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Sergei Loznitsa with Dragon of Dragons Award

This year, the Krakow Film Foundation Programme Council decided to honour the eminent director of documentary films, Sergei Loznitsa, with the Dragon of Dragon award in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the development of the international cinema. The 21st laureate of this prestigious award is at the same time the youngest winner of the award in history.   "Winning the Dragon of Dragons award at Krakow Film Festival is a great honour for me. My first documentary film, ...

Tropfest Australia announces Susan Sarandon as head of Jury

Tropfest Australia, supported by foundation partner CGU Insurance, is today announcing two exciting developments to this year’s event - Academy Award winner and five-time Emmy nominated actress, Susan Sarandon, will head the Tropfest Australia 2018 Jury. For the first time, the ABC will be the exclusive broadcast partner. Susan Sarandon, fresh off a Golden Globe nomination for Feud (2017), is known for critically acclaimed performances in classic films Bull Durham (1988), Thelma & L...

Waimea Ocean Film Festival Awards 2018

Waimea Ocean Film Festival is by invitation. Only 10-15% of films screened are selected, making “Official Selection” an award in itself and setting the bar high for the individual film awards. With the exception of the Audience Choice and the Director’s Choice awards, films are eligible to receive one individual film award. In a few cases and when films within a given category are substantially different in nature, the award will be shared between two films. C...

Nominations Announced for the 12th Asian Film Awards

     (January 11, 2018; Hong Kong/Tokyo) The Asian   Film Awards Academy announced the nominations  for the 12th Asian Film Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong  today. For this edition, AFA received submissions   from 26 countries and regions. Eighty-nine  nominations were made for 17 awards, including  the newly added Best New Dir...

Cinema Tropical Awards Select Brazilian Film ARABIA as the Best Latin American Film of the Year

       Brazilian Film ARÁBIA by Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans Is the Winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Latin American Film of the Year Other Winners Announced This Evening...

The Eda Awards, the women have voted

2017 EDA AWARD WINNERS “THE SHAPE OF WATER” TAKES THREE AWARDS INCLUDING BEST FILM AND BEST DIRECTOR FOR GUILLERMO DEL TORO AND BRAVEST PERFORMANCE AWARD FOR SALLY HAWKINS   “LADY BIRD” GARNERS THE BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE PRIZE FOR LAURIE METCALF WHILE GRETA GERWIG IS AWARDED TWO EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS FOR BEST WOMAN DIRECTOR AND BEST WOMAN SCREENWRITER The women have voted!  The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce...

San Francisco Silent Film Festival Awards

Garbo! Sherlock Holmes! More treasures to come! ...

le Palmarès de la 9ème édition du Festival des Arcs

Vous l'attendez depuis une semaine, ou des mois pour certains, le voici, fraîchement révélé lors de la cérémonie de clôture du festival : le Palmarès de la 9ème édition ! You've been waiting for it for a week, or months for some ...

"Two is a Family" wins the first UniFrance Comedy Award at the Alpe d'Huez Film Festival

      UniFrance and the Alpe d'Huez Film Festival have joined forces to create the UniFrance Comedy Award, which will be given each year to the French comedy that has garnered the highest number of admissions abroad. The first recipient is the comedy by Two is a Family, which topped 5 million admissions around the world in 2017. Comedies are historically one of the French film genres that are most popular internationall...

75th Awards Ceremony for the Golden Globes : Black is the new red

  Yesterday black was the dominant color on the red carpet of the 75th edition of the Golden Globes: most women were dressed in black to support  "Time's Up ", movement against sexual harrasment. Here is the complete list of Awards       Best Motion Picture - Drama WINNER Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri   Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy ...

SFFILM Announces First Round of Winners for Brand New Initiatives in Support of Immigrant Filmmakers and Women Championing Peace

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Three Filmmakers to Receive Inaugural New American Producer Fellowship and Women, Peace, and Security Fellowship     SFFILM announced today the recipients of the first round of fellowships in su...

Nominations Announced for the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®

Nominees for the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding individual, cast and ensemble performances in film and television of 2017, as well as the honorees for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood. SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris introduced Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse, The Predator) and Niecy Nash (Claws, The Soul Man), who ann...

Winners of the 17th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival

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The 17th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival has had its closing night on December 12th, at Cinema La Compagnia in Florence. The winners of the River to River Audience Award are: My Pure Land by Sarmad Masud (feature film section) Abu by Arshad Khan (documemtary section) Kajal by Paakhi Tyrewala (short film section) ...

Barco receives the Technology Innovator Award at CineAsia 2017

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  At a reception at the end of the 23rd edition of CineAsia 2017 in Hong Kong, key players in the cinema industry were awarded for significant contributions over the previous year. Barco was saluted as the Technology Innovator of the Year.   ...

FOCUS 2017 wraps successful third edition

  FOCUS, the Meeting Place for International Production, sees record attendance for third edition at Business Design Centre, London Booming state of international production, particularly high-end TV drama and feature film, emerges as key talking point at FOCUS’ high-level programme of seminars London, 12 December 2017 – Record attendance, increased number of exhibitors, a high-level programme of seminars and keynotes, plus a raft of networking events all com...

2nd IFFAM Industry Hub Project Market Award Winners Announced

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    The IFFAM Project Market (IPM) Award Winners were announced today at the closing of the IFFAM Industry Hub.  The three winning IPM films were each presented with cash awards of US$10,000.  The winners were: ·         Mihara (USA/Japan) Director: Jacqueline Castel, Producer Pier Harrison - presented by Lorna Tee on behalf John Penotti of Ivanhoe Pictures ·         The Gir...

5 film projects received vital funding with dubai film connection

Director Mohamed Ismail Laouti (R) and producer Willy Rolle (C) winners of the DIFF Award during the Dubai Film Connection Awards   More than USD 60,000 in prizes and unparalleled networking access to bring projects from script to screen 15 talented Arab filmmakers were awarded crucial funding and key partnership opportunities with the Dubai Film Connection (DFC), the co-production market of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). Filmmakers behind shortlisted projects prese...

Palmarès / Prizes list - 40th edition Poitiers Film Festival

  Grand prix du jury Jury's Grand Prize Sélection internationale - Courts métrages International Selection - Short films   ...

Friday Harbor Film Festival Awards

  The quality and diversity of the films screened was amazing. As one attendee remarked of the weekend, "So many films, so little time!" ENTERTAIN * INSPIRE * ENLIGHTEN www.fhff.org           <td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" "=""> ...

16th RIFF AWARDS 2017

A Winter To Remember” by Cecilia Valenzuela Gioia wins best film Special Mention to  “I Am Truly A Drop Of Sun On Earth”. Best Italian Documentary  “Beo” by Stefano Viali and Francesca Pirani   Special Event & Out of Competitions Feature film competition A Winter To Remember directed by Cecilia Valenzuela Gioia – Argentina, 2017, HD, Color, 64’ Bernard and Huet directed by Dan Mirvish – USA, 2017, ...

Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Frozen) will host the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018,

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Kristen Bell (The Good Place, Frozen) will host the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, an event which is simulcast live on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT), Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced today. As the SAG Awards has never had an emcee before, Connell and the SAG Awards Committee are breaking a long-standing custom by inviting the multi-faceted actor to fill this prestigious role. “We are delighted to have Kristen Bell as the first-ev...

SAFF Project Market 2017 reveals "The Hunted" and “Mina-Anud” as top winners

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 ScreenSingapore, together with Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association (SAAVA) and Ties That Bind: Asia/Europe Producers Workshop (TTB), today announced two projects from Indonesia and The Philippines as winners of the third Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project Market. “The Hunted” took home the Aurora Producing Award, RED Digital Camera Award as well as The Yellow Box Soundscape Award, while “Mina-Anud” won the Basecamp Colour Prize.   With three s...

2017 IFP Gotham Award winners announced

        This past Monday evening we announced the winners of the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards at our awards ceremony hosted by John Cameron Mitchell and held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.   Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name won the Best Feature and Breakthrough Actor (Timothée Chalamet) awards, while Jordan Peele's Get Out took home Breakthrough Director, Best Screenplay, and the Audience Award.  ...

Winners of the inaugural ATF Animation Pitch and second ATF Formats Pitch unveiled

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WINNERS OF INAUGURAL ATF ANIMATION PITCH AND SECOND ATF FORMATS PITCH UNVEILED Inaugural ATF Animation Pitch prizes goes to Taiwanese producer, while Indonesian entry tops ATF Formats Pitch   Singapore, 30 November 2017 – After an exciting round of on-stage pitches where producers from all over Asia presented their ideas, winners of the inaugural Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) Animation Pitch and second ATF Formats Pitch were unveiled today.   studio2 Animation Lab from ...

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