The 73rd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (19-30 June 2019) has closed with a year of increased audience numbers, packed public screenings and special events and an array of high profile talent in attendance.
This year the Festival showcased 121 new features, including 18 feature film World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, 8 European Premieres and 78 UK Premieres from many countries across the globe reaching 70,000 Festival-goers including 15,000 attendees enjoyin...
$200,000 in Grants Awarded to Seven Narrative Feature Projects in Various Stages of Production
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NICOLA PIOVANI
Lifetime Achievement Award
The 2019 ICFF Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani for his outstanding contributions to film. Piovani is responsible for more than 150 film scores, including the soundtrack to Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful/La vita &egr...
Bill Murray in Cannes
The American cult actor will also take part in a masterclass with the public, hosted by Wes Anderson
The official selection to include Pavarotti by Ron Howard: the Academy Award-winning director to present his film and attend an onstage conversation
Close Encounters also to feature French filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Bertrand Tavernier, and American writer Bret Easton Ellis
The 2019 retrospectives to be dedicated to German master Max Ophü...
We are thrilled to announce that the legendary Swedish actress Christina Lindberg will be the guest of honour of this year's Grossmann, where she will receive the Honorary Vicious Cat for outstanding contribution to genre cinema. Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival will take place from the 16th to the 20th of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia.
Christina Lindberg is one of the most remarkable icons of 70s exploitation cinema. Her role of one-eyed avenger in cult classic...
The two-time Tony Award winner will attend the festival to accept the award on Saturday, June 15 in conversation at Provincetown Town Hall.
Light is known for her extensive body of television, film, and stage work. In 2012 and 2013, Light won two consecutive Tony and Drama Desk awards for her performances in Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties; these two performances dubbed her the first actress in nearly two decades to win consecutive Tonys. Last year, her role in Ryan Murphy&rsquo...
We are very happy to announce that this year's guest of honour and president of the Vicious Cat jury is legendary action director Sam Firstenberg. At the closimg ceremony on Saturday, he will receive the Honorary Vicious Cat, award for outstanding contribution to genre cinema. Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival will take place from the 16th to the 20th of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia.
It is impossible to imagine the 80s action cinema without Sam Firstenberg’s and...
The acclaimed film director, Claire Denis, will receive an Award for her Creative Excellence at the Reykjavík International Film Festival in the fall. Former receivers of this Award are, among others, Jim Jarmusch, Mads Mikkelsen, Susanne Bier and Aki Kaurismäki.
The festival takes place for the sixteenth time in Reykjavík, Iceland on the 26th of September to the 6th of October 2019. Main programmer is Giorgio Gosetti, artistic director of Venice Days Film ...
ED LACHMAN IS A RECIPIENT OF THE GOLDEN CAMERA 300 FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AT THE 40TH EDITION OF ICFF "MANAKI BROTHERS"
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American cinematographer Ed Lachman is the first laureate of the Golden Camera 300 for Lifetime Achievement at the 40th edition of the International Cinematographers' Film Festival, to be held from September 14-21 in Bitola.
Igor Ivanov – Izi, president of the Association of Film Professionals, ...
GTA20 winners:
This year’s winners continue the Golden Trailer Awards tradition of excellence in movie trailers and creative content marketing!
Best of Show
Winner: John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum “Conversation”, Lionsgate, Av Squad
Box Office Weekend
Avengers: Endgame, Walt Disney Studios / Marvel Studios,
Best Action
Deadpool 2, “New Power”, 20th Century Fox, MOCEAN
Mission Impossible: Fa...
All award winners of the 35th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg Shortfilm Festival Hamburg and the 21st Mo&Friese Hamburg Children’s ShortFilmFestival
On Sunday evening, after the festive award ceremony, the 35th Hamburg International Short Film Festival went to rest for another year. For the first time in the history of the festival, an award winner was able to claim the prize for a second time in a row. After last year’s “Flores”, Jorge Jácome won this yea...
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
Grand Prize Award winner
Six Figures No Suits - Cou...
IREN Audience award – main Festival sponsor to Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky (Canada 2018, 87’)
SMAT award for best One-Hour documentary to Messaggi dalla fine del mondo by Matteo Born (Switzerland 2018, 52’) by jury members Eroll Bilibani, Anca Caramelea, Patrizia La Trecchia.
A visually compelling journey that encourages young peop...
SFFILM, in partnership with the Westridge Foundation, announced today the projects that will receive a total of $100,000 in funding in the latest round of SFFILM Westridge Grants. Five filmmaking teams were granted funding to help support the screenwriting and project development stages of their narrative feature films. SFFILM Westridge Grants, which are awarded twice annually, are designed for US-based filmmakers whose stories take place primarily in the United States and ...
Bruno Chatelin honored and touched.
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Entertainment veterans honored during Festival de Cannes with United Nations supported NGO New Generation In Action’s AFIWorld Peace Initiative
Cannes, France (May 23, 2019) On May 22nd during Festival de Cannes New Generation In Action’s AFI World Peace Initiative a NGO which holds Special Consultative Status to the United Nations (ECOSOC) hosted the annual “WorldPeace & Tolerance Brunch,” at the American Pa...
The award was given by Nicole Muj and Gotham Chandna founders of FRFF and was foolowed by the awards to the winning filmmakers in attendance.
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Best Director
Timothy Busfield for GUEST ARTIST
Best Cinematography
Alejandro Cantú for Nadie Sabra Nunca
Best Narrative Feature
Mabata Bata - Directed by: Sol de Carvalho
Best Documentary Feature
Hysterical - Directed by: Paul Higbie and Seth Pompi
Best Short Documentary
By Any Means Necessary - Directed by: Damian Kudelka
Best Short Film
SAGE - Directed by: Gabe Dinsmoor
Best Super Short Film
Thin Walls - Directed by: Susan McCormick
Best Anima...
Paul Loup Sulitzer met Justice Singleton at the the Carlton reception she was in town to say good bye to her late father 28 years after he had been revealed by Cannes for Boyz n the Hood.
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PRESENTATION OF THE WINNERS - THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL 2019 WEB OFF DE CANNES CONTEST AT THE CARLTON ON MAY 23RD.
The OFF de Cannes Festival are talented discoverers who are at the forefront of the Cannes Film Festival and are preparing the films that will be in the spotlig...
For 12 days, the 72nd edition of the Festival de Cannes has celebrated artists and films from different perspectives, making cinema a celebration of discovery and reunions shared all around the world. Tonight, on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, Édouard Baer, the Master of Ceremonie, welcomed the Feature Films Jury headed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu to announce the 2019 Awards.
PALME D'OR (UNANIMITY)
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Prizes awarded by La Semaine de la Critique's Jury
Ciro Guerra, president of the jury
Amira Casar, Marianne Slot, Djia Mambu & Jonas Carpignano
Nespresso
Grand Prize
J'AI PERDU MON CORPS (I LOST MY BODY) by Jérémy Clapin
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson for HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR (A WHITE, WHITE DAY) by Hly...
The winners for the Critics week (Semaine de le critique) have already been announced – and Nespresso who generously bestows complimentary coffee on tired and weary critics each year in the Palais has given the top prize for the best of 7 features to J'AI PERDU MON CORPS (I LOST MY BODY) by Jérémy Clapin, an animated feature about Naoufel , a young man from North Africa who grows up in Paris. He who loses his hand and tries to complete himself , scripted by t...
Jury and Award Winners of the Cinéfondation 2019 © Deborah Neris / FDC
The Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury headed by Claire Denis and including Stacy Martin, Eran Kolirin, Panos H. Koutras and Cătălin Mitulescu, has awarded the 2019 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.
The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 17 student films, chosen out of 2 000 e...
The inaugural French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) https://youtu.be/V0IjgNE4pF4, celebrating short film and short-form content, is pleased to announce its 2019 winners.
FRFF, produced by Cloud21 International (www.cloud21.com) and Kultura PR International (www.kulturapr.com), was held on May 18 and 19, 2019 in Cannes, France at Eden Hôtel & Spa (www.eden-hotel-cannes.com).
Winners were announced at on May 19 at a gala awards ceremony that featured a sp...
