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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.
Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival. By virtue of the reputation developed over the last two decades, Fantasia has been called the "most outstanding and largest genre film festival in North America". [1]
This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.. The world's oldest film festival is the Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica (Venice Film Festival), while the most prestigious film festivals in the world, known as the "Big Three", are (listed chronologically according to the date of foundation): Venice, Cannes and Berlin. [1]
Mainland Europe's biggest independent film festival is ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival, which started in 2006 and takes place every spring in Paris, France. [6] Edinburgh International Film Festival is the longest-running festival in Great Britain as well as the longest continually running film festival in the world.
The festival was founded in 1999, following the events of the Columbine High School massacre, by Elizabeth English, a film technician and Boulder, Colorado resident. The intention was for the festival to be an empowering outlet for underrepresented storytelling and for people to share their perspectives in a fresh and non-violent way.
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.
[1] 12 Greek dance films have been co-produced by VideoDance through this scheme. The festival collaborated with several international dance film and film festivals, archives and cultural institutions and was a founding member of the Dance and Media Festivals International Network. The festival was held in industrial spaces especially re ...
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