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A quick roundup of recent award winners  We're pleased to hear that Alexander Snelling's debut feature Tantric Tourists, covered here recently, picked up the Best UK Debut at the East London Film Festival, where it had its Gala Premiere.   Mike Rymer's 15k short Sick, dealing with mental illness, has picked up the Gold award at the 41st Houston Film Festival. Endorsed by the Sa…

The Raindance Film Festival is probably the UK's leading independent film festival, and is currently looking for submissions for 2008. Here's what they submitted to Netribution: We want you to be a part of it! We are currently accepting submissions from ALL OVER THE GLOBE. Have a fantastic short film? The next-big-thing-feature? Represent your corner of the world and send us…

No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood lead the Oscar nominations with 8 nods apiece. Atonement, fresh from a Golden Globes win, and Michael Clayton picked up seven, with Ratatouille taking 5 and indie hits Juno / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly both picking up 4.  Best foreign language film Beaufort, Israel The Counterfeiters, Austria Katyn, Poland Mongol, Kazakhstan 12…

After years of efforts, the unions of LA have done what no awards show producers has ever succeeded in doing - getting the winners announced in under an hour. At Sunday's Golden Globes Press Conference , Britflick Atonement picked up Best Film, while UK-shot and set Sweeney Todd picked up Best  Musical or Comedy. Other winners include Daniel Day Lewis for There Will be Blood, Julie Christie…

Anton Corbijn's Control took five awards at the British Independ Film Awards, hosted at the Roundhouse, Wednesday night. Paddy Considine's short, staring Peter Mullan, picked up best short film. Special Award were given to Ray Winstone, Daniel Craig and the Artificial Eye founders. Adam Dawtrey in Variety has pointed out that Control was the only film competing for Best Picture…

Submitted by Sky Movies: Over one thousand guests will gather for the 20th anniversary of the European Film Awards at Berlin Arena. Sky Movies Indie will present extended highlights of the ceremony in a 90-minute programme on 3rd December 2007. The hosts for this year's awards will be French actress Emmanuelle Beart and German actor Jan Josef Liefers and special guests will include Fr…

The British Independent Film Awards are just two days away. One of the nominees is a film that has been covered extensively here on Netribution, Extraordinary Rendition, which is up for Best Achievement in Production. The full list of nominees and jury members after the jump...  

  The director of the Scottish Gaelic film Seachd has called "foul" on BAFTA's decision not to put forward an official British entry film in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Oscars, suggesting one member of the selection committee, a Scottish producer, may have had a commercial conflict of interest when sitting in judgment on their film, which was warmly recei…

"BAFTA toppers have been taken aback by the strength of Scottish protests. Privately, they admit that a London-based jury might not be the best way in future to make the U.K.'s Oscar choice, given that candidates typically come from the distant Celtic fringes, where languages other than English are still spoken." Adam Dawtrey, Variety A film producer has resigned from the…