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67th First Run Fest Announces Winners

The winners of New York University's 67th annual First Run Film Festival, which premieres the work of some of the country's top student films from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, were announced last night at a ceremony at the Cantor Film Center presided o...

Sundance Institute Announces Grant Recipients

Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation have announced the final five grant recipients of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary initiative, a three-year partnership designed to enable the creation of new, feature-length independent documentary films that frame, ...

Composer Maurice Jarre Dies

SFIFF To Honor Francis Ford Coppola

The San Francisco Film Society announced that Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Founder's Directing Award at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs April 23 - May 7. The Founder's Award will be presented to Coppola at Film Society Awards Night, the organization's black-ti...

"Bruno" Slapped With NC-17

The Wrap is reporting that "Bruno," the anticipated Sacha Baron Cohen docu-comedy set to open this July, has been given an NC-17 rating based on its first submission to the Motion Picture Association of America because of "numerous sexual scenes that the ratings board considers over the line," accor...

N.Y. State Eyes $350 Million For Productions

"Shelter," "Jihad" Among GLAAD Media Award Winners

"Wire," "Bashir" Top Cinema Eye Doc Awards

James Marsh's "Man on Wire" and Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" were amomg the big winners tonight at the second Cinema Eye Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in documentary filmmaking. Marsh's film won the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking prize and the production and ...