Grand Prize! Rhode Island Film Festival 2018
Over its six-day run Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) screened 295 films and on Sunday announced the Award Winners for its 36th Anniversary Celebration.
RIIFF is one of 10 Festivals in the world that is an Academy Award qualifier in the Live Action, Animation and Documentary Short categories and a qualifier with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The winners of RIIFF’s Live Action, Animation and Documentary Short Grand Prizes hold a special honor: they become the Festival’s nominees for Academy Award consideration.
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GRAND Prize: “The Etruscan Smile” | Directed by: Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun | United Kingdom, Switzerland, USA, 2018.
Best Film & Best Actress at American Indian Film Festival
Directed by Zoe Hopkins, Run Woman Run is a rite-of-passage dramedy with an element of magic. Beck,
Best Screenplay & Best Feature Awards at Vancouver International Women in Film Festival
Run Woman Run, the sophomore feature from Six Nations, Ontario-based filmmaker Zoe Leigh Hopkins, took top honours
Luke Evans, Jacob Tremblay, Olga Kurylenko in Talks to Join ‘Bear Season’ Feature Adaptation
Actors Luke Evans (“Beauty and the Beast,” “The Alienist”), Jacob Tremblay (“Room,” “Wonder”) and Olga Kurylenko (“The Death of Stalin,” “Quantum of Solace”)