Berlinale 2011: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus   The members of the Children's Jury Generation Kplus   Ilenga Altuğ Christian Becker Merten Ebbert Antonia Felsmann Mascha Tabea Luise Leskien Olivia Mirza Jakob Oeschey Paul Reichhoff Lotta Schwerk Jurek Stanislawski Liv Thastum   give the following awards:   Crystal Bear for the Best Feature...

  Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Die Ausbildung (The Education) by Dirk Lütter wins FGYO Prize "Dialogue en perspective" Today, during the award ceremony of the Independent Juries of the 61st Berlinale, the young French-German-Bosnian jury awarded the "Dialogue en perspective" prize. It goes this year to Dirk Lütter's film Die Ausbildung (The Education). The award was initiated in 2004 by the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlin...

   Jan Schomburg's ÜBER UNS DAS ALL/ABOVE US ONLY SKY from Germany has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, it was announced today by a jury of four exhibitors - the seventh year the Label has been awarded in the section. ÜBER UNS DAS ALL/ABOVE US ONLY SKY will now receive the support of the Europa Cinemas exhibitors who commit themselves to extend the length of its run on screen and additional promotion across t...

  The members of the Youth Jury in the Generation 14plus   Faysal Asfaha Jonathan Curio Leonie Goebel-Künnecke Theresa Greiwe Roberta Huldisch Oskar E. Levis Tara Mauritz   give the following awards:   Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film: On the Ice by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, USA 2011 This film drew us in from the first minute and remained gripping right up to the very end. Here, between s...

The Fifth Annual Costa Rica International Film Festival showcases an amazing array of shorts and features from across the world.  Attendees enjoy film screenings,  group excursions and tons of special events. Don't miss the now famous Saturday Night Street Party where a team of fire dancers and perform, transforming all of Montezuma into an all night fiesta.   Judges for the Costa Rica International Film Festival will program short and feature-length films of every...

The jury met to take on the challenge of selecting all 18 winners of the Polyglot Video Contest. The deliberations resulted in an equal number of selections from the documentary and fiction categories, and winners aged between 19 and 32 from 12 different countries. Here is the full list - congratulations to the young talents who are invited to participate in the Cine-Boat workshop! Video Portraits (documentary): My multilingualism C'Moan Get Aff - by Alastair Cole (UK) Alo...

  Committed filmmakers speak their minds at the Berlinale Talent Campus #9 Felix Rösch from Germany wins the Score Competition 2011 Winner of the Score Competition 2011: Felix Rösch © Peter HimselWinner of the Score Competition 2011: Felix Rösch © Peter Himsel On 17.2., the ninth edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus came to a successful close with the award ceremony for this year's Score Competition in the Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1-3). 350 young filmmakers from 88 cou...

Asprey hosted the official BAFTA, Nominees' Party for the third consecutive year this weekend. The prestigious Cocktail Party, held in the luxurious surroundings of Asprey's New Bond Street Flagship Store, celebrated the film nominations and Asprey's continued partnership with BAFTA. The store, occupied by Asprey since 1847 and originally five town houses, was transformed to welcome actors, special guests and film industry professionals. Oversized BAFTA masks were posi...

Winner list BEST FILM  - PA NEGRE BEST ACTOR – JAVIER BARDEM - BIUTIFUL BEST ACTRESS – NORA NOVAS - PA NEGRE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – KARRA ELEJALDE – TAMBIEN LA LLUVIABEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS –  LAIA MARULL – PA NEGREBEST NEW DIRECTOR – DAVID PINILLOS – BON APETITBEST NEW ACTOR – FRANCESC COLOMER - PA NEGREBEST NEW ACTRESS – MARINA COMAS - PA NEGREBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY  – CHRIS SPARLING - BURIEDBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – AGUSTI VILLARONGA - PA N...

Javier Bardem won on Sunday his 5th Goya Award for Biutiful. Academy Award winner received this award in Madrid  for a role that may make him win another Oscar. Biutiful,the film directed by Alejandro gonzález Iñarritu will also compete for and Academy Award in the Best Film in a Foreing Laguage category. In London,another actor compeating for the Best Actor Academy Award,Colin Firth won a Bafta for The King´s Speech.This film won the Goya Award as the Best Eurpean Film. ...

  Pierce Brosnan, Saoirse Ronan, Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall and Joely Richardson Join Irish Film & Television Awards Celebrations The Irish film and television industry celebrated its 8th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards at a gala ceremony held in Dublin's spectacular Convention Centre on Saturday 12th February. In what was a glittering night for the Irish film and television industry the IFTA Awards saw a host of filmmakers, actors and producers walking the red ...

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  Hackney Lullabies by Kyoko Miyake wins the 2011 Campus short film competition   On Saturday evening (12.2.) at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre, Festival Director Dieter Kosslick opened the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 together with the heads of the Campus Christine Tröstrum and Matthijs Wouter Knol as well as with Medienboard CEO Kirsten Niehuus. Directly afterwards, the roughly 600 guests witnessed the world premiere of the five Berlin Today Award 2011 nominated short films insp...

  Long live the King……or The King’s Speech that is. The historical biopic made a nearly clean sweep of the Orange British Academy Awards this evening in London. The awards, best known as the BAFTAs, crowned actor Colin Firth as Best Actor, while recognizing his fellow thespians, including best supporting actress Helena Bonham Carter and best supporting actor Geoffrey Rush. The film also won as Best Film, Best British Film and for its Original Screenplay. Firth was honored wi...

The Royal Theatre The Royal Theatre in Madrid is the place chosen to host the 25th Goya Award Ceremony this coming Sunday.In such a special celebration the red carpet will be actually RED! Not green as the last four years…just a matter of sponsors… And it will be located in an extraordinary site between The Royal Palace and The Royal Theatre. Lots of Spanish film stars are expected to walk along the red carpet in their best outfits and showing the best jewels.Hosting the ceremony...

  The 26th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the winners of the 2011 festival competition at a Press Conference and Sunday morning brunch at the famed Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort. To the joy and surprise of both patrons and industry professionals, the festival's 26th season managed to surpass even the great success of last year's silver anniversary. Throughout the past 11 days, cinephiles from around the globe packed the theaters of State Street, creating one of...

Canadian feature Incendies by Denis Villeneuve has won the UPC Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011. The other award decided by the audience - the Dioraphte Award for Best Hubert Bals Fund-supported film - went to former CineMart Project If the Seed Doesn't Die by Serbian filmmaker Sinisa Dragin. This was announced on the evening of Saturday, 5 February in the Grote Zaal in de Doelen, Rotterdam. IFFR 2011 racked up 340,000 visits to its films, exhibitions, perform...

  Leonardo DiCaprio awards Christopher Nolan his Modern Masters award at SBIFF 2011  Christopher Nolan appears on the red carpet at SBIFF on the way into Santa Barbara's Arlington Theater for his ‘Modern Masters' award, January 30, 2011. I stood with my buddy Ted Mills, fellow filmmaker/journalist, and we interviewed Nolan briefly on his way in. As Ted had the voice recorder he asked most of the questions. I had told Ted to please ask Nolan about the underlying themes in his fil...

  She Monkeys This year's winner of the Dragon Award Best Nordic Film is She Monkeys, directed by Lisa Aschan. The prize is one million SEK as of this year. The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award goes to the American film Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance. Another eight awards were handed out at Göteborg International Film Festival's Dragon Award Gala on Saturday night. Lisa Aschan's feature debut She Monkeys received this year's Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. ...