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Los Angeles Cinematography Awards
LACA Film Festival is part of the:
An association of film festivals which highlight excellence in cinematography.
Screening in DOLBY – Hollywood
Official Qualifier To:
Cinematography AWARDS officially called the “Golden Eagle” is an award in the form of a statuette for outstanding achievements in the field of cinematography.
OCTOBER 2021 WINNERS
BEST PICTURE OF THE MONTH
Mother in the Mist (United States)
DIRECTOR: Kay Niuyue Zhang
PRODUCERS: Robin Zhongyu Wang & Kay Niuyue Zhang
DOP: Jiang Du
About the Film:
Following Wuhan’s Coronavirus lockdown, a rural single mother, Zhao, embarks on a dangerous journey in search of her preemie newborn baby stranded in Wuhan City Hospital.
Against a harsh, grim winter night, she trudges through trials and tribulations, fighting a way around checkpoints. Joining her path is a mysterious eight-year-old girl, who shares the same determination to reunite with her mother in the city.
Surprisingly, as Zhao goes through bureaucratic and physical obstacles, we notice that the little girl has information and solutions just as Zhao needs them. When Zhao finally almost gets to Wuhan, we realize things are not as it seems…
Will Zhao find her baby? And who is this mysterious little girl?
Director Biography:
As a director and producer, Kay made several short films and features that went to Oscar qualifying film festivals internationally such as San Diego IFF, SCAD Savannah FF, Flickers’ Rhode Island IFF, St. Louis IFF, USA Film Festival, and Beijing IFF, and won the Gold Medalist of the 47th Student Academy Awards, and Special Jury Prize at the BAFTA Student Film Awards. Her projects are supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, FOX Fellowship Endowment Fund, Moustapha and Malek Akkad Endowed Fund, Lisa Lu Foundation, Warner Brothers’ feature project with USC and several other generous funds.
Her creativity is inspired by her experience as an international citizen who constantly crosses borders both physically and culturally. She surrounds her creative world with the subtle and sensitive experiences of marginalized and diasporic children and women.
AWARDS
BEST AMERICAN FILM
BEST SHORT FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST DIRECTOR
All Winners of the Categories:
The Best Picture of the Month has the Official Selection to Golden Eagles AWARDS and guaranteed screening in DOLBY Los Angeles. Rest films for the live screening jury will select from all Winners during a year. We will present the full list of selected films until the Notification Date.
Mother in the Mist
(USA)
4 AWARDS
Kay Niuyue Zhang
Journey Home
(United Kingdom)
3 AWARDS
Christopher Houlston
Rosewood
(Germany)
4 AWARDS
Jonathan B Beer
The WORK of Art
(Mexico)
2 AWARDS
Shelly Errington & José Luis Reza
Emily or Oscar?
(USA)
2 AWARDS
Chris M. Allport
Sheepskin
(USA)
BEST AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Yongze Wang
Uninvited: The Spread of Invasive Species
(USA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jim Powers
White Light
(United Kingdom)
BEST BLACK & WHITE FILM CINEMATOGRAPHY
Richard Nik Evans $ Rami Bartholdy
Lift Me Up
(Australia)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mahmudul Islam Raz
Lake Kournas, Greece
(Greece)
BEST AERIAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Paschalis Doumanis
The Passenger
(Austria)
BEST SHORT FILM
Alexander Bruckner
Pipe Dreams
(USA)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Kyle Scoble
Control
(United Kingdom)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Kun Ao
SISTERS
(Spain)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Alberto Martín-Aragón
The Greenwood
(USA)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Nathaniel Baker
THE REASON
(USA)
BEST SONG
LUCKY BAILEY
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Los Angeles 2022
Mr. Thisforthat
(USA)
3 AWARDS
Thomas Mendolia, Katherine Franklin and Caleb Madison
Wretched Things
(USA)
3 AWARDS
Gage Oxley
An Occurrence At Arverne
(USA)
4 AWARDS
Robert Broadhurst and Charles Hayes IV
Get Ready. Off to the Feast
(Russia)
3 AWARDS
Lamara Sogomonian & Daria Moroz
ASHES
(USA)
4 AWARDS
Daniel J. Egbert & Siwei Li
I’m Done Here
(USA)
3 AWARDS
Steve Denny
Mermaid
(USA)
2 AWARDS
Fia Perera
Echoes
(USA)
3 AWARDS
Anthony Kalmeta
Mother in the Mist
(USA)
4 AWARDS
Kay Niuyue Zhang
FURY
(Serbia)
5 AWARDS
Petar Ristovski
Kintsugi
(Brazil)
5 AWARDS
Giovanni Mattei
In Isolation
(United Kingdom)
3 AWARDS
Alexey Meets
Tiotya Rita
(Ukraine)
4 AWARDS
Andrey Novoselov
MANUEL
(Italy)
3 AWARDS
Mario d'Anna & Stefano Mangoni
The Madness Store
(France)
BEST SHORT FILM
Alex Guéry
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