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The nominations and jury members for the 14th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced today, Monday 31 October at St Martins Lane, London by Helen McCrory.
Joint Directors, The Moët British Independent Film Awards' Johanna von Fischer & Tessa Collinson said: "This year's nominees really highlight the immense wealth of British talent in this country today. We are incredibly proud that the Awards have grown to a level that garners attention worldwide...
Greeting from Tokyo!!!
One of the biggest short films in Asia, an Academy accredited short film festival, Short Short Film Festival & Asia 2012 is now accepting the entries from all over the world!!
The regulation is as follows:
- up to 25 minutes including the credit
- Produeced after June 2010
- Japan Premiere ONLY
- Deadline: NOVEMBER 15, 2011 (but of course you DO NOT need to wait!!)
If you would like to submit us, please...
Call for entries
Wherever you are in the world, and whether you are reading this at your film academy, in your basement, secret laboratory or elsewhere: We want you to film! We, the 29th Hamburg International Short Film Festival and our competitions (international, no budget, national)! Only you can make Hamburg watch in awe and rub its eyes in disbelief from 4 June to 10 June 2013.
And for the next generation of short film fans: From 2 June to 9 June 2013 the 15th Mo&Friese Children Sho...
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the second annual G-Technology Driven Creativity Competition 2011, and a prize of €5,000 and a G-SPEED Q drive, is Amateur Film Entry, 'We Miss You' by student filmmakers Steffen Wilhelm (Producer), Sebastian Bandel (Producer), and Hanna Maria Heidrich (Director). The judges favourite, their short film embodies the creative spirit of the competition, focusing on the relationship between humans and nature by asking: What if nature misses us or do...
Summer Media Immersion Program is Opportunity to Work with Miramax Executives and Gain Valuable Entertainment Industry Knowledge Miramax today announced its Media Immersion Program, a summer internship opportunity for the university-level students of Qatar to work with Miramax executives in the Company’s Los Angeles or London offices. The goal of the internship is for students to gain considerable experience working in entertainment and media. The inaugural program, created in partnershi...
Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the filmmakers and projects selected for its 11th annual Producers Lab. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the seven-week program takes place in Los Angeles and is designed to help producers improve their craft, and move their current projects into production in a nurturing, yet challenging creative environment. Film Independent has also awarde...
By Liza Foreman TOKYO -
The rain stopped just in time for the celebrities to walk the green carpet, laid out for the opening of the 24th Tokyo International FilmFestival (October 22-30th) on Saturday.
TIFF chairman Tom Yoda welcomed guests, including Jackie Chan, whose 100th film“1911” kicked off events as the special opening film.
Highlights of the night included the cast of the “Fukushima Hula Girls,” participating as part of the national caravan for the recons...
Acclaimed Syrian director Mohammed Malas will be joined by internationally renowned filmmakers and actors to form the Arab Film Competition Jury for Narrative Films at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF). The news came as the Doha Film Institute (DFI) announced the jury for the inaugural DTFF Arab Documentary Film Competition, which will be led by pioneering and award-winning British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney, Battle for Haditha, Biggie & Tup...
SUBMIT YOUR FILM!
http://2012.sehsuechte.de/home-cfe-en.html
Clothing, diet, equal rights, recycling, demographic change, fair trade, migration, education,
environmentalism, consumption, development aid, ...all these issues are hold together by the term
sustainability. You didn't know that? So we decided to devote 2012's focus of Europe's largest
international student film festival sehsüchte to sustainability. The term is on everybodyfs lips right
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The MIX Short Film Awards (for produced shorts and scripts) - Outside of rewarding current projects, The MIX pairs up emerging short film writers and filmmakers for the purpose of producing future high quality shorts in both traditional and non-traditional formats. This contest helps facilitate the production of short films by pairing up our top winning screenwriters & filmmakers and offering them cash prizes or production opportunities. Outside of our main categories where we accept all genres and niches, three awards will be given to the most inspiring writer or filmmaker who best utilizes film as a medium to create awareness, social change, or bring a unique perspective to any one topic. The screening events will be held at the historic Byrd Theatre, Feb 17-19, 2012.
1st Czech Film Week in Dresden, 20 – 26 October 2011On Thursday 20 October 2011 the 1st Czech Film Week will start up in two Dresden cinemas Thalia and Programmkino Ost. They will be introducing new feature and documentary films, humorous short films and a Bohdan Sláma retrospective. The director will personally be participating in a debate on his films with film journalist Andreas Körner (Sächsische Zeitung).The 1st Czech Film Week is taking place as part of the 13th Days of Czech and Germ...
Screen Naija Open Air Cinema Festival is now a member of the Projection Foundation (http://projectionfoundation.org.)The Projection Foundation addresses technological inequity by providing communities with: (1) the tools and training necessary to produce digital media, and (2) the resources to exchange their stories through local cinema screenings, regional open air film festivals, and a representation within global social media networks. What Do We Do?The Projection Foundation combines village-...
When i was a young actor starting out in New York , I was granted the privlege of meeting Sue Mengers and the advice she offered me was to take a chance on making it in Holywood.She told me to take 6 months in Hollywood and to see what the result would be and if I got a lucky break to stay there.Well it took me 12 years to get to Hollywood from NY and I had an an opportunity to meet with Sue at a conference and we shared our meeting and her advice. We both laughed and ...
Announcing the Winners of the 4th Edition of the Festival: ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film'
In a rapturous awards ceremony held on the opening night of Diane Pernet's three-day international festival A Shaded View On Fashion (ASVOFF), nine ‘fashion films' were bestowed upon winners with gongs and prizes followed by a moving performance at the official venue of ASVOFF 4 in Paris, the Centre Pompidou. Over the weekend, ASVOFF electrified enthusiasts of both fashion a...
The Scream Awards, sponsored by Scream Magazine, have announced their Official Nominations today!
These Awards will be presented at the close of the British Horror Film Festival on Saturday October 15th at the Empire, Leicester Square. With the ceremony starting at 10.45pm.
THE SCREAM AWARD NOMINATIONS
BEST DIRECTOR
ANDY THOMPSON - KILL KEITH
MARTIN KEMP - STALKER
SUSAN JACOBSON - THE HOLDING
BEST ACTOR
MARC PICKERING - KILL KEITH
VINCENT REGAN - THE HOLDING
BEN...
From April 24 to 29, 2012 sehsüchte, Europe’s largest international student film festival, will take place in Brandenburg’s film capital Potsdam for the 41st time. Thanks to all the positive feedback to our 40th anniversary we are excited to start working for a new hot festival week. To be remembered by our guests as positive as at 2011′s sehsüchte, we want to organize an even more personal festival in 2012! As always we will devote ourselves to the international young generation of ...
The 14th Filmfestival Münster, organised by Filmwerkstatt Münster, is ready to roll. Wednesday 12 October is the starting date for both our series of over 140 films and the accompanying competitions with award money worth €16,500 in total. For five days and nights, a cinematic programme that is as exciting as it is varied will transform Münster into a hotbed of film fever.
Simply taking part and putting in an appearance is the key to the festival, and this also goes for the filmmakers ...
Though Reeling is the second-oldest LGBT film festival in the world and has reached a milestone 30th anniversary, we're still thinking young and looking forward. Rather than the expected seriousness of retrospective screenings, we prefer to celebrate our anniversary by showcasing new and exciting work that continues to push boundaries and expand LGBT representation - the kind of work that the festival was founded to encourage.
Reeling's poster image this year - a kitten in ...
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) announced today that the longest continually running film festival in the world will remain in June. In 2012 the 66th edition, which will run between 20 June and 1 July, will also see the return of the coveted Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film. The announcement was made jointly by Ken Hay, acting CEO, Centre for the Moving Image and Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director, Edinburgh International Film Festival. The Festival moved ...
A International Film Festival Summit Fireside Chat with Matthew Modine: How to Attract Above-the-line Players to Your Festival Hosted by: Robin Bronk, CEO The Creative Coalition Laurie Kirby, Executive Director of the International Film Festival Summit, has announced that Award-winning actor Matthew Modinewill be joining the 8th annual event and participating in a special ‘Fireside Chat’ – How To Attract Above-the-Line Players to Your Festival, a dialogue with IFFS participants to provide ...
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World", directed by Martin Scorsese, airs on HBO tonight, Wed, Oct 5th and Thurs Oct 6 "George Harrison: Living in the Material World", directed by Martin Scorsese, airs on HBO tonight, Wednesday, October 5th and Thursday, Oct 6th at 9pm. Last night at the New York premiere, Martin Scorsese explained that , "the film took over 6 years to make and fifty people worked on it", while Oliva Harrison shared, "I never imagined this film would get finished. It co...
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World", directed by Martin Scorsese, airs on HBO tonight, Wednesday, October 5th and Thursday, Oct 6th at 9pm. Last night at the New York premiere, Martin Scorsese explained that , "the film took over 6 years to make and fifty people worked on it", while Oliva Harrison shared, "I never imagined this film would get finished. It could not be rushed. It had to just sit. In the last five years we have what George would call...
More about “Slovenia Begs to Differ,” a unique
retrospective of Slovenian films, 1945-present, that played in September at the
Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. It was curated by Vera Mijojlic, artistic
director of the South East European Film Festival (SEE FEST) and Shannon
Kelley, head of public programs at UCLA’s Film and Television Archive, with
special thanks to Nerina T. Kocjancic of the Slovenian Film Center.
My second Slovenian film experience feat...
THE PIPE! When director Risteard O'Domhnaill (aka Richie O'Donnell) accepted his award for the RIFF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD in Reykjavik on October 01, 2011, Richie stood up confidently in front of hundreds thanking the RIFF jury and voters for his 'puffin statue of aluminum'. He had the whole crowd in stitches with his witty humor and singsong/rolling Irish accent. The film has held a successful run as yet, festival hopping for over a year now with a sweet final triumph at RIFF. While Richie is a g...
THE PIPE!
When director Risteard O'Domhnaill (aka Richie O'Donnell) accepted his award for the RIFF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD in Reykjavik on October 01, 2011, Richie stood up confidently in front of hundreds thanking the RIFF jury and voters for his 'puffin statue of aluminum'. He had the whole crowd in stitches with his witty humor and singsong/rolling Irish accent.
The film has held a successful run as yet, festival hopping for over a year now with a sweet final triumph at RIFF...
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