Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 26, 2009 under Mar del Plata International Film Festival | 
Golden Astor Best Film: Nora's Will, by Mariana Chenillo
The Mexican comedy “Cinco dias sin Nora” (Nora’s Will) was awarded the Golden Astor at the 24th annual Mar del Plata Intl Film Festival, in Argentina. The debut film from director Mariana Chenillo, is about a divorced man who has to figure out what to do with his ex’s body after she commits suicide.
The complete list of winners
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 25, 2009 under Reel Work Labor Film Festival |
The Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is seeking documentary or 
dramatic films on themes of empowerment of working people such as through labor organizing.
FILM SUBMISSIONS: Please go to http://www.reelwork.org/submittingafilm.htm and download a submission form to submit directly to the festival. Priority submission deadline for Reel Work 2010 is February 1.
Reel Work is dedicated to popularizing the history and culture of the labor movement and celebrating the empowerment of working people as they take joint action to improve their lives.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival |
The 2010 CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival will take place in New York City from October 19 to 23. 5 days and nights of over 1,200 artists and 120,000 fans in more than 75 of the city’s greatest nightclubs and theaters. Headquarters will once again be located at New York University’s Greenwich Village campus.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Derby City Film Festival |
While the title of the opening night film cannot be announced until December 2nd, that isn’t stopping Derby City Film Festival (DCFF) organizers from preparing for what is, “sure to be one of the greatest film events the city has ever seen.”
“I know it’s hard to take a statement like, “One of the greatest film events” at face value when we cannot follow it up with the title of the film yet.” says organizer Kris Rommel with a smile “But you’re just going to have to take it at face value.”
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 15, 2009 under Asheville Film Festival |
Darby (Mandy Musgrave, left) and Kate (Hallee Hirsh) in “16 to Life”
Now in its seventh year, the Asheville Film Festival featured 93 films and screenplays. The festival winners were announced Saturday night. “16 to Life”, the first feature from Emmy-nominated writer/director Becky Smith (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) took home the top prize for Best Feature Film. The film puts a wry, witty, and unpredictable ensemble cast in a small-town locale reminiscent of a Capra comedy. Before the clock strikes midnight, Kate, a 16-year-old rural American teenager, will learn what she has in common with a 16-year-old Chinese girl half a world, and a cultural revolution away.
The winners:
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Tags: 16 to Life, Autogenesis, Bonecrusher, Deadland, Down in Number 5, Food Fight, O Pintor de Ceos, Open Your Eyes, Painter of the Skies, The Mouse That Soared, True Beauty This Night
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 14, 2009 under Wild Rose Independent Film Festival |
Best Feature: "The Things We Carry"
The 7th Wild Rose Independent Film Festival in Des Moines, Iowa culminated last Sunday with AriesWorks Entertainment’s special premiere Des Moines screening of the Iowa independent feature film, Haunting Villisca, based on the unsolved 1912 Villisca Axe murders and the current paranormal activity in the house where the crime took place. The film (not in competition at the festival) played to a packed house. Haunting Villisca is an Iowa film directed by James Serpento and produced by Kimberly Busbee and also was co-written by them.
This year’s WRIFF which ran 4 days, showcased 35 short, animated, documentary, music and feature films from Iowa, the U.S. and other countries, including Canada, the UK, France, Japan, Germany, China and Mexico.
The 2009 Wild Rose Independent Film Festival Winners
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 11, 2009 under Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) |
Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon stars in Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood
The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Morgan Freeman with the Career Achievement Award for Acting. The Festival runs January 5-18.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) |
"Children of God" was written, directed and produced by Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer
Kareem Mortimer’s “Children Of God” and Lee Daniels’ “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire” will open and close the 6th Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which runs Dec. 10-17 on Paradise Island and Nassau.
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Tags: Children Of God, Gabourey Sidibe, Johnny Ferro, Kareem Mortimer, Lee Daniels, Margaret Kemp, Mariah Carey, Mark Ford, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Van Brown
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Queens International Film Festival |
'Cars of the Revolution' (Devrim Arabalari)
‘Cars of the Revolution’ (Devrim Arabalari), a feature film by acclaimed Turkish director Tolga Ornek, will open the 2009 edition of the Queens International Film Festival and will screen on November 12th at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 9, 2009 under Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival |
ENTRE NOS, President's Award Winner / Best of the Fest
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2009 doesn’t wrap until Wednesday but the festival award winners were announced on Sunday. Entre Nos was awarded the President’s Award Winner / Best of the Fest. In the film, Mariana (Paola Mendoza) is determined to keep her family together. Her children, Gabriel (Sebastian Villada Lopez), 10, and Andrea (Laura Montana Cortez), 6, have grown up in Colombia without their father. Finally after years of separation, the family is reunited in New York City.
The winners:
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