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 July 2, 2008 iW NEWS | Frameline Audiences Award "XXY," "Pageant"
The 32nd edition of Frameline, the world's largest and oldest film festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender films and filmmakers, finished up Sunday with a screening of Laurie Lynd's "Breakfast With Scot" and an awards ceremony. Winners included Lucia Puenzo's "XXY," which took the Audience Award for Best Feature Film, while Stewart Halpern and Ron Davis's "Pageant' won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. "The Frameline32 audience was by far the most enthusiastic audience for 'Pageant' so far this year and one that we will never forget," said Ron Davis in a statement. "Going on to win the audience award for best documentary was a truly amazing experience for us." Canadian short "No Bikini," directed by Claudia Morgado Escanilla, won the Audience Award for Best Short Film. The closing night also marked the end of a Frameline era as Michael Lumpkin, Frameline's Artistic Director for 25 years, bid the festival farewell. "No one was interested in distributing ['Mala Noche'], until Michael Lumpkin took a chance and brought it to this festival in 1986," remarked director Gus Van Sant during the closing night ceremonies at the Castro Theatre. "Michael was so nice, too. I remember I slept on his floor!" [Peter Knegt]  [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors, Queer Cinema ] iW NEWS | "St. Anna," "Nick & Norah" Among Six Toronto Additions
The Toronto International Film Festival announced the addition of six films in the Special Presentations program of its 2008 lineup. They include the world premieres of Steve Jacobs' "Disgrace," starring John Malkovich, Vincente Amorim's "Good," with Viggo Mortensen, Spike Lee's World War II drama "Miracle at St. Anna," and Peter Sollett's Michael Cera-Kat Dennings starrer "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist," as well as the North American premieres of Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes favorite "Il Divo," and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker," starring Ralph Fiennes. The Festival runs September 4-13, 2008. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] June 26, 2008iW NEWS | Desplechin, Egoyan, and 25 Others Set For Toronto
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced 27 international selections that will screen at the 33rd edition of the festival this September. Among them are the North American premieres of Kim Jee-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird," which will screen as a Gala Presentation, Atom Egoyan's "Adoration," Arnaud Desplechin's "Un conte de Noel," Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah," Jia Zhang-ke's "24 City," Terence Davies' "Of Time and the City," Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's "Le Silence de Lorna," Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Three Monkeys," Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir," Steve McQueen's "Hunger" and Bent Hamer's "O'Horten." The festival runs September 4-13, 2008. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Toronto ] June 25, 2008iW NEWS | London Fest To Open With "Frost/Nixon"
The Times BFI London Film Festival announced that their 2008 edition will open on October 15 with the world premiere of Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon." The film, adapted by Peter Morgan from his own award winning stage play, stars Michael Sheen and Frank Langella as journalist David Frost and former President Richard Nixon. The film also stars Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen. "I've been so fortunate with 'Frost/Nixon,' working with two world-class directors in theatre and film and watching two lead actors at the top of their games," said screenwriter Morgan in a statement. "Now, having the film premiere at my hometown just completes a thrilling, fairy-tale ride for me." The full programme for the festival will be announced on September 10th. The festival runs from October 15-30, 2008. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] June 23, 2008iW NEWS | CineVegas Goes For "She Unfolds"
The 10th Annual CineVegas Film Festival concluded this weekend, and winners were announced in a variety of categories. They included Rolf Belgum's "She Unfolds By Day," which received the Grand Jury Prize; Rachel Samuels' "Dark Streets," which was acknowledged with a Special Jury Award; and Bill Pullman, who received a Special Jury Award for his role in Matthew Wilder's "Your Name Here." Additionally, the Jury Prize for the Festival's special section, Pioneer Documentaries, was awarded to Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard's "Beautiful Losers," with Paul Eagleston and Stephen Rose's "Hi My Name is Ryan" garnering a Special Documentary Jury Prize. Jonas Cuaron's "Ano una" (Year of the Nail) received the La Proxima Ola Grand Jury Prize. John Corey's "Lost in the Fog" and Jared Drake's "Visioneers" picked up the Audience Awards for Documentary and Narrative Features. "We have seen a considerable amount of filmmaker talent at the Festival over the past decade, and this year is no exception," said Artistic Director Trevor Groth in a statement. "In addition, CineVegas had record number of attendees this year. From our groundbreaking films, to our extravagant parties, this has by far been our most well-attended Festival to date." indieWIRE published two dispatches from CineVegas, which you can check out here and here. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors ] iW NEWS | "Garden" Leads SILVERDOCS Winners
SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival announced its award winners Sunday, culminating the weeklong Festival activities that included screening 108 films representing 63 countries. Winning filmmakers received over $70,000 in combined cash and in-kind prizes. The Audience Award winners will be announced Monday. SILVERDOCS Sterling Award for a US Feature went to Scott Hamilton Kennedy's "The Garden." The director will receive $10,000 cash and $5,000 in film stock from Kodak. This year's inaugural SILVERDOCS Sterling Award for a World Feature went to Geoffrey Smith's "The English Surgeon," while the award for a Short Film was given to Jan Zabeil's "What Would The Drop Know About That?" The Music Documentary Award went to Sascha Paladino's "Throw Down Your Heart," and the Cinematic Vision Award went to Margaret Brown for "The Order of Myths." "Our greatest goal in joining with AFI to produce SILVERDOCS was to celebrate and honor the creativity of independent filmmakers and the documentary art form," said Carrie Passmore, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Social Responsibility, in a statement. " With these awards, we are honoring those filmmakers from around the world whose vision and storytelling truly excel." Check out indieWIRE's first dispatch from SILVERDOCS here. A second will be posted this evening. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Documentary, Festivals, Honors ] iW NEWS | Nantucket Awards Burnstein, Schechter, Marsh
The 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival closed things off this Sunday, after screening over 50 features and shorts and holding a variety of events, including tributes and awards to Judd Apatow and Meg Ryan. "We're thrilled about the wonderful turnout for this year's festival from loyal supporters and new visitors alike" said Jill Burkhart, Co-Founder and Executive Director in a statement. On Sunday afternoon, a ceremony was held to award the winner of Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, which recognizes an emerging screenwriter. A jury comprised of Doug Liman, Chris Eigeman, and Liz Tucillo chose FM Strype for his script "Anna Down East" out of hundreds of submissions. Also presented was the Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Filmmaking Award, to Nanette Burstein ("American Teen"), Showtime's Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting, given to Daniel Schechter for the movie "Goodbye Baby," the Audience Award for Best Feature was awarded to "Of All the Things," written and directed by Jody Lambert, and an award for Best Storytelling in a Documentary Film, to James Marsh ("Man on Wire") . [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors ] iW NEWS | "Frozen River" and "Flow" Take Top Provincetown Audience Prizes
The Provincetown International Film Festival capped its 10th edition with director Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River" taking the audience award for best feature, while Irena Salina's "Flow: For the Love of Water" received the audience prize for best doc. Best short went to "Who I Am" by Whitney Peters and Lance Hammer won the John Schlesinger Award for "Ballast" (given to a first time filmmaker). Celebs being feted at the fest included Quentin Tarantino who received the fest's "Filmmaker on the Edge Award," while Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal was honored with the "Excellence in Acting Award" and Jane Lynch received the Faith Hubley Memoiral Award. [Brian Brooks] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] June 19, 2008LAW | Indie Remix: Los Angeles Film Festival 2008
"The time may indeed be nigh for a certain pressing of the indie-film reset button, and there are ample indications at LAFF of which filmmakers might be the ones to do it," writes Scott Foundas in a Los Angeles Film Festival preview for the LA Weekly, "A festival like LAFF can lead the way, but it's up to the audience -- and the industry -- to follow." [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] June 18, 2008iW NEWS | "Choke" Leads Maui Winners
Clark Gregg's "Choke" won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2008 Maui Film Festival, which wrapped this past weekend. The festival, held in Wailea, saw more than 20,000 people attend the festival, which honored Pierce Brosnan, Dennis Quaid, Virginia Madsen and Felicity Huffman with previous announced awards. Other winners include Jacob Medjuck's "Summerhood" for Best Comedy Feature, Amin Matalqa's "Captain Abu Raed" for Best Narrative Feature, World Cinema, Christian Karim Chrobog's "War Child" for Best Documentary Feature, World Cinema, and a tie between "The Great Buck Howard" and "Bottle Shock" for Best Ensemble Cast. Check out indieWIRE's dispatch from Maui here. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors ] June 17, 2008iW NEWS | "Sixty-Six" Added To LAFF
The Los Angeles Film Festival, running June 19-29, 2008, has added Paul Welland's "Sixty-Six" to its line-up. "Six," which stars Eddie Marsan, Helena Bonham Carter and Stephen Rea, is based on the real life experiences of director Welland. The film is summer of 1966 as England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] iW NEWS | "New Year" Wins deadCENTER's Top Prize
The 2008 deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City has announced the winners of their awards, with Tom Quinn's "The New Year Parade" winning Best Narrative Feature. All winners received trophies designed by Oklahoma Artist Joe Bohrer. The winner in Best Narrative Feature also won an additional $2500. Other winners included Adam Zucker's "Greensboro: Closer To The Truth" for Best Documentary Feature and Kevin Ely and Beau Leland's "Rainbow Around The Sun" for Best Oklahoma Film. Attendance numbers are still being calculated, but early estimates put the attendance at well over the projected 6000. "We had several sold-out screenings. 850 people saw 'Rainbow Around the Sun,'" said deadCENTER Film Festival chief operating officer Kim Haywood. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors ] iW NEWS | Locarno To Honor Anjelica Huston
The 61st Locarno International Film Festival has announced it will give its Excellence Award 2008 to actress Anjelica Huston. The presentation of the award on August 9, 2008, will be followed by the European Premiere of "Choke", which Huston co-stars in. Every year Locarno's Excellence Award distinguishes an internationally renowned actor or actress. Previous recipients of this award include Oleg Menchikov, Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe and, most recently in 2007, Michel Piccoli and Carmen Maura.The Locarno International Film Festival will take place on August 6 - 16, 2008. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors ] HR | Gay pride abounds, but indie gay films tank
"So why are so many indie gay films doing worse than ever at the boxoffice and among critics?" asks The Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Goldstein, in a new commentary pegged to the busy Queer fest season. [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] June 16, 2008Variety | Fest can't compete with one-armed bandits
As CineVegas' big opening weekend comes to a close - much of the industry folk left this morning - The Circuit walks the floor of the Palms Casino Resort, looking for buzz. [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] iW NEWS | Philly Gay Fest To Honor Lynch, Mapa
The 14th Annual Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival has announced that Jane Lynch will be recipient of the 2008 Artistic Achievement Award for Acting and Alec Mapa will receive the 2008 Entertainer of the Year Award. Lynch will be presented with the award June 12th, and Mapa June 18th. The Festival runs from July 10-23, 2008. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Honors, Queer Cinema ] iW NEWS | Nantucket Adds "Elegy"
The 13th Nantucket Film Festival has added Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" to its lineup. Based on the "The Dying Animal" by Philip Roth," the film stars Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard. It will receive its East Coast Premiere in Nantucket on June 21, 2008, where it will be screening as a Sneak Preview. [Peter Knegt] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] iW NEWS | "Lost Coast" Wins NewFest Narrative Prize; "Queen Racquela" Takes Two
Gabriel Fleming's "The Lost Coast," the story of a group of old friends who reunite on Halloween in San Francisco, won the narrative jury prize as the 20th NewFest, New York's LGBT Film Festival, came to a close on Sunday night in Manhattan. Meanwhile, Olaf De Fleur's "The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela" -- a narrative/doc hybrid about a transsexual Filipina prostitute -- won a pair of awards at NewFest, named the jury's best international feature and also winner of the Showtime Vanguard prize for abreakthrough or visionary achievement. The festival's documentary feature award went to Tanaz Eshaghian's "Be Like Others," about homosexuality in Iran. Audience awards went to Ron Davis and Stewart Halpern's " "Pageant." Short film prizes went to Charlotte Hoogakker's "Odd One Out, Very Normal Really: From Lucas to Luus" (documentary jury prize), Claudia Morgado Escanilla's "No Bikini" (narrative jury prize), and Till Kleinert's "Cowboy" (audience prize). Winners of the festival's first NewDraft script competition and reading series were Rodney Evans' "Day Dream" and Soman Chainani's "Love Marriage." [Eugene Hernandez] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals, Queer Cinema ] June 15, 2008iW NEWS | Barbieri's "Em" Wins at Seattle Fest; "Derek" Takes Doc Prize
The nearly one month long Seattle International Film Festival wraps up today in the Pacific Northwest. Tony Barbieri's "Em" won the Grand Jury Prize in the festival's New American Cinema competition, the film praised by the jury both for its focus on love and mental illness and for the lead performances by Stef Willen and Nathan Wetherington. In the festival's New Directors Showcase, Canadian Yves-Christian Fournier was honored with the grand jury prize for "Everything is Fine," while Isaac Julien's "Derek" won the grand jury award in the festival's documentary competition. German filmmaker Doris Dorrie's "Hanami" won the Golden Space Needle Audience Award for best film, while other Golden Space Needles went to Danny Tedesco's "The Wrecking Crew" (best documetary), Amin Matalqa for "Captain Abu Raed" (best director), Alan Rickman for "Bottle Shock" (best actor), Jessica Chastain for "Jolene" (best actress), and Andreas Utta's "Felix" (best short film). Short film jury awards went to Atul Taishete's "Rewind" (narrative grand jury prize), Rebecca Dreyfus's "Self Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy" (documentary grand jury prize), and Luis Cook's "The Pearce Sisters" (animation grand jury prize). Earlier this month, indieWIRE published a dispatch from the Seattle festival. [Eugene Hernandez] [permalink] [ filed under Festivals ] June 12, 2008iW NEWS | Seattle Launches Production Summit
The Seattle International Film Festival, in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Film + Music, WashingtonFilmWorks and the Washington State Film Office, is launching the First Annual Northwest Production Summit during the 2008 Festival. It will be held this weekend (June 12-15), and is designed to help secure the position of SIFF and Washington State as an industry destination. The Summit event has three components: A special invite-only three-day symposium event with some of the nation's top independent film professionals; An IFP/Seattle mentorship program; Three specialized panel events - "Show Me the Money," "So You Want to Be a Producer," and "Pitch Slam." "The weekend activities showcase the best of our locations, talent and infrastructure," said Lindsey Johnson, interim Manager of the Washington State Film Office, in a statement. "Our objective with the Summit is to personalize the VIP experience so that our filmmaking guests have a deeper understanding of the vibrant creative community that defines Washington State." The Seattle International Film Festival is currently ongoing, and runs through June 15. 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