Festivals & Awards
American Radical to play at Traverse City Film Festival
July 15th, 2010
MercuryMedia title American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein. has been selected for Michigan’s sixth annual Traverse City Film Festival, set to run from July 27h - August 1st, 2010. More>
Houston to Play at Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Posted on: June 22, 2010
MercuryMedia International title Houston, We Have A Problem has been programmed into the seventh Taiwan International Documentary Festival, which will take place this year from October 22nd - 31st, in Taichung, Taiwan. More>
Haynesville Receives Acclaim at SXSW
March 24th, 2010
Mercury title Haynesville: The Relentless Hunt for Energy Future screened as a ‘‘Spotlight Premiere” on March 16th, 2010 at the world renowned SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas at the historic Paramount Theatre. The film was one of the selected 20 titles from a total of 750 documentary films submitted. More>
2010 Festival Activity for Antoine
Janurary 11th, 2010
Mercury title Antoine has announced presence across the 2010 festival circuit. The film is in official selection at the Istanbul International Film Festival, held on the April 14th - 15th and also at the Planete Doc Festival in Warsaw, Poland held on May 07 - 16 2010. More>
Welcome to Hebron
December 16th, 2009
Congratulations to the team behind Mercury title Welcome to Herbron. The film has scooped another award, with the addition of the Première Œuvre documentaire award at International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and News Film in Marseille, the festival took place between the 9 -14th of December.
Welcome to Hebron Wins Eyes Open Award
November 23, 2009
More success on the festival circuit for MercuryMedia title Welcome to Hebron. The film has scooped the Open Eyes Award at the Med Film Festival 2009, the festival took place in Rome from 7th to 15th of November. The film was praised as being “A beautiful example of daily struggle in a forgotten place of Palestine“. Congratulations go out to the team at Ekadalen Produktions.
Nominations for RIP: A Remix Manifesto
November 13, 2009
Announcements of the Cinema Eye Award nominations, in which Rip: A Remix Manifesto was nominated for Best Graphic Design and Animation! Congrats to Brett Gaylor and the cast of thousands of Open Source Cinema enthusiasts who contributed to animate the wacky world of copyright infringement. More>
Additional Wins For Bilal
October 20, 2009
More success follows Mercury title Bilal with recent wins across the festival circuit that include the Best Documentary Feature at the Festival Cinematográfico Internacional El ojo cojo Palmarés 2009, The Audience Choice Award at 12th Auburn International Film Festival For Children and Young Adults and the prestigious Community Cinema Award at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. More>
Sea Point Days continues festival success
June 2, 2009
SEA POINT DAYS, a feature-length documentary film directed by local Emmy-award winning filmmaker Francois Verster has been selected for the Sterling World Feature Competition at the prestigious SilverDocs Film Festival. The festival is hosted by the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel in Washington DC later this month. The film has also been nominated for the festival’s coveted Cinematic Vision Award, and festival programmers have described the film as being “amongst the very best the documentary form has to offer”. More>
Emmy win for Women of Tibet: a Quiet Revolution
May 22, 2009
Women of Tibet: a Quiet Revolution has won a 2009 Emmy award for Oustanding Achievement Historic/Cultural - Program Special. More>
Bilal wins Al Jazeera gong
May 1, 2009
Bilal, the Indian film directed by Sourav Sarang won the top Al Jazeera Golden Award in the fifth Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival. More>
CineWomen On Screen: MOTHERLAND
April 30, 2009
CineWomen On Screen celebrates the work of emerging female filmmakers from all over the world. Films that are included in the series must be directed, co-directed, produced, written, edited or shot by women. This month’s film is the award-winning MOTHERLAND, directed by Jennifer Steinman. There will be a Q&A following the screening with the filmmaker, and an after-party to follow.
Motherland wins at SXSW
Motherland winds the Audience Award EMERGING VISIONS award at SXSW. Read more