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Madrid International Festival Lineup

The full list of festivals's line up   #Madrid IFF 2017 Nominations Best Unproduced Scripts | Madrid IFF 2017 By Film Fest Webteam  May 24, 2017 Michelangelo Roberto Lemos Tantalum Mass: The Last Hacker David Garrett Gladiator Wars Z of the World Raymond Harrison Jimmy Narula Vivek Kumar... Best Film | Madrid IFF 2017 ...

 

Madrid International Film Festival Opening night

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Madrid Film Festival International in full swing

The Madrid International Film Festival runs until 15th July. Here's a still from a Q&A with our industry pros yesterday evening #madridiff2017 — at Novotel Madrid Center. Film Festival International brings together Filmmakers and Industry Professionals from all over the world to our events. Founded in 2004, we have hosted multiple events over the years and we currently bring you The Madrid International Film Festival, The St Tropez International Film Festival and ...

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Malcolm McDowell of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at Famous Monsters Halloween Bash! 

Legendary British actor Malcolm McDowell has been announced for the Famous Monsters Halloween Bash! Perhaps most well known for his starring roles in the super-edgy films A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and CALIGULA, McDowell began acting in 1964 and to date has credits in over 250 films. He appeared alongside fellow guests Richard Brake and Jeff Daniel Phillips in Rob Zombie’s 31, as well as both of Zombie’s HALLOWEEN films.  ...

 

DARKEST HOUR Has Gary Oldman as Churchill Looking Like an Awards Contender

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Nothing like a rousing World War II “never surrender” movie to lift the spirits from current political events; thus comes DARKEST HOUR, set for release from Focus Features on Nov. 22, the day US President John F. Kennedy was shot, not a coincidence one guesses. “You can’t reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth,” bellows Gary Oldman as a very convincing and Oscar buzzy Winston Churchill. And he is backed u...

 

Amy Landecker will join Jim Parsons and Claire Danes in the drama A Kid Like Jake

AMY LANDECKER JOINS JIM PARSONS and CLAIRE DANES IN A KID LIKE JAKE That’s Wonderful Productions announced today that Amy Landecker will join Jim Parsons and Claire Danes in the drama A Kid Like Jake.  Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra and Ann Dowd co-star.  Based on Daniel Pearle’s celebrated Lincoln Center play, A Kid Like Jake was adapted for the big screen by Daniel Pearle and is being directed by Silas Howard, an award-winning feature film, documentary, music...

 

Adrien Brody to receive 2017 Leopard Club Award

  The 70th Locarno Festival will pay tribute to Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody. The American star will receive the 2017 Leopard Club Award in Piazza Grande on 4 August.   In bestowing the Leopard Club Award on Adrien Brody, the Locarno Festival will recognize one of the most brilliant figures in American film, an Academy Award winner at the age of only 29. Brody gained a lasting place in the collective imagi...

 

Olivier Assayas, Yousry Nasrallah and Sabine Azéma will be the jury presidents at the 70th Locarno Festival.

Assayas, Nasrallah, Azéma       The President of the International Competition jury will be French film critic, screenwriter and director Olivier Assayas, who already made his mark at the Festival in 2014 with the acclaimed Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche. Being one of the most highly regarded contemporary filmmakers, Assayas has made several full-length features, ranging across a variety of subjects, places and genres. As an auteur for whom fo...

 

 

 

Grossmann Jury announced

Juries   VICIOUS CAT

KRISTIJAN MILIĆ Director from Zagreb, Croatia. In 2008 his debut feature The Living and the Dead won the Vicious Cat award, while his second film opened the 11th edition of Grossmann in 2015. At our past editions we have also screened his short films, and he has also directed some of the episodes for the first season of acclaimed TV crime series Rest in Peace. His new feature Dead Fish will have its p...

 

Ken Loach and Małgorzata Szumowska Act As Patrons of young filmmakers recruitment at EFA

At the 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the European Film Academy (EFA) has launched a campaign to invite young filmmakers to become voting members of the EFA. „We want to encourage our young colleagues to actively take part in our Academy community and activities. We need their inspiration and expertise to bring the Academy into the next decade,“ says Agnieszka Holland, Chairwoman of the EFA Board. „The future is theirs and they are the future – only t...

 

Fantasia Film Festival 2017 Jury Members

CHEVAL NOIR JURY Jury President Richard Stanley Richard Stanley is a filmmaker, trained anthropologist, ordained priest and lifelong student of the dark arts. As a writer and freelance journalist he has documented conflicts in South Africa, Rwanda, Haiti and Afghanistan, where in the late ’80s he saw action as a mujahedeen, fighting a partisan action against the Russian army. As a film director, his work includes the cyberpunk cult classic HARDWARE (1990), D...

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At the End of the Tunnel wins Golden Space Needle Audience Awards in Seattle Fest for Best Film and Best Director

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), the largest and most highly attended film festival in the United States, today announced the winners of the 2017 Golden Space Needle Audience and Competition Awards. The awards were presented at a ceremony and breakfast held at the Space Needle. The 25-day Festival, which began May 18, featured 400 films representing 80 countries, including 36 World premieres (14 features, 22 shorts), 34 North American premieres (22 features, 12 shorts), 20 US Pr...

 

Seattle International Film Festival Presents New SIFF 360/VR Award, Sponsored by Pixvana

 360/VR continues to expand the potential of storytelling within the film industry.   As the emerging technologies that power these mediums have evolved over the past few years, the tools and techniques used to craft storytelling in these spaces have begun to evolve as well.  Powered by WonderTek Labs, the 360/VR Storytelling Pop-Up at SIFF Lounge, presented by Vulcan Productions, welcomes all audiences to experience a selection of the best creative 360 and virtual reality ...

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The 8th Taiwan International Children's Film Festival (TICFF)
March 29, 2018 to April 05, 2018
 
August 15 Early Bird Deadline
 

Held once every two years, the festival brings young children and adults too, to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place March 29, 2018 to April 05, 2018. PTS, the organizers of this event, are now signing up entries for this tremendous series of showings, attracting some of the finest film makers from around the world with the lure of USD 25,000 in prize money.  
 

A biennial film festival, TICFF brings young children and adults to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place in April 2018 for its eighth edition.

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The World of Film Festival
September 28 – October 1, 2017

July 20, 2017 Extended Deadline

The submissions for the 4th edition of the World of Film International Festival in Glasgow, Scotland are now open. The very earlybird submitters can send their short and feature films across the three main sections of the festival - First Features & Shorts Competition, Female Perspective & Focus on Balkan Cinema. 

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Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE 
August 17 – 20, 2017

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Morbido Festival Mexico October 26 – November 5, 2017 - Horror Calling

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RIP Horror Film Festival November 10 -13 - Horror Calling

A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons...  The Bloody Dolls are Killin It at RIP Horror Hollywood! All filmmakers can submit direct to submissions@riphorrorfilmfest.com Not all submissions will be selected, only TOP 12 Features, TOP 18 Shorts and TOP 20 Micro Shorts will be accepted as official selections. In celebration of our 5th year Fees are FREE for stu...

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Shriekfest Announces its Commercial Contest!

Monsters of Film Festival: The Stockholm based festival is calling with final deadline july 6th

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Montreal International Animation FIlm Festival premieres JUNOD Japanese Swiss Story of a Hero

Montreal International Animation FIlm Festival annual edition August 17  - 20  2017 (MIAFF) is thrilled to announce the official North American premiere of JUNOD to take place August 19th. Junod produced by Shizuko Tsuya with direction and storyboards by Shinichiro Kimura, is also based on a true story, with a time traveling twist. In 1945, a Swiss doctor named Marcel Junod is appointed head of the Red Cross delegation to Japan. Shocked by the devastation he finds in Hiroshim...

 

War for the Planet of the Apes, Review: Ape-o-calypse now

War for the Planet of the Apes, Review: Ape-o-calypse now Apes riding horses, wielding rifles, and their leader being an English speaking specimen called Caesar is not enough for the makers of this third instalment of the series—they keep stretching your suspension of disbelief every minute, till they lead you to an apocalypse of a climax, perhaps believing that the word ‘war’ in the title has to be taken very, very seriously. Along the way, the War for the Planet of the Ape...

 

 

AMNESIA A film by Barbet Schroeder opens this summer

Opening at Cinema Village in New York and VOD on July 21st *Official Selection of the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival* Directed by: Barbet Schroeder (“Barfly,” “Reversal of Fortune”) Starring: Marthe Keller (“Marathon Man,” “Dark Eyes,””Bobby Deerfield”), Max Reimelt (Sense8), and Bruno Ganz (“Wings of Desire”) **Director Barbet Schroeder and Star Marthe Keller Available for Intervie...

 

Virtual Reality Showcase at Durban FilmMart 2017

An exploration of the possibilities of Virtual Reality (VR) will be one of the highlights of the 8th Durban FilmMart (DFM), Africa’s premier film finance and co-production forum, which takes place at the Tsogo Sun Elangeni Hotel from July 14 to 17 during the Durban International Film Festival. Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the most exciting emerging technologies on the digital landscape and there is little doubt that it will ultimately have a massive impact on the ways that we consume ...

 

CaribbeanTales and Durban FilmMart Join Forces to Support African Women Filmmakers

Nicole Brooks, VP,  CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution Manager, CaribbeanTales Incubator   CaribbeanTales and the Durban FilmMart present CineFAM - Africa, an accelerator program for African women filmmakers.     CaribbeanTales Media Group (CTMG) and the Durban FilmMart (DFM) partnered to support the development of original serialized television content created by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.    CineFAM is an initiative of CaribbeanTales t...

 

The Evil Within selected at Splat Film Festival in Poland

  Polish international horror film festival - frightening the masses  at the cinemas in Lublin since 2015. http://www.splatfilmfest.com/?lang=en ...

 

The Ones to watch By filmfestivals.com July 2017 Selection for your consideration

Films we curate for festivals Dear Festival programmers  I would like to share with you these fine films which I have selected for festival consideration. They are part of our 'Ones To Watch' curated section, all winners!.  And I believe each of them has a story that can change the way we see life.   "Ones to Watch" by filmfestivals.com"  Craddle of Champions          

 

The Evil Within at The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, VA.

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Rue Morgue CineMacabre Movie Nights presents THE EVIL WITHIN July 27

  Thursday July 27, 2017 Rue Morgue CineMacabre Movie Nights presents THE EVIL WITHIN The Royal Cinema (608 College St, Toronto) 8 PM   Rue Morgue’s CineMacabre Movie Nights promise the best of classic and contemporary horror at The Royal Cinema – once a month, every month.   THE EVIL WITHIN follows developmentally-challenged Dennis Peterson (Frederick Koehler), who thinks he&r...

 

The Evil Within at the Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival 'PUFF Presents series' July 18

Mark your calendars, the 2nd Annual Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival will be held from September 28th - October 1st, in the Proscenium Theater at The Drake! Festival Badges will be on sale this summer!   ...

 

 

The Evil Within in competition at Grossman 'Vicious Cat'

GROSSMANN FANTASTIC FILM & WINE FESTIVAL runs july 11 to 15 The Evil Within will play in the Vicious Cat competition. On the 90th anniversary of Metropolis, Grossmann will also screen the restored version of Fritz Lang's sci-fi masterpiece, accompanied by live music by Mitja Reichenberg. The Vicious Cat Competition LUST / LYST Norway; 2017; 84 min Written and directed by: Severin Eskeland RON GOOSSENS, LO...

 

 

5 screenings for The Evil Within: a Festival Favorite at New Zealand International Film Festival

One of [the] most singularly strange films to come along in a good while. Travis Johnson, FilmInk https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/auckland/the-evil-within/   The Evil Within 2017 Directed by Andrew Getty INCREDIBLY STRANGE A demon appears in an antique mirror and manipulates a mentally ill young man, urging him to murder the ones he loves in this nightmarish horror, the bonkers cinematic brainchild of the late oil heir Andrew Getty.   ...

 

BOOK LAUNCH - LOST GIRLS: THE PHANTASMAGORICAL CINEMA OF JEAN ROLLIN

  Fantasia is proud to host the world-premiere launch of the new book from Spectacular Optical, “Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin,” edited by Samm Deighan and penned by all women critics, scholars and film historians. This collection of essays covers the wide range of Rollin’s career, from 1968’s LE VIOL DU VAMPIRE through his 2010 swansong, LE MASQUE DE LA MÉDUSE, touching upon his horror, fantasy, crime and sex films – inclu...

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THE EVIL WITHIN by late Andrew Getty 
Winner in Houston WorldFest and Fantasporto

OFFENSIVE, Jon Ford's thriller.Winner in Houston Worldfest

"They were forced beyond breaking point; they have no regrets, does that make them bad people? The first part of this film will enrage you ! The second part will sate you !". Bruno Chatelin - Filmfestivals.com

A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a remote house in rural France, the very same village Bernard’s war hero father liberated during the Second World War, over 70 years earlier. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a crual gang of street kids, who terrorise the village.

An e-generation permanently plugged into their devices, devoid of empathy, a new breed of technological psychopath…Pushed beyond breaking point, can Bernard live up to his father’s legend, as the situation explodes into a brutal war of generations ?

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Revolution by Rob Stewart  

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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Introducing - The Jukebox International Film Festival

The Jukebox International Film Festival (JIFF) is presented in conjunction with Jazz and Beyond: Carson City Music Festival, a month-long, multi-venue concert series. JIFF is designed to compliment the music festival by presenting films that celebrate music and musicians - www.jukeboxiff.org   JIFF will take place at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall in Carson City, Nevada on August 15-16, 2017. An awards ceremony will be held at the conclusion of the Festival. All-Access...

 

44th Telluride Film Festival Announces 2017 Poster Artist Lance Rutter

44th Telluride Film Festival presented by National Film Preserve LTD., proudly announces artist and graphic designer Lance Rutter as its 2017 poster artist. Telluride Film Festival’s prestigious annual gathering for film industry insiders, cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and critics takes place every Labor Day weekend in the picturesque town of Telluride, Colorado. The 44th edition of TFF will run September 1-4, 2017.   Lance Rutter has spent the last 30+ years of his...

 

The cut and editing concepts play the lead part in the image of the 65th edition of San Sebastian Festival

  The author of the poster is the graphic design studio from San Sebastian Husmee The winner of the New Directors section is Primer vuelo (First Flight), featuring a “brave” plane as it searches for “a new direction”, designed by Angel Aldarondo, who also created the winning proposal of Horizontes Latinos, Muros (Walls), where an artist paints his “wish for freedom”. The designer Maite Rosende reflects on glass in her creation for Pearls, while Sar...

 

Line up for The Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival

 The Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie festival Announces the 23rd Annual Festival 2017 Program!!! July 21, 22, 28 & 29/2017 @  Nimby,  8410 Amelia St., Oakland, CA, USA. All shows 9:00 pm.   Friday, July 21, 2017 Hell  No! – Sally Richardson/Dave Krzysik Where Have All The Flowers Gone – Hong Chan* The Heart of a Nation – Doug Birnbaum Impervia – Patrick Devaney Living  Limbo – Paul Aum...

 

The 13th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival Starts Today

The 13th edition of Grossmann Festival, taking place in Ljutomer, Slovenia, will begin today at 18.00h with the Creatures of Fashion performance and the the presentation of winemakers that take part in this year’s Wine Champion Vicious Cat competition.   The film program begins at 19.00h with Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece Metropolis, accompanied by live music by Mitja Reichenberg.   At 22.00h, Harry Kümel will address the Grossmann audienc...

 

Shriekfest announces its final call for entries

Shriekfest, the Los Angeles Horror/SciFi Film Festival continues its tradition as Los Angeles' Premier horror film event, presenting an exciting program of films each fall with beautiful Los Angeles as its backdrop. Shriekfest takes place at the legendary Raleigh Studios, which is the largest independent studio operator in the country. We offer filmmakers and film fans alike an ideal setting in a world-famous city, Both established and emerging filmmakers gain media exposure, connect with th...

 

Golden Apricot (July 9 -16) kicked off in Yerevan

The 14 edition of the Golden Apricot (Vosge Dziran) International Film Festival GAIFF is off and running in Yerevan, the serenely beautiful capital of Armenia.       The Apricots have been duly blessed                   The Majestic old Moskva Cinema on Charles Aznavour, Plaza is the heart of the Golden Apricot Film Festival The opening night film On July 7 was a tribute to early Armenian cinema, an unsual 1927 silent di...

 

Festival international du Film de Montagne d’Autrans Edition 2017

Provoquer la rencontre, prendre plaisir, titiller le débat, solliciter notre questionnement intérieur… Le festival international du film de montagne d’Autrans s’engage cette année encore sur ses objectifs : être à la fois un lieu de découverte de la montagne sous tous ses aspects et s’imposer comme un foyer de discussions et de rencontres ! Rassembler sur 5 jours, autour de films mais pas uniquement, tous ...

 

Metropolis at the Opening of the 13th Grossmann Festival

The opening of the 13th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival on Tuesday, July 11th will feature a special screening of Fritz Lang's sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis, accompanied by live music by Mitja Reichenberg.   There are several reasons for presenting Metropolis at this year's edition of the Grossmann festival. The first, and most obvious, is that Metropolis is a classical science-fiction film and as such needs no special excuse to be screened at a festival dedica...

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Major Buzz Factory : Expérience de Bruno Chatelin du marketing Digital pour les films

Fort d'une expérience acquise dans la distribution de films pour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark.eting et le digital.

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L’Urban Films Festival revient pour une 12ème édition du 6 au 8 octobre 2017

Initié par RStyle et soutenu par la Mission Cinéma, l’Urban Films Festival est le premier festival du film consacré à la ville, aux pratiques et aux modes de vie qui en émanent. Une compétition de court-métrage parrainée par Jamel Debbouze sur le thème de l’urbain avec des qualifications à l’international, des animations pendant tout un weekend autour des cultures urbaines, mais aussi des rencontres avec l...

 

La distribution en VOD et le rôle des agrégateurs Nouveau rapport disponible

Les agrégateurs de VOD sont les nouveaux acteurs de la distribution cinématographique numérique ! Mais comment fonctionnent-ils et quel est leur rôle dans la chaîne de valeur de la VOD ? Trouvez les réponses dans notre nouveau rapport gratuit (disponible en anglais): VOD distribution and the role of aggregators ...

 

PALMARÈS NIFFF 2017 : SUPER DARK TIMES gagne le Narcisse du meilleur film

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Ken Loach et Małgorzata Szumowska sont les parrains de la campagne EFA visant à recruter de jeunes réalisateurs

C'est lors du 52e festival international du film de Karlovy Vary que la European Film Academy (EFA) a lancé sa campagne invitant les jeunes réalisateurs à devenir des membres votants au sein de l'EFA. « Nous souhaitons encourager nos jeunes collègues à prendre part aux activités de l'Académie et à rejoindre notre communauté. Leur inspiration et leurs connaissances sont essentielles pour que l'Académi...

 

 

Le problème d'infiltration de Robert Morin - clôture de Fantasia

 

- K-Films Amérique et la Coop Vidéo de Montréal sont heureuses d’annoncer que Le problème d’infiltration, réalisé et scénarisé par Robert Morin, sera présenté en clôture du festival Fantasia dans la section Camera Lucida le 2 août prochain avant de prendre l’affiche au Québec le 25 août. Le film met en vedette Christian Bégin, Sandra Dumaresq, Guy Thauvette et William Monette... 

Malcolm McDowell of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at Famous Monsters Halloween Bash!