Beginning in downtown Los Angeles with Richard Linklater’s well-received “Bernie” on June 16, and wrapping up on June 26 with “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” the 2011 Laff managed to infuse its festival with the key ingredients of celebration and levity that make it one of the most enjoyable festivals on the planet.
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
- 6/27/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Beginning in downtown Los Angeles with Richard Linklater’s well-received “Bernie” on June 16, and wrapping up on June 26 with “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” the 2011 Laff managed to infuse its festival with the key ingredients of celebration and levity that make it one of the most enjoyable festivals on the planet.
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
Free outdoor screenings of classic comedies and contemporary documentaries, guest directors and artists-in-residence such as Guillermo del Toro and Erykah Badu, conversations and chats with Julie Taymor, James Franco, Jack Black and Shirley Maclaine, and a lounge sponsored by Jameson whiskey, all added up to another winning festival, the last planned under Dawn Hudson’s leadership of Film Independent.
With the two top juried awards each carrying a $15,000 cash prize for that film’s director, there is always weighted attention paid to the winners.
And the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival winners are…
Narrative Award – Stéphane Lafleur for...
- 6/27/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Presented By Los Angeles Times
Stéphane Lafleur.s Familiar Ground and Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi.s Wish Me Away Win Jury Awards Joe Cornish.s Attack the Block, Michael Rapaport.s Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest and Asif Kapadia.s Senna Win Audience Awards
Best Performance, Short Film and Music Video Award Winners Also Announced
Los Angeles (June 26, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times and supported by L.A. Live, announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by Chaya Downtown for the second year, and sponsored by Dove® Hair Care. Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards. The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday, June 26 in downtown Los Angeles. (See list Here).
.David, Doug and the team continue to...
Stéphane Lafleur.s Familiar Ground and Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi.s Wish Me Away Win Jury Awards Joe Cornish.s Attack the Block, Michael Rapaport.s Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest and Asif Kapadia.s Senna Win Audience Awards
Best Performance, Short Film and Music Video Award Winners Also Announced
Los Angeles (June 26, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times and supported by L.A. Live, announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by Chaya Downtown for the second year, and sponsored by Dove® Hair Care. Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards. The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday, June 26 in downtown Los Angeles. (See list Here).
.David, Doug and the team continue to...
- 6/26/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival gave two juried awards: the Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the festival and went to Stéphane Lafleur for the North American premiere of Familiar Ground, while the Documentary Award recognizes the finest documentary film in competition and went to Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi for the world premiere of Wish Me Away. Each carries an unrestricted $15,000 cash prize funded by Film Independent for the winning film’s director to pursue their artistic ambitions. The award for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition went to Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street and Gabriel Diamond for their performances in Amber Sealey’s How to Cheat. For the first time, the Los Angeles Film Festival awarded an unrestricted $5,000 cash prize to each short film category. The award for Best Narrative Short Film went to Saba Riazi’s The Wind Is Blowing on My Street.
- 6/26/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Today’s official news from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is the announcement of the U.S. Finalists for 2011′s Student Academy Awards®. Here’s what the Academy had to say…
33 students from 22 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view the finalists’ films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash grants of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of four categories: Alternative, Animation, Documentary and Narrative. The winning filmmakers will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 11, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
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“Bitter,...
33 students from 22 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view the finalists’ films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash grants of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of four categories: Alternative, Animation, Documentary and Narrative. The winning filmmakers will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 11, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
Alternative
“Bitter,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Today’s official news from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is the announcement of the U.S. Finalists for 2011′s Student Academy Awards®. Here’s what the Academy had to say…
33 students from 22 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view the finalists’ films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash grants of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of four categories: Alternative, Animation, Documentary and Narrative. The winning filmmakers will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 11, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
Alternative
“Bitter,...
33 students from 22 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view the finalists’ films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash grants of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of four categories: Alternative, Animation, Documentary and Narrative. The winning filmmakers will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 11, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
Alternative
“Bitter,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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