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Jesse Eisenberg to receive The Deauville Talent Award

  © Gareth Cattermole by Getty Images  Actor of Intranquillity   With more roles under his belt than years alive, Jesse Eisenberg (literally “mountain of steel”) today finds himself at the summit of an exceptional career amid the landscape of American cinema. In 38 years, this hyperactive actor, who is also a director, author and journalist, has relentlessly transformed himself, delving into the buried, complex truth at the heart of his characters, confr...

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Awards

Here are the Winners and Runner-Ups   Supreme Award Winner: Jason Loftus (Eternal Spring) Runner Up: George Gittoes (No Bad Guys), Runner Up: Daizy Gedeon (Enough! Lebanon's Darkest Hour) Runner Up: Sonita Gale (Hostile) Best Australian Documentary Winner: The Power of Activism (Steven Pasvolsky) Runner Up: No Bad Guys (George Gittoes) Runner Up: Paper City (...

Excellence Award Davide Campari to Aaron Taylor-Johnson

The eclectic and talented British actor, who won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016), will receive the award on the evening of August 3 in the Piazza Grande, where he will also present the Locarno Film Festival's opening film Bullet Train, by David Leitch, a filmmaker who previously attended Locarno in 2017 with Atomic Blonde. Taylor-Johnson is known for roles as varied as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy&n...

See You Friday, Robinson by Mitra Farahani wins the Grand Prix of the 22nd New Horizons International Film Festival in Wrocław

The jury of the 22nd New Horizons International Film Festival in Wrocław awarded the Grand Prix and the 15,000 EUR prize to See You Friday, Robinson, directed by Mitra Farahani from Iran.   We prefer to let Jean-Luc Godard, one of the protagonists of this film, write the motivation for this award, so here it is a Godard quote that also sums up the qualities of See You Friday, Robinson: “Films were invented to look, tell, and study things. They were mainly a scientific tool fo...

Best Independent Producer Award 2022 goes to producer Jason Blum

© Gage Skidmore The Locarno Film Festival’s Premio Raimondo Rezzonico for Best Independent Producer on the international scene will this year go to Jason Blum, a pivotal figure who has rebooted contemporary independent filmmaking, coming up with hits such as Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) and BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018). Blum will receive the prize on the evening of Saturday 6 August, and the tribute to him will include screenings o...

The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners! May 2022

    Contact:                                     Rick Prickett, Competition Director 858-454-9787 TheIndieFEST.com Info@TheIndieFEST.com     The IndieFEST Film Awards strives to give talented directors, producers, actors, creative teams and new media creators the positive exposure an...

The Accolade Global Film Competition Announces Latest Winners!

  Rick Prickett, Competition Director 858-454-9868 AccoladeCompetition.org Info@AccoladeCompetitio.org   The Accolade Announces Latest Winners! La Jolla, CA, May 2022 – The awards go to those filmmakers, television producers and videographers who produce fresh, standout entertainment and compelling documentaries. The Accolade is an international awards competition that honors those who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity.   ~~ Best of  S...

Winners of the 56th Karlovy Vary IFF

"Summer with Hope" Director Sadaf Foroughi, Film Crew Saman Majdvafaei, Producer Kiarash Anvari and Actress Leili Rashidi   The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with two competitive categories, took place from July 1st to July 9th this year. It was organized by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as the president of the festival and Karel Och as its artistic director. The 57th Karlovy Vary IFF...

KVIFF Eastern Promises award winners announced

Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch, First Cut+ Works in Progress, Odesa International Film Festival WIP Selection KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section, has the exciting mission of bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential partners, festivals and audiences. “This year brought us back to live pitching sessions after two pandemic years, and we were delighted to see the return of both our industry audience and the well-...

The Prix d’Ornano-Valenti will be awarded to Fal­con Lake by Char­lotte Le Bon

Fal­con Lake by Char­lotte Le Bon  « A love and ghost story. »  Cre­at­ed in 1991 by the mem­ber com­pa­nies of the Motion Pic­ture Asso­ci­a­tion (MPA), and grant­ed by a jury of Anglo-Sax­on jour­nal­ists presided by Jean-Guil­laume d’Ornano, the Prix d’Ornano-Valenti hon­ors a French first film in order to help sup­port its wider recog­ni­tion, pro&...

The 2022 Lucien-Bar­rière Lit­er­ary Prize is award­ed to the nov­el Robert Red­ford by Michael Feeney Callan

Rely­ing on news arti­cles and Redford’s let­ters, as well as hun­dreds of hours of inter­views, Michael Feeney Callan sheds light on the leg­endary star, reveal­ing his bro­ken fam­i­ly and trou­bled youth, his rough begin­nings in com­e­dy, the death of his son, his polit­i­cal engage­ment, his loves and his friend­ships. An hon­est and sur­pris­ing por­trait of a man whose emblem­at­ic...

Iris Prize Fellowship presented to Jacquie Lawrence

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·      Guests celebrated Jacquie’s massive contribution to Lesbian visibility at The White Space, Ministry Venues in London ·      Denise Welch, Sinitta, Ross Kemp and Hannah Barrell MP congratulate Jacquie on her work in increasing lesbian visibility on tv and film   Jacquie Lawrence has been presented with the Iris Prize Fellowship for her work in promoting lesbians and women on television and film. The fellowship wa...

French composer Bruno Coulais to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 World Soundtrack Awards

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At the 22nd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards - the annual film music awards of Film Fest Ghent - French composer Bruno Coulais will be celebrated for his contribution to the art of film music. The World Soundtrack Academy honours Coulais with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The World Soundtrack Awards will be presented at the end of the 49th edition of Film Fest Ghent during a ceremony and concert on Saturday 22 October. Film Fest Ghent will pre...

David Cronenberg to receive a Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival

 The Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg (Toronto, 1943) will receive a Donostia Award at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian Festival, thereby recognising the career of one of the most unusual filmmakers to come out of the last 50 years with its highest honorary accolade. On 21 September the Victoria Eugenia Theatre will host the award ceremony followed by the screening of Crimes of the Future (2022), the feature film starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydo...

Juliette Binoche will receive the Donostia Award

                                Juliette Binoche, one of Europe’s most international actresses, will visit the San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition, to run from 16-24 September, for the fourth time to receive one of this year’s Donostia Awards in recognition of an extensive career which has seen her play almost 75 characters, from power-wielding heroines to fragile beings with historical figures, ...

The Awards of the 39th International FILMFEST MÜNCHEN

The 39th International FILMFEST MÜNCHEN came to a close with a festive award ceremony on Saturday, July 2, 2022. “Broker” by Hirokazu Kore-eda received the ARRI Award for best international film in the CineMasters competition. Charlotte Wells received the CineVision Award for best international newcomer film for “Aftersun”. The inaugural CineRebels Award went to “Cook F**k Kill” by Mira Fornay. Closing the festival, “...

Annecy 2022: The Award Winners from a Historic Edition

     This 2022 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and its market, the Mifa, was one of reunions and record-breaking figures. There were 13,248 badgeholders (an 8% increase compared to 2019, our record year), coming from 106 countries, who got together for a week dedicated to animation film. Directors, producers, distributers, students, composers, and more. ­ ­ "We promised you fireworks but this week was over and above our expecta...

K-Movie record winning 2 trophies at the 75th Festival de Cannes

  Winning 2 trophies in the major categories, Korean films have conquered the 75th Festival de Cannes.   Director Park Chanwook won the Best Director for Decision to Leave, while Actor Song Kangho won the Best Actor for Broker, a Korean film directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu. This is the first time a Korean male actor has won the Best Actor at the Festival de Cannes. It is also the first time that a Korean director won the Best Director at Cannes since ...

Call for Entries - 19th accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival in Naples - Italy

accordi @ DISACCORDI - International Short Film Festival celebrates its 19th anniversary on November 7 - 13, 2022 and welcomes filmmakers, professionals, enthusiasts from across the world, to share the art of independent short films with the local audience, to entertain and enlighten the festival attendees, to provide filmmakers the opportunity for professional networking and development, and to encourage cultural tourism and film industry development in Naples and the surrounding area in Camp...

8th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Announces Award Winners in “In Person” Film Festival Event

The Civil Dead,” “Woman on the Outside,” “Tel Aviv” and “Eternal Spring” Receive  Top Jury Prizes MLFF Winners Meital Ner and Director Marat Parkhomovsky   "Tel Aviv" - Meital Ner and Yotam Gotal   "The Civil Dead" - Lead Actor and Director Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas   The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, held from May 25-29, screened over 9...

Awards of the 17th Geneva International Festival of Oriental Film (FIFOG)

The 17th Geneva International Festival of Oriental Film (FIFOG) took place from June 13 to 19 in Geneva and its municipalities. This year's edition is placed under the sign of Freedom...in the feminine way. It is chaired by the Lebanese writer Joumana Haddad. Even if the heat wave has had an impact on the movement of festival-goers, the attendance of the public has been very honorable. The public has rediscovered the joy and pleasure of watching films and exchanging with filmmaker...

Brian and Charles wins Audience Favourite Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London

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    Sundance Institute and Picturehouse announced tonight that the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London's Audience Favourite award is presented to Brian and Charles directed by Jim Archer. The film is written by David Earl and Chris Hayward, produced by Rupert Majendie and the executive producers are Damian Jones, Lauren Dark and Mary Burke.     Meet Brian -- a lonely, luckless inventor who takes on his most ambitious project yet. Enter Cha...

Lech Majewski received the Trophy of the International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2022

  Lech Majewski has received Sunday, May 29, the Trophy of the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) of Rio de Janeiro 2022 for his latest film „Valley of the Gods" starring Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea, John Rhys-Davies and Joseph Runningfox.   The audience at the Cinematheque of Rio de Janeiro's prestigious Museum of Modern Art, including many art and film scholars, was deeply impressed by his film and t...

Sydney Film Festival Award Winners announced at the closing night Gala

The 69th Sydney Film Festival tonight awarded Close by Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont, a stunningly beautiful examination of boyhood friendship, the prestigious Sydney Film Prize. The winner of the $60,000 cash prize for ‘audacious, cutting-edge and courageous' film was selected by a prestigious international jury headed by David Wenham. The announcement was made at the State Theatre ahead of the Australian Premiere screening of the 2022 Cannes-a...

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