Indian filmmaker Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction won the top award of best film at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards.
Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi was named best director for Happy Hour, while an ensemble Turkish cast was awarded best performance for their roles in Paruk Kacihafizoglu’s Snow Pirates.
A special mention was given to Avishai Sivan’s Tikkun although its public screening was cancelled as part of the festival’s long-standing policy not to screen censored films.
The Israeli production, which touches on the nature of sexuality, life and death, received an “R21 to be passed with cuts” rating from Singapore’s Media Development Authority. It continued to compete at the Silver Screen Awards through a closed-door jury screening.
Other awards to be presented at the Silver Screen Awards ceremony on Saturday night (Dec 5) at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands included an honorary award for Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and an...
Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi was named best director for Happy Hour, while an ensemble Turkish cast was awarded best performance for their roles in Paruk Kacihafizoglu’s Snow Pirates.
A special mention was given to Avishai Sivan’s Tikkun although its public screening was cancelled as part of the festival’s long-standing policy not to screen censored films.
The Israeli production, which touches on the nature of sexuality, life and death, received an “R21 to be passed with cuts” rating from Singapore’s Media Development Authority. It continued to compete at the Silver Screen Awards through a closed-door jury screening.
Other awards to be presented at the Silver Screen Awards ceremony on Saturday night (Dec 5) at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands included an honorary award for Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and an...
- 12/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Indian filmmaker Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction won the top award of best film at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards.
Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi was named best director for Happy Hour, while an ensemble Turkish cast was awarded best performance for their roles in Paruk Kacihafizoglu’s Snow Pirates.
A special mention was given to Avishai Sivan’s Tikkun although its public screening was cancelled as part of the festival’s long-standing policy not to screen censored films. The Israeli production, which touches on the nature of sexuality, life and death, received an “R21 to be passed with cuts” rating from Singapore’s Media Development Authority. It continued to compete at the Silver Screen Awards through a closed-door jury screening.
Other awards to be presented at the Silver Screen Awards ceremony on Saturday night (Dec 5) at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands included an honorary award for Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and an...
Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi was named best director for Happy Hour, while an ensemble Turkish cast was awarded best performance for their roles in Paruk Kacihafizoglu’s Snow Pirates.
A special mention was given to Avishai Sivan’s Tikkun although its public screening was cancelled as part of the festival’s long-standing policy not to screen censored films. The Israeli production, which touches on the nature of sexuality, life and death, received an “R21 to be passed with cuts” rating from Singapore’s Media Development Authority. It continued to compete at the Silver Screen Awards through a closed-door jury screening.
Other awards to be presented at the Silver Screen Awards ceremony on Saturday night (Dec 5) at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands included an honorary award for Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and an...
- 12/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
The 22nd annual Chicago Underground Film Festival presents five days of devastating celluloid provocations on May 13-17 at the Logan Theatre.
The fest kicks off on May 13 with the incredibly haunting short film Echoes by Jaimz Asmundson and the Filipino romantic crime drama Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal and a Whore by the single-named director Khavn.
Highlights of the fest include the new slacker-ific comedy by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, L for Leisure; the Spanish socio-political documentary Speculation Nation by Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat; the pastoral friendship drama For the Plasma by Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan; and the joyful pop doc Living Stars by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn.
There are also loads of un-missable short films, such as the gritty modern film noir Bite Radius by Spencer Parsons; and amazing new films by Jennifer Reeder (Blood Below the Skin), Zachary Epcar (Under the Heat Lamp...
The fest kicks off on May 13 with the incredibly haunting short film Echoes by Jaimz Asmundson and the Filipino romantic crime drama Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal and a Whore by the single-named director Khavn.
Highlights of the fest include the new slacker-ific comedy by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, L for Leisure; the Spanish socio-political documentary Speculation Nation by Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat; the pastoral friendship drama For the Plasma by Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan; and the joyful pop doc Living Stars by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn.
There are also loads of un-missable short films, such as the gritty modern film noir Bite Radius by Spencer Parsons; and amazing new films by Jennifer Reeder (Blood Below the Skin), Zachary Epcar (Under the Heat Lamp...
- 5/11/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Now that the busy winter fest schedule of Sundance, Rotterdam and the Berlinale has concluded, we’ve now got our eyes on the likes of True/False and SXSW. While, True/False does not specialize in attention grabbing world premieres, it does provide a late winter haven for cream of the crop non-fiction fare from all the previously mentioned fests and a selection of overlooked genre blending films presented in a down home setting. This year will mark my first trip to the Columbia, Missouri based fest, where I hope to catch a little of everything, from their hush-hush secret screenings, to selections from their Neither/Nor series, this year featuring chimeric Polish cinema of decades past, to a spotlight of Adam Curtis’s incisive oeuvre. But truth be told, it is SXSW, with its slew of high profile world premieres being announced, such as Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs...
- 2/27/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.
- 2/3/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
- 2/3/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
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