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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
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
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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TOP INDIE FILM AWARD
The Top Indie Film Awards have given “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” an award for Best Music. It was also nominated for Best Director and Best Actor.
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged 2019, actor, Awards, best, director, film, indie, music, musicabre, nominee, The Tell-Tale Heart, Top
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TELL-TALE in MADRID & MONTANA
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” will play in the 2nd Annual Amazing Shorts Film Festival, which takes place in Madrid, Spain, January 20-25, 2020. My 37 minute musical adaptation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story, classified as … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Amazing Shorts, Cinemafest, Edgar Allan Poe, film, Film Festival, Flathead Lake, Madrid, Martin de los Heros, medium length, Montana, musicabre, musical, pelicula, short film, Spain, Spanish, subtitles, The Tell-Tale Heart, Village Tap Room, vulture eye
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TELL-TALE COUCH
UPDATE 1/6/20: “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” won two awards from the Couch Film Festival: Best Cast (That’s particularly sweet, since that includes my husband, Ed!) & Best Writer (I’d like to think the musical score falls … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged Award, Claire Lee, Clay Garber, Couch, festival, film, Forever and a Tale, Impossible to Meet, Lawrence Stevenson, musicabre, nomination, Piano Whitman, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart, Toronto, True Descendants, Woman From Mars
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NEW YORK FILM AWARDS and more
“The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” wins New York Film Awards, plus more awards from Crown Wood, CARE, Oniros and DIFF and the London Independent Film Awards too The New York Film Awards announced today that “The … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged actor, audience, Awards, best, Bhutan, CARE, Crown Wood, Druk, Experimental, festival, film, Grand Jury, Honorable Mention, International, musicabre, Narrative, New York, Oniros, score, The Tell-Tale Heart
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TELL-TALE HORROR BOWL
The Horror Bowl Movie Awards, independent horror, thriller and sci-fi movie awards, have given “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” the award for “Best Musical Horror Short”. Yes, I am now the proud recipient of a Horror Bowl! … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged AltFF, Award, film, finalist, Florence, horror, Horror Bowl, musicabre, musical, Oniros, short, short film, The Tell-Tale Heart
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TOP SHORTS AWARD
Just woke up to the news that Top Shorts Online Film Festival has given me their First Time Director Award for my short film “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre“. As you can tell from the thumbnail picture Top … 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: … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
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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A Freaky Little Tell-Tale Tidbit
Listen to this. It’s rather creepy, isn’t it, not just because of the unsettling nature of the text, but because of, well, I’ll explain later, just listen now: I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged death, Edgar Allan Poe, film, musicabre, pre-production, recording studio, short film, terror, The Tell-Tale Heart
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QUEER SHORTS – The Fab and the Furious
Highlights from “Boys Shorts”, “Beyond the Binary”, “Drawn This Way – Animated” & “Faith and Fury” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival It probably plays to the stereotype of the typical NewFest attendee that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Ama, Animation, Audience Award, Ballroom Scene, Beard, Ben Baur, Boys, Bryan Powers, Catherine Curtin, Dinner with Jeffrey, Dressed as Girl, Earthly Delights, Elegance Bratton, Eli Mak, Evan Dale Karg, Faith, festival, film, Fish Curry, Fishy, Gema, Half a Life, HBO, Hi It's Your Mother, Indonesia, John Hughes, Kendrick Prince, LGBT, LGBTQ, Manivald, Mrs. McCutcheon, NewFest, Noora, Paul Rudnick, Pria, Pussy, Queer, Reed Birney, Route 66, shorts, Something New, The Night Cleaner, Time is the Longest Distance, transgender, Walk For Me
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QUEER SHORTS – The Young and the Resistance
Highlights from “Young, Queer and Woke” and “The Queer Resistance” film shorts programs at Newfest – New York’s LGBT Film Festival Another fall in New York City. Another NewFest festival of LGBTQ films. Last year I stuffed a dozen festival films … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Antiman, Cinema, Coppola, D'Onofrio, festival, film, Gavan Ramountar, Guyana, Him, Intersection, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Margo & May, Morgan Kahn Nichols, My Gay Sister, NewFest, Queer, Sariwala, short films, Thomas Rivera Montes, Truth and Dare, We Forgot to Break Up, Who I Am
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A Queer Baker’s Dozen of NewFest LGBT films – Part 2
Akron – I Love You Both – Women Who Kill – Don’t Call Me Son – The Cult – The Nest – (and a Lazy Eye addendum) I experienced a marathon weekend of new LGBT movies from around the world … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup
Tagged Akron, Ann Muylaert, bisexuality, Don't Call Me Son, Doug Archibald, festival, film, Hunky Dory, I Love You Both, Ingrid Jungermann, Krystal Archibald, Lazy Eye, LGBT, Manhattan Murder Mystery, NewFest, Queer, Suicide Kale, The Cult, The Nest, Women Who Kill, Woody Allen
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