• From the creators of Secret Cinema • Anyone Anywhere can set up their own film festival• Filmmakers, audiences and festival partners come together to create the next generation film festivalLaunching in November, the Future Shorts Festival will become the first ever global pop-up festival, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening and be part of a massive screening network and a powerful global community. The fe...
Winning an award at the Sundance Film Festival is no small accomplishment. The competition to just get into the Festival is fierce (150 films chosen out of over 2000 submissions.....ouch). However, winning the top prizes is still no assurance that the films will be widely seen or make any dent at the box office. Some years, the top prize winners have barely registered beyond the festival circuit. In others, such as last year's winner WINTER'S BONE, the win at Sundance led to an outstanding showi...
Winning an award at the Sundance Film Festival is no small accomplishment. The competition to just get into the Festival is fierce (150 films chosen out of over 2000 submissions.....ouch). However, winning the top prizes is still no assurance that the films will be widely seen or make any dent at the box office. Some years, the top prize winners have barely registered beyond the festival circuit. In others, such as last year's winner WINTER'S BONE, the win at Sundance led to an outs...
As the Sundance Film Festival enters its mid-way point and there is an obvious thinning in the ranks of both celebrities and professionals, here is a rundown of some of the buzz, information and deals that are making noise in Park City this week.
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE OFFERS NO GLITZ SUNDANCE COVERAGE
If you believed what you read in most newspapers and see on television entertainment magazines, Sundance seems to exist merely as a playground for fabulous celebrities where they...
The following is the Prize List for 49e Semaine de la Critique held at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival:
Feature Film
Grand Prize Semaine de la Critique
Jury: Attributed by the International Press (journalists and film critics are invited to vote after each screening).
ARMADILLO Janus Metz
SACD Prize
Jury : Jacques
Fansten, Laurent Heynemann, Gérard Krawczyk, Eric Kristy, Benjamin Legrand ,
Bertrand Tavernier (SACD).
BI, DUNG SO! (BI DON’T BE AFRAID!) Phan Dang Di
ACI...
Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland won the 2010 Sundance Shorts International Prize
photo courtesy of Sundance Film Festival
by Marla Lewin
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival announced the jury prizes in shorts filmmaking and gave honorable mentions based on outstanding achievement and merit. The awards were presented at a ceremony held in Park City, Utah. These award recipients will also be honored at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce on Satur...
