Best Film of the Month
TITLE: AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY (United States)
DIRECTOR: ARTHUR BALDER
PRODUCER: ARTHUR BALDER
About the film:
On our Instagram or Facebook pages, we show only the best part of ourselves, the “beautiful” part of our lives. We hide in this fake. We are so immersed in the process of creating our ideal virtual personality that we forget about real life. We forget the simple truth that beauty is inside.
The film subtilely focuses on a social issue that has global reach: how we perceive and judge ourselves and the others in a world dominated by social media.
American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality’ was most awarded film at its premiere on October 21, 2018, at the 5th DOC LA Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, garnering Best Innovative Film, Best Composer, Best Cinematography and Parajanov-Vartanov Award. A jury presided over by two-time Academy award-winner Paul Haggis for Fabrique Du Cinema Awards (presented by Fabrique Du Cinema, the leading film magazine of Italy, bestowed on the film the Best International Documentary award in Rome, December 15th, 2018. Other accolades include Best Cinematography and Best Innovative Film at 13th Pomegranate Film Festival (Toronto, November 2018.) The film is a Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2019 Official Selection, among other twenty official selections around the world in 2020.
The Best Film of the Month has the Official Selection to Golden Eagles AWARDS and guaranteed screening in the cinema.The rest films for the live screening jury will select from all Winners during a year. We will present the full list of selected films until the Notification Date.
AWARDS:
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM – Artur Balder
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – Mark Petrie & Andrew Prahlow
BEST LEAD ACTING – Susan Sarandon
Director Biography:
Arthur Balder has been honored with two consecutive Best Documentary of the Year awards by the Association of Latin Entertainment Critics of New York for his previous works as a filmmaker (2015 and 2016), his films have won the Fabrique Du Cinema Award 2018 Best International Documentary and the Parajanov-Vartanov Award 2018, as well as the Lady Of the Victory of the Critics Circle of Mexico (2015) as a further Latin-American recognition, along with that of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors of New York (HOLA Awards 2016) as Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. In his documentary films he has sought from the set-out to defy the boundaries between documentary and fiction.
His films have garnered nominations and / or official selections at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, DOC LA, Carthage Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying), Black Nights Film Festival of Tallinn (FIAPF competitive feature length), Parajanov-Vartanov Institute of Los Angeles, Gijon International Film Festival (Spain, FIAPF competitive), Golden Door International Film Festival (Jersey City), and have screened at such iconic venues as Egyptian Theater, American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, and the main theatres of the MoMA.
All Winners of the Categories:
The best films. Congratulations to All Filmmakers !!!
AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY
(United States)
3 AWARDS
ARTHUR BALDER
The 9ª
(Spain)
BEST SHORT FILM
Daniel H. Torrado
Yazidi
(Greece)
2 AWARDS
Hektor Sakaloglou
Filum
(Canada)
3 AWARDS
Claudia Hernandez Barragan
Philophobia
(United Kingdom)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Guy Davies
Buried Seeds
(United States)
2 AWARDS
Andrei Severny
Letter H
(Italy)
BEST EUROPE FILM
Dario Germani
BETWEEN PAIN AND AMEN
(Romania)
BEST FEATURE FILM
Toma Enache
Ideal Homeland
(China)
BEST DIRECTOR
Bo Wei
How Countries Fight Their Wars
(Netherlands)
BEST ANIMATION FILM
Thomas Loopstra, Maurice Baltissen
Avicii “Heaven”
(Sweden)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Levan Tsikurishvili
FOLLOW THE ARROW
(France)
BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR
Marc Saez
Synecdoche Montauk – Wherever You Are
(Russia)
BEST SHORT FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oleg Trofim
5bucks. Case of Hamster
(Ukraine)
BEST FEATURE FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY
Kostyantyn Ponomaryov
Afrika is a Country
(South Africa)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Frances Kroon
Your Smile
(China)
BEST STUDENT CINEMATOGRAPHY
Haoxiang Liu
THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME
(France)
BEST DRAMA FILM
Mark Saes
Lullaby
(Spain)
BEST EUROPE CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Villarroya
Enclosure
(United States)
BEST LGBT FILM
TINGTING LI
Thousand Yesterdays
(United Kingdom)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Robbie Bryant
Trauma
(Switzerland)
BEST SOUND
Valentin Dupanloup
Olympic Dream
(Malaysia)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Don Hoe
The Man Who Wanted To Fly
(Ireland)
BEST AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frank Shouldice
Conciliate
(United States)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTING
Patrick Ruegsegger
FORMATION
(Austria)
BEST FILM POSTER
Markus Bernsteiner
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