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    “Transhood” Wins Audience Award For Best Feature At AFI DOCS

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    Director Sharon Liese discusses her film "Transhood" at AFI DOCS. "Transhood" won the Audience Award at the festival for Best Feature (photo courtesy of AFI DOCS)

    "Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible" takes Audience Award for Best Short; Grand Jury Prize for Short Films goes to "Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa"

    WASHINGTON, D.C. --

    The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the AFI DOCS 2020 Award Winners, concluding the five-day online festival. The festival’s Audience Award for Best Feature went to Transhood, directed by Sharon Liese. The Audience Award for Best Short went to Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible, directed by Kristen Lappas and Tom Rinaldi. 

    Meanwhile the Grand Jury Prize for Short Films went to Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Mike Attie. The AFI DOCS shorts jury said of Abortion Helpine, This is Lisa, “For its simple yet profound approach to a polarizing issue, we have selected a film which puts humanity ahead of an agenda.” This year the AFI DOCS Shorts Grand Jury Prize is a qualifying award for Academy Award® eligibility.

    The jury also awarded the Special Jury Prize to Do Not Split, directed by Anders Hammer.

    With 58 films from 11 countries, the 18th edition of AFI DOCS presented stories that delved into of-the-moment issues including policing, immigration and gun violence; honored luminaries of the past; and looked to the new guard of rising activists and politicians.

    Among the participants were filmmakers and notables including President Jimmy Carter, Academy Award®-winning actor and filmmaker Lee Grant; Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Ron Howard; Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar; Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Steve James; actor and filmmaker Bryce Dallas Howard; Stockton, Calif. Mayor Michael Tubbs; Boston 9to5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum; musician Big Freedia; and journalist Maria Ressa.

    Awards rundown
    Here are more details regarding this year’s AFI DOCS award winners:

    AUDIENCE AWARD: FEATURE
    TRANSHOOD
    DIR: Sharon Liese.  We all remember the trials and tribulations of being a kid: fitting in at school, getting along with siblings, finishing homework. These alone are enough to handle. Now, add in discovering who you are and growing up as a trans youth in Kansas City. TRANSHOOD is director Sharon Liese’s in-depth five-year journey following the lives of four kids (ages beginning at 4, 9, 12, and 15) discovering their specific trans experiences alongside their families. Each of the kids and their parents navigate the day-to-day challenges of their home lives and their lives out in the world. Finding normalcy isn’t easy while tackling issues of body dysphoria, transphobia and bullying, and many other big topics that their cis-gender classmates can’t understand. What truly ties these stories together is the unbelievable empathy and humanity exemplified by each family, not just with the heavy moments, but often also during those typical of any childhood.

    AUDIENCE AWARD: SHORT
    BLACKFEET BOXING: NOT INVISIBLE
    DIRS: Kristen Lappas and Tom Rinaldi.  As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by practicing and training in self-defense.

    SHORT FILM GRAND JURY PRIZE
    ABORTION HELPLINE, THIS IS LISA
    DIRS: Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Mike Attie.  At an abortion fund in Philadelphia, counselors arrive each morning to the nonstop ring of calls from women and teens who seek to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to.

    SHORT FILM SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
    DO NOT SPLIT
    DIR: Anders Hammer. During the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, a series of evening demonstrations escalate into conflict when heavily armed police appear on the scene.

    Category:News
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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.

    The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.

    "This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."

    The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."

    And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.

    Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.

    Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.

    Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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