SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. – Arthur Balder’s AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY won Best Cinematography Award at Sydney Independent Film Festival 2019. The film also was additionally Finalist in two categories: Best Documentary Film, and Best Music Score (Mark Petrie).

AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY has won the Best Cinematography awards consistently at DOC LA (Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival presented by Parajanov-Vartanov Institute), Pomegranate Film Festival Toronto, European Cinematography Awards and the Canadian Cinematography Awards; the film also was nominated for the John Alcott Award for Best Cinematography at the BLOW-UP Chicago Arthouse International Film Festival 2019.

Mark Petrie’s original score for AMERICAN MIRROR: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY has been finalist for Best Original Score/Soundtrack at Burbank International Film Festival, International Sound & Music Film Festival (Croatia), FIMUCINEMA (Festival International Music for Cinema of Tenerife) and won Best Original Soundtrack at DOC LA (Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival presented by Parajanov-Vartanov Institute).