Global Nonviolent Film Festival Announces the 2019 Awards

September 30, 2019 — Hollywood, California — Global Nonviolent Film Festival, the most important and renown nonviolent film festival in the world, announced today the Awards handed at its 8th edition. The announcement was made by festival director Daria Trifu and festival artistic consultant Bruno Pischiutta in a video presentation that is available for viewing on the Festival’s on-line TV Channel:

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The Festival is becoming more successful and is growing with each new edition. This year, there have been a record number of 46 films that have been selected from 23 countries. They included feature and short films, feature and short documentaries, animation films and music videos.

The Awards decided by the Jury and handed at the 2019 edition of the Global Nonviolent Film Festival are:

FEATURE FILM CATEGORY

Best Feature Film
“The Descendants” – Iran
Produced by Mitra Roohimanesh
Directed by Yaser Talebi

Best Original Production Design
“As the Earth Turns” – USA
Directed by Richard H. Lyford

SHORT FILM CATEGORY

Best Short Film
“The Power of One Coin” – UK
Produced by Flaminia Graziadei, Zbignew Siwek & Judson Vaghoun 
Directed by Flaminia Graziadei

Best Screenplay
Julie Uribe for “The Healing of Harman” – USA
Directed by Seth Pinsker

Best Director
Mehmet Tığlı for “Spizella” – Turkey

Best Original Subject
“If I Could Bark” – USA
Directed by Shawn Welling

Best Actor
Damion Rochester in “Tastes Like Medicine” – USA

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY

Best Feature Documentary
“Soldiers Without Guns” – Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
Produced by John Kier
Directed by Will Watson

Best Director
Gayle Kirschenbaum for “Look at Us Now, Mother!” – USA

Best Cinematography
Corey Scarrow for “Jackstones” – Canada, Philippines 
Directed by Tim Riedel

Best Editing
“Day of the Western Sunrise” – USA, Japan
Directed by Keith Reimink

SHORT DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY

Best Short Documentary
“Vietnam Aftermath” – USA
Directed & Produced by Tom Phillips

Best Original Idea
“Gun Show”  – USA
Directed by Richard Chisolm

SHORT ANIMATION CATEGORY

Best Short Animation Film
“Anacronte” – Argentina, Mexico
Produced by Emiliano Sette
Directed by Emiliano Sette and Raúl Koler

Best Screenplay
Maria Moreira for “The Teacher” – Portugal

MUSIC VIDEO CATEGORY

Best Performer
Osvaldo Supino in “No Means No” by Osvaldo Supino – Spain
Directed by Vera Kuznetsova & Andrei Zaitcev

Best Director
Guido Verelst for “How Beautiful” by Dez Mona – Belgium

Best Music
“Tip Toe” by Tim Freitag – Switzerland, Vietnam
Directed by Achille Lietha 

The complete Film Guide of the films that have participated in the Festival, with articles and behind-the-scenes commentary from the filmmakers, is in the annual magazine Daria!. The magazine is available here: Daria! Magazine.

We’re LIVE! Global Nonviolent Film Festival has started!

FOR 11 DAYS, EVERYBODY CAN WATCH: 

– 46 full-length feature films & documentaries, shorts, animation films and music videos from 23 countries!

– FREE daily video presentations of 4/5 films from the line-up, with introduction by festival director Daria Trifu and commentary by festival artistic consultant Bruno Pischiutta.

– FREE trailers.

The Festival takes place on-line here:

FESTIVAL’S ON-LINE TV CHANNEL

DAY #1, SEPTEMBER 19 – FILMS’ PRESENTATION

In today’s video presentation, Festival’s director Daria Trifu and film director and artistic consultant of the Festival Bruno Pischiutta, introduce the following five films from the line-up:

AS THE EARTH TURNS
Feature Film, 45 min. – USA
Directed by Richard H. Lyford

RETOUCH
Short Film, 20 min. – Iran
Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri

THE POWER OF ONE COIN
Short Film, 16 min. – UK
Directed by Flaminia Graziadei

SECRET WEAPON
Short Documentary, 13 min. – USA, Afghanistan
Directed by Beth Murphy

DEZ MONA – HOW BEAUTIFUL
Music Video, 4:27 min. – Belgium
Directed by Guido Verelst

Read Daria! Magazine for a complete Guide of the selected films (starting at page 51), here:

READ DARIA! 2019

Daria! Magazine 2018 is Published

September 10, 2018 — Hollywood, California — The annual edition of Daria!, the art, entertainment and business magazine established in 2005, is revealed today by its founder and editor-in-chief, Daria Trifu.

Highlights from the magazine include the featured interviews with film director Flaminia Graziadei, with film auteur Bruno Pischiutta and with Greek Olympic athlete Konstadinos Karyotis. The magazine also presents every one of the 32 films and documentaries that are participating in the 2018 edition of Global Nonviolent Film Festival that takes place from September 20 to 30.

The cover of Daria! features actress Christie Norton who is the Image of Global Nonviolent Film Festival. 

For the complete lineup of Global Nonviolent Film Festival, information on how, where and when to watch the participating movies, visit: Lineup 2018

CONTACT:

Global Nonviolent Film Festival
www.nonviolentfilmfestival.com
info@nonviolentfilmfestival.com

Day 9 – Brasov Int’l Film Festival

September 9th – Day 9

Brasov International Film Festival & Market is on. Today is the 9th Day and it is dedicated to the:

Short documentary BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD by Juan del Santo and Javier Figuero

Short film HE AND SHE by Marco Gadge

Short film TWIN STARS by Mehmet Tığlı

Short film I WOULD LIKE TO BE ENRAPTURED, MUZZLED AND ON MY BACK TATTOOED by Andy Malafaia

Short film ARRIVEDERCI ROSA by Flaminia Graziadei

Watch our daily video presentations and all 21 nonviolent selected feature films, documentaries and shorts on the Festival’s Vimeo Channel:

http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/brasovfilmfestival

Film Director Bruno Pischiutta and Producer Daria Trifu make film and internet history with their on-line Film Festival

After four years of successful annual editions, the most important and renown nonviolent film Festival in the world, goes on-line exclusively.

Film Director Bruno Pischiutta and Producer Daria Trifu

September 1, 2016 — Today marks the first day of the 5th annual edition of the most important and renown nonviolent film festival in the world that was founded and it is being organized by film director Bruno Pischiutta and film producer Daria Trifu since 2012. The Festival is Brasov International Film Festival & Market. Today, the two founders are making film and internet history by bringing the Festival on-line exclusively and allowing, for the first time, the world viewers to enjoy all the selected films from the comfort of their homes.

This year, the Festival showcases 21 selected feature films, documentaries and shorts between September 1 – 11. The Festival is now live on its Vimeo On Demand Channel here:

www.vimeo.com/ondemand/globalfilmfestival

Out of +8,000 film festivals worldwide, this one is at the vanguard of them all. Pischiutta and Trifu have not only achieved their goal of bringing nonviolent film to the widest audience possible but they have further reached an extraordinary result by breaking the standard used by film festivals from generations.

“We are sure that our system will start to be used by many festivals in the coming years but we are proud to be able to say that we did it first and therefor be a part of history. This is now marked in stone and will stay with us forever.” – Says the Director of the Festival, Daria Trifu

The Festival has been recognized by the IMDB and all the awards handed each year are published. Visit the Festival’s IMDB profile.

Brasov International Film Festival & Market is owned and organized by Global Film Studio Inc.

CONTACT:
info@brasovfilmfestival.com

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