Audience Awards Winner — Feature Film The Ugly Stepsister Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Cast: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger Norway, 2024 In this warped, sinister spin on a Cinderella story, the lens…
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Overlook Film Fest 2025: Audience and Jury Awards for the Largest Ever Overlook Film Fest – Part 1
The Overlook Film Festival is a 4-day celebration of all things horror held in haunted, historic & iconic venues throughout New Orleans. Presenting superior film programming with an expanded focus on experiential events, the festival showcases exciting work in new and classic horror cinema alongside the latest in interactive and live shows for a fully immersive weekend. As a summer camp for horror genre fans, The Overlook is a community event bringing the best of horror storytelling to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience within an intimate and inspirational environment. – Article by the WORD staff.
THE STORY OF G.I. JOE (1945), Starring Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith, Now Available on HD Blu-Ray and DVD With New Extras
Ignite Films 2024 enhanced restoration of Director William A. Wellman’s 1945 classic WWII war film, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE starring Robert Mitchum and Burgess Meredith, now available on HD Blu-ray and DVD. “We at Ignite Films consider the film…
Titi Lee: Good Girl Gone Baddie & I THINK SHE LIKES YOU
Their approach to storytelling is highly interdisciplinary, blending traditional forms and new media to give a voice to unique perspectives and subcultures in innovating and daring ways.
U.S. Theatrical Premiere August 2 at Film Forum:
WAR GAME – Here’s the WORD Prelude for This Adrenaline Pumper Already Getting Rave Reviews
Siddhant Adlakha, Variety: “As the game grows more complex, WAR GAME invokes footage not only of January 6 but of other flashpoints in American history involving protest, state violence or religious extremism — Kent State, the MOVE bombings, Waco and so on — building a tapestry of the past, as a chilling reminder of what might happen if warnings go unheeded.”
The 23rd New York Asian American Film Festival, July 12 -28
This year’s NYAFF features more than 90 new and classic titles from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and beyond, with nine world premieres, 12 international premieres, and 38 North American premieres.
2023 HollyShorts Film Festival Jury Includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sam Worthington, Zoey Deutch
The jury, composed of 18 esteemed industry professionals, will be responsible for determining all HollyShorts award-winners, including four that will qualify for the Academy Awards®. This year, the festival will screen 402 films, 180 43.3 percent are from female filmmakers…
2023 New York Asian Film Fest in the Works – Part 1: Ya Gotta Get Ready
Tickets went on sale June 23 for the 22nd edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center (FLC).
It’s running from July 14–30 at Film at Lincoln Center with a special weekend of screenings, July 21–23, at a new venue in the historic Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, N.J., the birthplace of the motion picture industry in America. In the works are WORD Film reviews of pre-fest screeners provided for review. More about that later
2022 Tribeca Film Festival Video Wrap Up (Video)
What Should Hunter Students Expect of the New CUNY Chancellor, Felix V. Matos Rodriguez
WORD Reporters Areber Rexha and Malik Young interviewed Queens College student leaders about their experiences and opinions of their former college president, Felix V. Matos Rodriguez for a series of articles. This last article is based on interviews with a few Hunter students. The reporting for the series of articles, based on the Queens interviews, was recognized with a reward by the CUNY University Student Senate.