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And the winners at ISFMF are...

2019 WINNERS   CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Eddy Joseph ​Eddy Joseph is without a doubt one of the most successful sound editors of our time. He has been in the film industry for over 40 years and a sound editor for 30. He has collaborated with such directing luminaries as Alan Parker, Bernardo Bertolucci, Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Neil Jordan, Anthony Minghella and Paul Greengrass. His credits include Pink Floyd The Wall, An...

International Sound & Film Music Festival in Croatia : Awards Ceremony

International Sound & Film Music Festival in Croatia, dedicated to the art of music and sound in film industry. Nina Kraljić  Ozren K. Glaser ISFMF CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Eddy Joseph with Carolina Duarte (FFD) ...

'Öndög' and 'Monos' win 46th Film Fest Gent

  'Öndög', by director and Golden Bear laureate Wang Quan'an ('Tuya's Marriage') has been awarded with the Grand Prix for Best Film. Meanwhile, Alejandro Landes' mysterious thriller, 'Monos', with a score from Mica Levi and Lena Esquenazi, has scooped up the Georges Delerue Award for Best Music and Sound Design. Pietro Marcello received a Special Jury Prize for Best Director for his 'Martin Eden'.     This year&...

Alejandro Landes' 'Monos' wins the Explore Zone Award and The Georges Delerue Award in Gent

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On Wednesday evening, 'Monos' received the Georges Delerue Award for Best Music and Sound Design. On Thursday, director Alejandro Landes received more good news. The Explore Zone Jury – made up of adolescents between 18 and 26 years old – has chosen his mystery-thriller fusion film as the winner of the Explore Zone Award. Under embargo until 20:30 on Thursday, the 17th of October.    This year's jury is made up of Geertrui De Vijlder, M...

Dave Grusin Received the Robert Redford Creative Achievement Award and “Best New Mexico Film” in Albuquerque NM

Dave Grusin with the “Robert Redford Creative Achievement Award” Panel discussion after the film screening: Don Grusin, Producer John Rangel, Dave Grusin, Director Barbara Bentree, Moderator Harry Musselwhite Dave Grusin with Grammy Nominee Nathan East and Grammy Winner Don Grusin backstage at the Film Festival   2019 AWARD WINNERS AT ALBUQUERQUE FILM & MUSIC EXPERIENCE   AFMX 2019 Music Award Neil Giraldo   Robert & Sibylle Redford Award fo...

ISFMF Nominees Awards ceremony this week end with Film Festivals Days participants in attendance

Crystal Pine Awards on 20 OCT 2019  On Sunday, 20th of October 2019 International Sound & Film Music Festival will celebrate the nominees and winners of it’s 7th edition! The gala event will start at 8:00 pm, at the conference center of the hotel Park Plaza Histria, Pula, Croatia. In the official festivals’ categories the CRYSTAL PINE AWARDS for best original score, best sound in feature film, documentaries and short, and the HORIZON AWARD for b...

MFF 21, 2019, 3: Excellence in Cinema Award goes to Deepti Naval

MFF 21, 2019, 3: Excellence in Cinema Award goes to Deepti Naval Mumbai Academy of Moving Image(MAMI), organisers of the Mumbai Film festival, 17-24 October 2019, have chosen Deepti Naval as the recipient of the Excellence in Cinema Award, in the Indian section. Fernando Meirelles is the recipient in the International section. Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India, in 1952, Deepti Naval is an acclaimed actor. After her schooling, she migrated to the United States, where she was educated at the C...

The winners of the Film Fest Gent Short Film Competitions

On Sunday 13th of October, during the closing night of the Short Film weekend, the Best Belgian Student Short Award was awarded to 'hier.' Vytautas Katkus' 'Community Gardens' won the Film Fest Gent Award for Best International Short, while the Ace Image Factory + The Fridge Public Choice Award went to Anthony Nti - who also won this prize in 2016 - for his film 'Da Yie'.  The international short film jury, consisting of film journalist Neil Young (UK), direct...

Actress Geraldine Chaplin received the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Gent

Actress Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of the legendary Charlie Chaplin, received the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at Film Fest Gent on Sunday 13th of October. This career prize celebrates her major contribution to the art of cinema and her impressive oeuvre.   The American-British-Spanish Geraldine Chaplin accepted her award before the festival's first screening of ‘The Barefoot Emperor,’ Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens' political satire starring Chaplin in a doub...

2019 competition winners announced at 63rd BFI London Film Festival

Monos (2019) And the winners are… The BFI London Film Festival 2019 Competition sections showcase an incredibly diverse range of talent from Britain and across the world; over 60% of the films in Competition across all sections are from a female director or co-director, with 16 countries represented across the producers and co-producers. Building on the success of last year’s new approach, placing audiences at the heart of the awards ceremony, the Competition sections seek to h...

MFF 21, 02: Fernando Meirelles to get Excellence in Cinema Award

MFF 21, 02: Fernando Meirelles to get Excellence in Cinema Award "My deepest thanks to MAMI and the Mumbai Film Festival for this honour. As a director who makes his home on the opposite side of the world from where this festival takes place, I am humbly reminded that cinema is the perfect conduit for people to recognise and celebrate our shared humanity. I have strived to convey in my films an understanding between people who do not seem to have anything in common. To show that we have...

Patagonia Eco Film Fest Awards Maxima

Maxima (USA-Peru / 2019) by Claudia Sparrow wins the first prize of international feature films and the audience award  Synopsis: Maxima, an indigenous woman from the Peruvian Andes who can't read or write, faces one of the world's largest gold producers, Newmont Mining Corporation, who has claimed the property of her land to expand her multi - mining operation of a billion dollars. ...

Winners and emotions during the last day of Milano Film Festival

Almost 150 hours of cinema, meetings, music, parties, photocall. But above all smiles, emotions shared outside and inside Odeon Cinema theatres, packed from day one to the last, the home of this XXIV edition, which ended yesterday after 7 days and 7 unforgettable nights.        The Festival day by day A significant edition for the Festival, of great revival, thanks to the added value given by the audience, our partners and the many audiovisual p...

Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival 2019 | Winners & Special Mentions!

Winners and Special Mentions! Last week, the 10th annual Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival took place in the vibrant and exciting LAB 111. Audiences were invited to explore compelling work from the Network and beyond, meet with industry professionals, and make connections that will last through their filmmaking careers.   At each of our Lift-Off Film Festivals, we ask that audiences fill out scorecards following each film screening. These scores have been counted to determine which film...

Tasveer South Asian Film Festival Announces 2019 Award Winners

Festival Runs September 26 - October 6, 2019     Mayor Durkan acknowledges TSAFF and their work by proclaiming September 26 as Tasveer South Asian Film Festival Day   The Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (TSAFF), the largest South Asian film festival in the United States, wrappe...

The ATOM Photo Comp 2019 finalists have been announced,

The ATOM Photo Comp 2019 finalists have been announced, and their entries can now be viewed online at atomphotocomp.org. Take a journey through ‘Texture’ with this year’s finalists. For the past four years, amateur and professional photographers have submitted their stunning, epic and intimate images, responding to a specific theme. The finalists, and the prize winners for each category, were chosen by a panel of professional photographers, artists, media teachers and ind...

KWFF 2019 Announces Golden Key Recipient for Costume Design

KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FOURTH ANNUAL “GOLDEN KEY FOR COSTUME DESIGN” HONORING OSCAR®-NOMINATED COSTUME DESIGNER ARIANNE PHILLIPS 2019 FESTIVAL RUNS NOVEMBER 20TH -24TH The Key West Film Festival announced today its fourth annual Costume Design Focus program, honoring Academy Award®-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips.  Phillips’ most recent work is on display in Sony Pictures’ and Quentin Tarant...

Winners of the 2019 'Sepanta Awards'

      Best Film: Axing Best Director: Behrooz Shoaibi for Axing Best Actor: Amin Hayaee for Axing Best Actress: Sara Bahrami for Axing Best Screenplay: Hossein Torabnezhad & Azita Irani for Axing Best Cinematography: Alli Reza Zarindast for White Fish Season Best Documentary: Song of God by Aref Mohammadi Best Short Film: Short Wave Best Director for a Short Film: Mohamad Esmaeeli for Short W...

Iranian actor Payman Maadi to receive the 2019 Stockholm Achievement Award

    Payman Maadi got his big international break in Asghar Farhadi’s, A Separation (2011). This year, the Iranian actor is awarded with the 2019 Stockholm Achievement Award for his unique quality of reaching through the screen, past prejudices and over borders. Payman Maadi will accept the Bronze Horse at the Nordic premiere and red-carpet screening of Just 6.5 (2019). ...

Bob Weis, JUNG Ji-hoon WANG Leehom and Wei ZHANG honored with Game Changer Award at the U.S.– Asia Entertainment Summit in LA

Asia Society Southern California announced today it will host the U.S.–Asia Entertainment Summit and Game Changer Awards Gala Dinner on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The 10th edition of this signature conference comes at a pivotal time when the entertainment and media industries are in the throes of unprecedented disruption as consumers embrace streaming and other new technologies.  Global industry leaders and artists are paving the way to define and embrace many of the emerging platform...

5 winners of the 2019 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition

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ACADEMY REVEALS WINNING NICHOLL SCREENWRITERS <span "="">Scripts to be performed at live read in November   Five individuals have been selected as winners of the 2019 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 7, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in...

Telluride Film Festival Establishes Milos Stehlik Scholar Award

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Telluride Film Festival (TFF), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is pleased to announce the presentation of the inaugural Milos Stehlik Scholar award. The award was established by TFF before its 46th edition to honor the legacy of Facets Multimedia co-founder and former TFF Board President, Milos Stehlik, who passed away in July 2019. Milos’ longtime commitment to film exhibition and education, as well as to the Telluride Film Festival, made him a lifelong friend to students, ...

Les Miserables wins LAFCA award at Colcoa

    The Misérables, directed by Ladj Ly, winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, premiered in the U.S. in association with Amazon Studios, and won the Best First Film Award at Colcoa Film festival in Los Angeles.  ...

Winners of the 6th IFF Children's Cinema: Kids Kino wrapped

  The day has ended for the Children's Cinema. During the closing gala of the 6th International Children's Film Festival, the winners of two festival competitions were announced: the main and film discoveries. Meet the winners.           PUBLICITY PLEBISCITE   Fern Flower - audience award   The votes of viewers of 23 cinemas are the best film of the Main Competition in the audience poll, the film: Fast and ...

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