We want to thank all of our filmmakers and fans who have supported the NYC Independent Film Festival throughout the years! Without you all, none of this would be possible!
As we approach a DECADE of 'never boring' cinema we've decided to present a special treat for our next festival!
At the 10th Annual NYC Indie Film Fest we will be screening all of our INCREDIBLE past winners in the 'Best Music Video' category!
Get ready to jam, feel inspired, awaken your emotions, ...
Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience. This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees for the ...
The British actress Judi Dench will receive the prestigious Donostia Award at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival next month. The Festival’s highest honorary award will be presented on Tuesday, September 25th, prior to the scr...
Internationally renowned German director Wim Wenders will receive the A Tribute to... Award on October 6. The award will include a retrospective of his work screened in his honour at the 14th Zurich Film Festival.
Wim Wenders will collect the 14th Zurich Film Festival’s A Tribute to... Award in person during the Award Night ceremony at Zurich Opera House on October 6. A retrospective of twelve of the German director’s most important films will be screen...
Submit by August 31, 2018 to be a part of our 10th Annual festival, happening May 5 through May 12 2019!
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British actress Vanessa Redgrave has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 75th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September, 2018).
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, upon recommendation of the Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera. This is the second Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 75th Venice Film Festival. As already announced, the Golden Lion to a direc...
It was hard to choose among many beautiful documentary films and short films, selected by our festival members all over the world. Nevertheless, in the end we have the winners of Green Film Network Award 2018! And the winners are…
Genesis 2.0 by Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev (Switzerland, 2018, 103’)
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a s...
Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf, the director of the film Holiday, is the winner of the Grand Prix of the New Horizons International Competition. Of the 12 competition entries, seven were directed by women. This year's edition of New Horizons can also boast record attendance.
"In an unsentimental and unsettling way, Holiday reveals the mechanisims of conformisme and dependence as seen through the eyes of a chameleonic main character manuvering through a world encompased b...
This first wave of the 2018 World Soundtrack Award Nominees includes multiple Academy Award® winners and nominees, the best of contemporary film and television music as well as Pulitzer prize winner Kendrick Lamar and other pop artists.
The nominees for Best Film Composer are Academy Award® winners John Williams and Alexandre Desplat, Academy Award® nominees Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jonny Greenwood and Carter Burwell. The Television Composer of th...
35 short films compete for the 2018 Iris Prize
20 countries represented bringing together films featuring contemporary dance, brutal violence and challenging stories about gender
The £30,000 prize continues to be supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation
Organisers of the Iris Prize have today (13/08/2018) announced details of the 35 short films competing for the Iris Prize at the 2018 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. The winning director will be presented with £30,000 to make the...
The 9th Odesa International Film Festival, which took place from July 13 to 21, sums up its achievements
This year, 1070 films from 95 countries were submitted for participation in the competition programs. 12films from the International Competition competed for the main prize – the Grand Prix; 5 features and 13 short films participated in the National Competition, and 8 – in the European Documentary Competition. In total,&...
Best Action
Mascarpone
Jonas Riemer
Best Animation
The Driver Is Red
Randall Christopher
Best Cinematographer
The Other End Of The Earth
Aaron Grasso
Best Comedy
Must Kill Karl
Joe Kicak
Best Coming Of Age
Melody
Bernard Kordieh
Best Diversity
Diwa
Aina Dumlao, Bru Muller
Best Documentary
Hula Girl
Amy Hill, Chris Riess
Best Drama
Phone Duty
Lenar Kamalov
Best Ed...
Paul Thomas Anderson will receive the distinction for the third time in San Sebastian
Phantom Thread has been voted Best Film of 2018 by the members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. The vote was decided by 473 critics from all over the world, who chose this production from among all of the films premiered after 1 July 2017. The other three finalists were Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri by Martin McDonagh (City of Donostia / San Sebast...
The European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 49 films on this year’s EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2018! With 35 European countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema.
In the 20 countries with the most EFA Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the ...
« For the first time, this year's Deauville American Film Festival has created the 44th Deauville American Film Festival Award. This award will be given to Jacques Audiard's film The Sisters Brothers in the presence of the film’s team, for the qualities of its direction, for its powerful performances from four major actors of contemporary American cinema - John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Riz Ahmed - and to salute its producers, thanks to whom such a no...
Continuing its support for Arab cinema, MAD Solutions will present its award at the 6th Final Cut in Venice workshop (September 1-3), held on the margins of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, for the fourth consecutive year. The award offers marketing and distribution services across the Arab world to the winning film project.
In 2017, the film project Joint Possession by Moroccan director Leila Kilani won the MAD Solutions award at the 5th Final Cut in Venice. Before that, ...
La Biennale di Venezia / 75th Venice International Film Festival
Announces Two New Collateral Awards:
· Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) Award to three winning filmmakers from Orizzonti for a residency programme /
· Fundación Casa Wabi - Mantarraya Award to the winning director of the Venice Award for a Debut Film
La Biennale di Venezia has ann...
The 2018 edition, the sixth and last under the artistic direction of Carlo Chatrian, ended successfully and was crowned with the Pardo d'oro for A LAND IMAGINED by the director YEO Siew Hua.
293 films were shown in less than two weeks, 18 under the sky of Piazza Grande and 15 in the Concorso internazionale: among this year's star guests were the unforgettable greetings from Ethan Hawke and Ted Hope in Piazza G...
Locarno Festival’s Signs of Life Award ELECTRONIC-ART.FOUNDATION to the Best Film has been granted to HAI SHANG CHENG SHI (The Fragile House) by LIN Zi.
Signs of Life aims to explore new grounds, narrative forms and innovative cinematic languages. Originally out-of-competition when founded in 2014, Signs of Life is a competitive section since last year. This year’s jury is composed by Emilie Bujès, festival director ...
The third edition of Burgas International Film Festival (BIFF) has come to an end! During the festival week viewers had the chance to see over 30 feature, short and documentary films from the Black Sea countries.
Among the highlights of the festival were the sit-downs, organised for the audience with the casts and directors of the movies. Тhe locations where BIFF was held were visited by Martichka Bozhilova and Georgi Bogdanov, Georgi Gospodinov, Antoaneta Bachurova, Vladimir Liutskanov, Bori...
La Biennale di Venezia /
75th Venice International Film Festival /
American film editor Bob Murawski
winner of the new Campari Passion for Film award
of the Venice International Film Festival /
His latest work, the reconstruction of
Orson Welles’ legendary The Other Side of the Wind,
to be presented Out of Competition as a World Premiere
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that American film editor Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker, Sp...
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THE EARLYBIRD DEADLINE FOR THE 10TH ANNUAL NYC INDEPENDENT FILM FEST IS AUGUST 31, 2018!
Yes, August 31, 2018!!! Mark your calenders!
SUBMIT ASAP!
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Chinese director Zhang Yimou Credits Foto Asac-La Biennale di Venezia
His new film Ying (Shadow) to be presented Out of Competition
La Biennale di Venezia and Jaeger-LeCoultre announce that the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou; twice winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, in 1992 with The Story of Qiu Ju and in 1999 with Not One Less) has been awarded the 2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker of the 75th Venice Intern...
