Gagarine, the feature debut of Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, wins the Explore Zone Award 2020. The French directing duo were in Ghent last week to present their debut. The Explore Zone Award, presented to them by the Explore Zone youth jury, gives them a promotional boost thanks to a media campaign in De Morgen, Knack Focus and at Studio Brussel worth 27,000 euros. The intimate coming-of-age drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman ...
Once again, this week we face incertitude. It was fantastic and reassuring to see that Vevey, Avenches, Winterthur and Geneva are going ahead with their film festivals this autumn. Will new cancellations happen however? We hope it will not.
Let’s take a look in the future and rejoice: the FIFF team is busy organising the Festival's 35th edition. We are glad to announce the content of one section already – the brand-new Audience Choice section!
Audience ...
SFFILM’S Awards Season Celebration and Fundraiser Is Going Online to Support the Organization’s Year-Round Work Cultivating the Next Generation of Film Artists
San Francisco, CA – SFFILM has announced two notable filmmakers that will accept honors at SFFILM Awards Night, the organization’s annual fundraising celebration honoring achievement in filmmaking craft. This year’s highly anticipated awards show has shifted from its traditional seated dinner and onst...
Our partner (Bruno Chatelin sitting in the advisory board): the 8th Annual Edition of Chelsea Film Festival (CFF) announced its winners on Sunday, October 18th (rf. below by category) broadcasted live on FilmFestival+. The Closing Awards show was presented by Festival Founder & Director Ingrid Jean-Baptiste and Actor, Producer James Donahower.
CFF held its 2020 Edition virtually on FilmFestival+ (also accessible through AppleTV) from October 15-19, 2020 and introduced American ...
The "Audience Favorite" Award goes to....It's a tie! "The Beaver Believers" and "Saliega's Lineage, The Return of the Iberian Lynx" have won the 2020 NatureTrack Film Festival "Audience Favorite" Award!
Congratulations to Sarah Koenigsberg and Javier Ortega Martinez.
In case you missed the announcement of the juried award winners...Here's the list!
Best in Festival - Feature - It's a tie!
Lost Kings of Bioko ~Oliver Go...
'Tussen de bijen en de tarbot', the poetic animated short by Linnea Lidegran Correia (KASK) received the Award for Best Belgian Student Short at the closing evening of the short film weekend at Film Fest Ghent. The winner of the ACE Image Factory & The Fridge Audience Award for Best Belgian Short is 'Versailles' by Hyun Lories. 'Perpetual Night' by Pedro Peralta won the Best International Short Award.
On Sunday 18 October, the ...
The Votes Are In!
SANTA FE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS 2020
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival's 12th edition is our most unique festival to date, having faced the adversity that most film festivals, non-profit groups, and other arts organizations encountered during 2020. While SFiFF has adjusted to the circumstances, our mission remains the same, ...
Congratulations to the Directors
of the following films:
Best in Festival - Feature - It's a tie!
Lost Kings of Bioko ~Oliver Goetzel
Realm of the Robber ~Moritz Katz & Braydon Moloney
Best in Festival - Short
Kokoly ~Blue Ventures, Garth Cripps & Paul Antion
Kids Connecting with Nature - The Dan Conaway Award
Traces ~Sébastien Pins
Igniting Passion for (and with) Nature
By Hand ~Kellen Keene
&n...
SHORT FILMS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Last night was the ceremony of the short film awards, we are happy to share with you the list of this 49th edition winners.
The short film awards are presented but all the FNC programming is still available online until October 31! Discover the best of current cinema.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – SHORT FILMS
The International Short Film Competition jury was composed of Odile JOANNETTE, Deragh CAMPBELL and Carmine PIERRE-DUFOU...
Tryon International Film Festival 2020 Was Virtual; Viewings Available Through Oct. 19
Film Festival Winners
The overall winner in the Tryon International Film Festival 2020 is Invitation to the Dance, a short documentary that chronicles five special needs adults who take ballet lessons for a year.
The 40-minute film was directed by Sarah Shoemaker, a professional dancer, actress, producer, and the Executive Director for Int...
THANK YOU FOR COMING TO NIGHTSTREAM
YOU CAN STILL WATCH FILMS TILL 10/14
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The juries of the seventeenth edition of Curtocircuíto - Internacional Film Festival have decided to award the following prizes.
● Radar Award: Sun Dog, by Dorian Jespers.
● Special mention Radar: Dustin, by Naïla Guiguet.
● Explora Award: Look Then Below, by Ben Rivers.
● ...
SEE THE SOUND (October 14 – October 18, 2020), the film festival of SoundTrack_Cologne, will once again award the prize for the best music documentary. Eight films have been nominated for the competiton, five of which are celebrating their German premieres, one NRW premiere and one it’s German premiere. The full programme, which contains 26 films and a lecture performance, is attached.
The nominees are Lima Grita by Dana Bonilla and Ximena Vakdivia, Underground Inc: The Rise &a...
Short Calf Muscle, directed by Victoria Warmerdam, has been announced the winner of the Iris Prize 2020, Cardiff’s International LGBT+ Short Film Prize, supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation. This was the first time in the festival’s 14-year history that a film from the Netherlands has won. The £30,000 prize enables Victoria to make a new short film in Wales, becoming the thirteenth Iris production. Better, directed by Michael J. Ferns, wins Be...
New Prizes at the IFFMH
€25,000 for the main prize +++ €10,000 for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award for best screenplay +++ A total of €47,500 in prize money at the IFFMH
Starting in 2020, the IFFMH will award five monetary prizes in the international competition ON THE RISE. In addition to the traditionally non-monetary prize of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI, which has been awarded in Mannheim since 1960, a...
A big success during difficult times: the first edition of SoundTrack_Zurich (STZ), which took place within the framework of the 16th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), attracted 1.800 visits. Over three and a half days, the music congress brought together composers, music supervisors, producers and directors from Switzerland and all over Europe. Almost 50 industry experts spoke in workshop talks, case studies and matchmaking sessions about current topics relevant to the film music scene. One of the hi...
We're wrapping up 11 days of festival – coming together, exploring new voices, debating the future of cinema and making new friends. Find below a recap of our key industry events.
FOCAL – Audience and Market Strategies
25.9. – Project Showcase
Noah Bohnert pitching his winning project WOUND
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Thirty-one highly promising and ambitious new feature projects from across the globe were presented at the online Holland Film Meeting (HFM) last week. As one of Europe’s must attend international exchange platforms for professional collaboration and creative development, the HFM creates a bridge between the Dutch and international film industries. Tonight the HFM Awards Ceremony 2020 took place online, hosted live from Utrecht – HFM’s hometown. The four prize categories of t...
Cinelatino, the nation’s leading Spanish-language movie channel, is proud to announce the 2020 winners of Hola Mexico Film Festival’s (HMFF) prestigious Cinelatino & DishLATINO Audience Choice award and the Cinelatino & DishLATINO Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Best Short award.
Normally held in Los Angeles, HMFF is the largest festival of Mexican cinema outside of Mexico. HMFF has become a staple in the City of Angels, attracting cinephiles and devotees of Mexican ...
Best Film: Labyrinth
Best Director: Amir Hossein Torabi for Labyrinth
Best Actor: Shahab Hosseini for Labyrinth
Best Actress: Mina Vahid for One Night in Tehran
Best Screenplay: Tala Motazedi for Labyrinth
Best Cinematography: Farshad Mohammadi for We Are All Together
Best Documentary: The Bridge of Victory by Yaser Talebi
Best Children’s Film: Ocean Behind the Window by Babak Nabizadeh
Best Short Film:&nb...
We are delighted to announce the Winners of the VENICE TV AWARD 2020, which is supported by the International Music + Media Centre [IMZ], the European Group of Television Advertising [egta] and the Association of Commercial TV [ACT], awarding the year’s television masterpieces.
The jury evaluated TV shows from around the world in the categories TV Series, TV Movie, Performing Arts, Documentary, News, Light Entertainment, Program Promotion, Branded Entertainment, Spo...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a virtual ceremony, everyone will be tuning in from home as the awards will air on Saturday, September 26 at 10 p.m. CET at:
http://bit.ly/Golden_Prague_Official_Awards_Ceremony
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 57th Golden Prague International Television Festival. Congratulations!
Grand Prix
Fi...
MPFF FALL 2020 AWARD WINNERS
BEST FEATURE FILM - ANGIE: LOST GIRLS
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: FINDING MANNY
BEST SHORT FILM: HERMIT: HERMIT
BEST STUDENT FILM: GUMMI BEAR
BEST LGBT FILM: PATRICK
BEST SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM WE CAN’T BREATHE
BEST WEB SERIES: CRAZY SEXY OREOS
BEST MUSIC VIDEO: ADRIAN SUTHERLAND: POLITICIAN MAN
BEST DIRECTOR: RYAN FENSON-HOOD - THE OBITUARY OF JASPER JAMES
BEST EDITOR: - SEKURITAS Claudio Cea Carmen Stadler
BEST SCRE...
A magical night under the imposing lights of the Acropolis, marked the ceremony of ADAF AWARDS 2020
The ADAF AWARDS 2020 was successfully completed in the urban space outside of the Danish Institute at Athens, an unforgetabble event under the imposing lights of Acropolis. We would like to thank all of you who supported the event with your presence. Especially nowadays, such events are an injection of optimism and, above all, of strength for us as well as for the artists and the public.
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You can watch the full AWARDS SHOW in our video
Best Music Video
-Second runner up: Pressure; Directors Tony Drake, Luke James Shaffer
-First runner up: Don’t Die; Director
Greg Doble
-Winner: Lover I Surrender; Director Fiona Cochrane (The Black Sorrows ‘Lover I Surrender’ Tour)
Be...
