Kaddish for a Friend, the debut film of director Leo Khasin, and Beating Time, a documentary about the struggle to overcome ALS, were the winners of The 23rd Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Audience Awards for Best Feature and Best Documentary films respectively. “I feel very honored to win this year's Audience Award at the Boston Jewish Film Festival,” said Khasin. “I had the chance to be here in Boston and be part of a wonderful vivid, receptive and, at the same time, profound audience. ...
FIPRESCI AWARDS
The 52nd International Thessaloniki Film Festival FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) jury comprised of:
Tereza Brdeckova, Czech Republic, Jury President
photo by Vanessa McMahon
Aimed at bringing new trends, new people and new cinema; The
UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival today made a call for entries from across the world. The UFO 0110 International
Digital Film Festival, India’s only film festival to recognise and promote
“different cinema” opens in the last week of February, 2012 in Siri Fort
Auditorium, New Delhi.
Welcome to the 21st London Latin American Film Festival 2011 . At 21 years old this year, we are coming of age at last! This year’s LLAFF celebrates 25 years of Havana International TV and Film School , presenting the highlights from the past quarter century of one of the most influential of Cuban cultural institutions, alongside the best of this year’s films, which reflect the changing priorities of Cuba’s young filmmakers.With 2011 being the United Nations International Year of People o...
Following on from India in 2011, the next edition of Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno’s co-production lab, will be devoted to francophone Sub-saharan Africa.With support from the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Open Doors section, focusing on a different region every year, aims primarily to assist directors and producers from countries in the South and the East, where independent filmmaking is vulnerable. Application forms for Open Doors 2...
21ST LONDON LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 18-27 NOVEMBER 2011
Welcome to the 21st London Latin American Film Festival 2011 . At 21 years old this year, we are coming of age at last!
This year's LLAFF celebrates 25 years of Havana International TV and Film School , presenting the highlights from the past quarter century of one of the most influential of Cuban cultural institutions, alongside the best of this year's films, which reflect the changing priorities of Cuba's young fi...
From ADFF 2011 press:"Among the collateral awards given at the Festival, The FIPRESCI Prize from the International Federation of Film Critics went to Bousbia’s El Gusto - her second prize on the night. The NETPAC Award for outstanding Asian film went to Atwal’s Marathon Boy. It her second prize as well, as she won Best New Director in the Documentary Category." photo by Vanessa McMahon
Acclaimed Syrian director Mohammed Malas will be joined by internationally renowned filmmakers and actors to form the Arab Film Competition Jury for Narrative Films at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF). The news came as the Doha Film Institute (DFI) announced the jury for the inaugural DTFF Arab Documentary Film Competition, which will be led by pioneering and award-winning British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney, Battle for Haditha, Biggie & Tup...
Mark your calendars! One of SEE FEST’s most important
partners is screening new films from Germany and we want you to come!
From October 26 -
30, 2011, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles presents the 5th annual German Currents Film Festival,
showcasing the best of new German cinema. Screenings will be held at the
Egyptian Theatre, the Aero Theatre and the Goethe-Institut L.A.
Opening night,
Wed. Oct 26 at 7:30pm, don’t miss “Almanya”, directed by Jas...
Announcing the Winners of the 4th Edition of the Festival: ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film'
In a rapturous awards ceremony held on the opening night of Diane Pernet's three-day international festival A Shaded View On Fashion (ASVOFF), nine ‘fashion films' were bestowed upon winners with gongs and prizes followed by a moving performance at the official venue of ASVOFF 4 in Paris, the Centre Pompidou. Over the weekend, ASVOFF electrified enthusiasts of both fashion a...
FIVE DEBUT FILMS NOMINATED FOR EFA DISCOVERY AWARD
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2011 - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of observer Yves Marmion (EFA Chairman, France), Board Members Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands) and Cedomir Ko...
The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA) have today announced an alliance between the two organisations.
The first expression of the alliance will be participation on the 2011 APSA International Jury by Israeli director Samuel Maoz, member of the European Film Academy and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.
Thomas Hailer (Berlinale), Maxine Williamson (APSA), Marion Doering and Jürgen Biesinger (EFA) at the APSA Launch in Cannes, 2011....
The Northern Wave International Film Festival will be celebrated from the 2th to the 4th of March 2012
in Grundarfjörður, Iceland. The philosophy of the festival, upon which
its name is based, is Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave. Like Nouvelle Vague,
Northern Wave attempts to revive the recognition of film making as an
art form and the director as artist/author. An important goal of the
festival is to develop relationships between experienced filmmakers and
emerging filmmakers in Iceland and other countries. We are a visionary
festival that celebrates artistic and ground braking films by filmmakers
who dare to take risks.
To commemorate one of the world's oldest and most respected festivals during this 68th Venice International Film Festival, I present you with an in-depth interview with one of the prestigious Golden Lion winners for Best Director, Milcho Manchevski, who won the award in 1994 for his epic masterpiece BEFORE THE RAIN (1994). This interview has a story. We began it in the gardens of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Aruba during the 2nd annual AIFF in June, continued in Sarajevo during the 17th annual S...
The Derby City Film Festival is now accepting submissions for it’s fourth annual edition. More than 1000 attendees watched 60+ independent films from five countries over three days during the third DCFF which was held in February of this year.
Films can be submitted by either downloading the submission form from the DCFF website or through withoutabox.com (WAB).
This is the first year the festival is using withoutabox.com for submissions. WAB streamlines the submission process fo...
Diane Pernet revealed today the astonishing array of actors, designers, filmmakers, fashion photographers and celebrities who will take part in the fourth edition of her groundbreaking festival, ‘A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM' (ASVOFF). Exploring the themes of fashion, style and beauty through the medium of the moving image, ASVOFF 4 will be held at the Centre Pompidou from October 7 - 9, marking the close of Paris Fashion Week.
The main attraction at the three-day fest...
