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Ojay Fest Social Impact & Vison Award Winners Announced

  Social Impact & Vison Award Winners Announced     For the second year the Ojai Film Festival will honor films for the Social Impact and Vision Award, sponsored by Panavision. Begun in 2021 the “Diversity and Inclusion for Social Impact and Vision” program explores the breadth of “diversity.” At the same time it examines “intersectionality,” aspects of a person’s identity that may cause conflict yet create an opportunity for un...

The 28th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival AWARD WINNERS!

  2nd Grand Prize! - Undeniably Young: Nora Young and the Six Day Race – Julia Morgan   1st Prize! - Cat Clay Chaos – Emmett Fifield   3rd Prize! - Candied Lips – Hina Effie Ogino   4th Prize! - Into the Realm of the Night – Patrick Muller   5th Prize - Lemon Lime – Mara Ramirez   6th Prize - Closed World and It's Freinds - Nuhae Lee   ...

9th annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival Awards

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9th annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival 2022 award winners   BEST SHORT FILMS Horror in the Hood Shorts Program: Something in the Garden directed by Marcos Sanchez SCI-FI on FIG Shorts Program: See You On The Other Side directed by The Sommers Brothers Arroyo Seco Shorts Program: My Summer Vacation directed by Kelly O'Sullivan Route 66 Shorts Program: Lead/Follow directed by Colby Day Los Filmmakers Shorts Program: No Soy Oscar directed by Jon Ayon   AUDIENC...

Gent Festival audience crowns stop-motion film 'Oink' as winner of North Sea Port Audience Award

    On Monday 24 October, the very last prize of the 49th edition of Film Fest Gent was handed out. The festival audience voted Mascha Halberstad's charming stop-motion film Oink as the winner of the North Sea Port Audience Award. The animated film was already the big winner at the Golden Calves in Utrecht, taking home awards for Best Film, Best Direction and Best Production Design. Oink is the official Dutch Oscar entry in the Best Animated Feature category. The internati...

Winners of the Audience Award at the 38th Warsaw Film Festival

      Here are the films, which were liked the most by the audience of the 38th Warsaw International Film Festival, which came to an end yesterday. A. Fiction features: 1. Dangerous Men / Niebezpieczni dżentelmeni, dir. Maciej Kawalski, Poland 2. Trio, dir. Battumur Dorj, Mongolia 3. Pamfir, dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukraine / Francje / Poland / Chile / Luxembourg / Germany 4. Shreds / Strzępy, dir. Beata Dzianowicz, Poland 5. Blaze, dir. Del Kathryn Barton, ...

The winners of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival have been announced in Warsaw

  This year, the National Competition of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival, given the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, was held within the framework of the Warsaw International Film Festival. The programme "Odessa - Warsaw: Ukrainian competition" included 11 feature films and 7 short films. The winners of the competition were determined by an expert jury, which included a producer and director Dariusz Jablonski (Poland), producer and screenwriter Ilona Łe...

„When the Woodlark Sings“ – Double Award Winner on the Crown Point International Film Festival in Chicago

Our film "When the Woodlark Sings" was selected on the Crown Point International Film Festival in Chicago USA and it is Award Winner in categories BEST 1st TIME DIRECTOR and BEST SCORE!  We are overjoyed and grateful for the double Award! We thank the whole cast and crew as well as our supporters who believed in us! Watch the trailer with english subtitles: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0 More information: https://heidelerche-film.cittador.com ...

New York Film Festival 2022 wrapped

  Celebrating its 60th anniversary, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) continues to rank as one of the most important film festivals in the United States. NYFF 2022 operates very differently from its early 60s origins and the expansive program reflects this. One of the co-founders of NYFF, Amos Vogel, quoted by Manohla  Dargis, emphasized in 1965 that the mission of the festival was to reflect the most interesting  trends and new works in global film making. For Vogel, the comme...

Céline Sciamma receives Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, presented by Lukas Dhont, at Film Fest Gent 2022

  Céline Sciamma receives Joseph Plateau Honorary Award, presented by Lukas Dhont, at Film Fest Gent 2022 French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, best known for her game-changing historical drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has received a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Gent on Wednesday 12 October. She was handed the award by Lukas Dhont, who kicked off the festival the day before with his sophomore feature Close. Before the award ceremony the two filmmakers talked in d...

European Film Academy reveals one winner and further nominations

EXTERIOR NIGHT by Marco Bellocchio receives award for European Innovative Storytelling Nominations for European Comedy, Animated Feature Film and Short Film announced On the occasion of the 35th European Film Awards on 10 December in Reykjavik, the European Film Academy is honouring the Italian veteran auteur director Marco Bellocchio with the Award for European Innovative Storytelling for his outstanding mini-series EXTERIOR NIGHT. The director will be guest of honour at the awards ceremony...

Pierre et Jeanne wins big at Chelsea Festival in New York: best director, best actor

Congratulations to Clémentine Célarié and Loris Freeman for their Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 10th Chelsea Film Festival in New York for the film PIERRE ET JEANNE produced by Sazia Films!  ...

TIFF Amazon Prime Video Take One Award Finalists Announced

Co-Presented by 35th TIFF + Amazon 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. To discover new talent, TIFF started its partnership with Prime Video from 2021 to establish the new ...

Nominees for the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) revealed

ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN ACADEMY ANNOUNCES 15TH APSA NOMINEES, JURIES, REVEALS FIRST AWARD WINNERS The Asia Pacific Screen Academy today announced the full list of nominees for the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), as well as the International Juries who will determine the winners ahead of the glamorous APSA Ceremony at HOTA on Australia’s Gold Coast on Friday November 11. The full Asia Pacific Screen Forum programme and screening schedule were also announced. The...

LWFF 2022 Award Nominations

We are delighted to reveal the LWFF 2022 award nominees! Congratulations to all the nominated films, filmmakers, cast and crew! In a challenging year of recovery, you have continued to create and champion your work, and it's been such a privilege to help share these stories with the world. There are some incredible prizes to be won by our filmmakers this year, everything from software and equipment to film school bursaries, so be sure to join us for Closing Night on October 9t...

HOPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL gave its awards in an institution in Palermo for disabled people

Last tuesday morning the second edition of the International Film Festival Hope made a stop in Palermo at AIAS PALERMO and Fadi El-Lawand, founder of the film festival, awarded the President Dr. Salvatore Nicitra. The ceremony was attended by disabled children and health workers and ended with the planting of a tree in the garden of the Centro Aias Palermo Onlus in via Raiti.   The festival is dedicated to showing films on disabled people, highlight humanitarian issues related...

New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2022 announced

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Winners were announced for the 2022 Edition watch out for the best in all categories. ...

CaribbeanTales International Film Festival Announces Awards

  CTFF2022 Awards & Official Selections   Congratulations to all the winners at the 17th Annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival!    Thank you to everyone who joined us in-person in celebrating the best in contemporary Caribbean Cinema. Thank you to our award winners and our funders & partners! As well as the dedicated team behind #CTFF2022!  &...

Park Hae-soo (Squid game) received Asia Wide Award by Martine Thérouanne, director Vesoul IFF Asian Cinéma

Martine Thérouanne, director of Vesoul IFF Asian Cinema presents the Asia Wide Award to the Korean actor Park Hae-soo (Squid Game) and the Indonesian actress Mikha Tambayong during the Marie-Claire - Chanel evening of the 27th International Film Festival of Busan (South Korea).   Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne and Jules Gouillon from the Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul represented France. They were at the table of LEE Young-kwan, president,...

Toronto International Film Festival 2022

The growing audience of major and lesser-known film festivals certainly does not signal the end of the cinema. It mirrors the growing number of movies which are produced and the social and commercial attractions of film festivals. Though one should keep in mind that over a twenty-year period through 2018 only about four percent of independent films in the Unites States generated a profit and that just ten percent were ever shown in theaters.  The relative decline of independent films refl...

Zurich festival wrapped

The 18th Zurich Film Festival has truly been a special one. Enjoy a selection of our own festival highlights, while we begin preparing for next year... Here's the rundown: 140 films 580 screenings 137'000 visitors 1006 industry delegates and guests   ...

„When the Woodlark sings“ – Best Original Score on the 8 & HalfFilm Awards in Roma

Our film "When the Woodlark Sings" was selected on the 8 & HalfFilm Awards in Roma, Italy in the category Best Original Score and is the AWARD WINNER. The film composer Danilo Wimmer is delighted and happy and we – as a team – are grateful and overjoyed!  Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0 More information: https://heidelerche-film.cittador.com ...

'The Kings of the World' and San Sebastian

Laura Mora’s film Los reyes del mundo / The Kings of the World, a Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico and Norway, bagged the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition.                                    The official jury also decided to honour Genki Kawamura with the Silver Shell for Best Director for Hyakka / A Hundred Flowers (Japan), while the ...

Selection procedure on Cittador International Film Festival

A step by step guide to submitting a short film to the Cittador Film Festival 2022 Vienna, Austria: 1.     Submit your film on FilmFreeway via this link: https://filmfreeway.com/CittadorInternationalFilmFestival 2.     If your film selected, you receive the “Official Selection” status and laurels as official selected film. You can use laurels for your promotional purpose for example on social media channels. 3.  &n...

First Awards from San Sebastian

  OTHER OFFICIAL AWARDS Irizar Basque Film Award ...

Nest Award at San Sebastian Festival

    Nest Award Jury – 70th Edition President Andrés Di Tella (Argentina)   Jury Luisa Niederschuh, Julian Egger, Lysa Lamorisse, Kinwa Liu, Ane Martinez Juez, Aulona Selmani, Aitziber Olaskoaga, Daniel Peñaranda Restrepo, Carlos Andrés Hurtado, André Di Franco, Gustavo Maan, Mariana Saffon, Nikoloz Mamatsashvili NEST AWARD The award...

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