Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 25, 2009 under Rome International Film Festival | 
The Golden Marc'Aurelio Jury Award for Best Film: Brotherskab / Brotherhood by Nicolo Donato
THE JURY AWARD
- The Golden Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Film: Brotherskab / Brotherhood by Nicolo Donato
- The Silver Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Actress:Helen Mirren for The Last Station
- The Silver Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Actor:Sergio Castellitto for Alza la Testa
- The Silver Marc’Aurelio Grand Jury Award: L’uomo che verrà by Giorgio Diritti
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Tags: Alba Rohrwacher, Alza la Testa, Andrew Lang, Anita Kravos, Antonello Matarazzo, Brotherhood, Brotherskab, Claudio Giovannesi, Fratelli d'Italia, Giorgio Diritti, Glendyn Ivin, Gunnar Vikene, Helen Mirren, Human Organ Traffic, Kristian Fraga, L'uomo che verrà, Last Ride, Latta e caffè, LEVI'S a No one's child, Louie Psihoyos, Martin Koolhoven, Meryl Streep, Nicolo Donato, Oorlogswinter, Roberta Orazi, Sergio Castellitto, Severe Clear, Sons of Cuba, Stefan Arsenijevic, The Cove, The Last Station, Vegas, Winter in Wartime
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 20, 2009 under Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) |
Black Pearl Award for Best Narrative Film – Hipsters (Stilyagi), directed by Valery Todorovsky (Russia)
The Closing Ceremony for the third annual Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) was held at the Emirates Palace Hotel on Saturday evening. During the ceremony, celebrity guests including Naomi Watts, Eva Mendes, Orlando Bloom, Mahmoud Hemeda, Biyouna, Khaled Abol Naga, Golshifteh Farahani and Sawsan Badr presented the 2009 Black Pearl Awards to the winners of MEIFF’s competitions. The awards were the culmination of 10 days of cinema, with 128 films screened. Seventeen Narrative Features, fourteen Documentary Features, twenty-five Short Films, and ten Student Shorts competed for Black Pearl Awards.
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Tags: 10 to 11, 11'e 10 Kala, A Torch for Peace, Al Zaman Al Baqi, Alicia Laguna, Bahman Ghobadi, Being Here, Double Take, Elia Suleiman, Franny Armstrong, Glendyn Ivin, Hamed Behdad, Hipsters, İki Dil Bir Bavul, Johan Grimonprez, Last Ride, Mohamed Zran, No One Knows About Persian Cats, Norteado, Northless, On the Way to School, Orhan Eskiköy, Özgür Doğan, Pelin Esmer, Rigoberto Pérezcano, Sonia Couoh, T. C. McLuhan, The Age of Stupid, The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, The Time That Remains, Valery Todorovsky
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 7, 2008 under Adelaide Film Festival |
Named in Variety’s 2007 list of the World’s Top 50 Film Festivals and winner of that year’s IF Award for Best Film Festival, the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival returns from February 19 to March 1, 2009, two-week celebration of the moving image in all its manifestations. The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will screen more than 130 films from over 50 countries and present a range of special events, exhibitions and forums in addition to its In Cinema screening program.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will world premiere eleven new Australian films from established and emerging Australian filmmakers including five features, one feature documentary, five short films, and for the first time a moving image art installation, all of which have received funding from the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.
“Each of these films offer its creative team the chance to be bold and innovative in their storytelling for the screen”, said Katrina Sedgwick. “It’s thrilling to watch this diverse slate develop and unfold and for South Australia to be playing such a significant role in enabling these projects to find what will no doubt be eager audiences both here and overseas.”
Highlights will include My Year Without Sex (Dir Sarah Watt),a wry look at twelve months in a family’s life as chance and fate randomly intervene; My Tehran For Sale (Dir Granaz Moussavi) , the story of a young actress living in Tehran and her struggle for freedom, shot entirely in Iran; Home (Dir Kriv Stenders),a Western set in 1902 as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy; Last Ride (Dir Glendyn Ivin),the story of a desperate father, played by Hugo Weaving who takes his son on the run after committing a violent crime; Samson & Delilah (Dir Warwick Thornton), a love story about two young aboriginal teenagers who live in a remote indigenous community; A Good Man (Dir Safina Uberoi), the extraordinary true story of an Australian farmer Chris Rorhlach, his quadriplegic wife, their newborn baby and his plans to open a brothel in their small country town; and Cat-Piano (Dirs Eddie White and Ari Gibson) another inspired animation from The People’s Republic of Animation featuring the voice of Nick Cave as the narrator.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will also celebrate the romantic comedy genre. Four classic films of the genre - THE APARTMENT, MANHATTAN, MIDNIGHT and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY - will be included in the program along with some soon to be unveiled new contributions to the genre.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will have factual and fictional bookends with the Australian International Documentary Conference, to be held over the festival’s opening days, and the National Screenwriters’ Conference held a week later in the Barossa Valley.
Tags: A Good Man, Adelaide Film Festival, Australian International Documentary Conference, BigPond Adelaide Film Festiva, Cat-Piano, Eddie White .Ari Gibson, Glendyn Ivin, Granaz Moussavi, Home, Kriv Stenders, Last Ride, Manhattan, MIDNIGHT, My Tehran For Sale, My Year Without Sex, National Screenwriters' Conference, Safina Uberoi, Samson & Delilah, Sarah Watt, THE APARTMENT, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, Warwick Thornton