“Gimme The Loot” helmer gets 'Someone to Watch' Spirit AwardJanuary 14, 2013 - 10:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Adam Leon, director of Gimme The Loot, has been awarded Film Independent’s Someone to Watch Award, which “recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition” and carries with it a $25,000 unrestricted grant. The finalists for the award included Rebecca Thomas for Electrick Children and David Fenster for Pincus, The Hollywood Reporter said. The award was one of four Spirit Awards filmmaker grants that Film Independent announced at its annual Spirit Awards Nominees Brunch, hosted by Salma Hayek and Jeremy Renner. Peter Nicks, director of The Waiting Room, received the Stella Artois Truer Than Fiction Award presented to an emerging director of non-fiction and including another $25,000 grant. Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims for Only The Young and Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel for Leviathan were also finalists for the award. Mynette Louie received the Piaget Producers Award, which honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films and includes a $25,000 grant. Finalists were Derrick Tseng and Alicia Van Couvering. Laura Colella received the third annual Jameson FIND Your Audience Award for Breakfast With Curtis, which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival. The other finalists were Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore, Kate Roughan and Zachary Mortensen for Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin And The Farm Midwives and Jeremy Kipp Walker and John Mitchell for History of Future Folk. Winners in the remaining Spirit Award categories will be revealed at the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards, held in a tent at Santa Monica beach on Feb. 23 and broadcast later that evening on IFC. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |