NEWSLETTER N° 592: March 22, 2013
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NEWSLETTER N° 592: March 22, 2013 |
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__________________________________________ EFA partners at the Berlinale Talent Campus panel THE SHORT FILM GALAXY Presented in co-operation with the European Film Academy and Berlinale Shorts, the Berlinale Talent Campus panel THE SHORT FILM GALAXY featured festival representatives from Clermont-Ferrand, Sarajevo, Tampere and Vila do Conde. All of them are partners in the EFA short film initiative (each festival announces a short film nomination for the European Film Awards) and the programmers shared some insider knowledge about festival submission and selection of short films, and brought along one...
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY NOMINATES THE SUICIDE SHOP, UPSIDEdown and THE ZIGZAG KID Children Juries in Eight European Cities will Elect Winner of EFA Young Audience Award The European Film Academy proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2013: THE SUICIDE SHOP by Patrice Leconte (France, Belgium & Canada) UPSIDEdown by Bernd Sahling (Germany) THE ZIGZAG KID by Vincent Bal (the Netherlan...
__________________________________________ First winners and nominations of the 16th Holland Animation Film Festival
Winners VNAP Trade Award for Dutch Animation: Hisko Hulsing with Junkyard Paco Vink and Albert ’t Hooft with Fallin’ Floyd Mischa Rozema with Stardust Nominations for the Grand Prize for Dutch Animation: Junkyard by Hisko Hulsing Crops by Gerco de Ruijter [mu:st?rman] - A Flood Story by Maarten Isaäk de Heer Holland Animation Film Festival 20 - 24 March 2013 in Utrecht Animation highlights, from art-house to c...
2013 Diagonale Film Festival Prize Winners
Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Feature Film (€ 21.000) Tizza Covi und Rainer Frimmel for Der Glanz des Tages (The Shine of Day) Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary Film (€ 21.000) Bernadette Weigel for Fahrtwind – Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden (Fair Wind – Notes of a Traveller) Best Innovative Cinema Award (€ 10.500) Michaela Grill for FORÊT D’EXPÉRIMENTATION Best Short Feature Film (€ 4.000) Fl...
‘Sal’ and ‘Headfirst’ Top Winners at First Time Fest 2013 Awards By Maria Esteves – March 21, 2013 The Inaugural First Time Fest (FTF) 2013 Closing Night Awards honoring first-time filmmakers hosted by Award winning (Oscar, Emmy, Tony) actress Ellen Burstyn and presented by Anthony Rapp commenced Monday, March 4, 2013, 8:00 PM, at the historic Players Club, New York. Founded by Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward, the festival presents directorial debuts from around the world with theatrical distribution, as it’s key element. The Inaugural First Time...
In Germany we say: „Fußball ist die schönste Nebensache der Welt“ (an English translation could be: „Football is the nicest minor matter in the world”). Others are sometimes more radical – like the Scottish ex-player Bill Shankly: Is football a matter of life and death? „I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” For sure is that soccer has I side, which is no laughing matter &nda...
Awards of the 17th Sofia International Film Festival THE AWARDS - 17th SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - www.siff.bg The festival presented a total of 246 films from 49 countries from all over the world. Over 300 international guests came to Sofia, amongst them were directors, producers, festival directors as well as media and film experts. The Award Ceremony took place on the 16th of March in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture. THE INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR FIRST AND SECOND FEATURE FILMS ...
__________________________________________ Diagonale 2013 ends with record-breaking attendance Screenings of the award-winning films on Sunday evening brought the 16th edition of Diagonale Film Festival in Graz to a close with a record number of visitors in attendance. Between the 12th and 17th of March, the Austrian film festival showed a total of 156 films, 98 of which were registered in the competition. There were 38 world premieres and 21 Austrian premieres on the program. A total of 101 directors were personally present for the screening of their films. With packed cinemas and...
ALL IN by Argentine director Daniel Burman will open the second Argentine Film Festival, London
The hit comedy ALL IN (La suerte en tus manos) by acclaimed Argentine director Daniel Burman, and starring the Oscar-winning musician and actor, Jorge Drexler, will open the second Argentine Film Festival, London this April 17-21st and will be one of 5 films to receive its UK premiere at the festival this year. The Argentine Film Festival, which launched in 2012 to sell-out success, returns for its second edition to 3 venues: Ritzy cinema, Hackney Picturehouse and Cineworld Haymarket and...
BMW suspends sponsorship of Berlinale Film Festival. German actor August Diehl arriving on red carpet in former Berlinale sponsor BMW. The Berlin International Film Festival and BMW Group Partnership Ends after Four Successful Years With the Berlinale 2013, the four-year commitment of BMW Group as principal partner of the Berlin International Film Festival drew to a splendid close. By providing around one hundred vehicles, the BMW Group made it possible for the stars to arrive at the Red Carpet in style. And with BMW as its host, the G...
New York City: First Time Fest wrapped
The First Time Fest, FTF, was held this year in New York City from March 1-4 at the prestigious Players Club for the panels, meeting, and the opening and closing awards ceremonies while at nearby a multiplex cinema all screenings took place. In four days 12 feature length documentaries and films by first time film makers from North and Latin America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia competed for the Grand Prize and numerous other FTF awards. Among the noteworthy entries was t...
SFIFF Announces Opening, Closing and Centerpiece Events
2013 Festival Celebrates Local Heroes and Welcomes Back Beloved Filmmakers with What Maisie Knew, Before Midnight and Inequality For All The 56th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 25 - May 9) has announced the films forming its highly-anticipated Big Nights series. Things kick off with the Opening Night presentation of returning Bay Area duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel&...
A new nomination at the festival “Dytiatko” - “BEST CHILDREN`S FILM”
A corresponding order has been signed by Head of Kharkiv Regional Council, Head of the Festival Organizational Committee Sergii Chernov. The order introduces amendments to the Regulation of “Dytiatko” Festival Conduction covering not only competition program broadening but also improvement of technical requirements for the works submitted for competition. Duration of work in the "Best children's film" - up to 120 minutes. The works submitted for the participati...
In Germany we say: „Fußball ist die schönste Nebensache der Welt“ (an English translation could be: „Football is the nicest minor matter in the world”). Others are sometimes more radical – like the Scottish ex-player Bill Shankly: Is football a matter of life and death? „I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” For sure is that soccer has I side, which is no laughing matter &nda...
17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival - Oct 17 to 21, 2013 in Hollywood, California. OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES. We are accepting entries in all categories for the 2013 HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL.Enter Your FILM Now We accept both domestic and international submissions. Early Bird deadline is March 30, 2013. SUBMIT YOUR FILM TODAY! Visit us at HOLLYWOODFEST.COM ...
1989 will be remembered forever in history books as the year, when the Berlin wall came down. `Cause of this revolutionary event and his results, it´s almost forgotten what happened in other parts of the world at the same time. In Colombia, for example, the so called „drug war“ has been on his heights. Responsible for this, as the majority will respond, has been solely one person: Pablo Escobar, the „patrón“ of the Medellín Cartel. A namesake, who c...
Winner or loser? To think only in this categories, that´s the cruel side of sport – not only of the professional. If you see the documentary „The Other Final” (Netherlands 2003, directed by Johan Kramer) you may think more about this dichotomy. It has been parallel to the Soccer World Cup final between Brazil and Germany in 2002, that a Dutch guy (after he was reflecting more about the meaning of losing ´cause the Netherlands didn´t qualify for the WC) orga...
All soccer fans know these moments of „What would have happened, when...?“. If the normally so brilliantly playing defender of the own team, would have attended better, yes, then… Take, for example, the Champions League final from 1999: After 90 minutes Bayern Munich had a 1-0 lead. But ManU scored two goals within three minutes in injury time and won with 2-1. If ManU-striker Ole-Gunnar Solskjær would have guarded better, then... The Italian-Argentine film „Th... __________________________________________ COL·COA has confirmed the program of documentary features and short films
City of Lights, City of Angels (COL·COA) has confirmed the program of documentary features and its palate of short films, programmed to accompany films in competition, and will also participate in the short films competition as well. The 17th edition of the festival runs April 15-22 at the Directors Guild of America. -COL·COA.doc: FRENCH DOCUMENTARIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD Three films will round up the documentary section at COL·COA 2013: &nb...
Keeping Up with The Kennedy, Jamie Kennedy
by Quendrith Johnson Since actor/producer Jamie Kennedy was in David O. Russell's Persian Gulf war movie "Three Kings," it seemed only fitting to catch up with him and get his reaction to Russell's recent Oscar success with "Silver Linings Playbook." "I'm not surprised," Kennedy said, "and I'm really excited for him. He's so hot right now." While you may know Jamie Kennedy from his comedy performances (as in: The Jamie Kennedy Exper...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lbhrwh9Tg What if you could change the History with one shot? 10 Times festival Award Winner, this thriller tells about a ordinary man that tryes to eliminate Hitler in 1942. Written and shot before Glorious Bastards and Valquiries. This script was pitch in Los Angeles in 2007 with many producers interested, but with one big thorn. They all wanted that the main character should ...
Tom Berninger's Mistaken For Strangers will Open 2013 Tribeca Film Festival
By Maria Esteves - March 18, 2013 The 12th Annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF 2013) will be held at venues in New York, April 17 - 28, 2013. Presented by American Express, the festival supports emerging and established directors from around the world promoting New York City as a major filmmaking center. This year's festival will showcase 22 narratives, 12 documentaries, 59 shorts, panel discussions, special events, online screenings, real time video streaming, free events, awards ceremony,...
Director's Linsanity- Evan Jackson Leong's Journey to Tell Jeremy Lin's Story By Mike "Tak" Takeuchi ( Scene from “Linsanity” Photo Courtesy of the Sundance Institute) Not long ago, filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong began filming content on a subject without fully knowing what he had. Although he had an idea of what the story might be, Leong kept an open mind to see what lay ahead for a heretofore unknown aspiring professional basketball player. Then "Linsanity" happened. On February 12, 2...
1989 will be remembered forever in history books as the year, when the Berlin wall came down. `Cause of this revolutionary event and his results, it´s almost forgotten what happened in other parts of the world at the same time. In Colombia, for example, the so called „drug war“ has been on his heights. Responsible for this, as the majority will respond, has been solely one person: Pablo Escobar, the „patrón“ of the Medellín Cartel. A namesake, who c...
The Sonoma International Film Festival to open with The Iceman,
The Sonoma International Film Festival (April 10-14) is proud to open their 16th edition with The Iceman, directed by Ariel Vromen and starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans and James Franco, and will present the North American Premiere of A Monkey on My Shoulder (À coeur ouvert), directed by Marion Laine and starring Juliette Binoche and Édgar Ramírez to close the fest. This year SIFF will honor Academy Award-nominated actor Demi&aa...
© Festival del film Locarno Aleksandr Sokurov will return to Locarno after winning a Leopard of Honor in 2006, and will participate in several events of L’immagine e la parola. The evening of 26 March the prominent Russian filmmaker will introduce the screening of his latest film Faust, Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Festival. The evening will start at 20:30 at Teatro Kursaal (Locarno) and will be preced...
Jon Fitzgerald steps in as Hollywood Film Festival Executive Director
The Hollywood Film Festival announced the appointment of Fest veteran Jon Fitzgerald as Executive Director of the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival. Jon's experience in the online, film festival, and worldwide film communities will be a great asset to the growth and new direction of our Festival,said Carlos de Abreu, founder of the Hollywood Film Festival. As a co-founder and former executive director of Slamdance, AFI Fest, Santa Barbara and Abu Dhabi film fest... Filmfestivals.com and Marché du Film are happy to suggest this half price registration fee for Marché du film, an offer reserved to our festival friends first time visitors to Cannes. Encounter a world of opportunity at the Marché du Film Join the Marché du Film, the largest film market in the world, and you will become a privileged holder of the Marché badge, which will allow you to profit from a number of...
The Application Round for the Berlinale Residency 2013 Is Now Open
The first Berlinale Residency just closed successfully during this year’s Berlin International Film Festival with the presentation of the selected projects by Matías Bize, Rebecca Daly, Samuel Maoz, Raya Martin, Rafi Pitts and Sacha Polak. And now the fellowship programme is again inviting filmmakers from around the world to apply for a three-month stay in Berlin. The “Berlin 24/ |
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17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival calling for entries The 17th Annual HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL(Oct 17-21, 2013) is now open for submissions in the follow genres: Features (all genres including animation, drama, comedy, horror), Docs, and Shorts (including animation). With film presentations taking place in the heart of Hollywood, the Festival presents a valuable screening platform for independent filmmakers, while providing for access to the studios and industry at large. The 2013 event will take this concept to the next level, presenting a unique networking program with “HOLLYWOOD NETWORK® INITIATIVE.” SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2013 – SUBMIT TODAY on WaB or on the site! Hollyshorts calling for entries The 9th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival, scheduled for August 15-25, 2013 at the world famous Chinese Theatre, is now accepting submissions. (www.withoutabox.com/login/4655). 2012 HSFF featured over 300 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Neil Labute, Zachary Quinto, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Joe Carnahan, awarded over $70,000 in prizes, including $30,000 in post services courtesy of Company 3 for Best Short, Director, Music Video, and Commercial. www.hollyshorts.com Submit now Las Vegas Film Festival Calling for entries
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Confidentiel: un nouveau festival sur la côte Normande à Villerville Etoile et Mer, Sabrina Botbol, la Mairie de Villerville, Bruno Chatelin, Axel Brucker et un groupe des "Amis du Festival" préparent activement le lancement d'un nouveau festival : "Heritage Villerville Film Festival" dédié au Patrimoine, à la création et à la transmission. La première édition devrait se tenir le 21,22 et 23 juin prochain au Casino, les pieds dans l'eau avec bien entendu avec coquillages et crustacés à profusion... Palmarès de Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse La European Film Academy nomine LE MAGASIN DES SUICIDES, UPSIDEdown et THE ZIGZAG KID Cannes dévoile son affiche 2013 : une affiche pour faire tourner les têtes Entretien avec Igor Primault du CNC Compte rendu vidéo de la table ronde CNC vidéo à la demande (VàD) Offre filmfestivals.com et Marché du Film pour une accréditation au Marché à moitié prix Présentation du Festival Arts des Suds Les temps forts du Festival International du Film Oriental de Genève 2013 Bertrand Tavernier invité d’honneur du Brussels Film Festival 12e Rencontres du Cinéma Européen - la bande annonce
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