Whistler Film Festival announced the full film lineup of 89 fresh films for its 20th anniversary edition with a hybrid of online and in-theatre offerings.
Film Festivals
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Whistler Film Festival Rolls Out 2020 Film Lineup. Opens with World Premieres of SUGAR DADDY and IN HER CITY
SUGAR DADDY, written by and starring Kelly McCormack and directed by Wendy Morgan
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Austin Film Festival 2020 Announces Winners – DAVE NOT COMING BACK, THE BADGER, THE BOOK KEEPERS Win Prizes
Dave Not Coming Back Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced the 2020 Film Competition Jury and Audience Award winners alongside the Script Competition winners. Following each screening, audience members cast their votes for the Audience Award, recognizing the audience’s Festival favorites among the 2020 film slate.
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SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2020 Award Winners – KUSASA and KILLING ELEANOR Win Top Prizes
Kusasa directed by Shane Vermooten The Savannah College of Art and Design announces the award winners for the 23rd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival. A key stop on the festival circuit leading up to the Academy Awards, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival screened 153 films, including 21 narrative films, 17 documentary films, and 112 shorts with 14 world premieres. More than 1,700 films were submitted for the festival.
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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) 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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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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‘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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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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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.
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23rd Revelation Perth Film Festival Reveals First Films + FIRESTARTER: THE STORY OF BANGARRA is Opening Night Film
Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra The 23rd annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival returns December 9 – 13, showcasing a curated program of international and local content.
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Film at Lincoln Center Announces Lineup for 7th Art of the Real Showcase
143 Sahara Street directed by Hassen Ferhani Film at Lincoln Center announced the lineup of 16 features and 11 shorts for the seventh edition of Art of the Real, an essential showcase for the most vital and innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking. Original set to take place in April, Art of the Real will now take place over the course of two weeks from November 13-26, exclusively in the FLC Virtual Cinema.