Join us on April 15th at 5.15pm for the opening panel discussion on recent trends in Taiwanese cinema with the topic...
Taiwanese Cinema: A new trend of sustainable success or bubble waiting to burst?
Key Issues Addressed: 1) Rise of East Asian film success (notable impact of Mainland China) 2) implication for more regional co-production 3) Cape No 7 and what it's commercial success represents 4) a recent rich trend of films that will dry up in 2009/10?
Cost: FREE ENT...
As I told you before "Sean penn's Puzzle" tries to make a conversation with an absent soul. The movie goes beyond history...all of its historical
shots are the visual-cells of a creative mind who wants to discover himself
by a kind of improvization through history. this movie is surreal, fun and
reminds me Zhigavertov and Alain Renais at the same time.(Jose Alvarez )
The movie's gonna make a kind of conversation with Sean Penn. It's not
a tribute to him. It's about a creative absent soul, who's gonna find a friend
, a half of his lost soul , through an odyssey. ( Jose Alvarez )
The Festival's budget amounts to approximately 20 million euros, half of which originates from public funding via the National Cinema Centre (CNC) under the authority of the Ministry of Culture, the City of Cannes and other local authorities. This financing is completed by contributions from a number of professional and institutional groups along with the Festival's Official partners.
The festival has screened 1 070 features in the various sections and 45 shorts
4 268 Media were accre...
The Short Film Corner
May 13 - 22, 2009
Call for Entries - Click here
Deadline for submission is April 18, 2009.
Contact Information:
Paris offices until May 1, 2009
Short Film Corner - Festival de Cannes
3 rue Amélie
75007 Paris - France
33 (0)1 53 59 61 30
33 (0)1 53 59 61 53
sfc2009@festival-cannes.fr
Management
Jérôme Paillard, Executive Director
Project Manager:
Alice Kharoubi
Assistants :
Virginny Tassart
Ali Khechen
Augustine Aldighieri
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Research & Choices: Festival Selection and Programming
Throughout its 62 year history, the Locarno International Film Festival has occupied a unique position in the landscape of the major film festivals. Every August, around 180,000 cinema-goers, 1,100 journalists, and 3,400 professionals converge on the small Swiss-Italian town of Locarno, right in the heart of Europe, which becomes the world capital of auteur cinema for eleven days.
During the day, a demanding selection of fe...
You can tell this "Docu-mind " !
Neither native nor naive, the movie wants to be a modern syntax, a symbolic combination of the strange pictures could be interpret personally by the spectators, at the age of globalization. ( Jean claude Serra)
"Sean Penn's Puzzle" is not a plain docudrama. It should be seen many times to understand completely. The film is challenging our looking style to
story-telling, plot, and classical portrait of actors,etc.
It's very exotic and ofcourse a tribute to Sean penn. ( Edward Mckee)
Prague Castle : Guard
The THREE Brothers Studio is located less than 10 kilometers outside the center of Prague at Hlubocepska, where you can see rugged cliffs not far away, in an enclosed farmstead, restored to its 14th century original state. The 7000 sq meter studios are equipped with 26 different spaces for shootin...
Thefifth Dubai International Film Festival held in December 2008 introduced animportant new component, the Dubai Film Market. To date Dubai has been among theEmirates the fastest growing tourist and business destination and has investedbillions of dollars into establishing a state of the art communications andmedia infrastructure. This includes a film sector for which the Dubai FilmFestival and the Dubai Film Market are essential ingredients, not to speak ofthe imminent opening in Dubai of th...
As is the case every year, Unifrance will pursue the promotion of French cinema at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, to be held from February 5 through 15, 2009.
The festival’s Official Competition features a French film (Ricky) and three co-productions: Cheri, Dans la brume électrique (In the Electric Mist), and London River. Three other French productions will be presented out of competition: Bellamy, Eden à l’Ouest (Eden is West), and Singularités d...
Revenue for the motion picture and video production and distribution industry increased 7 percent in 2007, reaching $66 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Revenue from Web search portals increased 25 percent for a total revenue of $12.1 billion, and their online advertising space grew 32.7 percent with total revenue of $8.7 billion.
These new data come from the 2007 Service Annual Survey: Information Sector Services, a series of tables that is part of a larger survey that trac...
The Perfect Pitch is a new program to premiere at The European Independent Film Festival, taking place March 13th-15th, 2009, at La Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Francois Mitterand, in Paris. The program begins with a series of workshops - taking place on Friday, March 13th- related to preparing and executing a pitch presentation. Following the workshops each participant will have the opportunity to pitch in a practice pitch session, from which twenty individuals will be selected to pit...
For its 11th consecutive year, Unifrance will welcome 350 distributors and 120 journalists from around the world in Paris from January 15 through 19, 2009.
As is the case each year, foreign distributors will gather in Paris to sample the latest offerings from the French film industry at film market screenings (with 82 films screened including 39 titles yet to be released), and to meet with sales agents (34 companies will attend the event, representing the entire film ...
The online community for film festival professionals fest21.com welcomes the premier video blog platform: bound to become home of upcoming filmmakers with a quality choice of film blogs with streaming film (up to 500M storage) It has become the reference address for festival blogging, posting dailies, audio podcasts or videos, viral information; festival goers share ambiance, tips, reviews... All blogs are empowered with RSS technology which allows...
4th AGORA
November 14 - 23, 2008
49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
The 4th Agora Film Market will take place from November 14th to 23rd, 2008, in the context of the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Agora is continuing last year's highly successful effort, in which 36 films from South Eastern Europe obtained distribution in 18 different world territories.
"In its three years o...
In its continuous effort of “Bridging Cultures, Meeting Minds”, DIFF is launching the Dubai Film Market during its 5th edition. The Dubai Film Market is committed to raising the visibility of world cinema - with an emphasis on Arab, Asian and African filmmakers - and stimulating regional and international film production and trade.
Vision
Dubai, to become a regional and international pioneer of audio-visual content trade.
Mission
To make Dubai Film Market a global stat...
Upcoming sectors such as software services, telecommunications, finance, and real estate are minting new millionaires every day. And the Bombay Stock Exchange has more than doubled in the past two years, handing many investors tremendous capital gains. The first place the new moneyed class typically shows off its cash is with a big house or luxury apartment. While demand for homes over 3,000 square feet - palatial by Indian standards - was once confined to Mumbai and Delhi, more and more Indians...
Sheffield Doc/Fest offers extensive marketplace opportunities for all delegates. Hundreds of executives, distributors, commissioners and buyers attend the festival and it is the perfect place to meet potential production investors and production partners. Sheffield Doc/Fest offers the following pitching & marketplace events To apply to the MeetMarket, go hereInternational - networking and finance opportunities for both international & UK delegatesMeetMarket*VideothequeNational – ...
Open Doors opening diner at La Suite
