COMING UP FOR AIR wins 7th BEST FEATURE HONORS

Written By Roger Rapoport

Chase Maser and Foley Schuler

Coming Up For Air won it’s seventh best dramatic feature award on June 12 at the Vero Beach Film Festival.

The drama based on a screenplay by producer Roger Rapoport and costar Deborah Staples won the grand prize for best feature at the Culver City Film Festival and best feature awards at the Detroit I See You Awards, the West Virginia CARE Awards, the Mesa International Film Festival and India’s Picasso Einstein Buddha Festival and Platonic Film Competition,

Deborah Staples has won seven best actress awards including four Italy, Tokyo and Detroit Chase Yi received the I See You Awards festival best actor prize/. Robert Cicchini won best director award at Hollywood’s Golden State Film Festival. He and editor Gene Gamache won top honors at the I See You Awards. Gamache also won best editor awards at the Top Indie festival in Tokyo.

Here is a complete list of the film’s awards and festival selections.

  • Grand Prize For Best Feature Culver City Film Festival Los Angeles

  • Best Feature Drama Care Awards, Parkersburg, West Virginia

  • Best Fiction Feature and best cinematography at Platonic Film Competition, Ludhiana, India

  • I See You Awards Detroit - Seven Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actress (Deborah Staples) and Actor (Chase Yi), Best Cast, Best Editor and Best Cinematographer (Bruce Schermer and David Darling).

  • Best Feature Drama Picasso, Einstein, Buddha Awards Rishkesh, India

  • Best Feature Mesa, Arizona International Film Festival

  • Best Director Golden State Film Festival, Hollywood

  • Best Dramatic Feature Vero Beach, Florida, International Film Festival

  • Best Actor Award St. Vincent, Italy - Platinum Best Actress Award to Deborah Staples

  • Best Actress Award, Carole Film Festival, Italy to Deborah Staples.

  • Top Indie Awards, Tokyo: Best Actress, Deborah Staples, Best Editor, Gene Gamache., Spirit Award Best Director Nominee, Robert Cicchini

  • Semi-Finalist American Film Institute Jelly Fest

Official Selection At:

  • Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival, United Kingdom

  • Florence Film Awards Finalist

  • Caorle Independent Film Festival, Italy

  • Under The Stars International International Fllm Festival, Bari, Italy

  • Rome Independent Film Awards

  • Eurasia Film Festival, Moscow

  • Sensus Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • The International Gullah Festival, Georgetown, South Carolina

  • Miami Independent Film Festival, Semi Finalist

  • Mt. Vernon, New York Film Festival

  • Catalina International Film Festival, Avalon, California

  • MayDay Film Festival, Evansville, Indiana

  • Veritas Film Festival Grove CIty, Pennsylvania

  • Virtual Reel Recovery Film Festival New York and Los Angeles

  • Vero Beach Wine + Film Festival

  • Castellabate FIlm Festival, Salerno, Italy

  • Short/Long World Festival, Corrientes, Argentina

  • Ostia International Film Festival, Rome, Italy

  • Rieti e Sabina Film Festival, Rome, Italy

  • Festival Angaelica

 
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