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The Global Film Village: 2010 LA Film Festival Award Winners

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 Roger Corman Independent Film Legendby Marla LewinThe LA film festival had a free outdoor screening at a new mixed use residential complex named The Los Angeles Center it is a short walk from the Disney Concert Hall and the MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art. It was a film named Climate Refugees based on the effects of climate change. Marc talked with Ed Begley, Jr, who remembered him from working with The Grifters, at that time Ed was dating Annette Benning.  Ed had driven to the Acade...

NEWSLETTER N° 470: july 2, 2010

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Michael Lerman promoted to Philadelphia Artistic Director

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The Philadelphia Film Society is pleased to announce that it has promoted Director of Programming Michael Lerman to Artistic Director and hired Tom Quinn and Ryan Werner as programmers of the Philadelphia Film Festival. Lerman, Quinn and Werner previously worked together as programmers for the Woodstock Film Festival, successfully building the Festival through the programming of diverse, intelligent and engaging films. Quinn and Werner begin immediately, and will work with Lerman to curate the s...

The new york international film and video festival, New York edition : fall 2011

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Call for entry submission deadline Applications The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival About NYIIFVF The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival was founded in 1993 by entertainment guru Stuart Alson. NYIIFVF has been recognized by the film and entertainment industry as one of the leading film events on the independent festival circuit. The festival is now hosting film, music and art events in the four entertainment capitals of the United Stat...

L'amour de Montparnasse

Director: Toby Lomas.
A sophisticated Parisian politician’s wife seeks to escape with the father of her unborn child from her routine and boring life in post WW|| Paris. She is forced to face reality when met with indecision and rejection by her allied airman lover on a dark Montparnasse station platform.

NEWSLETTER N° 469: june 25, 2010

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The world premiere of TWILIGHT, and an anti-Twilight

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While the full moon hung over LA, long black limos descended on Downtown, delivering sacrificial celebrities to a blood-red carpet for the world premiere of arguably the most anticipated box office film in history. But those 'vampires' held no hold over me. I was busy interviewing the real stars of Twilight- the "Twi-hard" fans who'd flown from all around the country, and as far as Canada, to camp four days in advance for just a chance to beg Robert Pattinson for an autograph. I h...

Animal Kingdom screens again on Friday at LAFF

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 I added the link and will do more later but if you are in downtown Los Angeles drop by and see director David Michod's first feature He will be doing a Q & Awww.lafilmfest.com   http://www.sonyclassics.com/animalkingdom/ I  ...

An Evening with Sylvester Stallone at LA Film Festival

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THE BIG EVENT of the day, if not of them entire week, was a personal appearance by Sylvester "Rocky" Stallone in the ongoing festival sidebar, "Conversations With" -- featured monitored stage interviews with various Hollywood personalities of note.  The last was with actor Ben Affleck and still to come is legendary no-budget flix director Roger Corman.  Mr. Stallone, now pushing sixty-four (Born July, 1946) but looking more like thirty-four, showed up nattily dressed in...

Dog Sweat Turns up the heat

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DOGSWEAT turns up the heat Director/writer/producerHossein Keshavarz along with Maryam Azadi who is alsothe writer/producer of this film take us on journey into the lives ofyoung adults who are living in Tehran and are dealing with issues which are commonplacein our everyday lives in real life and on reality TV in America.Thefilm’s title is the Iranian term for moonshine. So this is not a doggie moviebut a presentation what a dog’s life can be if you follow the culture and itstraditional va...

The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition

 

This film festival takes place in the following locations:

Austin, TX - March 2011

Urbana, IL - April 2011

Los Angeles, CA - April 2011

Portland, OR - May 2011

website: www.LoveAndDiversity.org

standard deadline: 12/31/2010

late deadline: 1/31/2011

contact: Festival Organizers

theme: The Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to everyone. This festival offers an extremely large variety of certificates and awards for films, screenplays and much more as well as exposure at venues in several large cities during some of the country's largest media events. All submissions dealing with any aspect of love are welcome. Anybody who submits a copy of their film will have their film included in our annual film program even if it is not officially selected and shown in the festival.  Many awards will be given to filmmakers and screenplay writers.  Love Unlimited. A Legend Born: The Re-birth of the Artist that you were always destined to be."

 

 

Preview formats: .MPG (MPEG or MPEG2), .WMV (Windows Media), .FLV (Flash Video), .AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved), .CD-ROM, .MOV (QuickTime)

Exhibition formats: DVD (Region 0 or 1) or Blu-Ray

fee: $15-$20

theme: all

category: all

 

The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition

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The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Our website is available in over 50 languages and ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to people worldwide. This festival offers an extremely large variety of awards, certificates and exposure at venues in several large cities d...

Bitter Feast is a Happy Meal

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Bitter Feast is aHappy MealThe film “Bitter Feast” which premiered at Los Angeles FilmFestival is a collaborative effort by Indie filmmakers who combined talent tomake a film which was shot in 14 days. The production values along withperformances by actors James LeGros. Joshua Leonard , Amy Seimetz areoutstanding and of course Mario Batali adds to the recipe.Cinematographer,Michael McDonough, creates images on two Canon 5 D Mark II SR cameras withmost of the film shot on available light in t...

Los Angeles Music Video Festival Presents: ALL YOUR FRIENDS video showcase

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The Los Angeles Music Video Festival (LAMVF) will bring together and celebrate the independent music and independent film communities of L.A. like never before. ALL YOUR FRIENDS is our brand-new monthly series: an hour-long showcase of local sound and color--music videos from up-and-coming filmmakers and musicians in the L.A. area; including world-premieres and one-of-a-kind live performances. This moth's event will take place Sunday, June 27th, and will feature the lovely and t...

Los Angeles Film Festival Sparks LA Live

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Los Angeles Film Festivalreally sparks LA LiveUsing many of the film titles you can really appreciate theLAFF choicesLisa Cholodenko’s TheKids are All Right has made sure that they are really enjoying it all.Aaron Katz’s ColdWeather has gotten much warmerJoe Maggio’s BitterFeast has made the festival a tasty onePhillip G.Flores’s TheWheelers Boys are doing wheeliesWe are fortunate and excited to have Lisa Leeman’s One Lucky Elephant for all of us luckyanimal loversThe Zone loungereally...

Done Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Sundance. Now Dun-gog.

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Festival Launches Speed Auditions. Three year old Dungog, the youngest but increasingly popular newcomer on the Australian film festival circuit, is fast becoming a favourite of industry, public and locals in this rural community three and a half hours from Sydney. This is winemaking, farming and mining country – ensuring spirits are well lubricated, bodies well-fed and, due to distance between venues, well-exercised. Sponsorship by the state (New South Wales) mining council ensures that open...

"Gutsy, original, smart and free" - Mark Ruffalo says it all, at 'The Kids Are All Right'

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Wow, what an opening.  Limos cruised behind the red carpet, helicopters buzzed around LA Live, spotlights strobed the skies, and I felt like I was in a Batman movie, with the big action sequence about to erupt around me.  Festival volunteers ushered me to the rooftop Opening Night party of the LA Film Festival, telling me excitedly "you'll be able to watch the riots from there!".   Yes the riot police were marching out. Were people actually RIOTING over the opening n...

Los Angeles Film Festival brings out the Stars on opening night

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Los Angeles Film Festival Lights up HollywoodDowntown A crystal clear night set inthe backdrop of the Staples Center where the LA Lakers came out on top in the NBAFinalsLAFF brought out the starsboth in the sky and on the red carpet on the opening night screening of “TheKids are All Right” at the Regal Cinemas. Director Lisa Cholodenko hascreated a comedy which deals with parenthood in this day and age which hastaken on a whole new twist and both gay and heterosexual audiences will havesom...

NEWSLETTER N° 468: june 16, 2010

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Los Angeles Film Festival Lights up Hollywood Downtown

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A crystal clear night set in the backdrop of the Staples Center where the LA Lakers came out on top in the NBA FinalsLAFF brought out the stars both in the sky and on the red carpet on the opening night screening of “The Kids are All Right” at the Regal Cinemas. Director Lisa Cholodenko has created a comedy which deals with parenthood in this day and age which has taken on a whole new twist and both gay and heterosexual audiences will have something to smile about. Nic (Annette Bening )and J...

The High Notes of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

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Los Angeles Greek Festival ends on High NoteOrpheus’s spirit was abound at the  Awards Ceremony  presentation at the  4th annual Los Angeles Greek Film festivalwith the fabulous , Alexia Vassiliou enchanting us with lyrics from  classic films such as ,” Boy on a Dolphin”, “Never on Sunday”, “Phaedra”, andothers with film stars Melina Mercouri,Alan Ladd and Anthony Perkins.The beautiful Patricia Kara, of the TVshow Deal or No Deal hosted the award ceremony which included Academ...

The High Notes of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

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Los Angeles Greek Festival ends on High NoteOrpheus’s spirit was abound at the  Awards Ceremony  presentation at the  4th annual Los Angeles Greek Film festivalwith the fabulous , Alexia Vassiliou enchanting us with lyrics from  classic films such as ,” Boy on a Dolphin”, “Never on Sunday”, “Phaedra”, andothers with film stars Melina Mercouri,Alan Ladd and Anthony Perkins.The beautiful Patricia Kara, of the TVshow Deal or No Deal hosted the award ceremony which included Academ...

The 2010 Angeleno Short Film Festival

The Angeleno Short Film Festival is now accepting short films.  August 29th, 2010, at CINESPACE in Hollywood, CA, the winning films will be announced at an award ceremony! Visit http://www.angelenofest.com for all details! 

Los Angeles Greek Festival ends on High Note

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Orpheus’s spirit was abound at the Awards Ceremony presentation at the 4th annual Los Angeles Greek Film festival with the fabulous, Alexia Vassiliou enchanting us with lyrics from classic films such as ,” Boy on a Dolphin”, “Never on Sunday”, “Phaedra”, and others with film stars Melina Mercouri,Alan Ladd and Anthony Perkins.The beautiful Patricia Kara, of the TV show Deal or No Deal hosted the award ceremony which included Academy Award winners Alexander Payne and George Tsa...

Dancing with the Film Stars of Greece in Hollywood

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I have come to the conclusion that the hit TV show “Dancing with the Stars” was inspired by the Greeks. On the 2nd day of the Los Angeles Greek Festival I was dancing through the films in my head. Matt Bolish, the main programmer has projected a personal passion in his choice of films. You feel that you are in Greece and are surprised not to be when you leave the Egyptian theatre and view Hollywood Blvd...You discover that many Greek filmmakers like Periklis Hoursoglou in The Building Manage...

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