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Co-Presented by 36th TIFF & Prime Video Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists Announced

The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce the Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists, whose work will premiere at the 36th TIFF. As part of an initiative to discover and nurture new talent, TIFF partnered in 2021 with Prime Video, which produces and distributes a diverse range of excellent original works in Japan and abroad. The award recognizes short films (15 minutes or less) by filmmakers living in Japan who have never participated in the production of co...

Film Threat Award This! 2023 Nominees announced ahead of December 10th, 2023 Awards Show

    Film Threat’s Award This! Announces 2023 Nominees Award This! In its 5th Year Honors Indie Filmmakers In-Person on December 10th  Film Threat’s Award This! has become a unique voice for indie film and an annual industry staple. An event with a mission — to champion independent films across a multitude of diverse categories to bring awareness to the growing number of exceptional indies available on DVD, VOD, and streaming services. Film Threat recognizes t...

The 15th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival 2023 Audience Award Winners

Hola Mexico Film Festival presented by Toyota Audience Award 2023 RADICAL by Dir. Christopher Zalla Produced by Ben Odell and Eugenio Derbez Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today Audience Award presented by Fidelity LA BRUJA by writer / director Manuel Villarreal The largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico, Hola México Film Festival presented by Toyota, announced Radical as the 2023 winner of this year’s “Audience Award”, and La Bruja by writer...

Buffalo Int'l Film Festival: and the winners are...

  Juried Awards + Tilke Hill W.i.P. Award Announced! Congratulations to all!  (you are all award winners to us <3) Special Encore Events through + on November 9 @ Hallwalls!   BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM – MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 Directed by Elisabeth Subrin BEST WNY FEATURE – 98 DEGREES WEST - ZAMIR DISCOVERS BOURDAIN'S AMERICA...

FNC2023 : Short Film Awards

SHORT FILMS AWARDS Wednesday, October 11th, the Agora in UQÀM's Cœur des Sciences hosted the Short Film Awards Ceremony. We are happy to reveal the list of winners of the 52nd edition of the Festival du nouveau cinema. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION The best of today’s cinema: the boldest and brightest films from around the world. The Jury of the International Competition - short films was composed ...

Golden Key Award For Artistic Excellence to Thomas McGuane at Key West Film Festival 2023

KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES JIMMY BUFFETT, THOMAS MCGUANE, JIM HARRISON AND OTHER CONCH REPUBLIC LEGENDS WITH FLORIDA PREMIERE OF “ALL THAT IS SACRED” MCGUANE TO RECEIVE GOLDEN KEY AWARD FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE 2023 FESTIVAL RUNS NOVEMBER 15-19TH The Key West Film Festival announced today that i t will present the Florida premiere of the short film “All That Is Sacred,” directed by Scott Ballew. Thomas McGuane, the award-winning writ...

Tryon International Film Festival 2023 Award Winners.

The Tryon International Film Festival (TRIFF) the principal annual event of the non-profit Polk County Film Initiative has announced the awards for the 2023 edition. Multiple screening venues operate seamlessly, including a bonus evening amphitheater screening that features music, food, drink and a special film. In addition to the Festival, TRIFF hosts many educational sessions in and around the town of Tryon, connecting filmmakers with students to perfect original voices, inspire n...

Animaze – The Montreal International Animation Festival celebrated its 10th year

10th YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ANIMAZE – MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL WRAPS AND ANNOUNCES WINNING FILMS OF 2023 The Festival Paid Tribute to Canadian Animation Industry Tycoon Michael Hirsh who Received the Lifetime Achievement Award Animaze – The Montreal International Animation Festival celebrated its 10th year with many international attendees and animation films – shorts from filmmakers around the globe. “What we saw this year at Animaze was incredib...

The Best Shorts Competition Announces Latest Winners! September 2023

                          Contact: Rick Prickett, Competition Director 858-779-9544 BestShorts.net Info@BestShorts.net The Best Shorts Competition Announces Latest Winners! La Jolla, CA, October 2023 – The Best Shorts Competition is proud to announce the latest winners. The Best Shorts Competition puts filmmakers first and provides a direct opportunity for recognition and publicity for high quality productions. It ...

22nd Hafez awards, Picture World Cinema and Television Ceremony The Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal was awarded to “Imagination”

22nd Hafez awards, Picture World Cinema and Television Ceremony were given to the best of cinema and television of Iran. The Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal was awarded to “Imagination”, directed by Ali Behrad.   The 22nd Cinema and Television Ceremony of Picture World Magazine (Hafez Awards) was held after a year break, under the direction of Omid Moalem and production of Azar Azar Memarian. The awards were given to the best of cinema and television of Iran. This year, the ...

The Key West Film Festival announced today the recipients of its Golden Key Awards

The Key West Film Festival announced today the recipients of its 8th annual Golden Key for Excellence in Costume Design, and 2nd annual Golden Key Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. The recipients this year are Academy Award winning Costume Designer Jacqueline Durran and Academy Award winning Executive, Director and Producer, Sheila Nevins. Jacqueline Durran’s most recent work can be seen in the record-breaking, billion-dollar box office smash Barbie. As ...

The five nominated films for European University Film Award (EUFA)

   Drumroll for the five nominees in the running for the European University Film Award (EUFA)! The European Film Academy and Filmfest Hamburg announce this year’s nominated films. Introduced in 2016, the award is presented by university students from across Europe. Based on the European Film Awards Feature and Documentary Film Selections 2023, these are the five nominations: ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE) France DIRECTED BY Justine Triet WRITT...

Shortlist Announced for the Big Screen Awards

  Congratulations to our 2023 shortlist! Following a record number of submissions for this year's Big Screen Awards we are delighted to announce the 2023 shortlist! The exceptionally high calibre of entries showcases the very best of the UK cinema industry across marketing, distribution, publicity and exhibition teams/companies.  See the list of shortlisted entries by clicking the button below.  THE NOMINEES   Join us at the awards ceremony on 23 Novemb...

Awards from 6th DOCK International Documentary Historical Film Festival in Burgas (Bulgaria)

By Phillip Bergson Member of  International Jury 17--22 September 2023   The interest in historical cinema over the past decade is a trend in contemporary documentaries. Bearing this concept in mind not only across screens globally, but also here in Bulgaria, we were launching the largest forum for International Historic Documentary Cinema – DOCK. It will take place in Burgas over 5 days – between the 17th and the 22nd of September 2022.. The inaugural edition o...

VIDEO Watch the Closing Gala and awards of San Sebastian 71

'O corno / The Rye Horn' lands the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition The feature film O corno / The Rye Horn (Spain-Portugal-Belgium), directed by Jaione Camborda from San Sebastian, carried off the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival's 71st edition. In addition, the official jury decided to give the Silver Shell for Best Director to Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang for Chun xing / A Journey in Spring (Taiwan), while the Best Scre...

VIDEO: Victor Erice picked up the Donostia Award

On the stage at the Vitoria Eugenia theatre where fifty years ago he received the Golden Shell for his first film El Espíritu de la colmena, Victor Erice picked up the Donostia Award last night. The actress Ana Torrent, who as a child starred in the very same film, had the honour of presenting the director with the statuette, and said that it was enormously moving to give Erice the award “50 years after coming together in the same place to present El espíritu de l...

Announcing the nominated films for the 22nd Edition of the Miami short Film Festival, November 17–19, 2023

  We are happy to announce the nominated films for the 22nd Edition of the Miami short Film Festival, November 17–19, 2023.   Best North America Narrative Hating Beckett - Dir by; Matthew Gossin Sticks & Stones - Dir by: Emily Singer Romanova - Dir by: Mark Kaercher Launch at Paradise - Dir by: Carrie Ann Quinn It´s a Dog - Dir by: Eli Shapiro Best Foreign Narrative Overthinker - Dir by: Nemanja Mladenovic The Old young Crow - Dir by: Liam LoPinto Reser...

Special "Abbas Kiarostami" award is presented to the best experimental film at the Hafez Awards

Hafez Awards, the biggest cinema and television event organized by the private sector in Iran, to the extent that a special "Abbas Kiarostami" award is presented to the best experimental film at the ceremony. This fall, 22nd film and television ceremony of Picture World Magazine (Hafez Awards), the recognition of Iranian cinema and television will be held. A ceremony directed and produced by Omid Moallem and produced by Azar memarian in which Asghar Farhadi and Mehran Modiri are the...

2023 Catalina Film Festival wraps announcings winners

Ron Truppa, Bruce Davison 2023 Career Tribute Award Honoree CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS 13th ANNUAL EVENT WITH AWARDS PRESENTATION & HONORS ACTOR BRUCE DAVISON WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD     Notable Festival Attendees include Actors Katrina Law, Lily Brooks O’Briant, Page Kennedy, Wally Kurth and Director Ashley Avis VIRTUAL FEST SCREENS ONLINE VIA EOAPP FROM SEPT 29TH-OCTOBER 8TH    Catalina Film Festival (CFF) wrapped their 13th annual c...

The tenth Lunenburg Doc Fest wrapped with Awards

The tenth Lunenburg Doc Fest wrapped a showcase of the best and newest Canadian and International documentaries, September 21-27, in beautiful UNESCO Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.   AWARD WINNERS!   ...

Five Ibero-American films compete for the Spanish Cooperation Award

For the ninth consecutive year, AECID, together with the San Sebastian Festival, is promoting the accolade which recognises the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights The Award is part of the alliance between the AECID and the Festival to promote the Ibero-American audiovisual industry    Five films programmed at San Sebastian Festival's 71th edition will compete this year for...

Six films at the San Sebastian Festival compete for the Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country Award

Actresses Greta Fernández and Loreto Mauleón make up the jury alongside the Basque Government Director of Social Innovation, Asier Aranbarri Six films from the official programme of the 71st San Sebastian Festival compete for the Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country Award, recognising the film that best reflects the values of sustainability and solidarity as the core emblems of the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda. Two of the competi...

Seventeen films selected for Perlak to compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award

The City Council and the Festival have distributed 1,000 free tickets among the unemployed   Seventeen films selected for Perlak will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award, sponsored by the San Sebastian City Council for eight years in a row. This initiative is a tribute from the City Council to its citizens, who decide the award. The Perlak section, sponsored by Armani Beauty, is made up of titles to have been awarded or acclaimed at other international f...

Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Awards

  Zinemadia Startup Challenge falls within the framework of Zinemaldia & Technology, promote by the Basque Governement through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment and SPRI The competition for Spanish startups is part of “Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech”, one of the axes of Spanish Screenings XXL. The Basque Government, through the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment, promotes the Zinemaldia Startup...

Winners of the Anniversary 60th Edition of Golden Prague Festival

  The Grand Prix of the Golden Prague International Television Festival has been awarded to the German picture Orphea in Love.  The winner was selected by a five-member international jury chaired by the German director and producer Reiner E. Moritz. As many as 83 films were registered in the competition for seven prizes. The Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize went to the creators of the film Nikola Márová: Portrait of a Prima Ballerina produced by C...

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