Montreal World Film Festival offered a focus on China.
MONDAY, AUGUST 27TH
- 10h00 – 12h00 Hotel Hyatt Regency, Salon Creation, 6th floor
- Chinese delegation presents the situation and rules of coproduction, distribution and film market of China.
From left to right:
JIA Qi, Vice President of China Movie Channel and Head of the Delegation
GUO Hua, Deputy Director International Dept, China Movie Channel
ZHAO Hai Cheng, Vice President of China Film...
Tallgrass Filmmakers Lab: Screenwriting For Low Budget Production
This workshop is not about writing a screenplay you can sell… it’s about writing a movie you can make.
TFF alumni filmmaker and Ad Astra recipient Laura Lee Bahr presents Screenwriting for Low-Budget Production on Saturday June 23 from 1 – 3 pm at the Innovation Center at WDDC. (507 E. Douglas). In L.A., everyone has a screenplay for a multi-million budget movie, but at Tallgrass we see movies with stories that fe...
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Tiburon International Film Festival will hold a panel discussion on screenwriting with Joseph McBride [film historian and author of WRITING IN PICTURES: SCREENWRITING MADE
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THE MIX Short Film Awards - Call for Entries
Late Deadline: November 15th/WAB Extended Deadline: November 30th
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The MIX champions short film writers and filmmakers by rewarding current projects and acting as a catalyst for bringing writers & filmmakers together to produce a new wave of forward-thinking projects.
The MIX brings a range of exciting production opportunities and industry recognition to s...
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The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the 11 finalists for the fifth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants of more than $300,000, to be given to one or more feature films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time. Additionally, the grants support films that have a significant economic or professional impact on th...
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This 2-evening course will cover the basics of producing a one-off or series in the documentary or factual film fields. Starting with the basics, this course will take you through your story idea, development of pitch materials and financing to pre-production, production, post-production and deliverables.This course will take you from A to Z to help you prepare for a documentary film shoot. Full of practical tips, case studies, problem scenarios and handouts of call sheets, shooting schedules, e...
Trans Atlantic Partners tags impressive slate of producers for third annual co-production training opportunity
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El Cadaver Exquisito | Update
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Sombra
After a series of private screenings for film/video/art groups,
scholars and individuals, based in the greater metropolitan area of
NYC, we are in the final stage of El Cadáver Exquisito.
The main purpose of those screenings was to test the cut and gather
both general and specific criticism for the movie in order to help us
polish the editing, and therefore, the narrative. The screenings have
also smoothed out o...
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The Writers Guild of America, West has announced its 2011 WGAW Writer Access Project honorees, comprised of 13 diverse television writers who competed in the comedy and drama script categories. As part of its efforts to enhance the employment opportunities of diverse writers, the WGAW launched the Writer Access Project in 2009. Now in its third year, the Guild’s innovative program, coordinated by the WGAW Diversity Department, identifies writers with television staffing experience and makes sa...
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Ticket Time for the International Freethought Film Festival
For Immediate Release (Tampa, March 3, 2011) Tickets sales, for the first annual International Freethought Film Festival, begin at noon on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at the Tampa Theatre box office, and on the Tampa Theatre Website. The event will take place at the iconic Tampa Theatre, located at...
SCREENWRITING CONTEST - Genres include: Drama, Comedy & Horror/Thriller - Short Scripts: Under 45 pages. - Feature Scripts: Over 45 pages. ...
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It is our great pleasure to inform that the detailed program schedule of the film screenings and other events at Plus Camerimage Festival is available for download. You will find all the necessary information about locations, dates and times there.
This year the screenings within the Festival will be held in the two
screening rooms of Opera Nova and 3 screening rooms of Multikino.
Additionally many meetings, seminars and workshops will take place in
seminar and conference rooms of Ope...
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