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Honors
48. Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival | December 3/10 2023 | Avellino
To Robert Guédiguian the “Pier Paolo Pasolini' Lifetime Achievement Award
The master of French social cinema second international guest announced after Paul Schrader (USA)
The French director Robert Guédiguian, winner of the "Pier Paolo Pasolini" Lifetime Achievement Award, will open the 48th edition of the Laceno d'Oro Internat...
Costa Gavras and Cristian Mungiu
The Cinema Heritage festival announces the 9 films in the International Competition after more than 500 films were viewed.
Eva Peydro, Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière and Philip Cheah, who make up the Selection Committee for the first edition of the Cinema Heritage festival, have viewed 500 films from 56 different countries and are presenting the finalists.
The I...
Ynon Kreiz, Mattel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who has transformed the company and spearheaded its global blockbuster film, Barbie, will receive the 2023 IFF Industry Leadership Award at the 36th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles Opening Night Gala on November 1st. Meir Fenigstein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, made the announcement.
Fenigstein noted: “Ynon Kreiz’s visionary leadership and incredible achievements at Mattel, m...
Tonino Zera will receive the Campari Passion for Film Award / He created the sets for The Palace by Roman Polanski, to be presented Out of Competition
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that the production designer Tonino Zera (The First King, Rose Island, Angel of Evil) is the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award of the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th - September 9th, 2023).
The Campari Passion for Film Awa...
His new work film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (40’) to premiere at Festival
La Biennale di Venezia and Cartier are pleased to announce that the American director, writer and producer Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30th – September 9th, 2023), dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly ori...
2023 Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan runs July 9 – 16, 2023
By Alex Deleon for Filmfestivals.com
Takeshi Kirano at the height of "beatness" in "Violent Cop", 1989
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), better known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker.
The nickname "beat" which he adopted as...
Today’s press conference in Bern saw the unveiling of the official program for the 76th Locarno Film Festival, together with eagerly awaited competition line-ups and the presentation of the non-competitive sections. British actor Riz Ahmed was also revealed as the recipient of this year’s Excellence Award Davide Campari.
©Photo by Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images
From the 2nd to 12th of August the passion ...
Hussein Fahmy President of CIFF: He is a unique director. His works are so prominent in the history of cinema.
Amir Ramses Director of CIFF: His works include a special cinematic language. He used the terms of Egyptian cinema in a brave way.
Yousry Nasrallah: I’m glad to be granted the Golden Pyramid Honorary Award. I appreciate being honored at CIFF.
Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) announced honoring the iconic director Yousry Nasra...
EWAN McGREGOR WILL RECEIVE THE FESTIVAL PRESIDENT'S AWARD
This year’s 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival welcomes as its guest Scottish actor, director, and producer Ewan McGregor. This winner of a Golden Globe, an Emmy, two European Film Awards, and numerous other awards will be on hand to receive a Festival President´s Award and to present his new film You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, in which he appears alongside his daughter Clara, who will als...
Festival of Cinema NYC is excited to announce that director Dito Montiel, who will be serving on our Jury panel, will be in attendance to receive our first ever honorary filmmaker award. The festival will also be presenting a retrospective screening of his film A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS with a moderated Q & A to follow.
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The 2023 Festival of Cinema NYC will be taking place at the legendary Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills, with additiona...
Composer Laurence Rosenthal is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd edition of the World Soundtrack Awards, which takes place as the concluding event of Film Fest Gent on Saturday 21 October. The 50th edition of the festival crowns two grandmasters of the world of film music in its anniversary year. Earlier, it was announced that Italian composer Nicola Piovani will be a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award as well.
A veteran composer for film, television ...
Third Eye, 2022, 19, 05: Iranian film Open Season bags the Best Short Film award at Asian Film Festival
The week-long Third Eye Asian Film Festival was held at the P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, from December 12 to 18.
Deputy Secretary in the Tourism and Culture Department of the Maharashtra Government, Mrs. Vidya Waghmare was present at the closing ceremony of the festival.
Mrs. Vidya Waghmare, Kiran Shantaram (Chairman, Asian Film Foundation and Third Eye A...
America’s Highest Honor for a Career in Film to Be Presented at Gala Tribute on June 10, 2023
The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees announced today that Nicole Kidman will be the recipient of the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, celebrating her career achievements thus far. The award will be presented to Kidman at a Gala Tribute at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 10, 2023. She is the first Australian actor to recei...
Our film "When the Woodlark Sings" was selected on the Couch Film Festival in Toronto, Canada and ANA BILIC is the AWARD WINNER in the category Best Writer. The actress Valentina Himmelbauer received the NOMINEE in the category Best Actress. That was great news and we are overjoyed!
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/oXuEJiN3rD0
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Each year, Film Fest Gent puts film music and composers in the spotlight with an album release. This time around, Film Fest Gent is proud to present the new album 'Mark Isham: Music for Film'.
Guest of honour at the 2022 World Soundtrack Awards, Mark Isham has been one of the most versatile film composers of the past four decades. Equally known for his electronic music, his jazz work and trumpet performances, he has created numerous memorable scores for a ...
The 19th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival takes place from 11 to 19 November 2022
PAOLO SORRENTINO ©Claudio Porcarelli
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino presides over the jury of the Marrakech International Film Festival, taking place from 11 to 19 November 2022.
The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first or second feature- length films in the festival’s international competition, which is dedicated to the discovery of filmmakers from ...
The Italian director and screenwriter Luca Guadagnino will be honoured with the renowned A Tribute to... Award at the 18th Zurich Film Festival.
With the global success of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, which received four Oscar nominations, Luca Guadagnino has become one of the most sought-after directors. After pres...
© Leah Gallo
He is a visionary, an aesthete, a master of styles, who has given the world of cinema a universe of rare coherence with an unprecedented impact on popular culture. The director, screenwriter, producer, storyteller and poet of boundless imagination, Tim Burton, will receive the 14th Lumière Award this autumn in Lyon, during the Lumière Film Festival, to be held October 15 to 23, 2022.
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He is an artist who has g...
Hildur Guðnadóttir to receive TIFF Variety Artisan Award and
Sally El Hosaini to receive TIFF Emerging Talent Award
Photo Credit: Camille Blake (left)
Photo Credit: London Professional Headshots (right)
Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF, is delighted to announce that Academy Award®–winning Icelandic artist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will be honoured with the Variety Artisan Award, and that Award-winning Welsh Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter S...
On the occasion of this year's 35th European Film Awards and in recognition of a unique contribution to the world of film, the European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting the actress, director and screenwriter Margarethe von Trotta with the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for her outstanding body of work.
Margarethe von Trotta (photo: © Manfred Breuersbrock/Heimatfilm)
Born in Berlin, Margarethe von Trotta grew up with her mother in the German city of Dü...
Photo credit: Chad Griffith /A24 Films
Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF, is delighted to announce that Brendan Fraser will receive the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance for his outstanding performance in The Whale. The TIFF Tribute Awards presented by BVLGARI will return to an in-person gala fundraiser during the 47th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, September 11 at Fairmont Royal York Hotel. The TIFF Tribute Award for Performance is presented by IMDbPro.
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All selected short films will participate in the competition for the Audience Award after they are uploaded on the Cittador International Film Festival´s website. The award is determined by Internet viewers using a voting tool. The film in each category with the highest number of voting will receive the Audience Award.
Be part of the public voting jury - visit our website, watch films and vote on: https://iff.cittador.com
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Walter Hill : his new film Dead For A Dollar to premiere at Festival
photo credit by Nicolas Aproux DOC839-lowrez
La Biennale di Venezia and Cartier are pleased to announce that the legendary American director, writer and producer Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Last Man Standing) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st – September 10th, 2022), dedicated to a personality who has made...
Artist and Costume Designer Arianne Phillips
announced as the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award /
She created the costumes and helped build the aesthetic
For New Line Cinema’s Don’t Worry Darling by Olivia Wilde,
to be presented Out of Competition
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that the artist and costume designer Arianne Phillips (Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood, A Single Man, The Crow) is the recipient of the Campari Passi...
MISMFF 2022, 04: Announcing the Jury for the 2022 film festival
With the Mestia International Short & Mountain Film Festival a fortnight away, we present the esteemed Jury that will officiate this year, and pick the winners.
HERVÉ SCHNEID, ACE. Award-winning editor, Hervé Schneid is one of the most respected editors working in films today. He has collaborated with a number of directors, including Sally Potter, Lars Von Trier, Mike Figgis, Regis Wargnier, Bille August, Jea...
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