I am very happy to announce that the video clip "Hip Hop Internacional (Hip Hop International)" was selected by the selection committee of the European Film Festival.
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I hereby attach the 4-Star-Award Certificate of the BIAFF 2012 and the judges´ comments on the video clip "Hip Hop International", which had its world premiere at this international film festival in the United Kingdom. Thanks to the judging committee of the BIAFF, to cast and crew.
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Here you find attached the press release of the Best Shorts Competition related to the music clip and Award of Merit winner "Hip Hop International".
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Happy to announce that the video clip "Hip Hop International" was selected at the Cyprus International Film Festival (Greece). Here is the link:
http://cyiff.cineartfestival.eu/index.php/en/categories/dance-filmsamusic-videos/item/192-hip-hop-international
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The video clip "Hip Hop International" received an Award of Merit at the Best Shorts Competition in California this month. Here is the link:
http://www.bestshorts.net/
Thanks to the help of musicians, cast and crew this project could be shot. This is your award, too.
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The music clip "Hip Hop International" starring the extinct international Hip Hop band "I2" had its world premier today (April 14th, 2012 at 2 PM) at the BIAFF in Weymouth, UK. It also won a "4-Star Award". Here is the link and the file is attached, too: http://mysoco.org/BIAFF%202012/BIAFF%20Programme_Final%20version.pdf
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Press Release
Contact:
Boris Miramontes
cccdivulgacion@gmail.com
boris@elccc.com.mx
Sven Alexander Heinrich Wins Accolade Competition
La Jolla, California, December 2, 2011 - Sven Alexander Heinrich, graduated student from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, has won a prestigious Award of Merit from The Accolade Competition. The award was given for Sven Heinrich´s exciting music video, Hip Hop International (Hip Hop Internacional), which portrays a song of the e...
Happy to announce that the music video "Hip Hop International" has achieved its first mention at an international event and actually won an Award of Merit at The Accolade Competition. This is a music video which was shot as a cinematography exercise at film school starring the international Hip Hop band "I2" from Mexico City.
http://www.accoladecompetition.org/Honor.aspx
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 a personal reflection
By Ron Gilbert
This film won the Sundance Film Festival editing award which was well earned. Watching this powerful documentary brought back some very strong memories for me because I was a college student at City College in New York in the midst of Harlem during that early period. What surprises me most of all is that it took over 30 years to present this documentary which was directed by Göran Hugo Olsson w...
Film Life, Inc., celebrated the success of its 15th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF), wrapping in Miami, July 9. A new record of over 5,000 attendees was set and the festival showcased 30 films drawing a diversity of global brands and companies dedicated to supporting independent films. The 2011 sponsorship lineup proved that ABFF is a valued marketing platform reaching influential consumers and top industry executives. The festival created an incomparable on-site experience aligned ...
THUNDER SOUL screened at the 13th Thessaloniki Film Festival last week at the Olympian Theater to an international audience.
Winner of the Pan-African Film festival of Los Angeles 2011, is the documentary film THUNDER SOUL (USA, 2010) about inspiration, heroism, music, the vibrant 70’s and last but not least Thunder Soul… This is the story about a funk/soul band in the 1970s (my favorite decade) that began in the all-American Kashmere highschool, Houston, Texas. This was a tim...
THUNDER SOUL screened at the 13th Thessaloniki Film Festival last week at the Olympian Theater to an international audience.
Winner of the Pan-African Film festival of Los Angeles 2011, is the documentary film THUNDER SOUL (USA, 2010) about inspiration, heroism, music, the vibrant 70’s and last but not least Thunder Soul… This is the story about a funk/soul band in the 1970s (my favorite decade) that began in the all-American Kashmere highschool, Houston, Texas. This was a time...
Film Life, Inc., announces the 15th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) to be held in Miami, Florida, July 6-9, 2011. The ABFF is an industry retreat and competitive showcase of independent Black film. Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO®), returns for the fourteenth year in support of the festival's mission to strengthen the Black filmmaking community through resource sharing, education, artistic collaboration and career development.
The 2011 festival will feature the return of the ...
Birthright X - Spoken word meets hip hop
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Premiering here at the Montreal World Film Festival in the same week that saw U.S. President Barack Obama deliver a television address announcing the end of combat operations by the U.S. military in Iraq, the timing could not be better for the new American documentary film CAMP UNITY.
After more than seven years of bloody combat, the American role in Iraq has shifted to one of helping build a solid democracy from the ruins of a devastated nation. What role the 50,000 U....
Are you seeing the world in three dimensions? Are you? This hip-hop video frames the issue that without an historical understanding, without recognizing the past, you are actually seeing the world in two dimensions. Is there a danger to be focused solely on the present and the future?
POWERFUL! FOOD FOR THOUGHT! HIP-HOP FOR TEENS THAT NEVER STOPS THINKING! "Video Synopsis":Are you restless? You are not alone. In the early 1800s, Alexis de Tocqueville came to see what this new nation, America, was all about. He found a people always on the move—restless. This hip-hop video explores the restless nature that is still alive in the 21st century American. SEE THEM ALL AT: http://www.findthefunproductions.com/hip-hop-videos.html ...
Honda, FOX and MySpace Collaborate to Offer Two Student Musicians the Ultimate Hollywood Internship Experience Dec 22, 2008 For the second year in a row, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) have partnered to offer a unique internship program designed to expose student-musicians from America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to the music and entertainment industry. Created to complement the Honda Battle of the Bands (HBOB) Invitational Showcase,...
The Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Entertainment to entertainment entrepreneur Suzanne de Passe Nov. 1.R&B singer Kenny Lattimore serenaded de Passe from the award stage, singing the hits And I Love Her and Come Down in Time from his new album, Timeless. Fellow entertainment moguls Michael Mauldin, chief executive officer of the Artistic Control Group, president of Mauldin Brand Agency and chairma...
Friday, May 23-----If you are a lover of film (guilty) and also a lover of jazz (guilty again), then you are destined for movie and musical heaven at the on-going film series Jazz Score at the Museum of Modern Art. Starting last month, this unique retrospective will showcase 50 feature films and a selection of shorts that meld the power of jazz and the moving image.The series celebrates well-known and obscure jazz scores composed for films from the 1950s to the present, with a particular emph...
The 16th ANNUAL PAN AFRICAN FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL (PAFF) today announced the winners of its 2008 Pan African Film and Arts Filmmakers Awards and Audience Favorite Awards. Jury Prizes were awarded in the following categories: Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Narrative Short, Best Feature, and Best Director-First Feature. New for the 2008 PAFF is the addition of The Oscar Micheaux Award, named after the first African-American filmmaker. In addition to the Jury Prizes, Audience Fav...
The 16th ANNUAL PAN AFRICAN FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL (PAFF) today announced the line-up of films selected from a record number of submissions for their 2008 film competition. Known for showcasing new films first and recognized as America's premiere black film festival, past PAFF features have included box office and award-winning hits: Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Redemption, Crazy As Hell, Kingdom Come, The Brothers, Gridlock'd, Days of Glory, and the 2006 Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Film, T...
Together with the Federal Foreign Office: Africa in Focus of the Campus 2008 The Berlinale Talent Campus together with the Federal Foreign Office will launch a new initiative. “FOCUS AFRICA“ will take an in-depth look at contemporary filmmaking in Africa. Numerous young African filmmakers will be invited to Berlin, among them Nigerian actress Kate Henshaw-Nuttall, a top star in Lagos who can hardly escape the demands of her mainly female fan base. Alongside her German colleague Maria Schr...
