The first ever crowd funding campaign to come out of Kyrgyzstan has been launched through Indiegogo. The black comedy, titled ‘LENIN?!’ from award-winning Kyrgyz writer/director Marat Alykulov follows three punk boys who steal a statue of Lenin to sell on the black market and almost start a revolution in the process. It is the first crowd funding campaign to come out of Central Asia.
The ‘Help Bury LENIN?!’ campaign is also the fir...
Prior to the opening of this year’s 67th Cannes Film Festival, many voices in Korea lamented the exclusion of Korean films from the festival’s prestigious main competition for the second consecutive year. However, following the strong reception of Korean films invited to other sections of the world’s leading film festival, and a constant stream of news emanating from the Cannes Film Market, Korean cinema seems to have commanded as much attention on the Croisette in 2014 as...
Welcome home from the 67th Festival de Cannes. What a great success we created together with the introduction of the new Le Petit Paris Los Angeles at the Miramar Beach!
Le Petit Paris / Los Angeles has became the place to be during the Film Festival and what an incredible list of patrons and personalities that were present.
Salma Hayek and Francois Henri Pinault, Mélanie Laurent , Kelly Rutherford,&nb...
The KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission has become South Africa’s third fully-fledged film body in the year that the country celebrates 20 years of democracy. The film industry has had more than 10 years of growth and development in the new democracy with the passing of several acts and pieces of government legislation that have been developed to stimulate the growth of the industry. Great strides have been made in the growth of the industry in the country, with the NFVF at its helm ...
As the leading economy in the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic offers an ideal environment for foreign producers to take advantage of a well established industry for productions.
We boast a wide variety of landscapes within a short proximity to suit any type of audiovisual production. From towering mountain ranges and rivers, to valleys and deserts we also have impressive waterfalls, lush rainforests, and stunning beaches.
Our cities also combine different archit...
Screen : FilmSharks snaps up Disney-backed duo
EXCLUSIVE : Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based Film Sharks International has picked up sales on two Disney-backed Patagonik titles that the studio will release in Latin America. ...
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Variety : FilmSharks Snags International Rights to Animated Feature 'El Americano 3D'
Guido Rud's FilmSharks has inked international sales r...
Women Make Movies is proud to announce the acquisition of THE SUPREME PRICE for its 2014 New Release collection. The film will be playing at six film festivals nationwide including a special pre-festival press screening on May 29th at the IFC Center and will have its premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festivals in Chicago & New York.
Shedding light on the recent history of Nigerian politics, THE SUPREME PRICE gives us a deeper understanding into the current human ...
LOS CABOS FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENTS THROUGH CANNES
Strategic Alliance between Los Cabos Film Fest, Tribeca Film Institute®, Halifax’s Strategic Partners and Moscow Fest
Los Cabos International Film Festival signed a strategic alliance with Tribeca Film Institute ® , Halifax’s Strategic Partners and Moscow Fest.
On the 3rd edition of Los Cabos Film Festival, the first coproduction forum Mexico-USA-Canada will take place, 12...
Stephanie Slama and Michele Ann Einert
Michele Ann Einert
Jane Fonda, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and more at the Cannes Film Festival 2014 shot entirely with a Smartphone byMichele Ann Einert Freelance Artist, Model, Actress, TV Host.
Shot entirely on a smartphone, our insider's view or backstage pass so to speak of our adventures...
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Clay Epstein- SVP Sales & Acquisitions for Arclight FIlms.
Arclight Films Acquires International Rights for "LUCKY STIFF"
Star-Studded Cinematic Musical Farce Makes International Market Debut in Cannes. Featuring: Jason Alexander, Dennis Farina, Dominic Marsh, Nikki M. James, Don Amendolia, Pamela Shaw & Kate Shindle.
CANNES, 2014 – In a global marketplace where the onscreen musical (such as LES MISÉRABLES, MAMMA MIA, Glee) is increasingly gaining popularity a...
Confirming the title as one of the big breakouts from Scandinavia in recent years, Music Box has acquired North American rights to Benedikt Erlingsson’s multi-prized debut feature “Of Horses and Men.”
“Of Horses” is sold by Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based FimSharks Intl.
Set in the horse-riding community in Iceland, and described by Erlingsson as a country romance linking the human streak in horses and the horse-like streak in humans, “Of H...
Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan today announce a new partnership to produce and distribute a series of 20 short films by award-winning directors to drive awareness and better understanding of the U.S. economy. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight and Thirteen), Mary Harron (American Psycho and I Shot Andy Warhol), Akiva Goldsman (Winter’s Tale and A Beautiful Mind), Spurlock (Super Size Me and CNN’s Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man), and Jessica Yu (G...
Founded in 2008 by journalist Diane Pernet, ASVOFF involves a program of short films linking contemporary creation big names and emerging talent (Fashion houses, designers, photographers, filmmakers, artistic directors...)
A jury panel of influencers from t...
Delegates attending on their way from Cannes: 24th May- 31th May, 2014, TLV
Celebrating 16 years to CoPro Foundation in Tel Aviv.
60 International leading members of the Documentary World Industry from 15 countries, representatives from the leading broadcasting channels and film foundations, 3 International Producer Delegations from Canada, Germany and France, and hundreds of Israeli documentary filmmakers will meet during the CoPro Market for the sake of collaboration...
At the culmination of the eighth edition of the ScripTeast programme in Cannes today, the winner of the prestigious Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern and Central European Script was presented during a ceremony at the Producers Club. The selection was made by the Advisory Board members, comprising Sandy Lieberson, Manfred Schmidt, Simon Perry, Antonio Saura, Dariusz Jablonski, and Heads of Studies, Tom Abrams and Christian Routh.
The winning screenplay is ‘...
Melia Kreiling
Red Bull Media House’s film production label CineMater announced today that Sam Neill (THE VOW, PEAKY BLINDERS) will star in the mind-bending thriller DxM alongside a young cast of emerging talent that includes: Tom Payne (THE PHYSICIAN); Melia Kreiling (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY); Antonia Campbell-Hughes (3096); Dominique Tipper (VAMPIRE ACADEMY); Oliver Stark (MY HERO); and Ryan Doyle (world champion free-runner) in his first feature. DxM is now in pre-production, w...
Lotus Entertainment announced today that Academy Award® winner Halle Berry (MONSTER'S BALL) will star in Luis Prieto's (PUSHER) upcoming high-octane thriller KIDNAP. The film is written by Knate Gwaltney, with Di Bonaventura Pictures' Lorenzo di Bonaventura (TRANSFORMERS franchise and SALT) and Erik Howsam producing. Lotus Entertainment is handling international sales beginning in Cannes at the Marché. CAA packaged the project and reps the domestic rights.
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Stockholm International Film Festival initiated the Feature Film Award for emerging Swedish female directors in 2011. »Young Sophie Bell« by Amanda Adolfsson is the second film to be funded and will world premiere at the festival in November 2014.
Amanda Adolfssons feature film debut »Young Sophie Bell« is a coming of age drama about two young women set to move to Berlin after graduation. When Alice disappears Sophie has to make her first steps as an adult on ...
beActive Entertainment, the award winning TV, Film and Digital studio, is proud to launch its brand new multiplatform documentary Road to Revolution, along with an App that complements this Arab Spring themed film, the culmination of a long journey through the Middle East and Maghreb that can also be followed on the Internet through Blogs, WebDocs and hundreds of photographs. Besides a theatrically released film directed by Portuguese director Dânia Lucas, Road to Revolution’s full e...
Hawk Koch, President of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and Special Advisor to Dailan Wanda Group announced at a press conference during the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Wanda's new initiative to build a film studio and media complex along with the launch of a new major international film festival in Qingdao, China. Stephen Mensch was announced as CEO of the Qingdao Oriental Movie Industrial Park with Rose Kuo named as the CEO of the Qingdao International Film Festival.
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Oscar® nominated Djimon Hounsou (BLOOD DIAMOND) and rising star Alexis Knapp (PITCH PERFECT) are attached to star in Main Street Films, MK Create and the Kojo Group’s action adventure ONE, written and directed by Murali Thalluri (2.37). The announcement came today by Main Street Films’ Chairman Craig Chang and President Harrison Kordestani, who are executive producing the film.
Main Street Films is co-producing and co-financing the film with Thalluri for MK Create and Ke...
Cohen Media Group, Artline Films and Arte have partnered to produce HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT, a feature documentary based on the recordings that led to François Truffaut’s internationally acclaimed 1966 book “Cinema according to Hitchcock”.
Directed by Kent Jones (A Letter to Elia, Director of the New York Film Festival) and co-written by Jones and Serge Toubiana (Director of Cinemathèque Française), the film will journey through the extensive series of ...
Lloyd Kaufman, and Toxie hosted THE Cannes Party that everyone was talking about --
The Official Troma Cannes Party, TROMALUNIGHT! celebrating Troma's 40th Anniversary on a night honoring Independent Art at Bar Le Petit Majestic. Music provided by International Superstar DJ the Toxic Avenger!
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Becoming one of the most talked about films at Cannes 2014, Foresight Unlimited invigorates a low key market with the big budget sci-fi action film INVERSION, it was announced today by Mark Damon, Chairman and CEO of Foresight Unlimited which is handling international sales.
What would happen if Earth suddenly lost its gravity? The unique story revolves around the catastrophic results of such a phenomenon and what could be done, if anything, to restore gravity and save Earth and its 6...
The 22 films selected for the inaugural Illuminate Film Festival offer viewers a diversity of topics and subjects that range from themes of spirituality, visual art and faith to near-death and afterlife experiences, and from emotional clearing, meditation and self-discovery to yoga, sustainable living and even conscious eating. The Festival runs from May 29 to June 1 at venues throughout Sedona.
“We are appealing to those who embrace film as a catalyst for their own evolutio...
