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"Mother" & "Twins" Win Top NewFest Prizes
Quebecois director Xavier Dolan's "I Killed My Mother" won Best Narrative Feature, while "The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls" by Leanne Pooley took the prize in the documentary category over the weekend at the 22nd NewFest, New York's LGBT Film Festival. The prizes were handed out by the festival's e...
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Dunst, Close and Franco to Screen Films in 16th Palm Springs ShortFest
314 films are on tap for the 16th Palm Springs International ShortFest, taking place June 22 - 28 in the desert resort city. Fifty-two themed programs will divide the fest, which will screen 58 world premieres and 55 North American debuts.
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"Marwencol," "The Reverse" Lead Seattle Film Fest Winners
The 36th Seattle International Film Festival - the largest film festival in the United States - concluded Sunday with record-breaking box office numbers (a near 20% increase from last year), and the announcement of the Jury and Audience Award Winners.
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Swinton and Cousins Plan Flash Mob For Edinburgh Fest
In the midst of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, actress Tilda Swinton and filmmaker and journalist Mark Cousins will follow-up last year's magical 'A Pilgrimage' film festival with a flash mob dance in Edinburgh's Festival Square to the tune of Avalon Boy's "soft shoe ditty" "At the Ball....
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Box Office: "Joan" and "Bone" Lead Potent Weekend For Indie Debuts (UPDATED)
After a few rather uneventful weekends at the specialty box office, a quartet of very strong debuts should lift the spirits of many a distributor this Sunday afternoon. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier this afternoon, four films opened to $15,000+ per-theater-averages, including t...
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NYU & UT Austin Among Top Schools at Student Academy Awards
Concluding a national competition that began regionally, AMPAS presented the Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night. Luke Matheny from NYU won the award for best narrative film for "God of Love" while Ruth Fertig from the University of Texas at Austin won the documentary prize for "Yizkor ...
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Golden Trailers Name First Doc "Best in Show"
In a ceremony hosted by the comedian Dean Edwards, the Golden Trailer Awards, which honors the best in film trailers, named the trailer for "The Cove" Best in Show in their eleventh annual ceremony. "The Cove"'s win marked the first time a documentary took home the award. The dolphin-slaughtering ...
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Woods Hole Fest Unveils Line up; Kopple to Join as "Filmmaker-in-Residence"
Celebrating its 19th year, the Woods Hole Film Festival revealed its lineup for 2010. From July 31st through August 7th, the Cape Cod event will showcase the work of independent New England filmmakers as well as international features, documentaries and shorts. Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple,...
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IFC On Demand for "Wake"
Chad Feehan's psychological thriller "Wake" has been picked up by IFC Films, the company said Wednesday. The film, which stars Josh Stewart, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Chris Browning, Angela Featherstone and Afemo Omilami, made its world premiere in March at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. IFC, which took Nort...
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IFP Announces Narrative Lab Participants
IFP has announced the 10 projects selected for participation in this year’s narrative edition of their Independent Filmmaker Labs. Presented by IFP, the labs make up a highly immersive free mentorship program for low-budget (under $1,000,000) first feature films which have shot all or a substantial ...
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