By Maria Esteves – January 29, 2012 The 84th Academy Awards Nominations were announced by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) President Tom Sherak and 2010 Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, California on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. Eleven Oscar nominations went to Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese and The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius received ten Oscar nominations including best picture and best dir...

The 25th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL closed tonight in NYC with a screening of the Panavision Audience Choice Award winning film – Avi Nesher’s The Matchmaker. The annual Panavision Audience Choice Award for Best Israeli Feature Film carries a state-of-the-art Panavision package worth over $60,000 for the director and producer to use toward their next film shot in Israel. Mr. Nesher’s The Matchmaker was shot utilizing funds he was awarded from the Panavision Audience Choice Award he received fo...

The first NY/SF International Children's Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco Film Society and the New York International Children's Film Festival, wrapped a very successful three-day celebration of diverse, enlightening, inspiring and entertaining films for kids ages 3 - 18 and their families on Sunday, and announced the winners of the best feature film and the best short film, as selected by the weekend's audiences."We were thrilled to present the Film Society's first International C...

Focus On: A New Monthly Series from VFF FOCUS ON: BEST OF VFF 2009 - FEBRUARY 21 @ TWO ROADS THEATRE If you missed the award-winning films at VFF09, here's your chance to see them! We're launching our monthly series, Focus On, on February 21 with three awesome films: "10 DEGREES HOTTER" SHORT FILM AWARD THE HORRIBLY SLOW MURDERER WITH THE EXTREMELY INEFFICIENT WEAPON Directed & Produced by Richard Gale (10 minutes) AUDIENCE AWARD "Made in the (818)&...