Best Feature Film award) goes to:
THE LAST CIRCUS /BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA
Spain/France; 2010
Directed by: Alex de la Iglesia
Genre: comedy
The award was taken by acto...
Legendary producer, director and script writer Menahem Golan, receiver of this year's honorary Vicious Old Cat award, has arrived at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival in Ljutomer today. Before his Master Class, taking place tomorrow at 20:00h at the Culture House Cinema, he will address Grossmann's audience prior to the screening of his film today at 20:00h at the Culture House Cinema.
Already at 19:30h at the same location, ninjutsu master Andrej Jasenc will demonstrate his deadly sk...
In a year that boasted 108 filmmakers, 7 World Premieres, and films from over 28 countries, the 17th edition of Philadelphia’s QFest came to a close on Monday, July 18 with a lineup of festival favorites, the hilarious film Going Down in La La Land from director Casper Andreas, a men’s bathing suit fashion show hosted by WMMR’s Pierre Robert, and the annual Audience and Jury Awards.
And the winners are…
2011 QFest Jury Award Winners
Best Short Film: (tie) The Queen and The K...
I had the privilege to work with Roland Emmerich on the release of ID4 (when I was running UGC Fox distribution in France) I am glad to share the news: he will headline Concordia University's Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre's Fall Conference Sept. 6-9 in Portland, Ore. Emmerich's new film, Anonymous, speculates on a centuries-old question – did William Shakespeare really write the works attributed to him? – and offers one possible answer.
At the conference, Emmerich will ...
Sadistic piano teachers, lovesick young hairdressers, frosty chocolate-factory directors, dark ladies crushed in the French provinces, stuttering factory workers, honest magistrates or evil mothers who can slice the screen to shreds with a single glance.
There are truly few actresses on the international scene who, like Isabelle Huppert, have that ability to give shape, in the versatility of the her many roles, to that disturbing femininity that is a narrative all on its own and all o...
Mohawk language film Tsi Tkahehtayen (The Garden) wins A&E Short Filmmakers Award in the NSI Online Short Film Festival
Winnipeg, MB – Mohawk language film Tsi Tkahehtayen (The Garden) is the latest winner of the $2,500 A&E Short Filmmakers Award in the NSI Online Short Film Festival. In Tsi Tkahehtayen three women, who desire things of the most primal nature, go to a mystical gardener for help but don't quite get what they bargained for.
Tsi Tkahehtayen was written and d...
Last Saturday, July 9, was the prize-giving ceremony of the 20th International Festival for Children and Youths, Divercine 2011, in Montevideo.
The International Jury conformed by Aldana Duhalde (Argentina), Alejandro Rojas (Chile) and María Angélica dos Santos (Brazil), with broad consensus gave the following awards and special mentions:
GURÍ Grand Award: “Luminaris”, Argentina, from Juan Pablo Zaramella, because the originality of the idea much complicated to be narrated...
The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the 11 finalists for the fifth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants of more than $300,000, to be given to one or more feature films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time. Additionally, the grants support films that have a significant economic or professional impact on th...
Screenwriter and Director
Rio Collier of the B Media Collective seen here in 2011 after she
received the SURGE 'Eternal Flame' award for keeping the flame of
equality and social justice burning bright for all the world to see.
She received the award for her inspiring film 'Armed with Art: A New
Revolution is
Necessary - "Armad@s Con Arte. Una Nueva Revolucion es Nescesaria." It
was filmed throughout Mexico and shown at the Historic Academy Theater
en Español ...
NIFFF 2011 AWARD WINNERS
• H.R. Giger Award Narcisse for the best fantastic feature film
• RTS Audience Award
• Silver Méliès for the best European fantastic feature film
TROLLHUNTER André Øvredal, Norway
Distribution: Universal Pictures International Switzerland GMBH, CH
• Special Mention from the International Jury
STAKE LAND
Jim Mickle, USA
Distribution:
Aventi Distribution, FR
• Award for the best Asian film
HELLO GHOST
Kim You...
Best International Film-La
Famouse Route (comedy) Adolf el Assal LU
Best Regional Film-Kathem & Chris (documentary) Ruud Lenssen NL
Best Camera-Walzer (thriller) Rob Lucker NL
Best Script/Idea-Mune (animation) Jesca Marisa SA
Best Directing/Editing-de Boule de Boule (comedy) Fedde Hoekstra NL
Best Acting-La Famouse Route (comedy) Adolf el Assal LU
Best Animation/sfx-Die Ratten Prinz (animation) Albert Radler DE
Final result scores are the public votes & Jury Votes combine...
Screening to be Followed by a Special Conversation with Award-Winning Director Phillip Noyce
Ovation, the only television network dedicated to arts culture, is holding a special screening at the Bing Theater at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) for the winners in its 2nd Annual Short Film Contest on Thursday, July 14. The screening will include a discussion with the filmmakers and award-winning director Phillip Noyce.
The Ovation Short Film Contest, which is sponsored by popp...
The most anticipated awards of the Taipei Film Festival 2011, the Audience’s Choice Award, Special Mentions, the Special Jury Prize and the Grand Prize of the International New Talent Competition were announced on July 30 after long deliberations made by the five jury members, chaired by Tony Rayns. The jury members were CHUNG Mong-Hong from Taiwan, Tony RAYNS from Britain, XIE Fei from China, YEH Jufeng from Taiwan and ZEZE Takahisa from Japan.
The Grand Prize with a cash aw...
Last night, “The Social Network” came away from the 12th Annual Golden Trailer Awards with three wins in major categories and the coveted top honor, Best in Show. It is the first time a trailer has accomplished this feat since “The Matrix” in 1999, the year the awards show debuted. After carrying away the trophies for “Best Drama,” “Best Music” (which gauges the creative use of music in a promo reel) and “Most Original”—Sony Pictures’ “The Social Network” trailer na...
Silver Princess Statuette (replica of the original "The Palace" statue of Ilijana, daughter of the Romanian Queen Mary of Edingburg)
The voices of this year's directors show more clearly than ever that people from all nations are bonded by the same love, loss and laughter. Whether from Africa, Asia, America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand or the Middle East we are one in our needs and emotions. Perhaps in the 21st century the hand written note has been replaced by th...
Arclight Productions is pleased to announce that its film "WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD" has won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. The documentary short examines the precarious state of the world's fresh water supply through the lenses of six acclaimed National Geographic photographers. The result is a visually arresting study of our most vital resource, presented from environmental, social, political and cultural perspectives across the globe.
Arclight produced "W...
WINNERS LIST 2011
Films in Official Competition
A QUIET LIFE (Una vita tranquilla) by Claudio Cupellini (Germany/France/Italy)
BLACK BREAD (Pa negre) by Agusti Villaronga (Spain)
BRAND by Thomas Roth (Austria)
HAPPY HAPPY (Sykt lykkelig) by Anne Sewitsky (Norway)
INNOCENT SATURDAY (V Subbotu) by Alexander Mindadze (Russia/Germany/Ukraina)
JIMMY RIVIERE by Teddy Lussi-Modeste (France)
NOTHING'S ALL BAD (Smukke Mennesker) by Mikkel Munch-Fals (Denmark)
PARKED by Darragh Byrne ...
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