The Alliance of Women Film Journalists announced its 2020 AWFJ EDA winners, with Nomadland winning six awards including Best Film, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Director for Chloé Zhao.
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‘Nomadland’ is Top Winner of Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2020 Awards
Frances McDormand and David Strathairn in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved
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Watch New Trailer For ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Directed by Regina King
One Night in Miami by Regina King Amazon Studios released a new official trailer for One Night In Miami… directed by Regina King, set for release in select US theaters on January 8th, 2021 and on Prime Video January 15th, 2021.
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2021 Goes Hybrid, On-Line in February, In-Person for Halloween
“Time of Moulting (Fellwechselzeit)” The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Berlin’s premier showcase of horror films directed and produced by women and non-binary filmmakers, returns in the new year for the 6th time and first virtual edition. The fest will run from February 4 – 7, 2021, with a dynamic digital line-up consisting of five features, five short blocks, and non-film events that include talks, a screenwriting workshop, special podcast episode, and more.
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Minari and Nomadland Win Top 2020 North Carolina Film Critics Awards
Minari and Nomadland Win Top 2020 North Carolina Film Critics Awards The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) announced the winners of its ninth annual awards for achievements in film. Minari won 4 awards including Best Narrative Film and Nomadland also won 4 awards including Best Director for Chloé Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. For the third year in a row, the NCFCA voted as Best Narrative Film a film not primarily in English. Parasite won the award in 2019, and Roma won in 2018.
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Compelling Documentary “Narratives of Modern Genocide” Gets A January Release Date
Narratives of Modern Genocide Passion River Films will release the powerful new documentary Narratives of Modern Genocide on Tuesday January 12, 2021. Directed by Paul Allen Hunton, the compelling documentary challenges the audience to experience first-person accounts of survivors of genocide.
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ROCK CAMP, THE MOVIE Documentary Featuring Roger Daltrey, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Nancy Wilson Opens in January
Roger Daltrey, Slash and David Fishof in Rock Camp, The Movie documentary Described as “Summer camp meets Spinal Tap,” the new documentary Rock Camp, The Movie from filmmaker Douglas Blush whose editing and producing credits include three Oscar-winning films – 20 Feet from Stardom, Period. End of Sentence. and Icarus opens in theaters/virtual cinemas starting January 15, 2021.
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“Nomadland,” “Boys State,” “His House” Win 2020 Chicago Indie Critics Awards
His House directed by Remi Weekes Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe and adapted from August Wilson’s stage play, dominated the 2020 Chicago Indie Critics Awards, winning seven of its nine nominations.
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NOMADLAND, MINARI, TIME Win Top Greater Western New York Film Critics 2020 Awards
NOMADLAND, MINARI, TIME Win Top Greater Western New York Film Critics 2020 Awards The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) announced the winners of the third annual end-of-year Film Awards lead by Nomadland with 6 wins including Best Picture, Best Director along with Adapted Screenplay for Chloé Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand.
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2021 Animation First Festival Goes Online with 60 + French Animation Film Premieres and Special Guest Wes Anderson
“Josep” by Le Monde cartoonist Aurel The fourth edition of Animation First, the only film festival in the US dedicated to France’s animation studios and schools presented by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) will take place entirely online from Friday, February 5 to Monday, February 15, 2021.
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists Reveals 2020 EDA Award Nominees – NOMADLAND, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman The Alliance of Women Film Journalists announced the nominees for the 2020 EDA Awards, with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland this year’s most nominated film with nine EDA nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Woman Director, Best Actress, Grand Dame Award, and Most Daring Performance Award for Frances McDormand.
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YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY, Sudan’s Very First Oscar Entry for Best International Film, Opens in Virtual Cinema in January
You Will Die At Twenty You Will Die At Twenty, the feature debut of director Amjad Abu Alala and Sudan’s very first Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, will open in virtual cinema on January 22, 2021. Starring Mustafa Shehata, Moatasem Rashid, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Alsarraj,Bonna Khalid and Talal Afifi, the film is only the eighth narrative feature filmed in Sudan.
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RIP: Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin, Featured in Documentary “House of Cardin” Dies at 98
Pierre Cardin at Maxim’s de Paris, which he purchased in 1981. (Photo : still from HOUSE OF CARDIN/The Ebersole Hughes Company) (House Of Cardin, directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes) Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, profiled in the 2019 documentary House of Cardin, died on Tuesday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. He was 98.