Winners of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival jury prizes in short filmmaking were announced last night in Park City, Utah with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize going to So What If The Goats Die, directed and written by Sofia Alaoui.
Film Festivals
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Sundance 2020 Announces Short Film Award Winners. Sofia Alaoui Wins Grand Jury Prize
Fouad Oughaou appears in So What If The Goats Die by Sofia Alaoui, an official selection of the Shorts Programs at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Enviede Tempte.
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Berlin Film Festival Unveils 2020 Competition Lineup
Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning in The Roads Not Taken by Sally Potter Berlin International Film Festival today revealed the 2020 Competition lineup of 18 films from 18 countries with 16 world premieres as well as one documentary film. Films in competition include First Cow by Kelly Reichardt; The Roads Not Taken by Sally Potter with Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney; Siberia by Abel Ferrara with Willem Dafoe.
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2020 Portland Film Festival Reveals First Wave of Films, THE CLIMB, THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT, FIRST COW
Left to Right: Kyle Marvin as Kyle, Michael Angelo Covino as Mike in The Climb directed by Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin (Photo by Zach Kuperstein. Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics.) The 43rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF 43) announced the first wave of titles and special events for the 10-day showcase happening March 6 to 15. Three-film Opening Night program features The Climb, as well as shorts America and The Giverny Document (Single Channel); and First Cow directed by Kelly Reichardt as Closing Weekend centerpiece film.
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Berlin Film Fest to Honor Director Ulrike Ottinger
Ulrike Ottinger © Jelka von Langen Continuing a tradition since 1986 of honoring personalities and institutions who have made a special contribution to filmmaking, at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, the director and artist Ulrike Ottinger will be honored with the Berlinale Camera.
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Watch Trailer Clip from CRIP CAMP, Sundance Doc on 1970s Camp for Disabled Teens
Crip Camp by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Steve Honigsbaum Netflix released a trailer clip from Crip Camp, the documentary about Camp Jened, a camp for disabled teens in the 1970s that shaped the future of the disability-rights movement. Crip Camp world premiered as the opening-night film in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, and will hit the streaming service in March.
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IFFR Announces Winners of Ammodo Tiger Short Awards 2020
From left to right: Dorian Jespers, Maïder Fortuné, Ismaïl Bahri. Winners of International Film Festival Rotterdam – Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020. International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced the the winners of this year’s 2020 Ammodo Tiger Short Competition winning films – Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri, Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers. The jury gave a special mention to Wong Ping’s Fables 2 by Wong Ping.
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2020 Santa Barbara Film Festival Winners. THE BIRDCATCHER’S SON Wins Audience Award
The Birdcatcher’s Son (Fågelfångarens son) directed by Richard Hobert Richard Hobert’s The Birdcatcher’s Son won the the top prize – Audience Choice Award at the 35th Santa Barbara International Film Festival which wrapped over the weekend. Fatos Berisha’s The Flying Circus won the Jeffrey C. Barbakow award for Best International Feature Film, and the Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema went to William Nicholson’s Hope Gap.
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Watch Trailer for Season Two of THE TRADE, Showtime Docu-Series Premiering at Sundance
The Trade by Matthew Heineman, an official selection of the Special Events program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Ross McDonnell Showtime released the trailer for the upcoming season of the IDA Award-winning series The Trade ahead of its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
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Cleveland International Film Festival to Move to Playhouse Square in 2021
Cleveland International Film Festival to Move to Playhouse Square in 2021 The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) announced that in 2021 the Festival will permanently move to Playhouse Square. The move, which follows a 14-year run at the Cedar Lee Theatre and a 30-year run at Tower City Cinemas, will mark the Festival’s third home in the organization’s history.
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Film at Lincoln Center Announces 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Lineup, Opens with THE TRUTH
La vérité (The Truth), directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announce the complete lineup for the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the celebrated annual festival that exemplifies the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking, March 5–15.
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My Salinger Year Starring Sigourney Weaver will Open 70th Berlin Film Festival
Sigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley in My Salinger Year by Philippe Falardeau The 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, will open with world premiere of My Salinger Year by writer/director Philippe Falardeau on February 20, 2020 at the Berlinale Palast.
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Watch Trailer for MISS AMERICANA, Revealing Taylor Swift Documentary at Sundance
A still from Miss Americana by Lana Wilson, an official selection of the Documentary Premieres program at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Netflix released the official trailer for the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana which World Premieres as the opening film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. Directed by filmmaker Lana Wilson (After Tiller, The Departure) Miss Americana opens in select and on Netflix starting on January 31st, 2020.