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Delivered Promise to Celebrate Original Voices in Cinema |
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Sarasota
International Film Festival
January 10 - 14 (Florida)
Sarasota, Florida is a jewel of a city nestled on the aqua blue waters
of the Gulf Coast on the western side of Florida. The city has had
a reputation for the last fifty years as a cultural mecca, a town
of less than half a million that has its own permanent opera, theater,
musical and film institutions. American Independent films predominated
the program. The Annihilation of Fish, directed by Charles
Burnette, starred James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave as an eccentric
pair of aging delusionaries who come together to rediscover a sense
of purpose in their twilight years. The film won the Audience Award
for Best Film.
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| Golden
Trailer Awards Best of the Best - Requiem for a Dream |
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Golden
Trailer Awards
January 14 (NY)
The Golden Trailer Awards is the one film awards show where it really
doesn't matter if you've seen the film. As the title suggests, the
competition to honor for the best trailer. The Golden Trailer Awards
showcase the best of the best in movie trailers from Hollywood,
the Independent Arena and around the world. Winners were announced
at the Show on January 14, 2001 at the Manhattan Center in New York
City.
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Nominations Announced |
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Independent
Spirit Awards
March 24 (Santa Monica, CA)
Three
noise-making films top the list of nominations for this year's Independent
Spirit Awards to be held March 24, one day before the Oscars. Chuck
& Buck, Requiem
for a Dream and You
Can Count on Me have each been nominated in five categories.
Sponsored by the nonprofit organization Independent Feature Project/West,
the Spirit Awards celebrate films with provocative subject matter
and vision. The ceremony will be hosted by John
Waters. Three filmmaker grants will be given to an emerging
director, producer, and documentary filmmaker. Each winner will
receive a grant of $20,000.
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| Chopper
Leads the Way |
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Film
Critics Circle of Australia
February 9
The
Film Critics Circle of Australia has announced its nominees for
this year's awards. Chopper
and The
Dish led the annual awards nominations with nine nominations
each, including best film and director. The foreign film nominations
in the English-language category are: American
Beauty, Ride
With The Devil, The
Sixth Sense and Three
Kings. The films nominated for Best Foreign (non-lanuage
film) went to Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, All
About My Mother, The
Widow Of St Pierre (La Veuve De St Pierre) and A
Pornographic Affair (Une Liaison Pornographique). The
winners will be announced at a ceremony on February 9 in Sydney.
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