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Fantasporto 44 reveals poster and an exclusive partnership with filmfestivals.com

Filmfestivals.com returns as media partner of Fantasporto 2024 /44th Porto International Film Festival The festival reveals the full program of this new edition as well as the official poster. The festival will be held at Batalha Film Centre from 1 till March 10th and will screen around 100 films from 34 countries, all of them as national première, european, International and World Première. Most of the directors and teams of the films in competition will be present as wel...

AFMX founder Ivan Wiener, steps aside, Kira Sipler steps in as AFMX new Executive Director

Bruno Chatelin (filmfestivals.com founder) salutes his friend and partner Ivan Wiener for his incredible success with his Festival.  Albuquerque Film and Music Experience (AFMX) welcomes Kira Sipler, current Director of Operations and Filmmaker Liaison, to its Executive Director position. With a strong background in volunteer coordination and a deep passion for the creative community, Sipler is poised to lead AFMX into a new era of celebrating talent in film and music while nurturin...

VIDEO: Berlinale 2024 Programme video Presentation

On January 22, 2024 the Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek and the Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian provided an outlook for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. ...

The Berlin Beat N°1 Berlinale and EFM in focus

DO NOT MISS A BIT from BERLINALE AND EFM 2024    FOLLOW US :          TAKE CENTER STAGE IN BERLIN: ADVERTISE WITH US AND PROMOTE YOUR LINE UP AND PROJECTS EMAIL US FOR A CHANCE TO BRAINSTORM AROUND YOUR BEST ONLINE OPTIONS     Meet with Ted Chalmers/Summer Hill Films at EFM ATTEND EFM WITH SUMMER HILL!  Contact Us: Ted Chalmers President of Summer Hill ...

Berlinale: the Programme of the Competition

  Brandon Vlieghe in L’Empire (The Empire) by Bruno Dumont © Tessalit Productions     Competition     20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentaries. Productions from 30 countries are represented. 19 films are world premieres. Six films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have been at the festival before, six in Competition.   &ldquo...

Award Ceremony Honorary Golden Bear to Martin Scorsese with the Film Screening The Departed

Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon in The Departed (Departed - Unter Feinden) by Martin Scorsese © 2024 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved       At the Award Ceremony of the Honorary Golden Bear to Martin Scorsese on February 20, 2024, his thriller The Departed will be screened. Since the 1970s, the Oscar-winning director has been one of the most influential filmmakers in the world of cinema. The directorial works of the Italian American with Sicilian roots alone comprise mo...

THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1089 Focus on Sundance and FIPADOC

  THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON EMAIL US FOR PROMO OPTIONS Weekly newsletter N°1087/ 1088 Documenting the festivals experience since 1995, reaching over 166 000 subscribers.   FOLLOW US :           With other 11 000 festivals worldwide which we cover: no wonder we have reached the '10...

Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions revealed for IFFR 2024

La Luna by M. Raihan Halim will close the festival, as the first Talks lineup is unveiled featuring Marco Bellocchio and Anne Fontaine     International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) revealed the films selected for the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions at the festival’s 53rd edition.   Head South by Jonathan Oglivie opened the festival on Thursday 25 January. The film bringing the festival to a close is now a...

Sandra Hüller, Anne Fontaine, Alexander Kluge and Marco Bellocchio in IFFR Talks lineup

Lineup of special guests confirmed for the IFFR Talks programme, and more as part of RTM and IFFR Pro Clockwise: Sandra Hüller, Alexander Kluge, Anne Fontaine by Matias Indjic © Unifrance, Marco Bellocchio by Anna Camerlingo      International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presents a Talks programme at its 2024 edition that aims to provide fresh perspectives and profound insights into the world of filmmaking. The s...

The Complete List of 2024 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners

It’s awards day! We’re here at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah, for the much-anticipated 2024 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. We’re so excited to share the results as voted by our illustrious jurors, as well as the winners of the audience awards. Join us in congratulating these exceptional artists on their amazing contributions to independent film!  Watch this space; we’re updating this list live as we learn the results. ...

VENTURA announces the winners of its second edition

Alexander David's project A Mão is the winner of the €10,000 Ventura Prize   Filmmakers Athina Rachel Tsangari, Valérie Massadian, Óscar Vincentelli and Eloy Enciso won the distribution and service awards offered by the partners and collaborators of VENTURA, the new training, development and co-production platform based in Tui, Galicia The jury, which was made up of the Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues, the Spanish director and producer Llu...

VIDEO: Fipadoc 2024 Winners announced !

SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD directed by Anna Hints wins FIPADOC GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY WINNERS' LIST FIPADOC 2024 GRAND PRIX INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland) The Grand Prix International Documentary crowns the best international film as yet unreleased in France. The 5,000€ prize...

The short film jury awards of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

The short film jury awards of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival were announced during the Shorts Awards Party in Park City. The Festival, which kicked off on January 18 and runs through January 28 in person and across the country online, has long been known as the premiere showcase of short filmmaking talent. The Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 53 shorts selected from 12,098 submissions, went to The Masterpiece, directed and written by Alex...

Sundance 2024 in full swing THE VIDEO REPORTS

  THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC NEW YEAR ON THE CIRCUIT...STARTING WITH SUNDANCE ! EMAIL US FOR PROMO OPTIONS FOLLOW US :           With other 11 000 festivals worldwide which we cover: no wonder we have reached the '1000' mark for our newsletters count. We proudly share our knowledge of the circuit with our community and really hope o...

VIDEO: Napoleon Dynamite street fun for their film which screened at Sundance Film Festival 20 years ago

Promotion action for Utah beloved movie Napoleon Dynamite! The film which screened at Sundance 20 years ago returns to SFF 2024 with Glen Powell speaking in a panel at Park City, Utah. Main Street publicity fun for Napoleon Dynamite film involved fuzzy big hair, goofiness and tater tots from a nearby food truck all part of the zaniness! By James Nelson   ...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Announces “Oscars® Season At The Academy Museum” January 28-March 31

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announces “Oscars Season at the Academy Museum,” running January 28-March 31, which invites the public to celebrate the 96th Oscars® and immerse themselves in Academy Awards® history through rich and expansive one-of-a-kind Oscar®-centered events and activities. “Oscars Season” will see the Academy Museum campus activated for visitors to experience Oscar-winning film screenings, family workshops, in-gallery tours, O...

Poor Things? Post-ingenue Oscars 2024 also rings in the Mangenue

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There’s a reason Poor Things starring Best Oscar Actress nom Emma Stone with 11 Oscar nods charts so high among big movies, Oppenheimer with 13 nods, Barbie with eight, and Killers of the Flower Moon at 10 nominations. After #metoo and #timesup, we are officially in the Post-Ingenue Era in Hollywood. Gone is the unsophisticated often preyed-upon female lead. And this is likely why Barbie’s Margot Robbie missed the Best Actress cut th...

The Oscar nominations 2024 announced today

The Oscar nominations 2024 are in for the 96th Academy Awards.You can watch the full Oscars 2024 nominations announcement livestream on Oscar.com. The Oscars 2024 will air LIVE SUNDAY MARCH 10 on ABC and will be televised live in more than 200 territories worldwide. Read on for the complete Oscar nominations 2024 list. Best picture "American Fiction" "Anatomy of a Fall" "Barbie" "The H...

Congrats to the winners of The Golden Globes 2024

The winners from the 81st annual ceremony, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles   Golden Globe   Best Motion Picture, Drama WINNER Oppenheimer       Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute (original title) ...

VIDEO: Sundance Interview with Richard Linklater, Director, God Save Texas

Richard Linklater revisits his hometown to explore its diverse inhabitants, painting a vibrant portrait that encapsulates the criminal justice system of Texas. Interviewed in Park City by James Nelson     ...

Golden Globes 2024: the complete list of winners

Best film – drama Oppenheimer – WINNER Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Past Lives The Zone of Interest Anatomy of a Fall Best female actor in a film – drama Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER Carey Mulligan, Maestro Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Annette Bening, Nyad Greta Lee, Past Lives Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla Best film – musical or comedy Barbie Poor Things – WINNER American Fiction The Holdove...

Small Things Like These Starring Cillian Murphy Set to Open Berlinale

  The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 15, 2024 with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, an Irish-Belgian production. Directed by Tim Mielants from a screenplay by Enda Walsh, the international cast includes Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These will screen in Competition.   The film is based on the book by the award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan (who also wrote...

20 films in the Berlinale Competition

20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentary forms. Productions from 30 countries are represented. 19 films are world premieres. Six films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have been at the festival before, six in Competition. “We are particularly proud of this year’s selection which achieves the best possible balance between auteurs we cherish and admire and powerful ...

Sundance Interview with REALM OF SATAN Director: Scott Cummings

  By Emmanuel Itier I remember meeting Peter H. Gilmore, the high priest of the Church of Satan when I was doing a documentary about the notion of “God”. I had to admit I was quite puzzled by this intriguing gentleman and his approach of satanism which goes against the notion of scarifying children on the alter or killing a virgin. Furthermore, I learned that their approach was more about rebelling against the politically correct approach of life in general. Remember that Sa...

THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1088 Focus on Sundance and FIPADOC

THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON EMAIL US FOR PROMO OPTIONS Weekly newsletter N°1083 // 1084 Documenting the festivals experience since 1995, reaching over 166 000 subscribers.   FOLLOW US :           With other 11 000 festivals worldwide which we cover: no wonder we have reached the '1000' mark for ...

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