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Winners from SLO Film Fest San Luis Obispo

2019 Winning Films The Winning Films in the following categories will be playing at the Downtown Centre Cinemas from Monday, March 18 through Wednesday, March 20. Festival passes will not be valid and there will not be filmmaker Q&A’s. GEORGE SIDNEY INDEPENDENT FILM CATEGORY Feature-Length Documentary: SATAN AND ADAM Plays M, T, W at 4pm (with Selling Lies) Feature-Length Narrative: HAWAII Plays M, T, W at 7pm Short Narrative:  T...

Elle Fanning received Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award

Cinequest bestoweed its highest honor, the Maverick Spirit Award, to powerhouse actor Elle Fanning.  In a special event at the California Theatre this Sunday, March 17th at 1:00pm, Cinequest will host a conversation with Ms. Fanning and award presentation along with a screening of her exciting new film Teen Spirit.         Elle Fanning has been staring in hit films since the age of three. Now, at just 20-years-old, she&rs...

SHOELACES wins Audience Award Winner of the Boston Israeli Film Festival

The director of SHOELACES, Jacob Goldwasser responded: I am deeply moved. This is the response I was hoping for with this film. I'm so glad that audiences are engaging with SHOELACES, and taking the chance to look straight into the eyes of the people with int...

2019 Garden State Film Festival Announces Drew Henriksen As This Year's Screenplay Competition Winner For "A Brooklyn Christmas"

The 2019 Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) is thrilled to announce Drew Henriksen as this year’s Screenplay Competition Winner for “A BROOKLYN CHRISTMAS.” The GSFF Screenplay Competition was instituted to recognize the importance of the writer as the foundation for a really great film. There will be a live reading of this screenplay on Saturday March 30th 12:00Noon-2:00p.m. at The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel in Asbury Park, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Oval Room on the 2nd Floor. Mr. Hen...

The Fipresci Awards come to Panama

  For the first time, the International Federation of FIlm Critics (FIPRESCI) will present a prize for the best film presented our Stories from Central America and The Caribbean Showcase, featured in the International Film Festival’s Eighth Edition, which will be held from April 4 to 10, 2019. Established in 1930 in Brussels, the FIPRESCI prize is one of the most prestigious awards offered by the major film festivals worldwide: Ca...

37th Bergamo Film Meeting Awards

  El motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief) by Agustín Toscano is the winner of the main competition Mostra Concorso of the 37th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting. The film, that was chosen by the audience, will receive the Bergamo Film Meeting – UBI Banca Award, worth 5,000 €. The international jury, led by Italian film director Paolo Franchi, with Prune Engler (Co-director of the Festival International du Film de La Rochelle - France) and Bernd B...

Writers Merja Aakko and Mika Ronkainen win the 2019 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for All the Sins

  Merja Aakko and Mika Ronkainen, writers of All the Sins (Kaikki Synnit), are the recipients of the 2019 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize – this was announced at a ceremony during the TV Drama Vision event at Göteborg Film Festival tonight. This year's award is the third annual award for outstanding writing of a Nordic drama series, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond. The NOK 200 000 prize is awarded the main writer(s) of the series. An addictively intriguing c...

Award Winners 25th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas

Audiences' attendance reached almost 33.000 members during 25th VIFFAC edition. Several French distribution companies contacted us already to inquire about eventual movie acquisitions. French Culture Minister Franck Riester visited our Open Ressource Center and attended opening ceremony. THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS INCREDIBLE NEW SUCCESS!! 26th VIFFAC - Vesoul International Film Festival ...

Göteborg Film Festival wrapped up the 42nd edition

  After eleven amazing festival days with a programme of 400 films from 83 countries, seminars, talks, parties and a great industry programme, the 42nd edition of Göteborg Film Festival closed. With a record high industry attendees and a festival audience of 130,000 visits we look back at some of the highlights from the largest film festival in the Nordics.  Now the Göteborg Film Festival team head for Berlinale 2019. Read more below about our TV drama showcase at Eur...

The Henri Langlois Awards in Paris

  The awards ceremony took place under the eyes of an Eiffel Tower draped with mist and clothes of light in the mythical places of Trocadero which hosted, not so long ago, the cinematheque dear to Henri Langlois: tuesday January 22 at the City of Architecture and Heritage the profession was reunited to honor the cinema and the memory of Henri Langlois in the presence of his son and his niece.   I was very happy to see that the great work of the festivals, big or ...

6th Shortcutz Amsterdam Annual Awards 20

    Our 6th Shortcutz Amsterdam Annual Awards took place this past sunday, january 20th at EYE Filmmuseum!   Every year we invite inspiring film personalities to deliver a speech to inspire the new generation to create more and better movies. It's our way of try...

“Gotti” takes the lead of the 2019 Razzie Awards Nominees (for worst film...)

Let s see what The Oscar willhave to say about these films Worst Picture: “Gotti” “The Happytime Murders” “Holmes & Watson” “Robin Hood” “Winchester” Worst Actress: Jennifer Garner, “Peppermint” Amber Heard, “London Fields” Melissa McCarthy, “The Happytime Murders” and “Life of the Party” Helen Mirren, “W...

Nominations Announced for the 13th Asian Film Awards

Japan’s Koji YAKUSHO Is Nominated for Best Actor; Ken WATANABE Joins the Jury The Asian Film Awards Academy announced the nominations for the 13th Asian Film Awards (AFA13) in Hong Kong today. AFA13 will present 16 awards recognizing artistic and technical merit in film. Japanese films and talents were nominated in 14 categories*, led by 2018’s Palme d'Or winning film, Shoplifters (Director: KORE-EDA Hirokazu), which received nominations in six categories, including Best Fi...

AWARDS ARTEKINO Festival : 24 weeks by Anne Zohra Berrached

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The 2018 ArteKino Festival Audience Prize is awarded to the film 24 Wochen (24 Weeks) by German director Anne Zohra Berrached (Production Zero One / International Sales BETA CINEMA).   The European Digital Film Festival organised by ARTE and Festival Scope took place from 1 to 31 December 2018. Since 2016, the festival has promoted feature films to a large audience, representing the eclecticism and boldness of new European productions, with a program composed of films selected f...

Looking for The winners of Tropfest 2019

    The winner of Tropfest 2019 will be awarded a shiny new Equinox LS+ valued at $32,000 thanks to Holden, returning to Tropfest as Exclusive Automotive Partner; a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of Kennedy Miller Mitchell; and a Studio Filming Prize Package from Western Sydney University. The winner will also earn a film immersion course and ‘week of meetings’ in Los Angeles with agents, studio executives and other industry professionals courtesy of the Motion Picture Asso...

Bafta Film Awards 2019: The nominations have been revealed

  The full list of nominations for this year's British Academy Film Awards has been announced in London on 9 January ahead of the ceremony on 10 February. Best film BlackkKlansman The Favourite Green Book Roma A Star Is Born Outstanding British film Beast Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite McQueen Stan & Ollie You Were Never Really Here Leading actor ...

Green Book honored with three Golden Globes Awards ahead of Bohemian Rhapsody and Roma (2 each)

  The 76th Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and American television of 2018, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Produced by Dick Clark Productions and the HFPA, the 76th Golden Globe Awards was broadcast live yesterday evening on January 6, 2019, from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. The ceremony aired live on NBC in the United States. Actors Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg hosted the ceremo...

The International Press Academy (IPA) today announced the winners for the 23rd Annual Satellite Awards

The International Press Academy (IPA) today announced the winners for the 23rd Annual Satellite Awards to be held on Feb. 22, 2019.   Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” from Netflix leads with four major wins. Set in 1971, the black-and-white look back at Cuarón’s childhood has won Best Director, Best International Film (Mexico), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star Is Born,” headlined by...

The 2018 MY HERO International Film Festival Winners.

  Complete Winners List - Click on Title to View the Film Environmental 1st PlaceLast Stand - The Vanishing Caribou Rainforest (Trailer) 1st PlacePROTECTING THE AMAZON BY ADVANCING INDIGENOUS RIGHTS 2nd PlaceLiving with the Oceans 2nd PlacePOKO 3rd PlaceTani Music Video Awa...

The 9th Annual Cinema Tropical Awards Announce the Nominees for Best U.S. Latino Film:

        306 Hollywood by Elan and Jonathan Bogarín Blindspotting by Carlos López Estrada Monsters and Men by Reinaldo Marcus Green Nobody’s Wat...

Damien Chazelle’s film First Man is the 2018 recipient of the Sloan Science in Cinema Prize

    Award Presented in Partnership between SFFILM and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Celebrates Outstanding Achievement in the Depic...

River to River: 2018 edition winners

    River to River 2018 Audience Awards are the following:  Mulk by Anubhav Sinha (feature film section) A legal movie based on a true story about the difficult cohabitation between Muslims and Hindus, about the life of a family that was picked on after a terrorist attack. Grandir au Ladakh by Christiane Mordelet and Stanzin Dorjai (documentary section) T...

3rd International Film Festival & Awards‧Macao winners of Competition and New Chinese Cinema unveiled

Chen Kaige, winner of “Spirit Of Cinema” Achievement award   The Awards Ceremony of the 3rd International Film Festival & Awards.Macao (IFFAM) was staged at the Macao Cultural Centre tonight gathering around 800 guests including internationally-acclaimed film directors, film stars and industry professionals from around the world. The Film Festival screened 54 spectacular films this year, including 11 films competing for nine awards in the Competition section as well as...

Nominees and Jury announced for the 2019 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize

Six Nordic drama series have been announced as nominees for the NOK 200,000 (€20,000) Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize 2019, presented at TV Drama Vision in Göteborg. For the third consecutive year, the award for outstanding writing of a Nordic Drama series, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, will be handed out at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision. This year, six drama series – two from Norway and one each from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden ...

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