The 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) announced the award-winning films with Out of Plain Sight directed by Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia winning the Audience Choice Award.
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‘Out of Plain Sight’, ‘O Horizon, ‘Yen and Ai-Lee’, ‘Roads of Fire’ Win at 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Out of Plain Sight directed by Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia
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‘Wake Up’ Trailer – Activists are Pursued and Terrorized in RKSS’ Slasher Horror Thriller
Alessia Yoko Fontana, Kyle Scudeer, Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré, Tom Gould, Charlotte Stoiber in Wake Up – (courtesy Blue Fox Entertainment) Blue Fox Entertainment shared the official trailer for Wake Up, the horror thriller film following a group of young activists who set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore but end up fighting for their lives in a night of terror after getting trapped inside with a deranged security guard.
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‘Carnival is Over’ First Look Trailer – Leandra Leal and Irandhir Santos Survive the Mafia in Fernando Coimbra’s Crime Film
Carnival Is Over First announced at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival under the title ‘The Hanged,’ the crime/thriller film by Fernando Coimbra is finally making its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. under the new title, ‘Carnival Is Over.’ The film stars Leandra Leal and Irandhir Santos as a couple trying to break free of their family’s link to the mafia.
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Ali Weinstein’s TIFF Bound Documentary ‘Your Tomorrow’ Acquired by Blue Ice Docs for Release in Canada
Winter Swimmers at Ontario Place (Photo: screengrab / cinematographer Andrew Moir) The documentary film Your Tomorrow, written, produced and directed by Ali Weinstein, which will have its world premiere at the upcoming 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), has been acquired by Blue Ice Docs for release in Canada.
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27th Dances With Films: LA Winners Led by ‘Between the Lights’ and ‘A Little Hope For Chicago’
Between the Lights directed by Michael Groom 27th Dances With Films: LA announced its Filmmaker Award winners with the Grand Jury Prize winners led by Michael Groom’s Between the Lights for Best Narrative Feature and Leon Lozano’s A Little Hope For Chicago for Best Documentary Feature.
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‘National Anthem’ and ‘Fragments of a Life Loved’ Win Top Jury Awards at Frameline 48th San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival
(credit: Pat Mazzera) The 48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Frameline48) wrapped on Saturday, June 29 with director Brian J. Smith’s A House Is Not a Disco, the documentary feature about Fire Island Pines, the East Coast’s gay fantasyland preceded by the Festival’s annual Award Ceremony.
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Films with Seth Rogen, Michael K. Williams, Nolan Gould Among 7th Indy Shorts Film Festival Lineup
Seth Rogen in Taking Care The Academy Award®-Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Indy Shorts) returns to Indianapolis for its seventh edition, running July 23-28, 2024. The lineup includes titles featuring Seth Rogen, Michael K. Williams, Nolan Gould, Richard Kind and more.
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Cuban Drama ‘Los Frikis’ and Ukraine Docu ‘Porcelain War’ Win Top Awards at 29th Nantucket Film Festival
Porcelain War directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s Cuba-set early ‘90s coming of age tale Los Frikis won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 29th annual Nantucket Film Festival® (NFF). Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev’s Porcelain War, focused on Ukrainians using their art to resist during war, was the recipient of the Documentary Feature Audience Award. Puppy Love, directed by Daniel Rashid and written by Rashid and Elizabeth Valenti, about a woman who has to decide if her connection with a new man is a deep one or if she just likes his dog, received the Narrative Short Film Audience Award. Tom Dey’s Jumpman, profiling the photographer behind the iconic Michael Jordan mid-air shot, took home the Documentary Short Film Audience Award.
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Christos Nikou’s ‘Fingernails’ to Close 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Fingernails The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will close with Fingernails, Christos Nikou’s English-language debut starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White.
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30th Palm Springs ShortFest Awards – ‘Bogotá Story’ Wins Best of the Festival
Bogotá Story The 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest presented Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 to the Festival juried and audience award winners including five Academy Award® qualifying awards selected from the 310 short films that were part of the Official Selection.
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23rd New York Asian Film Festival Unveils Uncaged Competition Lineup, ‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’ as Closing Night Film
Twilights of the Warriors: Walled in The 23rd New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) unveiled the eight titles nominated for this year’s Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition, which shines a spotlight on filmmakers whose singular visions deserve to be internationally heralded
