SUBMIT YOUR FILM The call for entries for the 2013 Amsterdam Film Festival is now open.  Please visit the website for the Official Entry Form and information regarding submitting your film. Submission Categories                                 Features                              Shorts                                Special Categories Narrative Feature                 Na...

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 On Sunday July 12th, Angelenos celebrated the eighth annual  official Bastille Day LA Festival at the beautiful in Elysian Park in the heart of Los Angeles, (next to Dodgers Stadium).  French gastronomic delicacies, in the form of crepes, and french breads; along with eclectic live entertainment were featured. Local bands, singers, street performers, belly dancers, and raffles for a trip to Tahiti, and Paris were available. Revelers enjoyed French food and wine, Chinese beer, and Morrocan fa...

Countries from the Asia-Pacific region have ten weeks to submit films for the region's highest accolade in film, the third annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs). More than 100 entries have been received to date and APSA is expecting to surpass its already strong 2008 entry mark with some 200 titles expected to compete in this year's Awards. The calibre of films is high with many of Asia-Pacific's leading filmmakers among those competing for an APSA in 2009. Fifty-three Official Submi...

Marshall Herskovitz is an instrument of change. He is an award winning producer and the current President of the PGA. He wants to change the world, our business and how we do business. This past weekend he oversaw the first Produced By Conference which took place at the Sony Studios in Culver City. Marshall said during his Sunday afternoon Master Class "Producers are adept at keeping on Balance. There are no answers so there is still lots to be learned. The purpose of this conference was to hel...

The tape machine is chewing on the digibeta cassette like a cudding cow. An exploding projector bulb screams like an incoming artillery shell. The fire alarm is triggered and water cascades into the cinema. 350 soaked people stream out into the cold.The bedside alarm goes off and I open an eye. Hmm. 3.10am. Nice. How I hate these reoccurring dreams only days before the festival ;) Apart from the vertigo-inducing nightmares that play out in my head during a couple of hours sleep I’m ridiculousl...

The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU), Europe’s premiere event for independent filmmakersand their audiences, announces its Official Selection for the fourth edition ofthe festival. ÉCU will showcase 94 films from 25 countries ranging in genrefrom feature films, short films,documentaries, animation and experimental films and for the first time a category for filmsdealing with environmental issues. Competing at ÉCU 2009 will be ‘Voyage d’Affaires’ starring Guillaume Canet, ‘...

Festival to showcase 94 films from 25 countries 13-15 March PARIS,FRANCE (18 February, 2009) – The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU), Europe’s premiere event for independent filmmakersand their audiences, announces its Official Selection for the fourth edition ofthe festival. ÉCU will showcase 94 films from 25 countries ranging in genrefrom feature films, short films,documentaries, animation and experimental films and for the first time a category for filmsdealing with environmenta...

Press release: 2009-02-11 The 44th annual of the international festival of popular-scientific films, which belongs among the most renowned events of its kind in Europe, takes place in Olomouc from the 14th through the 19th of April, 2009. Academia Film Olomouc – the unique platform where science and art meet – is, again, organized by Palacky University in Olomouc. Following the pattern of the former annuals, the festival programme will be sectioned into several traditional blocks. Be...

The Animation industry will celebrate the 6th Meeting in Córdoba Córdoba, October 15, 2008 The Audiovisual Foundation of Andalusia (RTVA), in partnership with the Association for the Development of the Animation Industry (ANIMACOR) and the Andalusian Society for the Development of Telecommunications (SANDETEL, S.A.) is organizing the 6th Animation Meeting in Andalusia, which will be held on November 5th as part of the activities of the ANIMACOR'08 festival being held from the 3rd to the 8th o...

 The European Independent Film Festival  13th – 15th March, 2009Paris, France Filmmakers are invited to submit their projects to ÉCU 2009! The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU) discovers, promotes and projects the BEST independent films from around the world every year in Paris, France. The festival is fast becoming known as Europe’s version of the Sundance Film Festival. Approximately one hundred films will be selected to compete in thirteen categories in...

53 films from 18 countries will compete in the Official Competitive Section of ANIMACOR'08 Córdoba, September 16, 2008 ANIMACOR'08, the 4th International Animation Festival of Córdoba, is to be held from November 3rd through 8th and will feature 53 films in its Official Competitive section. The selection committee made up of such professionals in the sector as Matías Marcos, Juan Antonio Pérez Gama, Manuel Trujillo Mena and the background designer Miguel Ángel Aísa have selected 6 full-le...

We resolved, for this new-four years mandate of the Cinema Section of La Biennale (for this 65th Venice Mostra), to stop, once and for all, looking at the cinema as if it were an infallible compass. No longer did we want to ask the cinema to rescue us from a problematic, ambivalent, ambiguous present: it was up to us, instead, to stay in there, not to pass over the new problems (artistic and beyond) that are being posed by the age in which we have to live. An age characterized by an evershifting...

By Maria Esteves - June 18, 2008 The 62nd Annual 2008 Antoinette Perry Tony Awards ceremony honoring the best of Broadway theatre productions, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing was held at the Radio City Music Hall, New York, Sunday, June 15, 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. 2008 Tony Awards hosted by Whoopi Goldberg were broadcast live on CBS Television Network. Special performances included Cry-Baby, Grease, Gypsy, In The Heights, Passing Strange, South Pacific, Sunday in the Pa...

Striplite is a new monthly night of short film, burlesque and alternativeperformers, solo musicians and DJs in London. The organisers are looking forsubmissions of short film to be shown at the night, and longer material tobe shown during DJ sets. The organisers are looking for films on an ongoing basis, so film makersshould keep the night in mind for material they are currently working on, orplan to make. Shorts should be up to 10 minutes long, material to play during DJ sets canbe any length...

The 4,200 Screen Actors Guild members who will determine the nominees for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for this year’s outstanding performances in film and primetime television will be drawn by random sample this Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008, SAG Awards® Committee Chair Yale Summers announced today.The SAG Awards’ separate film and television nominating committees, each consisting of 2,100 SAG members from around the country, are randomly selected anew each year. To be eligible to...