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8th Dominican Film Festival in New York Winning Films

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                                                                         BEST FEATURE: LO QUE SIENTO POR TI BY RAUL CAMILO BEST DOCUMENTARY: SOLANO (PATRICIA SOLANO) BEST DIRECTOR: FELIX ...

SoundTrack_Cologne 16 awards

SoundTrack_Cologne 16 awards European Talent Award, Peer Raben Music Award, SEE THE SOUND Award for Best Music Documentary and Lifetime Achievement Award SoundTrack_Cologne 16 • 28th of August to 1st of September 2019 The juries of SoundTrack_Cologne 16 have made their decisions. Leon Maximilian Brückner won the WDR Film Score Award, Paul Clímaco Müller Reyes was awarded with the Prize for the best sound design. Julien Bellagner received an Honorary Mention. Mateo Ojeda w...

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma Wins The FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2019 to be offered during San Sebastian

The award will be presented at the 67th San Sebastián Film Festival Roma, by Alfonso Cuarón, was elected the best film of the past year by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), and will receive the Grand Prix 2019 at the opening ceremony of the 67th San Sebastián Film Festival, on the 20th of September. A total of 618 critics and journalists from all over the world took part in the poll. All feature-length films that had their world premi&eg...

Congratulations Audioscape Finalists and Special Jury Nominees!

    We are deeply grateful to our more than 250 international preliminary judges who together reviewed over 5,000 hours of media. Special thanks to the Television Academy Sound Peer Group who exclusively judged the Audioscape category. Special Jury honors programs that stood out to our preliminary judges as worthy...

15th HollyShorts 2019 Awards Announced

  HollyShorts Announces their “Sweet 16” Dates for 2020   hollyshorts.com   6,000 submissions, 400 official selections, and 10 days later, the HollyShorts Film Festival is thrilled to announce their top 36 prizes for their landmark 15th year. On Saturday at Harmony Gold in Hollywood, three of the festival’s films officially became qualified to be in the running for an Academy AwardⓇ in 2020. This year marked the biggest prize packages for filmmakers as wel...

8° Swiss Mountain Film Festival | Awards

  Concorso fotografico | Photo Contest Fotografia vincitrice | Winner photograph   "Red and Black" di Enrico Campana   L'opera disegna un arco temporale e spaziale immensi: vediamo rappresentati gli effetti degli elementi base costituenti l...

36 short films compete for the 2019 Iris Prize

         19 countries represented in Cardiff final including for the first time Peru, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia   The £30,000 prize continues to be funded by The Michael Bishop Foundation Organisers of the Iris Prize have today (16/08/2019) announced details of the 36 short films competing for the Iris Prize at the 2019 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. The winning director will be presented with £30,000 to make their next sho...

AOF Award Updates

Writer of The Year Award Winner(s)  Prize$1,000.00 Matt DeGennaro  /  Harold L. Brown  /   Jack McLaughlin   Best Script  $500.00 Matthew Perry - Mount Pleasant   Best Youth Script $250.00 Valerie Schwartzfigure - Melody of The Sea   AOF Writer's Gathering Poetry Slam Winner of a $2,500.00 Three Year AOF Membership Max Reed ...

Dokufest award winners

https://dokufest.com/2019/ BEST BALKAN DOX BALKAN DOX: SPECIAL MENTION  BEST BALKAN NEWCOMER  TIMEBOX    Nora Agapi  Romania, 2018    BEST INTERNATIONAL DOX - SHORT  WILD BERRIES    Marianna Vas, Hedda Bednarszky  Romania/Hungary/Portugal, 2018    GREEN DOX: SPECIAL MENTION  ACID FOREST    Rugile Barzdžiukaite  Lithuania, 2018  ...

VIDEO : A standing ovation at 76. Mostra del Cinema for Pedro Almodóvar during his award ceremony

Award Ceremony: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Pedro Almodóvar 29 agosto/August 2019 "Pedro Almodóvar isn’t only the most influential Spanish director since Buñuel, he is a filmmaker who has offered us the most multifaceted and provocative portraits of post-Franco Spain." quoted the festival ...

Sharkwater Extinction nominated to Awareness Award at Rotterdam Wildlife film festival

We are honoured to let you know that our film “Sharkwater Extinction” has been nominated for the following awards: Awareness Award. In the attachments to this e-mail you’ll find our festival laurels.  ...

Santa Barbara announcing the 14th Annual Kirk Douglas Award honoring Martin Scorsese

  We invite you to the event of the year, our black tie fundraiser for SBIFF's Education Programs. Thursday, November 14, 2019 The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara 5:30pm – Red Carpet Cocktail Reception 7:00pm – Dinner and Tribute SPONSORSHIP LEVELS AND BENEFITS: PRODUCER – $25,000 ($17,640 tax deductible) • Prime table for ten • Red carpet cocktail reception for all guests • Acknowledgment in the tribute journal ...

International Thai FIlm Festival 2019 (14-15.Sept.2019)

International Thai Film Festival 2019 is coming! (14-15.09.2019) ITFF2019 will be hold on the 14th-15th of Septermber 2019 at the amazing Ultra Arena of SHOW DC Bangkok, Thailand. For more info, visit: https://www.thaifilmfestival.com Get Your Ticket to secure your entry and to pick your seat today at: https://www.eventpop.me/e/6424-itff2019 To be up-to-date with ITFF, please like / follow our Facebook

Awards presented at the 47th Norwegian International Film Festival

Guro Brusgaard received the Eurimages Lab Award. Photo: Grethe Nygaard   Tonight, we annouced the winners of eight awards during our closing ceremony of The 47th Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.   The Norwegian Film Critics’ Award  The jury awarded the Norwegian Film Critics’ Award to Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The jury’s verdict: This is a work, which excels in its audio-visual storytelling. Channelled ...

European Film Promotion and the Arab Cinema Center Announce the First Arab Critics' Award for European Films

EFP (European Film Promotion) has started to discover the Arab world and is now partnering with the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) to launch an Arab Critics' Award for European Films dedicated to European cinema. A jury of 30 of the most prominent and influential Arab film critics, put together by ACC, will select the best European film out of nominations by the European national film institutions - EFP's member organisations. The award will be announced at the Cairo International Film...

VIDEO Slideshow from the awards ceremony: emotions in motion!

Photo credits Locarno Fest Slideshow by Bruno Chatelin ...

Cybill Shepherd to receive The Star of The Valley Award on August 23rd

    CYBILL SHEPHERD ANNOUNCED AS STAR OF THE VALLEY AWARD HONOREE FOR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT BY THE VALLEY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE The Valley Economic Alliance in celebration of its 25th Anniversary announced award-winning Actress, Musician, Author, Producer, and Model&nbs...

Costa-Gavras to be honored at the 67th San Sebastian Festival

                                          Costa-Gavras, a French filmmaker of Greek origin, will receive the second Donostia Award at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival which, with this distinction, applauds the militant cinema of the author of movies including Z, Missing and Capital, with which he competed for the Golden Shell in 2012. The filmmaker will coll...

Open Doors Award Ceremony

photo: © Samuel Golay / Locarno Film Festival The Open Doors Grant, totalling CHF 50,000, co-financed by the Swiss film production fund Visions Sud Est – with the backing of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – and the City of Bellinzona, goes to Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak (Indonesia/Singapore). the prizewinners of the international coproduction platform Open Doors Hub and the producers training workshop Open D...

The 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival closes this evening with the award winners

© Locarno Film Festival   The 2019 edition, the first under the artistic direction of Lili Hinstin, ended successfully and awarded the Pardo d'oro to VITALINA VARELA by Pedro Costa. It’s no easy task to single out one moment to encapsulate and tell the story of eleven days of the Festival. Locarno72 brought 246 films and 432 screenings. There was the tenderness of Fredi M. Murer and the true grit of Hilary Swank, the understanding between SONG Kang-ho...

The Moving Ahead Award goes to THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (Single Channel) by Ja’Tovia M. Gary

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Locarno Film Festival’s Moving Ahead Award for the Best Film has been granted to THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (Single Channel) by Ja’Tovia M. Gary. Two special mentions also go to THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER by Jessica Sarah Rinland and to SHĀN ZHĪ BĚI (Osmosis) by ZHOU Tao. The Moving Ahead section aims to explore film’s frontier territories, engaging with new forms of narration and innovation in filmic language. This year’s jury is made up ...

John Waters - Pardo d'onore in Locarno

© Marco Abram / Locarno Film Festival John Waters is like fly paper. If you meet him, bump into him or listen to him, you will not be able to shake him off. Armed with irreverence, bluntness and happiness, the Pope of Trash has the strength of truth an the power of simplicity. It's his truth, of course, but it's so infectious and proud that is seems global. Unfiltered yet elegant, every word is an embroidery on a jacket no one could wear without looking ridiculous. Except for him...

Cinematographer Luca Bigazzi to receive the Campari Passion for Film award

His new work, the series The New Pope by Paolo Sorrentino, will have its world premiere screening Out of Competition (episodes 2 and 7). Campari Passion for Film La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that cinematographer Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty, The Way We Laughed, Bread and Tulips) is the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. The award, instituted last year at the 75th Venice Film Festival, seeks to ...

World Soundtrack Awards announces first wave of nominees

This first wave of the 2019 World Soundtrack Award Nominees includes multiple Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominees, the best of contemporary film and television music as well as hiphop's biggest rock star Post Malone and other pop artists.    The nominees for Best Film Composer are AcademyAward® nominees Nicholas Britell, John Powell and Alan Silvestri and Golden Globe® nominees Daniel Pemberton and Benjamin Wallfi...

SONG Kang-Ho - Excellence Award - Locarno Film Festival 72

Locarno72 will pay tribute to SONG Kang-ho as winner of this year’s Excellence Award, with the South Korean actor as a guest in Piazza Grande on Monday, 12 August. The Locarno Film Festival Excellence Award for SONG Kang-ho is the first dedicated to an Asian film personality. Locarno72 will pay tribute to SONG Kang-ho as winner of this year’s Excellence Award, with the South Korean actor as a guest in Piazza Grande on Monday, 12 August. The Locarno Film Festival Excellence Award for...

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