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Beyond The sea: Kevin Spacey’s film is a lovingly crafted account of ‘50s heartthrob singer and actor Bobby Darin. BEYOND THE SEA steers well clear of most biopic conventions, instead delivering a complex portrait of a gifted performer driven to succeed, following a childhood illness that gave him a life expectancy of just 15 years.The film effortlessly blends fantasy and reality, past and present, as Bobby struggles to find the best way to tell us his story. It begins with his nostalgic chi...
AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Opens with BEYOND THE SEAUS Premiere of BEYOND THE SEA, directed by and starring Kevin Spacey opened the prestigious American Film Institute, Los Angeles Film Festival this week. The 2004 AFI Festival is in its 18th year and is set for November 4 -14, 2004 in Hollywood, California. Executive Director Christian Gaines had a wonderful opening night with the unveiling of the long awaited Miramax film BEYOND THE SEA. This is the story of 50's - 60's croo...
The 25th American Film Market (AFM) opened this week to rave reviews with a record number of exhibitors, buyers, screenings and market premieres. This was presented by Michael Ryan, Independent Film & Television Alliance (I.F.T.A.) Chairman, Jean M. Prewitt, President and Chief Executive Officer, I.F.T.A., and Jonathan Wolf, Executive Vice President, I.F.T.A. and Managing Director, AFM. Santa Monica, California is the annual setting for the largest US film market, where film reps and buyer co...
AFM Finance Conference at Fairmont Miramar HotelProgrammed by: Independent Film & Television AllianceFriday, 5 November 9am - 10:40am The Magic Behind the Deal Moderator: Lew Horwitz, President, Horwitz Entertainment Financial Services, Inc.Panelists: Mark Damon, Chairman & CEO, Mark Damon Productions Steve Fayne, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP Bob Hayward, COO, Summit Entertainment Howard Kaplan, COO, Morgan Creek International Trevor Short, CFO, Nu Image 11am - 12:40pm The Futur...
Sixth Nihilist Film Fest Comes to Track 16 Gallery For the sixth year, the Nihilist Cultural Foundation presents the Nihilist International Film Festival.This year’s evening of films will be presented at 8:00 pm, Friday, December 3 at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica as part of the Track 16 Nights series. The festival includes two and a half hours of short films from around the country and around the world. The films range from the disturbingly dadaesque, to the wryly amusing, to the hilarious...
SPEECH DELIVERED BY FIDELIS DUKER, (Festival Director) AT THE FIRST ABUJA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The launch of the Abuja International Film Festival marks the beginning of a new era in the Nigeria Film and Video Industry history. It’s formation was an expression of the political, artistic and collective will and wisdom of every Nigeria Film practitioner present here today. It is also the determination of the Nigeria Film maker to take it’s destiny in it’s hand.The Abuja International ...
FRITZ LANG’S “SPIONE”, 1929, RESTOREDA major event of the current London Film Festival was a showing of a listening, newly restored print of Fritz Lang’s 1929 “SPIONE” (Spies). Appearing on the cusp of the sound era this was one of the final monuments of the silent cinema. The film is, to some degree, a reworking of Lang’s earlier “Dr. Mabuse", and is an extremely fanciful espionage story, apparently set in a mythological Czechoslovakia, with Japanese, German and British agents f...
The first-ever annual international competition to identify the best in Manga and Anime talent in the world has been launched, with $75,000 worth of prizes to be won.“We are looking for fabulous new talent wherever it is,” says Dr Andre Singer of IMAF, who is the organiser of the competition. “The popularity of Manga and Anime is increasing worldwide, and the competition will create a new forum for Manga artists and Manga animators, whether professional or amateur, to show the dynamic sco...
The 1st International Festival of German Film HeritageincorporatingThe 17th International Film History Conference 13 – 21 November 2004 in HamburgIn close collaboration with international scholars and archives, CineGraph and Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv have developed a new concept for their traditional conference, expanding it into a Festival of German Film Heritage. Apart from exploring new and forgotten areas of film history, the festival will provide a prominent showcase for archives which pres...
The Rocky Mountains of Denver were privileged to have one of the nations top ten film festivals take place at the Denver International Film Festival this past week. Opening up with Universals anticipated RAY staring Jamie Foxx as the magnetic soul blues man Ray Charles; the Festival presented a dynamic Opening Night Gala. The downtown Buelle Theater filled to capacity, Director and co-writer Taylor Hackford, producers Stuart Benjamin, Karen and Howard Baldwin, cast members Jamie Foxx, Regina K...
The Savannah Film Festival presented the 2004 awards for student and professional competition films tonight at 7 p.m. The awards ceremony capped off the eight-day festival, which screened more than 60 films.Award winners are as follows:… Best Narrative Feature: Dandelion… Best Documentary: Entertaining Vietnam… Best Narrative Short: Lift… Jury Award: This is Not a Film… Jury Award: Standout Performance: Nadia Dajani in This is Not a Film… Best Director: Mark Milgard for Dandelion… ...
Savannah Film Festival to Honor Famed Film Critic Roger Ebert with Lifetime Achievement Award in Entertainment JournalismThe Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, and sponsored in part by Memorial Health, Coca-Cola and the Savannah Morning News, honors famed film critic Roger Ebert with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Entertainment Journalism, Friday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., in Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and fi...
The festival program of the 15th Stockholm International Film Festival offers 170 films from more than 40 nations, divided into fourteen sections. The party begins on the 18th of November. We are proud to present this year¹s program! Stockholm XV CompetitionThe competition for directors making either their debut, second or third film offers innovative, thought-provoking productions by new sharp talents from all over the world. Half of the films entered in this year¹s competition are directed b...
THE INAUGURAL THE FITZ: BEST SHORT FILM AWARDS 2004 Leading Melbourne short film festival Fitzroy Shorts will hold its very first short film awards event, the Fitz Awards, at the Fitzroy Town Hall on November 6th. Taking place during the peak of the Australia film industry’s end-of-year awards season (between AFIs, and before the IF Awards), the Fitz Awards stands apart as the only awards event solely dedicated to short film, and arrives at a time when an unprecedented number of Australian sho...
The International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films has awarded an Honorary Golden Dove to Fred Gehler for his life work.Fred Gehler, the festival’s artistic director since 1994, has ensured that the festival gained great international reputation and reached new records as regards the number of visitors. Moreover, in his capacity as a film journalist and cinema director as well as through his own cineastic work, he has had considerable influence on the genre’s further development.I...
THE BUST MAGAZINE FILM FESTIVALNovember 4 - 7, 2004Two Boots Pioneer Theater155 East 3rd St. @ Avenue A, NYCShowcasing the work of the best and brightest "reel girls" around, THE BUST MAGAZINE FILM FESTIVAL will be hosting four dynamite nights of full-length features, documentaries, shorts, and animations, all of which embody the BUST Magazine mission: to tell the truth about women’s lives. From November 4-7 the Festival will feature 11 films by fiercely independent women filmmakers at the Two...
PELÈ AND ATHENS OLYMPIC GAMES OPEN UP “SPORT MOVIES & TV 2004” Adhesions are literally falling down on "Sport Movies & TV 2004 – 22nd International Festival” just a few days before its start. The Festival, organized by IOC-endorsed Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (FICTS), will be held from October 29 until November 3 in Milan and will have 204 films and videos competing, selected from the 981 sent from 42 Countries. On October 29, European Premiere for the media wit...
Cottbus festival will open on November 2 in the large auditorium of the Staatstheater Cottbus with the world premiere of three films from the series EUROPE’S OLD NEW FACES / VON DEN SOCKELN, a co-production by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) and LOOKS as well as partners in the ten new EU member states in cooperation with ARTE. The documentary series, which was made in 2004, analyses national monuments and myths and is the festival's contribution to the "Cultural Year of the TEN."The members...
HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL BESTOWS KUDOS : WALTER SALLES' "THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES," ALEJANDRO AMENABAR'S "THE SEA INSIDE," & "FAHRENHEIT 9/11" AMONG WINNERS"Vinzent" Wins Best Feature"What Remains of Us" Wins Best Documentary"Automation" Wins Best Short SubjectThe 8th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's "Hollywood Awards" ceremony, honoring independent filmmakers and established Hollywood professionals, was held last night before a standing-room-only audience of over 1,200 Hollywood Film Festival atte...
FILMFESTIVALS is a sponsor and an exhibitor at the forthcoming Satis PARIS ShowNovember 3 to 5 Paris Porte de Versailles.Exhibitors include the following companies:44.1ACCO FRANCEACME - AudioProACS FranceACT/FORMATIONADOBE SYSTEMS FRANCEADYCEALCORN MCBRIDEALPERMANN + VELTEANALOG WAYANCORANNUAIRE DU CINEMA TV VIDEO - BELLEFAYEAPPLE SOLUTION EXPERTAREITECATREIDAUDIENSAUDIO MEDIAAUDIO PLUSAUDIO SUDAUDIOFANZINEAUDIOPOLEAUDIPACKAV2PAVIDAZUR SCENICBARCOBARTHEBDL - AUTOSCRIPTBIG UPBKSTS - The Moving Im...
New sectors at next SATIS (Nov 3-5, Paris Porte de Versailles). Offering a more clearly defined, more comprehensive offer.BRITISH PAVILIONBritish manufacturers, supported by their government, are present on the French market and grouped together within the same area.PRODUCTIONFilm set and TV studio lighting, cameras, lenses, accessories and machinery dedicated to the Cinema and Television markets.AUDIO-RADIOA world represented by more than 150 trademarks offering all of the solutions and applica...
New sectors at next SATIS (Nov 3-5, Paris Porte de Versailles). Offering a more clearly defined, more comprehensive offer.BRITISH PAVILIONBritish manufacturers, supported by their government, are present on the French market and grouped together within the same area.PRODUCTIONFilm set and TV studio lighting, cameras, lenses, accessories and machinery dedicated to the Cinema and Television markets.AUDIO-RADIOA world represented by more than 150 trademarks offering all of the solutions and applica...
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY IN WARSAWEuropean Film Academy (EFA) Board Meeting will take place in Warsaw during the 20th Warsaw International Film Festival today, Saturday, October 16, 2004.During this year Festival the decision will be reached whether the European Film Award Ceremony in 2006 will take place in Warsaw. EFA Board Members are meeting, among others, the Minister of Culture Waldemar Dąbrowski, as well as the Vice President of Warsaw Andrzej Urbański.Guests of the WMFF:- Chairman...
San Diego Asian Film Festival Rides The Wave of Success In 5th YearSan Diego Asian Film Festival now in it’s 5th year will commence this October 21st, 2004, opening with the independent feature film from Hawaii, THE RIDE. The Festival runs form October 21st to October 24th, with most films screening at the Mann Hazard Center 7 Theaters in Mission Valley. THE RIDE was a hit at the Hawaii International Film Festival were an estimated 15,000 festival attendee’s watch outdoors at Waikiki Beach...
Just in Time for Election Day, Historic Grassroots TourTo Bring Acclaimed Documentaries To American CitiesBuilding on the extraordinary success of its massive citywide festival during the Republican National Convention, The Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas today launched the Films To See Before You Vote Tour, which will bring a series of acclaimed, issue-oriented films to communities in key battleground states prior to Election Day.In an entirely new twist on traditional film distributio...
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