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Virtual 25th edition of Capri Hollywood – The International Film Festival concludes with awards

At completion of the just ended 25th edition of Capri Hollywood – The International Film Festival, it was announced today that Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” a compelling historical legal drama revolving around the trial of a group of protesters accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, has been named Best Picture of the Year.  The awards were announced here today by the Italian music legend and AMPAS member Tony Renis, al...

RIFF 2020 Awards

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RIFF Awards for Best Editing, Best Screenplay & Best Director It gives us great pleasure to congratulate the winners of the RIFF Awards for their works. The Best Screenplay Award goes to Vahid Alvandifar’s dark comedy Cover about a surprising resurrection, the narration of which captivates through its timeless universal quality. The jury has awarded Best Editing to 1982 by Lucas Gallo, a smart and highly topical reflection on media mechanisms in war, based on gripping contemporary f...

The Best Shorts Competition Announces Latest Winners!

  The Best Shorts Competition is proud to announce the latest winners. The Best Shorts Competition puts filmmakers first and provides a direct opportunity for recognition and publicity for high quality productions. It is international in scope and has granted awards to producers in Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Martinique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, ...

BKK DOC 2020 AWARD WINNERS

BKK DOC 2020 AWARD WINNERS BKK DOC reveals the 2020 Award Winners.     The award ceremony took place on December 17th, 2020 at the Goethe Institut Bangkok. Mr STEPHANE LAMBERT, founder of the Bangkok International Documentary Awards (BKK DOC) and BKK DOC 2020 festival director welcomed the 88 participants (plus hundred online viewers) and delivered an opening speech makibg a point on the importance of diversity of views and opinions and how documentaries contr...

Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible by Matthew Taylor wins Best Archive Based Doc at BGKK DOC

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  The 15 Award winning documentaries films were announced on Thursday 17th December 2020 at 1:30pm (Bangkok time) 28th November 2020 at 8pm (Bangkok time) live from the Goethe-Institut Bangkok: www.facebook.com/bangkokdoc/live The Festival is also available online: www.filmdoo.com/bkkdoc   BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY   Be Natural: The untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache by Pamela B. Green / USA         BEST DOCUMENTARY OF THE...

SFFILM Announces Fall 2020 Rainin Grant winners and introduction of new program for filmmakers with disabilities

  SFFILM and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announce Winners of Fall 2020 Rainin Grants and Introduction of Pilot Grant for Filmmakers with Disabilities $240,000 in Grants Awarded to Ten Narrative Feature Projects in Screenwriting and Development Phases     SFFILM, in partnership with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, announced today the eight projects that will receive funding in t...

2021 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Nominees Announced

  Five Nordic drama series have been unveiled as the nominees for the NOK 200,000 (€20,000) Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award, presented during Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision. For the fifth consecutive year, the award for outstanding writing of a Nordic drama series, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, will be handed out during TV Drama Vision, Göteborg Film Festival’s conference event and series market. Five drama series from Denmark, Finland, I...

First-time winners among ATF Pitch Winners

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FIRST-TIMERS AMONG ATF PITCHES WINNERS ATF Animation, Chinese and Formats Pitches champions react to their wins   SINGAPORE, 17 December 2020 – Winners of the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) Animation, Chinese and Formats Pitches were announced after a series of online Live pitches that took place virtually.   For the pitch winners, clinching the top honours was a recognition of the hard work they have put in. Pang Mee Mee, a Singaporean whose entry won the Chinese scriptw...

EFN Festival - Less than a month to submit!

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LESS THAN A MONTH TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM   ***We accept films of any genre and type: COMEDY, DRAMA, HORROR, ANIMATION, DOCUMENTARY, all are welcome***   ...

#LubinaLove in a cube: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy wins the main prize at the FilmFestival Cottbus for the third time

  Ivan I. Tverdovskiy wins the main prize for the best film in the Feature Film Competition of the 30th FilmFestival Cottbus. This is the third time the Russian director has been awarded the 25,000 EUR prize at the FFC, following CORRECTIONS CLASS (2014) and ZOOLOGY (2016). The Special Award for Best Director goes to Piotr Domalewski for I NEVER CRY. Acting debuts Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković and Valentino Zenuni from Ivan Ikić's OASIS are honoured with the prize...

Dutch Film Festival honors winners of the Student Competition with Talent Awards

This afternoon is when the online NFF Talent Day the five Talent Awards of the NFF Students League and the Wildcards of it Dutch Film Fund on it Dutch Film Festival awarded . Dylan Workman , director of A View from Above is the Pathé Tuschinski Award received for best film. The Fentener van Vlissingen Fun...

Winners of the First Filmocracy Festival

    BEST DOCUMENTARY - In Piano to Zanskar, facing future in retirement, a 65-year old piano tuner, Desmond O’Keeffe, decides instead to take on the most challenging delivery of his career. He will transport a 100-year old Broadwood & Sons piano from London to a primary school i...

Rose d’Or 2020 winners announced

At a time when the connectivity of television has never played a more central role in our lives, the 59th Rose d’Or Awards have recognised the likes of Sex Education, The School That Tried To End Racism, Once Upon A Time In Iraq, Woke and Homeftest: James Corden’s Late Late Show Special for their achievements in entertainment programming this year. The 2020 Rose d’Or Awards virtual ceremony was hosted by Nish Kumar on Wednesday December 9. You can view it HERE. The 2020 awa...

The Accolade Announces Latest Winners (November)

The awards go to those filmmakers, television producers and videographers who produce fresh, standout entertainment and compelling documentaries. The Accolade is an international awards competition that honors those who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity. ~ Best of Show ~  Philip Hamilton and Scott Wilson  – Ocean Souls Philip Hamilton and Scott Wilson (United Kingdom), OCEAN SOULS, Documentary – An unprecedente...

42nd Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival will honor Wim Wenders

  Honorary award winner 2021: Wim Wenders  42. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (17.–24.01.2021) The 42nd edition of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival awards the honorary award for services to young German-language film to director, photographer and producer Wim Wenders . As a central actor in film history and the present day, he has been pursuing his artistic vision for over half a century and links his work in a unique way wit...

CITIC Telecom CPC won Asia Communication Awards 2020

  Clinched "Digital Transformation Project of the Year" with DataHOUSE(TM) AR Remote Hand Service CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited ("CITIC Telecom CPC"), a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK:1883), is honored to announce the winning of "Digital Transformation Project of the Year" at the Asia Communication Awards (ACA) 2020 which applauds and recognizes the company for its innovative way to transform servi...

'Undine' by Christian Petzold wins the Arab Critics' Award for European Films at the Cairo International Film Festival

  The German-French co-production Undine by Christian Petzold, starring former European Shooting Star Franz Rogowski and Silver Bear winner Paula Beer, has won the Arab Critics' Award for European Films, which was launched by European Film Promotion (EFP) and Arab Cinema Center (ACC) in 2019. Christian Petzold received the award virtually on Monday evening, 7 December, during the gala awards ceremony hosted at this year’s Cairo International Film Festival which is running phy...

And the winners of the 35th FLIFF edition are…

Thank you to everyone who joined us—in person or virtually—for this year’s 35th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. We hope you enjoyed the selections! As we wrap this year’s festival, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate our 2020 award winners: Star on the Horizon: Kate Katzman Lifetime Achievement: Pierce Brosnan Best Foreign Film: UNDER THE STARS OF PARIS, France 2020, dir...

Rich Webber’s "BENCH" Wins Top Honors at LAAF 2020

  The Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAAF), which was an online-competition-only event this year, announced its winners Sunday night. with top honors - BEST OF THE FEST and BEST COMEDY SHORT - going to Rich Webber’s beautifully paced and hilarious short BENCH (U.K).   Canada’s Ya Ma won BEST FEATURE for his powerful documentary UP WE SOAR. Swedish animator Björn Granberg Ahlmark won BEST CHARACTER BASED SHORT for his stylish ART IS ANGST and Chinese animator Mula...

Award winners of the 23rd Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

ASWANG_crédit LevelK The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) concludes tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2, 2020. The award winners for this 23rd edition have just been announced at a virtual ceremony livestreamed on the festival’s Facebook page. The RIDM is pleased to announce that all pass holders will have access to this year’s 9 award-winning films, which will be made available for streaming on this last day of the festival.   GRAND PRIZE FOR BEST I...

The Cyprus International Film Festival Golden Aphrodite Awards

15TH CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN APHRODITE AWARDS CEREMONY The Cyprus International Film Festival is awarded with the EFFE Label which is Europe’s quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals showing their engagement in the field of the arts, community involvement and international openness. The Golden Aphrodite Awards Ceremony of the 15th Cyprus International Film Festival was held virtually on Zoom and the Festival's Facebook page on Sunday, November 22nd. This highl...

Nominations Announced for 30th IFP Gotham Awards

Best Feature Nominations go to The Assistant, First Cow, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Nomadland, and Relic   In a First, All Best Feature Nominees are Directed by Women New York, NY (November 12, 2020) – The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation’s premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 30th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Eleven competitive awards will be presented to independent ...

Awards of the 24th Tallinn Black Nights FIlm Festival

-   Bulgarian film „Fear“ wins the Official Selection – Competition as European cinema dominates the awards of the programme; -   Chinese „Great Happiness“ wins First Feature Competition; -   Estonian „The Last Ones“ is selected as the best Baltic film.   At the Award Ceremony of the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) awards were handed to the winners of the four competition programmes of ...

The winners of the Awards at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event are announced!

On November 26, Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event rewarded the best projects after an exciting week full of online presentations, networking, panel discussions and meetings attracting more than 850 guests from all around the globe.  Ten Awards were given out to projects in different stages of scriptwriting, development or post-production, two Awards went to promising producers  MIDPOINT TV Launch HBO Europe Award (5 000 USD)  W...

Crossing the Screen 2020 Awards

CROSSING THE SCREEN is an international film festival, meant to showcase innovative and independent forms of visual art from all over the world. The Sussex-based film festival is devoted to discovering and celebrating unique voices and up-and-coming new cinema talents, who are not afraid to transcend traditional storytelling. The inaugural edition was held at the Birley Centre in Eastbourne, East Sussex, in November 2016. ...

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