Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column.
– Exclusive: The 6th Annual Lower East Side Film Festival and their 2016 panel of judges, including Ethan Hawke, Cindy Tolan, Steve Farneth and Raul Castillo have announced their winners. Check them out below.
Best Feature Film – “Americana” – By Zachary Shedd
Best Live Action Short Film – “Killer” – By Matt Kazman
Best Animated Short Film – “The Mega Plush: Episode I” – By Matt Burniston
Best Music Video – The Knocks’ “Collect My Love” – By Austin Peters, Music by The Knocks, featuring Alex Newell
Best Documentary Short Film – “Erosion” – By Brandon Bloch, Tim Sessler and Brandon Bray
The Advocacy Award Presented by Here TV – “Video” – By Randy Yang
The Lesff Neighborhood Award – “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” – By Michael Levine
Best of Fest, The Lesff Prix D’Or – “Art of the Prank” – By Andrea Marini
Audience Award...
– Exclusive: The 6th Annual Lower East Side Film Festival and their 2016 panel of judges, including Ethan Hawke, Cindy Tolan, Steve Farneth and Raul Castillo have announced their winners. Check them out below.
Best Feature Film – “Americana” – By Zachary Shedd
Best Live Action Short Film – “Killer” – By Matt Kazman
Best Animated Short Film – “The Mega Plush: Episode I” – By Matt Burniston
Best Music Video – The Knocks’ “Collect My Love” – By Austin Peters, Music by The Knocks, featuring Alex Newell
Best Documentary Short Film – “Erosion” – By Brandon Bloch, Tim Sessler and Brandon Bray
The Advocacy Award Presented by Here TV – “Video” – By Randy Yang
The Lesff Neighborhood Award – “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” – By Michael Levine
Best of Fest, The Lesff Prix D’Or – “Art of the Prank” – By Andrea Marini
Audience Award...
- 6/17/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
With filmmaking and digital technology being so ubiquitous today, it becomes almost difficult to decide the difference between amateur stuff and real aspiring artists. Those budding filmmakers need not look further than the Brooklyn Film Festival, a festival founded in 1998 as a way to bring independent and ambitious filmmakers into the limelight. With the opportunity of having their work shown to an audience filled with movie lovers, critics, and anything in between, the Brooklyn Film Fest offers a once in a lifetime shot for those artists to truly make a mark on society and leave people yearning for more.
The 18th Brooklyn Film Festival took place from June 3 to 12 in Brooklyn (duh), sharing multiple venues between the Wythe Hotel and Windmill Studios. Of the festival’s “quirks,” one such innovative idea is the theme that goes along with each year’s entries. This year’s theme was Experiment, claiming that...
The 18th Brooklyn Film Festival took place from June 3 to 12 in Brooklyn (duh), sharing multiple venues between the Wythe Hotel and Windmill Studios. Of the festival’s “quirks,” one such innovative idea is the theme that goes along with each year’s entries. This year’s theme was Experiment, claiming that...
- 6/12/2016
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
There are plenty of easier things to do in this world than to shoot a film in rural Connecticut during the winter. Just ask the team behind "Delinquent," a feature film from co-writer/director Kieran Valla. The debut feature tells the story of a small town teenager roped into the family business of theft. Filming on-location in New England was a choice borne of necessity, but one that may pay dividends for this independent production. (For a sneak peek at what the crew was able to capture, they've made the teaser trailer available here.) Once principal photography was completed, "Delinquent" headed into Kickstarter mode to cover the remaining post-production costs. From there, it came out on top in both Project of the Week and Project of the Month voting here on Indiewire. We connected over e-mail with the film's co-writer/co-producer Levi Smock who told us about the challenges in...
- 10/12/2015
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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