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A well-known example of audience awards are those given out at the Sundance Film Festival, which is one of the leading independent film festivals in the world. Sundance first awarded audience awards in 1989 and now has separate audience awards for dramatic, documentary, and world cinema.
Its 90,000 audience exceeded WFF's, the festival was extensively covered in the world media. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Fantasia 2012 featured the screenings of the films Toad Road , Doomsday Book (won the main prize), the horror anthology film V/H/S , Hidden in the Woods (original version) , Seediq Bale , and Quentin Dupieux 's Wrong .
Heidi Honeycutt, American film critic – Jury President [3] Jean Anne Lauer, American professor and festival programmer; Emily Lerer, Canadian filmmaker; Gary Pullin, American illustrator; Alex Williams, American film acquisitions executive
Prestigious awards are given by the industry for excellence in the various types of entertainment. For example, there are awards for music, games (including video games), comics, theatre, television, film, dance and magical arts. Sporting awards are made for the results and skill, rather than for the entertainment value. The entertainment industry
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital; Location: Washington, D.C., United States Founded: 1993 by Flo Stone: Awards: 2016 Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy, "How to Let Go of the World" by Josh Fox; [1] 2016 William W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers Award, "The Seer" by Laura Dunn; 2016 Polly Krakora Award for Artistry in Film, "The Birth of Saké" by Erik Shirai; [2] 2016 ...
But on stage, the demographics are very different. Coachella’s 2016 lineup included 168 male artists and just 60 female artists — a figure that includes both all-female and mixed-gender acts. Ultra’s 2016 lineup only featured 20 female artists, while a whopping 198 exclusively-male acts made up the rest of the weekend.
The Student World Impact Film Festival or SWIFF is an annual international film festival founded by Mark Leschinsky that focuses on showcasing films created by filmmakers with a strong emphasis on social issues. [1] It is the world's leading platform for broadcasting films for students.
The festival includes a four-film "Secret Festival". Those who attend the Secret Festival do not know in advance what they will see, and they must sign an oath that they will not reveal afterward what they have seen. In general, SIFF has a reputation as an "audience festival" rather than an "industry festival". [11]