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The 4th Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival Call for Submissions

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The 4nd Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival Call for Submissions The West Virginia University School of Art and design is pleased to announce a call for entries to the 4th annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. We seek independent, unique and compelling work in film, video and animation. All interested artists, filmmakers, multimedia enthusiasts are encouraged to submit work for consideration. Student submissions are also encouraged. Send us your work! http...

From Cannes to Sundance: Micro-movie omnibus BEAUTIFUL 2012 turns festival favorite

Touring the international film festival circuit since its world premiere at the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), micro-movie omnibus Beautiful 2012 will have its humorous segment You Are More Than Beautiful screen at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.   Produced by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) in its inaugural collaboration with China’s reputed Internet TV company Youku, Beautiful 2012 is composed of four commissioned shorts directed ...

Beijing International Film Festival

Beijing International Film Festival
April 23-28, 2013
Organized by the China National Censorship Bureau and the Beijing Municipal Government
Now accepting movie submissions! All genres, no submission fee.
Contact beijingfilmfest@gmail.com for screener submission details.

FreeNetWorld: Call for entries 2012 EXTENDED

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FreeNetWorld 2012- Call for participation Fifth international film festival FreeNetWorld will be held from 4th till 6th of October 2012. We would like to invite filmmakers from around the world to submit their films. Participation deadline for sending all required information and films is the 15th of August 2012. Ganre: fiction - drama and comedy, documentary, animations, experimental/ music video Theme: Free Choice To be eligible the films must be: ...

Vimeo link to the documentary from connex

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https://vimeo.com/44228750 The link to the short documentary fro, connexfilm about Lörrach/Germany  ...

Bruno Chatelin Keynote at W3C

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. I was recently asked to give a  30 minutes keynote about the links between Web and Cinema. The presentation took place in Nice the day before the opening of Cannes, I called it "Web and Cinema friends or foes" W3C President Tim Berners-Lee was...

Down to the Wire: A 24 Hour Film Race

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DOWN TO THE WIRE: A 24 HOUR FILM RACE MovieMaker Magazine named Wichita one of the top cities for independent film production in 2012 for a reason. Tallgrass Filmmakers Lab and Creative Rush are teaming up for Wichita's first-ever 24 hour film competition. Down to the Wire: A 24 Hour Film Race, is open to the general public - you need not be a professional filmmaker to participate. Participants can enter on their own as a team of one or with up to fifteen people. Teams ...

SESNY 2012 Opening Keynote Session

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By Maria Esteves – April 10, 2012 The Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Exposition 2012 (SESNY 2012) Opening Keynote Business Optimization in a Digital Age, with Google digital marketing analyst Avinash Kaushik, author of “Web Analytics: An Hour a Day” commenced Tuesday, March 20, 9:00 AM at the New York Hilton Hotel. Opening keynote speaker Avinash Kaushik discussed balancing multiple media channels (micro and macro conversion), the four business drivers (social,...

Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

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  Awards to highlight successful disruptive innovation in non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship  The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by NYU Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edi...

Join Euroshorts on Facebook

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Rohit Khaitan's PRAGUE (2012)

Producer Rohit Khaitan's PRAGUE (2012) is currently finishing post production but upon its release, this film will show the world a side of the mystical Medieval city never seen before. Stay tuned on their facebook page for news and updates on film. PRAGUE facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/groups/277533345617895/   photo of Rohit in Hong Kong during HK FILMART. 

HORROR AND SCI-FI FILMS WANTED.

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HorrorQuest film festival is seeking submission for 2012... To submit please go to www.thehorrorquest.com Also, be sure to check out our Kickstarter campaign.   http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heyjoe/horrorquest-film-festival-2012 HorrorQuest, is has no submission fee and is free to the public and we need help if we are to keep it that way. So please, help us as much as you can. You can also, check out our bi-weekly podcast on I tunes.  http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...

The Oscar 2012 teasing you a bit with this video

Bylly Crystal to host  The Academy Awards The official trailer of the 84th Academy Awards®. Watch LIVE on ABC Sunday February 26 7e / 4p. Connect with the Academy on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TheAcademy Follow the Academy on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheAcademy  

Links : Search sites – Entertainement

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About.com : http://home.about.com/entertainment/index.htm Allocine : http://www.allocine.com  9 million unique visitors per month, film and people database ChinaStar.com : http://www.chinastar.com A movie portal for the Chinese film industry CinemaSpot.com : http://www.cinemaspot.com Film information portal of the Web. Europe Online Gateway: http://www.europeonline.com/int/arts Infodéclics : http://www.infodeclics.com/habillage/html_cinema/index.html (French) ...

Alex Boyce, formerly with The Hollywood Reporter, joins HitFix

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HitFix (www.HitFix.com), one of the fastest growing film, TV and entertainment sites online, announced today that Alex Boyce, former General Manager of Digital for The Hollywood Reporter, has been hired as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy."Alex has a proven track record of driving growth and delivering value for online businesses. The addition of Alex to the senior management team will enhance HitFix's strong position in the entertainment arena," added CEO and co-founde...

I asked Facebook a Question!

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I posted the following questions to various sites, pages and agroups:What are the three most important things a festival should do/offerThe answers were all over the map, but the common and consistant items were: Free entry for shorts.Opportunities to meet your peers and those in the industry who are working more than you. Networking is what the gathering is about for most independent filmmakers.Q and A after every film/block - give the filmmaker time to speak about his films, developing more o...

New Sunscreen Podcast, Interview with Literary Manager Mike Goldberg and More!

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Listen to the New Podcast! Find it in iTunes! This week on the podcast, Tony and Derek consider the ultra-low budget success of "For Lovers Only"; Tony talks with literary manager Mike Goldberg; Thanksgiving thanks to Sunscreen friends, family and guests. To subscribe to the podcast and receive new episodes as soon as they are available, use the following address in iTunes or your favorite pod-catching program: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sunscree...

ÉCU launchs #twitscript!

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- GET INVOLVED HERE - On Monday 28th November ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival, Paris's premier showcase for independently financed shorts and features, will attempt to write - and produce - a short film entirely made up of contributions crowd sourced via the Twitter social network. With an opening scene setter provided by the festival, it is then up to their followers to provide all successive dialogue and actions, creating new scenes, introducing other characters, building up...

FilmFunds introduces PiggyPoints and more

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Encouraging a growing online community of filmmakers and fans to embrace a better way to make and market films, FilmFunds introduced a slate of new website tools today, augmenting its already game-changing technologies such as real-time Emotional ID (EID) and image recognition. Concurrently, the company debuted a production arm to more actively facilitate fan-favorite projects. FilmFunds, which launched last month, empowers a social community of 60+ million entert...

Moviepilot.com launches with huge facebook film community

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New recommendation and discovery platform brings upcoming films to fans based on their taste, revolutionizing movie marketing. Site to launch with Facebook Fan community of more than five million worldwide. Moviepilot.com, a personal recommendation and discovery platform for upcoming movies and TV shows launches today, with the aim of ensuring movie fans discover the best upcoming releases suited to their tastes, offering a bold new approach to the way film studios operate their marketing cam...

Facebook credits and virtual scavenger hunt supporting "Heist It Back" on facebook

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ONE MILLION FACEBOOK CREDITS UP FOR GRABS IN FIRST-OF-ITS KIND INTERACTIVE PROMOTION FOR UNIVERSAL PICTURES' TOWER HEIST Universal Pictures today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind experience integrated within the Facebook® platform in support of the studio's upcoming action-comedy Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy. Mirroring the story of the film's characters who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who sti...

Magmart Videoart Festival: video under Volcano

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MAGMART | VIDEO UNDER VOLCANOInternational Videoart Festival - VII EditionIs now starting the new edition of Magmart, the well-know and wide participated Festival of videoart.Our call for entry is open to all artists, without limits of age or nationality. We invite you to participate, and to spread the world about - on your blog, your website, among your artist friends, on art-related portal and website of your country.Read the rules, connect to our website, and be one of us! RULESThe Festival i...

MAGMART | International Videoart Festival - VII Edition

MAGMART | VIDEO UNDER VOLCANO
International Videoart Festival - VII Edition
Is now starting the new edition of Magmart, the well-know and wide participated Festival of videoart.
Our call for entry is open to all artists, without limits of age or nationality. We invite you to participate, and to spread the world about - on your blog, your website, among your artist friends, on art-related portal and website of your country.
Read the rules, connect to our website, and be one of us!

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