Category: Festivals
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Socially Relevant Short Film TRIBES Wins The Best Comedy Award At LA SHORTS FEST
(Los Angeles, CA) – November 2, 2020. Live Action short film TRIBES speaks volumes to today’s societal conversations, specially as the world goes through a global crisis and political strive. It is thanks to writer’s Andy Marlatt‘s singular brand of humour, Nino Aldi‘s gritty mise-en-scène, and the hilarious performances by Adam Waheed, Jake Hunter and DeStorm Power, that TRIBES received the Best Comedy award…
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Comedy Short Wichita Sheds Lights on Modern Marriage and Betrayal (video)
(Los Angeles, CA) – October 25, 2020. Comedy short film Wichita continues its festival tour at the Austin Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Festival du Cinéma International Rouyn-Noranda and many more. Moreover, Wichitawas recently awarded the honorable mention at the LA FEMME Film Festival in Los Angeles. Wichita (Trailer): https://vimeo.com/400344886 The five- minute heart-racing mini comedic thriller by creative…
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Just For Laughs Chooses TRIBES As The Funniest Short Film
This 1st Place Award Is Accompanied By A $1000 Cash Prize (Los Angeles, CA) – October 12, 2020. When stand-up comedian Alonzo Bodden announced that the First Place of the Just For Laughs / Eat My Shorts competition was awarded to TRIBES, director Nino Aldi couldn’t believe it. Just For Laughs is the largest international comedy…
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Comedy “TRIBES” Competes for Oscar® Qualification at the LA Shorts Fest.
(Los Angeles, CA) – September 29, 2020. After a successful festival tour debut, Nino Aldi’s role-reversal comedy Tribes, starring Internet celebrities Destorm Power (Punk’d), Adam Waheed (Pitch Please) and Daytime Emmy-winning producer/actor Jake Hunter (Class Act), from an award-winning screenplay by Andy Marlatt, is finally going to be presented online at the Oscar qualifying LA Shorts…
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The Gesture and The Word by Helen Alexis Yonov competes for Oscar® Qualification
(Los Angeles, CA) – September 28, 2020. Multi award-winning short film, The Gesture and the Word written and directed by rising filmmaker Helen Alexis Yonov, competes for Best Narrative Short at the prestigious Oscar® qualifying festival, the LA Shorts International Film Festival. If it wins, it becomes eligible for an Oscar® nomination. The screening is scheduled on October 6, 2020 on the Comedy…
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The United Nations & FanForce TV Launch Anti-racism Film Festival
The UNITED NATIONS together with FANFORCE TV, the community-based streaming platform, present the first Virtual ‘R.I.S.E.’ [Racial Injustice. Social Equality] Film Festival from the 20th of August till the 27th of August, 2020. [View Trailer] The Festival will present some of the most powerful films that examine social justice and racism alongside Q&A discussions and audience…
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Sci-fi Parody “UNBELIEVABLE” Set for Saturday, August 1
At long last! Years in the making!! Perfect for filling the Star Trek void after the SDCC at-home event!!! And a smokin’ good time for the millions of Snoop Dogg fans out there… UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! – which stars superstar Snoop Dogg and a puppet named Kirk Stillwood, and which features 40-plus figures from across the Star…
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FrightFest UK Announces The World Premiere Of Pandemic Feature “Hall”.
Scattered victims are thrust into the fight of their lives, when a hotel hallway is ravaged by a mysterious virus.
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Comedy Icon Adam Sandler To Be Honored With Award At 2020 ASCAP Pop Music Awards April 28 In Los Angeles
Memorable Additions to Musical Comedy Canon Include “The Chanukah Song,” “The Thanksgiving Song,” “Lunchlady Land” and “Red Hooded Sweatshirt
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THE TEXAS TRIBUNE ANNOUNCES DATES FOR 10TH ANNUAL TEXAS TRIBUNE FESTIVAL
The Texas Tribune’s star-studded ideas festival returns as the nonprofit touts a decade of journalism as a public good, invigorating democracy and serving as a beacon for the nonprofit news model