Harlem International Film Festival
Annual film festival in Harlem, New York, US
The Harlem International Film Festival (Hi ) is an annual five-day film festival in Harlem , New York .[ 1] The first festival took place in 2005.[ 2] Michael Franti 's I Know I'm Not Alone was named Best International Documentary at the festival that year.[ 3] The short film Eme Nakia was selected to be screened at the 2006 festival.[ 4] Also that year, The Hip Hop Project produced by Queen Latifah and Bruce Willis was named Best Documentary Film.[ 5] Nigerian film Anchor Baby was named Best Film at the 2010 festival and won another award there as well.[ 6] Omoni Oboli was named Best Actress that year.[ 7] Najat Jellab's short film The Projectionist premiered at the 2013 festival.[ 8] The festival named Vanessa L. Williams Best Actress one year.[ 9] Short film In The Field , directed by Matthew Hope, was screened at the festival one year.[ 10] :)
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Harlem International Film Festival 2014 award winners
Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Kamkam
Best World Film
Depois da Chuva
Best Documentary
The Cooler Bandits
Best World Doc
Brown Bread
Best Director
Tempo Girl
Dominik Locher
Best Documentary Director
You have his Eyes
Christopher Wilson
Mira Nair Award For Rising Female Filmmaker
Redemption Trail
Britta Sjogren
Audience Award
Children of the Light
Best Experimental Film
Duran / Circling
Best Actor
Magkakabaung
Allen Dizon
101 Chodyangal
Minon
Best Actress
Love Me
Viktoria Spesyvtseva
Best Cinematography
Si-o-se Pol
Kristian Leschner
Best Short Documentary
The Game Changer
Indrani Kopal
Best Short Shorts
18 Seconds
Berxen Kulek
La Loteria
One Question
The Devil Goes Down
The Way You Love
Best Short
0.60 MG
Battle Of Island Mound
Fleecing Led Zeppelin
Into The Silent Sea
Kasita
La Donna
The Perfect Sacrifice
Best Animation
Le Gouffre
Puggums
Best Youth Feature
Flying Paper
Best Youth Short Documentary
A Teen's Guide to Understanding and Communicating with People with Autism
Best Youth Short
Perfect Day
Best Music Video
The Lion
Harlem Spotlight (feature)
Know How
Harlem Spotlight (documentary)
Changing Face of Harlem
Winning Feature Script
The Blacktivist
Winning Short Script
Brewster Commons
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Harlem International Film Festival 2013 award winners
Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
Clutter
Diane Crespo
Best World Film
Tu Seras Un Homme (You’ll Be A Man)
Benoit Cohen
Best Documentary
Lessons of Hayti
Edward J. Harris II and Byron Hunter
Best World Doc
Post 9-11: Fear, Anger & Politics
Nadia Zouaoui
Best Director
Four of Hearts
Eric Haywood
Best Documentary Director
16 Acres
Richard Hankin
Mira Nair Award For Rising Female Filmmaker
Bittersweet Monday
Jaime Lee
Audience Award
Sex, Love & Salsa
Adrian Manzano
Best Experimental Film
Objects Attack!
Rona Mark
Best Actor
Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Mike Wiley
Best Actress
Nuwebe
Barbara Miguel
Best Cinematography
The Passage
Alexander Douglas
Best Short Documentary
Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution
Matthew Vandyke
Best Short
Daughter
Assia Lakhlif
Empty Paper Bag
Majid Sarvini
Farewell Jimmy
Sanghyun Kim
Kombra
Ali Kamanda
Pillowcase
David Lombroso
Sum-ba-kok-jil (Hide ‘n Seek)
Hanuk Lee
Sweet, Sweet Country
Dehanza Rogers
The Projectionist
Najat Jellab
Best Animation
Daddy ABC
Hamad Alawar
Ed
Gabriel Garcia
Best Youth Short
Remain Still
Armaan Uplekar
Best Music Video
Sufferin’ Till You’re Straight
David Scheve
Harlem Spotlight (feature)
Fight, Dance Sing
Kamal Robinson
Harlem Spotlight (short)
Happy New Year!
Judianny Compress
Winning Feature Script
The Rose That Grew From Concrete: The Story of Tupac Amaru Shakur
Reginald Jackson
Winning Short Script
She Was Left Alone
Bela Wolf
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Harlem International Film Festival 2012 award winners
Award
Film
Winner
Best Film
True Bromance
Sebastian Doggart (UK, US)
Best World Film
A.L.F.
Jérôme Lescure (France)
Best Documentary
Herman's House (Canada, US)
Angad Bhalla
Best World Documentary
Not My Life (Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Italy, Romania, Senegal, US)
Robert Bilheimer
Best Director
The Talk Man (US)
Gene Gallerano
Best Documentary Director
Mas Man (Trinidad & Tobago, US)
Dalton Narine
Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker
A Gran Plan (Singapore)
Sangeeta Nambiar
Audience Award
The Glamorous Lie (US)
Best Actor
Hombre y Tierra (US)
Maurice Ripke directed by Christian Cisneros
Best Actress
A Gran Plan (Singapore)
Farida Jalal directed by Sangeeta Nambiar
Best Short Documentary
Check the Rhyme (US)
Tim Smoove
Top Seven Shorts (narrative)
Amos (US)
Taylor Maxwell
I Can Smoke? (US)
Tony Ducret
Playing Grown Up (Mexico)
Javier Solorzano Casarin
Shoot the Moon
Alexander Gaeta (US)
The Darkness is Close Behind (US)
Sheena Mccann
The Hole (South Korea)
Joon Seong Ahn
The Pilgrim & the Private Eye (US)
Joel Johnstone
Best Short Shorts (12 Minutes And Under)
And I on the Opposite Shore (US)
Mozell Miley-Bailey
Co Raz Zostalo Zapisane (Poland)
Martin Rath
Raise My Hands (Ireland)
Frank Kelly
The Future (Australia)
Venetia Taylor
The World Outside (US)
Zachary Kerschberg
Best Animation
The Hopper Alex Brüel Flagstad (Denmark)
Wolf Dog Tales Bernadine Santistevan (US)
Best Youth (Feature) Film
Brooklyn Bridges (Palestine, US)
Fran Tarr
Best Youth Short
Cross Court (US)
Rafael Cortina
Best Music Video
Soldier (US)
Cinque Northern
Harlem Spotlight
Stonefaced (US)
Vivian Ducat
Winning Feature Script
Eternal Spring Fist
Erik Bernard
Winning Short Script
The Tenth Door
Michael D. Lies
Screenplay Finalists
Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow
Harold Brown
Resilience
Lena Slachmuijlder
You Dresses, Me Shoes
S. A. Green
Screenplay Semi-finalists
Fall Out
Michael Gold
In 2 Me U
Kimberly Fernandez & Jeanette Villafane
Kingpin
R. M. Chepesiuk
Undivided
Trevor and Troy Parham
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References
^ Michael J. Feeney (September 11, 2013). "Harlem International Film Festival to include films about hip hop and 9/11" . Daily News . Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ "Hi-story" . Harlem International Film Festival. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ "Spearhead frontman to play prison show" . NME . May 3, 2007. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ "Sparta's Short Film Trailer: 'Eme Nakia' " . Ultimate Guitar Archive . September 5, 2006. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ Gregg Goldstein (October 30, 2006). "ThinkFilm backs new 'Project' " . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ Patrice Peck (August 19, 2013). "Lonzo Nzekwe Spotlights African Immigration in "Anchor Baby" " . Black Entertainment Television . Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ Chris Ajaero (August 3, 2011). "The Stars of Nollywood" . Modern Ghana . Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ "The Projectionist Gets US Premiere 9/15" . Broadway World . September 6, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ Marti Parham (November 20, 2006). "Vanessa Williams Proves that Having the Right Stuff has Paid Off". Jet : 63.
^ "People news from Nice Shoes, Publicis Mojo and more" . Creativity . April 11, 2011. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
^ "2014 Awards" . harlemfilmfestival.org . Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
^ "2013 Awards" . harlemfilmfestival.org . Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
^ "2012 Awards" . harlemfilmfestival.org . Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
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