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Le MIAFF - Montreal International Animation Film Festival
August 18th - 21st, 2016.
Montreal International Animation Film Festival screen animation features, shorts and experimental film. Industry conferences, panels and international co-productions will be facilitated. Workshops on the state of the art(s). Public film festival screening, panels and educational platform for children. A student film contest challenge from all graduate level animation film schools across the province of Quebec and Canada.
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Conclusion of the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno
Ralitza Petrova © Festival del film Locarno The 2016 edition, the fourth under Carlo Chatrian's Artistic Direction, came to a successful end, crowned with the Pardo d’oro to Godless, directed by Bulgarian filmmaker Ralitza Petrova. Concorso internazionale Pardo d’oro GODLESS by Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria/Denmark/France Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize) INIMI CICATRIZATE (Scarred Hear...
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Isabelle Adjani attends Montreal with Carole Matthieu by Louis-Julien Petit
American film star Willem Dafoe to attend Montreal with his film My Hindu Friend by Hector Babenco
World competition, features and shorts
First features competing in Montreal
Montreal World Competition Jury
Jury of the first feature Prize
Line up for the 40th edition of Montreal World Film Festival
40TH FFM a word from the President Serge Losique
André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER to open 40th Montreal World Film Festival
Montreal World Film Festival announces 1M$ Cash prizes
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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017
The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology.
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.
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New York Film & Television Festival December 3 – 4, 2016
Late deadline july 30
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Mountain and Adventure Film Festival February 16th - March 19th, 2017
Submit by November 30th
We encourage you to submit all your great films, both current and past. Great mountain and adventure films don't go out of style. Film Festival Flix is the intersection between filmmakers and film lovers, working to build the most complete Mountain & Adventure film library, so audiences can find and purchase every film they've heard about in the past 50+ years.
General Submission: June 1st - August 31, 2016
Late Submission: September 1st, 2016+ (acceptance at the Festival's sole discretion)
Official Line Up Announced: December 1st, 2016
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HALLOWEEN HORROR FEST October 1 - 31, 2016
Deadline August 31
Celebrating world-class horror films and the filmmakers who terrify, disgust, and disturb us.
Submission: June 1st - August 31st, 2016 (Submission Fee - $25)
Official selections will be announced September 13th, 2016
Official competition dates: October 1st - 23rd, 2016
Winners Week: October 24th - 31st, 2016
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Submission Period: June 1st - August 31st
We encourage you to submit all your films, both current and past. Great films don't go out of style.
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Manhattan Short September 23 to October 2, 2016
Deadline July 31
Join us September 23 to October 2, 2016 when over 100,000 film lovers in over 250 cities gather in Cinemas, Museums and Universities for one purpose...to view and vote on the Finalist's Films in the 19th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.
MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites. If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, MANHATTAN SHORT offers the ultimate platform -- one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Kathmandu, Vienna, Cape Town to all fifty states of the United States and beyond --
Deadlines: Regular Deadline July 31, 2016
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HFM/CineMart combine for greater Boost
Six international and five Dutch projects in development, as well as three works-in-progress, have been selected for the first BoostNL programme that kicks off at the Netherlands Film Festival’s Holland Film Meeting in Utrecht (22 - 25 September) and continues through to IFFR’s CineMart 2017 (29 January - 1 February). ...
Zero Days, Alex Gibney, 2016. USA
It is certainly rare that a documentary covers a topical problem that has such apocalyptical implications as Gibney’s data based exploration of the current state of cyberwarfare introducing major and minor countries to a new and silent way of waging war with potential catastrophic consequences. One does not need to be a doomsayer to realize that current state sponsored sophisticated computer hacking determined by political objectives destabilizes global security. As distinct from i...
By Maria Esteves – August 18, 2016 SPA NIGHT is a compelling film about the life of David (Joe Seo), a devoted young spiritual man of Asian American descent who struggles with his identity. Set in present day Los Angeles urban community, David who lives with his parents and works at the family's restaurant, discover the painful parts of humanity. The dramatic turning point are when he is faced with socio-economic challenges from a failing family business. Out of desperation, he jo...
Subhash Ghai, director-showman, launches Trailer of college movie, Days of Tafree
Subhash Ghai, director-showman, launches Trailer of college movie, Days of Tafree Tafree is an interesting title, being a shortened form of the word tafreeh, which means entertainment or fun in Urdu. The Hindi equivalent ismanoranjan. Ahmedabad-based writer-director Krishnadev Yagnik’s debut film Chhello Divas (Last Day, in Gujarati, a college romp) was a hit, and he has written and directed the college romp in Hindi, titled Tafree, with at least two lead actors carried over. Both...
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Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes
World premiere in Cannes
An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®
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Paranoid Girls
Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...
Ana, Paula and Veronica become fascinated by modeling and the life that it offers. Yet, they gradually begin to discover the dark side of fashion hidden behind the fame and glamour of the spotlights. The women experience downfall as they engage with an antagonistic photographer who drags models into a high stakes abyss of danger. The women learn to value friendship over the lures of fashion pitfalls and enjoy life's simplicities in the end.
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Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater)
over 40 festival wins so far
Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.
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Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai
Feature - Feel Good Movie - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest
Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again.
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Exitos del Cine Latino 2016 Announces Full Film Line-Up and Schedule!
We are thrilled to announce the complete film line-up and schedule for Exitos del Cine Latino 2016! From August 26th through September 1st, 14 features will make their Southbay premiere, including films starring Gael García Bernal, Ricardo Darín, Ximena Ayala, Ana Claudia Talancón, Omar Chaparro, Martha Higareda, among others at the Westfield Plaza Bonita Mall! And, in between your movies, make sure to dance and party with us! We've prepared an incredible schedu...
Animaze Opening Ceremonies August 18
Ouverture d'Animaze Animaze Opening Ceremonies August 18 août, 7:00 pm Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal // Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1660160050978191/ Le lancement officiel d'Animaze commence jeudi soir! Apr&egr...
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AWS Summit New York 2016 Opening Keynote Photos
By Maria Esteves – August 13, 2016 The Amazon Web Services Summit New York 2016 (AWSSNY16) Opening Keynote Presentation with Dr. Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of AWS commenced Thursday, August 11, 10AM at Javits Convention Center. Vogels announced the launch of Application Load Balancer, derail architecture framework, launch of RDS for Aurora, two EBS updates, service oriented architect, container management service, micro services, launch of Amazon Kinesis Analytics, creati...
Werner Vogels Opening Keynote at AWS Summit New York 2016
By Maria Esteves – August 13, 2016 The Amazon Web Services Summit New York 2016 (AWSSNY16) Opening Keynote Presentation with Dr. Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of AWS commenced Thursday, August 11, 10AM at Javits Convention Center. Vogels keynote announcements included the launch of RDS for Aurora, launch of Amazon Kinesis Analytics, creation of executable reference architectures for serverless applications, launch of IPv6 Endpoints for Amazon S3, launch AWS Key Management Se...
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Cheryl Dunye is 2016 Iris Prize Jury Chair
Iris Prize, Cardiff’s international LGBT short film prize, is delighted to announce that Cheryl Dunye is to be the chair of this year’s International Jury who will be judging the 35 films competing for the coveted £30,000 prize. Director of the ground-breaking lesbian film, The Watermelon Woman which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, Cheryl is an award-winning screenwriter, actress and producer whose work has focused on race, sexuality and gender issues. In addition, she is ...
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Special Discount for Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada |
Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada | You have the Script We have a way to get it to the Screen. Learn how it’s done from the Script to Screen Summit Crew: Miranda Bailey, Producer, Cold Iron Pictures: Actor, writer, director, and ...
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Fort d'une expérience acquise dans la distribution de films pour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark.eting et le digital.
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Les films en compétition pour la 40ème édition du festival de Montreal
COMPÉTITION MONDIALE – LONGS MÉTRAGES AN Zhanjun - THE UNEXPECTED / L’INATTENDU (Chine / China)) Héctor BABENCO - MY HINDU FRIEND / MON AMI HINDOU (Brésil / Brazil) Radek BAJGAR - TEORIE TYGRA / TIGER THEORY (République tchèque / Czech Republic) Nic BALTHAZAR - EVERYBODY HAPPY (Belgique - Pays-Bas / Belgium - Netherlands) Amir Galván CERVERA, Mitzi Vanessa ARREOLA - LA 4º COMPANIA / TH...
DESTINÉE de Zhang Wei présenté au 40e FFM
Le destin de chacun est-il scellé dès la naissance ? Le film Destinée, écrit et realisé par le cinéaste chinois Zhang Wei (dont le précédent film Factory Boss a reçu le prix du meilleur acteur du FFM en 2014) sera présenté durant le 40e Festival des films du monde de Montréal dans la section consacrée aux films chinois. Destinée met en vedette LIANG Jingke (Mount Dingjun, Kill Zone,...
