The DGA today announced the winners of its 28th annual DGA Student Film Awards for African American, Asian American, Latino & Women directors. The awards were created in 1995 “to address the severe underrepresentation of directors of color and women in feature filmmaking by honoring, encouraging and bringing attention to exceptional diverse directors in film schools and universities across the country.”
Student filmmakers at USC received seven of the 10 awards handed out in the western region – more than those at any other school in the country. The awards ceremonies and screenings will be held at the DGA’s theater in New York today and in Los Angeles tomorrow.
“We are proud to see the high caliber of diverse talent emerging from the 28th Annual DGA Student Film Awards,” said DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter. “As we are committed to promoting inclusion in our industry, this program consistently draws a wide swath of...
Student filmmakers at USC received seven of the 10 awards handed out in the western region – more than those at any other school in the country. The awards ceremonies and screenings will be held at the DGA’s theater in New York today and in Los Angeles tomorrow.
“We are proud to see the high caliber of diverse talent emerging from the 28th Annual DGA Student Film Awards,” said DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter. “As we are committed to promoting inclusion in our industry, this program consistently draws a wide swath of...
- 12/14/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Fantastic Fest Awards Winners: ‘Piggy,’ ‘The Five Devils’ and ‘The Menu’ Take Top Honors (Exclusive)
Another Fantastic Fest is coming to a close, and we’ve got the full list of 2022 Fantastic Fest awards winners — including Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming release “The Menu.”
The film festival, held at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar in Austin, Texas, is one of the premiere genre film festivals in the country and has led to more acquisitions than South by Southwest, which takes place in Austin every spring. A joyful celebration of all things genre, this year was no different – with buzzy titles like Searchlight’s “The Menu” and MGM’s “Bones and All” playing alongside more esoteric fare like “Shin Ultraman.” There was even a high profile Marvel Studios premiere in their upcoming black-and-white Halloween special, “Werewolf by Night” (which really brought the house down).
“We really gave our jury members a tough job this year. We have no idea how they were able to choose between so many amazing films,...
The film festival, held at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar in Austin, Texas, is one of the premiere genre film festivals in the country and has led to more acquisitions than South by Southwest, which takes place in Austin every spring. A joyful celebration of all things genre, this year was no different – with buzzy titles like Searchlight’s “The Menu” and MGM’s “Bones and All” playing alongside more esoteric fare like “Shin Ultraman.” There was even a high profile Marvel Studios premiere in their upcoming black-and-white Halloween special, “Werewolf by Night” (which really brought the house down).
“We really gave our jury members a tough job this year. We have no idea how they were able to choose between so many amazing films,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
’The Menu’ takes audience award.
Eduardo Casanova’s mother-son horror La Pieta has been named best picture and serial killer thriller Holy Spider’s Ali Abbasi best director in Fantastic Fest’s Main Competition awards.
Carlota Pereda’s Piggy won best picture in the Horror Features category, while best directors award went to Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, and Gigi Saul Guerrero and Alejandro Brugués for Satanic Hispanics.
In Next Wave, Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils won best picture and Thomas Hardiman was named best director for Medusa Deluxe.
Mark Mylod’s TIFF world premiere The Menu starring...
Eduardo Casanova’s mother-son horror La Pieta has been named best picture and serial killer thriller Holy Spider’s Ali Abbasi best director in Fantastic Fest’s Main Competition awards.
Carlota Pereda’s Piggy won best picture in the Horror Features category, while best directors award went to Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, and Gigi Saul Guerrero and Alejandro Brugués for Satanic Hispanics.
In Next Wave, Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils won best picture and Thomas Hardiman was named best director for Medusa Deluxe.
Mark Mylod’s TIFF world premiere The Menu starring...
- 9/27/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
’The Menu’ takes audience award.
Eduardo Casanova’s mother-son horror La Pieta has been named best picture and serial killer thriller Holy Spider’s Ali Abbasi best director in Fantastic Fest’s Main Competition awards.
Carlota Pereda’s Piggy won best picture in the Horror Features category, while best directors award went to Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, and Gigi Saul Guerrero and Alejandro Brugués for Satanic Hispanics.
In Next Wave, Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils won best picture and Thomas Hardiman was named best director for Medusa Deluxe.
Mark Mylod’s TIFF world premiere The Menu starring...
Eduardo Casanova’s mother-son horror La Pieta has been named best picture and serial killer thriller Holy Spider’s Ali Abbasi best director in Fantastic Fest’s Main Competition awards.
Carlota Pereda’s Piggy won best picture in the Horror Features category, while best directors award went to Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, and Gigi Saul Guerrero and Alejandro Brugués for Satanic Hispanics.
In Next Wave, Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils won best picture and Thomas Hardiman was named best director for Medusa Deluxe.
Mark Mylod’s TIFF world premiere The Menu starring...
- 9/27/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
What is love and where does it come from? Spanish maverick Velasco Broca and his collaborators at Canódromo Abandonado have the answer in the third episode of their (very odd) comedy web series Autonomous Gods. Watch and learn! In an underwater cathedral, a grumpy priest explains a series of esoteric truths to a an altar boy: where do the cosmos and the Spanish regions come from? What is love? Where do the gods end up when we stop believing in them? Through his teachings, we find out about the world of the regional gods and get caught up in their fear, anger and sadness....
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- 10/24/2018
- Screen Anarchy
We here at Screen Anarchy are proud to be hosting the world premiere of Spanish madman Velasco Broca's new short film series Autonomous Gods - a collaboration with audiovisual collective Canódromo Abandonado - and today we move on to episode two: The God Zoo. In an underwater cathedral, a grumpy priest explains a series of esoteric truths to a an altar boy: where do the cosmos and the Spanish regions come from? What is love? Where do the gods end up when we stop believing in them? Through his teachings, we find out about the world of the regional gods and get caught up in their fear, anger and sadness. Ever wonder what happens to a civilization's gods when that civilization dies out? It goes...
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- 10/23/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Long time readers of this site will need no introduction to the cinematic oddity that is Spanish director Velasco Broca. We've been following the oddball experimentalist in these pages for over a decade now, initially drawn in by his blend of mystically inspired experimentalism - imagine Jodorowsky with, if you will, even more drugs - fused with classic 50's drive-in science fiction. That particular phace of his career arguably peaked with the Cannes selection of his 2006 short film Avant Petalos Grillados but that doesn't mean Velasco Broca has stopped. Oh, no. And we are beyond pleased to present the world premiere of his new collaboration with audivisual collective Canódromo Abandonado in the short film series Autonomous Gods. In an underwater cathedral, a grumpy priest...
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- 10/22/2018
- Screen Anarchy
If the unenthusiastic red devil up above appears familiar to you then, well done! You've been paying attention! We first came across the ruddy fellow back in April when Spanish maverick director Cesar Velasco Broca shared with us a first peek at his latest short film, New Altar. Having been big fans of Velasco Broca's for years now we meet news of anything new from him with equal parts glee and delighted confusion because his stuff is just plain weird and so we are delighted to learn that New Altar is now included as part of an anthology project titled To Help The Human Eye (Ayudar al ojo humano) which is freshly premiered in Seville. Made up of three short films - the aforementioned New...
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- 11/15/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Rejoice, children, for Spanish cinematic madman Velasco Broca has returned and we have the first look at his upcoming short film New Altar. We first came across the director thanks to his utterly bizarre trio of science fiction shorts - Der Milschorf, Kinky Hoodoo Voodoo and the Cannes selected Avant Petalos Grillados - all of which had more than a dash of Bunuel inspired absurdity to them along with his Nacho Vigalondo starring scifi TV pilot The Galactic Adventures of Jaime de Funes and Arancha which features a very odd space octopus villain and Vigalondo vomitting milk all over himself. Describing New Altar as the first time he has worked in color and as a bit of a throwback to BBC documentaries of the 70s...
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- 4/10/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Estonian director’s new film will be part of Serbian festival’s 14-strong competition including My Mother, 45 Years and Heil; festival to fete five Spanish directors.
Roukli, the new film by Estonia’s Veiko Õunpuu, will have its world premiere in the 22nd edition of European Film Festival Palić (July 18-24).
This year’s festival will open with Magnus von Horn’s The Here After, while the main competition consists of 14 films, including recent Karlovy Vary titles The World Is Mine by Nicolae Constantin Tanase and Heil by Dietrich Brüggemann, as well as Cannes entries Rams by Grimur Hakonarson, Nanni Moretti’s My Mother, Panama by Pavle Vučković and Berlin title 45 Years.
The perennial Underground Spirit Award will be bestowed upon five Spanish film-makers: Ion de Sosa, Chema Garcia Ibarra, Luis Lopez Carrasco, Miguel Llanso, and Velasco Broca.
“At the time the world economic crisis struck Spain, leaving behind negative impacts on its cinema, a group of...
Roukli, the new film by Estonia’s Veiko Õunpuu, will have its world premiere in the 22nd edition of European Film Festival Palić (July 18-24).
This year’s festival will open with Magnus von Horn’s The Here After, while the main competition consists of 14 films, including recent Karlovy Vary titles The World Is Mine by Nicolae Constantin Tanase and Heil by Dietrich Brüggemann, as well as Cannes entries Rams by Grimur Hakonarson, Nanni Moretti’s My Mother, Panama by Pavle Vučković and Berlin title 45 Years.
The perennial Underground Spirit Award will be bestowed upon five Spanish film-makers: Ion de Sosa, Chema Garcia Ibarra, Luis Lopez Carrasco, Miguel Llanso, and Velasco Broca.
“At the time the world economic crisis struck Spain, leaving behind negative impacts on its cinema, a group of...
- 7/17/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Estonian director’s new film will be part of Serbian festival’s 14-strong competition including My Mother, 45 Years and Heil; festival to fete five Spanish directors.
Roukli, the new film by Estonia’s Veiko Õunpuu, will have its world premiere in the 22nd edition of European Film Festival Palić (July 18-24).
This year’s festival will open with Magnus von Horn’s The Here After, while the main competition consists of 14 films, including recent Karlovy Vary titles The World Is Mine by Nicolae Constantin Tanase and Heil by Dietrich Brüggemann, as well as Cannes entries Rams by Grimur Hakonarson and Nanni Moretti’s Panama by Pavle Vučković and Berlin title 45 Years.
The perennial Underground Spirit Award will be bestowed upon five Spanish film-makers: Ion de Sosa, Chema Garcia Ibarra, Luis Lopez Carrasco, Miguel Llanso, and Velasco Broca.
“At the time the world economic crisis struck Spain, leaving behind negative impacts on its cinema, a group of...
Roukli, the new film by Estonia’s Veiko Õunpuu, will have its world premiere in the 22nd edition of European Film Festival Palić (July 18-24).
This year’s festival will open with Magnus von Horn’s The Here After, while the main competition consists of 14 films, including recent Karlovy Vary titles The World Is Mine by Nicolae Constantin Tanase and Heil by Dietrich Brüggemann, as well as Cannes entries Rams by Grimur Hakonarson and Nanni Moretti’s Panama by Pavle Vučković and Berlin title 45 Years.
The perennial Underground Spirit Award will be bestowed upon five Spanish film-makers: Ion de Sosa, Chema Garcia Ibarra, Luis Lopez Carrasco, Miguel Llanso, and Velasco Broca.
“At the time the world economic crisis struck Spain, leaving behind negative impacts on its cinema, a group of...
- 7/17/2015
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
It’s not clear what’s going on at the start of Crumbs, except for the info imparted via opening titles, that we are in some sort of post-apocalyptic world, where mankind has lost the urge for survival. A little hunchbacked man treks across a fantastical, extraterrestrial-seeming landscape, finds a plastic Christmas tree, spots a uniformed Nazi in gas mask and sparkly Mickey Mouse ears, and takes to his heels. This is the first Ethiopian surreal science-fiction movie.
Things don’t get a great deal clearer. The little man, Candy (Daniel Tadesse) is a scavenger of some sort, living with his woman Birdy/Sayat (Salem Tesfaye) in a decrepit bowling alley, whose machinery starts to work again by itself, at the same time as the rusting spaceship hovering low in the sky starts to power up again. He decides he must go and consult the witch, and then travel to find Santa Claus who,...
Things don’t get a great deal clearer. The little man, Candy (Daniel Tadesse) is a scavenger of some sort, living with his woman Birdy/Sayat (Salem Tesfaye) in a decrepit bowling alley, whose machinery starts to work again by itself, at the same time as the rusting spaceship hovering low in the sky starts to power up again. He decides he must go and consult the witch, and then travel to find Santa Claus who,...
- 6/23/2015
- by Tom Newth
- SoundOnSight
Dylan Verrechia's Tijauna Makes Me Happy took home the grand jury award for best narrative feature, while Adam Hootnick's Unsettled picked up the grand jury award for best documentary feature at the 13th Slamdance Film Festival, which concluded Saturday in Park City, Utah.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
- 1/29/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dylan Verrechia's Tijauna Makes Me Happy took home the grand jury award for best narrative feature, while Adam Hootnick's Unsettled picked up the grand jury award for best documentary feature at the 13th Slamdance Film Festival, which concluded Saturday in Park City, Utah.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
Separately, the Slamdunk Film Festival concluded on Friday, awarding its best fictional feature prize to The Junior Defenders and its documentary prize to This African Life.
At the Slamdance awards ceremony, which took place Friday, the top audience award winners were Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party, named best narrative feature, and Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, which took the prize for best documentary.
Jury awards were also given to Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade, best animated short; Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps, best documentary short; Cesar Velasco Broca's Avant Petalos Grillados, best experimental short; and Charles Williams' The Cow Thief, best narrative short.
Other audience award winners were Danny Bourque's "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith," which copped the Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film, and JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees' The Mallorys Go Black Market, which scored the Spirit of Slamdance Award.
- 1/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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