Cinematographer-director Christina Voros, whose alma matters are Harvard and Nyu's Tisch Scool, debuted as a director with 2008's "The Ladies," which won 15 festival Grand Jury prizes. Her film "Kink" is the latest of many collaborations with James Franco; others include "As I Lay Dying," "Child of God," "Sal," and "The Broken Tower." Of their partnership she says, "Its safe to say I've learned as much from our collaboration over the years as I have from my formal training in film school." What it's about: "'Kink' is a peek behind the curtain of the fetish empire of kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of Bdsm content." What it's really about: "In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, the directors at kink.com spend their 9 to 5 works week creating sexual fantasies. In 'kink', we discover not only...
- 1/19/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards 2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Award winners: April 27, 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City In Francesco Sperandeo’s Bab Al Samah / The Door of Forgiveness, a man’s desire to get over past humiliations, symbolized by a heavy, old door, leads him on a life-changing journey. Looking for Genius Award: Bab Al Samah / The Door Of Forgiveness by Francesco Sperandeo (Italy) Spike Lee Award / Short Film: Maradona Baby by Nino Sabella (Italy) Spike Lee Award / Animation: Hey Animation Music Video by Guy Ben Shetrit (Israel) Spike Lee Award / Documentary: The Ladies by Christina Voros (United States) Spike Lee Award / Mini Masterpiece: I Had A Dream I Went To Coney Island by Sherwin Akbarzadeh (Iran) Professional Jury Award / Short Film: The Door Of Forgiveness by Francesco Sperandeo (Italy) Professional Jury Award / Animation: Mr. Happy by Michael Patrick O’Hara (Canada) Professional Jury Award / Documentary:...
- 4/29/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Audience members gave Doris Dorris' Cherry Blossoms -- Hanami the best film Golden Space Needle Award at the 34th Seattle International Film Festival, which ended Sunday. The jury's grand prize went to Tony Barbieri's "Em."
At the 25-day fest, the jury awarded a special jury prize to writer-director Russell Brown for The Bluetooth Virgin.
Within the fest's New Directors Showcase competition, the grand jury prize was awarded to Yves-Christian Fournier's Everything Is Fine, while the special jury prize was bestowed on Anna Melikyan's Mermaid.
The grand jury prize for documentary was presented to Isaac Julien's Derek, and special jury prizes were awarded to Raphael Mathie's Combalion and Timothy Hotchner's Accelerating America.
The short film winners were Rebecca Dreyfus' "Self Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy" in the documentary category, with Christina Voros' The Ladies picking up the special prize; Luis Cook's The Pearce Sisters in the animation category, with Kim Slate's Home winning the special prize; and Atul Taishete's Rewind in the narrative category. Narrative special jury prizes were handed out to Amy Gebhardt's Walnut, Paddy Considine's Dog Altogether, Teemu Nikki's A Mate and Steph Green's New Boy.
John Grigsby's Introduction to Lucid Dreaming and Adam Keker's "On the Assassination of the President" earned honorable mentions for inventive filmmaking.
At the 25-day fest, the jury awarded a special jury prize to writer-director Russell Brown for The Bluetooth Virgin.
Within the fest's New Directors Showcase competition, the grand jury prize was awarded to Yves-Christian Fournier's Everything Is Fine, while the special jury prize was bestowed on Anna Melikyan's Mermaid.
The grand jury prize for documentary was presented to Isaac Julien's Derek, and special jury prizes were awarded to Raphael Mathie's Combalion and Timothy Hotchner's Accelerating America.
The short film winners were Rebecca Dreyfus' "Self Portrait With Cows Going Home and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy" in the documentary category, with Christina Voros' The Ladies picking up the special prize; Luis Cook's The Pearce Sisters in the animation category, with Kim Slate's Home winning the special prize; and Atul Taishete's Rewind in the narrative category. Narrative special jury prizes were handed out to Amy Gebhardt's Walnut, Paddy Considine's Dog Altogether, Teemu Nikki's A Mate and Steph Green's New Boy.
John Grigsby's Introduction to Lucid Dreaming and Adam Keker's "On the Assassination of the President" earned honorable mentions for inventive filmmaking.
- 6/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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