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Daizy Gedeon
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ENOUGH!
Lebanon’s Darkest Hour
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT - DAIZY GEDEON
I began this film in 2016 after years of watching and witnessing the growing disillusionment, frustration, degradation, and poverty among the people of Leba...
Mélanie Thierry © picture : Sabine Villiard
Mélanie Thierry © picture : Sabine Villiard
The French actress Mélanie Thierry will be the President of the 2021 Camera d’or that will award a first feature film selected at the Festival de Cannes.
« Nothing is as fragile or as miraculous as a first movie. This testifies to the courage and the faith of all the directors who, after such a long period of seclusion, succeeded in providing us wi...
Please register for the complimentary event at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-global-entertainment-showcase-registration-161339632183
Cloud 21 International & Kultura PR International to Present 4th Annual “Global Entertainment Showcase” Special Virtual Event on July 11, 2021
during French Riviera Film Festival and Festival de Cannes
Panel to Feature Award-winning Filmmaker/Producers Ali ...
The Jury of the 74th Festival de Cannes
Around the President Spike Lee, five women and 3 men of seven nationalities, coming from five continents will have the privilege to discover the 24 films of the 2021 international Competition. As a reflect of the official Selection, almost the whole world will be part of these long-awaited premieres.
Spike Lee - President
Director, producer, screenwriter (United States)
Mati Diop
Director (France, Senegal)
Myl&eg...
French-Belgian co-production TITANE & Swedish-Belgian-Croatian-German co-production CLARA SOLA
European Film Promotion is delighted that it will be able to welcome the PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE from the 2021 and 2020 digital selections to Cannes in person - with five of them having a film at the festival.
A total of 14 producers are expected to be attending from this year’s programme, including the French producer Jean-Christophe Reymond, who will present his current film Titane ...
We're pleased to announce the third edition of Meet the Streamers, our program dedicated to streaming platforms, strategy and innovation.
The growing program will notably welcome ViacomCBS’ Paramount+ and Discovery’s discovery+ for two major keynotes!
Meet the Streamers is thrilled to host ViacomCBS’ Paramount+ as its exclusive guest following the service’s March 2021 launch.
Participants will be able t...
Telluride Film Festival, presented by National Film Preserve LTD., is proud to announce Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins as its 2021 Guest Director. The celebrated filmmaker is set to select a series of films to present at the 48h Telluride Film Festival running September 2 - 6, 2021.
Festival organizers annually select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as ...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Catch Vin Diesel making heart-shaped hands in this wild video from Universal CityWalk, when fans go an advanced look at F(, the latest in the Fast and the Furious franchise. We nicked this clip from our friends at Screenmancer in LA. Go back to the movies, or go home!
F9 | Furiosa
From Screenmancer
Nobody needs to say anything, except? Just WTF9 to the diehard F9 stans. Tell you what, CityWalk, nice parking job. Show Vin ...
Bruno Chatelin, filmfestivals.com co founder, spoke with the Market Director Jérôme Paillard to run through its different new features. With the Online Pre-Cannes Screenings starting June 21 for 5 days of screenings for buyers and festivals only. And new features during the Marché July 6 to 15
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The Marché du Film – Festivalde Cannes is pleased to announce the third edition of its event dedicated to streaming platforms, strategy and innovation, Meet the Streamers. The growing program will notably welcome ViacomCBS’ Paramount+, Discovery’s discovery+ for two major keynotes, and will be part of the Marché du Film which will run from the 6th to the 15th of July 2021.
Kelly Day - VCNI / Kelly Day - VCNI / Myriam Lopez-Otazu...
Mounia Meddour © Olivier Vigerie, Daniel Burman © The mediapro Studio, Andrea Arnold © Rankin, Michael Covino © DR, Elsa Zylberstein © Sylvie Lancrenon
President
Andrea Arnold
Director, screenwriter
(United Kingdom)
Mounia Meddour
Director, screenwriter, producer
(Algeria)
Elsa Zylberstein
Actress
(France)
Daniel Burman
Director, producer, screenwriter
(Argentina)
Michael Covino
Director, producer, actor
(United States)
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Kaouther Ben Hania © DR / Sameh Alaa © Mattbed / Tuva Novotny © Henrik Adamsen / Nicolas Pariser © Victor Mirabel / Alice Winocour © Aurélie Lamachère / Carlos Muguiro © Iñigo Royo
The Jury for Short Films and the Cinéfondation film school competition will be awarding the Short Film Palme d'or to one of the 10 films in Competition, and the three Cinéfondation prizes to the best of the 17 selected films by...
augenschein Filmproduktion, Germany’s independent film production company, has expanded its core operations with the launch of augenschein Sales, an in-house worldwide sales and financing arm headed by well-respected executive Jonathan Saubach. The new division will focus on combining the financing for the company’s production slate through access to equity, market pre-sales and film funds. This convergence of production, financing and sales under one roof will allow augenschein to...
Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Halle Berry, Lenny Kravitz, Zoe Kravitz, Paris Jackson, Usher, Lionel Richie, Eddie Murphy, Evan Ross, Maggie Q, Raquel Bitton, Chrome Hearts and more, come together with art and fashion for fundraiser auction to benefit the Chema Vision Children’s Center in Nairobi, Kenya
See link for Celebrity Pictures
West Hollywood, CA – June 14, 2021: LA’s art and luxury fashion retailer to the stars, Churc...
The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has appointed Aaron Herps as the General Manager of its Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), following the departure of Neil Gane, who leaves AVIA to take up a position with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
Herps joined AVIA in 2019 as the Operations Manager for CAP, working alongside Gane on all CAP initiatives from government outreach to criminal investigations and associated enforcement actions against syndicates and streaming websit...
Edouard Waintrop former Directors' Fortnight chief (2012-2018) has been announced to join the Red Sea Film Festival. The inaugural edition has been postponed to November 11-20.
Photo Bruno Chatelin
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French actress Laetitia Casta will receive the 2021 Excellence Award Davide Campari, with which the Locarno Film Festival pays tribute to film personalities who have left their personal stamp on contemporary cinema. On Wednesday 4 August Casta will be in Piazza Grande for the award ceremony, and the following day she will meet the Festival public in a panel conversation at the Forum @Rotonda by la Mobiliare. The actress has selected two titles from her filmography to be screened during t...
Buddhadeb Dasguta (11 February 1944 - 10 June 2021)
Our friends Martine et Jean-Marc Thèrouanne (The International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul) share the following announcement with our audience.
It is with great sadness that we have just learned on June 10, 2021 the death of our friend Buddhadeb Dasguta.
The International Festival of Asian Cinemas in Vesoul paid tribute to him in 2001. He returned to Vesoul in 2006 as president of the jury.
The FICA presented se...
Bruno Chatelin has been entertaining very close links with the festival community in the past 30 years on the circuit. Some of his recent interviews.
He has struck partnerships with most of the key festivals and markets. Check the most recent ones Cannes, AFM, Venice, Tallinn...
Named Advisory Board Member in a few film festivals around the world; such as
The Chelsea FilmFestival in New york
The Chelsea Film Festival is an international film festival, enlightening ...
The Festival de Cannes appoints Agnès Leroy as the Head of its Press Office, following Aïda Belloulid’s departure towards new professional horizons.
© Olivier Vigerie
She took office on June 1st and will manage, with the press office team, the whole press events of the 74th Edition.
Making her first steps at the French Cinémathèque in 2005, Agnès Leroy built most of her professional career alongside Bruno Barde at the Public Sys...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
Rita Moreno is featureed in a new documentary, RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT. We've got the sparkling trailer that begins with her chirpy lovely voice saying "Hello Cutie," and it gets better from there on. Read on...
From Screenmancer -
Who doesn’t love Rita Moreno? Over the span of seventy-plus years, Hollywood legend Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing - in the face o...
Director: Chris Gero (Nathan East: For the Record, The Gift..) is a 12-time Emmy Award winner and Grammy Award-nominated record producer
Writer: Sara Bachler, Chris Gero
Nathan East: For the Record
Producers : Chris Gero, Sara Bachler, Ben James
Director of photography: Ben James
Editors: Nate Cole, Chris Gero, Ben James, William Jenkins, Luca Silver, Mike Stuckey jr
Director Biography...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent
So the global consortium known to the public as Anonymous just made a short film. Well, that's a nice way of putting it, since it is a not-so-subtle hit piece video custom-made for mogul Elon Musk and his recent crashing of Bitcoin value in the crypto index world. But it is a film, basically, a sort of flashpoint tiny documentary on Musk, his origins, and the impact of his digitally loose lips. But there's more. Since nobody wants to t...
This is not an exhaustive list at all, I know I should have filed them somehow, somewhere, or even HERE :-) ...
My work on film:
Bruno on Boyz n the Hood (french only)
Festival experts Filling the Void and sharing tips with Bruno Chatelin, Sandra Lipski, Ivan Wiener Daniel Sol...
Bruno Chatelin Interviewed on filmfestivals for The Expert Process Podcast
Bruno Chatelin interviewed in Izvestia on Golden Globe...
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