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AWARDS
WorldFest was founded over 53 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the Whole Wide World. It evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968.
WorldFest was founded by award-winning producer/director Hunter Todd to present a quality film festival for th...
2020 WINNERS
Through the resources of industry-related sponsors, the Brooklyn Film Festival awards the winners with products, services, and cash.
PRIZES SPONSORED BY: ABELCINE, XENO LIGHTS, BE ELECTRIC, SOBRE VISTA RESORT, WNET, REEL 13, MPE, FINAL DRAFT, LENTINI COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA SERVICES, NOBLE JEWELRY, THE POD, PAPAPIETRO PERRY WINERY, BROOKLYN FILM SOCIETY
Grand Chameleon Award
INTO THE STORM [EN LA TORMENTA] by ADAM BROWN
Best Narrative Feature
OUR OW...
Please join us for the all the excitement
June 7, 2020 6PM NYC Time!
The New York City Independent Film Festival Presents The 11th Annual NYC Indie Awards
Do to the COVID-19 Pandemic New York City has shut down all theaters which means we will not be able to hold the physical Awards Ceremony this year. With that in mind we have moved the Ceremony online!
To join us follow the link below or press The Red Button!
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We are proud to announce this year's Short Film Fund Grand Prize Winners. Two Production Grants of $15K & $5K to be awarded this year.
OUR JUDGES HAVE SPOKEN!
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
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In its 60th edition, the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival maintains support for Colombian cinematography.
The Documentary Film Workshop is an autonomous project of the FICCI in alliance with the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, the Centro Ático of the Universidad Javeriana and Señal Colombia. For 11 continuous years we have supported the best of Latin American documentary cinema and this year we managed to articulate with ALADOS, the most impor...
The IFF Panama Foundation thanks all the filmmakers from Central American and Caribbean countries who applied with their projects for the PRIMERA MIRADA award, a fund dedicated to supporting post-production work exclusively, and SU MIRADA award, a fund that seeks to strengthen the participation of women in the film industry in Central America and the Caribbean. Both granted by our ally, the Inter-American Development Bank IDB.
PRIMERA MIRADA FUND
Last April, the IFF Panama Foundation i...
After four days of intense work and many meetings, the First Cinematographic Co-Production Forum of Central America and the Caribbean concluded: IFF Panama Film Match Virtual.
The international producers and members of the jury, Diana Bustamante, Thierry Lenouvel and Inti Cordea, unanimously agreed to grant the following awards and recognitions to the participating projects of the IFF Panama Film Match co-production forum.
"By presenting in your project a sto...
We have our Extra Credit Adventure Edit winners!
We received so many amazing submissions from filmmakers across the country and the world! Our jury had a challenging deliberation choosing the finalist films and the Jury award was no different. The Audience Award winners were up to the voters, and with each contest decided by at least 10% of the vote, the voice of the people was clear!
Without further ado, MOFF presents the Extra Credit Adventure Edit video contest winners:
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Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's festival! We hope you enjoyed the first ever Virtual Vail Film Festival.
Here are a few stats from this year's inaugural online festival:
We screened 54 films in four categories; narrative features, documentaries, short films, and student films.
Thousands of viewers participated in the online festival, from 47 U.S. states and 10 countries.
We hosted virtual Q&A sessions with our filmmakers, presented our ann...
On Saturday, June 6, the first Polish online film festival ended with an awards gala, during which we met the winners of all festival competitions. The event was broadcast live on the Internet, hosted by Maciej Stuhr, and the large audience gathered in front of computer screens proved that a pandemic does not prevent true love of cinema and the festival!
The ceremony was launched by Tomasz Raczek, the editor-in-chief of the Film Magazine of the Polish Filmmakers Associ...
Platinum Award in the Shorts - Comedy - Black / Dark category
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 f...
The Winners Are In See who won big
Tribeca founder announce the winners of our annual Juried Awards, presented by AT&T. For the first time ever, we brought the show into your home. Please join us in congratulating everyone who impressed our jurors with their incredible storytelling.
Jurors Chris Pine, Gretchen Mol, Josh Hutcherson, Joel McHale, Lukas Haas, and more called up our nominees to ask them red-carpet questions — and to surprise winners with the big news.
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The 2020 SXSW Film program (which was scheduled to happen March 13–22, 2020 Austin) comprised 135 Features, including 99 World Premieres, 9 North American Premieres, 5 U.S. Premieres, and 75 films from first-time filmmakers; 119 Shorts including 22 Music Videos; 12 Episodic Premieres; 7 Special Events; 14 Episodic Pilots in two curated programs; 30 Title Design Entries; and 27 Virtual Cinema Projects.
“When we curated and announced our slate for the 20...
See who won big at the Online Awards Show.
Our annual Juried Awards, presented by AT&T, are finally here! For the first time ever, we’re bringing the celebrations to you at home. Wherever you’re sitting right now is officially the best seat in the house!
Chris Pine, Gretchen Mol, Josh Hutcherson, Joel McHale, Lukas Haas, and more of our talented jurors called up our winning filmmakers to surprise them with the big news. Don’t miss a single second of...
International Thai Film Festival 2020 (ITFF2020) is open for submissions! (short film, feature film, animation and music video) Submit your production via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/thaifilmfest or via FestHome: https://festhome.com/en/festival/international-thai-film-festival
Website: https://www.thaifilmfestival.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thaifilmfest
Yesterday, after the successful closure of the first and historic virtual edition of the Panama International Film Festival, the film winning the public award was unveiled.
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, by the Brazilian Karim Aïnouz.
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, by the Brazilian Karim Aïnouz, won the Mastercard Audience Award, earning US $ 5,000 in digital cards.
The film tells the story of tw...
TWO Short Films Will Be Commissioned
This year we have expanded our film fund to award two production grants. One short will receive the maximum cash grant of $15,000; the second will receive a grant of $5,000.
2020 saw the highest number of submissions since we started our Fund in 2016. The quality increases year on year, making the task of narrowing it down to our Finalists an extremely difficult one. Our team and industry readers have evaluated submissions in every genre, from writers al...
Discover the DOK.fest München winning film of the kinokino Audience Award and the top ten of the kinokino Audience Award! want to support all year round and benefit from many advantages, join our circle of friends now.
Winning film kinokino Audience Award: THE EUPHORIA OF BEING
Hungary 2019, Réka Szabó, 83 min.
A dance performance tells the life story of the 90 year-old holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. The director and choreograp...
After four days of intense work and many meetings, the First Cinematographic Co-Production Forum of Central America and the Caribbean concluded: IFF Panama Film Match Virtual.
The international producers and members of the jury, Diana Bustamante, Thierry Lenouvel and Inti Cordea, unanimously agreed to grant the following awards and recognitions to the participating projects of the IFF Panama Film Match co-production forum.
"By presenting in your project a sto...
Actress Anna Castillo will be awarded the Carlos Saura City of Huesca Award at the 48th edition of the Huesca International Film Festival. A recognition that highlights her outstanding career and projection, being one of the most talented performers on the current scene; "It has an innate capacity that has been demonstrated and developed in all kinds of genres and formats," says Rubén Moreno, director of the event in Huesca. Winner of a Goya award, Anna ...
22 Projects from 19 Countries Receive Unrestricted Support
Sundance Institute today named the global cohort of 22 independent nonfiction filmmakers and their projects that comprise the latest Grantees of the Institute’s Documentary Fund.
Grant support, unrestricted and totaling $520,000, will be extended to projects in all stages of development, production, post-production and audience engagement; grants are made possible by Open Society Foundations and MacArthur Foundati...
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the 96 recipients of its 2020 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants, including recipients of the emergency grant funds announced last month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the grants, which total a combined $2.5 million in funds, are awarded based on current need to organizations that support filmmakers and reach audiences from underserved communities.
“The Academy’s first priority rema...
The 15th edition of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival crowns Even Husby Grødahl’s Downs of the Dead as the Méliés Short Film Competition winner and Mart Sander’s Eerie Fairy Tales as the best Estonian genre film.
The Silver Méliés went to Downs of the Dead by director Even Husby Grødahl (Norway), that tells a humorous tale of zombies attacking a nursery for the intellectually disabled. The jury lauded the film: „We we...
THE DOCU/WORLD COMPETITION
DOCU/WORLD JURY:
Claire Simon
Daria Badior
Xose-Ramon Mon Rivas
MAIN PRIZE
THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE / IRYNA TSILYK / UKRAINE, LITHUANIA / 2020
We have decided to give the DOCU/WORLD Competition Jury award to a film that strikes with its creativity in the filmmaking choices and the positivity of the characters and shows us that making a film under harsh circumstances can also be an act of resilience tha...
Sarah Felberbaum as Betty Bottone, "None Like Us", (Nessuno Come Noi ) Best Actress WorldFest 2020
Grand Remi Winner “None Like Us” (Nessuno Come Noi) directed by Volfgango de Biasi, Italy
In what would have been The 15th Annual Panorama Italia at this year’s WorldFest 53rd edition, None Like Us (Nessuno Come Noi) directed by Volfango de Biasi (who had been expected to attend) was awarded...
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