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AWARDS
$490,000 in Grants Awarded to Twenty Narrative Feature Projects in Various Stages of Production
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Film Still: Curl Power
We are excited to announce the 2021 Commitment Grant recipients. From over a hundred applicants, thirteen projects were chosen that embody Mountainfilm’s mission to inspire audiences to create a better world.
“I’m so impressed by the slate of films that were chosen by our grants committee,” says Festival Director Suzan Beraza. “It’s a testament to the tenacity of these filmmakers who are overcoming numerous obstacles t...
We are happy to announce the shortlist for the Golden Prague Festival 2021! Selected from 95 entries, 25 music, dance and theatre programmes have been nominated to the second round of the competition.
The shortlist is a selection based on the scores given by 5 member international Jury during the first round of judging. In the second round, which takes place during the Golden Prague Festival, Jurors together watch the selected programmes, judge them and decide on the priz...
From left: KASE Ryo, the winner of Best Supporting Actor, HIKARI, the winner of Best New Director and KUREISHI Yoshifumi, the winner of Best Sound at the AFA14
The Asian Film Awards Academy (AFA Academy or AFAA) announced the nominations for the 15th Asian Film Awards (AFA15) today. AFA15 will present 16 awards recognizing artistic and technical achievements in Asian cinema, and two Japanese films, Wife of a Spy (Director: KUROSAWA Kiyoshi) and Wheel of Fortune and Fantas...
We missed it...ALREADY GONE BACK to Paris, but we have the images for you, thanks to Le Publicsystem Cinéma, the organizers of the festival.
Check the video of the full ceremony!
The Grand Prize goes to DOWN WITH THE KING by Diego Ongaro
Money Merc, a famous rapper, leaves to isolate himself in a house far from it all to revive his creativity and write the successful album that his producers and his label are waiting for. But, he quickly di...
The Grand Prize goes to DOWN WITH THE KING by Diego Ongaro
Money Merc, a famous rapper, leaves to isolate himself in a house far from it all to revive his creativity and write the successful album that his producers and his label are waiting for. But, he quickly discovers an unexpected taste for nature and the simple things of life on the farm, far from the stress that his job has brought him.
It is this contrast between these two worlds that makes it a simple, ef...
The Venezia 78 Jury, chaired by Bong Joon Ho and comprised of Saverio Costanzo, Virginie Efira, Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Gadon, Alexander Nanau and Chloé Zhao, having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:
GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
L’ÉVÉNEMENT (HAPPENING)
by Audrey Diwan (France)
SILVER LION – GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
È STATA LA MANO DI DIO (THE HAN...
© Michael Segal Photography
Academy Award-Winning writer and director Oliver Stone will receive the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival(SFiFF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival’s 13th edition, presented this upcoming October. The Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony will be followed by a screening of an Oliver Stone film.
"Mr. Oliver Stone is one of the very greatest American movie makers of our time,” said SFiFF Artistic Di...
For the fifth year, La Biennale di Venezia will give a cash award of € 5,000 to support the best film in post-production. The Jury of La Biennale di Venezia Prize, composed of Edouard Waintrop (Red Sea Film Festival), Beatrice Gulino (Teodora Film) and Manola Novelli (Pluto Film) has awarded the film:
HANGING GARDENS, by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji (Iraq, Palestine, United Kingdom)
Producer: May Odeh
2021 “We were impressed by the quality of the selection an...
The Twenty-Second Annual Ojai Film Festival expands its reach from independent films to the world of YouTube. A panel discusses exploring the free-flowing creativity of the worldwide YouTube phenomenon takes place on Friday, November 5 at 7 p.m.. The premiere recipient of the Outstanding YouTube Filmmaker Award will accept the honor at the Festival’s Awards Brunch on Sunday, November 7 at 11 a.m..
John Branagan, Festival Board Member and filmmaker, spearheaded the development of this awar...
The Twenty-Second Annual Ojai Film Festival expands its reach from independent films to the world of YouTube. A panel discusses exploring the free-flowing creativity of the worldwide YouTube phenomenon takes place on Friday, November 5 at 7 p.m.. The premiere recipient of the Outstanding YouTube Filmmaker Award will accept the honor at the Festival’s Awards Brunch on Sunday, November 7 at 11 a.m..
John Branagan, Festival Board Member and filmmaker, spearheaded the development of this award. Branagan sports over 200 films and television shows on his resume and continues to work as a stuntman/stunt coordinator. Some of his latest credits include the feature film “Searching,” starring Jon Chu, the ninth season of the FX show “American Horror Stories,” and a miniseries for Hulu titled “Pam & Tommy.”
During the Award Ceremony of the Deauville American Film Festival, the 2021 Prix d’Ornano-Valenti is given by Jean-Noël Tronc, President of the Franco-American Cultural Fund along with a representative of the MPA, and Jean-Guillaume d’Ornano, President of the Jury of the Prix d’Ornano-Valenti composed of Anglo-Saxon journalists, to the fi...
Credited with over 100 films and series and thousands of theatrical performances, a two-time Deauville Festival attendee with Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter (2011) and Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes (2015), two Grand Prize-winning films, Michael Shannon returns this year to receive a Deauville Talent Award. Avid for experience, his quest has been not for seduction or the norm, but for the uniqueness and unea...
The Hollywood Rising-Star Award was inaugurated in 2011 by the Deauville American Film Festival to commend the talent, passion, and involvement of actors and actresses starting on the path to creation. These emerging performers are the faces of tomorrow’s cinema.
In our past editions, Ryan Gosling (2011), Jessica Chastain (2011), Paul Dano (2012), Robert Patt...
Third annual TIFF Tribute Awards airs on CTV Saturday, Sept. 18 at 7 pm/8atl
TIFF People’s Choice Award and Platform Prize winners to be announced LIVE during one-hour event on CTV and streamed to global audiences by Variety
Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, Co-Heads of TIFF, announced today that six-time Grammy Award–winning music icon and activist Dionne Warwick will be honoured at the TIFF Tribute Awards with the Special Tribute Award, and that Night Raiders director ...
JURY VERDICT for 6th BEYOND BORDERS International Documentary Festival
The jury
SPECIAL MENTION
High Maintenance
by Barak Heymann
…for the sensitive portrayal of the internationally praised artist Dani Karavan, giving the audience a gripping insight into a free-minded personality.
BEST SHORT LENGTH DOCUM...
The Golden Calves, the most important film awards in the Netherlands, are getting an update. From this year’s edition of the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF), there will be a single award for both Best Leading Role and Best Supporting Role, rather than separate awards for actors and actresses. Five performances will be nominated for each award. Equally, the Drama Series category will now have one Golden Calf for Best Leading Role and one for Best Supporting Role. There will also be a ne...
Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, has obtained the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2021 after having been voted best film of the year 2021 by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. Participating in the vote were 593 critics from all over the world, who have chosen this North American production from all of the films released after 1st July 2020.
The other four finalists were Another Round (Druk) by Thomas Vinterberg, winner of the ...
WINNERS OF KVIFF EASTERN PROMISES 2021
Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+
KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section, has the exciting mission of being a bridge between talented filmmakers and their potential partners, festivals and audiences. A total of 29 film projects were screened within the 3 programs (Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch and First Cut+) dedicated to feature films...
KARLOVY VARY FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOR TWO-TIME OSCAR WINNER MICHAEL CAINE
This year’s special guest of the 55th Karlovy Vary IFF will be British actor and winner of two Oscars, the European Film Awards, and more than forty other commendations Sir Michael Caine. At the festival’s opening ceremony, Caine will be presented with a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. During a career spanning six decades, Caine has played more than a hundred roles in a var...
Ridley Scott's new film The Last Duel to be presented Out of Competition
La Biennale di Venezia and Cartier are pleased to announce that the legendary British director and producer Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker award of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1 - 11, 2021), dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.
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The 2021 edition, the first under the artistic direction of Giona A. Nazzaro, ended successfully and awarded the Pardo d’oro to SEPERTI DENDAM, RINDU HARUS DIBAYAR TUNTAS (Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash) by Edwin. Furthermore, to end the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival with a surprise, tonight on the Piazza Grande the great master Dario Argento will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work and his surprising acting in VORTEX by Gaspar Noé.
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Paolo Sorrentino to receive the A Tribute to... Award. >
Photo © Gianni Fiorito
Paolo Sorrentino will receive the award before presenting his latest work THE HAND OF GOD (È STATA LA MANO DI DIO) as a Gala Premiere on September 29. The film tells the story of young Fabietto, who grows up in Naples in the 1980s and witnesses the arrival of world football star Diego Maradona. Sorrentino thus creates an indulgent tragicomedy about family and the t...
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Marcus Rowland created the sets for Last Night in Soho by Edgar Wright, to be presented Out of Competition, will be honored at the 78th Venice International Film Festival
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that the production designer Marcus Rowland (Last Night in Soho, Rocketman, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World) is the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1 - 11, 2...
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