Caroline Monnet won the Dramatic Feature Award for Bootlegger and Landon Dyksterhouse won the Documentary Feature Award for Warrior Spirit at the 2021 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
Film Festivals
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‘Bootlegger’ and ‘Warrior Spirit’ Win Top Awards at 2021 imagineNATIVE Film Festival
Joséphine Bacon, Devery Jacobs, and C,S, Gilbert Crazy Horse in Bootlegger directed by Caroline Monnet
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exground filmfest Unveils 2021 Program Lineup of Over 150 Films
Leave No Traces directed by Jan L. Matuszynski From November 12 to 21, the 34th edition of exground filmfest will present over 150 films from 47 countries in its traditional Wiesbaden venues. As in the previous year, the festival will also feature an on-demand program and the exground filmfest YouTube channel will also once again serve as a platform for various live and archived event streams, including the festival opening and awards ceremony, as well as industry events and film talks.
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Rosanna Arquette, Winston Duke, Regina Hall, Harvey Keitel Among Newport Beach Film Festival 2021 Honorees
Rosanna Arquette, Winston Duke, Regina Hall, Harvey Keitel In addition to showcasing over 300 films, the 2021 Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) will honor Rosanna Arquette, Winston Duke, Regina Hall, Harvey Keitel, Thomasin McKenzie, Simon Rex and Jeffrey Wright. The 22nd edition of the Festival will be held in person from October 21-28, 2021.
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Key West Film Festival 2021 Unveils Lineup of 75+ Films
Clifton Collins Jr. appears in Jockey by Clint Bently, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Adolpho Veloso. The 10th Key West Film Festival announced its official 2021 lineup including films from Jane Campion, Sean Baker, Mike Mills, Pedro Almodovar and Paolo Sorrentino. More than 75 films will be shown during the 5-day festival, which runs November 17-21 and celebrates its 10th Anniversary.
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Simon Rex and Kodi Smit-McPhee Among Honorees at 24th SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Simon Rex and Kodi Smit-McPhee among honorees at 24th SCAD Savannah Film Festival Simon Rex (Red Rocket) will receive the Spotlight Award and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog) will receive the Discovery Award during their respective film screenings at the upcoming 24th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival taking place in person and virtually October 23–30, 2021.
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Illumination’s SING 2 World Premieres at AFI FEST 2021
SING 2 – courtesy Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures SING 2, the new animated feature film written and directed by Garth Jennings will World Premiere at AFI FEST 2021 as a Red Carpet Premiere. The film will screen in-person at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Sunday, November 14 and open in theaters on December 22, 2021.
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‘Two is a Magic Number,’ ‘Leda’ and ‘Loving Mona’ Win Awards at 5th Festival of Cinema NYC
Two is a Magic Number directed by Holger Borggrefe and Stefan Hering After showcasing over 115 independent films, the 2021 Festival of Cinema NYC announced this year’s filmmaker award winners with Holger Borggrefe and Stefan Hering’s Two is a Magic Number winning Best Feature Film- Narrative, Loving Mona directed by Terry Katz winning Best Documentary and Samuel Tressler IV’s Leda won Audience Choice for Best Feature Film.
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IDFA 2021 Reveals Documentary Films in Luminous and Frontlight Premiere Sections
Intensive Life Unit directed by Adéla Komrzý The 2021 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) unveiled the selected films in premiere-only sections Luminous and Frontlight, along with its first competition selections in the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary. IDFA also announced the selected titles in interdisciplinary program IDFA on Stage, chief among them the world premiere of the newly restored Dziga Vertov film The History of the Civil War. The 34th edition of IDFA takes place from November 17 to 28 in Amsterdam.
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‘Sweetheart,’ ‘Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music,’ and ‘Firebird’ Win Top Awards at Out on Film LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music Out on Film announced the filmmaker awards for the recently concluded 34th edition of the Oscar ® qualifying, Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival. Marley Morrison’s Sweetheart was a jury favorite, winning Best Narrative Feature and Best Ensemble. T.J. Parsell’s Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music won both the Jury’s favor for Best Documentary, as well as the Audience Award for Best Documentary, and filmmaker Lauren Hadaway announced herself with Jury nods for both Best First Feature for her film The Novice, as well as capturing the Best Director prize.
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BELFAST, ‘LAST FILM SHOW’, ‘C’MON C’MON’ Win Audience Favorite Awards at 44th Mill Valley Film Festival
Belfast directed by Kenneth Branagh The 44th Mill Valley Film Festival came to a close after 11 days of films, panels, parties, and musical performances at the annual autumn showcase. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast was voted MVFF Overall Audience Favorite with other top audience awards going to Last Film Show by Pan Nalin won Audience Favorite / World Cinema, C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills won Audience Favorite / US Cinema and The Rescue by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin won Audience Favorite / Documentary.
