What is Recognition Cinema?
I have recently come across the term 'recognition cinema'. Not knowing exactly what to make of it, I did some research and came with the definition 'the phenomenon of trying to please an audience by including brief refer
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March 2018 Winners
Hello there, the winners of March 2018 have just been announced! Congrats! Please find all the nominees and winners HERE or below: Best Feature MARCH-APRIL WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT THE END OF APRIL Film of the Month - Going
March 2018 Nominees Announced
Hello there and congrats to all our nominees of March 2018! We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tomorrow night (31st of March when we will announce our winners as well. You can see all th
7 Mistakes to Avoid in Making a Short Film
Sort films are great for more reasons than one. First, they are entertaining in their own right, and often end up transmitting just as much meaning or emotion as feature films do - without feeling unnecessarily stretched
Upcoming 2018 Blockbusters
The first two first three months of the year are usually quiet when it comes to new releases. We get the big awards, and this is the time when most of the high-profile movies will be in cinemas. Late March then brings an
4 Facts About the 2018 Academy Awards
The 2018 Oscars came and went, a bit later than the normal scheduling of late February. The 3 hours and 53 minutes long ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the second year running, awarded its famous statuettes to the l
How Silent Films Work
The word 'movie' has its origin in the syntagma 'moving picture', also known as 'motion picture', which accurately, if rather simplistically described what an ensemble of successive pictures would be called. In the begin
Film of the Year 2017 Announced
Hello there, After carefully considering thousands of projects over the past year, selecting precisely 476 films and trailers in the 2017 edition, we've finally decided to announce and award our FILM OF THE YEAR 2017 win
February 2018 Winners
The winners of February 2018 are here! Thank you all for participating! You can see all the winners HERE or below: Best Feature - Hippopotamus 2nd Place - Winter Ridge 3rd Place - The Astronot Film of the Month - AINHOA
February 2018 Nominees Announced
Hello there and congrats to all our nominees of February 2018! We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tonight (28th of February) when we will announce our winners as well. You can see all th
BAFTA Awards 2018
Another one of the big ceremonies has come and gone - the BAFTA Awards took place on Sunday, 18 February 2018 in London, UK. This meant that, for once, us Europeans could watch a winter season award without having to sta
December-January 2018 Screenplay Competition Winners
Hello there, and especially to our fellow screenwriters, Congrats! The winners of the December-January Screenplay Competition have just been announced. You can see all winners and nominees here: http://tmff.net/winners/s
Interview with JANUARY 2018 winner: Rebecca Gosnell
The first month of the year has come and gone. Whether or not it passed quickly depends on the intensity of one's activity during the initial 31 days of the year. And while January does indeed have the habit of being a s
10 Films that Critics Loved but Viewers Disliked
People will never agree with each other - it's a fact. Their tastes, experiences, levels of education, attention spans and temporary factors that affect the enjoyment one can get from a film all impact their perception o
The Star Wars Cash Cow
Star Wars Episode I was the first film - animations excluded - that I distinctly remember watching at the cinema, with my dad. It came out in 1999, 16 years after the Original Trilogy had concluded with Return of the Jed
January 2018 Winners
HERE are the first winners of 2018! Thanks so much for taking part in this month's competition! Best Feature Announced at the end of February. Film of the Month - Crush 2nd Place: Being Keegan 3rd Place: The Beast Asleep
January 2018 Nominees Announced
Hello there! The first nominees of 2018 have been announced! We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tomorrow night (31st of January) when we will announce our winners as well. You can see al
5 Facts About the 2018 Oscars
The Oscar nominations have finally been announced this week, and save for a few surprising omissions, the list is pretty much as everyone expected it to be. We're not here to discuss the potential award winners - we've h
Box Office Earnings and Film Quality
How can you tell that a film has been successful or not? One of the two easiest ways are either looking at the aggregate scores (on Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb) or looking at the amount of box office revenue achi
5 Highlights from the 2018 Golden Globe Awards
Either the Globes have been scheduled really early this year, or the Academy Awards have been scheduled really late, but there's almost two months inbetween the two neighbour awards. The Golden Globes often act as a tren
Interview with DECEMBER 2017 winner: Jules Comes
We've just passed into the new year, and thus had our very last monthly competition of 2017. We had some really wonderful entries in December, so picking the best one was a difficult choice. In the end, however, we settl
A Look Back at 2017
2017 is history, and 2018 is here to stay. It wouldn't feel right to start the new year with just about any article on a random subject, so then let's all honour 2017 before turning to new and hopefully better things. He
December 2017 Winners
HERE are the winners of December 2017! Thanks so much for taking part and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Best Feature NOT ENOUGH ENTRIES. Film of the Month - Saint Hubert 2nd Film of the Month: Olvidadizo 3rd Film of the Month: Eden Tr
December 2017 Nominees Announced
Hello there! The nominees of December 2017 have just been announced. We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tomorrow night (31st of December) when we will announce our winners as well. You c