The 2012 Ashland Independent Film Festival has announced the winners of its Juried and Audience competitions. In the Audience competitions winners included: Rory Kennedy's "Ethel" took Best Documentary; Jonathan Lisecki's "Gayby" for Best Feature; Leslie Iwerks' "Pipe Dreams" for Best Documentary Short Film; and Drew Christie's "Song of the Spindle" took home the prize for Best Narrative Short Film. In the Juried competition winners were: Musa Syeed's "Valley of the Saints" took Best Narrative Feature; Turner Ross and Bill Ross won Best Feature Length Documentary for "Tchoupitoulas"; Best Cinematography went to Nicholas Ozeki's "Mamitas"; "Gayby" won again for Best Acting Ensemble; Kangmin Kim's "38-39° C" won Best Animated Short; Best Short Doc. went to Sam Green's "The Universal Language"; and Levi Abrino's "Little Horses"...
- 4/19/2012
- by Aaron Bogert
- Indiewire
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the contenders for the Best Documentary Short Subject category for the 84th Academy Awards. The shortlist is comprised of eight films which will be whittled down to three to five Oscar nominees.
And the eight films are:
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement," Purposeful Productions, Inc.
"God Is the Bigger Elvis," Documentress Films
"In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution," Downtown Docs
"Incident in New Baghdad," Morninglight Films
"Pipe Dreams," Leslie Iwerks Productions
"Saving Face," Milkhaus/Jungefilm
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom," Supply & Demand Integrated
"Witness," Buche
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Oscar nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The...
And the eight films are:
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement," Purposeful Productions, Inc.
"God Is the Bigger Elvis," Documentress Films
"In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution," Downtown Docs
"Incident in New Baghdad," Morninglight Films
"Pipe Dreams," Leslie Iwerks Productions
"Saving Face," Milkhaus/Jungefilm
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom," Supply & Demand Integrated
"Witness," Buche
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Oscar nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy.s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The...
- 10/17/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Yesterday the Academy finally released the full list of 2012 Foreign Language Oscar contenders adding four films I did not have on my previous list from the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, United Kingdom and a mysterious title I can't find anything about from Kazakhstan and now that the short list has been announced and everyone has posted the Academy's press release it's like searching for a needle in a haystack if you go looking for more information on it. That said, if anyone has a link to any information on Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's Returning to the 'A' I would love to share it as I have links and information for all other 62 films submitted for consideration. As I said in my last post addressing the category, I haven't seen any of these films, a rarity for me, but based on buzz the top contenders would seem to include Zhang Yimou's The War of Flowers,...
- 10/14/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that the list number of films in contention for the Documentary Short Subject nomination has been narrowed down to eight films. Out of those eight, only three to five will earn Oscar nominations. The eight competing for an Oscar nom are: “The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement,” Purposeful Productions, Inc. “God Is the Bigger Elvis,” Documentress Films “In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution,” Downtown Docs “Incident in New Baghdad,” Morninglight Films “Pipe Dreams,” Leslie Iwerks Productions “Saving Face,” Milkhaus/Jungefilm “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” Supply & Demand Integrated “Witness,” Buche The...
- 10/14/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
"In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution," a documentary short about the revolution in Egypt, is one of eight short docs that have made the Academy's shortlist in the Documentary Short category, the Academy announced on Thursday. Also on the list of typically serious, issue-oriented doc shorts are films about the civil rights movement, the conflict in Iraq and the controversial proposed pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The directors of several of the shorts have previously been nominated for Oscars. Leslie Iwerks ("Pipe Dreams") was...
- 10/14/2011
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Lucy Walker's The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Lucy Walker's The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Rebecca Cammisa's God Is the Bigger Elvis, and Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill's In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution are among eight films still in the running for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Five of those shorts will earn Oscar nominations. The semi-finalists were selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Documentary Branch. Thirty-five entries were originally submitted. Unfortunately, there isn't much information out there about several of the current contenders, but at least some of the shorts — inevitably — revolve around recent international events, e.g., In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution; The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, about how some in Japan use art and the national flower to recover from the devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year...
- 10/13/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
“Incident in New Baghdad,” Morninglight Films
Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 84th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.
Voters from the Academy.s Documentary Branch viewed this year.s 35 eligible entries and submitted their ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation.
The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company.
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement,” Purposeful Productions, Inc.
“God Is the Bigger Elvis,” Documentress Films
“In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution,” Downtown Docs
“Incident in New Baghdad,” Morninglight Films
“Pipe Dreams,” Leslie Iwerks Productions
“Saving Face,” Milkhaus/Jungefilm
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” Supply & Demand Integrated
“Witness,” Buche
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday,...
Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 84th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.
Voters from the Academy.s Documentary Branch viewed this year.s 35 eligible entries and submitted their ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation.
The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company.
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement,” Purposeful Productions, Inc.
“God Is the Bigger Elvis,” Documentress Films
“In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution,” Downtown Docs
“Incident in New Baghdad,” Morninglight Films
“Pipe Dreams,” Leslie Iwerks Productions
“Saving Face,” Milkhaus/Jungefilm
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” Supply & Demand Integrated
“Witness,” Buche
The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday,...
- 10/13/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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