We are proud to announce last year's winners in the 27th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival!
They are:
2nd Grand Prize! Saving North – J. Mitchell Johnson
1st Prize: At Home She’s a Tourist – David Andrews
3rd Prize: Aliens on Halloween – Riker Lynch
4th Prize: Pleasant Valley Drive-In – Brian Zahm
5th Prize: Antenna Farm – John Akre
Audience Choice Award: Peace in War – John Case
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"Great Cinema Now" International Script and Film Festivals proudly accepts Scripts and Films entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests.
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Unlike other festivals, if your initial submission doesn't meet the qualifications, you can revise and resubmit for further review (if we receive the corrections before the applicable deadlines).
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The Great Cinema Now Script and Film Festival is a showcase for discerning audiences of g...
54th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival! The oldest Indie Film Festival in the whole wide world! WorldFest gave first awards to giants of the film industry, including Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott, John Lee Hancock, Brian de Palma, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone, David Lynch and literally hundreds more! We are happy to accept Online FilmFreeway Screeners! We have Big LG 110" Digital Screens for our juries! Not Interns seeing/judging your entry ...
L’Europe autour de l’Europe - Festival of European films in Paris will run from November 17th until November 30th 2021 in Paris and Île-de-France. The festival will screen 100 films (63 features) from a total of 31 countries and 28 MEDIA participating countries. The festival shows feature films, documentaries, shorts, animations, new media and experimental films. Two Juries will award the following prizes: Prix Sauvage for the best recent feature film (French prem...
Kalakari is an exclusive event of INDIA for upcoming artist and thinkers,
An award function, exhibition & artwork kalakari of NGO HELPING HANDS.
On every film entry we give 5 food package to needy peoples.
kalakari is the most prestigious Awards for the animation, visual effects, photography segment across the Indian sub-continent and beyond. kalakari by Rishi Nikam event has grown from strength to strength and has become a springboard to showcase talent.
winners 2...
Arica Nativa is Heritage Communication and Sustainable Development. Its purpose is to make children, youth and adults to fall in love with the natural and cultural treasures that remain heroically in the rural and indigenous areas of the planet.
Awards & Prizes
RURAL FEATURE FILMS
The selected films will compete for the Rural Feature Films Award 2021, consisting of a Tropero sculpture; a monetary prize of USD 1,000 (one thousand american dollars or its...
The 35th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival takes place from November 5-22, 2020. This year’s festival takes a hybrid format but still features all of your festival favorites—great films, behind-the-scenes chats with filmmakers, and parties celebrating movie magic—in a variety of venues to accommodate social distancing and keep you safe: in-theater films, drive-in movies, a boat-in event, dinner-and-a-movie at local restaurants, and virtual screenings and even...
With the COVID-19 pandemic still affecting the State of Texas, it has been decided that the 2020 Lone Star Film Festival will take place ONLINE as a virtual film festival experience - November 4-8.
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A celebration of film in Fort Worth! Named one of MovieMaker Magazines "Top 50 Film Festival's Worth The Entry Fee" in 2015, for three consecutive years.
Past showcase films include:
JUST MERCY - A HIDDEN LIFE - THE GREEN BOOK - WIDOWS - THE SISTERS...
Saving North enjoyed the russian premier at Moscow Festival October 5th at 18.00 in 5th Hall of Oktyabr Cinema Theatre. Director and producer in attendance with a Q&A after the screening.
"Museum World", (which will celebrate its 90th anniversary next year) will feature an interview with Mitchell done during the
festival.
they wrote
Mitchell is a long-time friend of our magazine, winner of the award named after Yu.P.Pishchulin for the 2...
35th Annual FLiFF will play November 6 – 22, 2020 in Savor Cinema (a former church: how fitting) and two other venues.
Celebrating its 35th annual festival in 2020, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) presents American indies and studio films, international films, student films, special tributes, seminars and introduces filmmakers to South Florida audiences. The festival runs November 6 – 22, ...
In its 4th year this interactive online film festival includes guaranteed distribution with Filmocracy for all winning films, and a chance to connect with other partnering distribution services.
Filmocracy is a gamified movie streaming platform that rewards users with virtual popcorn for discovering independent films. They have committed to helping their festival partners by building a virtual festival environment through which the energy & excitement of the festival experience is brought...
"SAVING NORTH: Rescuing the Wooden Churches of Northern Russia" To Make Its World Premiere at 5th "Beyond Borders" International Documentary Festival on the Greek island of Castellorizo
The film premiered on Sunday, August 30, 2020, during the Festival's closing ceremonies.
AUSTIN, Texas – The long-awaited feature-length documentary film, "SAVING NORTH: Rescuing the Wooden Churches of Northern Russia" by the award-winning American filmmaker J...
Saving North - Trailer -- 2:30 from J. Mitchell Johnson on Vimeo.
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J. Mitchell Johnson self-made the film as a labor of love over a 8 year period with the help and support of various colleagues in the USA, Russia and the UK who assisted.
About J. Mitchell Johnson -- After completing graduate film studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, J. Mitchell Johnson began his professional career in Washington, DC working for four-time academy-award winning director Charles...
Richard Davies
Noted British architectural photographer Richard Davies spends ten years traveling the Russian north in search of these disappearing churches for his acclaimed book of photos and essays, The Wooden Churches of Russia. As a result, Davies has becomes well-known for his obsession with Russian churches and the culture of northern Russia. The New York Times and other global media publications feature his ...
I am an American filmmaker who has been living and working between the US and Russia for more than 25 years. Over this period I have made movies and created media projects about Russia. In 2009 I married my wife who is a Russian citizen, and prefers living in her homeland. That’s why I began to spend significantly more time in Russia than elsewhere.
Living in Russia has given me the opportunity to begin exploring i...
Saving North is the story of a struggle for human and cultural survival in the mysterious and insular world of the Russian North. An outsider from England, photographer Richard Davies, enters this mysterious and vast region of the world with the hope of documenting both the glory and the tragic demise of its rapidly disappearing Wooden Churches. As Davies meets and becomes friends with the some of his Russian photo subjects, he finds himself getting emotionally involved with their struggle. He d...
