festival awards

2016 SXSW Film Festival Jury Award Winners

2016 SXSW Film Festival Jury Award Winners

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION Grand Jury Winner: The Arbalest Director: Adam Pinney Special Jury Recognition for Best Actor: Andre Royo Film: Hunter Gatherer Special Jury Recognition for Best Actress: Lily Rabe Film: Miss Stevens DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION Grand Jury Winner: TOWER Director: Keith Maitland Special Jury Recognition for Portrait Documentary: Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & […]

2016 Cinequest Film Festival Award Winners

Cinequest Film Festival wrapped on Sunday, March 13th with 720 world leading artists and innovators presenting 129 World and U.S. premieres and cutting-edge media technologies to record audiences topping 105,000 (in San Jose / Silicon Valley). MAVERICK SPIRIT AWARD RECIPIENTS James Franco Robert Hawk Rita Moreno MEDIA LEGACY AWARD RECIPIENT Owen Gleiberman Please Visit Cinequest […]

CaribbeanTales Announces 2015 Winners

CaribbeanTales Announces 2015 Winners

The 10th Annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival announced its award recipients on Saturday September 19, at the closing ceremonies. This year 16 feature-length and 35 short films in Official Competition, including dramas and documentaries from 25 countries covering all genres and themes, screened over ten days at the Royal Cinema in Toronto. The 2015 Incubator […]

2015 Nantucket Film Festival Awards!

2015 Nantucket Film Festival Awards!

NANTUCKET, MA – The 20th Anniversary Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) today announced the winners of the prestigious Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, which recognizes the best unproduced screenplays and television pilots by emerging writers. Kristen Dávila’s COUNTERINTELLIGENCE received the top prize as the winner of the Feature Screenplay Competition. The Television Pilot nods went to Estella […]

Slamdance To Wrap With ‘Yosemite’ Premiere & James Franco Event

Originally Posted Jan 15, 2015 Festival explores DIY world of filmmaking according to James Franco in “Coffee With” event, followed by his latest film collaboration Yosemite (LOS ANGELES, CA) The Slamdance Film Festival today announced the latest edition of its “Coffee With” events featuring independent film champion James Franco,followed by a Special Screening of his […]

2014 Floating Film Festival Wraps Its 13th Edition

2014 Floating Film Festival Wraps Its 13th Edition

The Imitation Game wins Dusty Cohl Feature Film award A Fuller Life wins Bill Ballard Documentary award Critically acclaimed as the most exclusive film festival in the world, the 13th edition of the Floating Film Festival (FFF) docked on January 14th. Created in 1991 by Dusty Cohl, founder of The Toronto International Film Festival, this […]

Call for Entries: Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film

Call for Entries: Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2013 A huge number of film submissions already have reached us by post – and more and more films have been submitted via our online platform. Many thanks to all those who have already sent their animated films for the 21st Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) that will take place […]

Call for Entries: Hot Docs 2014

Call for Entries: Hot Docs 2014

Hot Docs 2014 Festival submissions are now being accepted. Hot Docs accepts Canadian and international documentaries of all lengths and subject matter. Regular deadline for submission is December 13, 2013 & Late deadline is January 3, 2014. For submission guidelines, FAQs & to submit a film, please click here

Planet in Focus Enviromental Film Festival 2013 Wrap Up

Planet in Focus Enviromental Film Festival 2013 Wrap Up

It’s a wrap! The 14th annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival concluded today with a formal awards presentation at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto where Colonel Chris Hadfield accepted this year’s International Eco-Hero Award via live videoconference. Seven awards were presented to Canadian and International filmmakers before the Closing Night screening of Enrico […]