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Media City Film Festival has been selected as a 2019 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Finalist! Very exciting news: https://www.knightfoundation.org//knight-foundation-names-

Here are MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL'S AWARD WINNING films from the 23rd edition (Nov. 7-10. 2018). GRAND PRIZE Jonathan Schwartz: A Leaf Is The Sea Is A Theatre (USA)... SECOND PRIZE Malena Szlam: ALTIPLANO (Chile/Canada) THIRD PRIZE Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: Coyolxauhqui (Mexico) Honourable Mentions Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko: Chooka (Iran / Canada) Mary Helena Clark: The Glass Note (USA) Regional Award Sally Lawton: Sky High and The Color of Money (USA) THE JURY: : : Alexandra Cuesta (Ecuador / USA) is a filmmaker and visual artist. Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. 5+ films since 2007; screenings and exhibitions at Image Forum (Tokyo), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), The Viennale, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Cinéma Du Réel (Paris), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Courtisane Film Festival (Belgium), and NYFF. Award Winner at Media City (2013). Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and MacDowell Colony residency (2018). Nazl Dinçel (Turkey / USA) is a first generation immigrant born in Ankara, Turkey. Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 12+ films since 2009; screenings and exhibitions at MoMI (NY), IFF Rotterdam, BAFICI (Buenos Aires), Hong Kong International Film Festival, etc. Recipient of The Helen Hill Award from the Orphan Film Symposium and AAFF’s Eileen Maitland Award (2018). Lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Martin Grennberger (Sweden) is a film critic, writer and programmer based in Stockholm. Studies at Stockholm and Södertörn universities. Screenings and exhibitions at Light Industry (New York), Fylkingen, IndexThe Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, and Filmform, Sweden’s oldest organization devoted to the promotion, preservation and distribution of film and video art. Editor of Walden magazine, and co-editor (with Daniel A. Swarthnas) of a forthcoming monograph on filmmaker Claes Söderquist (2018). His writings have appeared in Lumière, OEI, and Kunstkritikk. : : : THANKS TO ALL : : : Special shout out to the Sandwich Baptist Church, the cast of Fluid Frontiers and those working to designate the DETROIT RIVER as a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE (Let’s do this!): Teajai Travis, Tawana Petty, Deborah Lee, Bruce E. Davis, Jonni Paige, Leslie McCurdy, Irene Moore Davis, Genoa O'Brien, Kim Duane Elliott, Marsha Battle Philpot, Mary Johnson, Kimberly Simmons, Ephraim Asili, Greg de Cuir Jr.

This was fun to work on -- now you can see one of Kevin Everson's made in Windsor-Detroit films right here at MOCAD until January 2018: https://mocadetroit.org/sonic-rebellion-music-resistance/

Media City Film Festival's awards have been announced for the 2017 festival!

Media City Film Festival has been selected as a 2019 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Finalist! Very exciting news: https://www.knightfoundation.org//knight-foundation-names-

Here are MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL'S AWARD WINNING films from the 23rd edition (Nov. 7-10. 2018). GRAND PRIZE Jonathan Schwartz: A Leaf Is The Sea Is A Theatre (USA)... SECOND PRIZE Malena Szlam: ALTIPLANO (Chile/Canada) THIRD PRIZE Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: Coyolxauhqui (Mexico) Honourable Mentions Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko: Chooka (Iran / Canada) Mary Helena Clark: The Glass Note (USA) Regional Award Sally Lawton: Sky High and The Color of Money (USA) THE JURY: : : Alexandra Cuesta (Ecuador / USA) is a filmmaker and visual artist. Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. 5+ films since 2007; screenings and exhibitions at Image Forum (Tokyo), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), The Viennale, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Cinéma Du Réel (Paris), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Courtisane Film Festival (Belgium), and NYFF. Award Winner at Media City (2013). Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and MacDowell Colony residency (2018). Nazl Dinçel (Turkey / USA) is a first generation immigrant born in Ankara, Turkey. Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 12+ films since 2009; screenings and exhibitions at MoMI (NY), IFF Rotterdam, BAFICI (Buenos Aires), Hong Kong International Film Festival, etc. Recipient of The Helen Hill Award from the Orphan Film Symposium and AAFF’s Eileen Maitland Award (2018). Lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Martin Grennberger (Sweden) is a film critic, writer and programmer based in Stockholm. Studies at Stockholm and Södertörn universities. Screenings and exhibitions at Light Industry (New York), Fylkingen, IndexThe Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, and Filmform, Sweden’s oldest organization devoted to the promotion, preservation and distribution of film and video art. Editor of Walden magazine, and co-editor (with Daniel A. Swarthnas) of a forthcoming monograph on filmmaker Claes Söderquist (2018). His writings have appeared in Lumière, OEI, and Kunstkritikk. : : : THANKS TO ALL : : : Special shout out to the Sandwich Baptist Church, the cast of Fluid Frontiers and those working to designate the DETROIT RIVER as a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE (Let’s do this!): Teajai Travis, Tawana Petty, Deborah Lee, Bruce E. Davis, Jonni Paige, Leslie McCurdy, Irene Moore Davis, Genoa O'Brien, Kim Duane Elliott, Marsha Battle Philpot, Mary Johnson, Kimberly Simmons, Ephraim Asili, Greg de Cuir Jr.

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018 Call for Entries (ENTRY DEADLINE: Tuesday 1st May all day. http://www.bfmaf.org//berwick-film-media-arts-festival-201

This was fun to work on -- now you can see one of Kevin Everson's made in Windsor-Detroit films right here at MOCAD until January 2018: https://mocadetroit.org/sonic-rebellion-music-resistance/

Media City Film Festival's awards have been announced for the 2017 festival!