Tribeca Film Institute announced on Thursday the 43 projects that will participate in this year’s Tfi Network film market, to be held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A traditional Tfi Network three-day event would see emerging filmmakers and creators from across the globe coming together in New York City to embark on a day of pitch prep and industry roundtables, along with two days of individual meetings with professionals during the Tribeca Film Festival, which has also moved some of its programming online. This year, Tfi Network, presented by AT&T, will move online from April 27 through May 1. Prior to Tfi Network, filmmakers will attend “Prep Week” from April 21 through April 23, which includes online pitch training sessions with mentors. This year’s 43 winners include scripted projects, documentaries and interactive projects.
“Tfi remains dedicated to creating opportunities for independent artists without compromising their health or safety,” Tribeca Film Institute executive director...
A traditional Tfi Network three-day event would see emerging filmmakers and creators from across the globe coming together in New York City to embark on a day of pitch prep and industry roundtables, along with two days of individual meetings with professionals during the Tribeca Film Festival, which has also moved some of its programming online. This year, Tfi Network, presented by AT&T, will move online from April 27 through May 1. Prior to Tfi Network, filmmakers will attend “Prep Week” from April 21 through April 23, which includes online pitch training sessions with mentors. This year’s 43 winners include scripted projects, documentaries and interactive projects.
“Tfi remains dedicated to creating opportunities for independent artists without compromising their health or safety,” Tribeca Film Institute executive director...
- 4/16/2020
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
AFI Fest said Friday that I Am Not Alone, Garin Hovannisian’s documentary about the 2018 Armenian revolution, won this year’s feature film Audience Award, topping the list of prizes given for the annual festival that wrapped its run last night in Hollywood.
The festival also said today that it will hold its 2020 edition next October 15-22.
Among the winners unveiled today were Sonia K. Hadad’s Exam, which took the Grand Jury Prize in the Live Action Short category, while Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s Something to Remember won the Grand Jury Prize for Animated Short. The wins make both films Oscar-eligible in those categories.
The festival’s documentary competition resulted in a tie, with Grand Jury prizes going to Sophia Nahil Allison’s A Love Song for Latasha and Elivia Shaw’s The Clinic.
Here’s the list of winners:
Audience Award – Feature
I Am Not Alone
(Dir...
The festival also said today that it will hold its 2020 edition next October 15-22.
Among the winners unveiled today were Sonia K. Hadad’s Exam, which took the Grand Jury Prize in the Live Action Short category, while Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s Something to Remember won the Grand Jury Prize for Animated Short. The wins make both films Oscar-eligible in those categories.
The festival’s documentary competition resulted in a tie, with Grand Jury prizes going to Sophia Nahil Allison’s A Love Song for Latasha and Elivia Shaw’s The Clinic.
Here’s the list of winners:
Audience Award – Feature
I Am Not Alone
(Dir...
- 11/22/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Garin Hovannisian’s documentary I Am Not Alone wins 2019 edition audience award.
AFI Fest has moved up its 2020 edition to October as festival brass take advantage of a “more competitive” slot that will see the event start within one month of Toronto.
Next year’s edition will run from October 15-22, 2020, bringing the festival out of its traditional November slot and positioning it not long after Toronto International Film Festival, which will take place from September 10-20, 2020.
A festival spokesperson said, “As the calendar gets more congested at this time of year, we saw this an as opportunity to shift...
AFI Fest has moved up its 2020 edition to October as festival brass take advantage of a “more competitive” slot that will see the event start within one month of Toronto.
Next year’s edition will run from October 15-22, 2020, bringing the festival out of its traditional November slot and positioning it not long after Toronto International Film Festival, which will take place from September 10-20, 2020.
A festival spokesperson said, “As the calendar gets more congested at this time of year, we saw this an as opportunity to shift...
- 11/22/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The SXSW Film Festival unveiled the 2019 Jury and Special Award winners for 26th edition of the fest at Austin’s Paramount Theater with Josephine Mackerras-directed drama Alice winning in the Narrative Feature Competition and Waad al-Kateab & Edward Watts’s For Sama taking top honors for the Documentary Feature Competition. Short films and other juried sections, including Film Design Awards were also presented.
Alice follows the titular character, a happy and perfect wife and mother whose life is turned upside down when she discovers her husband is living a secret life. She is left abandoned, financially ruined but fights back as she goes on a journey of self-discovery. For Sama tells the epic story of a young woman’s journey through love, war and motherhood across five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria.
SXSW also announced Special Awards including the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, the Vimeo Staff Picks Award,...
Alice follows the titular character, a happy and perfect wife and mother whose life is turned upside down when she discovers her husband is living a secret life. She is left abandoned, financially ruined but fights back as she goes on a journey of self-discovery. For Sama tells the epic story of a young woman’s journey through love, war and motherhood across five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria.
SXSW also announced Special Awards including the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, the Vimeo Staff Picks Award,...
- 3/13/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The SXSW Film Festival has announced the winners of the its Narrative and Documentary Competitions. The winners were unveiled during a ceremony at Austin’s Paramount Theater on Tuesday, alongside several other prizes for features and shorts from across the the SXSW lineup.
Among this year’s big Narrative Feature entries is Grand Jury winner “Alice,” Josephine Mackerras’ story of a woman’s choice to become a sex worker to support her husband and child. “For Sama,” this year’s Documentary Feature winner, follows a Syrian filmmaker as she starts a family amidst the backdrop of the country’s ongoing political turmoil.
Previous SXSW winners include Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture” and “Marwencol.” Last year, the top prizes went to “Thunder Road” and “People’s Republic of Desire.”
Audience awards will be announced closer to the conclusion of the festival. The full list of Tuesday evening’s winners can be...
Among this year’s big Narrative Feature entries is Grand Jury winner “Alice,” Josephine Mackerras’ story of a woman’s choice to become a sex worker to support her husband and child. “For Sama,” this year’s Documentary Feature winner, follows a Syrian filmmaker as she starts a family amidst the backdrop of the country’s ongoing political turmoil.
Previous SXSW winners include Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture” and “Marwencol.” Last year, the top prizes went to “Thunder Road” and “People’s Republic of Desire.”
Audience awards will be announced closer to the conclusion of the festival. The full list of Tuesday evening’s winners can be...
- 3/13/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Audience award for best feature went to Billy Corben’s documentary Screwball.
Birds Of Passage by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra has won the $40,000 Knight Marimbas Award at the 36th Miami Film Festival.
The filmmakers’ Ciudad Lunar Productions will split the festival’s top jury prize with the film’s Us distributor The Orchard, which will distribute the film in select markets including Miami on March 15.
Sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the award is presented to the film “that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future”. The Audience Award for Best Feature went...
Birds Of Passage by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra has won the $40,000 Knight Marimbas Award at the 36th Miami Film Festival.
The filmmakers’ Ciudad Lunar Productions will split the festival’s top jury prize with the film’s Us distributor The Orchard, which will distribute the film in select markets including Miami on March 15.
Sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the award is presented to the film “that best exemplifies richness and resonance for cinema’s future”. The Audience Award for Best Feature went...
- 3/11/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“Birds of Passage,” Cristina Gallego’s and Ciro Guerra’s sprawling epic film tracing the origins of the Colombian drug trade, took home the $40,000 Knight Marimbas Award (the top grand jury prize) Saturday night at Miami Dade College’s 36th annual Miami Film Festival.
The south Florida gathering celebrated cinema with an eclectic and diverse slate of films, including “Screwball,” Billy Corben’s documentary about a Major League Baseball scandal. Produced by the Miami-based production company Rakontur, “Screwball” won the fest’s audience award for best feature.
The $40,000 Knight Made in Mia Award for films taking place and shot in south Florida from West Palm to the Keys, went to two films: $30,000 to “Pahokee,” directed by Ivette Lucas and Patrick Bresnan, which won best feature, and $5,000 each to Faren Humes’ “Liberty” and Jayme Gershen’s “Six Degrees of Immigration,” which tied for best short.
Other honors included the $5,000 HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award,...
The south Florida gathering celebrated cinema with an eclectic and diverse slate of films, including “Screwball,” Billy Corben’s documentary about a Major League Baseball scandal. Produced by the Miami-based production company Rakontur, “Screwball” won the fest’s audience award for best feature.
The $40,000 Knight Made in Mia Award for films taking place and shot in south Florida from West Palm to the Keys, went to two films: $30,000 to “Pahokee,” directed by Ivette Lucas and Patrick Bresnan, which won best feature, and $5,000 each to Faren Humes’ “Liberty” and Jayme Gershen’s “Six Degrees of Immigration,” which tied for best short.
Other honors included the $5,000 HBO Ibero-American Short Film Award,...
- 3/10/2019
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
A Fantastic Woman wins best international honour.
Jordan Peele was named best director and Get Out claimed the best feature award at Film Independent’s 2018 Spirit Awards on Saturday (March 3).
The penultimate awards show before Sunday’s 90th annual Academy Awards also honoured Sebastian Lelio’s Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman for best international film, Greta Gerwig for best screenplay (Lady Bird), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) in the lead acting stakes.
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) prevailed in the supporting acting contests,...
Jordan Peele was named best director and Get Out claimed the best feature award at Film Independent’s 2018 Spirit Awards on Saturday (March 3).
The penultimate awards show before Sunday’s 90th annual Academy Awards also honoured Sebastian Lelio’s Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman for best international film, Greta Gerwig for best screenplay (Lady Bird), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) in the lead acting stakes.
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) prevailed in the supporting acting contests,...
- 3/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A Fantastic Woman wins best international honour.
Jordan Peele was named best director and Get Out claimed the best feature award at Film Independent’s Indie Spirits on Saturday (March 3).
The penultimate awards show before Sunday’s 90th annual Academy Awards also honoured Sebastian Lelio’s Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman for best international film, Greta Gerwig for best screenplay (Lady Bird), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) in the lead acting stakes.
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) prevailed in the supporting acting contests,...
Jordan Peele was named best director and Get Out claimed the best feature award at Film Independent’s Indie Spirits on Saturday (March 3).
The penultimate awards show before Sunday’s 90th annual Academy Awards also honoured Sebastian Lelio’s Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman for best international film, Greta Gerwig for best screenplay (Lady Bird), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) in the lead acting stakes.
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) prevailed in the supporting acting contests,...
- 3/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Titled "Our Rhineland," and directed by Faren Humes, the 2013 short film is set in 1937 in Nazi Germany, as Germans of mixed race are being rounded up and rendered sterile. In the wake of this tragedy, 2 sisters struggle over what to do in response to the act - Sofia wants to fight, while Marta would rather find a way to just survive, as their familial bond is tested. The short stars Sabrina Alashi, Dasie Thames & Josef Urban. It was both a a Student Emmy winner, as well as a Student DGA winner, among other accolades. It's available to watch online courtesy of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. Watch the 16-minute short below:...
- 10/13/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Smack dab in its final week of raising production funds through Kickstarter is a controversial and timely new short film “Macho” by award-winning filmmaker Faren Humes. As the campaign states, "Macho" is “a story about acceptance; how to accept those closest to you, "and “those who differ from you." Moreso, as Humes tells us in the promotional video, "it’s about the exploration of what it means to be a man, and the consequences of not being that." In the film, the murder of a local transgender woman causes a rift within the small town of Sanderson, Fl and tests the bond of an ailing conservative curmudgeon uncle...
- 7/6/2015
- by Curtis Caesar John
- ShadowAndAct
Read More: Six Second Screenwriting Advice and Why All Screenwriting Books are a Con Faren Humes is a writer, director, and educator from Miami who recently participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive | Miami, which is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Her short film "Our Rhineland" has garnered broad acclaim, including a Director's Guild of America Student Film Award and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award. Humes studied filmmaking at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts. She lives and teaches film in Miami, Fl, where she develops stories inspired by her place of origin. To paint the picture: it's 9:28 a.m. on a Saturday in Miami. I walk into a nondescript building that's hosting the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive, which is supported by the Knight Foundation. I expected to be nervous; a ball of jitters once I walked through the door.
- 5/1/2015
- by Faren Humes
- Indiewire
It was just last month that I featured a well-made short film titled Our Rhineland, directed by Faren Humes (a filmmaker to certainly be aware of and watch), which is set in 1937, under the Third Reich, as Germans of mixed race were being rounded up and rendered sterile. It followed the struggles of 2 sisters with opposing views on how to respond to this act - one wanting to fight; the other just wanting to live.I recently learned of another film - this one a feature film - set during the same time, place and circumstances.Titled Rheinland, the film hails from Mokoari Street Productions, and is being written and directed by Lemohang Jeremiah...
- 7/25/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Titled Our Rhineland, and directed by Faren Humes (a filmmaker to certainly be aware of and watch - photo on the left), the film is set in 1937, under the Third Reich, as Germans of mixed race are being rounded up and rendered sterile. Two sisters struggle over what to do in response to the act - Sofia wants to fight, while Marta would rather just survive, and their bond is tested. The short stars Sabrina Alashi, Dasie Thames & Josef Urban. It's both a a Student Emmy winner as well as a Student DGA winner, amongst other accolades. It's now available to watch online courtesy of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. Watch the 16-minute...
- 6/24/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 2013 installment of the Women of African Descent Film Festival is right around the corner - a one-day film festival that takes place Today, Saturday, May 4th, right here in Brooklyn, NY, at Long Island University, in the Spike Lee Screening Room (on Flatbush and Dekalb Avenues). Included in the eclectic lineup are Little Brother: A Do Right Man by S&A writer Jasmin Tiggett and producer Nicole Franklin (this is the 3rd chapter in their Little Brother series); also Faren Humes' intriguing Nazi Germany-set Our Rhineland, Shirley Bruno's coming-of-age Haitian family tale The Things I See, Barbara Rick's documentary on...
- 5/4/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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