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New York Festivals TV & Film Awards Increases Grand Jury Numbers and Percentage of Women by Double Digits.

New York Festivals® International Television & Film Awards  has announced the 2018 Grand Jury. The TV & Film competition jury recruitment process is still underway, with a jury member increase and an increase in the percentage of women by double digits to just under 40 percent.   Known for its powerhouse jury comprised of prominent international broadcast and film industry executives, the New York Festivals 2018 TV & Film Grand Jury of 198 members to date represents...

Alan Cooper Leadership in the Arts Award

  The Alan Cooper Leadership in the Arts Award was established to honor the legacy of an arts leader who has made outstanding contributions to the arts through extraordinary leadership. Alan W. Cooper served as Executive Director of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) for 23 years, from 1994 through April 2017. Under Alan’s Leadership, MAAF established a reputation for excellence, integrity, and innovative programs and services that extends beyond the mid-Atlan...

Viennale 2017 Prize Winners

 V’17: OCTOBER 19 – NOVEMBER 2, 2017     VIENNA FILM PRIZE Jury: Gregor Eichinger, Till Fellner, Olga Flor, Bettina Hering, Voodoo Jürgens For the ninth time, this year the Vienna Film Prize was awarded separately in both the “Feature Film” and “Documentary” categories. There are two equal prizes, each of which consists of monetary and material awards worth about € 11,000. The Viennale would like to take this opportunity...

Winners of the 8th American Film Festival in Wroclaw have been announced

    The festival of American cinema in Wroclaw is coming to an end. Winners of the 8th American Film Festival were announced at today's closing gala.   Traditionally, the audience was the jury of the AFF, by voting for their favorite films. Of the 13 films in the Spectrum section, the vote winner was John Carroll Lynch&#...

2017 Chelsea Film Festival awarded MUKOKU by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Grand Prix for Best Feature Film

2017 CHELSEA FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS       Chelsea, NY — The Chelsea Film Festival closed its 5th Annual Edition on Sunday, October 22nd after having presented 90 Films f...

Adelaide Audience Awards

the people have spoken!       We are thrilled to announce the 2017 GU Film House Audience Awards, as voted by our audiences. Best Feature went to Warwick Thornton's frontier western - Sweet Country.  If you missed this during the festival, there's another chance - the official release is set for March 16, 2018. Phew! It's not surprising that Jill Bilcock: dancing the Invisible scooped up Best Documentary - the hugely entertaining film about the editor b...

Animation is Film announces the winners

        ANIMATION IS FILM ANNOUNCES 2017 WINNERS     GRAND PRIZE THE BREADWINNER – NORA TWOMEY SPECIAL JURY PRIZE THE BIG BAD FOX AND OTHER TALES – PATRICK IMBERT & BENJAMIN RENNER AUDIENCE AWARD THE BREADWINNER – NORA TWOMEY   ANIMATION IS FILM ...

2017 SAE ATOM Awards - Primary and secondary student winners announced!

  STUDENT WINNERS ANNOUNCED! There was excitement in the air at SAE Creative Media Institute in Melbourne earlier today, as this year’s primary and secondary student winners were announced at the 2017 SAE ATOM Awards Student Awards Presentation. The award presentation was hosted by Walt Collins, and was followed by a special screening of all the winning productions on the big screen. The presentation was live streamed into schools in Australia and New Zealand with the h...

Tallgrass Film Festival wrapped with awards

Presented By Consolidated Equities Trust Stubbornly Independent Since 2003     Congratulations to all of our 2017 Award Winners! Best Kansas &am...

Birds Are Singing In Kigali wins the Grand Prix of CinEast 2017

    At the Awards Ceremony of the 10th edition of CinEast (Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg, 5-22 October 2017, www.cineast.lu), held at the Cinémathèque of Luxembourg on Friday 20 October, the International Jury awarded the Grand Prix to the Polish film Birds Are Singing In Kigali by Joanna Kos-Krauze & Krzysztof Krauze, and the Special Jury Prize to the Romanian film Soldiers. A Story From Ferentari by Serbian director Ivana Mladenović. Th...

Belgian debut feature ‘Zagros’ and ‘A Ciambra’ main winners at 44th Film Fest Gent

‘Zagros’, the debut feature by Belgian-Kurdish director Sahim Omar Kalifa, has been awarded the Grand Prix for Best Film at Film Fest Gent's Closing Night, while Italy's Oscar hopeful, Jonas Carpignano’s coming-of-age drama ‘A Ciambra’, scooped the Georges Delerue Award for Best Music. ‘Croisé’ took home the National Lottery Award for Best Belgian Student Short, whereas the award for Best European Short went to ‘My Second Eye&rsquo...

The Denver Film Society (DFS) has announced the recipients of its annual Festival honors

DFF40 will honor Kyra Sedgwick with the John Cassavetes Award and Aaron Sorkin with the Career Achievement Award   The Denver Film Society (DFS) has announced the recipients of its annual Festival honors, highlighting both actor/director Kyra Sedgwick with the prestigious John Cassavetes Award and Aaron Sorkin with the Career Achievement Award. "This year we are pleased to be giving the John Cassavetes Award to Kyra Sedgwick, one of the industry's most recognizab...

Cannes Awards Selects British International School of Chicago, Lincoln Park Video as 2017 Festival Winner

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Second Win for the Nord Anglia Education Chicago-based School The Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards selected a three-part STEAM DIY Series produced by Chicago-based production house Richter Studios as a recipient of the Silver Dolphin in the Social Media and Short Video category. Winners were announced last Thursday evening in the French Riviera resort town where Richter Studios CEO Jeremy Richter and BISC Lincoln Park ...

London BFI Festival : That's a wrap!

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2017 Iris Film Winners announced at carnival celebration in Cardiff

·       Swedish director Mikael Bundsen wins international Iris Prize for Mother Knows Best (Mamma Vet Bäst) “A brilliantly scripted and intense short film which uses a great economy of shots to tell a powerful and universal story.” ·       Dionne Edwards’s film We Love Moses wins the Best British Award. ·       Best Feature win for Prom King, 2010 &middo...

FNC 2017 Awards

          Day 11 - The masks have fallen yesterday night, revealing the laureates of the 46th Festival du nouveau cinéma. Discover the names of the works and the artis...

Winners of the 16th edition of the Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Arte

The 16° Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Arte took place 11 - 14 october 2017 | Sala Gregorianum | Via Settala 27 Milano |     ...

Innsbruck Nature Film Festival Winners

JURY STATEMENTS DOCUMENTARIES NATURE WINNER: DUSK CHORUS What an experience! Not only is this a well-presented long-term and ambitious project, it is also the perfect interplay of cinematography, story-line and sound. The film makes it possible to become fully immersed in an extraordinary acoustic and visual experience.  This an excellent piece of work that expands our understanding and explores environmental problems in a completely new light. The jury members would like to complime...

Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival announces it's awards

Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival announces the highly anticipated juried and audience award-winning films for work screened at the 35th annual festival, September 21-28 2017. The complete list of award-winning films follows: Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: Cat Skin (dir. Daniel Grasskamp) Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: Woman on Fire (dir. Julie Sokolow) Jury Award for Best Narrative Short: Dusk (dir. Jake Graf) Jury Award fo...

Adelaide Film Festival full list of winners announced

ADL FILM FEST AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED     HOT OFF THE PRESS - International Juries of ADL Film Fest have declared feature fiction I Am Not A Witch and documentary Taste of Cement prestigious prize winners for 2017, joining the previously announced winner of the inaugural AFTRS International VR Award, Nothing Happens. The 2017 ADL Film Fest International Feature Awa...

I am not a witch and Taste of cement win major awards at Adelaide Film Festival (ADL Film Fest)

The International Juries of the Adelaide Film Festival (ADL Film Fest) today announced I Am Not A Witch (France, United Kingdom) and documentary Taste of Cement (Germany, Syria Qatar, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates), as major competition prize winners for 2017, joining the previously announced winner of the inaugural AFTRS International VR Award, Michelle and Uri Kranot’s Nothing Happens (Denmark, France).   I Am Not A Witch, the exciting feature debut of Zambia-born Welsh director...

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