NEWSLETTER N° 607: August 2, 2013
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> DAILIES FROM LOCARNO
Locarno Artistic Director Carlos Chatrian on the New Frontier in Film
Festival del film Locarno occupies a unique position in the landscape of the major film festivals
Victoria Abril in Locarno will receive the Excellence Award in Locarno
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> DAILIES FROM MONTREAL WORLDFEST
L'AUTRE MAISON (ANOTHER HOUSE) by Mathieu Roy to open Montreal Worldfest
A word from Serge Losique Montreal Worlf Fest President
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> DAILIES FROM VENICE
Venezia: The members of the Juries
Venice Classics 2013
Venezia 70 out of competition feature films
MOSTRA 2013 Orizzonti The new trends in world cinema
Venezia 70 International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres
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> DAILIES FROM TORONTO
Comprehensive Distribution tracking from the 2013 Festival de Cannes
The Toronto International Film Festival® will close with the world premiere of Daniel Schechter’s sly crime story Life of Crime.
Strongest titles revealed to hit Toronto Galas and Special Presentations programmes at the 38th Toronto International Film fest
Study finds TIFF’s economic impact totals $189M Toronto
The TIFF programming team had a busy summer
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COVERAGE FROM CANNES
The exhaustive coverage of Cannes competitions as PDF
Your Cannes Market Dailies as PDF
Check videos of our Cannes ambiance coverage on our YouTube Channel
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> THE AWARDS WATCH
The 23rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards will take place this year at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, December 2nd. For the first time, Gotham Awards will be presented in the newly added competitive categories of Best Actor and Best Actress. The first award show of the season, the Gotham Independent Film Awards celebrate the authentic voices behind and in front of the camera in the year’s best American independent feature films. Recent winners include Moonrise King...
02.08.2013 | Editor's blog |
AWARDS ANNOUNCED FOR 2013 STANLEY FILM FESTIVAL - Eli Roth Receives Inaugural Visionary Award - - Frank Khalfoun’s MANIAC and Ryan Spindell’s THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM Win Audience Awards - - Colorado Film School’s PEAK OF TERROR Wins Stanley Dean’s Cup Jury Award - The Stanley Film Festival (SFF), presented by NBC Universal’s Chiller, announced the Audience Award winners and the Stanley Dean’s Cup Award winner for the 2013 Festival at the Horror Br...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) announced the winners of its competition categories at a ceremony at the prestigious Skirball Center, in the final event for the monumental festival, which ran April 30 – May 4. The winners were chosen from 18 narrative, 10 documentaries (feature length or shorter) and 8 shorts from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora. Top honors were awarded to Anumati directed by Gajendra Ahire, for Best Feature Film as well as Best Actor in a Fe...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
At the San Gio Verona Video Festival, which closed successfully its nineteenth edition, won the Belgium with the short film "Premiers Pas" by Grégory Lecocq that speaks of the pain of a young woman who comes to terms with her pregnancy and a Swiss documentary , "Gotthard Schuh - A sensual vision of the world" by Villi Hermann, in the long, looking to the past that offers hope for the future. XIX San Gio Verona Video Festival 2013 PRIZES Short Com...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
The San Francisco Film Society today announced the three winners of the 2013 SFFS Documentary Film Fund awards totaling $100,000, which support feature-length documentaries in postproduction. The SFFS Documentary Film Fund was created to support singular nonfiction film work that is distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. Anne Bogart and Holly Morris' The Babushkas of Chernobyl, Jamie Meltzer's Freedom Fighters and Jimmy Goldblum and ...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
DIFF honoured its two favourite sons, Qubeka and Worsdale, during the awards ceremony on Saturday 27 July. Intense pressure on the morality police also prevailed with the unbanning of the opening film and a screening on the last day. Presenting the award for Best Feature Film to the film The Land of Hope. The International Jury commended Sion Sono for a film that “masterfully and humbly draws together an array of cinematic means of expression to engage us in a story”. The internat...
28.07.2013 | danie's blog |
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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Experience the Evolution of Iranian Cinema at PFF Persian International Film Festival’s Retrospective program announced as tickets go on sale! Watch 50 years of Iranian cinema evolve before your eyes at the Persian International Film Festival. A Special Retrospective Program has been carefully curated to showcase Iranian films spanning five decades, painting a vivid picture of how Iranian cinema and the societies and cultures it has reflected have changed over the year...
02.08.2013 | Editor's blog |
DOKU.ARTS screens documentaries on the arts and on artists from all over the world and across all genres, such as architecture, visual art, music, literature, theatre, dance, cinema, and photography. As a time-based medium, documentaries are ideally suited for capturing and reconstructing artistic works. Our 2013 programme focuses mainly on compilation films and new documentaries on art and artists working with archive material. In addition to compilations and archive art films, a special highlight of this year's programme will be a section comprising North African and Arab films on art.
August 1, 2013 | DOKU.ARTS's blog |
Sarajevo Film Festival has the pleasure of announcing that this year's President of the Jury for Competition Programme – Feature Film will be Bosnian director Danis Tanović .Tanović's 2001 debut feature NO MAN'S LAND received over 40 international awards, making it one of the most awarded first feature films in history. Set in the midst of the Bosnian war in 1993, NO MAN'S LAND won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as Best Scri...
01.08.2013 | Editor's blog |
Astrid Cybele and Trevor Dunworth, the co-directors of the Kingston Film Festival are highlighting music along with cinema at this year’s offerings. The two are the movie and energy ambassadors for the events. Seven featured presentations along with shorts will run from August 2nd through August 11th 2013. Ground zero for all the buzz and activities will be the BSP Lounge at 323 Wall Street, Kingston, N.Y. 12401. The opening evening will present Werewolves ...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
THE FABULOUS INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL Burns Court Cinemas, Friday, August 23, Saturday, August 24 and Sunday, August 25, 2013. Scheduled to be held at Burns Court Cinemas in downtown Sarasota, on Friday, August 23, Saturday, August 24 and Sunday, August 25, the c will mark its third anniversary with 3 days of cinema celebrating diversity in the LGBT community. In association with the Harvey Milk Festival, a non profit organization, the festival is organized by broken rules productions. ...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
It was announced today that the Nigerian drama “Half of a Yellow Sun” starring BAFTA award winner Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II, The Pursuit of Happyness, Crash) and three-time Golden Globe nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men, American Gangster, Salt), has been selected as the opening film of the 2013 trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), which takes place September 17th - October 1st. The announcement was made today by ttff Founder and Festival Director, Dr. Bru...
29.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
Get out your blankies, your lawn chairs, and some bug spray and grab a whole mess of snacks! August is almost here and with it comes the return of the Victoria Film Festival’s second most popular event, the Free-B Film Festival! Enjoy classic movies from the past to share with your kids, grandparents, aunts and uncles, grandchildren and friends! Every evening at 9:00pm, Beacon Hill comes alive with the sounds of Hollywood as we screen favourites such as The K...
26.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
The West Australian Premiere of Tenderness (La Tendresse) will be the French Selection to open the CinèfestOZ Film Festival (August 21 – 25) at Orana Cinemas, Busselton, Western Australia, on August 21, says festival director Malinda Nixon. “Directed by accomplished Belgian born director Marion Hansel this film is destined to delight the CinèfestOZ audience, and we are thrilled to be able to have this as part of our French Programme,” she adds. The film st...
25.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
Cannes Film Festival 2013 Take a look at my blogs The Lunchbox plays Cupid Gems of Cannes Cannes jury is bold Cannes goofs up on India Blue is the Warmest Colour Cannes can be rigid and unfair Brush with emotional parenthood Babus at Cannes Cannes basks in The Past The cinemas of Cannes What makes IFFI Director miss Cannes? The Past s...
25.07.2013 | Gautaman Bhaskaran's blog |
> THE PARTNERS FESTIVALS
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...
Submit to the North Hollywood CineFest!!
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...
Prepare to submit your projects to the 3D Stereo Media Market, free registration
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...
Last few days to Submit a film to the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
The most unique difference between entering FLIFF and your ordinary film festival, is opportunity. When you submit your film to FLIFF you are automatically entered for consideration into: 28th Annual FLIFF October 18 - November 11, 2013 FLIFF On-Location: Sunrise October 19 - November 9, 2013 FLIFF On-Location: Pompano Sunrise October 19 - November 9, 2013 FLIFF On-Location: Grand Bahama Island October 24 - 27, 2013 FLIF...
2nd Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, Registration is now open
3DFLIC announces the 2nd Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, scheduled for Sept. 20-23, 2013. Early Bird Registration is now open. For information on the Conference Programme and Registration: www.tis3dc.ca The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference is an acclaimed unique international gathering of creative, scientific and business minds discussing, discovering and inspiring innovation in “Stereoscopic 3D” Cinema. ...
International Television & Film Awards calling
New York Festivals® International Television & Film Awards™, honoring the World’s Best TV & Films™, is now open for entries. Rose Anderson, Executive Director of NYF’s TV & Film Awards, initiated multiple updates in this year’s competition, among them expanded categories and a website redesign. Updated categories for 2014 include: Best Nonfiction Series, Best Screenplay, Bes...
4th Edition of Look For Fund project Submission (Katowice, Poland)
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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...
24.07.2013 | Bulletin Board's blog | 180 reads
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...
Animation Production Day 2013
Business Platform for the International Animation Industry Tonight in Stuttgart the seventh Animation Production Day, an event within FMX 2013 and ITFS 2013, draws to a close. Over 200 representatives of the German and international animation industry attended the "Financing & Brands" conference on Thursday afternoon in Stuttgart's Haus der Wirtschaft. On Friday 90 participants from 12 different countries held negotiations about the 32 animation projects selected for this y...
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> THE FILM PARADE
Luxury Meets Justice - Trailer starring Jean Claude Van Damme
Jean Claude Van Damme, FashionTV Luxury Films, Luxury Meets Justice - Trailer ...
10.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
02.08.2013 | silard somorjay's blog | 1 comments |
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02.08.2013 | silard somorjay's blog |
01.08.2013 | Pablo Udenio's blog |
The SHORT MATTERS! programme screens the short films nominated in 2012 at a series of festivals around the world. In July this includes the following screenings: 4 – 13 July 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival (Israel) www.jff.org.il 6 - 14 July 2013 Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival (Portugal) www.curtas.pt 10 & 11 July 2013 Academia de Cine, Madrid www.academiadecine.com ...
31.07.2013 | European Film Awards's blog | 45 reads
American Film Market & Conferences 2013, is sending out a series of five “best practices” emails over the next several months, which cover key facets of the filmmaking process. We are sharing the first one with you thanks to AFM We hope you enjoy our first one below from industry veteran, Stephanie Palmer, author of “Good in a Room: How To Sell Yourself And Your Ideas And Win Over Any Audience”. Ten Tips For Pitching Your Film Successfully ...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
Today 7/30 is the deadline for the NYNL film series short film night on 8/29 at The Wild Project in NYC. All genres and film categories are accepted. Running time limit is 30 minutes. Foreign language, experimental, music video and student films are strongly encouraged to submit. Our emphasis is on micro independent film. To submit visit our website at http://www.newyorknolimits.com and visit the submission page. Contact us at info@newyorknolimits.com. Lineup announcement is 8/7.&n...
30.07.2013 | New York No Limits's blog |
Taking a cue from the recent explosion of controversial celebrity self-funding Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, such as Zach Braff's second feature I Wish I Was Here and the upcoming Veronica Mars movie, comedian Adam Carolla is raising money for his new film Road Hard on brand spankin' new crowdfunding platform FundAnything. With a $1M goal and 26 days to go, the project already has raised over $680,000. The comedian isn’t skimping on the incentives, eit...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
Taking a look at the box office opening history of Woody Allen’s films, his latest Blue Jasmine shows strong signs with a boxoffice per-theater average of $102,011. ...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
Woody Allen does it again! The man is amazing! What a genius! Every year he delivers a brand new picture perfect film! How does he do it? GENIUS!!! Woody Allen gives an entire new meaning to the psychiatric syndrome, Bag-Lady Syndrome, or women’s anxiety about being poor. FROM HOITY-TOITY, PRETENTIOUS, PARK AVE TROPHY WIFE WITH NO FORMAL DEGREE, TO PARK BENCH PRADA BAG LADY!!!! Even though the story is bittersweet, there are still many laughs t...
27.07.2013 | One World Cinema's blog | Autumn Of Route 66 documentary in California
Czech director Ester Brym is ready to showcase her 2nd feature film called Autumn of Route 66. The World Premiere with take place Monday, August 19th, 2013 at 8PM at Action on Film International Film Festival in Monrovia, California. Ester's first film have received multiple awards and have been broadcasted all over the world via UK based distributor Journeyman Pictures. This time around, the filmmaker takes us on a journey of a lifetime: Visually stunning experience that will leave you ...
27.07.2013 | filmester's blog |
Yesterday, July 24, the Latin American premier for HELI (2013) by Mexican director Amat Escalante took place at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico. Anyone who has seen the film agrees that HELI is heavy… The film opens with a bloody teenaged boy beaten by thugs and hung to death from a bridge with his pants down. HELI proves a veritable Hell of a world. It’s a lawless desert where the sun has set on things like justice, morality and basic human decency. Aft...
25.07.2013 | Cannes's blog |
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
For the 9th time already, and on the occasion of the 48th Karlovy Vary IFF, the annual FAN of Europe meeting brought together the film academies network for an exchnage of ideas and experiences concerning membership, awarding procedures, organisation of an awards ceremony and other projects. Attending were (1rst row, from left to right) Judith Colell - Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematograficas, Madrid * Marion Döring - European Film Academy * Isona Passola - Acad&e...
31.07.2013 | European Film Awards's blog |
EFA Master Class with Andreas Hykade and friends Ari Folman (Israel), Phil Mulloy (UK), David OReilly (Ireland) and Izabela Plucinska (Poland) The Runt - Andreas Hykade WHEN: 9 – 15 September 2013 WHERE: Institute of Animation, Visual Effects, and Digital Postproduction, Ludwigsburg/Germany MEET - Andreas Hykade / Germany (THE RUNT, LOVE & THEFT), tutor - ...
31.07.2013 | European Film Awards's blog |
1/ What was the reason why you produced 4week end of Champion’ 40 years ago ? First of all, because I was a fan of Formula 1 racings at that time, and car races in general. I was in fact in a race school names ‘The Racing Stables’but that was no the main reason. The main reason is I wanted to make a movie upon Jackie, who was my friend for a few years, who I admired quite a lot, as a champ but also as a man. So the reason was simple. 2/ Why did you only produce, and not dir...
31.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
As part of the 13th Wroclaw T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, the participants and lecturers of the first School of Film Agents (SOFA), which will take place from 19th until 30th August in Wroclaw (European Capital of Culture 2016), Poland, were introduced on July 26th. SOFA is a workshop initiative, which focuses on supporting the execution of innovative film and cinema projects by young professionals from Middle and Eastern Europe, the republics of Caucasus and from Germany....
31.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), taking place Sept 26 – Oct 6, announced today that its International Film Competition Jury will be presided over by Swiss-German director, producer and screenwriter Marc Forster, whose most recent and highly successful film WORLD WAR Z, continues its impressive box office run worldwide. The 43-year-old honorary citizen of Davos proves with WORLD WAR Z that the principles of auteurism can be applied intelligently to the genre of action film. ...
26.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
A Film Workshop with legendary director LLOYD KAUFMAN founder of TROMA Productions. Kaufman will meet film-makers and fans at his first Italian film workshop that will be held in Rome on the 26th and 27th 0f October 2013. Lloyd Kaufman will present his way of making films, through it’s themes and it’s creative process. On the second workshop day Lloyd Kaufman will show his directing techniques and how to produce a film with zero budget. After each workshop popular Troma Film...
26.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES THE Toronto – Piers Handling, Director and CEO of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, today announced the team of 18 programmers runs from Thursday, September 5 to Sunday, September 15, 2013 Canadian Features: Steve Gravestock has been selecting Canadian feature films Nordic Region, the Netherlands, and the Philippines including Canada's Top Ten™, the Canadian programming ...
25.07.2013 | Toronto Film Festival Dailies's blog |
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 ...
24.07.2013 | Guam International Film Festival's blog |
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> STRICTLY BUSINESS
The Bulletin Board
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...
09.07.2013 | Cannes Market Dailies's blog |
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT
6 6ème édition CULTURE AU QUAI ...
01.08.2013 | Editor's blog |
Jeunesse, innocence et passion amoureuse : le cocktail d'ouverture du 28ème ! "La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2" sera projeté le 27 septembre en présence du réalisateur, Abdellatif Kechiche! L'édition 2013 du Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur aura lieu du 27 septembre au 4 octobre. Pour lancer les festivités, le film d'Abdellatif Kechiche, auréolé de la Palm...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
http://www.festilama.org/ Yolande Moreau, Rebecca Zlotowski, Sólveig Anspach, Sandrine Veysset, François-Xavier Demaison, Thierry de Peretti, Sébastien Betbeder, Gilles Perret, Christian Philibert, Pascal Plisson, Frédéric Farrucci seront parmi les invités du Festival du Film de Lama, qui fêtera son 20e anniversaire du 27 juillet au 2 août 2013. En Haute-Corse, le village médiéval de Lama accueille chaque année ses ...
30.07.2013 | Editor's blog |
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