By Maria Esteves - April 5, 2008   The 23rd Annual Winter Music Conference (WMC08) was held at the Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami, March 25-29, 2008. WMC is the largest global networking event in the dance music industry which yearly showcase panel discussion, workshop, exhibition, awards ceremony, music festival, and talent (The LIST) in over 100 venues. Industry executives, International artists, DJs, DVJs, VJs, technological innovators, producers, remixers, digital/record...

 Friday, March 21-------It is a very rare thing indeed for a European director to have the opportunity to remake a small art film in another language (the only other recent example was Dutch director George Sluizer’s THE VANISHING). But Michael Haneke is that rare director. The English-language version of his domestic thriller FUNNY GAMES, originally shot in his native Austria in the German language and starring Ulrich Muhe (the Stasi spy in THE LIVES OF OTHERS) has just opened in the United ...

CALL FOR ENTRIES It's time to send a screener of your FEATURE FILM to the Taormina Film Fest 2008, taking place in Sicily from June 15 to 21, 2008. Our deadline for submissions is MAY 9. We are now accepting films for selection in the most exciting summer festival in Europe, a boutique showcase for just 20 new films to be shown to our audiences and distributors from around the world. Once again we will privilege world and international premières, divided into the following three sections: ME...

The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting approximately 160 films by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.   A record number of 35.000 viewers and 450 guests attended last year’s Festival, demonstrating the increasing interest of the public and industry professionals in documentaries and the TDF’s success in attracti...

The International Doc Market, introduced in 1999, will be held this year for the first time in the Byzantium hall of the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel at Aristotelous Sq next to the Festival headquarters, providing a much larger space to its participants, outfittedwith 30 fully equipped booths for private viewing of the Market films. The market, organized in cooperation with the Greek National Television (ERT S.A.) and with the support of the Media Program of the European Union, caters t...

La SynthèseLe Centre national de la cinématographie a réalisé, pour la deuxième année consécutive, une étude sur l'évolution des investissements publicitaires des films sortis en salles. Cette étude s'appuie sur des investissements publicitaires bruts.Plus de 80 % des films sortis en salles bénéficient d'une exposition publicitaireDepuis 2000, plus de 80 % des films sortis en salles sont présents sur au moins un média publicitaire à l'occasion de leur année de sortie. En 2006, le...