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European Film Awards 2014 go to Riga

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Interview with Mads Mikkelsen

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THE AWARDS WATCH

European Film Awards 2014 go to Riga

Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014, will be the host of the 27th European Film Awards next year. Taking place in Berlin, seat of the European Film Academy (EFA), every second year, in the other years the ceremony travels. EFA Director Marion Döring says, “as a truly European event, this is the only awards ceremony that travels and it is always great to bring the awards elsewhere. We’re looking forward to the Latvian taste the awards weekend will doubtlessly acquire!...

 

55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners List

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27th Goya Award Winners

Nicholas Clifford has won the coveted ‘fruit trophy’ as the winner of Tropfest Australia 2013

Ben McCarthy (NSW) has won Trop Jr

 

 

 

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Cinedelphia Film Festival is a celebration of the past and present of film in Philadelphia

 

Running from April 4 – 27, 2013, the Cinedelphia Film Festival is a celebration of the past and present of film in Philadelphia. All of the programming for this first-of-its-kind event is Philadelphia-related in some manner, be it shooting location, special guest, community programmer, etc. The CFF is presented by Cinedelphia.com, the online center of the Philadelphia film community. “There’s a lot more to Philly film than Rocky or Shyamalan,”...

 

New York 2013 Jewish Film Festival wrap report

Staged for the 22nd time, the annual New York Jewish Film Festival featured 45 films and shorts in January. The program presented a global perspective on the Jewish experience with a large number of productions devoted to the Holocaust and its aftermath. The 2013 festival included contemporary Israeli productions, avant garde films from the thirties, restored films, documentaries, several biopics as well as some titles focusing on the arts. &...

 

The 33rd edition of Fantasporto promises more films, more cultural diversity, more events and even higher quality

Pre -Fantas from February 25th to 28th The Competitions from March 1st to 10th FANTASPORTO’2013 KEEPS UP THE PUBLIC SERVICE The 33rd edition of Fantasporto, the greatest film festival of Portugal, will take place between February 25th and March 10th with the week March 1st- 9th dedicated to the international competitions: Official Section Fantasy for feature and short films, Official Section Directors Week (general), Official Section Orient Express (Asian...

 

Busan West Festival Lineup Revealed: Highlights include a short film program and a Martial Arts Cinema panel.

 

KIM JEE-WOON AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO OPEN 2013 BUSAN WEST FILM FESTIVAL AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY’S DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS Orange, CA (February 20, 2013) - Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States, in continued partnership with South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Asia’s largest film festival, today revealed the official progra...

 

Program of L’immagine e la parola unveiled

 

Thursday 21 February, a press conference was held at Monte Verità in Ascona, to announce the program for L’immagine e la parola, the first Festival del film Locarno spin-off event that is part of Primavera Locarnese. The event, with Carlo Chatrian as Artistic Director, focuses on the relationships between the moving image and the written word. L’immagine e la parola comprises different kinds of event, some of which are open to the public (Soiré...

 

Travelling Uranium Film Festival Had Great Success In India

 

The Brazilian born International Uranium Film Festival had great success in India. Between January 4th and February 12th the Uranium Film Festival travelled with more than 40 selected films through India from North to South and from East to West. The festival was guest in 10 cities: New Delhi, Shillong, Ranchi, Manipal, Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Thrissur and lastly in Mumbai. All together the festival reached an audience of about 5000 spectators during the screenings....

 

ÉCU President Scott Hillier talks about ÉCU 2013 Official Selection

 

ÉCU-The European Independent Film Festival is delighted to announce the Official Selection of it's 8th Edition. ÉCU 2013 will showcase 90 films from 28 countries which will compete in 15 categories for 25 awards on the 29th - 31st of March in Paris, France. ...

 

3 Film Festivals, in India

 

Film festival-hopping, in India Film- makers, as much as films, stole the show, at the three film festivals I attended in India, recently. It’s tough to escape film festivals, in India, as there are so many of them . You name the cities, and they all have them . Apart from Goa, N.Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum, they now have film festivals in Bangalore , Pune, Jaipur, Nasik ! The International Film Festival of India (IIFI), held at Goa, th...

 

20th edition of the Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart

 

The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is regarded as the biggest and one of the most important festivals for animated film worldwide. From April 23 to April 28, 2013 around 1,000 of the best animated films worldwide, will be shown in Stuttgart representing the whole spectrum of the genre. In addition to the competitions with the newest films from all over the world, the Festival also has an Extensive selection of supporting programme which offers exciting highlights such as the ...

 

14th Havana Film Festival New York highlights

 

14th Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) takes place April 12-19 with more than 45 films, including World, U.S. and N.Y. premieres from Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinos in the US. Participating countries are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the United States. The full program and complete list of films will be available starting March 11th at www.hffny.com HFFNY is the annual film and ...

 

Locarno Festival spin-off, and 2013 poster

The first edition of L'immagine e la parola, the Festival del film Locarno’s spin-off event that is part of Primavera Locarnese, will take place 24-27 March 2013. The event, with Carlo Chatrian as Artistic Director, focuses on the relationships between the moving image and the written word. L’immagine e la parola comprises screenings, encounters, workshops and discussions, and is composed of both events for the general audience and an educational program fo...

 

 

 

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9th Glasgow Fest lines up stars Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Eli Roth and Régis Roinsard...

 

Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Eli Roth and Régis Roinsard all set to attend. Glasgow Film Festival is delighted to announce that Joss Whedon, the man behind long-running TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as 2012 blockbuster Avengers Assemble, is expected to attend GFF’s Closing Gala, the UK Premiere of his film Much Ado About Nothing, on the evening of Sunday 24 February. Whedon’s reputation alone meant that...

 

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5th Okinawa International Film Festival welcomes Joel Schumacher as jury

 

I worked with Joel on Flatliners with Julia Roberts, his film was a hit of course in France, where I distributed it. I consider him a very creative visual director and have since followed his career, he will bring talent to the festival. Bruno Chatelin Yoshimoto Kogyo today announced the programs of the 5th Okinawa International Movie Festival (OIMF) through a press conference held at its Tokyo office. With Takashi Fujii and Ayako Kisa hosting the conference, total of 19 comed...

 

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