Arpa International Film Festival Q&A with the Best Short Film Award Nominee THE CRITIC (USA) Filmmakers: Stella Velon (Film Director, Writer, and Lead Actress) and Alan Smyth (Lead Actor) Moderator: Nicholas Talarico (Festival Programmer).
The 23rd edition of the festival will stream live on Seed & Spark November 12-22, 2020. Get your tickets here.
Starring: Stella Velon, Alan Smyth, Todd Karner
Written and directed by Stella Velon
Produced by Jean Gabriel Kauss
Cinematography by Akis Konstantakopoulos
Editing by Ivan Andrijanic
Music by Asaf Sagiv
Produced by The Punk Floyd Company
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The 15th Annual w3 Awards were announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts on October 6, 2020. Receiving over 3,000 entries from across the globe, the w3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Marketing, Video, Mobile, Social, and Podcasts created by some of the best digital content creators across the industry. View the Gold Winners gallery here.
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Stella Velon and Jean Gabriel Kauss (of The Punk Floyd Company) spoke with The Webby Awards about the making of ‘The Critic’. The film earned Stella a 2020 Webby nomination for Best Individual Performance and has won over 20 festival awards to this day. Read the interview here.
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“Nominations have gone out to some well-known personalities from various industries in the 24-year history of the Webby Awards. They include Tom Hanks, Trevor Noah, The Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish, Idris Elba, Serena Williams, LeBron James, Celine Dion, and Leonardo DiCaprio…
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“So let me begin with this. I rarely write in the first person. Rarely. But this is an exception to my rule, because there’s a back story to what’s ahead…”
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Competing at Amazon Studios' first annual All Voices Film Festival (amazon.com/allvoices) for U.S. filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds, Stella Velon’s multi-award winning and critically-acclaimed directorial debut ‘The Critic’ (also written by and starring Velon opposite Alan Smyth) was announced as one of the five winners of the festival by a jury that included top executives at Amazon Studios & IMDb. Watch the short on Amazon Prime Video.
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‘The Critic’ among the top two winning films at the 2019 Annual Queen Palm International Film Festival taking home the Grand Jury Prize ‘Couronne d’Or’ together with the feature documentary ‘Crime + Punishment’. In addition, Stella Velon won the Best of Fest ‘Queen Supreme’ award for Best Short First-Time Filmmaker.
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Nominated for Best Short Film and Best Actress in the company of screen legends such as Martin Sheen (for ‘Princess of the Row’) as well as Ethan Hawke (for ‘Stockholm’, also starring Noomi Rapace and Mark Strong), ‘The Critic’ took home the Best Short Film award at the 2019 Method Fest (celebrating outstanding performances in independent film) at an awards ceremony at the historic Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills on March 28th, 2019.
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The 2018 UK Film Review Awards - the Winners
Best Animated Film - Brexicuted
Best Short Film - Cotton Wool Film
Best Indie Film - Pledge
Best LGBTQ Film - Iridescence
Best Documentary - Dominion: Documentary
Best World Cinema - ROMACuaron
Best Superhero Movie - Avengers: Infinity War
Best Film - A Star is Born
Best Director - Stella Velon (The Critic)
Best Performance - Friederike Hammer (Sternenkind)