Please join us on Nov 2-4 for the 2nd Annual Chicago Comedy Film Festival. Over 35 local, international movies TICKETS: ht.ly/eIGr2
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Please join us on Nov 2-4 for the 2nd Annual Chicago Comedy Film Festival. Over 35 local, international movies TICKETS: http://ht.ly/eIGr2
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Big thank you to our partners Naperville Independent Film Festival for screening ALL 23 winners from ÉCU 2012 - what a great honor to our filmmakers! /// Un grand Merci à notre partenaire Naperville Independent Film Festival pour avoir projeté les 23 films gagnants d'ÉCU 2012 - quel honneur pour nos réalisateurs!
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http://www.NaperFilmFest.org
The 48 Hour
Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team
make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours.
On Friday
night you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all
to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete.
Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.
In 2010
nearly 40,000 filmmakers made 3,000 films in in 80 cities on five
continents. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 48 Hour Film
Project, marking an exciting year for us and with close to 100
participating cities, it's
our biggest year yet! As you may or may not know, the top films every
year go to the Cannes Film Festival to be featured as part of the Short
Film Corner. Sadly, Chicago has never sent a representative to this
international stage. This year, we'd like to change that - so bring
your game face to Chicago's 2011 Film Weekend (July 29th - 31st).
Register now at 48hourfilm.com/chicago
Director: Kenneth J. Harvey .
Thursday December 16, Egyptian film 'Cairo Exit' held its premier at DIFF 2010.
Cast and crew were present to attend screening.
‘Cairo Exit' features actors Maryhan, Mohammed Ramadan and Sanna Muzian, and director Hesham Issawi.
French superstar Catherine Deneuve joined 'Cairo Exit' team on the red carpet and at the premier.
'Cairo Exit', a film that the director Hesham Issawi described as being a very difficult film to make but its professional and talented cast ...
Cairo Time on Aruba Time! Ruba Nadda and Patricia Clarkson on red carpet at Aruba IFF. The night before their premier, we met at the Aruba Golf Resort at The Burning Plain after party and over all-you-can-Mumms, I spoke with them both about their experience filming entirely on location in Cairo. In the presence of flipping and twirling Aruba Carnivalesque stage dancers- a truly Lynchian moment- they told me how marvelous and exciting their experience in Cairo was. From the looks of their l...
Daniel Iron and Ruba Nadda appear on the red carpet at Aruba IFF to premier their film
Cairo Time starring Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself
caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As
Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the
middle of a brief affair that ca
Cairo Time: Red Carpet
Cairo Time's director Ruba Nadda, producer Daniel Iron and lead actress Patricia Clarkson arrived in Aruba in the midst of the first AIFF to the site of masked Aruban dancers and the bottoms up of Moet Champagne glasses. Not a bad night entrance to this tropical island and no doubt a stark contrast to the location where there film is entirely set, in Cairo Egypt.
When I asked Patricia what it was like to film in Cairo, she smiled and shook her ...
I can't wait until April 20th to tell you about LOLA and CAIRO TIME, the two visually stunning films (non-embargoed this time!) I saw back-to-back on this lazy pre-festival screening Saturday. I feel like somebody just gave me frequent flier miles.
Quite a juxtaposition between the two trips. LOLA, Brilliante Mendoza‘s new film,is brilliant and yet depressing ("life with the sad parts left in for two elderly women some place around the globe where it rains a lot"...
The 45th Chicago International Film Festival’s Hugo Television Awards is proud to announce the Illinois Film Office as this year’s honoree for Commitment to Excellence in Television Production. The Illinois Film Office will be presented with the Commitment to Excellence Award at the Hugo Television Awards on April 22nd, 2009 at the Chicago Cultural Center.The Illinois Film Office is honored to be selected for this award,” said Betsy Steinberg, Managing Director of the Illinois Film Office....
The Chicago Latino Film Festival celebrates its first quarter-century with over 100 feature and short films in an array of genres-fiction, documentary, animation, drama and comedy. The Festival runs April 17-29 and is considered the oldest and most comprehensive Latino film festival in the country. The film selections continue to reflect the great diversity of the Latino culture from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain.
"I truly believe the Festiva...
The Peoria Film Festival is now accepting entries for the 2008 Festival. We offer
our filmmakers, great audience attendance, fun parties, and proper recognition
for all their hard work!
The CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (Thursday, October 18 - Sunday, October 28) is set to kick off its 24th year of screening the best children's films in the world. Showcasing 220 films from 41 countries over 11 days, the Festival is the largest and longest running kidsfest in the U.S, and the only children's festival in the world that's recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an "Academy qualifying" festival. CICFF winners in the animated and live acti...
May 31 - June 3 at the Aurora Fox Arts Center The Festival will host a special Opening Night premiere of the film, JOURNEY FROM THE FALL (Vietnam) at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 31. The film will be followed by an outdoor culinary arts extravaganza at the nearby Fletcher Plaza, with showpieces from Johnson & Wales University, a chef's competition, delicious Asian cuisine, as well as entertainment by the young and energetic dance group Sol Pinoy. Tickets are $30.00 for the film and reception and $...
Cinema/Chicago, the presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, will be presenting the 43rd Annual Hugo Television Awards on Thursday, April 12 beginning at 5:30pm at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater. NBC5 news anchor Bob Sirott will host the event honoring those who push the envelope and display a mastery of their television commercial and production craft. The evening will honor the winners from this year’s competition as well as present Commitm...
Young Professionals Quincy is coordinating a night of cinematic entertainment featuring independently produced films from across the country. The event will take place on Saturday, February 25th, 2006 and is being held at “The State Room” in Quincy, Illinois. “The Big Dam Film Festival” (as the event has been titled due to its namesake’s regional iconic status and proximity to Quincy) will be a showcase of films not usually seen at the local movie theaters in Quincy. Instead, the films...
Chicagoans of the year: Jose `Pepe' VargasOver the last two decades, Jose "Pepe" Vargas has been quietly building his legacy as a film festival director and Chicago cultural leader. Not only will the soft-spoken Colombian native celebrate the 20th birthday of the Chicago Latino Film Festival in 2004 -- but this year Vargas started planning a $50 million fundraising campaign for a new home for the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, currently housed in modest offices at Columbia Coll...
