47 Students Selected As Finalists for Student Academy Awards

47 Students Selected As Finalists for Student Academy Awards

There is the Academy Awards, and there is the Student Academy Awards, all supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level; past winners include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee. This year thirty-eight students from 17 U.S. colleges and universities as well as nine students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards competition. 

“Blind Pass” ”Joe Papp in V Acts” Among Winners of 2013 Fort Myers Beach Film Festival

“Blind Pass” ”Joe Papp in V Acts” Among Winners of 2013 Fort Myers Beach Film Festival

Blind Pass, directed by Steve Tatone

The Fort Myers Beach Film Festival honored the winning filmmakers and actors with awards for their work on independent films screened during the 7th edition of the festival which ran April 24 – 28, 2013 in Fort Myers, Florida. The winning filmmaker of the Best Documentary is Joe Papp in Five Acts, directed by Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen. Best Feature Film Award went to Blind Pass, directed by Steve Tatone.

The festival also honored local residents who submitted films to the festival with the Islander Award going to Love Letter, directed by Taylor Hill and Best Local Film went to Stuck, directed by Mitch Glass. Best Student Film is Red Tide, directed by Dino Gallina.

“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” Director David Lowery to Host Opening Night of 2013 Maryland Film Festival

“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” Director David Lowery to Host Opening Night of 2013 Maryland Film Festival

David Lowery, director of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, starring Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, and Rooney Mara, has been picked to host the 2013 Opening Night of the Maryland Film Festival taking place the evening of May 8, 2013, in downtown Baltimore. Lowery, a multi-year participant in MFF and an alumnus of the festival’s signature Opening Night shorts program, has received widespread acclaim for his forthcoming feature, the Cannes-bound Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. Lowery has also made waves in recent months with […]

LA Premiere of “Putzel” to Open 2013 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

LA Premiere of “Putzel” to Open 2013 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival

The 8th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) will kick off its week long film festival with the star studded red carpet LA premiere of the comedy film “Putzel”on June 1, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. 

In addition to “Putzel,” the LAJFF will hold LA Premiere screening events for Jonathan Holiff’s “My Father and the Man in Black” about Johnny Cash and his Jewish manager Sid Holiff, and “Roman Polanski, A Memoir” the documentary that screened at Cannes;  the US premiere of the BBC documentary, “Neil Diamond:Solitary Man” ; and the closing night film –  the World premiere of “When Comedy Went To School”  When Comedy Went To School is a documentary about the Jewish stand up comics well known around the world who got their start in the Catskills. The documentary directed by Ron Frank features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Jerry Stiller, Jackie Mason and Robert Klein and many others.

“The Rocket,” “Bridegroom” Win Audience Awards at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

“The Rocket,” “Bridegroom” Win Audience Awards at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

The 12th Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) announced the winners of the two Heineken Audience Awards — one for narrative and one for documentary. The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt, was chosen by the audience to receive the Narrative award; the film also took top honors at the Festival jury awards where it received both The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film for Sitthiphon Disamoe’s performance as Ahlo. Bridegroom, directed by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, was chosen for the Documentary award. Each award comes with a cash prize of $25,000.

San Francisco International Film Festival to Honor Harrison Ford

San Francisco International Film Festival to Honor Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford will be honored with the 2013 Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting at the upcoming 56th San Francisco International Film Festival to take place April 25 – May 9, 2013. The award will be presented to Ford at San Francisco Film Society Awards Night, Tuesday, May 7. Ford will also be honored at An Afternoon with Harrison Ford at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, on Tuesday May 7. A screening of a film featuring one of his iconic performances will follow an onstage […]

Only Lovers Left Alive Starring Tilda Swinton Among 5 Films Added to 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Only Lovers Left Alive Starring Tilda Swinton Among 5 Films Added to 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Only Lovers Left Alive

The Cannes Film Festival added 5 films to the lineup to complete the Official Selection for the upcoming 2013 festival. The 5 films are ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE by Jim Jarmusch (pictured above) was added to Competition; LE DERNIER DES INJUSTES by Claude Lanzmann was added to Out of Competition; and  MY SWEET PEPPERLAND by Hiner Saleem, TORE TANZT by Katrin Gebbe and WAKOLDA by Lucia Puenzo was added to Un Certain Regard.

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New York’s Rooftop Films Releases Full 2013 Film Lineup for Outdoor Summer Series, incl. “12 O’Clock Boys,” “Frances Ha”

Rooftop Films full feature film slate for 2013 was released today and it includes more than 45 new independent films, including two special sneak preview screenings co-presented with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Rooftop Films and the Academy will present a free screening of “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” which premiered at Sundance. The film, which opens June 14th, shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. Rooftop and the Academy will also partner to present “Short Term 12”, the feature film debut of Destin Cretton. Cretton was a 2010 Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship winner, and “Short Term 12” went on to win the 2013 SXSW Grand Jury Award in March.

First-Time Writer, Director Meera Menon Wins inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

First-Time Writer, Director Meera Menon Wins inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

Meera Menon

First-time writer/director Meera Menon (Farah Goes Bang) was selected out of eight filmmakers to win the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the annual Women’s Filmmaker Brunch at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.  Menon will receive a cash prize of $25,000 for “work and talent that embody the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer.”  The Festival runs through April 28.

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