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2010 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Attendance

Tribeca Film Festival

The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by Founding Sponsor American Express, today announced a total attendance of over 410,000 at screenings, panels and free community events, including the Drive-In and Street Fair.Theater attendance for the Festival screenings and events reached over 94,000. Screenings were often at capacity, with more than 95% attendance at 396 screenings and panels throughout the 12-day Festival.

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“Long Pigs” Takes Best Feature Jury Prize For 2010 Texas Frightmare Film Festival

Texas Frightmare Weekend

Texas Frightmare Weekend announced the award winners for its companion Texas Frightmare Film Festival at the conclusion of the record breaking convention on Sunday, May 2.

Taking the jury prize for Best Feature was Nathan Hynes’s and Chris Powers’ LONG PIGS. The film shows the results after two desperate young filmmakers stumble upon their ultimate subject, a 33 year old cannibalistic serial killer, who has agreed to let them document every aspect of his horrifically violent life-style.

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53rd San Francisco International Film Festival Winners Announced At Golden Gate Awards Ceremony

San Francisco International Film Festival

A scene from Lixin Fan’s documentary LAST TRAIN HOME

Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Investigative Documentary Feature:
Last Train Home, Lixin Fan (Canada/China 2009)

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San Francisco Film Society Announces Announces Winners of SFFS/FAF Documentary Grants

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Academy Announces Finalists for 2010 Student Academy Awards

Awards

Thirty-seven students from 21 colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 37th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view these films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of four categories. The winning filmmakers will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 12, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

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4th Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) Announces 2010 Line-Up of Films

Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) announced the 2010 line-up of films for its 4th annual Festival, which runs June 10 – 13 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. LAGFF is excited to present 7 feature films, 4 documentaries and 5 shorts, including 1 world premiere, 12 US premieres and 3 LA premieres during the 3-day Festival.

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Tribeca Film Institute announces Recipients of 2010 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund

News

The Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci announced the recipients selected for the 2010 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund which provides finishing finances to domestic and international documentary filmmakers with feature-length films that document pressing social issues of immediate and historical significance. In the third year of the fund, seven projects have been selected from 390 submissions from 23 countries to receive a total of $100,000, to be administered by the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI).

The projects were selected by a committee consisting of Diana Barrett, Liz Garbus, Simon Kilmurry, Trevor Neilson, and Mariane Pearl who chose the recipients from finalists previously selected by TFI. The projects that will receive funding are:

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Laurence Fishburne Narrates “Everyday Sunshine”, A Documentary About The Band Fishbone

Documentary

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New Prison Drama Film From Denmark – “R”

Foreign Language Films

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“Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives” takes takes top prizes at 2010 Q Awards

Q Cinema Fort Worth International LGBT Film Festival

Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives, directed by Israel Luna

The producers of Q Cinema, Fort Worth’s Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival announced the winners of their annual Q Awards, including the $500 Shawn A. Moore Award for Texas filmmakers and the $500 Dallas Voice Audience Choice Award.

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Brooklyn Film Festival 2010 Winners

Brooklyn Film Festival

THE MINUTEMEN MOVIE by Corey Wascinski

GRAND CHAMELEON AWARD
THE MINUTEMEN MOVIE by Corey Wascinski

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imagineNATIVE Announces New Executive Director and Board Appointments

ImagineNative (imagineNATIVE) Film + Media Arts Festival

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival announced the appointment of Jason Ryle as Executive Director. In this role he will be responsible for leading the operations and strategic efforts of the organization and the vision of the festival.

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