★ 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 […]

  MEDIA CITY 2018: Guest Services Coordinator (GSC) Position Start Date: position filled. Festival Dates: November 7-10, 2018 Nature: Stipend (Paid); Full Festival Pass, letter of recommendation from Director / Board (upon request) The Guest Services Coordinator works closely with the Program Director, and Festival Assistant to ensure that all festival guests have lodging and transportation. The GSC manages the following in consultation with […]

On the heels of retrospective programs featuring Media City Prize winning filmmakers, Helga Fanderl and Robert Beavers, Xcèntric (CCB’s cinema) has a host of excellent screenings scheduled this spring. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in store: • March 22: Journeys and Songs Films by Jonas Mekas, Rose Lowder, Warren Sonbert, David Brooks, and Mark Lapore. http://www.cccb.org/en/activities/file/journeys-and-songs/228448 • […]

Ephraim Asili‘s Windsor-Detroit film “Fluid Frontiers” is included as part of Black Radical Imagination‘s 2018 touring program FUGITIVE TRAJECTORIES, along with new work by Frances Bodomo, Alima Lee, Jenn Nkiru, Amelia Umuhire, and dana washington. FUGITIVE TRAJECTORIES has its first screening at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, March 1, 2018.  Program info here: https://www.moca.org/program/screen-black-radical-imagination Black […]

Cauleen Smith, Lessons in Semephore, 2016. Expanding the Frame: Imagination Is Power April 5-21, 2018 at the Walker Art Center there‘s another chance to see award winning films from Media City’s 2017 edition, including work by Cauleen Smith and Sky Hopinka, screening as part Expanding the Frame, an annual program of experimental and alternative media. From the Walker Art […]

Media City Film Festival 2010 award winner Mati Diop (Senegal/France) is working on a new feature film The Fire Next Time (not based on the James Baldwin book). From Cineuropa: “The story is set in a working-class suburb of Dakar that stretches along the Atlantic coast, dominated by a futuristic-looking tower that is about to be […]