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Make sure to folow us on social for updates!  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nyc2parisFest?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYC2Paris/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyc2parisfilmfest/ ...

Submit ASAP! Earlybird Deadline - August 31st!

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THE EARLYBIRD DEADLINE FOR THE 10TH ANNUAL NYC INDEPENDENT FILM FEST IS AUGUST 31, 2018! Yes, August 31, 2018!!! Mark your calenders! SUBMIT ASAP!  To submit and to view full rules and guidelines you can visit: https://filmfreeway.com/nycindieff or https://www.nycindieff.com/submissions/submit ...

Zhang Yimou will receive the 2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award of the Venice Film Festival

Chinese director Zhang Yimou  Credits Foto Asac-La Biennale di Venezia    His new film Ying (Shadow) to be presented Out of Competition   La Biennale di Venezia and Jaeger-LeCoultre announce that the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Hero, Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou; twice winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, in 1992 with The Story of Qiu Ju and in 1999 with Not One Less) has been awarded the 2018 Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker of the 75th Venice Intern...

TIFF Film Circuit People's Choice Award Winners

Film Lovers Across the Country Vote Maudie and Loving Vincent the TIFF Film Circuit People's Choice Award Winners TORONTO — The votes are in and this year’s TIFF Film Circuit People's Choice Award winners have been selected. Of the films touring the country as part of Film Circuit, TIFF’s programme bringing some of the best Canadian and international cinema to communities throughout the country, Maudie was voted Favourite Canadian Film and the groundbreaking Vincent Va...

Locarno 2018 Vision Award 2018 to Kyle Cooper

  © Collection Cinémathèque suisse. All rights reserved.   Locarno71 will pay homage to Kyle Cooper with the Vision Award Ticinomoda, dedicated to those who have used their talents to create new perspectives in the world of cinema. The U.S. filmmaker and graphic designer will be a guest in Piazza Grande on Sunday 5 August and the tribute will be accompanied by a screening of the film Se7en. Born in 196...

The Locarno 2018 Best Independent Producer Award to US producer Ted Hope

The Best Independent Producer Award 2018 “Premio Raimondo Rezzonico”, the Locarno Festival award dedicated to those involved in independent international production, will go to the US producer Ted Hope. He, who has been able to credit the history of independent cinema, bringing new and unexpected voices into the spotlight, will receive the award in Piazza Grande on Thursday, August 2. On Friday August 3, at 10.30 am, the Festival public will have the chance to attend a conversation...

10th Annual NYC Indie Film Fest Announcement and 2018 Interviews!

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As we gear up for the 10th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival, we are thrilled to announce that in celebration of a decade of ‘never boring’ cinema, we will be screening all past ‘Best in Music Video’ winners from 2012-2018!  We thank all past winners for allowing us to screen their music videos again as a special treat for all of you. Get ready to jam! In other exciting news, all of our 2018 interviews are now available to watch on our website. Intereste...

Moving Words: Films Selected

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As many of you may know, we have teamed up with Arts by the People for our first annual festival to present a special screening of Moving Words!  "Moving Words is an annual project that makes possible transnational collaboration amongst artists of prose, poetry, voice acting, and animation. Moving Words will intersect voices of all ages through writers whose submitted works will be transformed into short films by animation students at various international animation sch...

OIFF-2018 Industry Office winners have been announced

  The FIPRESCI jury has awarded Ukrainian films, and the Film Industry Office have announced the winners within Pitching, Work in Progress and Odesa IFF ScriptEast Series Projects The winners of professional section were announced on the last day of Film Industry Office. Before the awarding ceremony, OIFF general producer Julia Sinkevych greeted all the participants and noted that the program of the previous four days was quite intense, but inspiring: “we hope that next year w...

Tickets now available on Eventbrite!

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Tickets to our festival are now available to purchase on Eventbrite!  Important to keep in mind when getting your tickets:  -Each session is listed as a separate event on Eventbrite.  -There are 6 sessions for the NYC festival and 4 sessions for Paris.  -ALL 6 sessions for NYC take place on Sunday, September 9th, 2018.  -The first two sessions for Paris take place on Thursday, September 20th, 2018 and the last two will take place Friday, September 21st, 2018.  ...

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival 2018 Awards

On Saturday, the 14th of July, the 14th edition of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival came to a conclusion. This year, we screened 29 feature films, 10 documentaries and 53 short films from 29 countries, with 6 features, 6 documentaries and 25 short films being shown in the competition program.     At the closing ceremony, the following awards were given:   -VICIOUS CAT for best feature film:  ERREMENTARI (Spain, France; 2017; directed ...

ISCHIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Winners

  Daniele Vicari with Before the night wins the audience award.      Last act for the Ischia Film Festival 2018, the sixteenth record-breaking edition for the number of films, guests, public and national and international echo. For eight days the Aragonese Castle has been at the center of Italian cinema, seeing as it passes on its five stages and screens Gabriele Salvatores, Carlo Verdone, Daniele Vicari, Gabriele Muccino, Fabio De Luigi, Nicola Nocell...

KVIFF 2018 Closing Ceremony: And the winners are… !

US directing legend Barry Levinson received Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the festival’s glitzy closing ceremony on Saturday night. Also in attendance was Hollywood star Robert Pattinson, who was presented with the festival’s President’s Award; the same honour also went to the great Czech actor Jaromír Hanzlík. The Best Film prize went to Radu Jude for “I Do Not ...

Non-Statutory Awards of the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF

 NON-STATUTORY AWARDS     Award of International Film Critics Awarded by The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).   FIPRESCI JURY René Marx, France Marita Nyrhinen, Finland Alejandra Trelles, Uruguay   Sueño Florianópolis / Sueño Florianópolis Directed by: Ana Katz Argentina, Brasil, France, 2018   The International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) goes to: Sueño Florianópolis (Argentina, Br...

The winners of the KVIFF Eastern Promises

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Works in Progress, Eurimages Lab Project, Docs in Progress   Works in Progress Award   Jury: Matthijs Wouter Knol, Director of European Film Market - Berlinale Rossitsa Valkanova, Director and Producer, Bulgaria Rickard Olsson, Picture Tree International, Sweden   Works in Progress Award On Works in Progress, eleven projects were presented from countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, and now also the Middle East. ...

13 Festival wins so far for Living in the Future's Past

  Garden State Film Festival Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival International Television & Film Awards Sarasota Film Festival WorldFest Houston International Film Festival USA Film Festival Artemis Women in Action Film Festival Riviera International Film Festival AFI World Peace T...

Living in the Future's Past wins best indie documentary at Boston International Film Festival

BIFF 2018 AWARDS WINNERS Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who participated in the 16th Annual Boston International Film Festival. We gathered filmmakers from around the world, who offered both global and local messages, and we celebrated them for their outstanding achievements. Here are the winners for this year’s festival. For anymore information, please contact us at info@biflimfestival.com. We wish all the filmmakers the best of luck in their future endeavors. FEATURE F...

TromaDance Film Festival Scheduled for Fall 2018

19th Annual All Free TromaDance Film Festival Scheduled for Fall 2018 due to filming of "Shakespeare's Shitstorm"       "Due to the filming of our next feature film, 'Shakespeare's Shitstorm' the 19th Annual TromaDance Film Festival will be held this Fall. A little later than usual, but rest assured, TromaDance 19 is happening! Please continue to submit your feature films and shorts! The tentative submissions dea...

ICFF 2018 ...and the winners are...

    Maurizio Magnifico (Managing Director), Rick Campanella (Master of Ceremonies), Paul Golini (President, ICFF Board of Directors), Claudio Bisio, Cristiano de Florentiis (Artistic Director) and Mara Cataldi (Director of Operations)   ...

The 2018 Sydney Film Festival winners were announced

The 2018 Sydney Film Festival winners were announced at the Closing Night ceremony on Sun 17 June at the State Theatre. The 65th Sydney Film Festival tonight awarded The Heiresses, the debut feature of Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, the prestigious Sydney Film Prize, out of a selection of 12 Official Competition films. All Sydney Film Festival Award winners are presented with the Festival’s signature mesmeric swirl award, des...

2018 Palm Springs International Shortfest Announces Festival Winners

Fauve Receives Best of the Festival; Coyote and Caroline Receive Top Jury Awards; Beneath the Ink, Trois Pages, Bilby and Untitled Short Film About White People Receive Audience Awards    The 2018 Palm Springs International ShortFest, the largest short film festival and only short film market in North America, announced its Festival award winners on Sunday, June 24, 2018.  333 short films screened throughout the Festival along with more than 5,300 of the 5,400 filmmaker su...

Inaugural Rob Stewart Award won by Dalhousie Student

The Rob Stewart Award for Marine Conservation has crowned it’s first winner. Isabelle Hurley, from Dalhousie University, earned the award due to research on bycatch on the Grand Banks and along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. At the ceremony, she alongside the other five finalists gave three-minute presentations on their research subjects. The topics ranged from studies on Atlantic Torpedo Rays to turtle behavior in high-volume snorkeling areas in Mexico. Hurley’s work focuses on...

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