MARIANGOLA CASTRO, member of the jury, presented the awards
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MARIANGOLA CASTRO, member of the jury, presented the Students Film Awards.
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Emily Watson, Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival
At the coming San Sebastian Festival, British actress Emily Watson will receive the Donostia Award in recognition of her prestigious film career. Watson will collect the Award at a gala on September 25 in the Kursaal Auditorium.
Born in Islington (UK), Emily Watson trained as an actress at the prestigious London Drama Studio after completing her university studies. She began her professional career in theatre, with works including Lilian Hellmann’s The Children’s Hour, Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, and, in the ranks of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with productions of The Taming of the Shrew and All’s Well That Ends Well.
Her film debut turned her into an overnight success: her part as Bess McNeill in Lars von Trier’s controversial Breaking the Waves (1996) earned her the Los Angeles, London and New York Writers Guild Awards, in addition to the US National Society of Film Critics Award and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Only two years later she was nominated yet again for both awards for her part as the cello player Jacqueline du Pré in the film, Hilary and Jackie.
Since then, Emily Watson’s sparkling career has seen her work with some of the most important contemporary filmmakers: Robert Altman in Gosford Park (2001), Paul Thomas Anderson in Punch Drunk Love (2002), Tim Burton in The Corpse Bride (2005), John Hillcoat in The Proposition (2005), Charlie Kaufman in Synecdoche, New York (2008), Alan Parker in Angela’s Ashes (1999) -for which she bagged a BAFTA nomination- Tim Robbins in Cradle Will Rock (1999), Jim Sheridan in The Boxer (1997), Steven Spielberg in War Horse (2011) and Joe Wright in Anna Karenina (2011).
Her other works for the cinema include Brett Ratner’s Red Dragon (2002), Stephen Hopkins’s The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) -garnering a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress- Chris Noonan’s Miss Potter (2006), Sophie Barthes’s Cold Souls (2009), Dennis Lee’s Fireflies in the Garden (2008), Brian Percival’s The Book Thief (2013), and James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything(2014).
Emily Watson also participated in the television series Appropriate Adult (2011), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination and won the Best Actress BAFTA. Her television credits include The Politician’s Husband (2013), The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015) and A Song for Jenny (2015).
In 2002 she returned to theatre to play two parts in productions directed by Sam Mendes: Shakespeare’sTwelfth Night and Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, harvesting an Olivier Award nomination for the latter.
Among the long list of awards and accolades obtained over her career are the British Independent Film Award for Hilary and Jackie and the European Film Award for Breaking the Waves.
In 2015 she was named Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama.
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French director Bertrand Tavernier to receive Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 8 September
Tavernier will present a selection of rare films for the Venice Classics section
In his recommendation to the Board of Directors for the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Alberto Barbera writes:
“Tavernier is a complete, instinctively non-conformist, staunchly eclectic auteur. His filmography as a whole constitutes a body of work that is in part incongruous within the context of French cinema over the past forty years. It cannot be identified with the most radical principles of the Nouvelle Vague, despite his early and assiduous frequentation of some of its exponents, nor can it be reductively likened to the Tradition of Quality, of which it retains - but deftly innovates - certain distinctive characteristics: an attentiveness to solid narrative foundations, a careful construction of his characters, an inclination to psychological introspection, a recurrent literary substratum. The importance that Tavernier attributes to filmmaking as a craft merges with two other components: his love for classic American films, whose ability to entertain he has assimilated without renouncing an expressive dimension, and his innate passion for political and social themes, which makes his films so remarkably personal and original”.
Bernard Tavernier has presented two films in Competition at the Venice International Film Festival, Round Midnight in 1986 (which won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Best Actor nomination for the American saxophonist Dexter Gordon) and the detective film L. 627 in 1992. Tavernier won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival for his debut feature-length film The Clockmaker (L’horloger de Saint-Paul, 1974), inspired by Simenon, and the Golden Bear at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival for the detective film Fresh Bait (L’Appât). In 1984 he won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival for A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne). He has won four César awards (the French Oscars).
Tavernier, whom Barbera describes as a “central figure in French filmmaking”, will be awarded the acknowledgment on Tuesday 8th September during the 72nd Venice Film Festival. Furthermore, as the Guest Director of the Venice Classics section of the coming Venice Film Festival, Tavernier will present a selection of rare, forgotten or underestimated films, which he will introduce before the screenings.
In his motivation for the award, Alberto Barbera underscores, in fact, that: “Tavernier is also a fervid film critic, with a decidedly anti-academic leaning and a predilection for discovering and re-assessing unknown artists. He has put this talent to good use in memorable writings that are required reading for anyone interested in exploring the history of French, American or Italian cinema in particular, guided by the refined and unconventional perspective of a film-lover who eschews any temptation of dogmatism, demonstrating freedom of spirit, and an uncommon degree of curiosity and open-mindedness”.
Bertrand Tavernier – Biographical notes
Bertrand Tavernier (Lyon, 25 April 1941) is a director, screenwriter, producer and author, as well as the president of the “Institut Louis Lumière” in Lyon.
The son of the writer, poet and member of the Résistance René Tavernier, he acquired his passion for film as a teenager, moving to Paris after the war, where his high-school classmate, Volker Schloendorff, introduced him to the Cinémathèque.
In the sixties, as a film critic, he wrote for many important magazines: “Les Cahiers du Cinéma”, “Positif”, “Cinéma”, “Présence du Cinéma”. In 1970, with Jean-Pierre Coursodon he co-authored “30 ans de cinema américain” (Omnibus). This book, which has been updated and reprinted as “50 ans du cinéma américain”, is considered by many cinephiles as the French bible on this subject. As a fervent film-lover, he was one of the first in the sixties to interview and analyse the works of great American directors such as John Ford, John Huston and Raoul Walsh, and to introduce French audiences to filmmakers such as Dalmer Daves, André De Toth and Budd Boetticher (their films would be screened in his film club the “Nickel Odeon”). He also helped, with Martin Scorsese and others, to bring back to light the work of director Michael Powell.
He made his debut in cinema as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville, an experience that he would look back on in the documentary Code Name Melville (Sous le nom de Melville) by Olivier Bohler. In 1973, he would direct his first feature-length film in the Lyon of his childhood, entitled The Clockmaker (L’horloger de Saint-Paul), from a novel by Simenon. This “noir” film with a social accent was his first encounter with Philippe Noiret, who would become his fetish actor.
Since his debut, the eclectic Tavernier has worked with many different film genres, and alternates historic films, such as Let Joy Reign Supreme (Que la fête commence, 1975, with Noiret, a film for which he won the César for Best Director and Best Screenplay), and contemporary films (Une semaine de vacances, 1980), with a predilection for social issues: in 1976 he made The Judge and the Assassin (Le juge et l’assassin), a reflection on the institutions and on their repressive excesses (with Noiret and a surprising Michel Galabru), then in 1980 Death Watch (La mort en direct), an analysis that anticipated the deviation of television, and was one of Romy Schneider’s last appearances; this was the film that consecrated the director’s international success.
Infused with American culture, in 1981 Tavernier adapted a scathing novel by Jim Thompson set in colonial Africa (Coup de torchon, with Noiret and Isabelle Huppert), before filming Round Midnight (1986), a love letter to jazz, which screened in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, and which won the Oscar for Best Original Score and a Best Actor nomination for the star, Dexter Gordon.
Whereas La passion Béatrice (Beatrice, 1987) is set in the period of the Hundred Years’ War, more contemporary conflicts occupy the centre of the director’s films: World War I in La vie et rien d’autre (Life and Nothing But, 1989, with Noiret who won the BAFTA) and later in Capitaine Conan (Captain Conan, 1996); the Algerian war in the documentary La guerre sans nom (1992); the Nazi occupation in Laissez-passer (2002), in which he questioned his filmmaking profession. In a more intimate vein, he filmed A Sunday in the Country (1984), which won the Best Director Award at Cannes, and Daddy Nostalgie (1990), two tender and demure films about the relationship between parents and children, a theme that has been important to him since his film debut.
In the nineties Tavernier, who stated to critic Jean-Luc Douin that “filmmakers are the seismographers of their era”, continued to sound out society and to paint realistic portraits of the drug world in the detective film L. 627 (1992), or the world of teachers in Ça commence aujourd’hui (It all starts today,1999). Subsequently, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for Fresh Bait (L’Appât, 1995), an alarming message about the violence of disoriented youth. Particularly keen on issues involving his profession (defence of cultural difference, the fight against censorship), he is committed on other fronts as well, as shown in the documentary about racial integration De l’autre coté du périph (1997), which he filmed with his son Nils. With his daughter Tiffany (an author and screenwriter), he wrote Holy Lola (2004), an exploration of the world of the adoption business in Cambodia, but also, for the first time in his work, a sensitive portrait of couples in our day. Tavernier then went to Louisiana, devastated by Hurricane Katrina, to film In the Electric Mist (2009), the adaptation of a “noir” film by James Lee Burke with Tommy Lee Jones. At the Cannes Film Festival, he presented La princesse de Montpensier (2010), a look into the heart of the power struggles, intrigue and love affairs of sixteenth-century France.
With the comedy Quai d’Orsay (2013), which won the Best Screenplay award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, he addressed the theme of French politics, casting Thierry Lhermitte in the role of a Minister of Foreign Affairs, inspired by the figure of Dominique de Villepin.
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Signis awarded Guillermo Ivan´s "Havana Moment" in Montreal World Fest
Signis awarded Guillermo Ivan´s "Havana Moment" with a 1st. Mention During 39th Montreal Festival Films du Monde, 2015.
UN INSTANTE EN LA HABANA / HAVANA MOMENT
2015, Colour, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, USA, World Competition
Production Team
Director : Guillermo Ivàn Duenas
Screenwriter : Guillermo Ivàn Duenas
Cinematographer : Mauricio Vidal
Editor : David Constantino
Cast : Christopher Marquez, Guillermo Ivan, Zair Montes, Abril Schreiber, Michel Labarta, Jorge Luis De Cabo, Sixto Esteban
Music : Daniel Medina, Santiago Parra
Film production and Sales : Prod.: Zair Montes, Golden Ceiba Productions, 324 East, 91st Street, apt. 3, New York, NY 10128 (États-Unis), zair@goldenceibaproductions.com / GCP Cuba, Edificio 42, apt. 203, Habana del Este, Reparto Camilo Cienfuegos, La Havane (Cuba), info@goldenceibaproductions.com.
Synopsis
Marcelo Quevedo and his brother Carlos Quevedo were separated in childhood when Carlos left Cuba with his mother on a boat to seek a different life. Marcelo was left behind in Cuba burdened with the heavy duty of caring for his grandfather who was in poor health. Distance wasn’t the only issue that marked the separation of the two brothers; their mother couldn’t endure the rough trip and she died before the boat could reach its destination. More than twenty years later, Carlos Quevedo decides to return to Cuba to see his brother only to find that he is now stricken with ALS, a terminal disease that slowly immobilizes him to the point of a vegetative state. Regardless, the two brother’s re-encounter becomes an emotional roller coaster, a journey that oscillates between love, joy, truth, resentment and forgiveness, leading Marcelo and Carlos to a magical moment that soon dissipates with the inevitable farewell that separates them once again. Will this be their final parting?
Director
Actor, writer, director, and producer, Guillermo Ivàn graduated in art from Havana University and later took a degree in production and direction. In Mexico he continued his acting studies at the Casa del Teatro, then moved to New York where he completed two years of training at HB Studio. He embarked on an acting career, on stage and screen, in the US, Cuba, Mexico and Colombia. He made his directorial debut in 2009 with NO TURNING BACK, which he also wrote, produced and acted in. The following year he founded his own production company, Golden Ceiba Productions. Subsequent films include: BLUE FAMILY (2013), 21 OUTS (2014), THE STRIKE (2014).
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Fipresci Award in Montreal for "The visitor" by Mehmet Eryilmaz
" The visitor" by Mehmet Eryilmaz; was awarded with a FIPRESCI Mention, during 2015 Montreal Festival des Films du Monde, for the "Remarkable contribution to learn more the values of the turkish society".
Filmed by Leopoldo Soto
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The FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2015 for best film of the year goes to ''Mad Max: Fury Road'' by George Miller
The film will collect the accolade at the San Sebastian Festival
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Mad Max: Fury Road has been voted best film by the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI. The vote for the FIPRESCI Gran Prix 2015 saw the participation of 493 Federation members around the world, who made their choice from among films to have premiered after 1 July 2014. The first round ended in a last vote to be made among the four finalists: Saul Fia / Son of Saul, Nie yinniang/ The Assassin, Taxi Téhéran and Mad Max: Fury Road. Mad Max: Fury Road was screened in the Official Selection out of competition at the last Cannes Festival. This is the first time that a film by George Miller has won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix, presented since its creation in 1999 to Richard Linklater, Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others. Director George Miller says: “You could have knocked me over with a feather! It's lovely to have this great cohort of critics acknowledge our collective labours in this way” Mad Max: Fury Road, released in Spain last May 15 by Warner Bros. Pictures, will have a special screening on September 18 at the San Sebastian Festival, attended by George Miller, who will collect the FIPRESCI Grand Prix at the Festival opening gala.
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Cooperación Española Award, a new accolade at the 63rd San Sebastian Festival
The award will go to the Ibero-American film that best contributes to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights
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Award Winners of 39th Montreal - Video Interviews
AWARDS OF THE MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL MONTRÉAL 2015
Jury
President : Dany Laferrière, writer (Canada)
Luis Urquiza, filmmaker (Mexico)
Gerardo Salcedo, festival programmer (Mexico)
Peter Rainer, writer & film critic (United States)
Ventura Pons, filmmaker, (Spain)
Tea Falco, actress (Italy)
Features
Grand Prize of the Americas: Mad Love from Philippe Ramos (France)
Video interview with Diane Rouxel for Fou d'Amour
Special Grand Jury Award: Misafir (The Visitor/La Visiteuse) from Mehmet Eryilmaz (Turkey)
2 films-Tie for Best director: 2 nights til morning de Mikko Kuparinen (Finland / Luthania) etDosieto Petrov (Petrov File / Le Dossier Petrov) from Georgi Balabanov (Bulgaria / Germany)
Interviews with the team of Petrov Files en français and in english
Best Actress: Malin Buska for The Girl King de Mika Kaurismäki (Canada / Finland /Germany / Switzerland)
Best Actor: Wolfram Berger for Rider Jack de This Lüscher (Switzerland)
Best Screenplay: Letnie Przesilenie (Summer Solstice / Solstice d’été) from Michal Rogalski(Poland/ Germany)
Interview with screenplay writer and producer
Best Artistic contribution: Seven Days de Xing Jian (China)
Innovation Award : Un Instante En La Habana (Havana Moment) from Guillermo Ivàn Duenas (USA / Cuba / Mexico/ Colombia)
Short Films :
1st Prize : La Voce (La voix) from David Uloth (Canada)
Jury Award: Honeysuckle from Lucy Lumsden (United Kingdom)
Zenith awards for best first fiction feature
Jury members for First Fiction Films: Pierre Henri Deleau and Antoine Zeind
Golden Zenith for the Best First Fiction Feature Film: Chuyi (The Funeral / Les funérailles) from Qi Wang (China)
Silver Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film: Para Minha Amada Morta (To My Beloved / À Ma Bien Aimée) from Ali Muritiba (Brazil))
Bronze Zenith for the First Fiction Feature Film: La Linea Delgada Amarilla (The Thin Yellow Line) from Celso Garcia (Mexico)
Special Mentions of the First Feature Film Jury: Asman Aldynda (Under Heaven) from DalmiraTilepbergen (Kyrgyzstan) and Rosa Chumbe from Jonatan Relayze Chiang (Peru)
Dalmira Tilepbergen with Bruno Chatelin and Consul of Kyrgyzstan in Montreal
Public Awards
The Public was invited to vote for the most popular films in different categories of films presented during the 2015 Montreal World film festival
Audience Award for Chucks by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl from Cornelia Travnicek(s book (Autriche)
Interview de l'équipe en anglais Interview de l auteur de Chucks
Public Awards for the most popular film of the Festival : The Girl King from Mika Kaurismäki (Canada / Finland /Germany / Switzerland)
Glauber Rocha Award for the Best Latin American: La Delgada Linea Amarilla (The Thin Yellow Line) from Celso Garcia (Mexico)
Award for Best Documentary: TIE Marzia, Ystäväni(Marzia My Friend / Marzia Mon Amie) from Kirsi Mattila (Finland) et Playing Lecuona de Pavel Giroud (Spain- Colombia)
Best Canadian Short Film : La Voce (The Voice / La Voix) from David Uloth (Canada)
FIPRESCI PRIZE (INTERNATIONALE FILM CRITICS), WORLD compétition : Misafir (The Visitor / La Visiteuse) from Mehmet Eryilmaz (Turkey)
FIPRESCI PRIZE (INTERNATIONALE FILM CRITICS), First Feature : Rosa Chumbe from Jonatan Relayze Chiang (Peru)
Ecumenical Jury Prize : L’orchestre de minuit de Jérôme Cohen Olivar (Morroco)
Ecumenical Jury Mentions
Un Instante En La Habana by Guillermo Ivàn Duenas (USA, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia) and Dorogo Na Berlin (On The Road To Berlin) de Sergei Popov (Russie)
OTHER AWARDS
A special grand prize of the Americas is awarded to producer Lord Puttnam for his exceptional contribution to the world of cinema.
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Awards of Final Cut in Venice: supporting the post-production of films from Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria
Final Cut in Venice is a workshop initiative to support the post-production of films from Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
The partners of the third edition of Final Cut in Venice (72nd Venice International Film Festival) have decided to give their support to the following films in post-productions:
- ZAINEB HATES THE SNOW / ZAINEB TAKRAHOU ETHELJ by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia)
Has been supported by:
- Abu Dhabi’s Film Fund SANAD is giving € 10,000 for post-production costs
- Sub-Ti Ltd. (London) is giving up to € 6,000 for the production of a DCP master and Italian or English subtitles,
- Rai Cinema is giving € 5,000 for the purchase of two-year broadcasting rights
- Amiens International Film Festival is giving a participation in the production costs of a DCP
- Fribourg International Film Festival is giving a participation in the production costs of a DCP
ALI, THE GOAT, AND IBRAHIM / ALI MEA’ZA WE IBRAHIM by Sherif Elbendary (Egypt)
Has been supported by:
- CNC – Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (Paris) is giving € 10,000 to be spent on post-production in France
- Knightworks is giving up to € 10,000 for visual effects and special effects
- Titra TVS (Paris) is giving up to € 10,000 for digital colour correction, for the production of a DCP master and French or English subtitles
HOUSE IN THE FIELDS / TIGMI NIGREN by Tala Hadid (Morocco)
Has been supported by:
- Laser Film (Rome) is giving € 15,000 for the colour correction, for up to 50 hours of work (technician included)
- Mactari Mixing Auditorium (Paris) is giving a discount of € 15,000 for the sound mixing
- SEPARATION / HAVIBON by Hakar Abdulqadir (Iraq)
Has been supported by:
- MAD Solutions is giving a participation in the marketing, publicity and distribution in the Arab World to the film
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Video message in a bottle by Philippe Ramos, Grand Prix of the Americas winner for "Fou d Amour Mad Love
Fou D Amour by Philippe Ramos tells the story of man accused of two murders in France (1959).
Found guilty, he is condemned to death. He is guillotined. But his head begins to tell the story of his life. He was a priest. He loved life, he loved women, he loved God and preached every Sunday in his church. A perfect life! An admired priest, a wonderful lover, his earthly paradise seemed neverending... “In my earlier film, Ici-bas, I placed all the anguish of the world on the shoulders of the priest, imbuing the story with a suffocating gravity: the lively and seductive side to the murderer was largely discarded. This left me with a sense of unfinished business. With FOU D’AMOUR, just as a painter repeats his motif in order to explore new aspects, I reworked my ‘canvas’: this time, the happiness and pleasure would be voluble and would precede the devastating madness. So the film has a lighter, even humorous tone, before the colours change here and there to create a deteriorating atmosphere and a darkening mood, until it all turns black and tragic.” -- Philippe Ramos
FOU D'AMOUR / MAD LOVE
2015, Colour, France, World Competition
Production Team
Director : Philippe Ramos
Screenwriter : Philippe Ramos
Cinematographer : Philippe Ramos
Editor : Philippe Ramos
Cast : Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc, Diane Rouxel, Lise Lamétrie, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Bonnafé, Jean-Paul Bodet, Virginie Petit
Music : Pierre-Stéphane Meugé
Film production and Sales : Prod. & Ventes/Sales: Paulo Branco, Alfama Films, 78 rue de Turbigo, 75003 Paris (France), tél.: +33 (01) 42 01 07 05, alfamafilms@orange.fr / Andrea Dos Santos, andrea.alfamafilms@orange.fr.
Synopsis
Director
Born in 1966, Philippe Ramos attended the Paris film school La Fémis and is part of a group of young French film directors sometimes referred to as the new wave of French cinema, a group including Yves Caumon, Jean-Paul Civeyrac and François Ozon. After a series of shorts films -- Les îles désertes (1993), Vers le silence (1995), Ici-bas (1996), L'Arche de Noé (2000), Capitaine Achab (2003) -- he made his feature debut with ADIEU PAYS in 2003. Four years later he made a feature-length version of CAPITAINE ACHAB (best director at the Locarno Festival), followed by JEANNE CAPTIVE in 2011.
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2015 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival Award Ceremony with full of culture and kids.
2015, the 12th San Diego International Children's Film Festival, awards ceremony finally come to an end, filmmakers from around the world were breathless waiting the list to be announced.
Best Film received by Under Blood Red Sun (USA), best short film- The Great Treasure Quest (France), Best Director---Wei Zheng ( The Road), Best screenplay -Love In Full Bloom (China), Best Actor- Crystal girl, Huohuo Zhang (China) The best documentary film -Camp (USA) Special Jury Prize -Frog (United States). Check the details on: www.sdkidsfilms.org
Forty pageants from LA and New York dressed in elegant traditional Chinese cheongsam walking graceful into the hall. Audiences were also wearing the costumes of different cultural elements; it's a unique ceremony atmosphere. A thirteen years old actress Cady Mariano and an eight years old actress Huohuo Zhang, both perform as dancer last night. The high school orchestras from Carmel Valley were there played two songs. All these young kid's performance might not as great as professional performer, but it is perfect echo to the "Children's Film Festival" theme.
The award presenters are movie stars ( Ms. Miao Miao, Mr. shuguang Gao) and Industries important people: Mr. Kevin Tostado ( Amy award winner); Mr. Tim Swain (Director, Producer, Distribution company CEO), etc. The event MCs are Ms.Giovanna Maimone; Chioma Agbara and Asante Sefa-Boakye.
With the "San Diego International Children's Film Festival" gradually expand the size of the next session, children's film market is also relatively more by the filmmakers
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Tribute to Visionary Talent Award 2015 to American director Jonathan Demme Venice
The Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award 2015 to American director Jonathan Demme Venice, 28 August 2015. Persol announced that the 2015 PERSOL TRIBUTE TO VISIONARY TALENT AWARD is bestowed to American director Jonathan Demme in a ceremony that will be held during the 72. Venice International Film Festival (2-12 September 2015) The awards ceremony to confer the 2015 PERSOL TRIBUTE TO VISIONARY TALENT AWARD to Jonathan Demme, who is the President of the Orizzonti Jury at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, will be held on Thursday September 3rd at 3:00 pm in the Sala Darsena (Lido di Venezia). Stefano Volpetti, Chief Marketing Officer of Luxottica Group says: “We are proud to continue our partnership with the Venice International Film Festival, now in its eleventh consecutive year. Our PERSOL TRIBUTE TO VISIONARY TALENT AWARD celebrates in 2015 a revolutionary artist, an icon of the USA movie industry. It’s a great honor for us to reward Jonathan Demme, a talent who fully reflects Persol’s personality. Since its origins Persol represents a timeless benchmark for luxury accessories and it has always been linked to cinema thanks to its highest craftsmanship that makes it one of the most exclusive and innovative eyewear brand for design and production. We are proud that a great artist as Demme accepted to be rewarded by Persol, linking his talent to our brand.” Traditionally synonymous with elegance and glamour, Persol has become a legend in the history of Italian and international eyewear design. Cinema has always been embedded in its DNA: in fact, since the 1960’s various styles of Persol glasses have played a major role in some of Italy’s most important films, and they have become the personal choice of many unforgettable artists and talents in the world of cinema and the international star system. The brand's strong bond with the world of cinema has remained unchanged over time, and has resulted in the collaboration, for the eleventh consecutive year, between Persol and the Venice International Film Festival.
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Montreal World Film Festival 2015 Best Director Award - ex-aequo Georgi Balabanov & Mikko Kuparinen
THE PETROV FILE (Bulgaria/Germany)
directed by Georgi Balabanov (screenplay: Georgi Balabanov, Jean-Claude Carriere)
A prominent stage actor makes his return after the fall of the communist regime. Soon after, he gets an offer to lead a new political party. Can art and politics be separated under the "new" regime?
Balabanov’s clever approach to his story and characters created a piece that immediately captures the viewer's attention, where most other movies on the same subject from the Balkans have failed in recent years. Despite of the Balabanov theater and documentary background, the filmmaker skillfully succeeded in telling a very complex story in a cinematic way. Dealing with some basic human flaws like hypocrisy – betrayal – greed... in a single word corruption, Balabanov clearly points out that all of the above are not conditioned by any particular regime nowadays. Most powerful bad guys from the previous regime, has successfully traded their jerseys for new ones – of the liberal capitalism; collateral damage - always honest and decent people, good guys that naively believe in righteousness and freedom.
The Petrov File offers an exciting political thriller for the audience not familiar with eastern bloctransition, while all the others should easily recognize very truthful take on still ongoing painful experience, without author’s dishonest sentimentality or feverishness.
2 NIGHTS TILL MIDNIGHT (Finland/Luthania)
written and directed by Mikko Kuparinen
A one-night stand stand between two strangers in Lithuania takes an unexpected turn after an ash cloud from a volcano prevents all flights from taking off.
Mikko Kuparinen skillfully created a subtle, very profound, and stylish two-character driven melodrama, which begins with a high concept hook – 2 people accidentally meet somewhere abroad, get immediately attracted to each other, only to learn that they don’t speak the language of the other. Beside the script particularly focusing on character development (with which Kuparinen did a great job!), this type of movie has to rely heavily on the actors, and the two leads gave superb performance; arguably internationally acclaimed French Canadian Marie-Josee Croze, and especially Mikko Nousiainen, a Finish actor who carried out a very delicate role with an unusual easiness. Hopefully, Nousiainen’s talent will be recognized, insomuch so we’ll start seeing him more in various future productions worldwide. A highly sophisticated piece that brings us a really promising filmmaker.
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Side Awards of the 72nd Venice Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award
Best film of Venezia 72: Sangue del mio sangue by Marco Bellocchio
SIGNIS Award
to Beixi moshuo (Behemoth) by Liang Zhao
Special Mention to L’attesa by Piero Messina
Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola per il Cinema Award
to L’attesa by Piero Messina
Francesco Pasinetti Award
to Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Best Actor award to Luca Marinelli for the film Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Best Actress award to Valeria Golino for the film Per amor vostro by Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Special award to La prima luce by Vincenzo Marra
Best Actor award to Luca Marinelli for the film Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Best Actress award to Valeria Golino for the film Per amor vostro by Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Special award to La prima luce by Vincenzo Marra
Brian Award
to Spotlight by Thomas McCarthy
Queer Lion Award
to The Danish Girl by Tom Hooper
Special Mention to Baby Bump by Kuba Czekaj
Arca CinemaGiovani Award
Best film of Venezia 72: Abluka (Frenzy) by Emin Alper
Best Italian film to Pecore in erba by Alberto Caviglia
FEDIC Award
to Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Special Mention “Fedic – Il Giornale del Cibo” to L’attesa by Piero Messina
Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award
to Alexander Sokurov for the film Francofonia
Special Award to Johnny Depp and to the director Terry Gilliam
Future Film Festival Digital Award
to Anomalisa by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
P. Nazareno Taddei Award
to Marguerite by Xavier Giannoli
Lanterna Magica (CGS) Award
to Blanka by Kohki Hasei
Open Award
to director Carlotta Cerquetti for the film Harry’s Bar
Lina Mangiacapre Award
to Laurie Anderson for the film Heart of a Dog
Mouse d'Oro Award
Mouse d’oro for the best film of Venezia 72: Rabin, The Last Day by Amos Gitai
Mouse d’argento for the best Out of Competition film to Spotlight by Tom McCarthy
Gillo Pontecorvo - Arcobaleno Latino Award
to Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
INTERFILM Award
to Wednesday, May 9 by Vahid Jalilvand
Young Jury Members of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award
to Remember by Atom Egoyam
Special Mention to 11 minut (11 Minutes) by Jerzy Skolimowski
“Civitas Vitae prossima” Award
to Alberto Caviglia for the film Pecore in erba
Green Drop Award
to Beixi moshuo (Behemoth) by Liang Zhao
Soundtrack Stars Award
to A Bigger Splash by Luca Guadagnino
to Equals by Drake Doremus
Award for lifetime achievement to Nicola Piovani
to Equals by Drake Doremus
Award for lifetime achievement to Nicola Piovani
Schermi di Qualità – Carlo Mazzacurati Award
to Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Europa Cinemas Label Award
Best European Movie from the Giornate degli Autori – Venice Days to À peine j’ouvre lese yeux (As I Open my Eyes) by Leyla Bouzid
Fedeora Award
Giornate Degli Autori – Venice Days
Best Film: Underground Fragrance by Pengfei
Best director of a debut film to Ruchika Oberoi for Island City
Best actress in a debut film to Ondina Quadri for Arianna
Settimana Internazionale della Critica – Venice International Film Critics’ Week
Best film: Kalo Pothi by Bahadur Bham Min
Best photography to Benthey Dean for Tanna
Venezia 72
Award for Best Euro-Mediterranean film: Francofonia by Alexander Sokurov
Human Rights Nights Award
to Rabin, The Last Day by Amos Gitai
AssoMusica “Ho visto una Canzone” Award
to the song “A cuor leggero” by Riccardo Sinigallia, from the film Non Essere Cattivo by Claudio Caligari.
“Sorriso diverso Venezia 2015” Award
Best Italian film to Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Best film in a foreign language to Blanka by Kohki Hasei
Amnesty International Italia “ Il cinema per i diritti umani” Award
to Visaaranai (Interrogation) by Vetri Maaran
CITC – UNESCO 2015 Award
to Beasts of No Nation by Cary Fukunaga
NuovoImaie Talent Award
Best actress in a debut film: Ondina Quadri in the film Arianna by Carlo Lavagna
Best Italian actor in a debut film: Alessandro Borghi in the film Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari
Best Innovative Budget Award
to A Bigger Splash by Luca Guadagnino
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Awards of the 72nd Venice Film Festival
The Venezia 72 Jury, chaired by Alfonso Cuarón and comprised of Elizabeth Banks, Emmanuel Carrère, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Diane Kruger, Francesco Munzi, Pawel Pawlikowski and Lynne Ramsey having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:
Golden Lion for Best Film to: DESDE ALLÁ (FROM AFAR) by Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
Silver Lion for Best Director to: Pablo Trapero for the film EL CLAN (Argentina, Spain)
Grand Jury Prize to: ANOMALISA by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson (USA)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Valeria Golino in the film PER AMOR VOSTRO by Giuseppe Gaudino (Italy)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Fabrice Luchini in the film L’HERMINE by Christian Vincent (France)
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor to: Abraham Attah in the film BEASTS OF NO NATION by Cary Joji Fukunaga (USA)
Award for Best Screenplay to: Christian Vincent for the film L’HERMINE by Christian Vincent (France)
Special Jury Prize to: ABLUKA (FRENZY) by Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM
Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film Jury at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, chaired by Saverio Costanzo and comprised of Charles Burnett, Roger Garcia, Natacha Laurent and Daniela Michel, has decided to award:
Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film to: THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER by Brady Corbet (United Kingdom, Hungary) (ORIZZONTI)
as well as a prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis to be divided equally between director and producer
ORIZZONTI AWARDS
The Orizzonti Jury of the 72nd Venice Film Festival, chaired by Jonathan Demme and composed of Anita Caprioli, Fruit Chan, Alix Delaporte and Paz Vega having viewed the 34 films in competition has decided to award:
the Orizzonti Award for Best Film to: FREE IN DEED by Jake Mahaffy (USA, New Zealand)
the Orizzonti Award for Best Director to: Brady Corbet for THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER by Brady Corbet (United Kingdom, Hungary)
the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize to: BOI NEON (NEON BULL) by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, Uruguay, The Netherlands)
the Special Orizzonti Award for Best Actor to: Dominique Lebornein the film TEMPÊTE by Samuel Collardey
the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film to: BELLADONNA by Dubravka Turic (Croatia)
the Venice Short Film Nomination for the European Film Awards 2015 to:
E.T.E.R.N.I.T. by Giovanni Aloi (France)
VENEZIA CLASSICI AWARDS
The Venezia Classici Jury, chaired by Francesco Patierno composed of 25 students of Cinema History, chosen in particular from the teachers of 12 Italian Dams university programmes and from the Venice University of Ca’ Foscari, has decided to award:
the Venezia Classici Award for Best Documentary on Cinema to:
THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MADDIN by Yves Montmayeur (France)
the Venezia Classici Award for Best Restored Film to:
SALÒ O LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975, Italy, France)
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2015 to:
Bertrand Tavernier
Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to The Filmmaker Award 2015 to:
Brian De Palma
Persol Tribute Visionary Talent Award 2015 to:
Jonathan Demme
L’oréal Paris per il Cinema Award to:
Valentina Corti
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EZAE sponsors the Youth Award at the San Sebastian Festival
EZAE, the association of cinemas in the Basque Country, will sponsor the Youth Award at this year’s San Sebastian Festival. The decision stems from the association’s commitment to cinematic culture and to the entire film industry. And, above all, from the conviction that far greater effort must be made to find formulas which permit the younger population to frequent cinemas, the perfect setting to enjoy any audiovisual production.
Films in the New Directors section and those in the Horizontes Latinos section which are the first or second work by their director will compete for this award, decided by a Jury of 230 young students aged 18 to 25.
Sponsorship of the Youth Award will continue beyond the San Sebastian Festival proper. EZAE will take advantage of the boost lent by the Festival to the most highly valued films in the section to screen them at special showings in the cinemas associated o EZAE, and at lower prices, in order to promote their viewing among young people. The screenings will be accompanied by a guided debate giving a deeper look at the values of the film.
EZAE considers that its backing of the San Sebastian Festival, which largely develops on the screens of the association, is a magnificent opportunity to encourage young people to frequent cinemas, and to increase the culture of film in the Basque Country.
BIRTH OF EZAE
The EZAE association was born only a few months ago to promote, communicate and spread the culture of film, and to foster the revitalisation and maintenance of privately managed cinemas. Its partners, with a long professional background, play a leading role in the Basque cultural scene and contribute to sustaining creation and cinematic cultural diversity.
In parallel fashion, EZAE seeks to integrate the activities and installations of these cinemas to the Basque cultural fabric. As a result of this spirit, EZAE and ZINEUSKADI (the association that backs the Basque audiovisual sector) have joined forces to promote actions making it possible to foster audiovisual consumption and public attendance of film exhibition theatres in the Basque Country. These campaigns are particularly aimed at promoting cinema in the Basque language and European productions.
Among the purposes behind the birth of EZAE, is particularly the promotion of cinematic culture in all of its aspects and variants and, by extension, of culture in general. The association is also pledged to creating spaces for knowledge of and rapprochement to cinema, and to any cultural expression, as vehicles for cohesion, integration and tolerance.
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Director Masato HARADA to be the focus of JAPAN NOW at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival
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Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce that Masato HARADA will be the first Directorin Focus of TIFF’s new section JAPAN NOW. Masato HARADA is the award-winning director of such works as “Bounce Ko Gals,” “Climber’s High,” “Chronicle of My Mother” and “The Emperor in August,” which continues to draw crowds to the theaters over a month after its opening.
On Friday, October 9, a JAPAN NOW Press Conference featuring Masato HARADA, with a very special English-subtitled screening of his jidaigeki film, “Kakekomi,” will be held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ). We also will be welcoming Harada’s muse and legendary actress Kirin KIKI. We cordially invite members of the press to join this special opportunity to hear from them and the latest information about the 28th TIFF. The full JAPAN NOW lineup will be announced on September 29, 2015
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The People's Choice Award 2015
Every year, the EFA People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film. When the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for: the audience. This year’s vote has started – vote now and win the chance to join winners and nominees for the awards ceremony in Berlin!
Winners in the past have included films like Pedro Almodóvar’s VOLVER, Roberto Benigni’s LA VITA E BELLA, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s AMÉLIE, Fatih Akin’s HEAD-ON, and Danny Boyle’s SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. In 2014, the EFA People's Choice Award went to IDA by Paweł Pawlikowski.
Film fans can cast their vote on the official website
and win a trip to the 28th European Film Awards 2015 in Berlin!
NOMINATED ARE:
| A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE |
| FORCE MAJEURE |
| LEVIATHAN
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| MARSHLAND |
| SAMBA |
| SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS |
| THE IMITATION GAME |
| THE SALT OF THE EARTH |
| VICTORIA |
| WHITE GOD |
The winner of the EFA People’s Choice Award 2015 will be announced on stage during the European Film Awards Ceremony on 12 December in Berlin.
Ernst & Young, one of the leading global professional services firms, continues to act as Official Tabulator, endorsing the voting procedures and confirming the winner.
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TIFF 2015 Awards announced
September 20, 2015 .NEWS RELEASE. TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2015 AWARD WINNERS TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival® today announced award winners from the 40th Festival, which wraps up this evening. The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of the head of the shorts program and creations unit at Canal+ France, Pascale Faure, film writer John Anderson (The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times), and actor Rizwan Manji (Outsourced, The Wolf of Wall Street). SHORTS CUTS AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM The Shorts Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to Patrice Laliberté for Overpass. The jury remarked, “For its seductive, elliptical and graceful manner of exploring the nature of grief and the unconventional ways that families react to loss, all of which was elevated by the performance of Téo Vachon Sincennes.” The award offers a $10,000 cash prize. The jury gave an honourable mention to Sol Friedman’s Bacon & God’s Wrath, “For its whimsical and wry examination of religious conviction and intellectual conversion, and the acknowledgment that courage and transformation can be achieved at any age and involve any manner of pork by-product.” SHORT CUTS AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM The Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film goes to Maïmouna Doucouré’s Maman(s). The jury remarked, “For its daring and revelatory exploration of a family's dysfunction and upheaval through the eyes of a child and its refusal to cast characters as villains but rather as complex, and highly conflicted, human beings the jury selects Maman(s). The jury also wanted to acknowledge the vulnerable, defiant performance of the gifted Sokhna Diallo.” The award offers a $10,000 cash prize. The jury gave an honourable mention to Fyzal Boulifa’s Rate Me, “For its blithely unconventional approach to new media and new mores, and a sense of humour as wry as it was rude.” The Canadian awards below were selected by a jury comprised of filmmaker Don McKellar (The Grand Seduction), Jacqueline Lyanga (Director of AFI Fest), and Ilda Santiago (Programming and Executive Director of Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival). CITY OF TORONTO AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN FIRST FEATURE FILM The City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film goes to for Andrew Cividino’s Sleeping Giant. The jury remarked, “For its sophisticated plotting, indelible characters and insightful critique of masculinity through a fateful rite of passage on the north shore of Lake Superior, the jury selects Sleeping Giant.” This award carries a cash prize of $15,000, made possible by the City of Toronto. CANADA GOOSE AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM The Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film goes to Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster. The jury remarked, “For its confidence and invention in tackling the pain and yearning of the first love and coming of age of a young gay man in Newfoundland, the jury recognizes the remarkable artistry and vision of first-time feature director Stephen Dunn for Closet Monster.” This award carries a cash prize of $30,000 and a custom award, sponsored by Canada Goose. The jury gave an honourable mention to Philippe Falardeau’s My Internship in Canada, “For its dexterous intelligence and cinematic wit.” THE PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI PRIZES) The Festival welcomed an international FIPRESCI jury for the 24th year. The jury members composed of jury president Engin Ertan (Turkey), Chris Alexander (Canada), Francisco Ferreira (Portugal), Kerstin Gezelius (Sweden), Pierre Pageau (Canada), and Alissa Simon (USA). Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for the Discovery programme is awarded to Marko Škop for Eva Nová. The jury remarked, “For exploring themes of humanity, dignity, addiction and redemption in a naturalistic, deceptively simple and non-exploitative manner, FIPRESCI is pleased to present the prize in the Discovery programme to Marko Škop's haunting debut feature Eva Nová.” Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations is awarded to Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto. The jury remarked, "For using pure cinema to create a strong physical sensation of being trapped in a vast space and hunted down by hatred in its most primal form, FIPRESCI presents the prize in the Special Presentations programme to Desierto by Jonás Cuarón." NETPAC AWARD As selected by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema for the 4th consecutive year, the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere goes to Sion Sono for The Whispering Star. Jury members include jury chairperson Anne Misawa (USA), Heather Keung (Canada), and Nashen Moodley (Australia). The jury remarked, “For its poetic, moving and brave attempt to express a grief that's inexpressible, combining all too real elements with lo-fi sci-fi, the NETPAC jury awards the prize to The Whispering Star.” TORONTO PLATFORM PRIZE This is the inaugural year for Platform, the Festival’s new juried programme that champions director’s cinema from around the world. The Festival welcomed an international jury composed of acclaimed filmmakers Jia Zhang-ke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland, who awarded the first ever Toronto Platform Prize to Alan Zweig for HURT. The jury remarked, "Following a long discussion, the jury has chosen unanimously to give the Platform prize to HURT. It is a film that explores the complexity and fragility of human destiny in a country that much of the world sees as a paradise." The award offers a $25,000 cash prize and a custom award. The jury gave honourable mentions to Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull, He Ping’s The Promised Land, and Pablo Trapero’s The Clan. GROLSCH PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS This year marked the 38th year that Toronto audiences were able to cast a ballot for their favourite Festival film for the Grolsch People’s Choice Award. This year’s award goes to Lenny Abrahamson for Room. Told through the eyes of five-year-old-Jack, Room is a thrilling and emotional tale that celebrates the resilience and power of the human spirit. To Jack, the Room is the world... it's where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. But while it's home to Jack, to Ma it's a prison. Through her fierce love for her son, Ma has managed to create a childhood for him in their 10-by-10-foot space. But as Jack's curiosity is building alongside Ma's own desperation — she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely. The award offers a $15,000 cash prize and custom award, sponsored by Grolsch. The second runner up is Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight. The first runner up is Pan Nalin’s Angry Indian Goddesses. The Festival presents a free screening of the award-winning film Room tonight. The screening takes place at 8 p.m. at Roy Thomson Hall. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6 p.m. at Roy Thomson Hall. The Grolsch People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award goes to Ilya Naishuller for Hardcore. Resurrected with no recollection of his past, a cyborg named Henry and his ally Jimmy must fight through the streets of Moscow in pursuit of Henry’s kidnapped wife, in the world’s first action-adventure film to be entirely shot from the first person perspective. The second runner up is Jeremy Saulnier for Green Room. The first runner up is Todd Strauss-Schulson for The Final Girls. The Grolsch People’s Choice Documentary Award goes to Evgeny Afineevsky for Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom. Chronicling events that unfolded over 93 days in 2013 and 2014, the film witnesses the formation of a new civil rights movement in Ukraine. What started as peaceful student demonstrations supporting European integration morphed into a full-fledged violent revolution calling for the resignation of the nation’s president. The second runner up is Brian D. Johnson’s Al Purdy Was Here. The first runner up is Avi Lewis’s This Changes Everything. DROPBOX DISCOVERY PROGRAMME FILMMAKERS AWARD Earlier in the Festival, the winner of the Dropbox Discovery Programme Filmmakers Award was announced. The award went to Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah whose film, Black, was presented as part of the Discovery programme. The award carries a $5,000 cash prize along with free Dropbox for Business accounts. Social Media: @TIFF_NET #TIFF15 Facebook.com/TIFF About TIFF TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world, through film. An international leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit tiff.net. The City of Toronto is the supporter of the Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film. Canada Goose is the sponsor of the Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. Grolsch Premium Lager is the sponsor of the People's Choice Awards. Dropbox is the sponsor of the Discovery Programme Filmmakers Award. -30- For information, contact the Communications Department at 416.934.3200 or email proffice@tiff.net.
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