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Artist and Costume Designer Arianne Phillips
announced as the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award /
She created the costumes and helped build the aesthetic
For New Line Cinema’s Don’t Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde,
to be presented Out of Competition
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that the artist and costume designer Arianne Phillips (Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, A Single Man, The Crow) is the recipient of the Campari Passi...
EMPIRE OF LIGHT Written & Directed by Sam Mendes
Filmmaker Sam Mendes to attend with key cast including Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Tanya Moodie, Tom Brooke and Crystal Clarke, with more to be confirmed
The 66th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is delighted to announce that this year’s American Express Gala will be EMPIRE OF LIGHT, written, produced and directed by Oscar® and BAFTA winning filmmaker Sam Mend...
The audience in Piazza Grande selected Delphine Lehericey’s film for the Prix du Public, while the seventies drama by Blandine Lenoir clinched the award given by the prestigious U.S. trade magazine.
The Locarno prize list is now fully complete with the awards for films screened in Piazza Grande. As a follow-up to the Pardo d’oro and other prizes awarded by official juries, the audience members in the Festival’s legendary open-air theater had th...
Wrapping up 11 days of celebration, numerous special initiatives, and extraordinary participation by the audience, the festival is reaching its conclusion with the Pardo d’oro being awarded to Julia Murat’s Regra 34 (Rule 34), which will be presented on the Piazza Grande during tonight’s closing ceremony.
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Since August 3, the entire city of ...
Klasikoak will take a look back at the films of Josep Escobar and Alexandre Cirici Pellicer, Juzo Itami, Nana Mchedlidze, Basilio Martín Patino and Charles Vanel
The section will programme the movies ‘Érase una vez…’, ‘Tampopo’, ‘Nueve cartas a Berta’, ‘Pirveli mertskhali’ and ‘Dans la nuit’
Klasikoak, the...
The Deauville American Film Festival promotes a silent, secret dialogue circulating among filmmakers from the Cannes Film Festival and the United States. These selections bear witness to the festival’s commitment to passing along and sharing.
For the third consecutive year, Deauville teams up with the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes selection will con&sh...
The cast of Michael Grandage’s My Policeman — Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett — are the first-ever film ensemble to receive this honour
Photo credit: Courtesy of Prime Video
Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF, is delighted to announce that the ensemble cast of My Policeman — Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett — will be honoured with the TIFF Tribute Award for ...
White Noise, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Edinger is the Opening Film, in Competition, of the 79th Venice International Film Festival within La Biennale di Venezia, directed by Alberto Barbera (31 August > 10 September 2022). This is Baumbach’s return to the Lido; he premiered Marriage Story at the festival in 2019.
Alb...
The prize list was announced today, Tuesday 9 August, for the Open Doors initiative at the Locarno Film Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The new three-year focus dedicated to Latin America and Caribbean countries brought to Locarno films from the region and film projects in development, which had the opportunity to reach out and engage with the audience and industry members present at the Locarno Film Festival.
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The eleventh edition of First Look – the Locarno Film Festival initiative showcasing films in post-production – has concluded with the announcement of its winning projects for 2022. This edition’s focus on the German cinema of the future gave the members of the jury, all of whom are the directors of major international film festivals, the chance to preview six German works-in-progress
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents a new team line-up and structure ahead of its upcoming 52nd edition, which will take place from 25 January to 5 February 2023.
Vanja Kaludjercic, Festival Director at IFFR, said: “IFFR is completely unique - our team and our programme each year are testament to our commitment to bold and thought-provoking cinema - and we’re excited to be entering into a new chapter in our history. This year, we’ve had the challengin...
Ravi Sandberg receives €20,000 to shoot his interdisciplinary project Fantoomwijk.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and the municipality of Rotterdam have awarded a grant of €20,000 to the filmmaker Ravi Sandberg to produce a short film about his former neighbourhood, the Tweebosbuurt in Rotterdam. The project will receive expert guidance and aims to premiere at IFFR 2023 as part of the festival’s Rotterdam-focused programme, RTM.
Vanja Kaludjerci...
Janet Yang credit Troy Harvey A.M.P.A.S.
Producer Janet Yang was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors.
“Janet is a tremendously dedicated and strategic leader who has an incredible record of service at the Academy. She has been instrumental in launching and elevating several Academy initiatives on membership recruitment, governance, and equity, diversity, and inclusion,” noted Academy CEO Bil...
Telluride Film Festival (TFF), presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce dissident Russian filmmakers Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko as its 2022 Festival Guest Directors.
The awardwinning filmmakers are set to select a series of films to present at the 49th Telluride Film Festival running September 2 - 5, 2022.
Festival organizers annually select the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest D...
CONGRATULATION TO ALL MAUI FILM FESTIVAL
2022 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS!
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The competition is on for a selection, and an award, at the 2022 edition of BKK DOC, Bangkok International Documentary award and film festival.
Hundreds of submissions have been received since January, the call for entries for features closing late July.
Facing an increasing large amount of submissions for short documentary categories, the management team has decided to cr...
With Swisscom, MUBI, Play Suisse and play.locarnofestival.ch, the Locarno Film Festival widens its offer to the public that won’t be able to attend the event physically, with an online selection of competition films and gems from the past.
Besides the ones in Piazza Grande and the city cinemas, the Loc...
Odd Couple, Review: Tying the not
It’s nice to be taken by surprise, especially if the film is not a suspense thriller. And Odd Couple does just that. Borrowing its title from the 1965 Neil Simon comedy play, The Odd Couple, made into a film (1968) starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, in which one of the two bosom friends does all the household chores that you would normally associate with a woman, this film has the man, of a man-woman couple, doing the laundry and the cooking, and ...
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Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) has named longtime SIFF Co-Director Ginny Krieger its new Executive Director.
“I am extremely happy and honored to step into the Executive Director’s role at Sonoma International Film Festival,” said Krieger. “With the continued support of our Board and capable staff, we will continue to bring world-class festival events to Sonoma." Krieger began her career with SIFF as a Board of Directo...
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"Aurora's Sunrise": a Genocide documentary with animation, was the sensation and the discovery of the 2022 Golden Apricot film festival in Yerevan. More than a genocide tale, it is one of the long suppression and eventual resurrection of the life and testimony of an indomitable genocide survivor, Aurora Mardiganian (a.k.a Arshaluys Mardigian) , who lived to retell her tale at age 83, when an Armenian American scholar f...
Whether this is your 43rd AFM or your first, there is so much to discover. Our Santa Monica beachfront campus will serve as the backdrop for production and distribution deals, screenings, panels, premieres, networking, parties and an extraordinary experience for all participants.
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Actor of Intranquillity
With more roles under his belt than years alive, Jesse Eisenberg (literally “mountain of steel”) today finds himself at the summit of an exceptional career amid the landscape of American cinema. In 38 years, this hyperactive actor, who is also a director, author and journalist, has relentlessly transformed himself, delving into the buried, complex truth at the heart of his characters, confr...
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Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, BLONDE boldly reimagines the life of Marilyn Monroe, exploring the split between her public and private selves.
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Here are the Winners and Runner-Ups
Supreme Award
Winner: Jason Loftus (Eternal Spring)
Runner Up: George Gittoes (No Bad Guys),
Runner Up: Daizy Gedeon (Enough! Lebanon's Darkest Hour)
Runner Up: Sonita Gale (Hostile)
Best Australian Documentary
Winner: The Power of Activism (Steven Pasvolsky)
Runner Up: No Bad Guys (George Gittoes)
Runner Up: Paper City (...
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