“Glory,” “The Eagle Huntress” win big at Hamptons Film Festival October 11, 2016 - 14:18 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Narrative feature “Glory” and documentary “The Eagle Huntress” scored big wins at the 2016 Hamptons International Film Festival, Variety reports. Tragicomedy “Glory,” directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, won for Best Narrative Feature and “Eagle Huntress” — Otto Bell’s film about a young, female, Kazakh eagle hunter — nabbed Best Documentary Feature. Short film winners included narrative “The Silence,” directed by Ali Asgari and Farnoosh Samadi, and documentary “Irregulars” directed by Fabio Palmieri. “HIFF continues to focus on showcasing an entertaining, diverse and provocative slate of films each year,” said David Nugent, HIFF Artistic Director. Honorable mentions at the 24th annual festival, which ran Oct. 6-10, went to “Divines” directed by Houda Benyamina (Narrative Feature) and “Those Who Jump” directed by Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert and Abou Bakar Sidibé (Documentary Feature). As previously announced, the festival’s Victor Rabinowitz & Joanne Grant Award for Social Justice went to “Loving,” while the creative impact in acting trophy went to Aaron Eckhart and the career achievement prize went to Edward Norton.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia.Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |
