The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that it has hired Rogers & Cowan, the world's leading entertainment public relations and marketing agency, to launch and maintain a comprehensive publicity and marketing campaign to support this year's Festival (December 6-13). The announcement was made today by BIFF Founder and Executive Director, Leslie Vanderpool and Rogers & Cowan CEO, Tom Tardio.Rogers & Cowan will provide strategic planning and consultation on build...
Friday, June 1-------On its tenth anniversary, the Brooklyn International Film Festival (BIFF) is reinventing itself. The Festival has launched a thematic challenge entitled IDENTITY, which is in part a self-search to find its unique identity in a sea of New York film events, and to assist its audiences in redefining what it means to be Brooklynites, now that the outer borough is going through a cultural renaissance and is one of New York's "cool" destinations.The Festival, runnin...
Thursday, May 31-----The Webby Awards, which honor excellence in web design and creation in a host of different industries, has announced its Film winners. The awards gala will be held in New York City next week, with selected winners showcased at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.Webby Award Winners in Film:MOVIE AND FILMWebby Award WinnerAgency/Credited Organization Pan's Labyrinthhttp://www.panslabyrinth.com Picturehouse / Deep FocusPeople's Voice Winner Pan's...
Download Devastation?Cannes Film Festival Launch of New Book provides the answers to online film distribution. The Internet and mobile platforms are not a threat to the film industry but represent a huge opportunity to reach new markets and audiences - provided film companies understand how to set up digital deals. The claim has been made by a lawyer who is launching a new book at the 60th Cannes Film Festival which explains the plethora of legal issues relating to Internet and mobile film dis...
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After five days of fervent ranking, the YouTube community selected these seven videos as the champions. Congratulations to all the winners! Most CreativeHere It Goes AgainOKGo Best ComedySmosh Short 2: StrandedSmosh Best CommentaryHotness Prevailsthewinekone Best SeriesAsk A Ninjadigitalfilmmaker Best Music VideoSay It's PossibleTerraNaomi Most InspirationalFree Hugs CampaignPeaceOnEarth123 Most AdorableKiwi!Madyeti47 watch them here: http://www.youtube.com/ytawards ...
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For the first time, the Bitfilm Festival for digital film will show its entire programme on the internet. The decisions about the Bitfilm Awards will take place in a „viral voting“ process within the global internet community.On September, 7 the festival starts on the web at www.bitfilm.com/festival. More than 130 long and short films compete in seven categories: from feature-length 3D films from Hollywood or 30 seconds short clips for mobile phones – the Bitfilm team has selected the best...
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Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest factual content aggregator from South Asia (with 750, 000 digital and 35 mm stills in its archives, and over 3000 hours of broadcast factual and travel content) has started exploring international distribution of its content on the online video market. As the result a contract with Google, for the first time ever, factual Indian content (along the lines of National Geographic or Discovery, but entirely Indian in origin and creation), is now available onli...
The fourth Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF) kicked off with a lavish opening night ceremony last night (Friday 17 Feb) with international stars and local celebrities walking the red carpet to the sound of Thai traditional music.Among the most internationally famous were cinematographer Christopher Doyle, director Terry Gilliam, Rita Moreno and Russ Tamblyn. But the night was essentially a cocktail-party showcase for Thai glitterati and tourism authority guests.Access to the opening fil...
Filmfestivals.com contributor, local reporter and occasional blogger Gene Grant (www.genegrant.com/blog) announced his intentions to watch the entirety of the "New Mexico Filmmakers' Week," at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. in Nob Hill, from Friday, June 24th to Thursday, June 30th, front to back.The event is presented by the New Mexico Film Office (www.nmfilm.com) and will feature 47 hours of both shorts and features. All the films are made by New Mexicans and the event is free."This is go...
Cannes Market 2004: The webcafé located in the center of the Palais offered free web services to thousands of Market registered particpitants.Internet access, Free IP Phone calls to local and cell phone numbers. Powered by Filmfestivals for the third consecutive year.The webcafé was sponsored by Antipolis Studios: the digital Image cluster in Antipolis.Altevia voice over IP....
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Presents the 6th Annual Digital Days, an interactive showcase and forum featuring screenings, presentations, seminars and classes to be held Saturday, Feb 7, 2004. Highlighting state-of-the-art digital moviemaking and multimedia, Digital Days 2004 will provide area youth and film enthusiasts with an up-close and hands on experience with the latest digital software and computer technologies. Industry veterans and digital arts professionals will take part ...
