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Festival Film of the year Nominees

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Festival introduces 2 new awards
Tiger Award and New Arrivals short films in Rotterdam
Berlinale Camera 2009: In Honour of Claude Chabrol and Günter
Rohrbach
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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT

Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival highlights
Chicago International Movies and Music Festival
4Oth Hungarian Film Week Set to Open
Fribourg Film Fest to celebrate India, Brasil and Peru
NYIIFVF will feature Tony Bennett, Iggy Pop, Mick Rock and
Lloyd Kaufman
DocPoint – Helsinki in action, focuses on Truth
Treasure Coast Film Festival closes with "Nobelity"
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival higlights
Ojai Film Festival has announced its expansion plans
European Film Market: news

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

An Interview with Award-winning Famed Icon Randy Jones
Danny All Day! A treat from Santa Barbara
Interview with Film Producer, Jon Kilik
An Interview with Salman Rushdie
IndieLisboa invites Marco Müller to jury...
Berlinale 3 member Jury for the Best First Feature
Eva Mendes online voted the Most Desirable Woman of 2009

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FILM
FROM FEST FOCUS

Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference
’The History of Aviation’ to open Hungarian
Film Week
Film Independent's Directors Close-Up: Conversations on
the Art of Filmmaking
Hot Docs retrospectives and national programs
A book on "How to Make Money Making Movies"
Northern Lights
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D-CINEMA NEWS
RealD
demos Monsters vs Aliens at CES
Celluloid Meets Pixel at next Berlinale
Can you speak the Digital language?
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d'Huez
Festival Provence Terre de Cinéma à Rousset
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Les IMAGINA Awards 2009
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Film Festival
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Makhmalbaf
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oubliés
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la Chine et le monde chinois focus Open Doors à Locarno
2009
Festival Imax à la Géode
Les Lutins du Court Métrage
Avant programme du Festival Cinéma d'Alès
- Itinérances
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Filmmakers don't miss these ones!

THE
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL June 18-28,
2009
Now in its fourteenth year, the Los Angeles Film
Festival is widely recognized as a world-class event, providing
the movie-loving public with access to some of the most
critically acclaimed filmmakers, scholars, critics, film
industry professionals, and emerging talent from around
the world.
The Festival also features unique signature programs including
the Filmmaker Retreat, the Spirit of Independence Award
ceremony and gala, and Financing Conference. Additionally,
the Festival screens short films created by high school
students and has a special section devoted to music videos.

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online

PALM
BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—
October
27 - 31, 2009
The Festival is a 501(3)(c)
not-for-profit organization supporting film programs in
local schools, and dedicated to making a difference in the
lives of future filmmakers by helping them fulfill their
dreams to work in the world of film. Proceeds generated
each year are donated to schools, in the form of grants
and scholarships, to provide new technologies.
The Festival is now accepting
submissions for Features, featurettes, shorts and documentary
of all genres and open to filmmakers worldwide.

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online

FILM
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINATION AND WONDER Film Festival du
film Merveilleux —
October
27 - 31, 2009
The Festival promotes films celebrating the imaginary, the
Wonder and magic from the entire world and allow us and
the section "off competition the kaleidoscope"
help to re-discover our different cultures and our planet.

The theme of the Film festival are magic, the imaginary,
the marvelous, the astonishing, the supernatural, the occult,
the strange, the esoteric, poetry, the fantastic, science
-fiction and myths, legends, comics, manga, video game,
dreams...
Submit
online

Art
by Chance Ultra Short Film Festival—
May 22 - June 5, 2009
- 30 seconds long films on concept of "journey"
theme
- made by enthusiastic and creative international film makers

- fiction, documentaries, animation or video art
- shown in major metropolitan cities all around the world
in May 2009 over the same two-week period.

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online

42nd
ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—
April 17 - 26, 2009
Special Entry Deadline Extension to All FEST21 members!
Late Fee is waived! Save 15$
Enter the Festival that discovered Spielberg, Lucas, David
Lynch, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott and the Coen Brothers!
Extended Entry Deadline is january 31st, 2009! http://www.worldfest.org


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online

DOCUMENTA
MADRID —May 1 - 10, 2009
Documenta Madrid is an international film festival dedicated
exclusively to documentary film. Its offices are located
in the capital of Spain and it is organized by the City
of Madrid. It is presently the city's most widely-attended
festival. The festival was born for the purpose of strengthening
and disseminating the documentary genre, in so far as it
understood to be a reflection of the social, cultural, economic,
artistic, environmental, and other realities that exist
in the world.

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online

OPENFILM.COM—Openfilm.com
is a brand new web destination for quality films, videos
and animation. With its versatile, high quality player and
a host of social networking features designed to create
a dialogue between independent filmmakers and their audience,
Openfilm is the ultimate platform to feature professional
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playback, manual processing and encoding of all videos,
custom-made subtitles and translation, animated thumbnails
and a chance to be featured in a professional film review.http://www.openfilm.com
Submit
online

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. 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)

ECU
THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March, 2009
The European Independent Film Festival 2009 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
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW

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.
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW

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!

SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW

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PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
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their works.
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