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7th Annual Vancouver Women in Film Festival (VWIFF 2012)
March 8-11, 2012 in Vancouver, BC Canada
Each year since 2006, the Vancouver Women in Film Festival (VWIFF) has showcased an impressive line-up of short and feature films (narrative, documentary and animation) by established and emerging women filmmakers from around the world. The Festival is presented by Women in Film and Television Vancouver and is one of our key annual celebration events. In addition to offering independent filmmakers a professional screening opportunity, the festival also serves to build audiences and appreciation for relevant cinema by women.
“There was such a breadth of vision, expression and storytelling in the submissions we received last year, I’m very excited to see what we’ll be presenting to our audiences in 2012,” says Festival Artistic Director, Roslyn Muir.
All films screened at our festival have women in at least three of the key creative roles (one woman may serve in more than one role): Writer, Producer, Director, D.O.P., Lead Actor, or Lead Animator / Editor. We encourage submissions featuring strong female characters and stories. All independent filmmakers (women and men) whose films were completed after January 1, 2010 are invited to submit.
You may submit your film through our website,
or *new this year* you may submit using WITHOUTABOX.
Here's what filmmakers have to say: "Our film screened at VWIFF in 2011, and it was an absolutely amazing experience! The energy and support was infectious. We are looking forward to submitting our next project for next year's festival."
The Vancouver Women in Film Festival celebrates these wonderful filmmakers with artists' fees as well as cash and in-kind awards through the generous support of Legacy Filmworks, Women In the Director’s Chair (Creative Women Workshops Association), Kodak Canada, and a variety of other sponsors.
Read more about the Legacy Awards (three cash prizes totalling $1200), the Women In the Director's Chair Feature Film Award (representing industry leadership and support from some of the most significant companies in western Canada and valued at nearly $120,000), and our annual Spotlight Awards and Gala.
Be a part of our festival! Submit your film today!
The italian director Nico Cirasola at the VII edition of Ischia Film Festival.
ON WITH THE TRADITION THE FESTIVAL ON WHEELS TAKES TO THE ROAD
4–10 December
2009, Ankara
11–17 December
2009, Artvin
18–20 December
2009, Skopje (Macedonia)
FESTIVAL TRAILER:
http://www.vimeo.com/7840264
Basak EMRE, Festival Chief
Organized by the Ankara Cinema Association and supported by the Turkish
Min
Director: Nicolas Zappi.
As soon as he begins his first day of trainee as a mortician, Vincent, twenty years old young quit the job, overhelmed by the sophisticated techniques used on the dead bodies and overall by the strange methods of his boss. Getting out the funeral home with his pay of the day, Vincent cross an angel : Iris a young prostitute. After touching death, he’ll touch life… More than a sexual and emotional affair, the meeting is an immediate and reciprocal « coup de foudre »… To continue this paying lovestory, Vincent finally take his job back…
Without love, life isn’t worth to be lived. Death neather by the way…
L’ÎLE ENCHANTÉE (LutèceFilm, FR 1926)
Regia/dir., scen: Henry Roussell; f./ph: Maurice Velle, Paul Portier; scg./des: Georges Jacouty, Gaston Dumesnil; riprese/filmed: 7-11.1926 (Corsica [Plana, Evisa], Caen (steelworks), La Grave, Vals les Bains; Studios Menchen, Épinay); data uscita/released: 13.5.1927; cast: Rolla Norman (Francesco della Rocca), Jacqueline Forzane (Gisèle Rault), Jean Garat (Firmin Rault),
Director: mathieu saliva.
MAGIC KISA is a dark short comedy on the topic of the gemellity : Two twin brothers after years of separation. One leaves prison and the other lined up and founded a family. Associated by long years of swindle and chicaneries, their destinies rock in one night... Stealing of identity, handling and threats of two strange grave-diggers... Genre film under the tradition of the 50’s, 60’s French whodunit, “MAGIC KISA” is a trap movie with squeaking humour...
The 23rd Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival continues Sept 24th - 27th in select venues in select venues in downtown Napa. See nearly 50 films taking you to many different countries! Tickets are available along with a complete NSWCFF program schedule online at http://cts.vresp.com/c/?NapaSonomaWineCountr/d6df63a61f/b100fe9ae2/355f7ee36e, by phone at 707.935.3456 or at the venue the day of show. Program is subject to change. There are...
Director: Christophe Kourdouly.
MARIA, young Russian artist slowly loses touch with reality and enters that painful endless game whose aim is fame but will end in something else. On that road to nowhere she encounters SOPHIE who will become her muse and will provide the 'body' of her new work. Art et Décès is a film about love to the point of madness. Maria's Love of art to death when madness is confused for inspiration. Sick love of Sophie for Maria. The decadent vision of a decaying world which holds to its asserted normality with all its might, sucked from its life. People living in this world try desperately to invigorate themselves with the seeming of life, to forget that they are already dead. Paris is the theatre of this struggle for existence. Paris, capital city of dreamers, artists, lovers and crooks. City of smoke and mirrors, decoys and traps where Myths are taken for reality. Through History and Myths, Paris has always been the theatre of passionate loves and tragedies, rises and falls of grand illusions. Art & Décès adds an act to this unceasing theatre piece of blood and thunder with excess and abuse. The story of a vicious circle, from bursting love to madness, kisses to slaps and back again. A road movie on a highway to hell. From romantic bridges, splendid palaces and bucolic gardens to the narrow shady streets and decadent crowdy boulevards, there is only one step and plenty of quicksands.
Director: Nino De Santis & Nickolas Klein.
30 year Biography of Crusader for Water and Alcohol Injection for Cars.
Director: Specialborn Seyi Akanbi.
Awoye is a story that revolves around a once respected judge, Bogunjoko (Baroka), who commits murder and is to be brought to judgment by Jimmy (Taiwo Ibikunle), who this judge had once sentenced to prison over an offence committed by Bolaji (Morin Olaniyi), the son of Bogunjoko while Bolaji, Jimmy and some other friends of theirs were still in the university. The scenario costs Bolaji his life while Bogunjoko is set free.
Director: Susan Everett.
“Hello Mum. My name’s Alison. Born on the sixth of June, twenty eight years ago. But you know that already, don’t you?” Grieving the death of her adoptive mother, Alison tries to track down her natural mother to find a replacement ‘mum’. She sends out a videotape as an introduction.
Director: Todd Lovette.
A young girl's car breaks down and she finds the potential part on the side of the road. In her attempt to find out what it is...the part seems to make everyone go crazy. Horror.
Director: Todd Lovette.
The Doc is Dr Ted Fleming of the Fleming Institute for Healing. One patient, a filmmaker, decides to document his amazing treatment and experience at the Institute.
Director: Dusty McGowan.
An Urban Fairytale, Mickey, a boxer down on his luck, rescues a dancer from the evil clutches from his arch enemy.
Celebrating
its fifth year in 2010, the Hillside
Film Festival is calling for entries from Victoria’s most promising young
filmmakers.
The festival gives emerging filmmakers the opportunity to see their
films on
the big screen in front of a large audience, be judged professionally
by some
of the most respected filmmakers and writers in the country, and win
some
fantastic prizes along the way.
Screened in
one of Victoria’s
most-beautiful cinemas, the Cameo Outdoor Cinema in Belgrave, the
festival
proudly focuses on artistic excellence and innovation, celebrating
great
filmmaking across all genres, styles and budgets. We want to hear from
young
filmmakers with a unique voice, a story to tell and a fresh approach to
filmmaking – not just those with the best equipment or famous friends.
Industry
judges include Sandra Sciberras, director of the AFI award-winning
‘Caterpillar Wish’ (AUS 2006), and Bridget
Callow, producer of the
AFI-nominated ‘Bitter and Twisted’ (AUS
2008).
This year, filmmakers are competing for a stack of
cash and awards, including a $1,000 cash prize from The Upwey
& District Community
Bank Group and a prize pack from
Madman Entertainment. Selected films will also feature on the small
screen,
presented on Foxtel’s Aurora Community Channel as part of Youth Week
2010. To
enter, films must be 15 minutes or less, and the filmmaker from
Victoria and aged
30 or under.
For more
information, and to enter online,
check out www.hillsidefilmfestival.com.
Entries close on Monday 2nd November.
Director: PRATEEQUE OJHA.
The filmmaker is making a film on a real life incident from history and literature about a character called the Bhawal Sannyasi based on the book called the Princely Imposter. He is in the preprodcution stage when he gets the bad new that he can't shoot in the location he had selected during the recee stage, so his assistant advises him to compromise by shooting in available cheap village locales, which threatens to change his plot, but he has to go ahead with the shoot,so he does, sacrificing his relationship with a girl who is being pressurized by her parents to marry an architect, in the process. What happens to the lives of both the film maker and his protagonist unfolds in the film.
Director: Nick Walters .
The film is an oddly charming and unique love story that explores a twisted psychological predicament as in the ‘extremist’ tradition of Japanese and South Korean cinema…
A big city at night. Two young cyborg lovers (a Japanese boy and girl) are on the run from repair men. The couple reaches a bridge and agrees to jump to escape to a better world but as they step off the boy pulls out at the last moment. After a literal kiss of death (from the figure of Death itself) the girl's ghost rises from her body and looks around for her partner, but the boy sneaks off, ashamed he failed to keep his promise.
Whilst sulking and hidden in a giant cardboard box (once used to contain a cyber), a cunning idea strikes the boy – one which he thinks will allow him to face the girl with respect intact ...but it backfires spectacularly and he wanders the night streets in a sulk, his various comical attempts to terminate himself intermittently punctuating his gloom.
Out of ideas and resigned to the fact that he will never again be with the girl, a passing emergency siren leads him on a chase through the night streets as he hunts down the figure of Death itself...
The film shares a combination of the mythical tone and dark humour of Old Boy with the playful, dream-like tone of Punch Drunk Love.
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson.
The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss.
Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy.
The film is based on a tale retold by Wilhelm Grimm.
Director: LAURA ANGIULLI.
“EASTWARDS” is the result of a long journey.
Bosnia is the focus, with its cumbersome past and its present as much uncertain as controversial. Sarajevo, Mostar, Srebrenica, different solicitations coming out meeting people and their present and past history. Sarajevo is the capital. The memory became its political structure, and lights up consequent opportunities to reflection and debate. Mostar is symbolized by the Old Bridge, heart of a slow beat of a social and political life which fails to heat the peripheral wings of the city still shattered in the reality of ghettos, Croatians and Muslims. And finally Srebrenica, the town of women, the city of pain. 12,000 dead (institutionally they say 8372, but in reality missing people is 4000 more). Every year on 11th of July it takes place the big ceremony for the burying of the hundreds of bodies still found in mass graves newly identified. Hatidza Mehmedovic' is from Srebrenica, she is the main character of the movie. Only she could transmit the emotional charge affecting the director because of her ability to bear mourning (during the genocide of 1995 she lost her only two children, her husband, her brothers, her father..)
Director: Jason Rosette.
In a desert town somewhere in the Southwest United States, a young woman seeks a renegade animal cloning expert who claims he can bring her recently deceased daughter back to life.
Accompanied by her illegal immigrant companion, Javier Apollinaire, Susan steals some cash and embarks on a secret journey in order to meet the Doctor and begin the procedure.
But can he really do it? Can she even find him?
Enter new, green, bumbling federal agent Carl Wisconsin. Carl’s very first assignment is to track Susan in order to find the elusive Doctor and take him down for his illegal activities.
Meanwhile, a struggling Native American potter named Lonnie is on his own mission: he needs to some raise desperately needed tuition money to send his daughter to college, after her financial aid unexpectedly falls through.
Ultimately, these disparate characters and stories cross paths at one critical moment, and their lives are forever changed as a result.
Director: Krisztina GODA.
Gábor is an office cleaner. Wearing overalls and a baseball hat, he seems insignificant. Working on the night shift, Gábor rarely has any contact with his employers, yet he learns everything about them by thoroughly analyzing their garbage. Since he is almost invisible, nobody suspects that Gábor is, in fact, a con man who carefully chooses his victims by the trash they leave behind. His targets are mostly disillusioned, lonely women. In a few months he destroys all their romantic illusions by taking all their savings. Having an unusually high IQ and an ability to assume various personalities, Gábor is an expert in manipulation. When he gets a job at a psychologist's office, Gábor meets Hanna, an injured dancer who happens to be the daughter of a millionaire. Insecure and vulnerable, Hanna seems to be the perfect victim. Gábor pretends to be a doctor who can cure her body and her soul, an irresistible offer for a desperate woman. Everything goes according to plan until Gábor falls in love with Hanna and has to make a hard decision between her and the money.
Director: Manjit K Singh.
“IN EARLY 6TH CENTURY BC A TRADITION WAS BORN.” A GOLDEN NECKLACE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “MANGALSUTRA” UNITED A BRIDE TO HER GROOM. THIS OLD HINDU TRADITION CONTINUED ON THROUGH THE CENTURIES BONDING HUSBANDS AND WIVES. THE “MANGALSUTRA” HOLDS AN ANCIENT, POWERFUL AURORA THAT SCIENCE CANNOT EXPLAIN. A YOUNG SOUTH ASIAN COUPLE; SHEELA AND HUSBAND BOBBY MOVE INTO A HOME AFTER HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THEIR NEW BUSSINESS. A SACRAFICE FOR THE BETTER FUTURE, SO THEY THOUGHT… SOON AFTER MOVING IN SHEELA BEGINS EXPERIENCING UNEXPLAINABLE EVENTS. SHE HEARS FOOTSTEPS COMING FROM OTHER ROOMS, VOICES, CRYIES…SCREAMS. HUSBAND BOBBY IS TOO BUSY CAUGHT UP IN WORK AND HIS SEXY NEW EMPLOYEE “ALBINA”. WITH HER MARRIAGE IN TROUBLE, AND HER HOUSE IN CAHOS, SHEELA TAKES MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS AND BEGINS TO INVESTIAGE THE STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING TO HER. SHEELA MEETS JAY SINGH, A YOUTHFUL LANDLORD WHO JUST TOOK OVER THE FAMILY BUSSINESS. JAY LIVED IN HER HOME WHEN HE WAS A BOY, BUT CANNOT EXPLAIN THE STRANGE THINGS HAPPENING TO SHEELA. JAY SINGH; ALREADY BUSY WITH HIS APARTMENT BUILDING, BEGINS GETTING STRANGE COMPLAINTS FROM SOME OF HIS TENANTS; SIMILAR TO THE WHAT SHEELA WAS EXPERIENCING... IS THE CURSED NECKLACE NOW IN HIS APARTMENT BUILDING? CAN SHEELA BANISH THE SPIRIT FROM HER HOME, AND SAVE HER MARRIAGE? IS JAY SINGH SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THE CURSE? THE “MANGALSUTRA” IS THIRSTY FOR BLOOD, AND WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO GET WHAT IT TRULY DESIRES…
www.quickfest.com
PRESS RELEASE
QUICKFEST ANNOUNCED NEW CONTEST – SHOOT A COMMERCIAL - FEST 103
Los Angeles, CA – Quickfest.com has partnered with a premier water company for it’s next film festival where filmmakers will submit their take on a 30 or 60 second spot. A winner will be selected from a panel of judges that include a representative from the water company along with a commercial direction.
Having just wrapped it’s successful Quickfest 102 - Horror Fest, Quickfest is excited to bring a new type of filmmaking event to the filmmaking community. The commercial contest, Quickfest 103, will begin July 24, 2009 at noon Pacific Standard Tim when registered filmmakers will learn the name of the water company and be provided with artwork as part of the critical elements list. Competing filmmakers will then have 10 days to complete and upload their spot (or spots) by the end of the festival on August 2, 2009.
The winning commercial will be announced one week after the end of the contest and the winning commercial will have a chance to be broadcast and as well as additional prizes to be announced as the event unfolds.
Entries will be accepted either 30 or 60 second length. In the coming weeks the judges for the event will be announced along with other details and special surprises.
“We are excited to be bringing on a company that is excited to tap into the creativity of the Quickfest audience” said Greg Zekowski, Quickfest’s Festival Director. Mr. Zekowski adds that “like all commercial shoots, the company has high expectations after seeing the great entries for the recent horror fest”.
To enter or get on the Quickfest mail list, go to www.quickfest.com and register. The winning films of our past festivals can also be seen here, or at Quickfest’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/QuickfestTV.
About Quickfest:
Quickfest (quickfest.com) is a unique Film Festival founded by Filmmakers. Quickfest events occur online and are open to Filmmakers around the world with competitions in various formats and genres. Quickfest reaches out to creative people everywhere, featuring the work of film industry professionals and amateurs with a passion for telling a story. For more information, contact Festival Director, Greg Zekowski at greg@quickfest.com and follow Quickfest at twitter www.twitter.com/quickfest
Director: Giuseppe Scavo.
The freelance reporter Alfredo Torrisi is exploring a war zone with his assistant. When Alfredo is in front of his camera for his report , he steps on a mine and gets trapped on it. Alfredo asks to his assistant to go search help. When Alfredo is alone, he looks at the camera and realizes that it’s shooting…
Director: Roger Walch.
David (Ted Taylor) comes to Japan for one week to study traditional legends. He is supposed to meet Professor Ozawa, a leading expert in the field. But when he arrives, he gets picked up by Ozawa's two female assistants, Sanae (Mimori Sento) and Manami (Sakiko Ikegami). They bring him to a traditional guest-house and accompany him during his stay.
A strange man in the bath house (Kan Mikami) tells David about the local Tengu legend. Tengu are a class of well known monster-spirits with a long nose and a red face who live in the Japanese forests and mountains. David is immediately fascinated. But the more he finds out about the Tengu, the more he is drawn into his own past-life.
As a matter of fact some Tengu legends can be connected to shipwrecked foreigners who were forced to live in hiding in the Japanese mountains during Japan's Sakoku (closed country) era (1637 - 1853). Ultimately, "Tengu" is the story of a Westerner who becomes the origin of a famous Japanese legend.
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