Archive for October, 2012

Gotham Independent Audience Awards

IFP East has announced the Gotham Awards nominations, which include some very odd choices - like nominating Melanie Lynskey for Breakthrough Actor, when her breakthrough role was opposite Kate Winslet in the 1994 Peter Jackson classic Heavenly Creatures. But more fun than those ...

 

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2012 / 2013 Awards Calendar

IndieWire has created a great calendar for the upcoming onslaught of awards. It all starts this Thursday with the announcement of the nominees for the Gotham Awards.

Look for those nominees and other ...

 

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Oscars Announce Short Subject Doc Short List

Eight documentary shorts have been placed on the short list for the Academy Awards, including Cynthia Wade's Mondays at Racine, which played the festival this past April. Also on the list, Rachel Grady, who was on the 2009 NaFF Documentary Jury.

Here's the complete list:

The Education of Mohammad Hussein, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Inocente, directed by Sean Fine
Kings Point,

 

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3 NaFF Short Docs Named Finalists

Cinema Eye Honors has named 10 short documentaries that will compete for their top prize and fully 30% of them screened at this past April's Nashville Film Festival.

Dustin Guy Defa's wonderfully disturbing Family Nightmare, Afarin Eghbal's animated documentary Abuelas, and NaFF winner for Best Documentary Short, Matt Lenski's Meaning of Robots - a documentary about an elderly man's quest to make a robot ...

 

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