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THE NEW VERSION OF THE SITE
The renowned Festival Directory from Filmfestivals.com
has MERGED AND MOVED to Fest21.com whith easier search options, simplified
update process for festivals.
New: FestivalExpress, the one click film submission.
- Filmmakers: register your film and select the Festivals marked as Yes for "Submission accepted".
More info .
- Festival organizers: try the FestivalExpress to manage your festival submissions.
Should you want to try the Beta Version for free email us (limited quota only, act fast)
Quick summary of the changes on fest21.com
include :
- New look, easier navigation
- Opening of a major Film database for international filmmakers
- Launch of the new video platform
- Launch of Fest21 e-commerce store
- More Professional functionnalities and promotion options
YOU WILL SHORTLY BE RECEIVING AN EMAIL WITH NEW
PROCEDURES FOR FESTIVAL UPDATE
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FESTIVAL CALENDARS
FESTIVALS THIS WEEK The
calendar
FESTIVALS THIS MONTH Month
Calendar
FESTIVALS SUBMISSION CALENDARS
Festivals
calling for your films This week, this month...
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"A FESTIVAL WIFE" TO BE SERIALIZED ON FEST21.COM
Filmfestivals.com, the online source for global film festival news and
resources, will serialize "A Festival Wife," a first novel by former
Variety reporter Rex Weiner, and publish on fest21.com culminating in Cannes.
Here is the introduction to the first chapter (read more online)
Chapter 1
A Festival Wife by Rex Weiner
"Who are they?" my director demanded, "and will you please, please stop pulling on me!"
Steering
my charge up the sidewalk beyond the black roil of limos and taxis, the
fans pressed like meat against the barricades, the security guards
glaring dumbly at guest passes, the insatiable paparazzi, I was too
busy doing my job to more than mutter some vague acknowledgement of his
question and his complaint.
What
a sorry pain in the ass he'd been all morning, this all-time great but
nearly forgotten and clinically depressed film director. Only moments
earlier I'd seriously doubted he would, or even could, rouse himself
from his self-pitying torpor for the big event.
Now, however, as the brass band trumpeted the theme from Dr. Zhivago
and klieg lights laced the sky over the red carpet leading up the
stairs of the Castello di Festival, he was very much roused, all right.
But not by the event itself.
"That couple up there. She is absolutely positively lovely."
The horny old bastard...
Read more on fest21.com
NEWS FROM THESSALONIKI
JUST TALKING 15/3 part 3 and 4
Fabio Wuytack interview , Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
JUST TALKING 15/3 PARTS 1 AND 2
Fabio Wiuzack: Persona non grata
Peter Wintonick: interview by Cecile Rittweger
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SUBMIT TO THESE FESTIVALS USING FESTIVALEXPRESS OUR NEW SUBMISSION TOOL ON FEST21.COM
KIDS FIRST! FILM FESTIVAL July 15 - Oct. 15
Now
in its tenth year, the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival is a showcase for new
and classic children's films, TV shows, and DVDs from studios,
independent producers and youth producers. Programming includes sneak
previews of outstanding films, DVDs and TV shows made for children ages
2 through 18.
Call for entries opens March 15, with May 15 as Late Deadline
Submit now
ANGEL FILM AWARDS December 3 - 6, 2009
The Angel Film Awards celebrates films that impart love, peace, and
oneness in their creative spirit for humankind. Each visual creation
floods our beings with a light that shines brightly with positive
images in our reverie. This art form is the focal point of our
selection process with a team of celebrated global professionals. Call
for entry ends October 15th
Submit online
THE GALWAY FILM FLEADH 7th-12th July 2009
The Galway Film Fleadh, now in it's 21st year, takes place every July
and screens the best of New Irish, European and International features
and documentaries as well as welcoming a host of filmmakers,
International programmers and other industry delegates. It also
platforms excellence in filmmaking with retrospectives, public
interviews, tributes and masterclasses
Submit your film by April 17th
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AWARDS
Filmfestivals.com
Festival Film of the year Nominees
The winners of the various Go Short awards
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century Awards
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DAILIES FROM THE CIRCUIT ON FEST21.COM
Dailies
from the circuit: NEXT on fest21.com IFFS
Paris, Thessaloniki Film Fest , Miami, ECU,
Current Fest dailies on fest21.com Fantasporto,
La Comedy Shorts
Recent video coverage IDFA,
Capri,
IFFI Goa, , Fort
Lauderdale Film Festival, Montreal
Nouveau Cinéma, Diractors,
Cinemed,
UNAFF,
LondonFilmFestival,
Montreal,
Toronto,
San Sebastian,
London,
Cinemed,
Berlinale, Sundance, Santa Barbara, Talinn Black Nights
Ischia, Locarno, New York, Silverdocs
, Festroia
More archive Blogging from
Miami,
Cinequest, Santa
Barbara, Berlin,
Park City
, Tribeca
Film Festival, San
Francisco, Sydney
,
Cannes, La
Croisette Cannes, Future
of Cinema Salon in Cannes
Come
back for the videos from the Fest Summit panels on fest21.com
(shot by Nickolay
Velikanov)
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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS
Peter Scarlet heads from Tribeca to Middle East Fest
The EDN Award 2009 is presented to Nenad Puhovski and ZagrebDox
keynotes by AAFF Founder George Manupelli
Cyndi Lauper-Belgrade - New York
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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS
The selected projects for Tribeca All Access
Spike Lee's Kobe Doin' Work world premiere at Tribeca
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
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D-CINEMA NEWS
RealD
demos Monsters vs Aliens at CES
Can you speak the Digital language?
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THE NEWS " IN FRENCH " l'actu des festivals
francophones
Dernières
nouvelles sur la nouvelle version française de fest21.com
Découvrez nos bureaux situés dans le pittoresque Passage Choiseul au 89
China Europa: votez pour votre film préféré !
L'atelier à Cannes
Le Grand Public récompense les héros du cinéma
Mégarama pépare son virage digital au Maroc
Etude sur les réseaux sociaux
Séraphine repeint les Cesar à ses couleurs
L'Observatoire publie son nouveau rapport IRIS plus sur le statut juridique des producteurs de films en Russie
ET sur filmfestivals.fr...
Didier Gustin, invité d'honneur de Cinérail 2009
les internautes coproduisent leur film avec Galatée Films
COL COA le line up
Pascale Ferran invitée du festival des scénaristes de Bourges
Festival International du Film de Ouidah
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ASPIRING FEST REPORTERS & BLOGGERS WANTED, GET
YOUR FEST ACCRED THROUGH US
Share your Festival experiences with us: OPEN YOUR BLOG
AND PUBLISH ON OUR FREE PLATFORM.
Become a filmfestival
reporter and ambassador and open your own blog on www.fest21.com
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NEWS FROM CANNES
Check out the Cannes Blog
Photo Gallery,
Video Gallery
Short Film Corner
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CALL
FOR ENTRIES ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
Filmmakers don't miss these ones!
THE SHORT FILM CORNER Cannes 13 - 22, 2009
Located in the Palais des Festivals, the Short Film Corner is a huge
area open to all the professionals registered with the Festival de
Cannes and the Marché du Film. The Short Film Corner proposes films
from all over the world, most previously unseen, as well as the films
included in the Official Competition, the Cinéfondation, the Director's
Fortnight and Critic's Week. Call for entry deadline is April 17th
Submit now
PALM SPRINGS SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL June 23 – 29, 2009
This celebrated event is the largest festival of its kind in America,
showcasing over 320 short films each year from more than 40 countries,
with a library of more than 2,700 films available to film buyers,
industry and press in the Film Market running concurrently with the
Festival. The Festival includes twenty awards in six competitive
categories, with award cash or film production prizes in each category
( over $100,000 worth of prizes, in all). Call for Entries - Final
deadline: April 24, 2009
SUBMIT TODAY
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.
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.
Submit
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.
Submit
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!
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.
Submit
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
and semi-professional film work. Features include true HD
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
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
ANNUAL
PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Calls SHORT FILMS producers worldwide to participate with
their works.
Also see the news on the Festival for Documentaries and
Narrative Movies.
Awards information and call
for entries
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