Category: Festivals
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival is drawing its in person festival to a close and has announced their awards honoring the best of their festival slate! Find the full list of winners below. U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITIONGrand Jury Prize: A.V. Rockwell for “A Thousand and One”Audience Award: “The Persian Version,” directed by Maryam KeshavarzDirecting: Sing J. Lee for “The…
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2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival Lineup
The 2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival will open with the highly anticipated adaptation of the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, led by Chris Pine. The festival will also include the next film in the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, as well as directorial efforts from Eva…
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2023 Sundance Film Festival Lineup
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival lineup was announced today and features some expected titles as well as some surprises. The annual festival will return to Park City for an in-person festival while still offering a virtual component. The festival takes place in Utah from January 19th until January 29th. Here is the full line up…
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2022 AFI Film Festival & Its Oscartunities
The 2022 AFI Film Festival just concluded, and it was an incredible festival filled with movies that will have their names announced throughout this award season. Today, I look at the films I saw during the festival and their Oscartunities. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Bardo floored me, as you can read…
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TIFF Recap – Podcast
On this week’s podcast, the team is back to discuss the Toronto International Film Festival! Adriano, Jacob and Nicole were at TIFF and discuss their favorites, surprises and disappointments from the film festival. Kenzie and Jillian discuss what they’re looking forward to seeing from the festival. Listen to the podcast here!
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TIFF 2022 – Prize Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is officially coming to a close. Now that the prize winners have been announced, the Oscar race feels officially on. As Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans has won the 2022 TIFF People’s Choice Award as voted on by the festival’s audience. Sarah Polley’s Women Talking was the first runner-up and…
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Venice Film Festival Prizes – What Does it Mean for the Oscar Race?
The awards for the 79th Venice Film Festival were just announced, you can check out the winners here for all prizes. Many pundits, award season enthusiasts and Film Twitter all began immediately speculating and updating their Oscar predictions for the ongoing season. What does it all mean for the Oscar Race though? Here is a…
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Venice Film Festival Award Winners 2022
After two weeks of the 79th Venice Film Festival, including many timed standing ovations, viral drama, more iconic imagery of our favorites in taxi boats and more, the festival is coming to a close. Julianne Moore, the Jury president, is joined by her fellow judges Mariano Cohn, Leonardo di Costanzo, Audrey Diwan, Leila Hatami, Kazuo…
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First Reaction to Andrew Dominik’s Blonde from the Venice Film Festival
Andrew Dominik brings his latest film, Blonde, to the 2022 Venice Film Festival. Below are initial social responses to the newest film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Julianne Nicholson and Sara Paxton.
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First Reaction to Florian Zeller’s The Son from the Venice Film Festival
Academy Award Winner Florian Zeller brings his sophomore film, The Son, to the 2022 Venice Film Festival. Below are initial social responses to the newest film starring Laura Dern, Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath and Anthony Hopkins.
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