The 8th Annual Women’s Voices Now Film Festival: The Rights and Roles of Women: Redefining Our Shared Reality is in the books and the winning films have been selected by our jury:
Leslie J. Sacks Best Documentary Feature – Indebted to All Women
Best Documentary Short –Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me Lantos Foundation
Best Human Rights Documentary – This Stained Dawn
Best Creative Documentary – The Perfect Picture
Best First Time Filmmaker – Boucle en Onde
Best Youth Documentary Short – La Coiffeuse/The Hairdresser
Honorable Mentions:
Leslie J Sacks Grand Prize – Best Feature Documentary Film – Belly of the Beast
Best First Time Filmmaker – Grounded
Best Creative Documentary – The...
Leslie J. Sacks Best Documentary Feature – Indebted to All Women
Best Documentary Short –Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging To Me Lantos Foundation
Best Human Rights Documentary – This Stained Dawn
Best Creative Documentary – The Perfect Picture
Best First Time Filmmaker – Boucle en Onde
Best Youth Documentary Short – La Coiffeuse/The Hairdresser
Honorable Mentions:
Leslie J Sacks Grand Prize – Best Feature Documentary Film – Belly of the Beast
Best First Time Filmmaker – Grounded
Best Creative Documentary – The...
- 3/30/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Following its screening at the Marché du Film at Cannes, Shudder has acquired Us, UK/Ireland, and Australia/New Zealand rights to Jeff Barnaby's new zombie thriller Blood Quantum, which pits Indigenous residents of a reservation against the living dead.
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, today announced that they have acquired Us, UK/Ireland, and Australia/Nz rights to the zombie thriller Blood Quantum, which debuted for buyers at the Marché du Film at Cannes.
In Blood Quantum, the dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor (Michael Greyeyes), the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees, and reserve riff raff from the hordes of walking white corpses.
Directed and written by Mi'gmaq...
Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, today announced that they have acquired Us, UK/Ireland, and Australia/Nz rights to the zombie thriller Blood Quantum, which debuted for buyers at the Marché du Film at Cannes.
In Blood Quantum, the dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor (Michael Greyeyes), the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees, and reserve riff raff from the hordes of walking white corpses.
Directed and written by Mi'gmaq...
- 6/26/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
When I met Canadian director Juliet Lammers during the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival – where we served together on a sprawling panel – her film Last Woman Standing, which made the Hot Docs 2013 Netflix Audience Award top five, wasn’t even on my radar. But it certainly should have been. Co-directed by Lammers and Lorraine Price, Last Woman Standing is more than a riveting sports flick (though it’s that as well). Unique in approach, the doc focuses just as much on the relationship rift between Ariane Fortin and Mary Spencer, two of the world’s best boxers, as it does […]...
- 1/27/2014
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When I met Canadian director Juliet Lammers during the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival – where we served together on a sprawling panel – her film Last Woman Standing, which made the Hot Docs 2013 Netflix Audience Award top five, wasn’t even on my radar. But it certainly should have been. Co-directed by Lammers and Lorraine Price, Last Woman Standing is more than a riveting sports flick (though it’s that as well). Unique in approach, the doc focuses just as much on the relationship rift between Ariane Fortin and Mary Spencer, two of the world’s best boxers, as it does […]...
- 1/27/2014
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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