AWARDS

Diagonale Prize Winners 2010

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Diagonale Prize Winners 2010 Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Feature Film (€ 21,000) Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel for La Pivellina (AT/IT 2009) Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary Film (€ 21,000) Brigitte Weich & Karin Macher for Hana, dul, sed ... (AT 2009) Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema for Best Experimental, Animated or Short Film (€ 10,500) Sabine Marte for B-star, untötbar! reloaded (AT 2009) Diagonale Diocese Graz-Seckau...

Closing Ceremony of the 12th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

  Amnesty International Award for a film on Human Rights : The award goes to : « PETITION »Zhao Liag France/China. 2009. 124' There are many reasons why theAmnesty International Award, is of great importance to the ThessalonikiDocumentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century. First of all, because itbrings in contact two institutions that share a strong sensitization andsimilar goals. Furthermore, they both operate on a complementary level, withthe Festival promoting and screenin...

Full Sail University Celebrates Graduates’ Work on Academy Award Winning Films 2010

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Full Sail University (fullsail.edu) is proud to announce that 19 graduates worked on six Oscar®-winning films at the 82nd annual Academy Awards that aired live on ABC, March 7, 2010. Full Sail graduates have succeeded in industry roles on nine Best Picture winning films over the last 15 years, including this year's Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker. Graduates of Full Sail University worked on films that won in categories including: Best Picture, Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a ...

Winners of the Go Short awards announced

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On Saturday night 20 March, the winners of the Go Short awards were announced during an exciting presentation. In arthouse LUX in Nijmegen awards were handed out to seven filmmakers. The jury's were very pleased with the high quality of the selected short films. Winner of the NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film: Fiction Seeds Of The Fall (Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 2009) "A surprisingly deadpan well structured comedy that deals with human shortcomings." ...

2010 International Family Film Festival Awards

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  "Welcome to the 15th annual IFFF held at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California. We like the sound of "15". IFFF celebrates cultural diversity, creativity, tolerance and global unity in its exhibition of excellent family films and screenplays. Over the five days, the festival screened 86 film products from 14 countries and 15 professional film schools that attest to our emphasis on multi-cultural themes and global collaboration. On behalf ...

THE OTHER BANK wins the "Regard d'Or" at the FIFF 2010

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Main awards all go to first films This Saturday evening, Georgian director George Ovashvili received the CHF 30.000 prize from the hands of jury president Hanna Schygulla. THE OTHER BANK also won the Audience Award. The prestigious "Talent Tape Award" worth CHF 23.000 in non-cash benefit was handed to Iranian director Nader T. Homayoun for his film TEHROUN. The Special Jury Award was presented to the Mexican contribution NORTEADO by Rigoberto Perezcano....

Iranian filmmakers receive the EDN Award 2010

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EDN - European Documentary Network has announced that The EDN Award 2010 is presented to IRDFA - Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association. IRDFA receives the award for their outstanding contribution to the documentary culture. EDN has chosen to honour IRDFA with the EDN Award 2010 to recognise the impressive work the organisation has done since it was founded in 1996. IRDFA has established a strong national organisation to unite the Iranian documentary sector and made sure that the docu...

Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival 2010

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CALL FOR ENTRY GUIDELINES, PROCEDURES & APPLICATION   Festival Dates: Sept. 15-19, 2010 MusicFest Showcase: Sept. 17-18, 2010 ENTRY DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2010 ABSOLUTE FINAL, EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 16, 2010 This significant world class music showcase component of the 2010 Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival is designed to showcase original music vision and artistic wizardry of talented individuals and groups from acro...

New York Festivals® Television & Film Awards announces 2010 Finalists

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New York Festivals Television & Film Awards, honoring the "World's Best Work", announced the 2010 competition finalists today.  The GRANDJURYTM, comprised of award winning television and film professionals,   selected finalists from twenty-nine countries around the globe.  All finalists will go on to a second round of judging, with different criteria to determine the prestigious Grand Trophy Award recipients as well as Gold, Silver, and Bronze medalists.   A p...

The European Independent Film Festival Wraps and announces its Awards

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The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU), Europe's premier event for independent cinema, announces the festival's award winners. ÉCU 2010, in partnership with G-Technology by Hitachi, screened 72 films from 28 countries over the weekend of the 12th, 13th and 14th of March 2010 at Cinéma Le Grand Action and Le Triomphe Théâtre in Paris. Twenty-three awards were given out at the ceremony. Winners include Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun from Lost Paradise(France) for "Best Director...

TLAgay.com Launches Annual Awards

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TLAgay.com to Honor the Best of Gay Entertainment in New Annual Awards Program TLAgay.com (http://www.tlagay.com/), one of the largest online and direct mail DVD and VOD entertainment retailers in the country, announced today the launch of the 2010 Gaybie Awards. The Gaybies will honor the very best in gay and lesbian movies, television, literature, online journalism and film festivals from 2009. Categories include Best Openly Gay Actor in a Film or TV Series, Best Television Series featu...

82nd Annual Academy Awards Winners

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By Maria Esteves - March 8, 2010 The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony presented by Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) for outstanding film achievements of 2009, co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin was held at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, California, Sunday, March 2, 8:00pm ET (5:00pm PT). Live coverage of 2010 Oscar Awards were seen in the U.S. on ABC Television Network, on the internet, and in more than 200 countries worldwide. THE HURT LOCKER received the aw...

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The Hurt Locker wins 6 Oscars

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"The Hurt Locker" (the Iraq War drama) won best picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, including best director for Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow is the first woman in the Oscars history to receive Best Director award. "It's the moment of a lifetime," she said. "I hope I'm the first of many," she said afterward backstage. "The Hurt Locker" won best picture in a year where there were 10 nominees instead of the usual five - an effort to include...

Thank you speeches from the Independent Spirit Awards winners

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      Thank U Cam Best Female Lead Gabourey Thank U Cam Best Director Lee Daniels Thank U Cam Jeff Bridges Best Male Lead Crazy Heart Thank U Cam Best Supporting Male Woody Harrelson ...

And the winner is The Hurt Locker...

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For those of you who forgot...here is the list of the nominees... As for the winners, well, you will have to wait a bit more... Independent Spirit Awards had a Precious night, will it be The Hurt Locker's night? Will Avatar stay blue, cold or go Gold...? This is our bet anyway. Watch the 82nd Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, March 7 at 5 p.m. PT/ 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Best Picture "Avatar" James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers "The Blind Side" ...
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