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FESTIVAL CINEMA HERITAGE
Zhang Yimou, guest of honour at the Cinema Heritage festival, will be honoured for his lifetime achievement at the event, which is organised under the patronage of UNESCO.
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou will receive a lifetime achievement award at the first CINEMA HERITAGE international film festival, organised by the AITYSH France association under the patronage of UNESCO.
Artistic director of the opening ceremony of the O...
THOMASIN MCKENZIE TO RECEIVE AWARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING OF “EILEEN”
The Key West Film Festival announced today the recipient of its 3rd annual Golden Key Award for Emerging Talent.
The Golden Key for Emerging Talent, given to actors and directors who will be destined to grace our screens for years to come, will be presented to Thomasin McKenzie for her breakout role in the NEON Rated release of EILEEN, also starring Anne Hathaway a...
The Arab Critics' Awards, initiated by European Film Promotion and the Arab Film Center, is now in its fifth round. 85 of the most prominent and influential Arab film critics from 15 Arab-speaking countries are currently viewing the 25 nominated recent European films. In a first step, they will choose their three favourites for the shortlist and finally the winning film. Since the Cairo International Film Festival as hitherto host of the award ceremony has been postponed indefinitely...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
Feel the beat from AFM, Ventana Sur, EFA, Tallinn, Newport Beach, Denver, AFI FEST, Ojay, Heartland Fest, Hong Kong, Annecy, SCAD Savannah Film Festival, and many more festivals which we are following for you!
Filmfestivals.com will cover next Ventana Sur and RSIFF with online dailies: take centre stage
Ventana Sur takes places November ...
Pia Lundberg has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Göteborg Film Festival. Lundberg most recently served as Counsellor for Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of Sweden in London and will take up the position as Artistic Director on March 1, 2024.
"It feels fantastic to become a part of the largest film festival in Scandinavia, and I am thrilled to have earned their trust. I have attended hundreds of film festivals and now finally have the opportunity to help cre...
The AFM Sessions on Day 4 brought together executives, thought leaders, and producers/writers from ABC/Disney, Arclight Films, Black-ish, Bridgerton, Deadline, Fortitude International, Imagine Entertainment, Participant, The Springhill Company, and more at the Hilton Santa Monica Hotel to discuss sustainability, inclusivity, sales, television, the horror genre, and more.
Photo credit: Dan Steinberg
Getting Your Film Made, Seen & Profitable in The Streaming ...
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has acquired international sales rights for a compelling new film adaptation of Hamlet, led by two-times Academy Award® nominee and Shakespearian titan, Ian McKellen.
Directed by Sean Mathias, who previously directed the film Bent, winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival, the adaptation comes from production outfit BK Studios (The Critic, The Shepherd), and is produced by the late Bill Kenwright (Cheri, Broken), and exec...
The AFM Sessions’ three morning panels on November 2, 2023 brought together thought leaders to discuss Distribution, the power of Faith & Family content today; and Music for Film & TV all speaking at the Hilton Santa Monica Hotel.
Jeremy Kay of Screen Daily, Kent Sanderson of Bleecker Street / DECAL, Scott Shooman of AMC Networks, and Jere R. Hausfater - Esq, Attorney / Executive Producer Photo credit: Dan Steinberg
New Distributi...
The AFM Sessions kicked off today with more than seven panels, including The Finance Conferences featuring leading executives from 30 West, AGC Studios, Netflix, Paramount, FilmNation, Fremantle, Millennium Media, NAACP, GLAAD, Rebelle Media, Cornerstone, Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and more all took the stage today at the Hilton Santa Monica Hotel.
Joe Simpson of Ashland Hill Media Finance, L...
Month of European Film: What is happening?
After a successful pan-European launch in 2022, the European Film Academy presents the Month of European Film 2023 as Europe’s own film and award season. Starting on 1 November, it celebrates the diversity of European film for six weeks until its grand finale on 9 December with the European Film Awards in Berlin. Across Europe, thanks to the Academy’s partner Europa Cinemas, flagship cinemas in 40 countries from Iceland to Gr...
Things are ramping up here at SXSW HQ, and we’ve got an abundance of programming for you to peruse!
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The CICAE Arthouse Cinema Training starts its 20th edition in Berlin with its largest and most international programme to date
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Congratulations to the 21st annual Tallgrass Film Festival Audience Award Winners with over 4,000 who voted as of October 30!
Audience Favorite Documentary Feature
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Drum roll… Your votes are in and we can now reveal the winners of the Audience Award categories at the 67th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express.
We’d also like to take this opportunity to say an enormous thank you to each and every one of you who came along to this year’s Festival and made it so special.
‘It was an absolute joy seeing audiences enthusiastically connecting to this year’s programme which was beau...
THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995
Feel the beat from AFM, Ventana Sur, EFA, Tallinn, Newport Beach, Denver, AFI FEST, Ojay, Heartland Fest, Hong Kong, Annecy, SCAD Savannah Film Festival, and many more festivals which we are following for you!
Filmfestivals.com will cover AFM and next Ventana Sur and RSIFF with online dailies: take centre stage
AFM 2023 runs October 31- November 5; 2023 Ventana Sur takes places Novem...
THE INVISIBLE FIGHT by Rainer Sarnet (Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Greece / LevelK) (c) Homeless Bob Production
Nine world sales companies are promoting and selling 20 new finished and unfinished films from Europe with the help of European Film Promotion’s Film Sales Support (FSS) at LA’s American Film Market (AFM), taking place from 31 October to 5 November.
The FSS scheme provides financial help for the development of sophisticated campaigns that visually tease the interest of N...
The AFM Sessions, presented by Wrapbook & Film Hawaii, will bring 30+ panels and 100+ speakers across two stages over four days beginning Wednesday, Nov 1. The initial programming lineup features a cross-section of illustrious industry creatives, influencers and decision-makers to examine and discuss today’s timely topics.
Programming highlights include:
Film Funding Today: The Benefits & Limitations of Global Tax Incentives - Jeaneane Davey, Netflix, Patrick R...
Hara Vahi Jo Lada Nahi (only he who did not fight loses) is the tagline on the book, 12th Fail, written in Hindi by Anurag Pathak and translated into English by Gautam Choubey and Lalit Kumar. For the film version, the writing credits go to Vidhu Vinod Chopra (who has directed the movie), Jaskunwar Kohli (co-writer), Anurag Pathak (associate writer) and Aayush Saxena. A village student, Manoj Kumar Sharma, who failed his 12th exams, who does not know where his next meal is going to come from, ...
The Creation of the Eastern European Film Festival Network has been officially announced on 21.10.2023, during CinEast festival Awards Ceremony.
EEFFN - Eastern European Film Festival Network brings together five film festivals dedicated to promoting and showcasing Eastern European cinema and one partner organisation. The primary objective of the network is to enhance cooperation and collaboration between the member festivals in order to increase the visibility and impact ...
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) today announced the award winners for the 26th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival. A key stop on the festival circuit leading up to the Academy Awards, the 2023 SCAD Savannah Film Festival screened 167 films, including 51 narrative feature films, 16 documentary feature films, 100 short films, and eleven world premieres and four U.S. premieres.
Out of over 2,100 submissions, nineteen awards were announ...
22nd Hafez Awards, Picture World Cinema and Television Ceremony were given to the best of cinema and television of Iran.
The Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal was awarded to “Imagination”, directed by Ali Behrad.
The 22nd Cinema and Television Ceremony of Picture World Magazine (Hafez Awards) was held after a year break, under the direction of Omid Moalem and production of Azar Azar Memarian. The awards were given to the best of cinema and television of Iran. This year, the...
L: The People’s Joker, R: Fancy Dance
CELEBRATING QUEER FILMMAKING EXCELLENCE: JURY AND AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 28TH SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
The People’s Joker and Fancy Dance receive top honors
Two films with Seattle-area connections win Audience Awards for Favorite Feature and Documentary
Three Dollar Bill Cinema is proud to announce the Jury, Youth Jury, and Audience Award winners for the 28th Seattle Queer Film Festiv...
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
Day 1 of AFI FEST
AFI FEST is here! Join us tonight at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood as we kick off this year’s festival celebrating some of the most acclaimed and inspiring films of year. We can’t wait for you to see these incredible films screening tonight. Buy your tickets now and we’ll see you in the theater!
SCREENING TONIGHT:
World Premiere of
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
Tonight, 7:00 p.m.
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The Cité internationale du cinéma d’animation d’Annecy on track! Preview: DDA Devaux & Devaux Architectes
AN EMBLEMATIC SITE FOR THE WORLD CAPITAL OF ANIMATION FILM
For the last 63 years, Annecy has hosted the world’s leading festival dedicated to animation film.
In June 2023, some 16,000 professionals and enthusiasts from nearly a hundred countries came to celebrate animation in all its forms.
The epitome of this history and its succes...
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