Palm Springs Film Festival Articles

Jason Reitman (above), Jeremy Renner, and T Bone Burnett will each receive a special award at the 2010 edition of the Palm Springs Film Festival. Reitman will be handed the Director of the Year Award for Up in the Air, Renner the Breakthrough Performance Award for The Hurt Locker and Burnett the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing for Crazy Heart, whose star, Jeff Bridges, [...]

Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 2010 edition of the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) to be held January 5-18, 2010. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will take place on Tuesday, January 5, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The ceremony will be hosted by Entertainment Tonight’s Mary Hart. Past honorees of the [...]

2009 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 6-19, 2008   Departures by Yojiro Takita   AUDIENCE AWARDS Best Narrative Feature: Departures (Japan) directed by Yojiro Takita Best Documentary Feature: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (USA) directed by Eric Bricker   CRITICS AWARDS (foreign-language films submitted for the 2009 Academy Awards) FIPRESCI Prize: Revanche, directed by Götz Spielmann FIPRESCI [...]

Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments PRESS RELEASE MODERN MASTERS Ten films have been selected as part of Modern Masters program highlighting the latest work of established directors at the forefront of contemporary international cinema. Adam Resurrected (USA/Israel/Germany) – Paul Schrader’s brilliant new work tells the story of Adam Stein, who grapples with a paralytic case of survivor’s guilt in the aftermath of the Holocaust. An [...]