Multi Oscar®-winning American screenwriter and film director Paul Haggis (Crash, 2004) will co-host the official presentation of the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Fest in Cannes Saturday (May 19th) at 11:15am at the International Village's Italian Pavilion. Joining him will be Italian iconic movie producer Marina Cicogna, Rumanian supermodel and actress Madalina Ghenea, producers Avi Lerner (Nu Image), Nicolas Chartier (Voltage Pictures), and Fulvio Lucisano (IIF) along with Fes...
PRAGUE – ‘Men live in cities. Cities live in men too.’
This year Bombay filmmakers currently under post production with their feature film ‘PRAGUE’ (2012) are on a journey to visit the 65th Cannes Film Festival for this purple 'Prague' film’s first press bomb and their home production short titled-LEHENGA (The Skirt) being showcased at Short film corner.
This East (India) meets West (Czech Republic) story is a far cry from previous Indian/West hybrids of...
The International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) and the Ethiopian Film Initiative (EFI) announced today the three filmmakers selected for a week-long visit to Monaco and Cannes for workshops, programs and events happening during the 2012 Cannes film festival this May. They are: Henok Mebratu, Olisarali Olibui Tongolu and Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn.
The trip will provide an opportunity for the filmmakers to meet a range of influential distributors, sales ...
Retrospective of Solanas’ Work To Be Presented as Part of Festival’s Salute To Argentina
Famed Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician Fernando Solanas will receive a “2012 Ischia Legend Award” in recognition of his lifetime of outstanding contributions to the cinema of Argentina during the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Fest to be held from July 8th to 15th on the isle which is located off the coast of Naples. The announcement was made here today by actor ...
ITN Distribution Film and New Media Festival is held in September 2012 in Los Angeles. It is organized by one of the most successful independent film distribution companies in the world today helmed by Stuart Alson. In the last year, Alson has executive produced Brutal starring Peter Greene (The Mask and Pulp Fiction); and Mysteria starring Danny Glover, Billy Zane, Martin Landau and Michael Rooker.
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The 51st Rose d'Or Awards Festival came to a successful close today with the announcement of the Golden Rose Award-winners for 2012. The celebrations began this afternoon at the Awards Ceremony in the Festival Hotel Schweizerhof with the presentation of the Golden Roses in each of the 12 competition categories, as well as performances from comedian Rob Spence and singer/songwriter Henrik Belden.
Later ...
Yesterday, in anticipation of the nationwide release of the action adventure comedy Men in Black™ 3, in theaters May 25, the cast and filmmakers donated memorabilia from the film into a time capsule that will begin a cross country tour next week. Following the tour, the time capsule will be locked away for 43 years – mirroring the jump back in time from 2012 to 1969 that Agent J experiences in the film.
The Men In Black 3 time capsule was dedicated at an event at the Four Seasons hote...
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by Founding Sponsor American Express, today announced that more than 380,000 people attended screenings, panels, talks and free community events - including the Tribeca Drive-In series, Family Festival Street Fair, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day and the second annual Tribeca/NYFEST Soccer Day, as well as the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards and the Tribeca Film Institute Interactive D...
The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, announced the winners of the two Audience Awards tonight at the wrap party in New York City. This year for the first time two awards—one for narrative and one for documentary—were given to the audience choices for the best films. Any Day Now, directed by Travis Fine, was chosen to receive the Narrative award and BURN, directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez, was chosen for the Doc...
The Guam International Film Festival (GIFF) has officially announced its open call for entries for its second annual event scheduled to take place from September 27th through September 30th, 2012. The final date for submissions is August 3, 2012. GIFF executive producers and co-founders, Don and Kel Muna, have returned with former Paramount Studios director of development, J.D. Iriarte, as Festival Director.
"The 2012 GIFF will be a refined version of last year's celebration focusin...
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) announced the award winners for the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund and first-ever Heineken VOCES grant at a celebration over the weekend for Latin American filmmakers during the Tribeca Film Festival. The funds, totaling $60,000, support innovative Latin American film and video artists to help them explore stories reflecting diverse cultures and gain exposure in the film industry. The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund awards $10,000 grants to a...
Italian filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been named the first recipients of the “2012 Ischia Legend Award” which will be presented during the 10th Annual Ischia Global Film & Music Fest to be held from July 8th to 15th on isle which is located off the coast of Naples,. The announcement was made today by recently appointed Festival chairpersons Paula Wagner and Rick Nicita and Festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini. The festival is presented under the auspices ...
9 ELEVEN selected as the CLOSING NIGHT Film for the prestigious The Peoples Film Festival (TPFF) - New York City.
Saturday, May 19th - 2012
April 21, 2012 : New York - The Peoples Film Festival (TPFF) today announced the CLOSING NIGHT FILM for their 2012 Festival - Award-Winning Film '9 ELEVEN' - Written/Directed by Manan Singh Katohora; Produced by ADF (Narain Kumar Kathur and Sadhna Mathur) in association with JMD Creations (Manan Singh Katohora); CAST c...
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) today announced the films that will receive financial and creative support from the TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This year, three projects, chosen from 130 applicants from around the world, will be awarded a total of $150,000 and will be recognized at the annual Tribeca Film Festival, taking place April 18-29, 2012. The winning films include: Unmanned, Computer Chess and Resonance. The projects, which all emphasize scien...
Hollywood icons Paula Wagner and Rick Nicita will chair the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, which will take place July 8th through the 15th on the magical Isle of Ischia, located off the coast of Naples, it was announced today by the Board of the Ischia International Arts Academy and Festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini.
"We are extremely pleased to be chairing this year's exciting event," said Wagner and Nicita, both of whom received the...
YESTERDAY AT THE FESTIVAL(09.04.2012)
• A FULL WEEK AGAIN!!! Second week of the festival presents a programme even more intense than the first day.
• STREET DOGS FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH GOLDEN PALM Who remembers the street dogs exterminated in 1910 for the sake of modernisation? How is the life for street dogs today and how will it be in the future? Director Serge Avédikian looks for an answer to that question... Dogs Story was at 11.00 at Fitaş 1 with the pa...
Hollywood icons Paula Wagner and Rick Nicita will chair the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, which will take place July 8th through the 15th on the magical Isle of Ischia, located off the coast of Naples, it was announced today by the Board of the Ischia International Arts Academy and Festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini. "We are extremely pleased to be chairing this year's exciting event," said Wagner and Nicita, both of whom received the Ischia Lifetime Achievement Award at...
Mar 2012
Witness "The Future" of Cinema! The
Northwest Independent Film Festival is proud to announce the newest
Panel Discussion for 2012,
"UNDER 21"
, to be held on Sunday, July 8, 2012!
Join 1st and 3rd
Place recipients of the 2011 Outstanding Student Film, Tara Nicole
Azarian and Nate Simson, along with Lamar Pitts, Executive Producer of
2012 Opening Night Film, KARMA: THE MOVIE to share their experiences as young artists in the world...
The 2012 Northwest Ohio Independent Film Festival is proud to announce
Short Film, KARMA: THE MOVIE as the first film accepted into the
Festival! KARMA: THE MOVIE is written and directed by Lima, Ohio native
Greg Pitts and Executive Produced by his 15-year old son, Lamar Pitts.
Congratulations! More details will follow in the coming weeks.
DO YOU HAVE AN EXCITING SHORT FILM? CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM THROUGH WWW.WITHOUTABOX.COM! THE EARLY BIRD DEADLINE IS MAY 1, 2012!
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AWARDS EVENING OF FIFTH EDITION OF THE CAPE WINELANDS FILM FESTIVAL (CWFF)
Films from Azerbaijan, Serbia, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Slovakia and South Africa were among the winners of the 5th edition of the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which had its last screenings on 24 March 2012 in Stellenbosch and Cape Town. The programme included award winning features, documentaries and shorts from more than 48 countries.
Ilgar Najaf from Azerbaijan won the ...
Morgan Spurlock is the the greatest example of a filmmaker who thinks outside the box and has the imagination and inspiration of a true artist.
I compare him to the artist Andy Warhol because he sees what others may view but his artistic talent allows him to create something unique. Perhaps his determination to be a filmmaker after being rejected by the USC film school several times but finally making the cut at the NYU film school opened his eyes in a ...
Tribeca Film Institute's Interactive Day on April 23 to Feature Thought Leaders from Across Media, Technology and Education; Slate Features Keynote from Bartunde Thurson and Speakers from The New York Times, IDEO, Games for Change, Plus Interactive Case Study of HBO's Game of Thrones
Tribeca (Online) Film Festival Expands Future of Film Blog Into Live Lunch Series at 92Y Tribeca With Guests Including Paranormal Activity Producer Jason Blum, Tumblr Founder David Karp, College Humor F...
The
UK Hip-Hop group N-Dubz will headline the British Urban Film Festival’s
broadcast coverage on Community Channel in April. The four-time MOBO winners,
who got together as teenagers, are the subject of a documentary, which followed
the band when they first started out in their career over a decade ago.
‘Before
they were Dubz’, directed by film journalist Jessie Grace Mellor, is the
centrepiece of the “BUFF Presents…”strand premiering on Community Channel on
Saturd...
9th Edition of the International Training for Cinema Exhibition Professionals :40 tutors, 20 nationalities, 2 festivals and 60 participants for 7 days of conferences, case studies, workshops and film screenings.The training is organized by the CICAE in the framework of the MEDIA Program of the European Union. Are you a young professional aspiring to become a film programmer or a cinema manager?Are you already a film programmer or an arthouse cinema theatre manager and searching for a specialized...
ÉCU 2012 FILM FESTIVAL DAY ONE
It’s nearly half past six on the evening of the first day of the seventh European Independent Film Festival. Strains of smoky jazz, a snaking baritone sax line, filters through from the trio set up in the festival foyer, making its way to the little marquee where, even now, film-makers are assembling for the welcome glass of wine or vitamin water. Amongst the group festival president, Scott Hillier,
will later refer to as a “crazed bunch ...
