With the Toronto International Film Festival wrapping up today, they’ve handed out their award winners. While our top picks will be arriving shortly, the big winner of the festival was Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land, which won the People’s Choice Awards, while Raoul Peck‘s I Am Not Your Negro won on the documentary side. Other winners include Free Fire in the Midnight Madness category and Jackie in the Platform section, which is in its second year.
Check out the full press release below.
The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of American filmmaker Abteen Bagheri (That B.E.A.T.), French filmmaker Eva Husson (Bang Gang), and Canadian filmmaker Jeff Barnaby (Rhymes for Young Ghouls).
Short Cuts Award For Best Canadian Short Film
The Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to Alexandre Dostie’s Mutants. The jury remarked, “Mutants...
Check out the full press release below.
The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of American filmmaker Abteen Bagheri (That B.E.A.T.), French filmmaker Eva Husson (Bang Gang), and Canadian filmmaker Jeff Barnaby (Rhymes for Young Ghouls).
Short Cuts Award For Best Canadian Short Film
The Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to Alexandre Dostie’s Mutants. The jury remarked, “Mutants...
- 9/18/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Yesterday, Beyoncé began her full-on assault on Super Bowl weekend by releasing a new song and video, dubbed "Formation" and set in New Orleans. Though Beyoncé's releases tend to go off as meticulously as her choreography, the release of "Formation" hit a snag when filmmaker Chris Black wrote on Twitter that the music video used footage of New Orleans from a 2013 documentary short he produced called That B.E.A.T. without consulting anyone involved. The short's director, Abteen Bagheri, also chimed in, writing, "I'm not mad. It's the sad reality of the music business. Doesn't affect my friends' and my work, but not cool." Black told the Fader that he and Bagheri received emails asking for permission to use That B.E.A.T. footage on Friday from another director, Lily Keber, whose work also appears in the "Formation" video. They did not give her a definitive answer, as they did not own the rights...
- 2/7/2016
- by Jackson McHenry
- Vulture
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