Filmfestivals.com, close observer of the festival circuit since 1995, announced today that they will honor Michael Hanneke, director of AMOUR with the “Festival Film of the Year Award” which recognizes the outstanding artistic dimensions of the whole project and the extraordinary successful fare on the circuit from Cannes Palme d’Or to 5 Cesar, 4 European Fim Awards, Foreign Language Film Winner at the Oscar, best foreign film at the Golden Globes ...
I felt very honored receiving this award, especially when my translator told me the reason.
Within the tradition of the festival we try to build the atmosphere of admiration and respect for our guests and great cinema artists. The Golden Boot, an award granted by the Charlie Cinema, is a unique award, probably the only award in the world granted by the cinema, by the viewers and cinema lo...
May 2013: Young Audience Award 2013
A REAL CELEBRATION WITH LOTS OF HAPPY KIDS
Children Juries in Nine European Cities Elect Dutch Film by Vincent Bal
In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Copenhagen (Denmark), Erfurt (Germany), Izola (Slovenia), London (UK), Riga (Latvia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta) and Wroclaw (Poland) have elected THE ZIGZAG KID by Vincent Bal (the Netherlands) as the winne...
This evening the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco Film Society, announced the juried Golden Gate Award winners, New Directors Prize winner and FIPRESCI Prize winner at a ceremony held at Rouge | Nick's Crispy Tacos. This year the Festival awarded over $70,000 in prizes -- one of the largest cash totals distributed by a U.S. film festival -- to emerging and established ...
From this year, the beautiful italian City of Nardò and the EIFF materialize their ever closer union into the "Taurus", a bronze sculpture by the artist Alessandro Kokocinski, representing the bull, symbol of the City of Nardò and the representation of the strong work and tenacious determination that characterized in the years our commitment to independent cinema.
The Taurus is the official EIFF trophy. The winners in the various sections will...
Different era, same problems. This doc and winner for Best Editing at Tribeca Film Festival 2013, sheds light on the African American liberation organization “MOVE” created by John Africa in the late 1970′s. The founder reminded all that “Move is not a cult. It is an organization.” They preached peace, yet practiced the opposite. The followers were taught that “the system” was corrupt, and not to use technology, yet they had cars and telephone...
The footage industry came together at the tenth annual FOCAL International Awards gala to celebrate achievement in the use of stock and archival footage. The winning films showcased a dazzling array of production styles, subject matter, storytelling prowess and, of course, masterful integration of outstanding stock and archival footage.
London, UK - 3 May 2013 - The tenth annual FOCAL International Awards in association with AP Arc...
Le Président d'Honneur Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT,
La Marraine Isabel OTERO,
Toute l'équipe & le Jury du Festival International du Film de Courts Métrages "Fenêtre sur Courts" avec
Le Président du Jury Matthew ROBBINS, Scénariste, Réalisateur, Comédien, &
Fabienne BICHET, Directrice de casting
Maïmouna GUEYE, Auteur, Comédienne
Michel FESSLER, Scénariste, Réalisateur&nbs...
The irresistible comedy How To Use Guys With Secret Tips by Lee Won-suk won, by popular acclaim,
the Golden Mulberry 2013. On the podium Thailand and Hong Kong.
The fifteenth edition closes with 50,000 spectators.
The audience at the Far East Film Festival had no doubts: the Golden Mulberry 2013 could only go to South Korea for the irresistible comedy How To Use Guys With Secret Tips! Pop culture at the highest level, and a director, the very funny Lee Won-suk, became...
NEW YORK NO LIMITS FILM SERIES continues its 2013 programming with a short film night on June 27th at NUYORICAN POETS CAFE at 7pm. Films must be no longer than 29 minutes in length from anywhere in the world. All categories of film, style and genre are accepted.
Extended deadline ends on 5/15/13 for short film night on 6/27. Lineup will be announced on 5/25.
NYNL is hosting the following short film night on 8/29/13 at The Wild Project in NYC. Early deadline for the short film night ...
Amazing performance by Thomas Hayden Church.
The movie opens on a very dark and blizzardy night in Northern Quebec, when a drunk man driving a small snowplow hits and kills a man standing in the middle of the road. The driver steals the man’s wallet and tries to dispose of the body by burying him under the snow. As his headlights begin to fade into the distance, you then see him go off-roading, recklessly driving until he finally crashes against a tree in...
Welcome to Oceana, a town in West Virginia, United States, where the population was 1,394 at the 2010 census, and where a large majority work in the coal mines or sell and abuse the prescription pain killer, Oxycontin. In this small, rural town surrounded by the Appalachian mountains, locals state that it is a 45 minute drive to anything like a movie theater, mall, or bowling alley, and there is nothing to do. The people are bored. Locals confes...
Hollywood in Stuttgart – The award winners of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film have been selected
Stuttgart – With the 20th edition the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film has strengthened its status as a highly important cultural event. Concerning the number of visitors the record of 80.000 people in the previous year has been achieved once more. The 20th edition again surprised with numerous improvements. “Since the long existing events in the local cinemas and ...
The irresistible comedy How To Use Guys With Secret Tips by Lee Won-suk won, by popular acclaim, the Golden Mulberry 2013. On the podium Thailand and Hong Kong.
The fifteenth edition closes with 50,000 spectators.
The audience at the Far East Film Festival had no doubts: the Golden Mulberry 2013 could only go to South Korea for the irresistible comedy How To Use Guys With Secret Tips! Pop culture at the highest level, and a director, the very funny Lee Won-suk, became th...
The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its first-ever #6SecFilms Vine competition today. Jurors Adam Goldberg, Penny Marshall and the team from 5-Second Films selected from a shortlist of nearly 40 Vines -- narrowed down from more than 400 entries on April 17 -- to name individual winners in the categories of Auteur, Series, Animate and Genre. Each winner...
“Who covered the nightshift to prevent the heart of the world from falling?”
Matteo, played by Enrico Lo Verso, walks out the front door of the hospital and is happy to be breathing fresh air. He glances over at a tall, middle -aged, beautiful blonde, who holds up a mountain climbing carabiner ring. Recently having undergone a heart transplant, receiving the heart from a young girl who was in a car accident, Matteo is thankful for his second chance on life, stati...
FEFF 15 opened with the presentation of its Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement
The fifteenth edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival will symbolically open under a sign of peace: Friday, April 19 at 8.00 pm the opening night will kick off with the presentation of the Golden Mulberry for Lifetime Achievement to a great man of peace: Mr. Kim Dong-ho, the ambassador of Korean culture in the world.
Director, actor, historical director of...
AWARD WINNERS IMAGINE ANNOUNCED!
Winner Black Tulip (Best Film):
WOLF CHILDREN (Okami kodomo no ame to yuki)
Japan, director: Mamoru Hosoda
Winner Méliès d’Argent (Best European Fantastic Film):
FIN
Spain, director: Jorge Torregrossa
Winner Méliès d’Argent (Best Short European Fantastic Film):
PERFECT DRUG
Belgium, director: Toon Aerts
Winner MovieZone Award (Best Film, prese...
Cine Las Americas announced today the award winners for the 16th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, which took place on April 16 to 21 in Austin, Texas. The festival grants jury awards in the categories of Narrative Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film, Narrative Short Film, and Documentary Short Film. The Hecho en Tejas Award is presented in partnership with the Texas Archive for the Moving Image (TAMI). In addition, three audience awards are recognized: Audience Award f...
The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of the DGA, MPA, WGAW and France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM), announced today that The Attack, directed by Ziad Doueiri and written by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma (based on Yasmina Khadra's book L'Attentat), walked away with three honors, including the COL*COA Audience Award. The Critics Special Prize also went to the film as well as the new Coming Soon Award, a prize given in association w...
At the award show for the Danish filmfestival CPH PIX earlier this morning the jury gave the New Talent Grand PIX Award to firsttime director Ramon Zürcher for his film 'The Strange Little Cat'. The Audience Award sponsored by the major Danish newspaper Politiken went to the Belgian film 'The Broken Circle Breakdown' by Felix Van Groeningen.
At PIX's award brunch Friday the New Talent Grand PIX Award was given to the Swiss director Ramon Zürcher. With...
2nd Annual celebration hands out “WEB” accolades – delivers stellar event
Though HollyWeb Festival 2013 is over, the success of the event lives on and still has the web series community buzzing. Screening over 100 series in just 3 days, with discussions and panels, plus a full scale blue carpet reception and awards party, HollyWeb now ranks amongst the leaders in festivals which showcase online entertainment. Attended by mainstream film and television stars, plus th...
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SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED:
Sonoma, CA (April 14, 2013) - The Sonoma International Film Festival truly came of age as their 16th edition came to a close Sunday night following five spectacular days that featured a wide variety of films from around the world, infused with gourmet food and phenomenal wine, serving up a bountiful cinematic feast.
“This has been an extraordinary year,” said SIFF Executive Director Kevin McNeely. &ldq...
The 17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival (HFF), hailed by “Variety” as “the ultimate networking opportunity” and by The New York Times as “the first mandatory stop in the awards season.” A long-standing and well-respected celebration of the very finest in big-screen storytelling, HFF presents promising filmmakers with countless opportunities to network with the industry’s top executives and brightest stars. It’s no wonder so many w...
