film awards

Lee Tamahori Selects Shorts for 2016 NZIFF Shorts Competition

Lee Tamahori Selects Shorts for 2016 NZIFF Shorts Competition

The New Zealand International Film Festival is a national event extending the cinematic options of audiences and filmmakers throughout New Zealand. A programme of between 150-170 features is presented in Auckland and Wellington. NZIFF opens in Auckland one weekend and gets underway in Wellington the next, overlapping for ten of their respective 17-day seasons. A […]

Berlin Short Film Festival

Berlin Short Film Festival

The Berlin Short Film Festival has been running to great critical and audience acclaim for three years. The international short films exhibited annually at BSFF never fails to attract a great number of film professionals and the general public. All BSFF films have been chosen for their outstanding quality and are vying for awards in […]

Film Independent Selects 10 Projects & 20 Filmmakers for Awards & Grants

Film Independent Selects 10 Projects & 20 Filmmakers for Awards & Grants

LOS ANGELES – Film Independent announced the 10 projects selected for the 14th annual Fast Track film finance market. Held during the LA Film Festival, Fast Track is designed to help producer-director teams propel their projects forward through meetings with top industry executives–financiers, agents, managers, distributors, granting organizations, and production companies. During three days of […]

TFCA Announces 2015 Awards

TFCA Announces 2015 Awards

The Forbidden Room, My Internship in Canada and Sleeping Giant compete for Rogers $100,000 Best Canadian Film Award TORONTO — Carol, the swooning tale of a life-changing love affair, won two top prizes at the 2015 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association. Todd Haynes’ 1950s melodrama was named Best Picture, and Haynes named Best […]

Film Independent Announces 2015 Documentary Netflix Partnership

Film Independent Announces 2015 Documentary Netflix Partnership

LOS ANGELES — Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced the names of the 10 filmmakers and six projects selected for the 2015 Documentary Lab, a five week intensive program designed to help filmmakers who are currently in post-production on their feature-length […]

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominees Seminar & Reception

Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominees Seminar & Reception

Saturday, January 10 – 1:00 pm PST – Egyptian Theatre STREAMING LIVE ONLINE! Presented by the American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Discover the best foreign-language films of 2014 with the Golden Globes’ five foreign-language nominees. Please join us for a round-table seminar with directors of the nominated films! The event is free […]

Film Society of Lincoln Center Leaders Honoured

Film Society of Lincoln Center Leaders Honoured

Chicken & Egg Pictures will honor Lesli Klainberg, Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Eugene Hernandez, Deputy Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, with its 2014 Good Egg Award, and celebrate the two Chicken & Egg Pictures film grantees participating in the Independent Film Week Project Forum: The Bill […]

Pom Wonderful Presents: the Greatest Movie Ever Sold to open 2011 Hot Docs

from vk & associates HOT DOCS CELEBRATES ITS EIGHTEENTH YEAR WITH MORE FILMS ON MORE SCREENS THAN EVER BEFORE APRIL 28 TO MAY 8, 2011 Toronto, March 22, 2011 – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, proudly returns for its 18th annual edition from April 28 to […]

Big Sky Announces Festival Competition Awards

Big Sky Announces Festival Competition Awards

from bsdff The judges of the 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival have announced this year’s award winning films in the four competitive categories: Best Feature, Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Best Mini Doc (under 15 minutes). The awards were announced Thursday evening at a ceremony at The Loft in downtown Missoula. […]

Incendies by Denis Villeneuve has wins the UPC Audience Award at the IFFR 2011

<em>Incendies</em> by Denis Villeneuve has wins the UPC Audience Award at the IFFR 2011

from IFFR Canadian feature Incendies by Denis Villeneuve has won the UPC Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011. The other award decided by the audience – the Dioraphte Award for Best Hubert Bals Fund-supported film – went to former CineMart Project If the Seed Doesn’t Die by Serbian filmmaker Sinisa Dragin. This […]