Special Announcement! For the 2019 festival, we are so excited to work with Footage Farm Ltd on both an excellent archive panel as well as prizes for our Feature Documentary and Short Documentary winners!
FOOTAGE FARM was created in 2001 with the simple goal of offering documentary producers and film-makers easy access to public domain material without the often high costs of license fees.
The prizes for our documentary winners are as follows:
-The winner of the best documentary fe...
The New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) had it’s 39th annual Muse Awards gala luncheon on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at the Hilton hotel in New York City, to recognize and celebrate extraordinary women for their achievements, talent and vision in the entertainment industry.
Terry Lawler, Ellen Burstyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lisa Nishimura, Tricia Brock, Julie Menin, Simone Pero
NYWIFT has supported and empowered women working in the show business for 40 years and th...
We are so excited to announce that one of the short films featured in our 2018 festival, "Marguerite" directed by Marianne Farley, has been short-listed for an Academy Award!
Congrats to the filmmakers! We are honored to have featured your film in our festival!
Want to submit? Visit: https://www.nycindieff.com/submissions/submit
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IFFI 2018, I: The Winners
At the 49th International Film festival of India (IFFI), 2018, which concluded in Panaji, Goa, on the 28th of November, the following films and film personalities got the honours:
*Golden Peacock for Best Film: Donbass, Ukraine
*Silver Peacock for Best Director: Lijo Jose Pellisery, for Ee.Ma.Yau, India (Malayalam language)
*Special Jury Award: Director Milko Lazarov, for Aga (Germany)
*Silver Peacock for Best Actor (Male): Chemban Vinod, for Ee.Ma.Yau
*Silver P...
Frédéric Maire and Thai filmmaker, Cannes Palme d'Or Winner: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Celebrates 80th Anniversary in a Special Ceremony Re-Affirming Core Mission and Honoring the Thai Palme d'Or Winner
FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, presented its 2018 FIAF Award to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul yesterday Monday, November 19th at a special ceremony held a...
Happy Thanksgiving friends and fans of the NYC Independent Film Festival! We're here with another exciting announcement - A distribution deal with ShortsTv will also be offered to the winner of the “Best Super Short Film award!
(Winner does not have to accept offer and in the result of a tie the distribution deal will be given to two winners)
*Note for both short film and super short film distribution deal - The film must be TV appropriate in subject matter to qualify for the ...
Bergman showcase at IFFI 2018
2018 marks the centenary of Ingmar Bergman's birth. On this occasion, when the centenary celebrations are in full swing across the globe, IFFI 2018 will be showcasing 7 of the best films from his substantial filmography.
These films are Summer With Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Persona, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, and Saraband.
In addition to these seven films, a documentary on Bergman titled Bergman Island, directed by Marie Nyrerod,...
Aspern Papers’s world premiere to open 49th IFFI
The 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be held in Goa from 20th to 28th November and will showcase 212 films from over 68 countries.
~The festival will open with the World Premiere of The Aspern Papers. The director Julien Landais and , including Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Golden Globe winner), Joely Richardson (Oscar-nominated actress), Morgane Polanski (actress and daughter of Roman Polanski) will be present at the screen...
Didn't make it to the Paris portion of our festival? Curious what went down?
Check out our gorgeous photos taken by photographer India Lange!
You can view them on our Facebook or website. There's so many awesome shots of our brilliant filmmakers as well as our audience members having a great time!
To submit to the second annual festival visit: FilmFreeway
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We had 23 INCREDIBLE films from 8 different countries!
Thank you to all the filmmakers who took part and the fans that attended! Without your support, none of this would be possible!
We are pleased to officially announce the 2018 winners!
(Note- the list of winners is also on our website)
BEST SHORT FILM
Alone
by Antoine Laurens
BEST DIRECTOR
Jeremie Seguin (Sweetheart, Mon Poussin)
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM
Nicolas Fabian (Alone)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM
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Submit by August 31, 2018 to be a part of our 10th Annual festival, happening May 5 through May 12 2019!
To submit visit: https://filmfreeway.com/nycindieff
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The11th Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival will be held from 14 to 23 September. This year we are especially pleased to welcome as our guest of honour, the American film director John Landis.
John Landis, an avid cinephile, began his career in the mailroom of 20th Century Fox Studios. A high school dropout, he made his way to the former Yugoslavia at age 18 to work as a “gofer” on MGM’s K...
Danny DeVito (Neptune, New Jersey, United States, 1944) will be presented with a Donostia Award at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival on Saturday 22 September in the Kursaal. The fo...
As we gear up for the 10th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival, we are thrilled to announce that in celebration of a decade of ‘never boring’ cinema, we will be screening all past ‘Best in Music Video’ winners from 2012-2018!
We thank all past winners for allowing us to screen their music videos again as a special treat for all of you. Get ready to jam!
In other exciting news, all of our 2018 interviews are now available to watch on our website. Intereste...
19th Annual All Free TromaDance Film Festival
Scheduled for Fall 2018 due to filming of "Shakespeare's Shitstorm"
"Due to the filming of our next feature film, 'Shakespeare's Shitstorm' the 19th Annual TromaDance Film Festival will be held this Fall. A little later than usual, but rest assured, TromaDance 19 is happening! Please continue to submit your feature films and shorts! The tentative submissions dea...
The Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the U.S., is launching its 32nd edition by hosting a Sponsor Luncheon celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary and honoring Netflix’s Larry Tanz, Star Wars: The Last Jedi producer Ram Bergman and philanthropist Stanley Black, it was announced by Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir Fenigstein.
Tanz, Vice President, Global Television at Netflix, has been named the 2018 IFF Achievement ...
Advance Sneak Peek of Jeff Bridges Living in Futures Past with Music Artist, Olivia Olson at New Media Film Festival
Out of news from Cannes, Living in Futures Past got a theatrical release making this screening an advance sneak peek celebration of the film ahead of the theatrical.
On June 16th and 17th, 2018, Saturday at 7:30 pm in the James Bridges Theater in Los Angeles, CA, the 9th Annual New Media Film Festival opening night festivities begin. This year’s festival boasts 110 ...
Best Short Film Competition - EVER!
Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. We let the community decide.
Up to $10,000 for the short script. Up to $25,000 for the filmmaker to shoot it.
Writers can't judge writers. Filmmakers can't judge filmmakers. Everyone receives a massive amount of feedback.
The filmmaker owns 100% of the film. Writersandfilmmakers.com owns 0%.
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The Universe Multicultural Film Festival ( UMFF) started its honoree program from 2017 edition. The program is opening for worldwide general public to nominate their favorite film makers via on line form that listed on its web site.
This year, the winners for the 2018 UMFF honorees are :
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Gene Warren Jr,
Gene Warren Jr. is an accomplished Oscar winner cinematographer, model maker, sculptor and stop motion animator. His experience in motio...
Tiburon International Film Festival proudly is holding a tribute in honor of the great Italian poet, and filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most talented, controversial, intelligent, and daring filmmakers of his generation. We salute Pasolini and pay our homage with a new documentary titled The Isle of Medea, directed by fellow Italian filmmaker Sergio Naitza.
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Come to the Silver Scream Festival this February to see the Creature From The Black Lagoon on the big screen. After the screening, meet the man in the suit himself, Ricou Browning! The last surviving Universal Monster honors us with his presence to meet with fans and talk about possibly the most important monster movie ever.
With rave reviews coming in for The Shape Of Water we wanted to celebrate the film that inspired Guillermo Del Toro's modern masterpiece.
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Shashi Kapoor gone? What a huge loss!
Nine years ago, the Pune International Film Festival honoured Shashi Kapoor with a Life-time Achievement Award. He had already suffered a stroke and could only mumble, yet his presence lit up the auditorium. I felt privileged to have contributed his profile to the official brochure of the festival, but a tear ran down my cheek as he was given the award. As the news of his passing away came in an hour ago, I felt deeply distraught. We had worked together i...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Wednesday (October 25) to present a Special Award – an Oscar® statuette – to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, “CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible),” in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling.
“The Governors of the Academy are proud to present a special Oscar to ‘CARNE ...
