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168 Film Project Founder and Director John David Ware announced the nominations today for the 11th Annual 168 Film Festival, to be held August 8 - 10, at the Performing Arts Center in Glendale, CA. For the contest, filmmakers got seven days (168 hours) to shoot and edit a 10-minute-or-less short, based on scripture. The field was reduced from 152 entries to the remaining seven (7) ‘Best Film’ Nominees eligible for the Grand Prize, a feature film budget up to $1 Million from presenti...
Last night, on July 20, the 4th Odessa International Film Festival Closing Ceremony was held in The Odessa National Theatre of Opera and Ballet. By the results of the public vote, Alexander Veledinsky’s film “The Geographer Drank His Globe Away” won the OIFF Main Award – Grand Prix. The International Jury with Alexander Rodnyansky at its head announced the winners in the Best Film, Best director and Best Acting nominations. The Golden Duke for Best Ukrainian Feature Fi...
The 2013 Hollywood Book Festival has selected Jonathan Womack’s “A Cry for a Hero,”(Charles River Press) as the grand prize winner of its eighth annual competition honoring works worthy of further attention from the film, television and multimedia industries. The fast-paced action thriller begins with an amazing discovery. After playing dead to survive a terrifying encounter, hero Jack Ramsey learns he has the power to become a ghostly, disembodied spirit with fantastic abilit...
On Saturday, the 20th of July, the 9th edition of Grossmann Festival came to a magnificent conclusion. At the Closing Ceremony, we paid homage to recently departed director, scriptwriter, film expert and a dear friend and supporter of the festival, Dinko Tucaković, whose final feature film Doctor Ray and the Devils was successfully premiered at the 2012 Grossmann Festival. The following awards were given: Honorary Vicious Cat, received by Franco Nero and Enzo G. Castellari, t...
Awards 2013 GOLDEN IRIS AWARD for Best film MICHAEL KOHLHAAS by Arnaud des Pallières (France/Germany) ----------- WHITE IRIS AWARD for Best First Film SHELL by Scott Graham (United Kingdom) JURY AWARD CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 by Bruno Dumont (France) ----------- STUDIO L’EQUIPE AWARD MIELE by Valeria Golino (Italy/France) ----------- BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD VIVA BELARUS! by Krzysztof Lukaszewicz (Poland) ----------- CINELAB AWARD for the Best Image ...
23.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
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Spanish film is back as one of the stars of the San Sebastian Festival. The 61st edition of the event will pay tribute with a Donostia Award to the actress Carmen Maura, recognising one of the most remarkable professional careers in the Spanish cinema of recent decades. The actress will receive the lifetime achievement award during presentation in the Official Selection, out-of-competition, of her latest participation: WITCHING AND BITCHING (Las brujas de Zugarra...
Only at a film festival can you experience the underworlds of Cape Town and Bangkok and the beauty of North Korea. Tourist brochures paint a very different picture. My last day at Diff started with a doccie about the Nice Time Kids, a gang on the Cape Flats. The Devil's Lair takes viewers into the home of one of the gang leaders where death can come at any moment and his wife also lives with this reality. There are no more screenings at DIFF. Ryan Gosling can be seen in Only God Forgive...
2013 Awards + 2014 Mexican Focus After EEFF 2012′s top prize went to El Ultimo Elvis, EEFF 2013 subsequently featured a focus on Argentine Cinema. The EEFF is delighted to champion Latin America again in 2014 with a focus on Mexican cinema following 2013′s award announcements… ...
The 33rd annual Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) proudly launches its program of Atlantic Canadian film selections, including the much-anticipated Opening Gala, to be presented over eight days in Halifax, September 12-19. "The Atlantic Canadian film selections are the heart of the Atlantic Film Festival year in and year out," said program director, Jason Beaudry. "We’re proud to begin the lead-up to the Festival by announcing the selection of over 80 Atlantic-produced films ...
The Basque Culinary Center, the San Sebastian Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival presented the programme of the “Culinary Zinema: Film and Gastronomy” section. The press conference was attended by Thomas Struck, head of the “Culinary Cinema” section of the Berlin Festival, Joxe Mari Aizega, director of the Basque Culinary Center, and José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian Festival. This year’s programme includes seven films fo...
2013 Charleston International Film Festival: A Week of Lasting Memories The sixth annual Charleston International Film Festival has been acclaimed as the most successful since the festival’s debut in 2008. The 2013 festival was inaugurated on a warm Wednesday afternoon when Mayor Joseph Riley of Charleston signed a decree formalizing the week of the festival, this year and in the future, as Charleston Film Week - a monumental kick-off to the 2013 festivities. T...
On Saturday, the 20th of July, the 9th edition of Grossmann Festival came to a magnificent conclusion. At the Closing Ceremony, we paid homage to recently departed director, scriptwriter, film expert and a dear friend and supporter of the festival, Dinko Tucaković, whose final feature film Doctor Ray and the Devils was successfully premiered at the 2012 Grossmann Festival. The following awards were given: Honorary Vicious Cat, received by Franco Nero and Enzo G. Castellari, t...
The Persian International Film Festival (PFF) has unveiled the full program for its 2nd annual event, set to run on 22 August until 1 September 2013. With films from Iran, Afghanistan and their diasporic communities around the world, the Festival is a celebration of today’s cinema and the stories of Persian filmmakers. The program offers a diverse mix of films from well-known and emerging filmmakers. With seven recent features, ten shorts, a full retrospectiv...
B-MOVIE UNDERGROUND & TRASH FILMFESTIVAL IN BREDA 4 -8 SEPTEMBER 2013 From Wednesday the 4th of September till Sunday the 8th of September, the 8th edition of the B-movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival (BUTFF) will once again be held in the city centre of Breda, The Netherlands. BUT is a small and intimate, but unique international film festival. Not only is the festival a paradise for B-movie trash and underground movie lovers from around the world, BUT also prov...
The Venice International Film Festival is pleased to announce that its web theatre, known as Sala Web, will once again make some of the festival's most groundbreaking programming available to international audiences without them ever having to leave their homes. Following the successful launch of the initiative last year, the festival intends to increase the reach of Sala Web for this year's 70th anniversary addition. Sala Web was conceived as an additional theater to complement and co...
The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, has presented, with Iñigo Arteche, Director of Assessment and Consultancy at IKERTALDE, the economic impact study carried out on the Festival by the company. Among the data and conclusions of the study are: The San Sebastian Festival is an SME (small and medium enterprise) with a team of 642 people during the event. A 12-month calculation of the time worked by these people shows that the Festival is a stable orga...
The 36th Annual 2013 Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF13) commence July 24-August 3, at New York City venues. Presented by Asian Cinevision, this year’s festival will showcase 34 feature films (premieres, presentations, 3D), workshop session, music videos, shorts, and screenplay presentations, awards ceremony, opening and closing night gala receptions. AAIFF13 Opening, Centerpiece, and Closing Premieres are LINSANITY, directed Evan Jackson, Wednesday, July 24, 7:30PM at As...
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Here, the whole cinematic Europe can fit in! THE 4th EDITION OF LOOK FOR FUND PROJECT SUBMISSIONS Look For Fund are 1:1 meetings of producers and representatives of film funds, which result in new contracts, better cooperation, but, most importantly in greater amount and higher quality of film productions, supported by regions and cities. The meetings help to receive detailed information about the possibilities of financing a given movie, conditions for application and actual chances of re...
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The film submissions to the competition will be accepted online till July 31st 2013. With the beginning of April starts the film submission to the 4th edition of the International Festival of Film Producers REGIOFUN and it will last till June 31st. REGIOFUN is the only festival in Europe that awards producers. It also joins the regions and funds according to the perspective subordinated to the producers. The prize is € 25 000. REGIOFUN is the only event in Euro...
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The festival is the first in the five boroughs devoted to science and science fiction. Named for the iconic novelist and short story writer whose work inspired the films Blade Runner, Total Recall andMinority Report, the four-day event aims to start a tradition of honoring films inspired by authors who have explored the metaphysical and eerie in all its manifestations. Possible themes include cyberpunk, dystopian realities, paranoia, altered states, and singularities. Science/science fiction documentaries, features and shorts are accepted.
Submit here Lorsque vous incrivez un film au festival français l'inscription est gratuite pour le Festival de New York (5-8 Decembre, 2013) www.philipkdickfilmfestival-europe.com
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The MAIN ENTRY DEADLINE is December 15th, 2013 THE FINAL "BRICK-WALL" DEADLINE is: JANUARY 31st, 2013 - ENTRIES MUST REACH US BY THEN! We now accept PayPal for even greater payment security. The secure PayPal payment address is - entry@worldfest.org The 47th Annual WorldFest-Houston - April 4-13, 2014 Ten Great Days in April! Download the entry form “Before there was Sundance or SXSW, Before there was Toronto or Tribeca, there was World...
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Follow the link to submit your film to the North Hollywood CineFest and be a part of a great cinematic event in the heart of Los Angeles!
http://www.withoutabox.com/login/12514 OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES • Select a Category of Entry to continue. Short Films - USA Films under 30 minutes produced in the United States. Feature Films - USA Films between 60 and 120 minutes in length...
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Our 3D Film Mart (3DFM), now in its 3rd edition, is the first European co-production market for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) movies. The 3D Film Mart was developed by 3D Stereo MEDIA in association with TWIST and peacefulfish. 3DFM is partially funded by the MEDIA Program of the European Commission (EC), and is thus an official project of the EC. This gives it a wide visibility and a significant notoriety in Europe and beyond. Our co-production market works...
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10.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
By Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com> FILMISTAN, the debut feature of director Nitin Kakkar, a brilliant comedy with a serious message, was named best film at the 10th Stuttgart Indian film festival. This fictional tale of an Indian assistant director who is kidnapped by Pakistani terrorists on a border shoot in Rajasthan and finds that his jailers love Bollywood films as much as he does, was described as "a worthy representative of a century of Indian cine...
The winner of this year’s Aruba Flavor Shorts
at the 4th annual Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF) is newcomer Mexican/American director Leonardo Aguirre for his film Back of Beyond (2013). The film ends with this Latin phrase: ‘A diabolo, qui est simia dei’ (‘From the devil, who is the ape of God’). With an almost supernatural tone, this haunting tale is a question of faith in a world standing at the edge of a precipice. The f...
By Alex Deleon-sinha Stuttgart Indian Film Festival July 17 - 21, 2013 By Alex Deleon-Sinha Festivals dedicated to Indian film exclusively have begun to pop up all over the map. My latest such discovery was the Indian film festival of Stuttgart in southern Germany (of all places!) which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary. I only became aware of this festival hidden away in the foothills of the Black Forest wh...
Dennis/Dee By Mike Takeuchi Photos by Mike Simpson for BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (In addition to directing TRINIDAD and his most recent film BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, filmmaker PJ Raval was the cinematographer for the 2008 Academy Award nominated documentary TROUBLE THE WATER. Raval took some time out of a hectic film festival-filled week to speak with Filmfestivals.com.) On a June night in 2009 while celebrating the world premiere of his and co-director Ja...
‘LOOTERA' is the second film of talented, young Indian director Vikramaditya Motwane ,whose debut movie ‘Udaan’ was screened at the prestigious Cannes Festival in 2010. While that film dealt with a volatile father-son relationship, this film deals with a close father-daughter relationship, and is loosely based on the O Henry short story ‘The Last Leaf.’ Motwane's pulled off another well-made film, although the two sections of the movie almost...
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Hagatna, GUAM USA - The Guam International Film Festival (GIFF) is proud to announce Tom Brislin, Ph.D. as Head Juror of the 2013 GIFF Grand Jury panel. Professor Brislin has played a vital role in the diligence of materializing the Festival's community and educational outreach via his highly-attended industry workshops of past GIFF Festivals. Festival organizers are also excited to announce that the original Grand Jury members are returning for the 2013 season. "We're very pleased ...
FilmAid International has appointed Simon Goff as its new Executive Director, replacing Liz Manne who joins the humanitarian organization’s board of directors as a vice chair. Goff comes to FilmAid from the MTV EXIT Foundation, which he co-founded and where he served as Chief Executive. In making the announcement, FilmAid board chair Michael Angst said, “As a small humanitarian organization operating in challenging conditions, we rely on leaders that can operate both n...
Award-winning Argentine writer, director and producer Julia Solomonoff will be the lead facilitator for the RBC Focus: Filmmakers' Immersion, to be held at the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) 2013. Born in 1968, Solomonoff is the writer and director of The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009), which was co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo S.A. and won over twenty international awards including best film, best director and best screenplay. Her directorial debut, Si...
2013 Sarajevo Film Festival has great pleasure to announce that Danny Glover is curating the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award for 2013. The prominent actor producer and humanitarian will join us in Sarajevo to present this year’s Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award Winner. Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the blockbuster LETHAL WEAPON franchise to smaller in...
OOH, AAH, CANTONA! Continuing our series introducing the members of the Board of the European Film Academy, Scottish producer Rebecca O’Brien remembers the beginnings and some of the highlights of her career in film and talks about the “cultural exception”… What made you want to work in film and how did you start? As a child I just loved going to the movies – especially musicals - and when I was a teenager in London I particularly e...
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09.03.2009 | Pro Services's blog |
Panel video transcript : Film and Internet – Best Friends with Benefits? It's time filmmakers start making real money !
IndieFlix CEO, Scilla Andreen, "The future is now and It's time filmmakers start making real money!" Indieflix.com FilmFestivals.com and The Observatory bring you the video transcript of the panel and it's introduction FILM AND INTERNET - Best friends with benefits? The panel was held Saturday 18th of May, 2013 11:00 – 13:00 , Salon des Ambassadeurs, 4th floor, Palais des Festivals Moderator: Wolfgang Closs Executive D...
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT
RETOUR À LA HALLE TONY GARNIER POUR UNE NOUVELLE NUIT CINÉMA Samedi 19 octobre de 21h à 7h. La Nuit Cinéma aura lieu cette année du samedi 19 à 21h au dimanche 20 octobre à 7h ! Un dortoir sera installé derrière l'écran pour reprendre des forces et rester jusqu'au petit matin. Pour les plus vaillants, rendez-vous aux aurores, après les projections autour d'un petit déj...
La 28ème édition du Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF) se déroulera du 27 septembre au 4 octobre 2013. Pour lancer les festivités, c’est le film LA VIE D’ADELE - Chapitres 1 et 2 d’Abdellatif Kechiche, Palme d’Or au dernier Festival de Cannes, qui sera présenté en gala d'ouverture le vendredi 27 septembre, en présence de son réalisateur ! Adèle Exar...
Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance? ...
Cinespaña 18ème Festival du cinéma espagnol de Toulouse du 27 septembre au 6 octobre 2013 Malgré la crise qui s'abat actuellement sur l'Espagne, CINESPAÑA s'attache à programmer cette année encore le meilleur de la production ibérique et s'affiche comme le rendez-vous incontournable du cinéma espagnol en France. Pour cette 18è éditi...
La 41ème édition du Festival International du Film de La Rochelle fut une réussite. Voici quelques chiffres pour en attester : Avec 80 225 entrées, le Festival réalise sa 3ème meilleure saison après 2012 et 2007. ...
Voici l’affiche de la 6ème édition du FESTIVAL EUROPÉEN DU FILM FANTASTIQUE DE STRASBOURG qui se déroulera du 13 au 22 septembre. Cette année, KING KONG est placé à l’honneur pour son 80ème anniversaire à travers la rétrospective «?Monkey Business?». Un hommage sera également rendu à EL SANTO, catcheur emblématique de la lucha libre dans la culture populaire mexicaine. La tradit...
LE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINEMA se tiendra du 2 au 6 octobre 2013 à Châlons-en-Champagne, Suippes et Mourmelon Unique en son genre, War on Screen est le premier festival au monde consacré à la vaste thématique de la guerre et des conflits. Deux Compétitions internationales (longs et courts-métrages), Rétrospectives (Comédie, Pastiche et burlesque), Focus (La guerre vue par Robert Aldrich, La Bataille de St...
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