This year the award is attributed to the American actor Andy Garcia. Named after the supporting Association of the Festival, the Leopard Club Award pays tribute to someone in film whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination
THE LOST CITY by Andy Garcia – USA – 2005 – 144’
THE UNTOUCHABLES by Brian De Palma – USA – 1987 – 119’
Short and sweet the footage is grainy and dark but well it was fun while it lasted! You had to be there.
One thing that seemed to recur throughtout the gala was the reference as to how Just for Laughs is a key event in the comedy industry.Many comedians have grown as young emerging talent to major stars and honed their skills year after year in Montreal. Key decision makers from all over the world converge to Montreal every July for the world's key comedy event of the year. Talent, agents and producers scouting for the best fresh comdians return every year to watch the development of emerging talent and how they have grown in the past years. This happens to gage the progress of the artists, their game plan and ultimately their resilience to the harsh realities of life on the road.
The Just for Laughs Awards Show honoured some of the world’s most impactful comedy stars! This year’s winners include Kevin Hart, Mike Myers, Patton Oswalt, Ellie Kemper and HBO political satire Veep creator Armando Iannucci. This ultimate insider experience, hosted by Jeff Ross took take place on July 24 at 4:30 pm in the Grand Salon Opera at the Hyatt Regency Montreal.
Mike Myers appeared to be quite humble and relaxed obviously content to be among his peers - in many ways way less pressure than being in the spotlight.
Myers while receiving his award said that he was more at ease "in character" he was a man in casual jeans and running shoes - "real" Mike Myers.
I have been attending the JFL fo rthe past five (5) and find it a really interesting festival where after 33 years still has room to grow.
The streets are not one not two but blocks and blocks of streets closed off just for the festival, where pedestrians are more numerous than cars and food vending trucks outnumber the buildings.
The Best of Fat Bastard character...one of my personal favourite Myer's impersonations.
The Durban International Film Festival announced its award-winners at the closing ceremony of the festival’s 36th edition at the Suncoast Cinecentre, prior to the screening of the closing film, The Prophet directed by Roger Allers.
The international jury this year was led by former Manager of the DIFF and current Director of the Sydney Film Festival, Nashen Moodley and included prolific and award-winning South African filmmaker Robbie Thorpe, South African producer of numerous award-winning films who sits on the advisory panel for NFVF, Moroba Nkawe and award-winning Nigerian filmmaker, Newton Aduaka.
The South African feature film jury consisted of film-makers Lizelle Bischoff, Thandeka Zwana and Jenna Cato Bass while the documentary jurors were film-makers Annalet Steenkamp and Sylvia Vollenhoven and the short film jurors were film-makers Darryl Els, Zandi Tisani and Terrence Dalisu Ngobese.
The award for the Best Feature Film, which carries a R50 000 cash prize from the DIFF went to Sunrise directed by Partho Sen-Gupta. The film was described by the jury as “an uncompromising, brilliantly-crafted film that takes us through a fragmented mind, into a shady world allowing us to enter the reality of Mumbai’s underbelly”.
The award for Best South African Feature Film, which carries a prize of R25 000 courtesy of Film Finances SA, went to Necktie Youth directed by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, described by the jury as “a film desperate to reconcile the seemingly disparate realities of its country, and whose urgent questions about South African life are posed with such mischievous energy that they cannot help provoke debate, itself one of the most important responsibilities of cinema.”
Shongwe La-Mer also won the award for Best Direction, for Necktie Youth, “for displaying a unique, contemporary voice weaving together poetic images and a striking view of South African youth with a boldness seldom seen in South African cinema.”
The Best Documentary and Best SA Documentary awards which carries a prize of R25 000 each in cash, courtesy of the National Film and Video Foundation went to Beats of the Antonov directed by Hajooj Kuka and The Dream of the Shahrazad directed by Francois Verster, respectively. The jury awarded Beats of the Antonov “for its story, characters, relevance and visual interpretation,” and for a “story told with grace, while honouring the integrity of the people who gave them access as well as the subject matter.”
The Dream of the Shahrazad was awarded for the way in which “the filmmakers pushed themselves beyond their comfort zone, taking mythology and bringing it into the centre of modernity,” and for being “an ambitious film..(that) addresses life post revolution and what is left after heartbreak.”
Didier Michon for his charismatic and captivating performance in Fevers directed by Hicham Ayouch received the Best Actor Award of R20 000 in cash from the KwaZulu–Natal Film Commission.
The award for Best Actress, who also received R20 000 in cash from the KwaZulu–Natal Film Commission, went to Anissa Daoud for her portrayal of a determined activist who takes a stand, in an important film Tunisian Spring directed by Raja Amari.
Best African Short Film award went to The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometre 375 directed by Omar el Zohairy., which won R20 000 courtesy of the Gauteng Film Commission. The jury described this as an “exceptional film explores and pushes new avenues in political satire and the cinema.”
Unomalanga and The Witch directed by Palesa Shongwe, and cited by the jury as “a gentle and unexpected film (that) sheds light on the subtleties of relationships between women”, won the Best South African Short Film award also receiving R20 000 courtesy of the Gauteng Film Commission.
A new award, the Production Merit Award, sponsored by Hollard carries a R25 000 cash prize and goes to Rights of Passage directed by Ntombizodwa Magagula, Mapula Sibanda, Lerato Moloi, Valencia Joshua, Zandile Angeline Wardle, Tony Miyambo, Rethabile Mothobi, Yashvir Bagwandeen.
Sabrina Compeyron and David Constantin, won the Best Screenplay Award for “craftily tracking the age-old struggle between capital and labour spanning the end of industry and the disenfranchisement of a society” in Sugar Cane Shadows directed by David Constantin.
Jean-Marc Ferriere, took the honours for Best Cinematography “for creating a distinctive, atmospheric, highly-crafted and visually dynamic world depicted almost entirely in the dark”, in Sunrise directed by Partho Sen-Gupta.
Special Mention for Direction was made of Kivu Ruhorahoza for Things Of The Aimless Wanderer, “for a courageous and single-minded attempt by a director harnessing all means at his disposal to tell a personal, intricate and political story.”
A Special Mention for Best Film was given to Tunisian Spring by Raja Amari, “for it’s powerful depiction of an event that has, and continues to have, resonance in the world.”
Democrats directed by Camilla Nielsson, got a Special Mention for a Documentary, which is “commended for putting a human face on a story that is complex and sometimes almost opaque.”
The Amnesty International Durban Human Rights Award for the film that best reflects human rights issues which comes with a cash prize of R10 000 donated by the Artists for the Human Rights Trust went to The Shore Break, directed by Ryley Grunenwald. The jury citation reads “The film powerfully portrays a struggle within a local community regarding foreign mining rights in a pristine environment…(and) concisely and movingly uncovers this complex and urgent matter, which is still under investigation and in need of public support.”
A further Amnesty International Durban Human Rights Honorary Award was given to The Look of Silence directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, a film that “bravely uncovers the genocide in Indonesia in the 1960’s.”
The jurors for these awards were Nonhlanhla Mkhize, Betty Rawheath, Professor Lindy Stiebel and Coral Vinsen, convener of the jury panel.
Arterial Network’s Artwatch Africa Award, for an African film that meaningfully engages with the issues of freedom of expression, went to Beats of the Antonov, directed by Hajooj Kuka, who was presented a cash prize of R15 000. The jury citation said “This compelling film shows how the power of music, dancing and culture sustains the displaced people living in the remote war-ravaged areas of Southern Sudan.”
The Jury included Junaid Ahmed, Gcina Mhlophe, René Alicia Smith, and Peter Rorvik.
The DIFF Audience Award went to The Shore Break directed by Ryley Grunenwald.
(Danie Jacobs for filmfestivals.com)
The Japanese company Office Kitano will be honored with a tribute that recognizes the most significant players on the international independent production scene.
Founded in 1988 as a theatrical agency, Office Kitano was created to answer the need to manage the TV activities of Takeshi Kitano and a group of comic actors linked to him. In 1991 it became a production company with A Scene at the Sea, Kitano's third feature film, and since then has produced all of the actor-director's films. Thanks to the initiative of its President Masayuki Mori, the company also started producing other Japanese directors, starting with Hiroshi Shimizu's Ikinai (1998). During those same years, Shôzô Ichiyama joined forces with the company; Ichiyama had already worked with Kitano on his first feature, Violent Cop (1989) and co-produced three films by Hou Hsiao-hsien.
In 2000 the company began an inspired collaboration with JIA Zhang-ke. The first film was Platform (2000), which was followed by Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), 24 City (2008), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Mountains May Depart (2015).
In 2001 they produced Delbaran, a film by the Iranian director Abolfazl Jalili which was selected for Locarno's Concorso internazionale where it won the Special Jury Prize.
In addition to producing and distributing a range of films, in 2000 Office Kitano launched TOKYO FILMeX, a film festival created to raise the profile of independent production.
Carlo Chatrian, the Festival's Artistic Director, comments: “With the decision to pay tribute to Office Kitano's twenty years of activity, the Festival is choosing a territory and a company in which it has a particular interest. Not only because we love the Japanese actor-director's productions but also because of the studio's stated desire to support young Japanese filmmakers, and work with other major directors, such as JIA Zhang-ke. An award is both a recognition for the work they have done and an encouragement to continue in the path they have chosen: both are completely appropriate in the case of Office Kitano, to whom we wish a brilliant future.”
Masayuki Mori, Office Kitano's president, and the producer Shôzô Ichiyama will be at Locarno to receive the award and dialog with the public.
Three films will be shown at the Festival to mark this tribute: Hana-bi (1997) and Dolls (2002), both directed by Takeshi Kitano, and JIA Zhang-ke's Unknown Pleasures.
The Premio Raimondo Rezzonico was inaugurated in 2002, in memory of the man who was the Festival's President for almost twenty years. The award, sponsored by the Comune di Minusio, is attributed every year to a major producer in independent cinema to highlight a well-deserving and key player in filmmaking, and pay tribute to the courage and audacity of those who take such risks and support filmmakers. Producers previously honored with the Premio Raimondo Rezzonico include Paulo Branco, Ruth Waldburger, the collective Agat Films & Cie, Martine Marignac, Menahem Golan, Arnon Milchan, Margaret Ménégoz and, in 2014, Nansun SHI.
SR Socially Relevant (™) Film Festival New York, a new non-profit film festival, will have its 3rd edition in March 2016 at over 3 venues: The Tribeca Cinemas in Tribeca, The Maysles Cinema in Harlem and The School of Visual Arts SocDoc in Chelsea, with additional venues for special events. Founded by actor-filmmaker Nora Armani, the festival showcases socially relevant films with human interest stories as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling.
SR (™) believes in promoting positive social change through the powerful medium of cinema. The festival’s inaugural edition took place in March 2014 at the Quad Cinema over one week, showcasing 55 films from 18 countries and presenting multiple awards to winning filmmakers. The second edition showcased 53 films from 33 countries and took place at the Tribeca Cinemas, the Maysles Cinema, The CUNY Graduate Center, The Quad Cinema and the School of Visual Arts with Industry Panels. Submissions for 2016 are open now through December 1st on https://filmfreeway.com/festival/RatedSR - For details visit the festival’s website: http://www.ratedsrfilms.org/
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On the occasion of the Odessa International Film Festival, taking place from 10 – 18 July, the European Film Academy awarded the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa the title “Treasure of European Film Culture”. Sergei Eisenstein shot his master piece “Battleship Potemkin” 90 years ago at the Black Sea port. The Potemkin Stairs are undoubtedly one of the world’s most famous historical film locations. During a ceremony a special “Treasure of European Film Culture” emblem has been inaugurated next to the Potemkin Stairs. With this title the European Film Academy wishes to raise public awareness for places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now but also for generations to come. The Potemkin Stairs are the fifth location to be awarded by the European Film Academy. The first four institutions that were adopted to be part of the “Treasures of European Film Culture” list were:
• The Eisenstein Memorial Centre in Moscow
• The House of the brothers Lumière in Lyon
• The Bergman Center in Faro
• The World of Tonino Guerra in Pennabilli
The list of Treasures of European Film Culture will be added to over the years and contain places that can be visited, including memorable film locations such as the Potemkin stairs. Since its foundation in 1910, every year the Odessa Film Festival invites the public to open air screenings of international film classics accompanied by live music. This year, British composer Michael Nyman will conduct his live score for Dziga Vertov’s documentary ‘A Man with a Movie Camera’ (1929).
In a special ceremony on 11 July, the “EFA Treasure of European Film Culture” emblem was presented at the world-famous Potemkin Stairs within the 6th Odessa International Film Festival. |
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EFA Board Member Marek Rozenbaum (pictured right), pointed out that his location is famous among all those who are related to cinema thanks to the brilliant film director Sergei Eisenstein and his editing. “It is a great honour for me to speak here on behalf of the European Film Academy. I first saw the episode with the stairs from Battleship Potemkin around 50 years ago. Today, I see it with my own eyes for the first time.” Also present were producer and EFA Member Dennis Ivanov, Odessa IFF executive producer Julia Sinkevych and president Viktoriya Tigipko (pictured left to right). |
The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative, a creative partnership of seven key European documentary film festivals: CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Doclisboa, Docs Against Gravity FF, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF, Visions du Réel Nyon, is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and continuously promote quality creative documentary films. The Doc Alliance platform awards the best European Documentary nominated independently by each of the platform’s festival members and selected by a jury of European film critics.
The award ceremony will take place for the fist time at the Festival del film Locarno during the Industry Days. The name of the winner will be announced on August 8, in the presence of Doc Alliance festival directors and the jury.
More info HERE
By Maria Esteves – August 7, 2015
The 38th Asian American International Film Festival 2015 (AAIFF15) Closing Night Awards Ceremony hosted by executive director John Woo and festival director Judy Lei, Asian Cinevision, honoring the best independent cinema and emerging directors by Asian and Asian American descent was held at the Museum of Moving Images, Queens, New York, Saturday, August 1, 8:30pm. LIVE FROM UB received two awards including Emerging Director LAUREN KNAPP. AAIFF15 jurors included Theresa Navarro, Patrick Wang and John Woo.
The Asian American International Film Festival founded Asian Cinevision, Inc. (ACV) in 1987, is a national media arts organization that annually presents independent cinema by Asian and Asian Americans, panel discussions, special events, screenplay competition readings, gala receptions and after parties. This year’s festival showcased over 50 films from 9 different countries, 2 World Premieres, and 15 New York Premieres.
AAIFF15 Best Short Award winner, director
Steve Maing, THE SURRENDER.
AAIFF15 One To Watch Award winner, director
Adler Yang, IF THERE IS A REASON TO STUDY.
The AAIFF 2015 winners by category are:
Audience Choice Award
FACTORY BOSS, directed by Zhang Wei (Narrative)
LIVE FROM UB, directed by Lauren Knapp (Documentary)
Emerging Director
JUAN MARTIN HSU for La Salada (Narrative)
JULY JUNG for A Girl at my Door (Narrative)
LAUREN KNAPP for Live From UB (Documentary)
Best Short
THE SURRENDER, directed by Stephen Maing
The Surrender from stephen maing on Vimeo.
One To Watch Award
IF THERE IS A REASON TO STUDY, directed by Adler Yang (Shorts, For Youth By Youth)
Screenplay Competition Award
TIMOTHY DRAIN for East of Western
The jury for First Look 2015, comprising Karel Och (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Artistic Director), John Nein (Sundance Film Festival’s Programming Director) and Soue-won Rhee (Busan International Film Festival’s programmer), decided to give these awards:
The full list of the 2015 selected films:
© Festival del film Locarno
Today saw the announcement of the awards for the Open Doors Co-production Lab, organized with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
The 2015 session of Open Doors is devoted to films from the four Maghreb countries Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia. The Co-production Lab (August 8 – 11) aims to bring together the finalist directors and producers with potential partners, in order to facilitate obtaining the financial support needed for completing the projects. In addition, prizes are awarded by the Open Doors Jury that serve to support the production (allocated to the production company) and for development (allocated to the filmmakers).
The Open Doors jury decided to award the following prizes:
Open Doors Grant (50,000 CHF)
This award is financed by the Open Doors initiative in collaboration with the Municipality of Bellinzona and the Swiss production support fund Visions Sud Est, funded by the SDC:
Production Grant (30'000 CHF)
LE FORT DES FOUS by Narimane Mari, Algeria
Development Grant (10'000 CHF)
ALLER SIMPLE by Nadia Raïs, Tunisia
Development Grant (10'000 CHF)
PAGAN MAGIC by Fyzal Boulifa, Morocco / France
ICAM Prize (20’000 EUR)
A contribution to development, offered by ICAM (Investing in Culture & Art in the South Mediterranean), a new initiative funded by the European Union (Programme Med Culture).
SAINT INCONNU by Alaa Eddine Aljem, Morocco
CNC Prize (10,000 EUR)
EN ATTENDANT LES HIRONDELLES by Karim Moussaoui, Algeria
ARTE International Open Doors Prize (6,000 EUR)
THE COLONEL’S STRAY DOGS by Khalid Shamis, Libya / South Africa
MAD Solutions Prize
MAD Solutions awards a project with a distribution deal comprising funding for PR, marketing, print and publicity costs.
Alaa Karkouti, Co-Founder/Managing Partner/Film Analyst: «Due to the number of strong projects in the Open Doors section, we decided to extend our MAD distribution award to two projects. We believe the Maghreb countries have rich ideas and content, which deserve a region-wide release across the Arab world.»
L’AMOUR DES HOMMES by Mehdi Ben Attia, Tunisia / France
RUQYA by Yanis Koussim, Algeria / France
The Open Doors Screenings program that presents a selection of 22 films from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, will continue through to the end of the Festival.
Open Doors is organized in close collaboration with the Festival's Industry Office and with support from the following partners: ACE (Ateliers du cinéma européen), EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), Producers Network Marché du Film (Cannes Festival) and TorinoFilmLab. The Festival also draws on the expertise of Alex Moussa Sawadogo, a specialist in African cinema and director of the festival Afrikamera in Berlin.
Once again, recently closed Fantasia International Film Festival (19th edition, July 14 - August 5, Montreal 2015), the largest genre film festival in North America, has offered an incredible program. Among 22 world premieres, a special place belongs to She Who Must Burn, a “burning” piece by legendary iconoclastic filmmaker Larry Kent, pioneer of Canadian independent scene since early 1960ies. Unfortunately, Kent is not so widely known even in Canada, yet he made more than a dozen features (plus shorts and documentaries), including his controversial debut The Bitter Ash (1963). Some of his movies were banned in many countries around the world. He has influenced and inspired a number of filmmakers, including David Cronenberg. And in this particular case, it should be emphasized that although She Who Must Burn is the work of a filmmaker in his early 80ies, the energy this intelligent piece emits is such, that many young maverick filmmakers should be a bit jealous of.
She Who Must Burn is a profound, thought-provoking and, above all, an honest movie that brilliantly speaks about our flawed human nature. This is a story about an influential group of religious fanatics that fights against abortion rights in a little rural town. During the course of the movie, their main target, or She from the title, becomes a young woman who runs an abortion counseling service, and soon enough, she would be even blamed for miscarriages. The ominous atmosphere that skillfully grows throughout the movie culminates in an uncompromising ending of (literally) biblical proportions – a devastating storm! Personally, the most disturbing is the very end, where the local sheriff (as representative of our law and order) is peeking into the tragic events and doing nothing, defeated by both, laws of nature and superstition, i.e. conquered by our pagan heritage without any resistance.
Questioning our primal fears and essential powerlessness, this parable is like a slap in the face to our contemporary society. The great script (written by Larry Kent and Shane Twerdun who plays the local pastor), the very precise directing, the convincing performances, the intriguing music score, the micro-budget, altogether lift this piece up to a higher level, making She Who Must Burn an important Canadian movie, well deserved winner of a newly established award – Barry Convex Award for best Canadian Feature or Co-Production (yes, that Barry, the master manipulator from the Cronenberg’s cult classic Videodrome). Very powerful!
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Saturday August 15 saw the awards ceremony at the 68th Festival del film Locarno. The 2015 edition, the third under Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, was highly successful and was crowned with the award of the Pardo d’oro to the film RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN by the South Korean director HONG Sangsoo.
The Festival’s President Marco Solari officially closed the 68th edition with the statement: “The Festival’s 2015 edition consolidates its national and internationfal position in qualitative terms. A Festival that looks forward, with humility and faith in its own strengths, but knowing it can afford no mistakes. A Festival that uncompromisingly defends the freedom of choice, autonomy and independence of the Artistic Directorate and the juries, an artistic freedom that is the very rationale for the Locarno event.”
Carlo Chatrian comments “For eleven days Locarno has been the home for cinema that we promised in our presentations. I salute the generosity of the guests of this 68th edition, who have, through their presence, not only propelled this celebration of cinema but have also verbally illuminated the program. I am happy with the prize-list but also with all those directors, actors and professionals who have offered us such a range of emotions, entertainment, passion and amazement. Finally I want to thank this Festival’s extraordinary audience, their curiosity and pertinence: their untiring loyalty and passion constitutes Locarno’s real treasure trove.”
COO Mario Timbal made an initial analysis of the figures: “We are assuredly more than satisfied with the way the Festival has gone. The weather, with sweltering heat at the start and then rain in the last few days, once again demonstrated the Festival audience’s generosity and attachment to the event. A generosity that is reflected in the warmth of their response to the screenings and events. Attendance was high, in line with that of the previous edition: the Festival’s eleven days recorded 164,000 viewers (2014: 166,800). The Piazza Grande saw a slight increase (c. 66,000 = + c. 1%), while in the cinemas there was a slight fluctuation, a positive outcome if one takes into consideration that last year the rainy weather led to a record number of viewers at the cinema venues during the day. There were 4,209 (2014: 4,232) accreditations, while the number of journalists and photographers attending Locarno was 937 (2014: 962); a slight decrease, mainly involving professionals from Europe and affected by by the rise in the Swiss franc, which did not, however, have such a generally adverse effect as had been expected. The number of film industry representatives who participated in the Festival, however rose, with 1,105 Industry accreditations (2014: 1’049).”
The 2015 Festival’s list of prize-winners, along with press articles, the photo gallery and the “In Conversation” sessions with honored guests, are available on www.pardo.ch
The 69th Festival del film Locarno will take August 3 –13, 2016.
Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo, South Korea
Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize)
TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Pardo per la miglior regia (Best direction)
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI for COSMOS, France/Portugal
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Best actress)
TANAKA SACHIE, KIKUCHI HAZUKI, MIHARA MAIKO, KAWAMURA RIRA for HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione maschile (Best actor)
JUNG JAE-YOUNG for JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA (Right Now, Wrong Then) by HONG Sangsoo, South Korea
Special Mention
For the script of HAPPY HOUR by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke, Japan
For the cinematography by Shai Goldman for TIKKUN by Avishai Sivan, Israel
Concorso Cineasti del presente
Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente – Premio Nescens
THITHI by Raam Reddy, India/USA/Canada
Premio speciale della giuria Ciné+ Cineasti del presente (Special Jury prize)
DEAD SLOW AHEAD by Mauro Herce, Spain/France
Premio per il miglior regista emergente (Prize for the best emerging director)
LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan, China
First Feature
Swatch First Feature Award (Prize for Best First Feature)
THITHI by Raam Reddy, India/USA/Canada
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Award
SINA ATAEIAN DENA for MA DAR BEHESHT (Paradise), Iran/Gemany
Special Mentions
LU BIAN YE CAN (Kaili Blues) by BI Gan, China
KIEV/MOSCOW. PART 1 by Elena Khoreva, Russia/Estonia/Ukraine
Pardi di domani
Concorso internazionale
Pardino d’oro per il miglior cortometraggio internazionale – Premio SRG SSR
MAMA by Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia
Pardino d’argento SRG SSR per il Concorso internazionale
LA IMPRESIÓN DE UNA GUERRA by Camilo Restrepo, France/Colombia
Locarno Nomination for the European Film Awards – Premio Pianifica
FILS DU LOUP by Lola Quivoron, France
Premio Film und Video Untertitelung
MAMA by Davit Pirtskhalava, Georgia
Special Mention
NUEVA VIDA by Kiro Russo, Argentina/Bolivia
Concorso nazionale
Pardino d’oro per il miglior cortometraggio svizzero – Premio Swiss Life
LE BARRAGE by Samuel Grandchamp, Switzerland/USA
Pardino d’argento Swiss Life per il Concorso nazionale
D’OMBRES ET D’AILES by Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng, Switzerland/France
Best Swiss Newcomer Award
LES MONTS S’EMBRASENT by Laura Morales, Switzerland
Prix du Public UBS
DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER by Lars Kraume, Germany
Variety Piazza Grande Award
LA BELLE SAISON by Catherine Corsini, France
The Palmares PDF including independent juries is available here.
During last night’s Awards ceremony, which drew nearly 1,000 attendees, Jamie Donoughue took home the Zype Best Short Film Grand Prize and $15,000 Cash Prize for his short film called SHOK.
Company 3 and Method Studios Awarded over $60,000 in post production prizes.
The Grand Jury Award Presented by Company 3 went to Moon Molson for his short THE BRAVEST, THE BOLDEST.
Best Director went to Annie Silverstein for SKUNK.
Best Animation went to THE OCEANMAKER by Lucas Martell
Best VFX went to DISSONANCE by Till Nowak
Best Film Shot in LA presented by FilmLA went to TOM IN AMERICA by Flavio Alves
The Louisiana Film Prize a $10,000 prize for Best Screenplay went to THE IMPORTANCE OF SEX EDUCATION by L. Elizabeth Powers
The Evil Slave $10,000 and Screencraft $2000 Consulting Prize for Best Screenplay Award went to LUNCHBOX BRIGADE by Kyle Thiele
All of the winners are noted below
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Best Action |
| Dead Hearts |
| Stephen W. Martin |
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Best Actor |
| Primrose |
| Nick Thurston |
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Best Actress |
| The Bravest, the Boldest |
| Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris |
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Best Animation |
| The Oceanmaker |
| Lucas Martell |
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Best Cinematography |
| Slut |
| Chloe Okuno |
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Best Co3 Grand Jury Award |
| The Bravest, the Boldest |
| Moon Molson |
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Best Comedy |
| A Reasonable Request |
| Andrew Laurich |
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Best Commercial |
| 7UP: Feels Good to Be You |
| Imran J. Khan, Christopher Vennemeyer |
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Best Director |
| Skunk |
| Annie Silverstein |
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Best Doc |
| The Last Barn Dance |
| Jason Arthurs, Ted Richardson |
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Best Drama |
| Zawadi |
| Richard Card |
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Best Editing |
| Twisted |
| Stuart Bowen |
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Best Female Director |
| Bie Pu (Home) |
| Amelie Wen |
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Best Horror The Crypt TV Award |
| Mr. Dentonn |
| Ivan Villamel |
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Best International |
| While They Were Flying to the Moon |
| Borisa Simovic |
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Best LA Film presented by Film LA |
| Tom In America |
| Flavio Alves |
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Best LGBT |
| Stealth |
| Bennett Lasseter |
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Best make up |
| The Smiling Man |
| Melanie Leandro |
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Best Method Studios Best VFX |
| Dissonance |
| Till Nowak |
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Best Music Video |
| Gary Clark Jr's When My Train Pulls In |
| Carmela Makela |
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Best Narrative |
| Birthday |
| Chris King |
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Best Short Film- Grand Prize- Zype |
| Shok |
| Jamie Donoughue |
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Best Panavision Future Filmmaker Award |
| The Leap |
| Karel van Bellingen |
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Best period piece |
| Del Ciego Desert |
| FRANCOIS LEDUC |
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Best Producer |
| Visible Proof |
| Drew Diamond, Evan Drolet Cook |
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Best Sci Fi |
| Dust |
| Michael Grier |
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Best Score |
| Witching Hour |
| Carl Firth |
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Best Screenplay |
| Lunchbox Brigade |
| Kyle Thiele |
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Louisiana Best Screenplay Jury Prize |
| The Importance of Sex Education |
| L. Elizabeth Powers |
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Screenplay Runner Up |
| Growing Pains |
| Derek Dow |
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Screenplay Runner Up |
| The Yellow Ribbon Around Her Neck |
| David Ho |
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Best Diversity |
| Carne Seca |
| Jazmin Diaz |
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Best Student |
| Blackwell |
| Ed Barnes |
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Best Thriller |
| County, State, USA: Sweet Corn |
| Jonathan Nowak |
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Best Web Series |
| Kowalski |
| Jason O'Mara |
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Best Youth |
| Alien Communications |
| Kris Theorin, Kurtis Theorin |
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Honorable Mention |
| Midland |
| OLIVER BERNSEN & DAN MAGNANTE |
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Honorable Mention |
| Shaman |
| Marco Kalantari |
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Inspirational Quote Winner |
| The Game |
| Ruben Languren |
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Sponsors for this year’s HollyShorts included:
Company 3
Method Studios
Zype
Hollywood Short Film Association in conjunction with CCTV
TCL Chinese Theaters
OHM Nightclub
Ignited Spaces
Robertson Taylor Insurance
Simple DCP
Panavision
Law Offices of Clifford Lo
Shorts HD
Jungle Software
Media Services
Production HUB
Martini Crew Booking
Film LA
Stage 32
The Agency
True Vision Entertainment
Quick Film Budget
Film Radar
Uber
Lyft
New Media Vault
Final Draft
Bra's Counter and Bru's Wiffle
Indie Printing
LA 411
NYEH Entertainment
Indi.com
Color Space Finishing
UCLA Extension
New York Film Academy
Kim Ruggles Events
Indievent
Red Giant Software
Mercury Production Report
Women in Film
LightspeedEPS
Videoink
CryptTV
Delmay and Partners
Mama Shelter Hotels
Green Leaf
Deep Eddy Vodka
Dark Horse Wines
Peroni
Crispin
Monster Energy
Hint Water
Caffeinated Club
Diablo
DMG
Kelly Wilson
We're accepting films to our 3rd year! We will boast 7 days of independent cinema from all over the world in a modern theater in the heart of the world-famous arts distrcit in North Hollywood, California! All genres accepted. Awards given in multiple categories. Check us out at www.nohocinefest.com. We are on Withoutabox and Film Freeway!
Menges grew up in post-war England, and like many great filmmakers of his generation, he learned his craft in British television. He started this adventure thanks to Alan Forbes, American documentary filmmaker who was one of his first role models. Menges worked his way up the ladder as an assistant editor, soundman and camera assistant, honing his skills with each and every job. His life was changed forever when he joined, as cameraman, the crew of a TV program World in Action. During the next couple of years he traveled the world, going to places of social and political upheavals and shooting in extremely dangerous conditions. On one of such trips Menges went to Apartheid-torn South Africa and came back with illegally obtained behind-the-scenes footage. On another, he left with director Adrian Cowell to Burma to shoot The Opium Warlords; they became isolated from the outside world and were forced to live guerilla life for over a year. Rest assured, these were the times and places that shaped him as an artist and as a human being.
But not all of Chris Menges' adventures were connected to shooting documentaries. He started working on features in 1967 as a camera operator on Ken Loach's debut Poor Cow and Lindsay Anderson's If.... The former helped him in being promoted to the rank of cinematographer – on Loach's Kes – and began one of the most important artistic collaborations in his career, lasting to this day. In 1970s and 1980s Menges worked with a number of rising British directors (Stephen Frears, Bill Forsyth, Neil Jordan), integrating in his cinematography his love for authenticity with a wonderful eye for details and artistic sensitivity shaped while shooting documentaries. Then, he tried working on bigger projects (he supported Peter Suschitzky on Irvin Kershner's Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) and started looking for new challenges and different means of describing the surrounding reality. That led him to Roland Joffé with whom Menges made The Killing Fields and The Mission, both awarded with Oscars for cinematography.
Both IRA-themed films became another proof of Chris Menges' mastery in using light and camera movement to show human emotions, obsessions and traumas. The new millennium brought him a few opportunities to work with his long-time friends and collaborators (with Stephen Frears on Dirty Pretty Things, with Ken Loach on Route Irish), but also a number of new artistic challenges. He immersed himself in the Western imagery in Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He helped William Monahan to create alluring vision of England's capital in London Boulevard. He supported Stephen Daldry on the sets of The Reader (Menges shared the credit for cinematography with Roger Deakins, both were nominated to Oscar for this film) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. And it was Deakins, widely regarded as one of the best cinematographers of our times, who said later that he considers Menges' use of natural light second to none, and that he was one of his first inspirations after film school.
“My personality is not ever to fight for a style. My feeling about all work is, it's not about style, but about what it's trying to say, what it's worth”, said Menges in one of his interviews. In another one he stated that “you do things that make you grow and make you learn, and I've always been interested in things that teach me something”. Chris Menges BSC, ASC is a legend, a wonderful human being, a true artist who is conscious of his skills, a masterful storyteller with many words of wisdom to share. Soon, he will come to Bydgoszcz to receive Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award, which he earned not only with his immense contributions to the art of filmmaking, but also by sticking to his instincts and rules for over fifty years of his career. Chris Menges will also introduce the screenings of his films and will meet with the Festival's audience on a number of occasions. Camerimage participants will be also able to buy the Black Album dedicated to the life and work of our distinguished laureate. 23rd Camerimage will be held in Bydgoszcz from the 14th through 21st November
Organized with financial help of The City of Bydgoszcz, The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Polish Film Institute and with the support of Creative Europe - Media Programme of the European Union. Jeśli nie chcesz otrzymywać CAMERIMAGE Newsletter, kliknij tutaj. If you do not wish to receive CAMERIMAGE Newsletter, click here. |
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This collective and its particularities have remained hidden for years in both society and cinema. Today awards such as the Sebastiane at the leading Film Festivals seek to turn the spotlight on films that lend visibility to the LGBTI worlds. Productions of an increasingly excellent cinematic quality every year.
Along with the Sebastiane Award, we will present the 3rd Sebastiane Latino. This award, in keeping with San Sebastian Festival’s line of supporting Latin American cinema, chooses the best Latin LGBTI film of the year. The film by Marco Berger, Mariposa, will receive the Award on September the 20th and can be seen in the Zabaltegi section.
Director: Agustí Villaronga Country: Spain – Dominican Rep.
Agustí Villaronga adapts the novel of the same name by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo tries to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humour and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other’s arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell and Josh Charles star in this film based on true events. The true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, conspire to prevent Laurel from doing this. Hard-nosed detective Dane Wells, and activist Steven Goldstein, unite in Laurel and Stacie’s defence, rallying police officers and ordinary citizens to support their struggle for equality.
Michal Vinik
17 year old Naama Barash enjoys alcohol, drugs and hanging out with like-minded friends. Her activities are an escape from a home where her parents always fight, and a rebellious, army-enrolled sister, who, one day, disappears. As a new girl shows up at school, Barash falls deep in love for the first time, and the intensity of the experience at once confuses her and gives her life new meaning.
EL CLUB Horizontes Latinos
Director: Pablo Larraín
Country: Chile
Pablo Larraín won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the last Berlin Festival with this film. Four men share a secluded house in a small beach town, sent there to purge the sins they have committed in the past
Armando, aged 50, looks for young men in the streets of Caracas and pays them to come back to his house with him. He also regularly spies on an older man with whom he seems to have ties from the past. One day he meets Elder, aged 17, leader of a small band of thugs. Competitor in the Official Selection of the Venice Festival.
A butterfly’s flapping wings divides Romino and Germán’s universe into two parallel realities: in one of them they grow as siblings who conceal their desire for one another; while in the other they are two youngsters who have an unusual friendship. Winning film of the Sebastiane Latino 2015 Award.
Winning film of the Sebastiane Latino 2015 Award.
New Japanese Independent Cinema 200-2015
Director: Isao Yukisada
Country: Japan, 2009
Premiered at the Berlin Festival, this film by Isao Yukisada is a sharp psychological study of four flatmates. Their lives seem to be routine and uneventful until the appearance of a strange boy who highlights the fragility of the system they live in. Who is the fifth occupant of the flat? Could he be the serial killer who has been marauding the neighbourhood?
FLORENCE PELLETIER, student from Concordia University, was awarded for the short: "Fondue chinoise", in the 39th FFM 2015.
Fondue chinoise: by Florence Pelletier, Colour, 6 minutes, Canada, 2014
Saturday August 29, 2015 - 07:00 PM - CINÉMA QUARTIER LATIN 2
Wednesday September 2, 2015 - 03:00 PM - CINÉMA QUARTIER LATIN 2
