HollyShorts Film Festival announced their top prizes for their landmark 15th year with “Balloon,” starring PEN15’s Jonah Beres and The League’s Paul Scheer, taking home the Best Short Film Grand Prix.
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2019 HollyShorts Film Festival Announces Awards Winners
Jonah Beres in Balloon
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2019 Reeling LGBTQ Film Festival Announces Line Up, Opens with THE SHINY SHRIMPS
‘The Shiny Shrimps’ (‘Les Crevettes pailletees’) Reeling, the second-oldest LGBTQ film festival in the world and a beloved Chicago cultural institution for more than 35 years, kicks off the 37th edition in the Fall with an exciting slate of 35 features and 13 shorts programs, nearly all of them Chicago premieres.
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Locarno Film Festival 2019 Winners – VITALINA VARELA Wins Pardo d’oro
VITALINA VARELA The 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival closed with the award ceremony, and VITALINA VARELA by Pedro Costa was awarded the top prize, the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard), Grand Prize of the City of Locarno. The film follows Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, who arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. For her performance Vitalina Varela was awarded the Leopard for Best Actress.
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6 Latin American Films Selected for San Sebastian’s Films in Progress 36
Nudo Mixteco by Ángeles Cruz Six debut films, have been selected for Films in Progress 36, a professional initiative called twice yearly by the San Sebastian Festival and Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse with the purpose of supporting Latin American cinema.
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57th New York Film Festival Announces Convergence Lineup of VR, AR, 360 Degree Films
Holy Night created by: Casey Stein and Bernard Zeiger This year’s Convergence section of the 57th New York Film Festival features three VR programs as well as special events to showcase today’s wide-ranging landscape of immersive storytelling, featuring virtual reality and 360-degree filmmaking from around the globe.
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Ja’Tovia M. Gary’s THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT(Single Channel)Wins Moving Ahead Award for the Best Film at Locarno Film Festival
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) by Ja’Tovia M. Gary The Giverny Document (Single Channel) by Ja’Tovia M. Gary is the winner of 2019 Locarno Film Festival’s Moving Ahead Award for the Best Film. Filmed on location in Harlem and in Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, this multi-textured cinematic poem meditates on the bodily integrity and creative virtuosity of black women.
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2019 Rhode Island International Film Festival Announces Winners
“A SON OF MAN” directed by: Jaimaica Noproblem After screening screening 321 films, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) announced the Award Winners for its 37th Anniversary edition.
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2019 Nashville Film Festival Announces U.S. Independents Films Lineup
BABYSPLITTERS, directed by Sam Friedlander The darkly humorous International Falls, the world premiere of the civil rights era coming-of-age story Tuscaloosa, and Speed of Life, a leap 20 years into the future through a wormhole created by David Bowie’s death are among the films showcased in the U.S. Independents Program of the 50th Nashville Film Festival, taking place October 3 to 12, 2019.
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Actress Isabelle Huppert to be Honored at Sarajevo Film Festival
Isabelle Huppert French actress Isabelle Huppert will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the art of film.
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Director Costa-Gavras to Receive Glory to the Filmmaker 2019 Award at Venice Film Festival
ADULTS IN THE ROOM – Director Costa Gavras Greek-born French director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing, Music Box) is the recipient of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2019 award of the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019), dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to innovation in contemporary cinema.
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Cinematographer Roger Deakins to Receive Variety Artisan Award at Toronto Film Festival
Cinematographer Roger Deakins poses for a portrait at the 88th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif. 88th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon – Portraits, Beverly Hills, USA Credit: Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Academy Award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins will be honored with the Variety Artisan Award at this year’s TIFF Tribute Gala awards event during the 44th Toronto International Film Festival. The award recognizes a distinguished filmmaker who has excelled at their craft and made an outstanding contribution to cinema.
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BLACKBIRD Starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet will Open San Sebastian Festival
BLACKBIRD Starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet The European premiere of Blackbird, starring Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska and Sam Neill, will open the Official Competition at the 67th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Directed by Roger Michell, Blackbird is a remake of Stille Hjerte / Silent Heart (2014), the drama with which the Danish filmmaker Bille August competed at the Festival and for which Paprika Steen won the Silver Shell for Best Actress.