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| AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival awards |
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SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival announced its distinguished award winners, culminating the weeklong Festival activities that included screening 108 films representing 63 countries, free outdoor screenings and live performances, and a five-day concurrent International Documentary Conference attended by over 650 filmmakers, film and television executives and media professionals. Winning filmmakers received over $70,000 in combined cash and in-kind prizes.
Silverdocs dailies
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| Results of the Short Film Corner 2008 contests |
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Filmfestivals.com was a partner of Cannes Short Film Corner and supported the contest and the winners. Flip à la carte :
During the Short Film Corner event participants were challenged to make three-minute movies on Flip Video Cameras. An esteemed jury of festival programmers and directors from around the world met in Cannes to determine the best submissions. The grand prize of $10,000 presented by Facebook, along with an HP workstation including a 30-inch monitor, were awarded to “The Flip Trip”.
Check out the grand prize winning film and the runners-up on fest21.com.
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| Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival AWARDS |
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LAJFF and the MorningStar Commission honored Joan Rivers on Tuesday May 13th with the Marlene Adler Marks Woman of Inspiration Award. Following the ceremony, the Festival held the Los Angeles premiere of Making Trouble produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive. Rachel Talbot’s documentary tells the story of six of the greatest female comic performers of the last century who broke new ground and delighted audiences for over three generations.
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| And the Palme d'Or goes to Laurent Cantet |
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And the Palme d'Or goes to Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs)
At long last a French Palm much awaited for the past 21 years (last to receive was Maurice Pialat in 1987 for "Under the Sun of Satan" - Sous le soleil de Satan.
The official Jury of this 61st Fesival de Cannes, présided over by Sean Penn, revealed this evening the Prize winners during the closing Ceremony.
Édouard Baer hosted Robert de Niro on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to the best film among the 22 in Competition.
Barry Levinson’s closing film What Just Happened? starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Bruce Willis, was screened at the end of the ceremony.
Full coverage on fest21.com
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