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5 Awards for P&P at The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image
Juror’s Award Best Dark Themed Short Best Director Best Actor Best Editing Plus nominations for Best Cinematography Best Sound Design Last night “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” won 5 of the 7 awards it was nominated for … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Amos White V, Artists Forum, Awards, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Editing, cinematography, Dolby, Edgar Allan Poe, festival, Jason Chua, Juror's Award, Kaitlin Leslie, Manhattan, Moving Image, musicabre, musical, Sara Shelton, Screening Room, short film, Sound Design, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, Teddy Bear, The Pit and the Pendulum, Todd Maki
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P&P’s STARDUST BEST ACTOR AWARD
Stardust Films and Screenplay Festival gave me the Best Actor Award for my performance in my short film Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“ UPDATE 6/5 CUCKOO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ALSO HONORS “THE … Continue reading
3 GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS FOR P&P
Golden Horse International Film Festival gives three awards to “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” Best Experimental Short Film Best Actor Best Original Score
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Tagged Awards, best, Best Actor, Experimental, festival, film, Golden Horse, International, musicabre, original, score, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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TELL-TALE SKIPTOWN NOMINATIONS
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” has been nominated for Short Narrative, Experimental Short and Best Actor in a Short at the Skiptown Playhouse International Film Festival, presenting this June 24 – July 1 in Hollywood, CA. The Skiptown festival … Continue reading
TELL-TALE RUNNER UP
An Acting “Silver Medal” I’m happy to report that I won Runner Up Best Actor of Year 2020 from Flicks Film Festival for my performance in “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre“. I’ve already posted about the Flicks Film Festival … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged 2020, Agatha Christie, Best Actor, Best of the Year, certificate, Covid 19, Facebook, festival, film, finalist, Flicks, In the Mud, laurel, musicabre, Runner Up, Sanming Han, semi-finalist, short film, silver medal, The Tell-Tale Heart
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PRAGUE BEST ACTOR?
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO RECEIVING THIS AWARD I received this email Sunday: Dear DANNY ASHKENASI, Congratulations! We are happy to announce that your film “THE TELL-TALE HEART – A MUSICABRE“ was a WINNER in our Quarterly Festival’s latest edition in the following … Continue reading
L’AGE D’OR AWARDS
UPDATE 2/25/20 Received notification that L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival has nominated“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” for their first annual Pigeon d’Or Award, in the following categories: Short Film Best Actor Film Score. From their email: Warm … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Arthouse, Award, Best Actor, festival, film, India, Kolkota, L'Age d'Or, LIAFF, nomination, Outstanding Achievement, Pigeon d'Or, score, short film
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TELL-TALE BANNER
The London International Filmmaker Festival 2020 is screening my film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” on February 14th at 1pm. The festival also nominated the film for four awards. I will be attending the festival. Where I, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, advertisment, Awards, banner, Best Actor, Edgar Allan Poe, festival, Filmmaker, International, Kaoru Kajitani, London, musicabre, musical, score, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, winner, writing
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INDEPENDENT HORROR MOVIE AWARD
Email received 4:39 pm, January 15, 2020 From: Independent Horror Movie Awards To: me Congratulations, your film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” won Best Actor (Danny Ashkenasi) at the 2019 Independent Horror Movie Awards (Winter Edition)! It was also nominated for Best Short, Best … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Best Actor, Best Short, director, Editing, film short, horror, Independent, movie, nomination, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, winner
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NEW YORK MOVIE AWARDS
The New York Movie Awards have given “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” the award for Best Actor and the runner up Honorable Mention Award for Original Score Also, this just in: “The Tell-Tale … Continue reading
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Tagged Awards, Best Actor, Honorable Mention, movie, New York, Original Score, The Tell-Tale Heart
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L’AGE D’OR AWARDS
UPDATE 2/25/20 Received notification that L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival has nominated “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” for their first annual Pigeon d’Or Award, in the following categories: Short Film Best Actor Film Score. From their email: … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres
Tagged 2020, Arthouse, Award, Best Actor, festival, film, India, Kolkota, L'Age d'Or, LIAFF, nomination, Outstanding Achievement, Pigeon d'Or, score, short film
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