Formerly the Ojai Film Festival, the Ojai-Ventura International Film Festival is proud to announce that Meegan Huff has been named the this fall. The behind-the-scenes leadership change comes on the heels of the Festival’s recent announcement that it is broadening its regional footprint by becoming an event encompassing the cities of Ojai and Ventura. “We are thrilled to have Meegan as a part of our team,” says David Shor, chairman of the Festival. “She brings a strong creative energy ...
Everytime you hear from Mark, he's accomplished something. At the last Cannes Festival, he had successfully rapped up his Contest for Aspiring Filmmakers. Based in Hollywood, film director, producer, screen writer etc... Mark Gray recently held a party to introduce the winner of his Film Contest. Although I didn't make it over the Big Pond, I have all the news here, just for you film geeks, so you might even want to enter next year !
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Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary
The increasingly popular world of new media has introduced online viewers across the world to a diverse group of individuals in cyberspace. YouTube.com has emerged as one of the leaders to catapult an Average Joe into an instant “Weblebrity” with the stroke of a computer key. Meet six folks in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of b...
The 1st Annual Lady Filmmakers Film Festival has officially been launched. Now accepting submissions from around the world. Films submitted must have a woman in one of the following positions: Writer, Director, Cinematographer, or Producer. This is a celebration of lady filmmakers and the men who collaborate with them.
Check out the festival online @ www.ladyfilmmakers.com. The festival will take place October 17th & 18th 2009 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA.
We wi...
Courteney Cox is joining Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten 'Kiwi' Smith to open and attend LA Shorts Fest '09 red carpet, on July 23rd with 'The Monday Before Thanksgiving' which she wrote, directed and acted in. The short movie is part of Glamour Magazine's "Reel Moments Project. 'The Monday Before Thanksgiving' is Courteney Cox' first directing project. Demi Moore first short movie as a director 'Streak', starring Brittany Snow and Rumer Willis, will make its Los Angeles premiere on July 24, at L...
The Michael Jackson memorial is on TV today, I am sitting here watching and thinking about the difference between a person's public image and what it means to be an icon. Michael was an icon in life and is even a bigger icon now in death. Gone are the questions of his personal legal problems, gone are his money problems, his music now dominates the sales charts after a 4 year slump. Now he is iconic legend. Berry Gordy of Motown Records called him "the greatest entertainer who ever lived...
The Michael Jackson memorial is on TV today, I am sitting here watching and thinking about the difference between a person's public image and what it means to be an icon. Michael was an icon in life and is even a bigger icon now in death. Gone are the questions of his personal legal problems, gone are his money problems, his music now dominates the sales charts after a 4 year slump. Now he is iconic legend. Berry Gordy of Motown Records called him "the greatest entertainer who ever lived". Sunda...
The Orange County Performing Arts Center’s Free for All series continues this summer with its immensely popular free Movie Mondays on the community plaza. July 13 – ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ –with media sponsor KCRW 89.9 July 20 - Annie July 27 - Footloose August 3 - Mamma Mia! The Movie Monday series is held on the Center’s community plaza with the films projected on the side of Segerstrom Hall. Guests are encouraged to bring beach chairs or other easily portable seati...
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announces the IFFLA Film Fund, a new program that seeks to help emerging filmmakers realize their feature-length narrative and non-narrative film projects that reflect universal themes inherent within Indian culture. The fund parallels IFFLAs mission statement by supporting projects by filmmakers of Indian and non-Indian descent telling stories with Indian cultural themes as well as Indian filmmakers whose films relate to non-Indian themes.The IFFL...
The Orange County Performing Arts Center’s Free for All series continues this summer with its immensely popular free Movie Mondays on the community plaza.
July 13 – ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ –with media sponsor KCRW 89.9
July 20 - Annie
July 27 - Footloose
August 3 - Mamma Mia!
The Movie Monday series is held on the Center’s community plaza with the films projected on the side of Segerstrom Hall. Guests are en...
Celebrating its fifth year, the Cinema Orange film series spotlights the cinematic works of independent filmmakers from around the world. Co presented by the Orange County Museum of Art and the Newport Beach Film Festival, this season’s films explore art, architecture and design.
July 30 – ‘Art & Copy’ directed by Doug Prey
August 27 – ‘Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight’ directed by Wendy Keys
September 24 – ‘Visual Acoustics: The Modernis...
Please come to the World Premiere of the first feature film about
YouTube, Butterflies. YouTube on a big screen for the very first time
here:
AOF (Action on FIlm) International Film Festival
July 27th, 2009 @ 8PM
Theater 1 at the Regency Academy Theatre
673 East Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA
Tickets can be purchased at:
https://www.aoffest.com/store/AOF-2009-c4.htm
The official event invite is on Facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=112005473435&ref=mf...
PRESS RELEASE - QUICKFEST.COM FEST 103 COMMERCIAL CONTEST OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES
MONDAY JULY 6.
Log into the web site, register for updates, Filmmakers will shoot, edit and upload a commercial for a real client in 10 Days starting July 24 and finishing August 2 at Midnight PST.
Quickfest today announced the winners of the June 2009 Quickfest 102 Horror Fest. Thewinners were selected from the many excellent entries received by a jury whichincluded: Directors Marc Forby and Bill Malone and Actress Nina Siemaszko. The Award for Quickfest Juror’s Prize for Best Film is Carlos Valle ofGlendale California for ALICE IN WAIT. The judges also recognized CHECKOUT byKevin L Watson and his DP Scott Janssonfor Best Cinematography. Winning the QuickfestFestival Di...
Last night was the closing of the month long 17th annual nationwide Young Playwrights Festival, at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The Festival is an opportunity for teenage playwrights to have their work produced, directed and acted out by professional actors from the the Hollywood community. Twelve winning plays were chosen by a panel of theatre professionals from plays submitted by teenaged playwrights, aged 15 -19 from across the United States. Playwrights were then assigned a ...
Last night was the closing of the month long 17th annual nationwide Young Playwrights Festival, at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The Festival is an opportunity for teenage playwrights to have their work produced, directed and acted out by professional actors from the the Hollywood community. Twelve winning plays were chosen by a panel of theatre professionals from plays submitted by teenaged playwrights, aged 15 -19 from across the United States. Playwrights were then assigned a wri...
Catherine Bauknights' documentary " Hawaii A Voice for Sovereignty" won the Audience award for Best Hawai'i film at the 2009 Maui Film Festival. The festival was held from June 17-21, 2009 and is considered Hawaii's answer to Sundance. "Hawaii A Voice for Sovereignty" has joined the alumni of Maui Film Festival winners such as Departures the Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign=2 0Language Film , (500) Days of Summer starring Zooey Deschanel 2009 Maui Film Festival Nova Aw...
Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten 'Kiwi' Smith will open and attend LA Shorts Fest 09, which will be earlier, this year, from July 23 to July 31, 2009.LA Shorts Fest '09 will premiere on opening night:- Golden Globe nominated Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut: THESE VAGABOND SHOES, starring Kevin Bacon, shot in black and white by 'Capote' and 'Lars and the Real Girl' cinematographer, Adam Kimmel,- THE SPLEENECTOMY, starring Anna Farris by writer and first-time director Kirsten 'Kiwi' Smith, wr...
We have attended the Palm Springs International Shortfest through the years, and it is one of the best short film festivals in the world. Award winners receiving a first place prize in four categories are automatically eligible to submit their films to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Academy Award® consideration. Over the past 14 years, the Festival has presented 64 films that have gone on to receive Academy Award nominations.The Palm Springs International ShortFest &a...
Martinez. (“Prison Break”, “Cross: Resurrection”) announced the signing of an Acting Agreement with established 43 year old Bobby Ball Agency in Universal City, CA today. // Actor MartinezFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPRLog (Press Release) – Jun 24, 2009 – LOS ANGELES, CA June 23“We are very pleased to have Martinez. I saw him in ‘Cross:Resurrection’ on his website (as Pontius Pilot) and I was sold.” statedWilliam Bartoli, Theatrical Agent at Bobby Ball. (http://ActorM...
The SILVERDOCS International Film Festival, which is entering its final weekend, is by most accounts a very sober affair. After all, many of the films are about challenging subjects of human rights abuse, political exploitation, ecological ruin and the inhumanity of men and their regimes. But the programmers of the event have made sure to season this sober brew with some films whose premises are a bit "out there". However, instead of simply being comic relief for what is mostly a rather serious ...
by Sandy Mandelberger, Festival Dailies Editor
The SILVERDOCS International Film Festival, which is entering its final weekend, is by most accounts a very sober affair. After all, many of the films are about challenging subjects of human rights abuse, political exploitation, ecological ruin and the inhumanity of men and their regimes. But the programmers of the event have made sure to season this sober brew with some films whose premises are a bit "out there". However, i...
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans (LGBT) PRIDE celebrations around the world serve as a time for communities to reflect upon past accomplishments, revel in present successes, and strategize for a prosperous future. In this spirit of progress that coincides with New York PRIDE, Engendered, a transnational arts and human rights organization focused on exploring gender, sexuality, ritual, and religion in South Asia, organizes the country’s first-ever South Asian Queer Leaders Summit on Thursday, ...
Film Financing Conference: a full-day event designed to discuss different aspects of independent film production, financing, and distribution.
Keynote Speaker:
James D. Stern (CEO Endgame Entertainment)
Panelists:
Stephanie Allain (Producer, Black Snake Moan), Rick Allen (Snagfilms), Laura Bickford (Laura Bickford Productions), Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting), Patrick Creadon (Director, I.O.U.S.A.), Michael Donaldson (Donaldson & Callif), Jennifer Dubin (Producer, Good Dick), Da...
Director: Tracie Donahue.
Secrets to Love is a compelling documentary about relationships, marriage and -of course- love. For just over an hour we hitch a ride with a recent divorcee on her journey to find ansers to the questions many of us ask: How do couples get to the "happily ever after." Why is love so complicated? What, if anything can couples do to ensure their marriage lasts a lifetime?
Interviews with real life couples and a wide range of relationship experts allow Secrets To Love to navigate swiftly through many intriguing and thought-provoking issues related to love.
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