The 17th San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) which ran March 9 – 13, 2011 announced that it had another outstanding year, surpassing income and attendance goals.
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2011 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival report another record-breaking year + Winners
Best Narrative Feature – A Beginners Guide to Endings – Director Jonathan Sobol
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2011 Fallbrook Film Festival Screens 71 Films; Military Films Make the Cut
Pumzi The 2011 Fallbrook Film Festival will run April 8, 9 and 10 at the UltraStar Cinemas at River Village in Bonsall.
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70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners
If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise The recipients of the prestigious 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and two American Masters documentaries won Peabodys. LennoNYC, a poignant, revelatory documentary about John Lennon’s life and work in his adopted home city, and Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia, an homage to the theatrical and film director by Martin Scorsese. Peabodys also went to William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, an Art21 film that provided an intimate look at the creative process of a multifaceted artist whose work includes sculpture, animation, theater and tapestries, and Macbeth, a Great Performances production that sets Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy in a modern, militaristic society.
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Charleston International Film Festival Announces 2011 Official Selections
The 4th Annual Charleston International Film Festival (CIFF), scheduled to run five days May 18-22, 2011 in South Carolina, announced its 2011 Official Selections.
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Whole Foods Market and Silverdocs Festival launch $50,000 Filmmaker Grant for ‘Green’ Films
Whole Foods Market is really serious about its foray into film. The leading retailer of natural and organic foods and AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Festival, the nation’s leading documentary festival, announce the launch of a $50,000 grant program for filmmakers working in the green film genre.
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RiverRun International Film Festival Adds 3 New Films to 2011 Lineup
Morgana Davies as Simone and Charlotte Gainsbourg as Dawn in THE TREE, a film by Julie Bertuccelli. A Zeitgeist Films release. RiverRun International Film Festival has added three feature films to its Festival lineup. The films, MISS REPRESENTATION, ANOTHER EARTH and THE TREE, will be shown as part of RiverRun’s Special Screenings. With the addition of these features, RiverRun will screen a total of 121 films.
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[UPDATED] Filmmaker, Alan Arkin, to be honored at Florida Film Festival’s 20th Anniversary event
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, Alan Arkin, will be honored at the Florida Film Festival’s 20th anniversary event, “An Evening with Alan Arkin,” on April 15. The Oscar® winning, three-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker will receive the John M. Tiedtke Lifetime Achievement Award and the evening’s event will also include the 45th anniversary screening of The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, the film that earned Arkin his first Oscar® nomination in 1966.
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Lunatics, Lovers and Poets and all the Winners of 2011 Fort Myers Film Festival
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets The Fort Myers Film Festival held March 24-27, 2011 announced its 2011 winners in the Documentary, Features, Shorts, Short Shorts, Strictly Local, Diverse/Latin and Faith & Inspirational categories.
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2011 Method Fest CANCELLED
In a message on their website, the Method Fest Independent Film Festival in Calabasas, California, announced that they are cancelling the 2011 festival.
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“The First Grader” + All Winners of 2011 Palm Beach International Film Festival
Best feature film – The 16th Palm Beach International Film Festival held March 23 – 31, 2011, announced the festival jury winners and audience picks for best feature film, best documentary and best short film. The British film, ‘The First Grader’ took the top prize for best feature film, and ‘The Rescuers’ took the top prize for best documentary film.
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Spirit Award-winner Patty Jenkins to direct Lifetime TV Project with Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, and Demi Moore
Patty Jenkins Film Independent Spirit Award-winner Patty Jenkins (Monster) along with Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, and Demi Moore have been signed to direct the Lifetime Original Movie Project Five, an anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives. The film’s fifth director will be announced in the coming weeks.
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RIP: Executive, Independent Producer, Joe Wizan
Joe Wizan, a former head of 20th Century Fox‘s motion picture division and an independent producer of films such as “Jeremiah Johnson” and “… And Justice for All,” has died. He was 76.