Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) today announced that it has selected five recipients for its new ARIGATŌ (Thank You) Award, honoring their remarkable contributions to the Japanese film industry. We have launched this new award with the expectation that these five stalwarts of Japanese film will continue to be successful and make further contributions to the industry, as well as to increase their international recognition. We have called the award “ArigatŌ” because the word...
The European Film Academy proudly announces the three nominations in the category EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2015. Based on a list of films provided by CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, as well as on individual film submissions, a committee decided on these nominations. The committee consisted of EFA Board Member Antonio Saura, producer (Spain), animation experts Marcel Jean (Annecy FF, Canada) ...
Sitges 2015 pays homage to Oliver Stone with the Grand Honorary Award
The renowned North American director Oliver Stone received the Grand Honorary Award from the 48th Sitges Film Festival.
Sitges paid homage to one of the international film industry greats: Oliver Stone. The Festival put out its read carpet to welcome the famous North American director and producer who received, at a multitudinous event at the Auditori, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia’s Gra...
Vessels by US filmmaker Arkasha Stevenson (pictured above) about Diamond, a young transgender woman working at a garment factory for little pay, has been announced winner of the 2015 Iris Prize – Cardiff’s International LGBT Short Film Prize supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation. The £30,000 prize will allow Arkasha to make a new short film in the UK.
At the sold out Iris Awards presented by Amy Lamé at Cardiff’s Cineworld and Park ...
Below the Skin Blood and Insects Sound of a Million win prizes in the official section
The Spanish film Without God or Santa Maria, best Galician film, and preferred by the public; he leaves Santiago de Compostela with two awards
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival today announced their awards at the closing ceremony. The official section is divided into two categories, one for experimental films (Explore) and ...
Shriekfest, the Los Angeles International Film Festival & Screenplay Competiton was a huge success! Denise Gossett, festival director, once again hosted Shriekfest Oct 1-4th at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. Shriekfest screened 45 films and had 30 screenplay finalists.
"Interior" directed by Zachary Beckler took the Grand Jury prize for Best Horror Feature Film, "Clinger" directed by Michael Steves took the Best Horror Comedy Feature Film Award, "The Answer&q...
It was the Iranian film “Wednesday May 9th.” (IRA) that won Discovery of the Year and received the Golden Puffin in tonight in RIFF’s Award Ceremony 2015 at Iðnó Theater in Reykjavík. The director of the movie, Vahid Jalilvand, gave an acceptance speech via internet-video. Twelve films competed in the category New Visions, all debut or sophomore efforts from directors.
The distinguished Fipresci award, from the International federation o...
The three juries of the 11th Zurich Film Festival’s main competition categories give their Golden Eyes to HRÚTAR by Grimur Hakonarson from Iceland (International Feature Film), LOS REYES DEL PUEBLO QUE NO EXISTE by Betzabé García from Mexico (International Documentary Film) and THANK YOU FOR BOMBING by Barbara Eder from Austria (Focus: Switzerland, Germany, Austria). The two international competition awards are each endowed with a CHF 25’000 cash prize; the Foc...
The Manhattan Film Festival is dedicated to developing and discovering new ways to help filmmakers pursue a career out of filmmaking. In the process we introduce filmmakers and their work to new and expanding audiences. The festival was founded by independent filmmakers who learned first hand how hard it is to find an independent film an audience. MFF was recently named among “The Coolest Film Festivals in the World″ as well as “25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry&rdquo...
RIFF 2015 Comes to an End, the biggest festival to date.
Reykjavik International Film Festival opened for the 12th. time on Sept. 24th. and closed on Sunday Oct. 4th. The festival was a big success and never before has have more people attended the festival’s events and screenings. From the opnening film, Tale of Tales, through the concerts, swim-in cinema, cave-in cinema, 300 screenings of about 100 films, numerous panel discussions, about 50 Q&As, Masterclasses...
picture: Siebbi picture: Zadi Diaz
The European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting Charlotte Rampling with the honorary LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for her outstanding body of work. Born in...
World of Film International Film Festival 2015 – AWARDS
WoFF: World of Film International Film Festival has just wrapped up this year’s edition at Glasgow’s CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts.
The 2015 members of the jury Lizelle Bisschoff, Basharat Khan and Laurie Gordon, who unanimously confirmed their excitement about this year’s official selection of the festival are announcing the following awards:
Best Short Film: Tom in America by ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
What a gift when three of your favorite on-screen presences turn out to be three of your favorite off-screen presences; that’s what happened last night in Santa Barbara as the stunning Jane Fonda received the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF). To set the scene, and this rarely happens, Jane Fonda and one of her star presenters Elizabeth Banks (“Pitch Perfect 2,”...
Berlin/Rio de Janeiro, October 03, 2015: The International Uranium Film Festival Berlin ended with glamour and stars from the German cinema. Film director Marcus Schwenzel received in Berlin the Uranium Film Festival’s Yellow Oscar 2015 for his movie "Seven Years of Winter". Together on the stage were Casting Director Uwe Bünker from Berlin and famous German actor Roman Knizhka who is one of the leading actors of Marcus Schwenzel´s Chernobyl movie.
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After five festival days and nights at Cineplex Münster, more than one hundred films, numerous premiers in thedifferent sections, as well as exciting conversations and encounters, the award winners of the 16th Filmfestival Münster are finally certain.
The award for Best Directing in the European Feature Film Competition (endowed with €5,000) is granted to the filmmaker Micah Magee for her feature film debut „Petting Zoo“. The portrait of a young woman who is s...
2015 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
This year’s submissions included nearly 1,000 category entries, a record number, competing for 23 special awards. The 2015 award winners are selected by a distinguished panel of international judges, who donate their expertise and thousands of hours to judge entries. This year’s judging sessions logged over 3200 hours.
GRAND TETON AWARD WINNER
WINNER
Jago: A Life Underwater
Underdog Films Production in ...
ICFF “Manaki Brothers” and the official partner Vip operator announced the awards of the 36th edition of the festival tonight. The “Golden Camera 300” went to the cinematographer Mátyás Erdély for the film “Son of Saul”. “This film offers a new way of storytelling; on one hand we are facing the main character’s psychology, while on the other hand we were witnessing the dreads of the holocaust” – with t...
- Audience Award for Best Feature Film: Room
- Audience Award for Best Documentary Film: Romeo Is Bleeding
Aspen Film announced today its balloted Audience Award winners for the 37th Aspen Filmfest, which ran Sept. 25-30 at Paepcke Auditorium and the Isis Theater in Aspen and the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale. Two awards - one for narrative and one for documentary - were named as the best films by Aspen Filmfest audience. Room, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, was chosen to r...
The 11th edition of the AMMA awards took place in South Africa, on Saturday, September 26, 2015.
"Last Night at the Nominations of the most prestigious awards for Black filmmakers around the Globe, The Africa Movie Academy Awards announced that the 2015 edition will be held in South Africa on 26th September 2015, the African cinema business round table and Africaone concert will be held that week. It promises to be a show stopper."
AMAA 2015
EF...
The Spanish Film Academy has chosen Basque-language drama Loreak (Flowers) as its submission for the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
Directed by Jon Garano and Jose Maria Goenaga, Loreak is a film shot in Euskera, the Basque language. The film competed in the Official Selection at the 62nd San Sebastian Festival where it got great critics but no prize. Nominated at the F...
Best Film: Taboo
Best Director: Abolhassan Davoodi for Crazy Castle
Best Actor: Parviz Parastui for Today
Best Actress: Elnaz Shakerdoost for Taboo
Best Screenplay: Mitra Tabrizi for Taboo
Best Cinematography: Nader Masoumi for Taboo
Best Documentary: I Want to Be a King, directed by Mehdi Ganji
Best Short Film: The Salt Man, directed by Sajad Moosavi
Best Director for a Short Film: Hoseyn Aslabdollahi for The Wall
Best Screenplay for a Short Film: Kamiar Faroughi & A...
The European Film Academy and EFA Productions are proud to present this year's short film nominations. At each of the 15 participating film festivals, an independent jury presented one European short film in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards.
Nominated are:
Berlin Short Film Nominee
DISSONANCE
by Till Nowak
Germany 2015, animation, 17&#...
The 2015 Hollywood Film Festival culminated under a Blood Red moon on the outdoor patio of Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, with a celebration highlighting the top films in six categories. The festival stayed true to its exciting global direction and its "See Good / Do Good / Feel Good" mission anchored in social impact under its new team: CEO & Executive Producer Brad Parks and Executive Director Rod Beaudoin.
Best Narrative Feature was s...
Jalopnik Film Festival Announces 2015 Short Film Award Winner
The Jalopnik Film Festival is pleased to announce the audience award winner of this year’s short film competition: “Building Your Dream Ferrari is a Beautiful Thing” by Petrolicious. The film was one of 11 finalists that was selected by an elite panel of judges that included comedian and radio personality Adam Carolla, L.A. Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson, filmmaker Jeff Zwart and TV personality ...
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