Winners of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival jury prizes in short filmmaking were announced at a ceremony in Park City, Utah with the Short Film Grand Jury Prize, going to Aziza, directed by Soudade Kaadan and co-written by Kaadan and May Hayek.
Film Festivals
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2019 Short Film Awards – Soudade Kaadan’s AZIZA Wins Grand Jury Prize
Aziza, directed by Soudade Kaadan
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Locarno Film Festival to Honor Breakfast at Tiffany’s Blake Edwards with Retrospective
Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Retrospective of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival will be dedicated to the American filmmaker Blake Edwards, featuring his complete filmography as director – 37 titles from 1955 to 1993, plus a survey of films by other directors, in particular Richard Quine, for which he wrote the screenplay. The program will also include a selection of his acclaimed work for television.
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2019 Miami Film Festival to Showcase 160 + Films, Opens with Documentary THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Meryl Streep appears in This Changes Everything (Meryl Streep from “Florence Foster Jenkins” at Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival) This Changes Everything, a pivotal documentary examining historic and contemporary gender inequity in the American film and television industries, will open the 36th edition of Miami Dade College’s acclaimed Miami Film Festival, on Friday, March 1st at the historic Olympia Theater. Appearing on camera are leading Hollywood women Meryl Streep, Geena Davis, Sandra Oh, Rosario Dawson, Zoe Saldana, Jessica Chastain, Taraji P. Henson, Cate Blanchett, Amandla Stenberg, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, Jill Soloway and many more advocating for meaningful change.
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Zhu Shengze’s PRESENT.PERFECT. Wins Tiger Award at 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam
From left to right: Susanna Nicchiarelli (president Tiger Jury), Zhu Shengze (filmmaker), and Zhengfang Yang (producer) International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 Award Winners Present.Perfect. directed by Zhu Shengze, described as a “daring film” by the jury, won the top prize – Tiger Award at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević won the Special Jury Award for Take Me Somewhere Nice. Audience favorite Capharnaüm by Nadine Labaki won the BankGiro Loterij Audience Award. The VPRO Big Screen Award was awarded to Transnistra by Anna Eborn from Sweden.
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Berlin Film Festival to Honor Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, Agnès Varda and Herrmann Zschoche
Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, Agnès Varda and Herrmann Zschoche Since 1986, the Berlinale Camera has been awarded to individuals and institutions that have a connection with the festival and have made an extraordinary contribution to the world of filmmaking. At the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, US producer and IFP founder Sandra Schulberg, Wieland Speck, who headed the Berlinale’s Panorama section for many years, French filmmaker Agnès Varda, and German director and screenwriter Herrmann Zschoche will be honored with the Berlinale Camera.
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24th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in NYC Announces Lineup, Opens with THE TROUBLE WITH YOU
Pio Marmaï and Adèle Haenel in The Trouble with You Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, the annual French film festival, hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance, that showcases contemporary French filmmaking, announced the complete lineup for the 24th edition. The festival will run February 28 to March 10, 2019 at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City.
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International Film Festival Rotterdam Reveals Winners of 2019 Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
Freedom of Movement by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Sunday announced the three winning short films of this year’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. The winning films are Freedom of Movement by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Wong Ping’s Fables 1 by Wong Ping and Ultramarine by Vincent Meessen. Freedom of Movement has also been selected as IFFR’s Short Film Candidate for the European Short Film Awards 2019.
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Boulder International Film Festival to Honor THE PUBLIC Emilio Estevez with Vanguard Award
Emilio Estevez in The Public Actor and director Emilio Estevez will make a special appearance at the 2019 Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) for a screening of his film, The Public, and be presented the Festival’s prestigious Vanguard Award. In addition, Mr. Estevez will participate in a Q&A with Ron Bostwick following the screening on Saturday, March 2nd at the Boulder Theater.
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The Siren’s Echo Chamber – Berlin Film Festival Unveils 2019 Forum Expanded Program
Vever (for Barbara) by Deborah Stratman The 14th Forum Expanded at the Berlin International Film Festival will show 30 short and long films, 17 installation works, and a performance that is to point out the echo chamber that we are in, and not just in social media.
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Nathan Catucci’s Psychological Thriller IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS to World Premiere at Cinequest Film Festival
Santino Fontana stars in Nathan Catucci’s Impossible Monsters. Impossible Monsters, written and directed by Nathan Catucci, will have its World Premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
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Berlin Film Festival Unveils 2019 Forum and Forum Expanded Lineup – Archival Constellations
The Garden by Derek Jarman The Berlin International Film Festival has stated that the objectives of the Forum program have always included the idea of looking at film history from the point of view of contemporary cinema. The 2019 Forum and Forum Expanded will be themed Archival Constellations, an expression of this interplay between old and new and a reference to the collaborations and acts of community and solidarity which enable digitization to help rewrite film history.
