The short film I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face directed by Sameh Alaa was named the unanimous winner of the Palme d’or at the three-day “Cannes 2020 Special.”
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Sameh Alaa’s I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE Wins Palme d’or for Short Films at “Cannes 2020 Special”
CANNES, FRANCE – OCTOBER 29: Short film Palme d’Or winner Sameh Alaa attends the Best Short Film Palme D’Or Award Ceremony of the “Special Cannes 2020 : Le Festival Revient Sur La Croisette !” as part of the Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on October 29, 2020 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
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SHIVA BABY and CANE FIRE Win Top Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020 Prizes
Shiva Baby directed by Emma Seligman Indie Memphis Film Festival 2020 screened over 230 feature films, shorts, and music videos, and announced this year’s award-winners. Top Jury prizes went to Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby for Best Narrative Feature, and Anthony Banua-Simon’s Cane Fire for Best Documentary Feature.
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Deepa Mehta’s FUNNY BOY to Represent Canada in Best International Feature Film Competition at 2021 Oscars
Funny Boy directed by Deepa Mehta Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy will represent Canada in the race for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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Showtime Releases Trailer for MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY, Documentary on Timothy Leary, High Priest of LSD
My Psychedelic Love Story Showtime released the trailer for My Psychedelic Love Story, the newest documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (Wormwood, The Fog of War). The film, which was the Closing Night selection at AFI Fest earlier this month and will screen at DOC NYC next month, is a psychedelic head trip crossed with a possible CIA conspiracy and wrapped in a fascinating love story told by the late Joanna Harcourt-Smith about her time with Timothy Leary.
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Brazilian Dystopian Futuristic Film DIVINE LOVE, Opens in US in November
Divine Love directed by Gabriel Mascaro Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s (Neon Bull) Divine Love (Divino Amor) that world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, begins its North American theatrical premiere on Friday, November 13.
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‘Nomadland,’ ‘Sound of Metal,’ ‘Take Out Girl’ Lead Finalists for Twin Cities Film Fest 2020 Awards
Take Out Girl The Twin Cities Film Fest selected more than 25 finalists for its top awards, and among the 2020 contenders for the top Best Feature Film Award are Darius Marder’s electrifying drummer drama Sound of Metal, Hisonni Johnson’s gritty urban thriller Take Out Girl and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland.
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14th Asian Film Awards Winners – PARASITE Wins Best Film
PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG) Parasite won the Best Film award at the 14th Asian Film Awards (“AFA14”) along with Best Screenplay for co-writers Han Jin Won and the film’s director Bong Joon Ho. The film also won for Best Production Design and Best Editing totaling four awards. “I am grateful to all the people involved with the Asian Film Awards for making it possible that Parasite could become part of AFA’s legacy. I strongly believe that we will meet in person next year at the Asian Film Awards, shake hands, and enjoy talking with one another without masks…I believe that nothing can stop us from continuing to make films,” said Bong
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THE UNFAMILIAR Wins Top Prize at 2020 Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Film Festival
“The Unfamiliar” directed by Henk Pretorius After screening 70 films representing 15 countries, Flickers’ Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Film Festival announced the winners with the Grand Prize for Best Horror Feature going to “The Unfamiliar” directed by Henk Pretorius.
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MATERNA and BASTARDS’ ROAD Among Winners of 2020 Naples Intl Film Festival
MATERNA directed by David Gutnik The 2020 Naples International Film Festival announced the filmmaker award winners with the top Jury Prizes going to David Gutnik’s Materna for Best Narrative Feature, and Brian Morrison’s Bastards’ Road for Best Documentary Feature. Audience Awards went to Lanie Zipoy’s The Subject (Best Narrative Film) and Lynn Montgomery’s Amazing Grace (Best Documentary Film).
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‘Nomadland’ ‘Under the Open Sky’ ‘The Road Up’ Win Audience Choice Awards at 56th Chicago Film Festival
Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved Festival-goers of the 56th Chicago International Film Festival voted Nomadland the third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, the winner of the Audience Choice Award for Feature Film. The film stars Frances McDormand as Fern who, after the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Nomadland features real nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
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Documentary MACHO: THE HECTOR CAMACHO STORY Premieres on Showtime in December
MACHO: THE HECTOR CAMACHO STORY. Photo credit: Courtesy of SHOWTIME. Showtime will air Macho: The Hector Camacho Story, an unflinching look at the remarkable life, storied career and unsolved murder of one of boxing’s greatest showmen. Premiering Friday, December 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime, the documentary directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Eric Drath (Assault in the Ring and No Más, 30 for 30) debuts just two weeks after the eighth anniversary of Camacho’s fatal shooting in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
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World Premiere of NOTHING BUT THE SUN will Open International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Nothing but the Sun directed by Arami Ullón International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2020 will open with the world premiere of Nothing but the Sun by Paraguayan-Swiss director Arami Ullón. A quietly earth-shattering film, Nothing but the Sun lucidly contrasts the hot, arid atmosphere of Paraguay’s Chaco region with the devastating stories of the Ayoreo people, an Indigenous community violently uprooted from their ancestral territory by white missionaries. Between past and present, forest and desert, folk songs and church hymns, Ullón’s poetic feature lays bare the raw emotions of the human condition, seen through a culture on the brink of disappearing, but not without a voice.