The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Short films dominated the 2015 Blackstar Film Festival. Over 60 short films (expertly programmed into blocks devoted to music, Black boys and men, coming-of-age, experimental, social justice, love stories, fatherhood, satire and films from the diaspora), were screened this year, uniformly of good quality and reflecting facets of the black experience that seldom get expressed in mainstream cinema. Among the best that I saw (I caught 20 films) were "Black Card" by Pete Chatmon; "The Bravest, The Boldest" by Moon Molson; "The Youth" by Dehanza Rogers; "Dream" by Nilja Mu’min and "Swimming In Your Skin Again" by Terence Nance. In...
- 8/3/2015
- by Michael Dennis
- ShadowAndAct
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has completed the selection for its tenth Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.Scroll down for full line-up
The competition in the shorts category will comprise a mix of 20 short fiction films, experimental films and documentaries from around the world.
Nominated filmmakers include director and 2009 Hivos Tiger Award nominee Ben Russell, who will also present a lecture at the Festival, and 2008 Tiger Award for Short Film winner Ben Rivers, as well as new filmmakers from countries including Vietnam, Egypt, Norway, Singapore, Serbia and Austria.
This competition includes ten world premieres, of which four are from the Netherlands.
The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films consists of British artist, filmmaker and two-time winner of this award Beatrice Gibson; Dutch programmer and curator Xander Karskens; and artistic director of Image Forum Festival Koyo Yamashita from Japan.
Each of the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films comes with €3,000 ($3,600) plus a professional...
The competition in the shorts category will comprise a mix of 20 short fiction films, experimental films and documentaries from around the world.
Nominated filmmakers include director and 2009 Hivos Tiger Award nominee Ben Russell, who will also present a lecture at the Festival, and 2008 Tiger Award for Short Film winner Ben Rivers, as well as new filmmakers from countries including Vietnam, Egypt, Norway, Singapore, Serbia and Austria.
This competition includes ten world premieres, of which four are from the Netherlands.
The jury for the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films consists of British artist, filmmaker and two-time winner of this award Beatrice Gibson; Dutch programmer and curator Xander Karskens; and artistic director of Image Forum Festival Koyo Yamashita from Japan.
Each of the three equal Canon Tiger Awards for Short Films comes with €3,000 ($3,600) plus a professional...
- 1/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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