All Other Festivals articles – Page 170
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NewsVideocracy scoops first special jury prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Erik Gandini’s Videocracy has won the inaugural special jury award at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.
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NewsORPS and Yatzy win top children’s films prizes at the Nordic Film Days
Atle Knudsen’s ORPS - The Movie and Katja Eyde Jacobsen’s Yatzy won top prizes at the 51st Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, which wrapped up on November 8.
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NewsFish Tank, Woman Without A Piano share AFI New Lights prize
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and Javier Rebello’s Woman Without A Piano have shared the first ever AFI FEST New Lights competition prize.
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NewsWhite Lightnin takes top prize at Mumbai Film Festival
UK director Dominic Murphy’s White Lightnin won the top prize in the international competition for first features at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival, organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI).
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NewsPonyo and Disney's Princess to bookend London Children's film fest
Hayao Miyazaki’s animation Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea and first UK screening of Disney’s The Princess And The Frog will bookend the 5th London Children’s Film Festival (LCFF), which runs November 21 – 29.
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NewsMat Whitecross's Moving To Mars opens 16th Sheffield Doc/Fest
The 16th Sheffield International Documentary Festival opened last night (November 4) with the world premiere of Mat Whitecross’ film Moving To Mars.
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NewsTurin to honour Coppola's American Zoetrope
Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope will receive an inaugural Torino Grand Prix for its contribution to revitalising the US film industry. The director will attend the 27th Turin Film Festival, which runs November 13 – 21, to collect the award.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund supports 27 projects with $571, 357
The Hubert Bals Fund, part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), is handing out $571, 357 (€385,000) to 27 film projects this autumn.
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NewsHausner's Lourdes wins Viennale best film award
Jessica Hausner ‘s Lourdes was presented with the Vienna Film Prize for best film as the Viennale wrapped on Wednesday evening (November 4) with a screening of Coen brother’s A Serious Man.
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NewsAlexandre Franchi's The Wild Hunt nominated for Whistler's Borsos Competition
Alexandre Franchi’s Toronto winner The Wild Hunt is among the six films selected to compete for the Borsos Competition for best new Canadian feature at the forthcoming Whistler Film Festival.
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Videograms Of A Revolution to open fourth Romanian Film Festival in New York
Corneliu Porumboiu’s Romanian foreign language Oscar submission Police, Adjective (pictured) will be among the line-up at the fourth annual Romanian Film Festival in New York City, called 4 Years, 3 Days And 2 Decades Later.
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NewsTamadon Mehran's Bassidji wins Jihlava documentary fest
Tamadon Mehran’s Bassidji won the Opus Bonum at the Jilhlava International Documentary Film Festivall in the Czech Republic, which closed on November 1.
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NewsLiz Mermin's Team Qatar wins best film at first Doha Tribeca festival
Team Qatar, a documentary about the Qatar’s first national high school debating team, took the audience award for best film in festival at the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF).
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NewsBreillat’s Blue Beard takes best film at Greece’s European Cinema festival
Pyramide Films’ Blue Beard (Barbe Bleu) by veteran French film-maker Catherine Breillat won the best film award at the 22nd Panorama of European Cinema Festival, which closed on November 1.
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NewsThe Arrivals scoops three awards at Leipzig doc festival
Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard’s The Arrivals (Les Arrivants) scooped three prizes at the 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, which closed on Sunday (November 1).
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NewsThai film banned from World Film Fest under new film act
An independent Thai film featuring gay sex and confrontational politics was banned from the World Film Festival of Bangkok (WFF), becoming the first casualty of the confusing new Film Act.
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NewsHurt to receive career achievement award in Seville
Actor John Hurt will be honoured with a special lifetime achievement award at the Seville Film Festival, and will present kidnap drama 44-Inch Chest.
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NewsSchamus attacks US security agencies in provocative LFF speech
In a provocative speech at the London Film Festival last night (October 27), Focus Features CEO James Schamus launched an outspoken attack on what he referred to as “America’s vast homeland security bureaucracies”.
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NewsColin Firth to receive Santa Barbara Festival honour
Colin Firth will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance Of The Year Award for A Single Man on February 13, 2010.
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NewsWhistler film festival to honour Ivan Reitman
Canadian director and producer Ivan Reitman will be honoured by the Whistler Film Festival with a special tribute for his lifetime achivement. He will also attend the festival as president of 2009 Borsos jury, which recognises home grown talent