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THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1096

  THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON EMAIL US FOR PROMO OPTIONS Weekly newsletter N°1094/ 1095 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...

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga World Premiere at the 77th Festival de Cannes

Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure “FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Nine years after Mad Max: Fury Road, the Australian director, screenwriter and producer George Miller’s famous saga’s is back on the Croisette! The highly anticipated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be revealed in the presenc...

Cannes reveals the six new faces of La Résidence of the Festival

T The six new faces of La Résidence of the Festival : Molly Manning Walker ©️ Billy Boyd Cape, Ernst De Geer ©️ Per Larsson, Daria Kashcheeva ©️ Gabriel Kuchta, Deník N, Danech San ©️ Prum Ero, Anastasiia Solonevych ©️ DR, Aditya Amhad ©️ DR Welcome to Molly, Aditya, Daria, Danech, Ernst and Anastasiia ! From March 15 to July 31, 2024, these young filmmakers will work in the heart of Paris on their first or second feature film project. Fo...

Series Mania Forum closes with record numbers and a stronger global presence than ever before

  SERIES MANIA : We've had another fantastic week in Lille, both at the festival and at Séries Mania Forum. The figures are almost in, and we've already exceeded 98,000 spectators - a 15% increase on last year!   As for the Forum, 4,200 professionals from 72 countries gathered at Lille Grand Palais.   This year, new countries took to the festival's red carpet (Latvia, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan), and international stars such as Patrici...

Winners announced at SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival NY - 11th edition

The 11th annual edition of SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival NY in-person section closed on Monday, March 18, with an Awards Ceremony at the beautiful National Arts Club, hosted by the Club’s Moving Image Committee and Chair Nina Urban. In the presence of over 140 attendees, including club members, filmmakers, jury members, and friends, the screening of the last block of short films Before the Oil, ByKids: Beekeeper, and SeaMonster was followed immediately by the Awards Ceremony...

Juliette Binoche to be the new President of European Film Academy, Agnieszka Holland steps down

Agnieszka Holland steps down to dedicate time to new films French actress Juliette Binoche has been unanimously proposed by all members of the European Film Academy Board to succeed Agnieszka Holland as President of the European Film Academy. The new President was chosen after the incumbent President, Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, had decided to step down in 2024. The honorary role of President of the European Film Academy holds a strongly symbolic power and embodies what the Academ...

In Celebration of 10th Anniversary, Bentonville FilmFest Foundation announces their Grant Recipients

Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Foundation (BFFoundation), announced the second annual beneficiaries of their two filmmaking grants totaling $45,000. A BFF alumni shorts filmmaker, Gabrielle Roberts, was awarded the M&M’S For All Funkind Grant totaling $20,000 and the team behind the upcoming indie feature Nuked received a $25,000 grant for the See It, Be It, Make It Filmmaker Grant presented by NBCUniversal. The BFFoundation is a non-profit organization focused year-round o...

Film Fest Gent welcomes Philippe Rombi as guest of honour at the 24th World Soundtrack Awards

  Film Fest Gent is proud to welcome French film composer, pianist and conductor Philippe Rombi as guest of honour at the 24th edition of the World Soundtrack Awards. Rombi’s work can be heard in the majority of François Ozon’s films; their collaborations include Swimming Pool, Jeune et jolie, Potiche and most recently Mon crime. Other popular film scores are Joyeux Noël, directed by Christian Carion, comedies like Bienvenue chez les C...

A Day with Daniel Day-Lewis at 52nd edition of FEMA (Friday June 28 through Sunday July 7 La Rochelle)

Photo : Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread by Paul Thomas Anderson (2017) © ChristopheL A Day with a Chameleon Actor After devoting a day to Brad Pitt in 2022 and to Nicole Kidman in 2023, we’ll be honoring an actor from the British Isles at the 52nd edition of FEMA (Friday June 28 through Sunday July 7). His magnetic charisma, his perfectionism and his spellbinding charm have profoundly marked his roles and established him as one of the greatest actors of his time. An...

Levante is the winner of BFM 41! Best Doc Prize goes to The Golden Thread.

  Levante/Power Alley by Lillah Halla (Brazil, France, Uruguay, 2023) is the winner of the main competition Mostra Concorso of the 42nd edition of Bergamo Film Meeting. Chosen by the audience, the film will receive the Bergamo Film Meeting Prize, worth 5,000 €.  The international jury, composed of Michelangelo Frammartino (director), Vaida Kazlauskaitė (project coordinator European Film Forum Scanorama - Vilnius) and Paola Raiman (fi...

THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1095 SXSW and Fantasporto in focus

THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON EMAIL US FOR PROMO OPTIONS Weekly newsletter N°1094/ 1093 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 our new...

The Accolade Global Film Competition Announces Latest Winners! March 2024 Season

  The Accolade Global Film Competition Announces Latest Winners!   Rick Prickett, Competition Director 858-454-9868 AccoladeCompetition.org Info@AccoladeCompetitio.org   La Jolla, CA, March 2024 – The awards go to those filmmakers, television producers and videographers who produce fresh, standout entertainment and compelling documentaries. The Accolade is an international awards competition that honors those who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and ...

The international FILMFEST MÜNCHEN is giving its awards a coordinated design that will be reflected across the festival

Starting this year, the CineWaves will be the motif gracing the awards presented at Munich’s international film festival. This new design is inspired by water and its motion, reflecting the city’s joie de vivre and FILMFEST MÜNCHEN’s aim of attracting large audiences and offering something new that will inspire, captivate, and astonish them each time. “FILMFEST MÜNCHEN has given itself a fresh iconography inspired by one of Munich’s most sceni...

Second edition of Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2024 closes to great success and announces jury panel

Creo is delighted to reveal the panel of judges for the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2024. The competition for the sophomore edition of the major annual program for short films and filmmakers, which closed earlier this month, provides a gateway for the development of cinematic talent from across the globe.   Following a celebrated launch edition in 2023, this year the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards competition ran from June 15, 2023 to February 15, 2024, receiving more than double the num...

"Hero" directed by Asghar Farhadi was acquitted by the court verdict in Iran

  According to the report of Mansour Jahani, an independent and international cinema journalist, The court verdict in the case of copyright infringement in the movie "Hero" directed by Asghar Farhadi based on the expert opinions of three professors of the University of Tehran, experts and lecturers in the field of intellectual property rights, as well as four official art experts who unanimously dismissed the plaintiff's claims as baseless and rejected. had announced, issue...

Barco heads to CinemaCon with debut of a breakthrough in cinema innovation

The company’s 2024 exhibition space promises a peak into the future of cinema technology Barco, the leader in laser-powered cinema solutions, announced today its plans to return to CinemaCon 2024 with the debut of a long-awaited breakthrough in movie presentation and an expanded cinema team. This year, Barco will showcase the power of its globally renowned entertainment brand in a breathtaking exhibition across the Roman Ballrooms at Caesar Palace. The eye-catching experience w...

Oscars 2024: the full list of Academy Award winners

Here is the complete list of winners: Best Picture American Fiction Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers Anatomy of a Fall Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers Barbie David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers The Holdovers Mark Johnson, Producer Killers of the Flower Moon Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers Maestro Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Ber...

VIDEO Films from Japan and China take their toll of awards at Fantasporto 44th edition

  JAPAN won with FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, USA took top honors (BUCKY F*UCKING DENT by DAVID DUCHOVNY), China with THE CREATION OF THE GODS and Portugal with DEPARTURES : the big winners of FANTASPORTO 2024      The 44th edition of Fantasporto – Porto International Film Festival has come to an end, although on Sunday, voting day for the legislative elections, eight of the films awarded by the four Juries of the event, for the competitive Fantastic Cinema Secti...

It is now official: AFM moves to Las Vegas' Palms and is scheduled for November 5 to 10, 2024

The Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®) and its Board of Directors today announced that the American Film Market® (AFM®), its industry flagship event, will relocate to Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for its 45th edition. Scheduled for November 5 to 10, 2024, this move marks a new chapter for AFM.   Held in Los Angeles and Santa Monica for over four decades, AFM is a cornerstone event for the independent entertainment industry. The decision to move AFM t...

THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1094 SXSW and Fantasporto in focus

THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER ! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION SINCE 1995  WISHING YOU A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON EMAIL US FOR PROMO OPTIONS Weekly newsletter N°1092/ 1093 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 our new...

Late night thrills at Fantasporto with the Woman in the Maze by Mitesh Patel

The closing of the friday night screenings in Fantasporto was Mitesh Kumar Patel's Horror thriller The woman in the Maze starring Meredith VanCuyk, Joey Heyworth, Sean Dillingham... Mitesh also founded the Chandler International Film Festival. A young woman rents a house in America's largest ghost town, Jerome, Arizona for a business trip, but soon discovers that the house is cursed and traps any woman who enters it. The house transforms into a maze, making it...

VIDEO Global Entertainment Awards 2024 announced

Welcome to the Global Entertainment Awards THE ART OF SELLING THE STORY Watch the awards Ceremony / As sure as storytelling is universal and ingrained in all cultures, story selling is what drives us to want, play, watch and listen to those stories. Your skill in promoting entertainment powers the industry worldwide.   WELCOME TO THE ART OF SELLING THE STORY The Global Entertainment Awards grew out of the World Trailer Awards and delivers a world vi...

March 8 Horror and Fantasy treats on Fantasporto menu

March 8th - a very rainy Friday in Porto : a perfect alibi to linger in the theatres, and particularly in the brand new and comfortable Batalha Cinema Center which hosts for the second time Fantasporto after decades at Rivoli running films in two rooms all afternoon till late in the night.  Quite frankly the seating and the sound quality  are such a major improvement, thank God, and thanks to Mario and Beatriz for moving to this great location. ROOM 1 14: 15 Baby Assassins 2 &ndas...

The 13th-annual Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) announced this year’s juried film award winners

Bobby Cannavale Recipient of Inaugural Best Performance in a Film Award for “Ezra”   “Tiger Stripes” and “Maya and the Wave” Win Best Narrative and Documentary Feature Film    “Ezra,” “Photographer,” and “Abundance: The Farm Link Story” Win Festival Audience Awards   The 13th-annual Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) announced this year’s juried film award winners during their annual Awards Bas...

Doc Program for 13th AMDOCS revealed : festival opens March 21 with Superpower, Sean Penn attending

The 2024 American Documentary and Animation Film Festival will kick off its 13th annual event with the screening of Sean Penn's film, "Superpower". The film and discussion is set for the Camelot Theatres at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E. Baristo Road, Palm Springs, Thursday, March 21, 6 pm,  noted AmDocs Director and Founder, Teddy Grouya.​ TICKETS: Opening Night   Superpower, USA, 115 min. (Aaron Kaufman, Sean Penn)​ ...

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