Awards

Film Heritage Foundation to Honor Cinema Projectionists

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 08:57 -- Nick Dager

The Film Heritage Foundation has announced a special ceremony to present the inaugural lifetime achievement award for cinema projection "to honor film projectionists who have dedicated their lives to showcasing films on the big screen." Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, founder of FHF, said the Mumbai-based foundation will honor three projectionists at the event, to be held on Wednesday at the city's heritage Regal Cinema here. The foundation will screen Kamal Amrohi's 1949 classic Mahal on 35 mm vintage print to celebrate the analog-era legacy of cinema at Regal Cinema, a single-screen theatre.

Die Hard UK’s Favorite Action Movie

Mon, 07/03/2023 - 10:27 -- Nick Dager

Die Hard has been named the UK’s favorite action movie of all time, according to new national research. The 1988 all-out-action classic, starring Bruce Willis as a New York City police detective, took 18 percent of the vote, beating out competition from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark and Tom Cruise favorite Top Gun (13 percent), according to the nationwide study carried out by Showcase Cinemas.

Three Ukrainian Filmmakers Win Göteborg Film Festival Residencies

Mon, 07/03/2023 - 10:22 -- Nick Dager

Three Ukrainian directors and screenwriters have been selected for residencies at Göteborg Film Festival. The three selected participants will spend August-September in Gothenburg, working in different ways with their projects at the offices of Göteborg Film Festival and getting introduced to the local film industry. The residency program is a cooperation with HDK-Valand, at the University of Gothenburg, and financed by Region Västra Götaland.

ICTA Announces 2023 EMEA Award Winners

Wed, 05/31/2023 - 09:18 -- Nick Dager

The International Cinema Technology Association has announced the 2023 winners of the ICTA EMEA Awards, celebrating technological leadership, design, and innovation in the cinema exhibition sector. The award winners are Cineplexx Ljubljana, Slovenia (Best New Build Cinema of the Year), Cineplex Münster, Germany (Best Cinema Refurbishment of the Year) and Forum Sittard, The Netherlands (Best Classic Cinema of the Year).

Los Angeles Greek Film Festival to Honor Pelecanos

Mon, 05/08/2023 - 12:31 -- Nick Dager

The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival has announced that novelist, screenwriter, film and television producer, George Pelecanos, will receive the 2023 Honorary Orpheus Award at the Festival’s Opening Night Ceremony on June 3 in the James Bridges Theater in collaboration with The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.

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