film festivals

Film: Habibti gets special mentions in Cyprus and Montréal

Oct 20, 2011:

Habibti has won the ‘Special Mention for a Leading Female Role’ award in Cyprus and got this special jury mention at the Montréal International Black Film Festival too:

“It’s impossible not to mention this film in which family, religion and opening oneself up to others are really put to the test through images that are as powerful as they are piercingly truthful. A powerhouse of a film.”

Huzza!

Plus it has added more screenings to the list – here’s an updated one:

Here’s our soundtrack:

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Film: Habibti festival screenings worldwide

Sep 21, 2011:

Habibti has been selected for more film festivals since its world premiere at DIFF in December.

Its European premiere was in Paris in April, as an official selection of the 6th ÉCU European Indie-Film Festival.

Plus it’s been selected for:

the Arab Film Festival Australia, July 2011
the 32nd Durban International Film Festival, July 2011
the 24th Helsinki International Film Festival, September 2011
the 11th Beirut International Film Festival, October 2011 (official competition)
the Gold Lion Film Festival, October 2011 (official selection)

News soon from Montréal, Cyprus and Valladolid too.

Here’s our soundtrack:

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST

Alexandra Benedict & Tris Taylor: Habibti OST by A.K. Benedict/T. Taylor

Stuff: festival screenings for the Prawn’s solo music

September 15, 2011:

The Prawn has an indie pop album coming out, as per our not-quite-so-recent newsletter; though, confusingly, it is not under his real name (which is obviously ~~The Prawn~~ Tris Taylor) but an alias (Benbo).

To further confuse matters, his track ‘I Don’t Have A Lot To Say’ isn’t even on the album, but nevertheless a chap called Tony Johnson has made a brilliant video for it and the point of telling you all this is that he just won Best Music Video at the Walthamstow International Film Festival for it.

Here is the video: