#Boston Online Film Critics Association

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Awards Season 2023-24: Awards Round-Up 12/18

One week till Christmas. Two weeks till New Year’s. Five weeks and a day till the Oscar nominations. And here we have 14 critics’ groups who’ve announced their winners, not – hopefully – out of a desire to predict the outcome, but some of the trends here are pretty hard to dismiss. Here’s who we have (ordered alphabetically by their acronym): Boston Online Film Critics Association…

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Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) Awards: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Named Best Picture, 'Oppenheimer' Wins 5

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Assegnati i prestigiosi Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, i premi con cui i critici di Los Angeles eleggono ogni anno le migliori proposte cinematografiche della stagione. Nella storia di questo premio su 46 edizioni il vincitore del #LAFCA Award per il miglior film è stato confermato agli Oscar 11 volte (Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo, Kramer contro Kramer, Voglia di tenerezza, Amadeus, Gli Spietati, Schindler’s List, The Hurt Locker, Spotlight, Moonlight, Roma, Parasite). Lo scorso anno la LAFCA ha premiato il dramma giapponese di Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Drive My Car nelle categorie miglior film e miglior script, dando il via alla sua campagna che lo ha portato a conquistare 4 nominations all'Oscar tra cui miglior film, miglior regia, miglior adattamento, miglior film internazionale, vincendo in quest’ultima categoria. Quest’anno a conquistare il maggior numero di premi è stato #TAR di Todd Field vincendo in ben 4 categorie (miglior script, miglior attrice #CateBlanchett, miglior regia e miglior film a pari merito con Everything Everywhere All At Once). Tra i vincitori si fa notare il film polacco vincitore del Premio della Giuria all’ultimo Festival di Cannes #EO (miglior fotografia, miglior film internazionale) e il documentario vincitore del Leone d’Oro all’ultimo Festival di Venezia #AlltheBeautyandtheBloodshed che ha vinto nella categoria Miglior documentario conquistando in poche ore anche il premio dei critici di Boston e dei critici online di New York. Ecco la lista di tutti i vincitori: -Miglior fotografia: EO -Miglior supporter performance: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) / Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness) -Miglior colonna sonora: RRR -Miglior scenografia: Avatar: the Way of Water -Miglior montaggio: Aftersun -Miglior film d’animazione: Pinocchio -Miglior script: TAR -Miglior lead performance: Bill Nighy (LIVING)/Cate Blanchett (TAR) -Miglior documentario: All the Beauty and the Blodsheed -Miglior Regia: Todd Field (TAR) -Miglior film internazionale: EO (Polonia) -Miglior film: Everything Everywhere All At Once / TAR #AwardsSeason #Winners #FilmCriticsAwards #FilmCriticsAssociation #LAFCA2022 #LAFilmCritics https://www.instagram.com/p/CmC_6IDIN54/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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1st

✧ The Power of the Dog released on Netflix.

✧ More TPOTD press junket! (⚠ Beware of possible spoilers!)

On Demand Entertainment.

Movie Show Plus.

FOX6 News

BackstageOL’s

The Edit.

Netflix France.

3rd

✧ Benedict wins Critics Best Actor Awards. (all of them in this section)

New York Film Critics Circle.

Atlanta Film Critics Circle.

Boston Online Film Critics Association.

New York Film Critics Online

Philadelphia Film Critics Circle.

Phoenix Film Critics Society.

Southern Eastern Film Critics Association.

Chicago Film Critics Association/CFCA.

Portland Critics Association.

Phoenix Critics Circle.

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association.

Nevada Film Critics Society.

Dublin Film Critics Circle.

✧ “Adapting TPOTD” film featurette.

✧ Benedict in this TPOTD promo clip for Netflix.

4th ✧ TPOTD - A Tight-Knit Ensemble Drives Jane Campion’s Award-Winning Western.

6th ✧ Making of ‘Power of the Dog’. THR article.

7th ✧ Virtual Film Q&A: TPOTD. (Event not available.) Fans pics and clips: x x x

✧ Benedict was included in The New York Times’ Best Actors of 2021 list. + New photoshoot (Gallery.)

8th

✧ In Conversation with the Filmmakers and Cast of The Power of the Dog | Netflix

10th

✧ TPOTD behind the scenes | Ari Wegner.

11th

✧ TPOTD | Hair and Makeup featurette.

✧ Benedict in a TPOTD promo clip for Netflix Japan.

13th

✧ Benedict placed first in the gender-neutral Best Performance category of 2021 Indiewire survey.

✧ Benedict joins the cast of “Spider-man: No Way Home” to promote the movie on Jimmy Kimmel live! x x x

✧ “Spider-Man: No Way Home” World Premiere. (Gallery)

Fans clips: x x x x x x x x x Benedict talks to fans, official clip. Interview with Entertainment Tonight. Extra TV. jbwebtv. Access Hollywood. Marvel Entertainment.

14th ✧ Benedict chosen by Time between The 10 Best Movie Performances of 2021.

17th ✧ Interview with The Guardian.

✧Interview with DailyMail.

✧ “How Benedict Cumberbatch Transformed Into Phil Burbank” featurette.

18th ✧ Benedict and Claire Foy talks TELOLW with DigitalSpy.

19th ✧ Benedict  on Laura Whitmore show on BBC Radio 5. (Benedict starts at 1:05:55) - Available for a few days more.

22nd

✧ First official teaser for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”!

✧ First official teaser poster!

✧ Benedict Cumberbatch on TPOTD and toxic masculinity.

25th

✧ TPOTD production book on-line. (Direct link.)

28th ✧ Benedict Cumberbatch, and others, reveal most daunting experiences on set.

✧ Benedict and Claire Foy talks TELOLW with Cosmopolitan.

✧ Benedict and Claire Foy on Louis Wain: The Man Behind the Cats.

30th

✧ Letters Live released a letter from Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher, read by Benedict back in October.

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Alana Haim’s acting debut in Licorice Pizza: award nominations and wins

Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Virtuosos Award (win)

National Board of Review

Breakthrough Performance (win)

Pheonix Film Critics Society

Breakthrough Performance (win)

Oklahoma Film Critics Circle

Best Actress (win) 

Atlanta Film Critics Circle

Best Ensemble (tie)

Best Actress (tie)

Boston Online Film Critics Association

Best Ensemble (win)

Boston Society of Film Critics

Best Actress (win) 

Chicago Film Critics

Best Actress (nomination)

Most Promising Performer (win)

New Mexico Film Critics

Best Actress (win) 

Three if By Space Film Awards

Best Lead Actress (win)

Young Filmmakers of America Association Awards

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (win) 

Florida Film Critics Circle

Best Actress (win)

Best Ensemble (nomination)

Columbus Film Critics Association

Best Actress (win)

Best newcomer (win)

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association

Best Scene: truck driving in reverse (win)

Georgia Film Critics

Best Actress (win)

Breakthrough Award (win)

Best Ensemble (win)

Minnesota Film Critics Alliance

Best Actress (runner up)

Southern Eastern Film Critics Association

Best Actress (runner up)

Critics Association of Central Florida

Best Actress (runner up)

National Society of Film Critics

Best Actress (runner up)

North Carolina Film Critics Association

Best Actress (nomination)

Best Ensemble (nomination)

Best Breakthrough Performance (win)

Manchester Film Awards

Best Breakout Performance (win)

Detroit Film Critics Society

Best Actress (nomination)

Breakthrough (nomination)

Golden Globes

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (nomination)

Online Society of Film Critics

Best Lead Actress (nomination)

Music City Film Critics Association

Best Actress (nomination)

North Dakota Film Society

Best Actress (nomination)

Seattle Film Critics

Best Actress (nomination)

Denver Film Critics Society

Best Actress (nomination)

Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Best Woman’s Breakthrough Performance (nomination)

Portland Critics Association

Best Female Leading Role (nomination)

Chicago Indie Critics Awards

Best Actress (nomination)

Austin Film Critics Association

Best Actress (nomination)

Pandora International Film Festival

Acting Breakthrough (nomination)

NME Awards

Best Actor (win)

Satellite Awards

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical (nomination)

Critics’ Choice Awards

Best Actress (nomination)

Best Acting Ensemble (nomination)

BAFTA 

Best Actress (nomination)

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The film critics circles have begun giving out their awards. Unsurprisingly, it’s indie heavy - which is traditionally the way, but moreso when we’re in a year where major studios’ Oscar bait films have been pushed off to 2021. 

In recent years Netflix has had a presence in these Oscar talks beginning with Cary Joji Fukunaga’s BEAST OF NO NATION in 2015 to recent Oscar winners of Best Film and Best Documentary ROMA and AMERICAN FACTORY.

This year despite Oscar bait material like Ron Howard’s HILLBILLY ELGEGY (which I didn’t find awful, unlike many reviewers), Aaron Sorkin’s THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (excellent film, but not as snappy as Sorkin’s previous work)  Netflix’s offerings are largely being ignored in the critics realm with the exceptions, being David Fincher’s MANK (which I truly enjoyed and it really made me miss being in the cinema). 

The MANK accolades are mainly going to Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies

and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score (the duo have also been honored for their score to Disney’s SOUL which debuts on Disney+ on Christmas. 

How have the major categories shaken out so far? 

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Picture  – Nomadland

Best Actor – Anthony Hopkins, The Father

Best Actress – Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Supporting Actor – Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress – Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Best Director – Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

Best Screenplay – Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Ensemble Cast – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Boston ONLINE Film Critics

Best Film: Nomadland

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”

Best Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”

Best Supporting Actor: Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”

New York Film Critics Awards

Best Film: “First Cow”

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”

Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”

Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”

Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”

Best Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods”

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Best Picture

Winner: SMALL AXE

Runner-up: NOMADLAND

Best Director

Winner: Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND

Runner-up: Steve McQueen, SMALL AXE

Best Actress

Winner: Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Runner-up: Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

Best Actor

Winner: Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

Runner-up: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL

Best Screenplay

Winner: Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Runner-up: Eliza Hittman, NEVER REALLY SOMETIMES ALWAYS

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI

Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried, MANK

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Glynn Turman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

Runner-up: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL

- I made a post about category fraud and what’s going on with Steve McQueen’s SMALL AXE is the epitome of category fraud IMO. 

SMALL AXE is comprised of five standalone films: MANGROVE (starring Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright and Malachi Kirby), LOVERS ROCK (starring Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) , RED, WHITE AND BLUE (John Boyega, Steve Touissant and Joy RIchardson) ALEX WHEATLE (starring  Sheyi Cole and Robbie Gee)  and EDUCATION (starring Tamara Lawrance and Naomi Ackie)

and for some reason it has won either for singular episode (because this, essentially, is what it is) like MANGROVE, but it has also won as a whole including in Best Cinematography. 

How is this considered a miniseries everywhere else but in the critics circle?

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El Recuento de los Premios temporada 2021-2022

Los premios de la temporada cinematográfica otorgada por diversas academias de cine, los gremios y la crítica especializada en Estados Unidos.   Recuento de premios de la temporada 2021-2022   MEJOR PELÍCULA THE POWER OF THE DOG (11) – Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA), New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC), Chicago Film Critics Association���

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Awards Season 2022-23: Awards Round-Up 12/16

Awards Season 2022-23: Awards Round-Up 12/16

I can’t blame them. Winning 33 awards from 9 separate groups must be exhausting. Here’s the drill: it obviously would take too long to put together separate posts for every awards group that announces. But I like to cover and discuss as many groups as possible. What I did last year, and am doing this year, is listing off the categories and listing who gave which film what award. Usually, these…

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Boston Online Film Critics Association Awards 2022 Winners Announced https://t.co/jjfWrrZ9m2

Boston Online Film Critics Association Awards 2022 Winners Announced https://t.co/jjfWrrZ9m2

— Melody Knight (@Knight_Melody1) Dec 12, 2021

from Twitter https://twitter.com/Knight_Melody1

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Sono stati annunciati i vincitori dei Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, i riconoscimenti con cui i critici di Boston scelgono i migliori film e le migliori interpretazioni della stagione cinematografica. Nella storia di questo premio su 41 edizioni il vincitore del #BSFC Award come miglior film ha vinto successivamente l’Oscar nella categoria Best Picture 11 volte (Il silenzio degli innocenti, Gli Spietati, Schindler’s List, The Departed, Non è un paese per vecchi, The Millionaire, The Hurt Locker, The Artist, 12 anni schiavo, Spotlight, Nomadland). Tra i vincitori di quest’anno spicca il riconoscimento per la Miglior Attrice assegnato a #MichelleYeoh per Everything Everywhere All At Once che ha vinto così il suo 7° premio di Stagione dopo aver conquistato l’Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Awards, il Kirk Douglas Award (Santa Barbara International Film Festival), il Saturn Award, l’International Star Award (Palm Springs International Film Award), il NBR Award, il New York Film Critics Online Award (dietro solo alla Blanchett che ne ha 8). Inoltre la Yeoh detiene al momento il record di nomination tra tutti i premi finora annunciati. Ecco la lista di tutti i vincitori dei Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: -Miglior colonna sonora: RRR (by M. M. Keeravani) -Miglior montaggio: Aftersun/La donna del mistero (dopo il 6 rounds di votazioni) -Miglior fotografia: Pearl -Miglior film d’animazione: Turning Red -Miglior documentario: All the Beauty and Bloodshed -Miglior debutto dietro la macchina da presa: Aftersun -Miglior script originale: Gli spiriti dell’isola -Miglior adattamento: After Yang -Miglior attrice non protagonista: Kerry Condon (Gli spiriti dell’isola) -Miglior attore non protagonista: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) -Miglior attrice: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) -Miglior attore: Colin Farrell (Gli Spiriti dell’isola/After Yang)-Miglior cast: Women Talking/ Jackass Forever -Miglior regia: Todd Field (TAR) -Miglior film internazionale: -Miglior film: Return to Seoul #AwardsSeason #Winners #FilmCriticsAwards #FilmCriticsAssociation#BFCS2022 #BostonSocietyofFilmCritics #BostonCritics #Awards #Movies https://www.instagram.com/p/CmC9vKKIvQQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Heat-Conducting Crystals Could Help Computer Chips Keep Their Cool

UT Dallas physics researchers recently published a study in the journal Science that describes the high thermal conductivity of boron arsenide crystals they grew in the lab. From left: study authors Xiaoyuan Liu, Dr. Bing Lv and Dr. Sheng Li.

If your laptop or cellphone starts to feel warm after playing hours of video games or running too many apps at one time, those devices are actually doing their job.

Whisking heat away from the circuitry in a computer’s innards to the outside environment is critical: Overheated computer chips can make programs run slower or freeze, shut the device down altogether or cause permanent damage.

As consumers demand smaller, faster and more powerful electronic devices that draw more current and generate more heat, the issue of heat management is reaching a bottleneck. With current technology, there’s a limit to the amount of heat that can be dissipated from the inside out.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their collaborators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Houston have created a potential solution, described in a study published online July 5 in the journal Science.

Dr. Bing Lv (pronounced “love”), assistant professor of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UT Dallas, and his colleagues produced crystals of a semiconducting material called boron arsenide that have an extremely high thermal conductivity, a property that describes a material’s ability to transport heat.

Researchers at UT Dallas and their collaborators have created and characterized tiny crystals of boron arsenide that have high thermal conductivity.

“Heat management is very important for industries that rely on computer chips and transistors,” said Lv, a corresponding author of the study. “For high-powered, small electronics, we cannot use metal to dissipate heat because metal can cause a short circuit. We cannot apply cooling fans because those take up space. What we need is an inexpensive semiconductor that also disperses a lot of heat.”

Most of today’s computer chips are made of the element silicon, a crystalline semiconducting material that does an adequate job of dissipating heat. But silicon, in combination with other cooling technology incorporated into devices, can handle only so much.

Diamond has the highest known thermal conductivity, around 2,200 watts per meter-kelvin, compared to about 150 watts per meter-kelvin for silicon. Although diamond has been incorporated occasionally in demanding heat-dissipation applications, the cost of natural diamonds and structural defects in man-made diamond films make the material impractical for widespread use in electronics, Lv said.

In 2013, researchers at Boston College and the Naval Research Laboratory published research that predicted boron arsenide could potentially perform as well as diamond as a heat spreader. In 2015, Lv and his colleagues at the University of Houston successfully produced such boron arsenide crystals, but the material had a fairly low thermal conductivity, around 200 watts per meter-kelvin.

Since then, Lv’s work at UT Dallas has focused on optimizing the crystal-growing process to boost the material’s performance.

“We have been working on this research for the last three years, and now have gotten the thermal conductivity up to about 1,000 watts per meter-kelvin, which is second only to diamond in bulk materials,” Lv said.

“I think boron arsenide has great potential for the future of electronics. Its semiconducting properties are very comparable to silicon, which is why it would be ideal to incorporate boron arsenide into semiconducting devices.”

Dr. Bing Lv, assistant professor of physics

Lv worked with postdoctoral research associate Dr. Sheng Li, co-lead author of the study, and physics doctoral student Xiaoyuan Liu, also a study author, to create the high thermal conductivity crystals using a technique called chemical vapor transport. The raw materials — the elements boron and arsenic — are placed in a chamber that is hot on one end and cold on the other. Inside the chamber, another chemical transports the boron and arsenic from the hot end to the cooler end, where the elements combine to form crystals.

“To jump from our previous results of 200 watts per meter-kelvin up to 1,000 watts per meter-kelvin, we needed to adjust many parameters, including the raw materials we started with, the temperature and pressure of the chamber, even the type of tubing we used and how we cleaned the equipment,” Lv said.

Dr. David Cahill and Dr. Pinshane Huang’s research groups at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign played a key role in the current work, studying defects in the boron arsenide crystals by state-of-the-art electron microscopy and measuring the thermal conductivity of the very small crystals produced at UT Dallas.

“We measure the thermal conductivity using a method developed at Illinois over the past dozen years called ‘time-domain thermoreflectance’ or TDTR,” said Cahill, professor and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a corresponding author of the study. “TDTR enables us to measure the thermal conductivity of almost any material over a wide range of conditions and was essential for the success of this work.”

The way heat is dissipated in boron arsenide and other crystals is linked to the vibrations of the material. As the crystal vibrates, the motion creates packets of energy called phonons, which can be thought of as quasiparticles carrying heat. Lv said the unique features of boron arsenide crystals — including the mass difference between the boron and arsenic atoms — contribute to the ability of the phonons to travel more efficiently away from the crystals.

“I think boron arsenide has great potential for the future of electronics,” Lv said. “Its semiconducting properties are very comparable to silicon, which is why it would be ideal to incorporate boron arsenide into semiconducting devices.”

Lv said that while the element arsenic by itself can be toxic to humans, once it is incorporated into a compound like boron arsenide, the material becomes very stable and nontoxic.

The next step in the work will include trying other processes to improve the growth and properties of this material for large-scale applications, Lv said.

The research was supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Source : The University of Texas at Dallas

New post published on: https://www.livescience.tech/2018/07/07/heat-conducting-crystals-could-help-computer-chips-keep-their-cool/

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Virtual Exhibition Highlighting Diasporan Armenian Responses to Occupied Artsakh Launched in April

New Post has been published on https://armenia.in-the.news/culture/virtual-exhibition-highlighting-diasporan-armenian-responses-to-occupied-artsakh-launched-in-april-72970-04-05-2021/

Virtual Exhibition Highlighting Diasporan Armenian Responses to Occupied Artsakh Launched in April

“Sites of Fracture: Diasporic “Imaginings of Occupied Artsakh” exhibition launched on April 19

GLENDALE—Glendale Library Arts & Culture and ReflectSpace Gallery present “Sites of Fracture: Diasporic Imaginings of Occupied Artsakh,” a virtual exhibition that brings together diasporan Armenian artists—from the United States, Canada, and Germany—to build collective counter-narratives to the forces of occupation and cultural erasure in the Republic of Artsakh. The exhibition launched on April 19.

In September 2020, the autocratic state of Azerbaijan invaded the Republic of Artsakh and initiated an campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting its Indigenous Armenian population. With a vastly out-financed military and direct support from Turkey, Azerbaijan succeeded in occupying large swaths of Artsakh. In the process, thousands lost their lives and 100,000 Armenians were displaced from their ancestral homes.

The global Armenian diaspora was gripped by the collective trauma of watching a campaign of ethnic cleansing unfold via digital screens and televisual transmissions. As Indigenous Armenian heritage faced systematic destruction, a cadre of diasporan Armenian artists responded with projects that counter the attempted erasure of Armenian identities, histories, and cultural artifacts.

Artists and cultural workers in the exhibit include Kamee Abrahamian, Ali Cat/Entangled Roots Press, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Naré Mkrtchyan, Nelli Sargsyan, She Loves Collective, Scout Tufankjian, Anahid Yahjian and Yerazad Coalition.

“Sites of Fracture” also gestures towards the repatriation of ancestral lands. The virtual exhibition takes place in the photographically reconstructed fortress of the city of Shushi—Artsakh’s historical cultural capital, now occupied by Azerbaijan. In the process, “Sites of Fracture” imagines decolonized futures for Shushi, envisioning an independent Republic of Artsakh wherein Indigenous communities exercise the right to have been granted the right to self-governance and cultural autonomy.

“Sites of Fracture: Diasporic Imaginings of Occupied Artsakh” is co-curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Ara Oshagan, and Anahid Oshagan and is part of the Glendale Library Arts & Culture’s Armenian Genocide Remembrance Month. The exhibition launches on April 19 in a 3D virtual gallery accessible through the ReflectSpace Gallery website: www.reflectspace.org.

“Sites of Fracture” is also part of the Glendale Library Arts & Culture’s “Be the Change” series focuses on: Inclusion – Diversity – Equity – Antiracism. “Be The Change” events will build collective understanding of systemic racism, elevate the voices and stories of BIPOC, and inspire our community to be the change. “Be The Change” is sponsored by the City of Glendale, California Arts and Culture Commission, with funding from the City of Glendale Urban Art Fund.

ReflectSpace Gallery at the Glendale Central Library opened in 2017 when the library reopened after a major renovation. It came at the behest of The Glendale City Council for a city space to address the Armenian Genocide and other human atrocities. ReflectSpace is an exhibition space designed to explore and reflect on genocides, human and civil rights violations. Immersive in conception, ReflectSpace is a hybrid space that exhibits contemporary art as well as archives, employing installation, technology and interactive media to engage viewers on an emotional and personal level. ReflectSpace strives to reflect the past and present of Glendale’s communal fabric and interrogate current-day global human rights issues.

Kamee Abrahamian is a supreme hyphenate who arrives in the world today as an interdisciplinary writer-artist-producer-performer-organizer and a non-binary, queer-feminist caregiver. They grew up in an immigrant suburb of Toronto and was born into an Armenian family displaced from the SWANA region. Kamee’s work is steeped with relational and generative practices oriented towards ancestral reclamation, visionary fiction, and diasporic futurism. They hold a BFA/BA in film and political science (Concordia University), an MA in expressive art therapy (European Graduate Institute), and a PhD (ABD) in community liberation, indigenous and eco psychologies (Pacifica Graduate Institute). Kamee has published plays, literary and academic writing, while organizing and presenting films, artwork, staged performances and workshops internationally. Recent projects worth mention are “Ensouled,” “Hok Danil,” “Transmission,” and “Dear Armen.”

Ali Cat/Entangled Roots Press is an artist and print maker living on unceded Cowlitz, Multnomah and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde land at the confluence of two rivers, also known as Portland, Oregon. She produces her work under the name Entangled Roots Press. Her prints mingle the literal and metaphorical to illuminate and comment upon the world around us. Relief, screen, and letterpress prints span from the carnage of clear-cuts to the beauty of peoples movements. Ali’s prints pull from ancestral herstories and push towards liberatory futures; entangling lessons from gardens, symbols in coffee cups, woven threads from Armenia and Euskal Herria, to the printed page. Ali received her BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. She completed an artist-residency at Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires in 2014, and was a member of Flight 64, a member-run, nonprofit print studio, from 2015 to 2018. Ali currently works as the Print Studio Technician at PNCA.

Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, born in Buenos Aires, lives and works in Berlin. Her work explores themes of belonging, the role of minorities in society, and the potential of an “in-between” space. Memory and working with archives are the focus of her artistic exploration. She is the artistic director of the Houshamadyan project, a multimedia memory book for Armenian Ottoman history. Silvina Der-Meguerditchian was a fellow at the Tarabya Academy of Culture in 2014/15. In the summer of 2015, she participated in Armenity, the Armenian pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, which was awarded the Golden Lion for the best national representation. In the fall of 2015, she curated the exhibition “ENKEL, new geographies of belonging” in Istanbul. Since 2014, she has worked with “Women mobilizing memory,” a group of artists, writers, museologists, social activists, and memory and memorial scholars working internationally. In 2020, her film “The Wishing Tree” was awarded with a Special Mention at the Sharjah Film Platform. Her first personal catalog with VFMK (Verlag für Moderne Kunst) has just been published in January 2021.

Naré Mkrtchyan was born in Armenia and raised in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. She has written, directed and produced over sixty projects, including her latest which was a Netflix original. Her documentary The Other Side of Home remains the only Armenian Genocide film to be shortlisted for Oscar. Her passion is telling unique human stories that connect people and move beyond the boundaries of nationality, gender, and religion.

Nelli Sargsyan is an associate professor of anthropology at Emerson College, Boston, MA. As a feminist, Sargsyan situates herself at the disciplinary intersections of political anthropology, queer studies, and critical race studies, among others. In her scholarly-poetic work and teaching Sargsyan is interested in stretching disciplinary and genre boundaries to explore the multi-sensory possibilities of feminist world-making. Most recently she has been interested in political work that cultivates feminist consciousness and collective care, whether it be through direct street action, public performance, or feminist fabulation. Sargsyan’s work has appeared in academic journals such as “Feminist Formations, History and Anthropology,” and “Feminist Anthropology,” as well as on online platforms such as “ARTMargins,” “Public Seminar,” and “Socioscope.”

SheLovesCollective is an alliance of women artists who share a strong belief in the power of creating social change through art. On October 11th, 2020 the collective launched a performance art piece entitled, The Rifles Our Ancestors Didn’t Have in response to the war that reignited on September 27, 2020 in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh.

Scout Tufankjian has spent the bulk of her career working in the Middle East, but is best known for her work documenting both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. Her book on the 2007 to 2008 campaign, “Yes We Can: Barack Obama’s History-Making Presidential Campaign” was a New York Times and LA Times bestseller. Her second book, “There is Only the Earth: Images from the Armenian Diaspora Project,” is the culmination of six years documenting Armenian communities in over 20 different countries. More recently, she has worked for the HALO Trust in Nagorno-Karabakh and Angola, and has served as a temporary acting director of Committee to Protect Journalists’s Emergency Response Team. She is a two-time TUMO Workshop leader, in Yerevan and Stepanakert, and continues to work as a freelance photographer and as a consultant for both RISC Training and Committee to Protect Journalists. More of her work can be seen on her website.

Anahid Yahjian is an independent writer, director and producer of experimental, documentary and narrative cinema. Her commitment to telling true stories (even if they come from her imagination) was shaped by an early love for visual storytelling that was formalized in college and took flight during her coming of age in Armenia. There, she produced the internationally-awarded narrative short 140 Drams (Camerimage, Clermont-Ferrand 2013), laid the creative groundwork for the feature documentary Spiral (IDFA Bertha Fund 2015, Golden Apricot 2017) and shot and directed the viral digital documentary LEVON: A Wondrous Life (2013). Since returning to her native Los Angeles, she shot and directed the experimental cine-triptych, Corpus Callosum (2014-2016) and directed the narrative science-fiction short Transmission (BFI Flare, Vancouver QFF 2019). She splits her time between Yerevan, Sofia (her birthplace), Los Angeles (her home), and New York City.

Yerazad Coalition is an action coalition dedicated to Armenian liberation and building transnational solidarity. Yerazad’s work encompasses policy action, coalition building, and environmental justice. Its core members include Carene Rose Mekertichyan, Joel Mardirossian, Joy Mardirossian, Brian Damerau, and Arya Jamal.

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2020 Awards: Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) Winners

2020 Awards: Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) Winners

Here are the winners for the 2020 BOFCA Awards. Check out more about the Boston Online Film Critics Association. Nomadland led all winners with 5 wins, including Best Picture. Find the rest below. Best Picture: NOMADLAND Top Ten of 2020 NomadlandFirst CowDa 5 BloodsNever Rarely Sometimes AlwaysMinariLovers RockPromising Young WomanMankDick Johnson Is DeadMa Rainey’s Black Bottom Best…

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El Recuento de la Crítica temporada 2021-2022

Los premios de la temporada cinematográfica otorgada por la crítica especializada en Estados Unidos.   Filmes reconocidos por los premios de la crítica 2021-2022   MEJOR PELÍCULA THE POWER OF THE DOG (7) – Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA), New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC), Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), Southern Eastern Film…

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Awards Season 2021-22: Awards Round-Up 12/13

Awards Season 2021-22: Awards Round-Up 12/13

Hard to believe it’s already been a week since the last set of awards. Where has the time gone? (Work, that’s where.) Today, I’m going over eight awards groups: Boston Online Film Critics (BOFC)Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC)European Film Awards (EFA)Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS)New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO)Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC)Phoenix Film Critics Society…