I am so honored to announce that our movie "The Messenger Hermes Remembers" came in 2'nd place at the New Delhi Film Festival for Short Fiction. May India always thrive and prosper for this wonderful award.

Holy Cow! After three days of voting at The Pinewood Studios, London Lift-Off Sessions, I am so pleased to announce that our movie is still in 1st place. With two days left in the public voting round, I pray and hope to make our dearest Byron Ayanoglu's dream come true of having this movie that he produced and played Zeus in be shown in London, England. One of his favorite places. You can vote here if you would like to help us stay in 1st place. Thanks again with fingers crossed.If you want to help us win our dream in order to view the movies you must rent the program in the top right hand side of the page. Our movie is no.11 The Messenger Hermes Remembers https://vimeo.com/ondemand/liftoffsessionsjan3…

Cinematography Award from the Alwar Int. Film Festival 2020

Hello There!

 I would like to share the award for our movie "The Messenger Hermes Remembers" with YOU! It is from The Alwar International Film Festival, India. Congratulations Best Cinematography Narrative Short

Alwar International Film Festival.
January 2020
What is so wonderful it also has my most adorable  Byron's name on it as well.

3rd New Delhi Film Festival

One of the strangest situations that I know of for the 1st Day of the New Year is opening an email whose subject line says: Judging Status has changed for "The Messenger * Hermes Remembers." 

Now, this email came around 8 pm so one does not know whether they should wait until tomorrow and save the day as it is or open the email and find out.
Now my instinct says to wait until tomorrow because I have had a few really difficult days lately and what I do not need right now is any form of bad news. So with that said, I decided to see the email even though I know the odds have been about 65/35
That is 65% NO and 35% YES. This is what I found.

Dear Algis,

Congratulations! PLEASE Read this entire email in full, as it is very important and we do not want to cause any confusion.

Please Note: Participation in this festival is not mandatory and your choosing to not be a part of it will not affect any standing with other Lift-Off competitions worldwide in any way.
To remove yourself from the competition simply click the first link in the congratulations email that we will be sending out to you shortly.

We will also be in touch in a couple of days with more details. Please keep an eye on your inbox!

In the meantime, please follow the link below to receive your participating laurels:

Thanks!

The Lift-Off Team
Pinewood Studios, London

I just got some of my most Amazing news today! A whole month before the official notice date! 

Dear Filmmaker Algis Kemezys Congratulations !

Greetings from the 3rd New Delhi Film Festival-NDFF 2020 organized by Jaipur International Film Festival-JIFF and Trust. On behalf of New Delhi Film Festival-NDFF 2020 preview committee members, the administrative council and I along with my team extend heartiest Congratulations to you for your film "The Messenger Hermes Remembers" being nominated in COMPETITION CATEGORY for NDFF 2020 by JIFF & Trust. You will receive some more important information soon regarding your Visit, Visa Support, Hotel List and Venue from NDFF Family.
Again Congratulations ! Have a nice day.

Yours sincerely
Hanu Roj - Founder
Organizing Committee and Directors for
New Delhi Film Festival-NDFF
http://jiffindia.org/delhi

Festival Dates: 18 to 20 January 2020 
Nominated films-(in competition category*) Feature Fiction-37, Documentary Feature- 31, Animation Feature-1, Short Fiction-84, Short Documentary-25, Short Animation-14, 
From India- 88, From Abroad- 140
Total number of films: 228 from 44 Countries (Out of 1511 films from 82 Countries)

Amazing news! I was just so pleased to find out this morning that "The Messenger * Hermes Remembers" was just selected by the Alwar International Film Festival in Rajasthan, INDIA
Experience & Celebrate: CULTURAL DISCOVERY!
https://youtu.be/6_6mMzZ-vEU
January 4-5th 2020
This will be our 25th Film Festival to date. Being in India again with my movie is really quite thrilling for it's always my home away from home.