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,Yerevan, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto,
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Delhi, Franklin, Cabrières d'Avignon, Paris, Lyon,
Bastia, Vic-le-Comte, Valenciennes, Exeter, Oullins ...
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LIVE FROM THE THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL
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Interviews
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Ambience from Thessaloniki
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AWARDS
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Claw Awards of Terror Film Festival : the Oscars of Horror
The animago Award in Karlsruhe and the Porsche Award in
Ludwigsburg:
EFA critic's awrd to Abdellatif Kechiche
Marrakech Film Festival Awards 2008
EFA 2009 will take place in Essen in Germanys Ruhr Area
The Envelope, Please...Denver festival award winners
Thessaloniki Festival wrapped with awards
Cannes Lions Launch PR Category In 2009

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MORE FESTIVAL NEWS

A Night at the Festival with Groucho and more brothers...
Festival of German Films in London opens this week
Bahamas Festival Youth Film Workshops
Qatar Museum Authority and Tribeca launch Film Festival
in Doha
ZINEBI 50: Bilbao festival of nonfiction and tapa sized
films
Denver panels finding the True Indie Spirit
Race to the Finish at Denver
Highpoints at the Denver Fest Midpoint
Some media got it wrong about San Seb: here is the story

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

Los
Angeles Film Festival director Richard Raddon has resigned
Cartoonist Gene Deitch in San Francisco
Film critic Peter W. Jansen dead
A Man Who Speaks His Mind: Garry Kasparov at IDFA
Willem Dafoe Masterclass from Thessaloniki
Ms. Rekha inaugurated the The 39th edition of IFFI.
Manoj Srivastava's welcome to the IFFI Goa festival
Clint Eastwood to receive the Santa Barbara Fest honors
Oliver Stone and Kusturica live rap at Thessaloniki

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Les dailies
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d'arras L'autre cinéma
Cinéma
Miracolo à Paris sur fest21.com

Dernières
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Palmarès
du festival de Marrakech
Sylvie Verheyde Stella's French director Interview
Danielle Mitterrand : la Marraine du Festival International
du Film d' Environnement
Galerie photos du festival du film d'environnement à
la Pagode
Le Cinéma au secours de la planète à
Cannes du 8 au 14 décembre 2008
Les frères Dardenne, Takeshi Kitano et Oliver Stone
au Festival de Salonique
Les temps forts de Cinema Miracolo
Dimanche en fête à Arras, émeraudes
et perles du festival
La première journée du festival d'Arras :
ambiance
Coup d'envoi du 9ème Festival International du Film
d'Arras
Arras : Le Village du Festival
Le staff « Plan-Séquence » oeuvre au
succès de l'Autre Cinéma
Interview Eric Miot, délégué général
de l'association Plan-Séquence
L'autre Cinéma à Arras : cinéma d'Europe...et
du Monde
FCAT 2009: nouvelles dates et Règlement!

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Pascale Bussières marraine de la semaine
du Québec à Paris
Palmarès du Festival international du film
d’environnement
Prix FIPRESCI est attribué à : Abdellatif
Kechiche pour LA GRAINE ET LE MULET
C’est reparti pour la 4ème édition
du Mobile Film Festival.
Cinéma du Québec à Paris au
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L’Industrie du rêve « A l’écoute
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l' APC s'exprime sur la réforme du service
public
Lycéens au cinéma : un succès
en Languedoc-Roussillon
Palamrès des Rencontres internationales du
documentaire de Montréal
Un livre pour accompagner la sortie des ailes pourpres
Danielle Mitterrand Marraine du Festival de l'Environnement
Les étoiles du cinéma européen
à 3€ la séance
Mais qu'est ce qui fait rire l'Europe? un colloque
EFA y réfléchira

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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS

Milk by American director Gus Van Sant to premiere at Göteborg
Mammia Mia DVD release breaks UK records
IDFA is presenting East Side Stories (documentaries from
India)
DocLab Explores Connection Between Documentary And New Media
After Behind the frame, Films Division presents “Framing
Time”
The Coffin symbolizes beauty of horror.
Visions of slavery in film at FIFET
Aspen Film presents the 18th annual Academy Screenings
Focus on Encyclopedia Pictura at SFIAFF
Ogresta – Behind the Glass- No Typical Croatian Film

D-CINEMA NEWS
Can
you speak the Digital language?
Digital screenings from Europe's Finest at Ghent
First Digital 3D Movie Released in China
350 systems commitments to date for Dolby(R) 3D

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Film Festival Tourism: a research on its rapid expansion
The previous articles provided the context for
the growing film festival tourism phenomenon. In this last
installment, more specific information is provided about
the participants in festival tourism, the services provided
by the few agencies in this new niche market, and the characteristics
of the film festivals that would most likely benefit from
film festival tourism.
Part
1 Part
2 Part
3

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FROM CANNES
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Photo Gallery,
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Short Film Corner

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FANTASPORTO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAl February
20 - March1, 2008
29th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 20 - March
1
The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its
29th edition, specializes in fantasy and science-fiction
films in its Official Competitive section.
Entries Close Dec 15 Running on 5 theatres screening 200
feature films each year with Massive press coverage 5000
clippings every year - Over 110,000 entries in past editions.contact:
Mário Dorminsky (Director)
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DUBAI
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL December
11 - 18, 2008
The 2008 edition of the Dubai International Film Festival
features 12 programmes that will showcase cinema of all
genres from all over the world : The Cultural Bridge, Arabian
Nights, A Celebration of Indian Cinema, The Cinema of the
World, The Cinema of AsiaAfrica, Emirati Voices, Children’s
Cinema, Animation, In Focus, Rythm & Reels, Screen on
the Green and Lifetime Achievement
Introducing the New Dubai Film Market

ECU
THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March, 2009
The European Independent Film Festival 200ç submission
deadline of January 15th, 2009 is fast approaching. Held
in Paris in March at the prestigious Biblioteque Nationale
de Francois Mitterand the very best independent films from
around the World will be screened to large audiences competing
for 16 awards in 11 categories.
For more information go to www.ecufilmfestival.com
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SHORT
SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA June, 2009
Now entering our 11th year, Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF)
has become one of Asia’s largest festival for international
short films and is one of the few Academy Award(R) accredited
short film festivals SSFF reaches audiences of 30,000 in
Tokyo and major cities in Japan. Our main festival is held
for over a week in the heart of Harajuku TOKYO!
Please note that our festival dates are tentative.
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L.A.
COMEDY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL March
5 - 8, 2009
This is a festival started by funny people, for funny
people. All judges are top names in the fields of comedy
and filmmaking.
If what you have is short and people laugh at it, around
here, that’s a good thing.
So,
you think you're funny? Prove it!

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AFRICA
WORLD DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL February 5 - 8, 2009
Join us for the 2nd Africa World Documentary Film Festival
in February 2009 in Saint Louis USA, in Europe, and the
Caribbean. At our 2007 inaugural festival in Saint Louis
USA and Lagos, Nigeria, over $5,000 in prizes was awarded.
The festival and film makers presenting were highlighted
on CNN’s Inside Africa.
At the 2nd AWDFF in 2009, we are awarding more prizes to
Film makers, along with viewing of your work on three continents
under the banner of one festival. Look out for more and
join us at the 2nd AWDFF around the globe!
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