#riverrun international film festival

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We are delighted to announce that The Man Who Loved Flowers and Train Ride have ben selected for screening at RiverRun 2024.

Train Ride will screen in the Saturday Morning Cartoons section and The Man Who Loved Flowers is part of the Films with Class: Elementary School section.

RiverRun International Film Festival is a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to the role of cinema as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints. Their mission is to foster a greater appreciation of cinema and a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures and perspectives of our world through regular interaction with great films and filmmakers.

The 26th RiverRun International Film Festival will take place over ten days from April 18 – 27, 2024 in Winston-Salem, NC.

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On April 13, 2012, Friday the 13th was screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival.

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Motherland from Christina Yoon on Vimeo.

A Korean American adoptee embarks on a relentless journey through South Korea to search for her birth mother, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.

2024 Academy Award Qualifying - Best Live Action Short Film

Provincetown International Film Festival 2023 - BEST NARRATIVE SHORT HollyShorts Film Festival 2023 - BEST DIRECTOR Award Hamptons International Film Festival 2022 - Student Film Award Palm Springs International Shortfest 2022 Woodstock Film Festival 2023 San Diego International Film Festival 2023 Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2023 TIDE Film Festival 2022 Dallas International Fim Festival 2023 Lighthouse International Film Festival 2023 Asian American International Film Festival 2023 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2023 Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2024 RiverRun Film Festival 2024

Starring Tiffany Chu Hong Kyung Taewoo Kim Minae Oh

Written & Directed by Christina Yoon Co-written by Minkyu Kang Executive Produced by Addis Goldman, Hyomin Bong, Jin Cho Produced by Jungyoon Kim & Grace Merriman Line Produced by Seon Kwon Hwang Cinematography by Giorgos Valsamis Casting by Matthew Glasner Edited by Christina Yoon & Alan Wu Production Design by Ellie Jung Music by Jude Shih & Jacob Snider Sound Design by Bobb Barito Color by HARBOR / Anthony Raffaele

Supported by the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Fund, The Caucus Foundation, The Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation, and Asian Cinevision. Winner of the Caucus Gold Circle Award.

Produced in partial fulfillment of the MFA degree in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts.

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Motherland from Christina Yoon on Vimeo.

A Korean American adoptee embarks on a relentless journey through South Korea to search for her birth mother, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.

2024 Academy Award Qualifying - Best Live Action Short Film

Provincetown International Film Festival 2023 - BEST NARRATIVE SHORT HollyShorts Film Festival 2023 - BEST DIRECTOR Award Hamptons International Film Festival 2022 - Student Film Award Palm Springs International Shortfest 2022 Woodstock Film Festival 2023 San Diego International Film Festival 2023 Salute Your Shorts Film Festival 2023 TIDE Film Festival 2022 Dallas International Fim Festival 2023 Lighthouse International Film Festival 2023 Asian American International Film Festival 2023 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2023 Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2024 RiverRun Film Festival 2024

Starring Tiffany Chu Hong Kyung Taewoo Kim Minae Oh

Written & Directed by Christina Yoon Co-written by Minkyu Kang Executive Produced by Addis Goldman, Hyomin Bong, Jin Cho Produced by Jungyoon Kim & Grace Merriman Line Produced by Seon Kwon Hwang Cinematography by Giorgos Valsamis Casting by Matthew Glasner Edited by Christina Yoon & Alan Wu Production Design by Ellie Jung Music by Jude Shih & Jacob Snider Sound Design by Bobb Barito Color by HARBOR / Anthony Raffaele

Supported by the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Fund, The Caucus Foundation, The Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation, and Asian Cinevision. Winner of the Caucus Gold Circle Award.

Produced in partial fulfillment of the MFA degree in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts.

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Then Comes The Body from Wild Combination on Vimeo.

When a video of kids dancing in the rain goes viral, it brings global attention to an unlikely ballet school outside Lagos, Nigeria. Now, Daniel Ajala -- who learned ballet over YouTube -- is training students to perform on the world stage. 

Awards Winner: Best Short Non-Fiction @ Short Shorts Tokyo 2024 (Oscar Qualifying) Winner: Desert Views Jury Award @ Palm Springs Shortfest 2024 Winner: Audience Award for Best Documentary @ Palm Springs Shortfest 2024 Winner: Best Short Doc @ San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2023 Winner: Audience Favorite @ DOCUTAH 2024 Winner: Best Short Film @ Film Fest Petaluma 2024 Winner: Best Doc Short @ Footcandle Film Festival 2024 Winner: Crystal SHIKA @ Nara International Film Festival 2024 Winner: Audience Grand Prize For Best Of Show @ 15 Short Film Festival 2024 Winner: Jury Award For Best Of Show @ 15 Short Film Festival 2024 Winner: Best Documentary @ 15 Short Film Festival 2024

Screening History World Premiere: Tribeca Film Festival 2023 Int'l Premiere: Melbourne International Film Festival 2023 European Premiere: CamerImage 2023 Bendfilm Nashville Film Festival interfilm berlin RiverRun Film Festival Dokumentale Psorakokalo Festival Regard Heart of Gold Film Festival Canal Street Film Festival ACT Human Rights Film Festival Future Film Festival KUKI Santorini Film Festival Zed Festival

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ZOON from Jonatan Schwenk on Vimeo.

Germany 2022, 04:25 min premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival find a behind the scenes video here: vimeo.com/jonatanschwenk/zoon-bts

directed and produced by Jonatan Schwenk music & sound design David Kamp screenplay Merlin Flügel, Jonatan Schwenk puppet fabrication Anne Breymann, Hélène Tragesser, Jonatan Schwenk puppeteers Thalke Thyen, Max Mörtl, Maria Teixeira, Merlin Flügel, Jonatan Schwenk, Ramona Lüdemann, Carolina Iglesias camera (real-time-part) Ferdinand Kowalke stop-motion camera Jonatan Schwenk technical director on set Björn Ullrich assistant director Merlin Flügel set manager Joey Arand production assistant Carolina Iglesias stop-motion animator Jonatan Schwenk 2d animators Marta Magnuska, Jonatan Schwenk retouch & rig removal Mascha Balura, Lea Majeran, Maria Teixeira, Aaron Farkas, Jade Stendel (PixelPEC) Irina Rubina, Chengjie Xu, Yu Hao 3d models & textures Valentin Oellers, Ferdinand Kowalke 2d tracking Maria Teixeira 3d tracking Valentin Oellers compositing Marc Rühl, Jonatan Schwenk color grading Matthias Behrens (waveline), Jonatan Schwenk distributed by Miyu Distribution miyu.fr/distribution/en/

FUNDED BY HessenFilm und Medien GmbH FFA (German Federal Film Board)

SELECTIONS: (excerpt) Sundance Film Festival 2022 Telluride Film Festival (USA) AFI FEST FILMFESTIVAL 2022 (American Film Institute) (USA) Animafest Zagreb (Croatia) Pictoplasma (Germany) Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada) Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Germany) Animateka (Slovenia) ZINEBI International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (Spain) Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, France REGARD - Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Canada) Go Short International Short Film Festival, Netherlands Dresden Filmfest, Germany GLAS Animation Festival (USA) Seattle International Film Festival (USA) DC International Film Festival (USA) Milwaukee Film Festival (USA) Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg (Germany) Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (México) Palm Springs International ShortFest (USA) Galway Film Fleadh (Ireland) SIGGRAPH 2022 Computer Animation Festival (Canada) 18th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (USA) Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong) HAS Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 (USA) Concorto Film Festival (Italy) Turku Anmated Film Festival (Finland) Festival Silhouette (France) Fantoche (Switzerland) Viborg Animation Festival (Denmark) Encounters Film Festival (UK) Vancouver Int'l FF (Canada) Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Hungary) Uppsala Short Film Festival (Sweden) Denver Film Festival (USA) New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2022 (Japan) Leeds International Film Festival 2022 (UK) Animage International Animation Festival Of Pernambuco (Brazil) interfilm Berlin 38th International Short Film Festival Berlin (Germany) 2022 PÖFF Shorts Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) StopTrik IFF (Slovenia/Poland) London International Animation Festival (UK) Leuven Int. Short Film Festival (Belgium) Anima Brussels (Belgium) Int. Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (Germany) Landshut Short Film Festival (Germany) Kaboom Animation Festival (Netherlands) RiverRun International Film Festival (USA) Florida Film Festival (USA)

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ZOON from Jonatan Schwenk on Vimeo.

Germany 2022, 04:25 min premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival find a behind the scenes video here: vimeo.com/jonatanschwenk/zoon-bts

directed and produced by Jonatan Schwenk music & sound design David Kamp screenplay Merlin Flügel, Jonatan Schwenk puppet fabrication Anne Breymann, Hélène Tragesser, Jonatan Schwenk puppeteers Thalke Thyen, Max Mörtl, Maria Teixeira, Merlin Flügel, Jonatan Schwenk, Ramona Lüdemann, Carolina Iglesias camera (real-time-part) Ferdinand Kowalke stop-motion camera Jonatan Schwenk technical director on set Björn Ullrich assistant director Merlin Flügel set manager Joey Arand production assistant Carolina Iglesias stop-motion animator Jonatan Schwenk 2d animators Marta Magnuska, Jonatan Schwenk retouch & rig removal Mascha Balura, Lea Majeran, Maria Teixeira, Aaron Farkas, Jade Stendel (PixelPEC) Irina Rubina, Chengjie Xu, Yu Hao 3d models & textures Valentin Oellers, Ferdinand Kowalke 2d tracking Maria Teixeira 3d tracking Valentin Oellers compositing Marc Rühl, Jonatan Schwenk color grading Matthias Behrens (waveline), Jonatan Schwenk distributed by Miyu Distribution miyu.fr/distribution/en/

FUNDED BY HessenFilm und Medien GmbH FFA (German Federal Film Board)

SELECTIONS: (excerpt) Sundance Film Festival 2022 Telluride Film Festival (USA) AFI FEST FILMFESTIVAL 2022 (American Film Institute) (USA) Animafest Zagreb (Croatia) Pictoplasma (Germany) Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada) Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Germany) Animateka (Slovenia) ZINEBI International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (Spain) Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, France REGARD - Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Canada) Go Short International Short Film Festival, Netherlands Dresden Filmfest, Germany GLAS Animation Festival (USA) Seattle International Film Festival (USA) DC International Film Festival (USA) Milwaukee Film Festival (USA) Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg (Germany) Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (México) Palm Springs International ShortFest (USA) Galway Film Fleadh (Ireland) SIGGRAPH 2022 Computer Animation Festival (Canada) 18th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (USA) Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong) HAS Hiroshima Animation Season 2022 (USA) Concorto Film Festival (Italy) Turku Anmated Film Festival (Finland) Festival Silhouette (France) Fantoche (Switzerland) Viborg Animation Festival (Denmark) Encounters Film Festival (UK) Vancouver Int'l FF (Canada) Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Hungary) Uppsala Short Film Festival (Sweden) Denver Film Festival (USA) New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2022 (Japan) Leeds International Film Festival 2022 (UK) Animage International Animation Festival Of Pernambuco (Brazil) interfilm Berlin 38th International Short Film Festival Berlin (Germany) 2022 PÖFF Shorts Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) StopTrik IFF (Slovenia/Poland) London International Animation Festival (UK) Leuven Int. Short Film Festival (Belgium) Anima Brussels (Belgium) Int. Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (Germany) Landshut Short Film Festival (Germany) Kaboom Animation Festival (Netherlands) RiverRun International Film Festival (USA) Florida Film Festival (USA)

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LOVE from Reka Bucsi on Vimeo.

LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system.

Premier at the 66th Berlinale Shorts Competition 2016 Nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards 2017 Official competition at Sundance 2017, SXSW 2016, AFI Fest 2016, London Film Festival 2016

LOVE is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/love

FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTION: Zsófia Herczeg - hrczgzsf@gmail.com

Awards 2016/17 Riverrun film festival - Best short film Friss Hús Film Festival – Best Animation Pázmány Film Festival – Best Hungarian Film Athens International Film Festival – Award: 3rd place Animanima International Animation Festival – Special Jury Award Ars Independent Festival – Best Animation 3D Wire – Best European Animation BFI London Film Festival – Student Jury's Special Mention Primanima Animation Festival – Best Debut Film and Audience Award Uppsala International Short Film Festival – European Film Awards Nomination Alter-Native International Short Film Festival – Jury Special Mention New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival – Hokkaido Governor Award International Bhosphorus Film Festival – Best Short Film Zubroffka International Short Film Festival – Best Original Score and Eastward Window's Best Film Hungarian Film Critic's Award – Best Animation Hungarian Film Awards – Best Animation

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THE BREAKTHROUGH from Daniel Sinclair on Vimeo.

THE BREAKTHROUGH

by Daniel Sinclair Fiction | 2023 | USA | 14min

Jane and Teddy are on the brink of divorce. But when their marital problems come to a sticking point, they have an unexpected breakthrough.

Starring: Greta Lee, Ben Sinclair, Kristin Slaysman, Hana Marie Kim

Written & Directed by: Daniel Sinclair Produced by: Kate Chamuris, Valerie Steinberg Executive Produced by: Bridget Moloney, Ross Fineman, Joseph Sousa, Heather Ross, Mitchell Ross Cinematography by: Robert Nachman Production Design by: Brittany Ingram Edited by: Josh Crockett Sound Design by: Maui Holcomb Music by: Ariel Marx

Festivals & Awards: SXSW World Premiere Sonoma International Film Festival (Special Jury Award for Performances) Phoenix Film Festival (Best Live Action Short) Sun Valley Film Festival RiverRun International Film Festival Palm Springs International ShortFest Hamptons International Film Festival (Peter Macgregor-Scott Memorial Award) Just For Laughs Eat My Shorts (Best Comedy Short Film) Chicago International Film Festival St. Louis International Film Festival Santa Barbara International Film Festival

CONTACT | thebreakthroughfilm@gmail.com

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A Broken House from Jimmy Goldblum on Vimeo.

The Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez received a one-way ticket to the United States. Missing his homeland, he decided to create a stand-in, sculpting life-like miniatures of the Damascus cityscape he had left behind.

Winner of the International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for Best Documentary Short, "A Broken House" is among the most celebrated documentaries of 2022.

Awards & Recognition: 2022 Oscar Shortlist Winner: IDA Awards for “Best Short” Nominee: Emmy Award for "Best Documentary Short" Nominee: Cinema Eye Honors for "Outstanding Nonfiction Short" Shortlist: DOC NYC

Festivals: WORLD PREMIERE: Hot Docs International Documentary Festival WINNER: Palm Springs International ShortsFest | Audience Award for Best Documentary Short WINNER: Palm Springs International ShortsFest | Mozaik “Bridging the Borders” Award WINNER: Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival | Jury Award for Best Editing WINNER: RiverRun Film Festival | Jury Award for Best Documentary Short WINNER: Salem Film Festival | Jury Award for Best Documentary Short

Cast and Crew: Featuring - Mohamad Hafez Director & Producer - Jimmy Goldblum Producer - Matt Weaver Producer - Congressman Richard Gephardt Producer - Harrison Nalevansky Executive Producers - Senain Kheshgi Executive Producers - Matthew Gephardt Executive Producers - Nick Stern Cinematographer - Oliver Millar Editor - Brad Turner Original Music - From the Mouth of the Sun

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For those interested, Martin's film "Ode to Joy" will be screening at the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as follows:

Thursday 4th April, 7pm, at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)

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On April 20, 2012, The Andromeda Strain was screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival.

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Seriousness or: Postponement Et Al

Salutations™!!

Today is a sad day. Heck, this week has been a sad week, with the exception of my Sweetie’s birthday yesterday. But, with the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic being called, the markets plummeting to “near-nothingness,” sports seasons being postponed or canceled altogether, the entity(ies) that owe me money still do so, etc. It’s just been hard.

I worry about my restaurant friends and…

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If you are near North Carolina, Lightningface will be screening in Winston-Salem at the RiverRun International Film Festival in their Late Night Shorts program on April 1 (starts at 9pm) and April 8 (starts at 10pm). More information here: http://riverrunfilm.com/film/late-night-shorts-2/

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March 30th marks the beginning of this year’s International RiverRun Film Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina! Check out this list of the 150+ films to be shown this year at various locations for the city’s renowned film festival. Get your tickets today! #RiverRunFilm