Winners of the 2018 'Sepanta Awards'
Best Film: Disappearance directed by Ali Asgari
Best Director: Ali Mohammad Ghasemi for Dogs and Fools
Best Actor: Mehran Ahmadi for Hunting Season
Best Actress: Mahya Dehghani for Hunting Season
Best Screenplay: Payam Karami for Searing Summer
Best Cinematography: Ali Mohammad Ghasemi for Dogs and Fools
Best Documentary: Inheritance by Cambiz Amir-Khosravi
Best Short Film: The Sea Wells by Amir Gholami
Best ...
HERO A Frances-Anne Solomon Film, Inspired By The Extraordinary Life & Times Of Mr. Ulric Cross
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indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA Present:
The 18th Annual Coney Island Film Festival
September 14 - 16, 2018
At the legendary Sideshows By The Seashore and the
Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!
That's a wrap on another great festival! Thanks to our filmmakers, attendees, sponsors, opening night performers, staff, board of directors and volunteers! See you in 2019!
2018 Best in Category:
Feature - Staring at the Su...
After a highly successful 38th year, FIN Atlantic International Film Festival announces its award winners for the event, September 13 - 20 in Halifax, NS.
Award winners include:
The Gordon Parsons Award for Best Atlantic Feature:
Presented by FIN Atlantic International Film Festival
Winner: An Audience of Chairs
Directed by Deanne Foley
Produced by Jill Knox-Gosse, Eric Jordan, Paul Steph...
Human Affairs, General Magic, We Were Íslands Among Honored Films
The First Annual Montana International Film Festival (MINT) wrapped today with an awards ceremony and closing celebration at Doc Harper’s in historic downtown Billings. The weekend featured screenings of 55 films, panels and events attended by filmmakers, press and Billings locals.
“This first year’s festival was a resounding success, even exceeding our expectations,” said MINT ex...
Winners of Iran’s 31st International Film Festival for Children and Youth have been announced.
As reported by the festival’s news headquarters, the list of nominees and winners is as follows:
Best Film for Children:
-“White Forehead 2”, produced by Javad Hashemi
- “Pastarioni”, produced by Bita Mansouri
-“Stammer”, produced by Mahmoud Fotouhi Shahabad
*The Golden Butterfly was granted to “Pastario...
Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf, the director of the film Holiday, is the winner of the Grand Prix of the New Horizons International Competition. Of the 12 competition entries, seven were directed by women. This year's edition of New Horizons can also boast record attendance.
"In an unsentimental and unsettling way, Holiday reveals the mechanisims of conformisme and dependence as seen through the eyes of a chameleonic main character manuvering through a world encompased b...
This first wave of the 2018 World Soundtrack Award Nominees includes multiple Academy Award® winners and nominees, the best of contemporary film and television music as well as Pulitzer prize winner Kendrick Lamar and other pop artists.
The nominees for Best Film Composer are Academy Award® winners John Williams and Alexandre Desplat, Academy Award® nominees Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jonny Greenwood and Carter Burwell. The Television Composer of th...
35 short films compete for the 2018 Iris Prize
20 countries represented bringing together films featuring contemporary dance, brutal violence and challenging stories about gender
The £30,000 prize continues to be supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation
Organisers of the Iris Prize have today (13/08/2018) announced details of the 35 short films competing for the Iris Prize at the 2018 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. The winning director will be presented with £30,000 to make the...
The 9th Odesa International Film Festival, which took place from July 13 to 21, sums up its achievements
This year, 1070 films from 95 countries were submitted for participation in the competition programs. 12films from the International Competition competed for the main prize – the Grand Prix; 5 features and 13 short films participated in the National Competition, and 8 – in the European Documentary Competition. In total,&...
Best Action
Mascarpone
Jonas Riemer
Best Animation
The Driver Is Red
Randall Christopher
Best Cinematographer
The Other End Of The Earth
Aaron Grasso
Best Comedy
Must Kill Karl
Joe Kicak
Best Coming Of Age
Melody
Bernard Kordieh
Best Diversity
Diwa
Aina Dumlao, Bru Muller
Best Documentary
Hula Girl
Amy Hill, Chris Riess
Best Drama
Phone Duty
Lenar Kamalov
Best Ed...
This 18th edition showed over 150 films divided into 14 categories during a period of 9 days. With a simultaneous seating capacity of 2,115 festival-goers, the 168 public screenings have included 104 feature films and 60 short films from 41 countries (7 world premieres, 5 international premieres, 9 European premieres and 54 Swiss ones). The free NIFFF Extended and NIFFF Invasion programmes offered 71 activities, 61 of which were conferences. The total of entries reached 44,000 (39,000 film tic...
Today we are thrilled to reveal our esteemed International Nominations Council. The council is chaired by long-time member Hong-Joon Kim (Republic of Korea) who will sit alongside Tusi Tamasese (New Zealand/Samoa), Sherwood Hu (People’s Republic of China), Bina Paul (India), Anne Démy-Geroe (Australia), Gulnara Abikeyeva (Kazakhstan) and Delphine Garde-Mroueh (France).
The APSA International Nominations Council will meet in Brisbane in September to determine the...
Maurizio Magnifico (Managing Director), Rick Campanella (Master of Ceremonies), Paul Golini (President, ICFF Board of Directors), Claudio Bisio, Cristiano de Florentiis (Artistic Director)
and Mara Cataldi (Director of Operations)
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The 2018 Sydney Film Festival winners were announced at the Closing Night ceremony on Sun 17 June at the State Theatre.
The 65th Sydney Film Festival tonight awarded The Heiresses, the debut feature of Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, the prestigious Sydney Film Prize, out of a selection of 12 Official Competition films.
All Sydney Film Festival Award winners are presented with the Festival’s signature mesmeric swirl award, des...
BZN Film Festival A Stunning Success!
“As a film-lover, it was heartening to attend BZN— I’m encouraged to see such high regard for intelligent filmmaking. ~ Ted Turner
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Award to be presented by festival fo...
Rita Moreno presents the Honorary Orpheus to George Chakiris
Director Tassos Boulmetis receiving his second Orpheus
Director Dora Masklavanou with the two Orpheus Awards for POLYXENI
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June 1-10 @ Wythe Hotel and Windmill Studios
BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL
2018 WINNERS
Through the resources of industry-related sponsors, the Brooklyn Film Festival awarded the winners with products, services, and cash.
PRIZES SPONSORED BY: Abelcine, Xeno Lights, Media Services, Cinecall Soundtracks, Nyc Camera Company, G-Star Raw, Windmill Studios Nyc, Brooklyn Film Society.
GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD
BREACH by LORENZO MONTI
Best Nar...
CLIPPED Music Video Festival 2018 happened Saturday June 2nd and was an overwhelming success.
Run in conjunction with Vivid Ideas, over 400 attendees passed through the Carriageworks doors to experience the exhibitions, panel discussions, premieres and awards throughout the day. The panels boasted immense talent including Jesse Kanda (UK - Bjork, FKA Tiwgs, Arca), Nash Edgerton (Gringo, Bob Dylan, Brandon Flowers), Sarah Blasko, Mclean Stephenson, Eero Heinonen (Finland), and industry experts i...
We are happy to announce that NORA KIRKPATRICK & DENNIS MCNICHOLAS have won this year's Short Film Fund with their winning short BEST SELLER.
They will be been awarded with a $10,000 Grant to make their short film.
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Awards go to documentaries and a tragicomedy with this year’s Nippon Honor Award recipient Shinobu TERAJIMA as the leading actress
After six days with more than 100 short and feature length films, the 18th Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main ended on June 3. Numerous film screenings, concerts, performances, and workshops were quickly sold out. Over 120 directors, actors, producers, and artists from Japan came to Frankfurt in order to present their works...
Congratulations to the winners, nominees, and all the participants of the
NYC Independent Film Festival this year!
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