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Academy Awards
Oscar(Best Documentary, Features (Nominated))
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the&hellip…
AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
AFI Film Festival
The trouble with Holocaust movies is that they're about the Holocaust; they resurrect an illustrious horror, habited by history's most reliable demons, with little to say except that, yes, this was a tragedy. ADAM RESURRECTED isn't likely to fit anyone's definition of a Holocaust movie. As director Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION) summarized&hellip…
For her college thesis, film student Alicia (Ana Carabajal), along with her best friend Virginia (Mara Santucho), is making a documentary about the women in the lives of prisoners at a local jail. The only problem is no one is willing to be interviewed on camera. In comes Elsa (Luisa Núñez), a desperate woman, whose son, Luis (Maximiliano&hellip…
AIFA Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
American Cinema Editors
Eddie(Best Edited Documentary (Nominated))
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's&hellip…
American Indian Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature
Following a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme, American Outrage examines why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert&hellip…
Anchorage International Film Festival
When his loving wife passes away, a retired farmer faces the silent looks of those around who seem to condemn him to an imminent death&hellip…
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Cristal for Best Feature Film
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to&hellip…
Arizona International Film Festival
Reel Frontier Award - Best Documentary Feature
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Arizona Underground Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Asheville Film Festival
Best Feature, Fiction(Runner-Up)
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set&hellip…
Ashland Independent Film Festival
Audience Award (Feature Documentary)
Following a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme, American Outrage examines why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert&hellip…
Improvisation lends authenticity to this indie comedy from director Lynn Shelton. Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson stars as Eric Lambert Jones, a writer who has become so wrapped up in his own success that he has neglected his longtime friendship with Dylan. To make amends, the citified novelist travels to Washington state to visit&hellip…
Asian Pacific Film Festival
In 2055, artificial intelligence is possible. The government tries desperately to control the use and abuse of cybernetic beings while society struggles to accept them. Software hackers are both highly coveted resources and enemies of the state. Lt. James Lee, computer psychologist, embarks on his first assignment. His wits and training&hellip&hellip…
Astoria InternationalFilm Festival
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Athens Film Festival
Honorable Mention(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the&hellip…
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Athens International Film Festival
Mr. Conform, owner of the photocopy shop Conform Copy, lives with the memory of a woman who vanished thirty years ago. Virginie, his assistant, takes things into her own hands and puts up posters of the missing woman throughout town. Inspired by musicals such as THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, award-winning director Nicolas Engel's charming&hellip&hellip…
Mattie and James are in love and living in separate cities. But too many mornings and too many miles apart have taken a toll on them&hellip…
The aphorism "The poor are always with us" dates back to the New Testament, but while the phrase is still sadly apt in the 21st century, few seem to be able to explain why poverty is so widespread. Activist filmmaker Philippe Diaz examines the history and impact of economic inequality in developing nations in the documentary THE END OF&hellip…
Best Script
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals&hellip…
Atlanta Film Festival
The Axe in the Attic focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day roadtrip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between&hellip…
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
Improvisation lends authenticity to this indie comedy from director Lynn Shelton. Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson stars as Eric Lambert Jones, a writer who has become so wrapped up in his own success that he has neglected his longtime friendship with Dylan. To make amends, the citified novelist travels to Washington state to visit&hellip…
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
A NY TIMES Critic's Pick! For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional&hellip&hellip…
Atlanta Underground Film Festival
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
Atlantic Film Festival
A young man visits his mother to introduce him his wife. But in this cloudy world that is the family, are we always those whom we pretend to be?&hellip…
Austin Film Festival
Svetlana, an 11 year old girl from a children's home in Russia, is the sponsored child of a couple from Finland. Living only 60 km from the border of Finland, Svetlana has never visited her neighboring country. After a long wait Svetlana finally gets an invitation to have a look at life on the other side of the border. An award-winner&hellip&hellip…
Bart got a room, a hotel room, and he's booked it for senior prom night. This semi-autobiographical ode to teenage angst aims for American Pie-style yucks with a light edge of Philip Roth's comic neuroticisms&hellip…
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Avignon Film Festival
"Prix Tournage" for Best American Feature Film
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic&hellip…
Beijing International Film Festival
Pinhas & his mother are new immigrants from Russia. His mother barely makes a living working night shifts, she devotes her spare time to the affair she has with a married man. On the third floor lives a religious family, Pinhas is drawn to the warmth and unity that characterize this family there he meets a girl his age, and her older&hellip…
Belmont International Film Festival
A freelance photographer Lili (Romane Bohringer) has been hired to document new infastructures in her town's sister community in Sengal. Once there, she forms an intuitive bond with Aminata, an unmarried and childless woman like her, whose quiet independence mirrors Lili's own. By the time Lili returns to France, something has shifted&hellip…
Bergen International Film Festival
Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot. Determined to adopt them whether her husband, the local orphanage, or the government of Sudan likes it or not&hellip&hellip…
Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Award of Excellence
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Berks Movie Madness
Welcome to Nollywood tells the story of the burgeoning Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood. The film follows three directors and their latest productions, while also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate (in insightful and often humorous ways) the Nigerian video-film industry as a whole, its unique&hellip…
Berlin International Film Festival
Moliere, the French 17th century playwright behind THE MISANTHROPE and TARTUFFE, gets his SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE treatment in this entertaining romantic comedy-drama. Director Laurent Tirard paints a romantic portrait of the artist as a young man that's a deft mix of fact and fiction, involving wealthy buffoon Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini)&hellip&hellip…
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The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Having tackled the world of music, acting, and children's publishing, Madonna has turned her attention to directing, making her feature film debut with FILTH AND WISDOM. Set in a London flat, the film follows the episodic adventures of a colorful cast of characters, including a reluctant stripper (Holly Weston), a blind poet (Richard&hellip…
An intriguing and sometimes intimate documentary, FULL BATTLE RATTLE is an important peek behind the curtains on military preparations for the most dangerous stage of all: the war in Iraq. The film opens with what appears to be a deadly ambush of a U.S. military patrol in Iraq. In fact, it is one of the many simulations conducted at the&hellip…
Gen-14+(Special Mention)
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's&hellip…
Crystal Bear
In this Australian film from the producer of STRICTLY BALLROOM, Thomas (Rhys Wakefield, HOME AND AWAY) has a lot to contend with. Not only has the teenager just moved to a new school, but he also has to take care of his older brother Charlie (Luke Ford, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR), who is autistic. As Thomas&hellip…
Set in Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Szmolinsky is the story of Karl and Inge. After Karl is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" over to Pyong Yang, he is harassed by local animal rights activists. Szmolinsky offers a look into one chapter in this extraordinary story. &hellip…
Silver Berlin Bear(Grand Jury Prize)
Golden Berlin Bear (Nominated)
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence&hellip…
Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema
Best Actress – Ana Carabajal
Best Actress – Luisa Núñez
For her college thesis, film student Alicia (Ana Carabajal), along with her best friend Virginia (Mara Santucho), is making a documentary about the women in the lives of prisoners at a local jail&hellip…
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Ten years ago, a pastor from the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco received a prophetic whisper - a directive from God to make movies for the Lord. Using donations from his congregation, he slowly transformed his church into a fully functioning movie studio, and the production company Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. After&hellip&hellip…
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
Artistic Vision Award – Jeremiah Zagar
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrorsmosaics that were created by renowned artist Isaiah Zagar. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, artistic invention, and&hellip…
Boomtown Film and Music Festival
Second Place(Best Documentary)
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of all shapes&hellip…
Boston Underground Film Festival
Audience Award
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its fictional&hellip…
Brainwash Movie Festival
First Place
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of all shapes and sizes, and&hellip…
Breckenridge Festival of Film
Andrew may live with his mother, but the roles of parent and child have been reversed for years. One night over dinner, Andrew's mother announces that her younger boyfriend, an aspiring country singer, is coming to live with them&hellip…
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British Independent Film Awards
Best Foreign Independent Film
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Critics Choice Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
There's more drama in this small documentary than in most serious Oscar contenders. A marriage is on the line, integrity is tested, and friendships falter--all in the name of a video game called DONKEY KONG. THE KING OF KONG may inspire both tears and frustrated sighs, but it's&hellip…
Critics Choice Award(Best Documentary)
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's&hellip…
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Bushwick Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Byron Bay Film Festival
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Cannes Film Festival
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of all shapes and sizes, and an intimate conversation&hellip…
Short Golden Rail Prize
Moulin d'Ande-Ceci Writing Residency
Mr. Conform, owner of the photocopy shop Conform Copy, lives with the memory of a woman who vanished thirty years ago. Virginie, his assistant, takes things into her own hands and puts up posters of the missing woman throughout town. Inspired by musicals such as&hellip…
The aphorism "The poor are always with us" dates back to the New Testament, but while the phrase is still sadly apt in the 21st century, few seem to be able to explain why poverty is so widespread. Activist filmmaker Philippe Diaz examines the history and impact of economic inequality in developing nations in the documentary THE END OF&hellip…
CÉSAR Awards
Mr. Conform, owner of the photocopy shop Conform Copy, lives with the memory of a woman who vanished thirty years ago. Virginie, his assistant, takes things into her own hands and puts up posters of the missing woman throughout town. Inspired by musicals such as THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, award-winning director Nicolas Engel's charming&hellip&hellip…
Cero Latitud Film Festival
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
Best Film
For her college thesis, film student Alicia (Ana Carabajal), along with her best friend Virginia (Mara Santucho), is making a documentary about the women in the lives of prisoners at a local jail. The only problem is no one is willing to be interviewed on camera. In comes Elsa (Luisa Núñez), a desperate woman, whose&hellip…
Charlotte Film Festival
Best Documentary
In growing season tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida, where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. Immokalee U.S.A. documents these peoples daily experiences&hellip&hellip…
Chashama Film Festival
Loosely inspired by the infamous Terry Shiavo Case, the dark comedy Lady In A Box takes a satirical look at an American family's macabre desire to preserve the memory of a dead loved one.&hellip&hellip…
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
CFCA Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
There's more drama in this small documentary than in most serious Oscar contenders. A marriage is on the line, integrity is tested, and friendships falter--all in the name of a video game called DONKEY KONG. THE KING OF KONG may inspire both tears and frustrated sighs, but it's most remarkable&hellip…
Chicago International Film Festival
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Chilean National Council of Culture of Arts
Best Animated Film
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City forever scarred the trust of the American people. On the same date, 28 years before, the US-supported military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende ushered in 17 years of autocratic rule under dictator Augusto Pinochet&hellip…
Cinema du Reel
The Axe in the Attic focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day roadtrip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between&hellip…
Cinema Eye Honors
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and&hellip…
Audience Choice Award(Nominee)
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography(Nominee)
Outstanding Achievement in Production(Nominee)
Outstanding Achievement in Direction(Nominee)
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking(Nominee)
Outstanding International Feature(Nominee)
"Only in complete silence, one starts&hellip…
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Cinema Nouvelle Generation
Join Aurelien Foucault and Cedric Quennesson as they bring the ancient spectacle of Chinese Shadow Puppetry to life. Meet colorful he denizens of the Mengze Theatre as well as master puppeteer Qin Ligang and his prodigious grandson as they displays this breathtaking art&hellip…
Cinequest Film Festival
Set against the changing American landscape, El Camino fis a humorous and compassionate film about friendship, family, and the search for self in a country that has lost its own identity&hellip…
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New Vision Award
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its fictional&hellip…
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Loosely inspired by the infamous Terry Shiavo Case, the dark comedy Lady In A Box takes a satirical look at an American family's macabre desire to preserve the memory of a dead loved one.&hellip&hellip…
CON-CAN Movie Festival
When his loving wife passes away, a retired farmer faces the silent looks of those around who seem to condemn him to an imminent death&hellip…
Cork International Film Festival
Once upon a time there was a tiny sugar town in tropical north Queensland called Tully. Tully was a very prosperous town until one day Brazil decided to dump its sugar stockpile on the global market. The townsfolk called a meeting to save the town from financial disaster. One man stood up and proposed building The World’s Biggest Gumboot&hellip…
cph:dox: Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
This documentary offers a fond look at world-renowned fashion designer Valentino Garavani. Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer sits in the director's chair, pulling back the curtains for an all-access tour of haute-couture culture, recording the corporate struggles and runway-set hilarity as Valentino prepares to retire from his clothing…
Crossroads Film Festival
In New York, they had the New York Dolls. In Athens, they had R.E.M. In Los Angeles they had Black Flag. In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, they had...Bonnington Truce. In 1979, Mississippi was getting ready to vote for Ronald Reagan. At the same time, a few guys got together and decided they were going to form a band. But not a Lynyrd&hellip&hellip…
DaKINO International Film Festival
Mr. Conform, owner of the photocopy shop Conform Copy, lives with the memory of a woman who vanished thirty years ago. Virginie, his assistant, takes things into her own hands and puts up posters of the missing woman throughout town. Inspired by musicals such as THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, award-winning director Nicolas Engel's charming&hellip&hellip…
DC Independent Film Festival
Documentary Grand Jury Award
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of all shapes&hellip…
Denver International Film Festival
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Denver Jewish Film Festival
Best Documentary(Audience Award)
Preliminary set up -- Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews&hellip…
A NY TIMES Critic's Pick! For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional&hellip&hellip…
Docufest Atlanta
Best Director – Georg Koszulinski
In growing season tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida, where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. Immokalee U.S.A. documents these peoples daily experiences&hellip&hellip…
Docupolis8
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Edinburgh International Film Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot. Determined to adopt them whether her husband, the local orphanage, or the government of Sudan likes it or not&hellip&hellip…
A video store clerk is infatuated with an introverted girl with a secret history&hellip…
European Film Awards
Best Composer
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
Fantasia Festival
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its fictional protagonist: KK&hellip…
After his lover is brutally attacked, one man must face the heavy cost of revenge. Caught between his rage and her paranoia, he will have to make a desperate decision&hellip…
Festival Chileno Internacional Del Cortometraje De Santiago
Premio Especial
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City forever scarred the trust of the American people. On the same date, 28 years before, the US-supported military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende ushered in 17 years of autocratic rule under dictator Augusto Pinochet&hellip…
Festivus
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Filmstock International
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
First Take Film Festival
Tim Busko captures the buzzings of small town poet/musician Eric Morder on life, love, obsession, and in doing so shows us a 33-year-old man in the throes of growing up&hellip…
FirstGlance Film Festivals
Best Biographical Short Documentary
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of&hellip…
Fliks Film Festival
Julian Cautherley's Rock, Paper, Scissors: A Geek Tragedy focuses on the founding of the World Rock Papar Scissors Society. The Walker brothers intended to turn a child's game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when RPS fanatics converge on the World RPS Championships, they're caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate&hellip…
Florida Film Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
An aspiring novelist tries to kill off her protagonist - on the advice of her ex-lover/professor - with real-world repercussions. Meanwhile, an unstable used car salesman tries to cope with the death of his wife and the subsequent silent treatment of his young daughter&hellip…
A freelance photographer Lili (Romane Bohringer) has been hired to document new infastructures in her town's sister community in Sengal. Once there, she forms an intuitive bond with Aminata, an unmarried and childless woman like her, whose quiet independence mirrors Lili's own. By the time Lili returns to France, something has shifted&hellip…
Set in Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Szmolinsky is the story of Karl and Inge. After Karl is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" over to Pyong Yang, he is harassed by local animal rights activists. Szmolinsky offers a look into one chapter in this extraordinary story. &hellip…
Foreign Press Association
Best Documentary of the Year(Nominee)
The Inside Story of the Dalai Lamas Struggle for Tibet. THE UNWINKING GAZE was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China&hellip…
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
President's Award
Svetlana, an 11 year old girl from a children's home in Russia, is the sponsored child of a couple from Finland. Living only 60 km from the border of Finland, Svetlana has never visited her neighboring country. After a long wait Svetlana finally gets an invitation to have a look at life on the other side of the&hellip…
Join Aurelien Foucault and Cedric Quennesson as they bring the ancient spectacle of Chinese Shadow Puppetry to life. Meet colorful he denizens of the Mengze Theatre as well as master puppeteer Qin Ligang and his prodigious grandson as they displays this breathtaking art&hellip…
Winner - Grand Jury Prize
As Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, it changes the lives of aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her street-smart husband forever. Edited together from video footage shot by the couple during and after the storm's devastation, this documentary offers a visceral, personal view of the calamity&hellip…
Charles E. Guggenheim Emerginf Artist Award – Jeremiah Zagar
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrorsmosaics that were created by renowned artist Isaiah Zagar. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, artistic&hellip…
Galway Film Fleadh
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Garden State Film Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
Gen Art Film Festival
Winner - Grand Jury Prize(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft&hellip…
Bart got a room, a hotel room, and he's booked it for senior prom night. This semi-autobiographical ode to teenage angst aims for American Pie-style yucks with a light edge of Philip Roth's comic neuroticisms&hellip…
Genie Awards
Best Costume Design
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its&hellip…
Golden Trailer Awards
Golden Trailer (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America's image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by&hellip…
Best Comedy (Good Spot)(Nominee)
A guy fed up with his job and married to a cheating wife reluctantly mentors a rebellious teen&hellip…
Goteburg Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Known mainly for playing quirkily comic characters, Parker Posey shows she can tackle a serious role just as skillfully in Zoe Cassevetes's moving film. BROKEN ENGLISH stars Posey as Nora Wilder, a thirtysomething whose disastrous dating experiences in the Big Apple have put her on the verge of giving up all hope when it comes to love&hellip…
Gotham Awards
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana&hellip…
Gramado Film Festival
Special Jury Prize
Best Foreign Screenplay – Liliana Paolinelli
Best Foreign Actress – Ana Carabajal
The Audience Award
For her college thesis, film student Alicia (Ana Carabajal), along with her best friend Virginia (Mara Santucho), is making a&hellip…
Green Mountain Film Festival
The Axe in the Attic focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day roadtrip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between&hellip…
Hamburg Film Festival
Pinhas & his mother are new immigrants from Russia. His mother barely makes a living working night shifts, she devotes her spare time to the affair she has with a married man. On the third floor lives a religious family, Pinhas is drawn to the warmth and unity that characterize this family there he meets a girl his age, and her older&hellip…
Set in Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Szmolinsky is the story of Karl and Inge. After Karl is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" over to Pyong Yang, he is harassed by local animal rights activists. Szmolinsky offers a look into one chapter in this extraordinary story. &hellip…
Hamptons International Film Festival
Hollywood outcast, best-selling author and chronicler of the rich and famous, Dominick Dunne is one of the world's leading journalists and society commentators. This is his story&hellip…
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers from New York offered a free filmmaking class at the first school to reopen in New Orleans after the flooding of the city. The students responded with such passion that the film Wade in the Water was unexpectedly created&hellip…
Though THE BROTHERS BLOOM seems to be equal parts THE STING and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, director Rian Johnson's second feature is still strikingly original. Adrien Brody (KING KONG) and Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) star as the siblings of the title, who have been working as conmen since they were children. There is a constant tug of war between&hellip…
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In this Australian film from the producer of STRICTLY BALLROOM, Thomas (Rhys Wakefield, HOME AND AWAY) has a lot to contend with. Not only has the teenager just moved to a new school, but he also has to take care of his older brother Charlie (Luke Ford, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR), who is autistic. As Thomas struggles in his&hellip…
Special Election Edition of the new documentary THE END OF AMERICA! From the award-winning filmmakers of The Devil Came on Horseback and The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, THE END OF AMERICA, a stunning indictment of the sweeping policy changes&hellip&hellip…
HollyShorts Film Festival
Best Video
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging&hellip…
Hollywood DV/HD Fest
In 2055, artificial intelligence is possible. The government tries desperately to control the use and abuse of cybernetic beings while society struggles to accept them. Software hackers are both highly coveted resources and enemies of the state. Lt. James Lee, computer psychologist, embarks on his first assignment. His wits and training&hellip&hellip…
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Best Documentary(Audience Award)
Preliminary set up -- Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews&hellip…
Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival
Svetlana, an 11 year old girl from a children's home in Russia, is the sponsored child of a couple from Finland. Living only 60 km from the border of Finland, Svetlana has never visited her neighboring country. After a long wait Svetlana finally gets an invitation to have a look at life on the other side of the border. An award-winner&hellip&hellip…
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
This sometimes hilarious, often insightful documentary captures the struggles of five New York families as they try to get their children accepted to the nursery school that will help them get into the best kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools, universities, and jobs&hellip…
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their skills and labor to the revolutionary&hellip…
Following a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme, American Outrage examines why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert&hellip…
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Houston Worldfest Film Festival
Special Jury Prize(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the&hellip…
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Laura Dunn's feature-length directorial debut is a profoundly stirring, visually stunning, and emotionally overpowering work of epic beauty. Sharing a kinship with the film's executive producer, Terrence Malick, Dunn's lyrical nonfiction poem reaches levels of transcendence not often encountered in cinema. Malick and Robert Redford teamed&hellip…
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Following a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme, American Outrage examines why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert&hellip…
Independent Film Festival of Boston
FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
Independent Spirit Awards
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun is the story of two lonely souls and their destiny to meet each other. Mr. Vig is a 86 year old bachelor livng his life in solarium until by fate Sister Amvrosija comes into his life. his dream of leaving his danish country side castle to the&hellip…
Truer Than Fiction Award (Nominated)
Laura Dunn's feature-length directorial debut is a profoundly stirring, visually stunning, and emotionally overpowering work of epic beauty. Sharing a kinship with the film's executive producer, Terrence Malick, Dunn's lyrical nonfiction poem reaches levels of transcendence not often encountered&hellip…
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Truer Than Fiction Award (Nominated)
The film looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned&hellip…
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
Dan Klores's documentary takes viewers inside a relationship made famous by tabloid reports back in the summer of 1959. Burt Pugach and Linda Pugach met when Burt was already married but Linda was a young single woman. Embarking on a passionate affair, the two never guessed&hellip…
Truer Than Fiction Award
Independent Spirit Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown ("Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt"), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the&hellip…
Piaget Producers Award
This Award-Winning Surrealist Comedy comes from the Producer of the Academy-Award Nominated and Independent Spirit Award-Winning FROZEN RIVER! Like Laurel and Hardy, Jake and Elwood, or Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo before them, Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well-scripted journey into the depths of the&hellip…
Indie Film Jam
Skid Row is a 50-square block area in downtown Los Angeles where an average of 90,000 homeless and transient people live on any given night. More than just a place -- it's a way of life, a mind set, the last resort for those who have given up on society and, in many cases, themselves.&hellip&hellip…
Indie Memphis Film Festival
This Award-Winning Surrealist Comedy comes from the Producer of the Academy-Award Nominated and Independent Spirit Award-Winning FROZEN RIVER! Like Laurel and Hardy, Jake and Elwood, or Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo before them, Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well-scripted journey into the depths of the American psyche. Recently escaped&hellip&hellip…
Indie World Film Festival
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
Inside Out: Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
After the assassination of a Cambodian union leader, filmmaker Bradley Cox tracks down witnesses and unravels the police plot that framed two men&hellip…
International Film Festival of South Africa
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Best European Documentary
This observational documentary interweaves the roller-coaster fortunes of three young boxers over an 18-month period as they strive to make the most of their lives, both inside and outside of the ring.&hellip&hellip…
International Short Film Festival
Nina is a 10 year old girlwhose life dramatically changes when her dying father and Scissor Dancer master asks her to fulfillhis last wish. Inspired by the short story of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, "The Agony of Rasu Ñiti"&hellip…
Jackson Hole Film Festival
An aspiring novelist tries to kill off her protagonist - on the advice of her ex-lover/professor - with real-world repercussions. Meanwhile, an unstable used car salesman tries to cope with the death of his wife and the subsequent silent treatment of his young daughter&hellip…
FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
A video store clerk is infatuated with an introverted girl with a secret history&hellip…
Jerusalem Film Festival
Pinhas & his mother are new immigrants from Russia. His mother barely makes a living working night shifts, she devotes her spare time to the affair she has with a married man. On the third floor lives a religious family, Pinhas is drawn to the warmth and unity that characterize this family there he meets a girl his age, and her older&hellip…
Kansas International Film Festival
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
"What is friendship, when love's at stake?" Ever know somebody too nice? Lovable, but you just want to smack them? That's Bob (Adrian Martinez), witty and self-deprecating. Bob meets the right girl. Smart and beautiful. Her beauty turns out to be a problem, because now Bob, a social worker with a hefty physique, has to compete. Eric&hellip&hellip…
Karachi International Film Festival
When his loving wife passes away, a retired farmer faces the silent looks of those around who seem to condemn him to an imminent death&hellip…
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival
Best Film
Best Latin American Film
Best Actress
In every house, you never know what secrets lie behind the front door...ALICE'S HOUSE, the highly-decorated Brazilian drama, is now available on IndiePix from our partners, FiGa films! When Alice, a Sao Paulo manicurist, wife and mother has a chance meeting with an old flame&hellip…
LA Shorts
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of all shapes and sizes, and an intimate conversation&hellip…
Lake Arrowhead International Film Festival
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Lake County Film Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Leeds International Film Festival
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Golden Owl Competition(Special Mention)
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana&hellip…
London Film Festival
The Inside Story of the Dalai Lamas Struggle for Tibet. THE UNWINKING GAZE was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China&hellip…
Mattie and James are in love and living in separate cities. But too many mornings and too many miles apart have taken a toll on them&hellip…
Though THE BROTHERS BLOOM seems to be equal parts THE STING and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, director Rian Johnson's second feature is still strikingly original. Adrien Brody (KING KONG) and Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) star as the siblings of the title, who have been working as conmen since they were children. There is a constant tug of war between&hellip…
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Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Best Female Feature
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Los Angeles Asian-Pacific Film Festival
Golden Reel Nominee
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Animated Feature
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
Los Angeles Film Festival
Moliere, the French 17th century playwright behind THE MISANTHROPE and TARTUFFE, gets his SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE treatment in this entertaining romantic comedy-drama. Director Laurent Tirard paints a romantic portrait of the artist as a young man that's a deft mix of fact and fiction, involving wealthy buffoon Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini)&hellip&hellip…
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Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
Jury Award - Opera Prima
Sofia is a young Spanish girl who, after her mother's death, develops an acute emotional crisis. An enigmatic letter falls into her hands, one that her mother sent to Chile when she was alive. The letter is returned by the post office when the recipient could not be found. The content of the letter raises&hellip…
Malibu International Film Festival
Best Feature Film
"What is friendship, when love's at stake?" Ever know somebody too nice? Lovable, but you just want to smack them? That's Bob (Adrian Martinez), witty and self-deprecating. Bob meets the right girl. Smart and beautiful. Her beauty turns out to be a problem, because now Bob, a social worker with a hefty physique&hellip…
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Mattie and James are in love and living in separate cities. But too many mornings and too many miles apart have taken a toll on them&hellip…
This documentary offers a fond look at world-renowned fashion designer Valentino Garavani. Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer sits in the director's chair, pulling back the curtains for an all-access tour of haute-couture culture, recording the corporate struggles and runway-set hilarity as Valentino prepares to retire from his clothing…
Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
Best Documentary
FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS - A lament for a drowned culture brought to you direct from our partner California Newsreel. FAUBOURG TREME was largely shot before the Katrina tragedy but edited afterward, giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. Our guide through the neighborhood&hellip…
Maui Film Festival
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Mauvais Genre Film Festival
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its fictional protagonist: KK&hellip…
Meetings in Siberia
Join Aurelien Foucault and Cedric Quennesson as they bring the ancient spectacle of Chinese Shadow Puppetry to life. Meet colorful he denizens of the Mengze Theatre as well as master puppeteer Qin Ligang and his prodigious grandson as they displays this breathtaking art&hellip…
Melbourne International Film Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
Hollywood outcast, best-selling author and chronicler of the rich and famous, Dominick Dunne is one of the world's leading journalists and society commentators. This is his story&hellip…
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Set in Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Szmolinsky is the story of Karl and Inge. After Karl is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" over to Pyong Yang, he is harassed by local animal rights activists. Szmolinsky offers a look into one chapter in this extraordinary story. &hellip…
Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot. Determined to adopt them whether her husband, the local orphanage, or the government of Sudan likes it or not&hellip&hellip…
Melbourne LGBT Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Memphis Int'l Film Festival
Audience Award - Best Documentary Feature
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Mendocino Film Festival
Welcome to Nollywood tells the story of the burgeoning Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood. The film follows three directors and their latest productions, while also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate (in insightful and often humorous ways) the Nigerian video-film industry as a whole, its unique&hellip…
Method Fest
Maverick Award – Daniel Dávila
Breakthrough Performance – Octavio Gómez Berríos
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the&hellip…
Metro Eireann Media and Multicultural Awards
MAMA Award
This observational documentary interweaves the roller-coaster fortunes of three young boxers over an 18-month period as they strive to make the most of their lives, both inside and outside of the ring.&hellip&hellip…
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Miami International Film Festival
FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
Miami Short Film Festival
When his loving wife passes away, a retired farmer faces the silent looks of those around who seem to condemn him to an imminent death&hellip…
Milan International Film Festival
In 1943, Naval Ensign Leon Cooper was charged with protecting the lives of marines during the bloody assault on the islands of Tarawa. Sixty-five years later, he returns to protect their memories. Return to Tarawa follows the journey of Leon Cooper, a United States Navy veteran who ferried marines through murderous gunfire to&hellip…
Mill Valley Film Festival
The trouble with Holocaust movies is that they're about the Holocaust; they resurrect an illustrious horror, habited by history's most reliable demons, with little to say except that, yes, this was a tragedy. ADAM RESURRECTED isn't likely to fit anyone's definition of a Holocaust movie. As director Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION) summarized&hellip…
Though THE BROTHERS BLOOM seems to be equal parts THE STING and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, director Rian Johnson's second feature is still strikingly original. Adrien Brody (KING KONG) and Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) star as the siblings of the title, who have been working as conmen since they were children. There is a constant tug of war between&hellip…
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Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema
Grand Prix Z Télé
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's&hellip…
Moondance International Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Munich Film Festival
Cinevision Award(Nominee)
This Award-Winning Surrealist Comedy comes from the Producer of the Academy-Award Nominated and Independent Spirit Award-Winning FROZEN RIVER! Like Laurel and Hardy, Jake and Elwood, or Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo before them, Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well-scripted journey into the depths of&hellip…
National Board of Review
Student Grant award
Winner of the 2005 First Prize High School Animation Award from the Ottawa Animation Festiva, Lev Polyakov's bittersweet "Morning, Day, Evening, Night...And Morning Again" tells the story of the impermanence of love: a man falls in love with a half-woman, half-butterfly, only to have her crumble in his arms&hellip…
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
Netherlands Film Festival
Golden Calf Award - Best Short Film(Nominated)
Akiko is standing in an endless, black, and empty space. Finding herself in a different sense of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings. Different elements from her surroundings come into view; the road, the grass and the streetlights. Akiko watches and experiences everything&hellip…
Nevada City Film Fest
Audience Award - Best Short Film
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their&hellip…
New Directors/New Films
As Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, it changes the lives of aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her street-smart husband forever. Edited together from video footage shot by the couple during and after the storm's devastation, this documentary offers a visceral, personal view of the calamity. But more than that, TROUBLE&hellip…
New Filmmakers
In 2055, artificial intelligence is possible. The government tries desperately to control the use and abuse of cybernetic beings while society struggles to accept them. Software hackers are both highly coveted resources and enemies of the state. Lt. James Lee, computer psychologist, embarks on his first assignment. His wits and training&hellip&hellip…
It's all REAL, it's all HERE, and it's ALIVE! Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by The Seashore. In this award-winning documentary short, Director Gary Beeber uses archival footage, interviews with freaks, carnies and performers of all shapes and sizes, and an intimate conversation&hellip…
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
New Orleans Film Festival
Audience Award - Best Documentary
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry explores the roots of American tattoing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins. Considered by many the foremost tattoo artist of all time, Collins is the father of modern day tattooing, whose uncompromising lifestyle and larger than&hellip…
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
Audience Award
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers from New York offered a free filmmaking class at the first school to reopen in New Orleans after the flooding of the city. The students responded with such passion that the film Wade in the Water was unexpectedly created&hellip…
New York African Film Festival
Welcome to Nollywood tells the story of the burgeoning Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood. The film follows three directors and their latest productions, while also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate (in insightful and often humorous ways) the Nigerian video-film industry as a whole, its unique&hellip…
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
A documentary about pigeon keeping on the roofs of Brooklyn. Up On The Roof DVD pigeons&hellip…
Best Arts Documentary
Stuart Ross, an inner city public high school teacher by day and a guerrilla artist by night has discovered the delicate balance of a nine to five and his passion, art. Avid dumpster diver and self proclaimed engineer and inventor, without even a day's worth of formal art training, he is nothing short of&hellip…
New York Jewish Film Festival
A NY TIMES Critic's Pick! For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional&hellip&hellip…
New York Latino International Film Festival
"What is friendship, when love's at stake?" Ever know somebody too nice? Lovable, but you just want to smack them? That's Bob (Adrian Martinez), witty and self-deprecating. Bob meets the right girl. Smart and beautiful. Her beauty turns out to be a problem, because now Bob, a social worker with a hefty physique, has to compete. Eric&hellip&hellip…
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
New York VisionFest
Best Actor – Don Hany
Domani Vision Award
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
New Zealand International Film Festival
Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot. Determined to adopt them whether her husband, the local orphanage, or the government of Sudan likes it or not&hellip&hellip…
NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Newport Beach Film Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
An aspiring novelist tries to kill off her protagonist - on the advice of her ex-lover/professor - with real-world repercussions. Meanwhile, an unstable used car salesman tries to cope with the death of his wife and the subsequent silent treatment of his young daughter&hellip…
Andrew may live with his mother, but the roles of parent and child have been reversed for years. One night over dinner, Andrew's mother announces that her younger boyfriend, an aspiring country singer, is coming to live with them&hellip…
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FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
Newport International Film Festival
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers from New York offered a free filmmaking class at the first school to reopen in New Orleans after the flooding of the city. The students responded with such passion that the film Wade in the Water was unexpectedly created&hellip…
NYU First Run Film Festival
Achievement in Producing – Jared Lapidus
Editing – Jared Lapidus
Sound Design – Jared Lapidus
Art Direction
Homophobic rap superstar Terrier (pronounced "teh-ree-AY") is tearing up the charts with the smash hit&hellip…
Ojai Film Festival
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Omaha Film Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt
When his loving wife passes away, a retired farmer faces the silent looks of those around who seem to condemn him to an imminent death&hellip…
Ottawa International Animated Film Festival
Best Animated Feature(Honorable Mention)
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana&hellip…
Outfest
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Oxford Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Oxford International Film Festival
BEST OF FESTIVAL
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Palm Springs International Shorts Fest
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their skills and labor to the revolutionary&hellip…
Pan African Film & Arts Festival
Skid Row is a 50-square block area in downtown Los Angeles where an average of 90,000 homeless and transient people live on any given night. More than just a place -- it's a way of life, a mind set, the last resort for those who have given up on society and, in many cases, themselves.&hellip&hellip…
Peace on Earth Film Festival
Best Student Film
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their skills and&hellip…
Penny Arcade Expo
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
PGA Golden Laurel Awards
Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award(Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures (Nominated))
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places&hellip…
Philadelphia Film Festival
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its fictional protagonist: KK&hellip…
An aspiring novelist tries to kill off her protagonist - on the advice of her ex-lover/professor - with real-world repercussions. Meanwhile, an unstable used car salesman tries to cope with the death of his wife and the subsequent silent treatment of his young daughter&hellip…
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry explores the roots of American tattoing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins. Considered by many the foremost tattoo artist of all time, Collins is the father of modern day tattooing, whose uncompromising lifestyle and larger than life persona made him an American legend&hellip…
Best First Film
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrorsmosaics that were created by renowned artist Isaiah Zagar. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, artistic invention, and the enduring power of family bonds&hellip…
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
A NY TIMES Critic's Pick! For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional&hellip&hellip…
Phoenix Film Festival
Skid Row is a 50-square block area in downtown Los Angeles where an average of 90,000 homeless and transient people live on any given night. More than just a place -- it's a way of life, a mind set, the last resort for those who have given up on society and, in many cases, themselves.&hellip&hellip…
Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Pop Montreal
Welcome to Nollywood tells the story of the burgeoning Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood. The film follows three directors and their latest productions, while also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate (in insightful and often humorous ways) the Nigerian video-film industry as a whole, its unique&hellip…
Portland Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Portland International Film Festival
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their skills and labor to the revolutionary&hellip…
Prism Awards
PRISM Award for Bipolar Disorder Depiction(Nominated)
"I highly recommend A Summer in the Cage. It is an extraordinary film: powerful, affecting and honest." -Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, Author of An Unquiet Mind and Touched with Fire. A Summer in the Cage is a feature-length documentary&hellip…
Provincetown International Film Festival
The Axe in the Attic focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day roadtrip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between&hellip…
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
Pusan International Film Festival
TREELESS MOUNTAIN is abundant in the only special effect that Hollywoods magical movie-making machines can never generate: sincerity. It is the story of two Korean girls (ages approximately seven and five) whose innocence is tested as they get passed from home to home while their mother searches for their absent father. With only her&hellip…
Raindance Film Festival
WHO IS KK DOWNEY? is the story of two perennial losers who want more than anything to be famous, popular, and successful. Theo can't get Truck Stop Hustler, his touching book about a young male prostitute, published anywhere. Things change, however, when they decide to print Theo's book under the name of its fictional protagonist: KK&hellip…
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Reel Affirmations Pride Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Reel HeART
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Reel Identities Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
REEL Music Film Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
ReelWorld Film Festival
ReelWorld Award for Outstanding International Documentary
Welcome to Nollywood tells the story of the burgeoning Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood. The film follows three directors and their latest productions, while also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate (in insightful and often humorous&hellip…
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois
After his lover is brutally attacked, one man must face the heavy cost of revenge. Caught between his rage and her paranoia, he will have to make a desperate decision&hellip…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
HELL ON WHEELS is the ass-kicking documentary film telling the story of a group of Texas women who band together to resurrect roller derby for the 21st century. Emerging from the Austin music and arts scene, these women create a rock and roll fueled version of all-girl roller derby that has spawned the derby craze that's sweeping the nation&hellip…
Reykjavik Film Festival
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Andrew may live with his mother, but the roles of parent and child have been reversed for years. One night over dinner, Andrew's mother announces that her younger boyfriend, an aspiring country singer, is coming to live with them&hellip…
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Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
Mr. Conform, owner of the photocopy shop Conform Copy, lives with the memory of a woman who vanished thirty years ago. Virginie, his assistant, takes things into her own hands and puts up posters of the missing woman throughout town. Inspired by musicals such as THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, award-winning director Nicolas Engel's charming&hellip&hellip…
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Rio International Film Festival
Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot. Determined to adopt them whether her husband, the local orphanage, or the government of Sudan likes it or not&hellip&hellip…
Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Salem Film Festival
Ten years ago, a pastor from the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco received a prophetic whisper - a directive from God to make movies for the Lord. Using donations from his congregation, he slowly transformed his church into a fully functioning movie studio, and the production company Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. After&hellip&hellip…
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
San Diego Jewish Film Festival
Best Documentary(Audience Award)
Preliminary set up -- Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews&hellip…
A NY TIMES Critic's Pick! For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional&hellip&hellip…
San Francisco Black Film Festival
Best Documentary Winner
FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS - A lament for a drowned culture brought to you direct from our partner California Newsreel. FAUBOURG TREME was largely shot before the Katrina tragedy but edited afterward, giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. Our guide through the neighborhood&hellip…
San Francisco Documentary Festival
Best Feature – Jeremiah Zagar
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrorsmosaics that were created by renowned artist Isaiah Zagar. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, artistic invention, and the enduring&hellip…
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
San Francisco International Film Festival
Winner - Golden Gate Award(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a&hellip…
Golden Gate Award Winner
FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS - A lament for a drowned culture brought to you direct from our partner California Newsreel. FAUBOURG TREME was largely shot before the Katrina tragedy but edited afterward, giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. Our guide through the&hellip…
San Francisco International Latino Film Festival
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their skills and labor to the revolutionary&hellip…
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Santa Fe Film Festival
Following a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme, American Outrage examines why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert&hellip…
Best Animation
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz&hellip…
Santa Monica Film Festival
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
Sao Paulo International Film Festival
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
Sarasota Film Festival
After years of participating as costumed historical re-enactors themselves, Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope decided to film this mysterious world. Given unprecendented access to England's oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk, the capture the colorful characters among the 500 volunteers who spend their&hellip&hellip…
Improvisation lends authenticity to this indie comedy from director Lynn Shelton. Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson stars as Eric Lambert Jones, a writer who has become so wrapped up in his own success that he has neglected his longtime friendship with Dylan. To make amends, the citified novelist travels to Washington state to visit&hellip…
Seattle International Film Festival
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Set in Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Szmolinsky is the story of Karl and Inge. After Karl is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" over to Pyong Yang, he is harassed by local animal rights activists. Szmolinsky offers a look into one chapter in this extraordinary story. &hellip…
Winner - Special Jury Prize(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a&hellip…
Seattle True Independent Film Festival
This Award-Winning Surrealist Comedy comes from the Producer of the Academy-Award Nominated and Independent Spirit Award-Winning FROZEN RIVER! Like Laurel and Hardy, Jake and Elwood, or Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo before them, Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well-scripted journey into the depths of the American psyche. Recently escaped&hellip&hellip…
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
Shanghai International Film Festival
Akiko is standing in an endless, black, and empty space. Finding herself in a different sense of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings. Different elements from her surroundings come into view; the road, the grass and the streetlights. Akiko watches and experiences everything in a very intense way, as if she has never seen&hellip…
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
Hollywood outcast, best-selling author and chronicler of the rich and famous, Dominick Dunne is one of the world's leading journalists and society commentators. This is his story&hellip…
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Special Election Edition of the new documentary THE END OF AMERICA! From the award-winning filmmakers of The Devil Came on Horseback and The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, THE END OF AMERICA, a stunning indictment of the sweeping policy changes&hellip&hellip…
Grierson: Sheffield(Youth Jury Award)
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown ("Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt"), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals&hellip…
Short Cuts Cologne
When his loving wife passes away, a retired farmer faces the silent looks of those around who seem to condemn him to an imminent death&hellip…
SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. It wasn't about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand-car war where security would become the ultimate product&hellip…
WGA Documentary Screenplay Award – Anna Broinowski
Indiepix Films Forbidden Lie$ focuses on Norma Khouri who is a thief, a saint, a seductress and a sociopath – depending on who is talking. Khouri won fame and fortune with her “true story” Forbidden Love, about a shocking honor killing&hellip…
Winner - Special Jury Prize
As Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, it changes the lives of aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her street-smart husband forever. Edited together from video footage shot by the couple during and after the storm's devastation, this documentary offers a visceral, personal view of the&hellip…
Cinematic Vision Award
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown ("Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt"), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented&hellip…
Sin Fronteras Film Festival
Nina is a 10 year old girlwhose life dramatically changes when her dying father and Scissor Dancer master asks her to fulfillhis last wish. Inspired by the short story of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, "The Agony of Rasu Ñiti"&hellip…
Slamdance Film Festival
FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Double-sized 10th DVD collection of short films from the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival&hellip…
Winner - Grand Jury Prize(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft&hellip…
Slatioara Film Festival
Nina is a 10 year old girlwhose life dramatically changes when her dying father and Scissor Dancer master asks her to fulfillhis last wish. Inspired by the short story of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, "The Agony of Rasu Ñiti"&hellip…
Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival
Best Documentary
In growing season tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida, where they plant and harvest the food that Americans consume. Immokalee U.S.A. documents these peoples daily experiences&hellip&hellip…
Sonoma Valley Film Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
South by Southwest Film Festival
This Award-Winning Surrealist Comedy comes from the Producer of the Academy-Award Nominated and Independent Spirit Award-Winning FROZEN RIVER! Like Laurel and Hardy, Jake and Elwood, or Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo before them, Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well-scripted journey into the depths of the American psyche. Recently escaped&hellip&hellip…
Southern Appalachian Film Festival
Best Art Film
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City forever scarred the trust of the American people. On the same date, 28 years before, the US-supported military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende ushered in 17 years of autocratic rule under dictator Augusto Pinochet&hellip…
Split Film Festival
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Starz Denver Film Festival
In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, a bloody civil war between the socialist-influenced Sandinistas and U.S.- backed Contras ravaged Nicaragua. Despite the danger, thousands of Americans disobeyed White House warnings and descended upon the Central American nation, determined to lend their skills and labor to the revolutionary&hellip…
Fox 31 Emerging Filmmaker Award
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to&hellip…
Starz First Look Student Film Festival
Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-outs, live on the fringe and off the grid, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique vision of the American dream&hellip…
Student Academy Awards
Regional Finalist
Love is often found in the most unlikely places. In fact, it seems more the rule than the exception. In Eli Akira Kaufman's California King, a womanizing mattress salesman, who employs faux physics to get female customers&hellip…
Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Documentary(Nominee)
World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award – Irena Dol
Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, known for staging striking tableaux of nude female models, is smitten with a pair of Sudanese twins during an African photo shoot&hellip…
Winner - Grand Jury Prize
As Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, it changes the lives of aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her street-smart husband forever. Edited together from video footage shot by the couple during and after the storm's devastation, this documentary offers a visceral, personal view of the calamity&hellip…
A video store clerk is infatuated with an introverted girl with a secret history&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize (Nomination)
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimate cinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker, artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Isaac Julien's (Young Soul Rebels, Looking for Langston) documentary blends together vintage clips from Jarman's groundbreaking&hellip…
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Grand Jury Prize (Nominated)(Documentary)
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown ("Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt"), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals&hellip…
Sunscreen Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
Swansea Bay Film Festival
Jury Award - Best Documentary Feature
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
SXSW Film Festival
Mattie and James are in love and living in separate cities. But too many mornings and too many miles apart have taken a toll on them&hellip…
Improvisation lends authenticity to this indie comedy from director Lynn Shelton. Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson stars as Eric Lambert Jones, a writer who has become so wrapped up in his own success that he has neglected his longtime friendship with Dylan. To make amends, the citified novelist travels to Washington state to visit&hellip…
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrorsmosaics that were created by renowned artist Isaiah Zagar. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, artistic invention, and the enduring power of family bonds&hellip…
After years of participating as costumed historical re-enactors themselves, Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope decided to film this mysterious world. Given unprecendented access to England's oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk, the capture the colorful characters among the 500 volunteers who spend their&hellip&hellip…
This Award-Winning Surrealist Comedy comes from the Producer of the Academy-Award Nominated and Independent Spirit Award-Winning FROZEN RIVER! Like Laurel and Hardy, Jake and Elwood, or Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo before them, Lionel and Tin are on an ill-fated but well-scripted journey into the depths of the American psyche. Recently escaped&hellip&hellip…
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry explores the roots of American tattoing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins. Considered by many the foremost tattoo artist of all time, Collins is the father of modern day tattooing, whose uncompromising lifestyle and larger than life persona made him an American legend&hellip…
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. It wasn't about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand-car war where security would become the ultimate product&hellip…
Tacoma Film Festival
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Tehran Short Film Festival
Join Aurelien Foucault and Cedric Quennesson as they bring the ancient spectacle of Chinese Shadow Puppetry to life. Meet colorful he denizens of the Mengze Theatre as well as master puppeteer Qin Ligang and his prodigious grandson as they displays this breathtaking art&hellip…
Telluride Film Festival
The trouble with Holocaust movies is that they're about the Holocaust; they resurrect an illustrious horror, habited by history's most reliable demons, with little to say except that, yes, this was a tragedy. ADAM RESURRECTED isn't likely to fit anyone's definition of a Holocaust movie. As director Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION) summarized&hellip…
Texas Black Film Festival
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers from New York offered a free filmmaking class at the first school to reopen in New Orleans after the flooding of the city. The students responded with such passion that the film Wade in the Water was unexpectedly created&hellip…
The Institute of Contemporary Arts
Welcome to Nollywood tells the story of the burgeoning Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood. The film follows three directors and their latest productions, while also using interviews with scholars, actors, and journalists who celebrate (in insightful and often humorous ways) the Nigerian video-film industry as a whole, its unique&hellip…
The NYC Downtown Short Film Audience Choice Festival
In 2055, artificial intelligence is possible. The government tries desperately to control the use and abuse of cybernetic beings while society struggles to accept them. Software hackers are both highly coveted resources and enemies of the state. Lt. James Lee, computer psychologist, embarks on his first assignment. His wits and training&hellip&hellip…
The Other Venice Film Festival
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Thessaloniki Film Festival
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Tokyo FILMeX
Grand Prize
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
Torino Film Festival
The Axe in the Attic focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day roadtrip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between&hellip…
Toronto International Film Festival
This documentary offers a fond look at world-renowned fashion designer Valentino Garavani. Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer sits in the director's chair, pulling back the curtains for an all-access tour of haute-couture culture, recording the corporate struggles and runway-set hilarity as Valentino prepares to retire from his clothing…
TREELESS MOUNTAIN is abundant in the only special effect that Hollywoods magical movie-making machines can never generate: sincerity. It is the story of two Korean girls (ages approximately seven and five) whose innocence is tested as they get passed from home to home while their mother searches for their absent father. With only her&hellip…
Rory Culkin (MEAN CREEK) stars in the coming-of-age drama LYMELIFE. Set in 1970s Long Island, the film has a WONDER YEARS feel with its friendly spats between brothers and a major crush on the all-American girl next door. As 15-year-old Scott, Culkin shares the screen with real-life brother Kieran Culkin, whose character, Jimmy, is just&hellip…
The trouble with Holocaust movies is that they're about the Holocaust; they resurrect an illustrious horror, habited by history's most reliable demons, with little to say except that, yes, this was a tragedy. ADAM RESURRECTED isn't likely to fit anyone's definition of a Holocaust movie. As director Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION) summarized&hellip…
Though THE BROTHERS BLOOM seems to be equal parts THE STING and THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, director Rian Johnson's second feature is still strikingly original. Adrien Brody (KING KONG) and Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) star as the siblings of the title, who have been working as conmen since they were children. There is a constant tug of war between&hellip…
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Tribeca Film Festival
FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS - A lament for a drowned culture brought to you direct from our partner California Newsreel. FAUBOURG TREME was largely shot before the Katrina tragedy but edited afterward, giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. Our guide through the neighborhood is New Orleans Time-Picayune&hellip…
Bart got a room, a hotel room, and he's booked it for senior prom night. This semi-autobiographical ode to teenage angst aims for American Pie-style yucks with a light edge of Philip Roth's comic neuroticisms&hellip…
Having tackled the world of music, acting, and children's publishing, Madonna has turned her attention to directing, making her feature film debut with FILTH AND WISDOM. Set in a London flat, the film follows the episodic adventures of a colorful cast of characters, including a reluctant stripper (Holly Weston), a blind poet (Richard&hellip…
A creature unknown to modern man is angry and on the loose in this horror story influenced by classic low-budget thrillers of the 1970s. Sublime, Texas, is a small, decaying town along the Navidad River where opportunity is scarce and moonshine whiskey is plentiful. Dale S. Rogers (Justin Meeks) lives in a rattletrap farmhouse with his&hellip…
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Tromso International Film Festival
Tromso Palm Award
Svetlana, an 11 year old girl from a children's home in Russia, is the sponsored child of a couple from Finland. Living only 60 km from the border of Finland, Svetlana has never visited her neighboring country. After a long wait Svetlana finally gets an invitation to have a look at life on the other side of the&hellip…
True West Cinema Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…
True/False Film Festival
Ten years ago, a pastor from the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco received a prophetic whisper - a directive from God to make movies for the Lord. Using donations from his congregation, he slowly transformed his church into a fully functioning movie studio, and the production company Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks was born. After&hellip&hellip…
Twin Rivers Media Festival
Honorable Mention
Tim Busko captures the buzzings of small town poet/musician Eric Morder on life, love, obsession, and in doing so shows us a 33-year-old man in the throes of growing up&hellip…
United Nations Association Film Festival
Following a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U. S. government that swept to the United States Supreme, American Outrage examines why the United States government has spent millions persecuting and prosecuting two elderly women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert&hellip…
FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
Urbanworld Film Festival
Best Documentary Short
El Play is a thirty minute documentary that tells the story of Jairo, a young aspiring baseball player from San Pedro de Macorís, a small city in The Dominican Republic famous for birthing some of the world’s most talented baseball players. The film paints a detailed portrait of Jairo and his tireless&hellip…
USA Film Festival
An aspiring novelist tries to kill off her protagonist - on the advice of her ex-lover/professor - with real-world repercussions. Meanwhile, an unstable used car salesman tries to cope with the death of his wife and the subsequent silent treatment of his young daughter&hellip…
Vail Film Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
Vancouver International Film Festival
Building a piano is arguably as much an art as the playing it, and its creation lies at the of this documentary. NOTE BY NOTE: THE MAKING OF THE STEINWAY L1037 follows a concert grand from its birth in the trees to its magnificent debut in a New York concert hall. Musicians including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Harry Connick, Jr., and Hank&hellip…
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Vancouver LGBT Film Festival
This French film explores the strange and complex issues that arise when a lesbian couple considers stepping outside of their defining sexual paradigm in the pursuit of having children&hellip…
Venice International Film Festival
Honorable Mention - SIGNIS AWARD – Amir Naderi
Nominated - Golden Lion – Amir Naderi
Eddie Parker, his wife Tracy and their 12-year-old son Mitch lead blue-collar lives on the outskirts of America’s pleasure capital, Las Vegas. A compulsive gambler, Eddie&hellip…
Victoria International Film Festival
Julian Cautherley's Rock, Paper, Scissors: A Geek Tragedy focuses on the founding of the World Rock Papar Scissors Society. The Walker brothers intended to turn a child's game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when RPS fanatics converge on the World RPS Championships, they're caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate&hellip…
HELL ON WHEELS is the ass-kicking documentary film telling the story of a group of Texas women who band together to resurrect roller derby for the 21st century. Emerging from the Austin music and arts scene, these women create a rock and roll fueled version of all-girl roller derby that has spawned the derby craze that's sweeping the nation&hellip…
Waisman Center University of Wisconsin-Madison
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Warsaw International Film Festival
An intriguing and sometimes intimate documentary, FULL BATTLE RATTLE is an important peek behind the curtains on military preparations for the most dangerous stage of all: the war in Iraq. The film opens with what appears to be a deadly ambush of a U.S. military patrol in Iraq. In fact, it is one of the many simulations conducted at the&hellip…
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Audience Award
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
Waterfront Film Festival
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Wave Gathering Music Festival
A struggling indie rock band, The Damnwells, sign a major record deal only to have their album and their career nearly destroyed by the people who signed them. They had been in complete control of their music and their lives before they signed on the dotted line. Now, a year of their lives was sitting on a shelf waiting to be heard. Will&hellip…
Wisconsin Film Festival
FRONTRUNNER tells the heroic story of this medical doctor and mother of three. As a children's advocate, she defied the murderous Taliban regime. Now, she boldly runs for president -- the only woman in a field of 17 candidates. In a dramatic turn of events, she holds the fate of the country's first presidential election in her…
Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and geek culture collide head-on in the feature-length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the internet, Nerdcore Hip-Hop is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, sci-fi, anime and technology. This new&hellip…
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
Circus Rosaire takes a poignant, behind the scenes look inside a ninth generation family of animal trainers, struggling to survive in a business that is rapidly disappearing&hellip…
Woods Hole Film Festival
Jury Prize(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important&hellip…
Woodstock Film Festival
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. It wasn't about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand-car war where security would become the ultimate product&hellip…
Maverick Award for Best Documentary Feature
Best Editing
In the vibrant, bohemian neighborhood of South Philadelphia, 50,000-square feet of concrete are covered with tile and mirrorsmosaics that were created by renowned artist Isaiah Zagar. A fascinating portrait of love and betrayal, artistic invention, and the enduring&hellip…
Writers Guild Awards
Documentary Screenplay Award (Nominated)
From the director of "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," Alex Gibney's TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homocide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film&hellip…
Documentary Screenplay Award
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care&hellip…
Zero Film Festival
Buster's the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from. Or should run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him 'til they grow bored. He's also a grifter, sucking his brother dry, and a cancer, sabotaging his brother's relationship&hellip…