The Palm Springs International ShortFest wrapped Sunday with top prizes going to “The Christmas Gift,” directed by Bogdan Muresanu, for best of the festival, Nara Normande’s “Guaxuma” for best international short and Horatio Baltz’s “King Wah (I Think I Love You)” for best North American short.
The festival is the largest shorts-focused event in North America, screening 369 films during the festival as well as 5,600 in the film market. Juried award winners of some categories are qualified to enter the shorts categories for the Oscars.
Best U.S. short went to “Manila is Full of Men Named Boy,” by Andrew Stephen Lee, while Best animated short went to “Dani” directed by Lizzy Hogenson.
Full list of winners below:
Jury Awards
Best Of Festival Award – The Christmas Gift (Romania/Spain), Directed by Bogdan Muresanu
Best International Short – Guaxuma (Brazil/France), Director Nara Normande
Best North American Short – King Wah (I...
The festival is the largest shorts-focused event in North America, screening 369 films during the festival as well as 5,600 in the film market. Juried award winners of some categories are qualified to enter the shorts categories for the Oscars.
Best U.S. short went to “Manila is Full of Men Named Boy,” by Andrew Stephen Lee, while Best animated short went to “Dani” directed by Lizzy Hogenson.
Full list of winners below:
Jury Awards
Best Of Festival Award – The Christmas Gift (Romania/Spain), Directed by Bogdan Muresanu
Best International Short – Guaxuma (Brazil/France), Director Nara Normande
Best North American Short – King Wah (I...
- 6/23/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Jackson's former assistant is delusional if he thinks he'll win his new lawsuit against Aeg -- this according to the entertainment group, which tells TMZ, the guy's a disgrace to Mj's memory ... and doesn't have a legal leg to stand on.TMZ broke the story, Mj's former assistant Michael Amir Williams has sued Aeg, claiming he lost out on a massive paycheck because Aeg negligently employed Dr. Conrad Murray for Mj's "This Is It...
- 11/14/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The late Michael Jackson's assistant has filed a class action lawsuit against 'This is It' tour promoters Aeg. The suit is based on Aeg hiring Dr Conrad Murray to care for Jackson during tour rehearsals and ultimately the London concert dates which never occurred. Michael Amir Williams, Jackson's ex-employee, is claiming in his filing that Aeg allocated $$7.5 million to pay the singer's staff throughout the tour, according to TMZ. Much of that allocated money was never paid because Jackson died before the tour could begin, which Williams alleges was because Dr Murray gave the star excessive amounts of Propofol. Murray was being paid by Aeg prior to Jackson's death. Williams is asking for damages, but it's not yet clear exactly how much money he is seeking from Aeg. Aeg previous claimed in response to the lawsuit filed against (more)...
- 11/14/2012
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Michael Jackson's former personal assistant is beating it to court. Michael Amir Williams has filed a class-action lawsuit against Aeg Live claiming the concert promoters stiffed him and others out of more than $7.5 million dollars in compensation stemming from the King of Pop's death in June 2009. The complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Wrap, alleges Aeg was to blame for their financial loss because the company hired Dr. Conrad Murray to monitor the "Gone Too Soon" singer's health leading up to his heavily hyped This Is It tour at London's O2 Arena. The cardiologist, of course, later ended up being convicted of manslaughter for causing Jackson's...
- 11/14/2012
- E! Online
Michael Jackson has been dead for more than three years now -- but apparently he lives on in the halls of America's legal system. Jackson's former assistant, Michael Amir Williams, filed a class-action lawsuit against concert promoters Aeg Live in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, claiming he and others hired to attend to the "Beat It" singer during his would-be "This Is It" tour at London's O2 Arena were deprived of at least $7.5 million dollars in pay. According to the suit, Aeg was responsible for the financial loss because it hired...
- 11/14/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Michael Jackson's personal assistant Michael Amir Williams has filed a class action lawsuit against concert promoting company Aeg, Et has learned.
Pics: Remembering Michael Jackson, King of Pop
In court documents obtained by Et, Williams alleges that he and the crew hired for the This is It tour lost out on wages after Jackson's death.
As Dr. Conrad Murray (who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's case) was reportedly hired and supervised by Aeg, the papers go on to ask for unspecified damages from the company.
According to the filings, the plaintiff claims that Aeg agreed to pay the crew "up to $7.5 million" for the tour prior to Jackson's passing.
Pics: Remembering Michael Jackson, King of Pop
In court documents obtained by Et, Williams alleges that he and the crew hired for the This is It tour lost out on wages after Jackson's death.
As Dr. Conrad Murray (who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's case) was reportedly hired and supervised by Aeg, the papers go on to ask for unspecified damages from the company.
According to the filings, the plaintiff claims that Aeg agreed to pay the crew "up to $7.5 million" for the tour prior to Jackson's passing.
- 11/14/2012
- Entertainment Tonight
Michael Jackson's personal assistant has filed a class action lawsuit against Aeg, claiming he and the rest of the employees connected with the "This Is It" tour lost lots of money because the company negligently hired and supervised Dr. Conrad Murray.Michael Amir Williams claims in his lawsuit, obtained by TMZ ... Aeg agreed to pay Mj's staff up to $7.5 million for their services connected with the tour ... a tour that didn't take place because Dr.
- 11/13/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
In addition to assistant's testimony, bodyguard claims Mj's kids were in the room when he died.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Kara Warner
Dr. Conrad Murray
Photo: Pool/ Getty Images
Day two of testimony in the manslaughter trial of former Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray featured more damning revelations from Mj's personal assistant and head of security, as well as employees of Aeg Live, the firm that was promoting the singer's 50-show This Is It attempted comeback tour.
Among the revelations Wednesday (September 28), an attorney for Aeg Live, Kathy Jorrie, described the contract she wrote up between Aeg, Murray and Jackson. The document specified that Murray was to be paid a $150,000-a-month retainer, even when This Is It was on hiatus, and that the cardiologist requested a CPR machine for Jackson during the run of the shows in London.
As for why he needed a machine used for resuscitation,...
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Kara Warner
Dr. Conrad Murray
Photo: Pool/ Getty Images
Day two of testimony in the manslaughter trial of former Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray featured more damning revelations from Mj's personal assistant and head of security, as well as employees of Aeg Live, the firm that was promoting the singer's 50-show This Is It attempted comeback tour.
Among the revelations Wednesday (September 28), an attorney for Aeg Live, Kathy Jorrie, described the contract she wrote up between Aeg, Murray and Jackson. The document specified that Murray was to be paid a $150,000-a-month retainer, even when This Is It was on hiatus, and that the cardiologist requested a CPR machine for Jackson during the run of the shows in London.
As for why he needed a machine used for resuscitation,...
- 9/28/2011
- MTV Music News
Michael Jackson's father fears the King of Pop's doctor will be acquitted of manslaughter as the medic's preliminary hearing begins in Los Angeles. Joe Jackson is appalled by suggestions his son took his own life and administered the anesthetic that killed him in June 2009, but he worries that the claim by Dr. Conrad Murray's lawyers will be enough to plant doubt in the minds of the court officials.
The Jackson family patriarch tells X17.com his son had too much to live for to take his own life, "He had too much responsibility. He's a Jackson, he doesn't think like that." And Jackson insists there's more to the tragedy than a simple case of a doctor making a mistake, "One month before he died he told (his mother) Katherine they were going to kill him for his publishing catalog. He said they were going to kill him. Why would he kill himself?...
The Jackson family patriarch tells X17.com his son had too much to live for to take his own life, "He had too much responsibility. He's a Jackson, he doesn't think like that." And Jackson insists there's more to the tragedy than a simple case of a doctor making a mistake, "One month before he died he told (his mother) Katherine they were going to kill him for his publishing catalog. He said they were going to kill him. Why would he kill himself?...
- 1/5/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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