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THE NEW VERSION OF THE SITE LAUNCHED
THIS WEEK
Quick summary of the changes on fest21.com
include :
- New look, easier navigation
- Transfer of the Festival Directory database
- The renowned Festival Directory from Filmfestivals.com
is moving to Fest21.com whith easier search options, simplified
update process for festivals...
- Opening of a major Film database
- Launch of the new video platform (still in beta)
- Launch of Fest21 e-commerce store
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FESTIVAL CALENDARS
FESTIVALS THIS WEEK The
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FESTIVALS THIS MONTH Month
Calendar
FESTIVALS SUBMISSION CALENDARS
Festivals
calling for your films This week, this month...
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NEWS FROM BERLINALE
Check the dailies on fest21.com
Local
Boy Made Good Opens 59th Berlinale
All
eyes turn to Berlin
European Film Market: Crisis? Innovations, Opportunities,
and Strategies - the 2009 European Film Market Industry
Debates
Berlinale 2009: International Jury lead by Tilda Swinton
World Premiere of Tom Tykwer's thriller The International
to open Berlinale 2009
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NEWS FROM OUR PARTNER HOUSTON WORLDFEST
FINAL CALLING FOR FILMMAKERS WHO WANT TO SUBMIT
TO HOUSTON WORLDFEST
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Festival Film of the year Nominees
The
Hungarian filmweek prizes
Texas Black Film Fest nominees
Award ceremony at Göteborg
Rotterdam Festival audience chooses SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
and TEZA
Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced the
winners
IFFR 2009 Awards Ceremony on Friday
Rotterdam young people’s jury awards SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
2 projects awarded at Cinemart Closing Party
Filmfestivals.com Festival Film of the year Nominees
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DAILIES FROM THE CIRCUIT ON FEST21.COM
Dailies
from the circuit: NEXT on fest21.com Berlinale,
Sundance,
Santa
Barbara, IFFS
Paris,
Current Fest dailies on fest21.com ECU,
Fantasporto,
Talinn
Black Nights
Recent video coverage IDFA,
Capri,
IFFI Goa,
Thessaloniki
Film Fest , Fort
Lauderdale Film Festival, Montreal
Nouveau Cinéma, Diractors,
Cinemed,
UNAFF,
LondonFilmFestival,
Montreal,
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San Sebastian,
London,
Cinemed,
Ischia,
Locarno,
New York,
Silverdocs
, Festroia
More archive Blogging from
Miami,
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Barbara, Berlin,
Park City
, Tribeca
Film Festival, San
Francisco, Sydney
,
Cannes, La
Croisette Cannes, Future
of Cinema Salon in Cannes
Come
back for the videos from the Fest Summit panels on fest21.com
(shot by Nickolay
Velikanov)
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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
Independent Cinema from all over the World to visit Rome
in March
Hull International Short Film Festival highlights
A look back on Dubai Film Market
The 2009 New York Jewish Film Festival conclusion
Berlinale celebrates 20th anniversary of the fall of the
wall...
ViBGYOR 2009 Programme Highlights
New record when Gôteborg festival closes
Another Busy Day with Movers and Shakers in Santa Barbara
It’s Fall. It’s Film. It’s Fort Worth
Outfest announces line-up for Fusion 2009
Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival Enters Second Decade
Treasure Film Festival Starts Today!
The Macon Film & Video Festival Highlights
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS
Liam Neeson Q&A on Taken
Jim Wuthrich upped at Warner Home Video
Hannah Herzsprung on the Jury for Berlinale Best First Feature
Clint Eastwood 2009 Modern Master Award in Santa Barbara
Jazz Man Clint Eastwood honored in Santa Barbara
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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS
Local Boy Made Good Opens 59th Berlinale
Cinema decline? Don't believe flawed research
Yes Madam, Sir wins 2 docu prizes at Santa Barbara
Global motion picture and video industrty revenue grew 7%
in 2007
Celebrating 100 years of German Animation Film in Stuttgart
Competition of Berlinale is now Complete with 26 films
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D-CINEMA NEWS
RealD
demos Monsters vs Aliens at CES
Celluloid Meets Pixel at next Berlinale
Can you speak the Digital language?
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THE NEWS " IN FRENCH " l'actu des festivals
francophones
Dernières
nouvelles sur la nouvelle version française de fest21.com
2008, Année
record pour le cinema français à l'international
Les faux trailers pour Inglourious basterds
Brad Pitt nominé aux Oscar pour The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button.
Votez pour le film de festival de l'année 2008
Le Palais des Congrès de Paris accueille la 7e édition
du salon IDIFF
Tous basterds?
Salon du cinema 2009: ITW de Tonie Marshall
Salon du cinema 2009: ITW de JP Jeunet
Festivalloire 2009: interview de Marthe Villalonga
Salon du cinema 2009: ITW de la famille Grandperret
Salon du cinema 2009: ITW de Bruno Solo et Charles Nemes
Salon du cinema 2009: Simenon vu par Claude Chabrol
Salon du Cinema 2009: ITW de Fred Cavaye, "POUR ELLE",
1er film, 1er succes.
Les Cesar oublient les Chti's et soutiennent Mesrine, le
monde va très mal
Les lycéennes d'Aubagne vous invitent à rêver
d'avenir mercredi 28 janvie
ET sur filmfestivals.fr...
Mobile
Film Festival 2009 : le palmarès !
Palmarès du Festival du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer
Dix-sept films inédits en France en compétition
à Vesoul
Festival CinéRail ...fin mars
La Première Etoile primée au festival de l'Alpe
d'Huez
Les Interviews vidéos du Salon du Cinéma
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Filmmakers don't miss these ones!
THE
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL June 18-28,
2009
Now in its fourteenth year, the Los Angeles Film
Festival is widely recognized as a world-class event, providing
the movie-loving public with access to some of the most
critically acclaimed filmmakers, scholars, critics, film
industry professionals, and emerging talent from around
the world.
The Festival also features unique signature programs including
the Filmmaker Retreat, the Spirit of Independence Award
ceremony and gala, and Financing Conference. Additionally,
the Festival screens short films created by high school
students and has a special section devoted to music videos.
Submit
online
PALM
BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—
October
27 - 31, 2009
The Festival is a 501(3)(c) not-for-profit organization
supporting film programs in local schools, and dedicated
to making a difference in the lives of future filmmakers
by helping them fulfill their dreams to work in the world
of film. Proceeds generated each year are donated to schools,
in the form of grants and scholarships, to provide new technologies.
The Festival is now accepting submissions for Features,
featurettes, shorts and documentary of all genres and open
to filmmakers worldwide.
Submit
online
FILM
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINATION AND WONDER Film Festival du
film Merveilleux —
October
27 - 31, 2009
The Festival promotes films celebrating the imaginary, the
Wonder and magic from the entire world and allow us and
the section "off competition the kaleidoscope"
help to re-discover our different cultures and our planet.
The theme of the Film festival are magic, the imaginary,
the marvelous, the astonishing, the supernatural, the occult,
the strange, the esoteric, poetry, the fantastic, science
-fiction and myths, legends, comics, manga, video game,
dreams...
Submit
online
Art
by Chance Ultra Short Film Festival—
May 22 - June 5, 2009
- 30 seconds long films on concept of "journey"
theme
- made by enthusiastic and creative international film makers
- fiction, documentaries, animation or video art
- shown in major metropolitan cities all around the world
in May 2009 over the same two-week period.
Submit
online
42nd
ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—
April 17 - 26, 2009
Special Entry Deadline Extension to All FEST21 members!
Late Fee is waived! Save 15$
Enter the Festival that discovered Spielberg, Lucas, David
Lynch, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott and the Coen Brothers!
Extended Entry Deadline is january 31st, 2009! http://www.worldfest.org
Submit
online
DOCUMENTA
MADRID —May 1 - 10, 2009
Documenta Madrid is an international film festival dedicated
exclusively to documentary film. Its offices are located
in the capital of Spain and it is organized by the City
of Madrid. It is presently the city's most widely-attended
festival. The festival was born for the purpose of strengthening
and disseminating the documentary genre, in so far as it
understood to be a reflection of the social, cultural, economic,
artistic, environmental, and other realities that exist
in the world.
Submit
online
OPENFILM.COM—Openfilm.com
is a brand new web destination for quality films, videos
and animation. With its versatile, high quality player and
a host of social networking features designed to create
a dialogue between independent filmmakers and their audience,
Openfilm is the ultimate platform to feature professional
and semi-professional film work. Features include true HD
playback, manual processing and encoding of all videos,
custom-made subtitles and translation, animated thumbnails
and a chance to be featured in a professional film review.http://www.openfilm.com
Submit
online
FANTASPORTO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAl February
20 - March1, 2008
29th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 20 - March
1
The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its
29th edition, specializes in fantasy and science-fiction
films in its Official Competitive section. Running on 5
theatres screening 200 feature films each year with Massive
press coverage 5000 clippings every year - Over 110,000
entries in past editions.contact: Mário Dorminsky
(Director)
ECU
THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March, 2009
The European Independent Film Festival 2009 submission deadline
of January 15th, 2009 is fast approaching. Held in Paris
in March at the prestigious Biblioteque Nationale de Francois
Mitterand the very best independent films from around the
World will be screened to large audiences competing for
16 awards in 11 categories.
For more information go to www.ecufilmfestival.com
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW
SHORT
SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA June, 2009
Now entering our 11th year, Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF)
has become one of Asia’s largest festival for international
short films and is one of the few Academy Award(R) accredited
short film festivals SSFF reaches audiences of 30,000 in
Tokyo and major cities in Japan. Our main festival is held
for over a week in the heart of Harajuku TOKYO!
Please note that our festival dates are tentative.
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW
L.A.
COMEDY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL March
5 - 8, 2009
This is a festival started by funny people, for funny
people. All judges are top names in the fields of comedy
and filmmaking.
If what you have is short and people laugh at it, around
here, that’s a good thing.
So,
you think you're funny? Prove it!
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW
ANNUAL
PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Calls SHORT FILMS producers worldwide to participate with
their works.
Also see the news on the Festival for Documentaries and
Narrative Movies.
Awards information and call
for entries
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