All Entries Tagged With: "awards"
Cine Las Americas Award Winners
The 13th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival announces the winners of the five categories of its jury competition: Best First or Second Narrative Feature, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, and Hecho en Tejas. The Festival also recognizes the winners of Audience Awards. The 2010 Best Narrative Feature Film is Mal [...]
Texas Cultural Trust Opens Call for 2011 TMAA Nominations
Nominations Deadline: March 1 The Texas Cultural Trust, (www.txculturaltrust.org) today announced Adair Margo, El Paso, and Alice Carrington Foultz, San Antonio/Austin, will chair the 2011 Texas Medal of Arts Awards on February 28 and March 1, in Austin, celebrating the state’s legendary artists, entertainers and art patrons, with a series of events, including a gala [...]
Texas Filmmakers Win Nikon Fest
In search of the next great online video talent, Nikon Inc. announced the winners of its Nikon Festival, launched in November to celebrate, inspire and harness the current popularity of D-SLR video creation and social media. The Nikon Festival Judges’ Award Winner is Marko Slavnic, a 2006 graduate of the University of Texas Austin, and [...]
Local Filmmaker Wins HBO/NY Film Fest
2008 WGBH/POV election contest winner and AFS filmmaker member John Estrada has struck gold again, winning the 2009 HBO/New York International Film Festival short film competition. The winning entry, ‘TACO! TACO! TACO!’ tells the tale of Roberto, the owner of a popular taco stand, who attempts to sabotage his new competition, “Taco! Taco!” With the [...]
ART FROM THE STREETS wins Lights.Camera.Help Jury Award
On August 2nd, Layton Blaylock’s award-winning documentary ART FROM THE STREETS won the Lights.Camera.Help Film Festival‘s Jury Award. For winning, all of the proceeds from the festival will go to Art From the Streets, the art program for homeless people that is the subject of the film. Art from the Streets is a feature length [...]
