GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS AND TFF

The Golden Globe Awards for Film and Television were handed out last night and here are your winners with TFF films/performers in Bold.

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The10th Beyond Borders Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival will run 24-31 August 2025 in partnership with filmfestivals.com

Beyond Borders | Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival is back with its 10th edition, taking place from August 24 to 31, 2025. Following the success of the previous edition, which received 763 film submissions from 95 countries, the Festival is now open for film entries from Greek and international documentary filmmakers. Submissions are accepted from January 3 to April 30, 2025.

Strategic Partner of Beyond Borders is PPC S.A., the leading energy company in Southeast Europe. PPC actively supports arts and culture, fostering a dialogue with creativity and innovation. As a vital part of Greece's social and economic fabric, PPC helps shape a brighter future where culture leads the way.

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Competitive Program:

In its 10th edition, the Festival will showcase 42 films in its competitive program, comprising:

1. Main Competition Section: Medium-length (31-60 minutes) and feature-length films (61+ minutes).
2. μicro Competition Section: Short films (up to 30 minutes) created by filmmakers with no more than three films to their credit.

The Festival aims to highlight the work of both seasoned and emerging filmmakers, promoting international cinematic production. To this end, 11 awards with a total value of €27,500 will be granted, providing tangible support to documentary creators.

Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Themes

Beyond Borders focuses on documentaries that delve into historical events and personalities, sociopolitical issues, human rights and cross-border themes, reflecting the concerns and trends of contemporary cinema. Eligible films must have been produced within the last three years (2023-2025).

Submission Process

Filmmakers can submit their entries via the FilmFreeway platform or the special submission form on the Festival's website. Participation terms and conditions are available on the Festival's official webpage.

A Bridge of Culture Connecting Greece and the World

The 10th edition of Beyond Borders aspires to become a key reference point in the international documentary scene, offering invaluable opportunities for filmmakers to gain exposure and network. This year’s program highlights Greek documentaries, showcasing their vibrancy and diversity through carefully curated screenings. These narratives bridge tradition with contemporary realities, underscoring Greece’s creative contribution to the global cinematic community.

Set against the stunning backdrop of Kastellorizo, the Festival is ready to welcome filmmakers, professionals, and documentary enthusiasts from around the world.

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For further information, visit www.beyondborders.gr or contact the Festival at info@beyondborders.gr. Stay updated on all Beyond Borders activities and news by following us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

Organizer: Hellenic History Foundation (IDISME) in collaboration with the French organization Ecrans des Mondes.

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Meeting point of the German-speaking documentary film industry and a gateway for those professionals looking for a European partner, the Marketplace presents up to 40 selected projects participating in on-stage pitch events, Roundtables and One-to-One meetings and connecting them with high level international professionals (producers, broadcasters, distributors, festival programmers, funds and sales agents).

By applying to the Marketplace, projects can be eligible for various pitch formats. In addition to Roundtables and One-to-One meetings, the Marketplace offers five pitch events to which you can specifically apply, including four award-winning competitions:

• Master's Pitch, in partnership with Documentary Campus: projects in development or early production, with great potential for international co-productions. Read more
• DOK.archive Award, sponsored by British Pathé, endowed with 2,500 euros or archive material worth 22,500 euros: projects in development or early production, with a relevant proportion of archive material. Read more
• DOK.composition Award, sponsored by Sonoton Music and Deutscher Komponist:innen Verband, endowed with 2,500 euros: projects in all states of development with a solid compositional concept from a German-speaking (DACH) country production company. Read more
• DOK.digital Award, sponsored by the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM), endowed with 2,500 euros: completed works of new media projects from German-speaking (DACH) countries. Read more
• DOK.talent Award, sponsored by SÜDKINO Filmproduktion, endowed with 2,500 euros: projects in pre-production stage by students from our partner film universities. Read more

All selected Marketplace projects will participate in the One-to-One meetings.

This year in the Marketplace we put our focus on the Baltic countries, with the selection of up to six strong projects from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, with or without a producer, and with an interest in finding a partner in a German-speaking

Zoe Saldaña will be honoured with the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday, 2nd February 2025. The Emilia Pérez actress will become the second recipient of the annual award, named in memory of the legendary critic Derek Malcolm, who died at 91 in August 2023. Cinematic trailblazer Actor and filmmaker Colman Domingo was the inaugural recipient earlier this year.

“I’m honoured and thrilled to receive the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation from the London Film Critics’ Circle, a group I greatly admire and respect,” says Saldaña. “This has been a wonderful year for film with so many striking and indelible roles for women. To have had the opportunity to work in this industry for 25 years has been a privilege and to perform the role of Rita in Emilia Pérez has been the opportunity of a lifetime.”

Saldaña, a prolific and impactful actor and producer, is also nominated for Supporting Actress of the Year for her dynamic work in Jacques Audiard’s musical drama Emilia Pérez. Throughout her broad-ranging career, Saldaña has starred in four of the highest-grossing films of all time, including Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, and has made her mark in numerous sci-fi franchises, from Star Trek to Guardians of the Galaxy. Her work in James Cameron’s Avatar series, performed via motion-capture, has notably embraced ground-breaking technical advances in filmmaking and earned both critical and awards recognition.

The breadth of her talent and work can also be seen from her breakout role in the 2000 film Centre Stage, through to Out of the Furnace, Colombiana and the mini-series Rosemary’s Baby. Saldaña’s efforts as a producer have helped bring diverse narratives and honest portrayals of women in particular to the screen, including her acclaimed TV series Special Ops: Lioness, in which she also stars, and her recent film The Absence of Eden, which shed a light on trafficking across the US-Mexico border. Earlier this year, Saldaña won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Emilia Pérez alongside her costars Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.

“Critics have long been fans of Zoe Saldaña’s ground-breaking work,” says Rich Cline, chair of London Film Critics’ Circle, “from her astonishingly nuanced turns in genre pieces like Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy to her pioneering role producing complex female narratives. And in Emilia Pérez she wowed us with a beautifully nuanced, full-bodied performance from the heart.”

Malcolm was a long-standing member of the Critics’ Circle and served a term as its president. As chief critic for The Guardian and The Evening Standard, he had a huge impact on the film industry and was widely respected as a champion of world cinema. In addition to hosting The Film Club on the BBC and publishing several books, he was honorary president of Fipresci, a former director of London Film Festival and governor of the British Film Institute.

The nominations for the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were announced yesterday, with Sean Baker’s Anora and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist leading with seven nods each. Edward Berger’s Conclave and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance followed with six nominations each, while Emilia Pérez&n