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"A FESTIVAL WIFE" CURRENTLY SERIALIZED ON FEST21.COM
Filmfestivals.com, the online source for global film festival news and
resources, will serialize "A Festival Wife," a first novel by former
Variety reporter Rex Weiner, and publish on fest21.com culminating in Cannes.
Here is the introduction to the fifth chapter. Subscribe to receive a chapter every week
Chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3 chapter 4
A Festival Wife - Chapter 5:
The Dirty Deal Goes Wrong
A Festival thriller by Rex Weiner,
Illustration by Nesta Morgan
Henry
Dean, veteran publicist, resists retirement by holding onto his PR job
for the San Lorenzo Film Festival, where for twenty-eight years he has
stayed at the Hotel Medici, maintaining a long-running affair with his
beloved Leticia, one of the hotel's chamber maids. But Henry's job (and
love affair) depends upon looking after the Festival's guest of honor -
a cantankerous older film director who only needs a little press - and
the task is proving more trouble than anticipated. Equally troubling is
Henry's ex-wife Angie, a documentary filmmaker, who has arrived in San
Lorenzo with the intention of digging into ugly rumors concerning the
alleged Nazi past of San Lorenzo's leading citizen, Count Pietro Rassi,
who grandfather founded the Festival...
..."Who do I have to fuck to not go to this party?"
Loomis from the Village Voice announced aloud, trying to provoke
Charles, or some of the others on the shuttle van, into conversation.
No one even pretended to laugh. Even Bruno Chatelin and Malo
Girod de l'Ain - the guys from Filmfestivals.com who were pioneering
this new thing called the Internet - were rolling their eyes and
chuckling. The shuttle van full of journos was on the way to
free drink and a bountiful repast and it was churlish to complain, but
they could hardly go without someone enacting a ritual display of
cynicism regarding promotional events. Bought off with liquor and
victuals? Surely not they!
Charles was busy reading the Variety story as I sat down next to him, the one that Jeffries had written.
...Read more on fest21.com
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FESTIVAL CALENDARS
FESTIVALS THIS WEEK The calendar
FESTIVALS THIS MONTH Month Calendar
FESTIVALS SUBMISSION CALENDARS
Festivals calling for your films This week, this month...
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SUBMIT TO THESE FESTIVALS USING FESTIVALEXPRESS OUR NEW SUBMISSION TOOL ON FEST21.COM
KIDS FIRST! FILM FESTIVAL July 15 - Oct. 15
Now
in its tenth year, the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival is a showcase for new
and classic children's films, TV shows, and DVDs from studios,
independent producers and youth producers. Programming includes sneak
previews of outstanding films, DVDs and TV shows made for children ages
2 through 18.
Call for entries opens March 15, with May 15 as Late Deadline
Submit now
ANGEL FILM AWARDS December 3 - 6, 2009
The Angel Film Awards celebrates films that impart love, peace, and
oneness in their creative spirit for humankind. Each visual creation
floods our beings with a light that shines brightly with positive
images in our reverie. This art form is the focal point of our
selection process with a team of celebrated global professionals. Call
for entry ends October 15th
Submit online
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AWARDS
Pomona Valley Film Festival Awards
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Announces Award Winners
Celebration of film wraps in Palm Beach with awards
Palm Beach wraps, with award winners announced
2009 Hugo TV Awards wow sold-out crowd!
Filmfestivals.com 2008 Festival Film of the year Nominees ______________________________________________________________________________________
DAILIES FROM THE CIRCUIT ON FEST21.COM
Dailies
from the circuit: NEXT on fest21.com IFFS
Paris, Thessaloniki Film Fest , Miami, ECU,
Current Fest dailies on fest21.com Fantasporto,
La Comedy Shorts
Recent video coverage IDFA,
Capri,
IFFI Goa, , Fort
Lauderdale Film Festival, Montreal
Nouveau Cinéma, Diractors,
Cinemed,
UNAFF,
LondonFilmFestival,
Montreal,
Toronto,
San Sebastian,
London,
Cinemed,
Berlinale, Sundance, Santa Barbara, Talinn Black Nights
Ischia, Locarno, New York, Silverdocs
, Festroia
More archive Blogging from
Miami,
Cinequest, Santa
Barbara, Berlin,
Park City
, Tribeca
Film Festival, San
Francisco, Sydney
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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
A festival Wife Chapter 6: 24-hour party people
The Cannes Line up is revealed
The past does not look good on the net: watch our FIRST homepage
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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS
Robert Redford, Francis Ford Coppola to be Honored Live at SFIFF
Seamus McGarvey new Edinburgh Festival Patron
Michael Keaton's Directorial Debut
Ann HUI, to present at Fareast Udine anti-corruption 70s TV Serial and new film
San Francisco Fest:: Eimbcke, a New Mexican Talent To Watch
Tribeca Red Carpet for Spike Lee's, "Kobe Doing Work"
Burning down the house... intervieww with the team
Interview (from Tribeca) with Woody Allen
Elijah & Evan Rachel: Double Woods Honored In San Francisco
Coppola And Friends In San Francisco
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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS
Visions Of Italy in Palm Beach
Children of the amazon intrigues Jules Vernes Fest viewers from Paris
Documentaries Lift Palm Beach FF
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D-CINEMA NEWS
RealD
demos Monsters vs Aliens at CES
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
Costa-Gavras : L'odyssée d'un homme libre
Martin Scorses président d'honneur de Cannes Classics
Cannes 2009: Sélection de la cinéfondation
Festival de Val d'Isere: Conversation sur le ski extreme 3
Festival de Val d'Isere: Conversation sur le ski extreme 2
Festival de Val d'Isere: Conversation sur le ski extreme 1
Broad Peak: interview du producteur
Les prix 2009
Isabelle Huppert, présidente du Jury à Cannes
Sélection officielle du festival de Cannes
Val d'Isere
Au jour le jour 3
ET sur filmfestivals.fr...
Trophées du public : les héros du cinéma sont...
Costa-Gavras : L'odyssée d'un homme libre
Le palmarès de Val d'Isère aventures
Corto Del MED
Cannes :La sélection de la Cinéfondation et la compétition des courts métrages
Palmarès du festival de chercheur
Après les rumeurs...voici la sélection cannoise
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AND PUBLISH ON OUR FREE PLATFORM.
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