CHASING THE MOON, directed by Robert Stone snagged the Audience Award for Best Feature at the AFI DOCS 2019. The Audience Award for Best Short went to ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN, directed by Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan.
Film Festivals
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AFI DOCS 2019 Award Winners – CHASING THE MOON and ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN Win Audience Awards
St. Louis Superman
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IN REALITY and SUMMER NIGHT Win Top Awards at Inaugural Rom Com Fest
IN REALITY directed by Ann Lupo Following a special 20th anniversary screening of the classic rom com 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOUT, the inaugural Rom Com Fest announced the winners, with top jury honors going to Ann Lupo for IN REALITY (Jury Prize for Best Feature Film) and Erin Brown Thomas for REKINDLED (Jury Prize for Best Short Film).
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Rome Film Fest 2019 – Bill Murray to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Bill Murray at the screening of Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on March 20, 2018. Artistic Director Antonio Monda today made several announcements on the fourteenth Rome Film Fest, which will take place from October 17th to 27th 2019.
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ZAMA Director Lucrecia Martel to Chair Venice Intl Film Festival 2019 Jury
Lucrecia Martel Director Lucrecia Martel (Zama, La mujer sin cabeza) will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
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Swiss Filmmaker Fredi M. Murer to Receive Locarno Film Festival’s 2019 Pardo alla carriera Award
Fredi M. Murer The Swiss director, screenwriter, Fredi M. Murer will be honored with the Pardo alla carriera at the 72 Locarno Film Festival. The tribute to the Swiss master will be accompanied by screenings of some of the landmark titles from his more than forty years of friendship with the Festival: Grauzone (1979), Wir Bergler in den Bergen sind eigentlich nicht schuld, dass wir da sind (1974), Höhenfeuer (1985) and Der grüne Berg(1990).
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Palm Springs International ShortFest 2019 Winners – THE CHRISTMAS GIFT Wins Best of Fest
The Christmas Gift directed by Bogdan Muresanu The 2019 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its Festival juried award winners with the Romanian film The Christmas Gift, directed by Bogdan Muresanu, winning the Best of Festival Award. The prize for Best International Short went to Guaxuma directed by Nara Normande; and Manila is Full of Men Named Boy directed by Andrew Stephen Lee won for Best U.S. Short.
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Locarno Film Festival Spotlights Black Films in 20th Century with ‘Black Light Retrospective’
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) Locarno Film Festival announced the featured films selected for the Black Light Retrospective – an unprecedented overview of Black film in the 20th century. The festival will pay its own homage to the Retrospective with a Prefestival screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) presenting the restored copy on the occasion of the film’s 30th anniversary.
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Emmy-winning Director Carlos Puga’s FULL DRESS will World Premiere at Dances With Films Film Festival
FULL DRESS directed by Carlos Puga Emmy-winning director Carlos Puga “Full-Dress,” an experimental feature film that keeps its audience guessing at every turn, will World Premiere as an Official Selection at 2019 Dances With Films film festival.
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Jahmil X. T. Qubeka’s KNUCKLE CITY will Open Durban International Film Festival 2019
Knuckle City directed by Jahmil X. T. Qubeka Jahmil X. T. Qubeka’s Knuckle City much anticipated fourth feature film will be the opening film for the 40th edition of the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF). Dissecting notions of inherited toxic masculinity and the underbelly of the fighting world, Knuckle City is a riveting exploration of the psychology of a fighter from the Mdantsane township known as the boxing mecca of South Africa.
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Joe Zanetti’s Conspiracy Thriller KILLBIRD to Premiere at Dances With Films
Killbird The high-intensity conspiracy thriller Killbird, the debut film from director Joe Zanetti, has being officially selected for competition at the Dances With Films Festival, and will screen on June 23rd, at 12:30pm at the iconic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
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Rooftop Films Teams Up With Port Authority for FREE Screenings at Liberty Park in NYC
Still from Sara Newens’ Footprint The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is partnering with Rooftop Films to present four free screenings at their Liberty Park plaza as part of its continuing efforts to transform the World Trade Center site into a dynamic space in Lower Manhattan.
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Provincetown International Film Festival 2019 Winners – OFFICIAL SECRETS and LINDA RONSTADT Documentary Win Top Awards
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice. Linda Ronstadt at her home in Malibu, January 1968. Moment captured by Henry Diltz. The 2019 Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced the award winners with Official Secrets, directed by Gavin Hood voted winner of the HBO Audience Award / Best Narrative Feature, and Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman winning the HBO Audience Award / Best Documentary Feature.