TAOS, NM — Taos will play host again to the 4th annual Taos Shortz Film Fest dubbed as one of the most up and coming shorts film festivals in Northern New  Mexico. The festival will showcase more than 60 juried short films from 15 countries. The Festival is scheduled from Friday, March 4 through Sunday, March 6, 2011.  Several juried short films were the brainchild of Taosenos and other New Mexicans, including writer/producer Allegra Huston (sister of actress, Angelica H...

by Alex Deleon With some 400 films to choose from one might say that everybody sees a different festival over a ten day period. Of the official competition films two were early walkouts. Ralph Fiennes' "Coriolanus"  and the Bela Tarr entry  "A Torinoi Lo" (The Turin Horse) -- arguably the most bleak, depressing , and boring film ever made. It's all about two miserable people livinng in a miserable life in a miserable hut somewhere in the middle of nowhere and tr...

On Friday, 29 October, 7pm the 4th Russian Film Festival opens at the Apollo West End in London, with the UK premiere of cult director Garry Bardin's stop-motion animation, The Ugly Duckling. This year the opening film is an unconventional choice - a sparky and affecting animation with Orwellian overtones which has met with great critical acclaim in Russia. This screening is complimented by a retrospective of Bardin's work. Other highlights of the main programme include Alexei Popogre...

The Russian Film Festival returns to London this year with a great programme showcasing the latest award-winning Russian films. New Russian cinema has been commended right across the board at the world’s most prestigious international film festivals. Now we are delighted to present at the Apollo Piccadilly a panorama of the best Russian films introduced by the creators themselves. All films are shown with English subtitles. The main festival programme features this year’s ten be...

Taipei Film Festival is currently preparing for its 13th edition, which will take place from June 24 - July 14, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan. In this year's programme, we have non-competition and competition sections. For non-competition section, we have City Vision, Selection of City Vision, Global Chinese Cinerama, Director in Focus and so on. For the competition section, we are the only festival in Taiwan that offers a New Talent Competition for aspiring directors from around the...

An Interview with Richard Gale Though he majored in English literature at UCLA, Richard Gale has become a highly accomplished and versatile filmmaker. He writes, directs, produces, shoots, and edits his films. And he’s worked in several different modes—fiction, documentary, drama, comedy, shorts, features, cable TV. He’s won three L.A. Area Emmys and screened at many festivals around the world, including our own Valley Film Festival (Criticized in 2007 and ...

The Noemart film festival first edition will be hosted both in Collevecchio town and San Polo Sabino (Ri) and will run from the 17 to the 19 of September 2010. “Awarding the documentary with an artistic value”  is what the festival will be focusing on.The festival to this purpose proposes a whole module dedicated to documentary on Art only, in order of inspiring a new way of thinking and meditate on the assonance between art and documentary. Admission Poli...

“Golden Voice of Kannada”, Honoured with “Dadasaheb Phalke Award"             At a grand function held on the occasion of 141st Birth anniversary Celebration of Dadasaheb Phalke, at Bhaidas Auditorium in Mumbai on 30th April, 2010  " Golden Voice of Kannada”  Shri. Shivraj Suvarna, was conferred with the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his meritorious service to the Indian Film Industry. This is a tribute to the voice Artis...

Jointly presented with Havana, Cuba's International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, the Havana Film Festival New York is close, but no cigar. Subways and skyscrapers just can't match that fallen Habanero elegance as a habitat for Latino cinema. But if Cuba isn't on your itinerary and Manhattan is, you could do worse than to savor a week of Big Apple screenings from and about Latin America and the Caribbean, and about Latinos in the U.S. Opening Night w...

The second annual Friars Club Comedy Film Festival will take place September 23rd - 26th in New York City. Submissions are now open for film-makers at www.friarsclub.com/filmfestival and the deadline is July 30th.   This year's film festival will again be a four day celebration of comedy movies presented by the legendary Friars Club - whose iconic membership includes the world's funniest actors and comedians. Proceeds from the festival will benefit...

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2010 AUSTRALIA – PREVIEW   Festival dates: Sydney: March 2 -21 Melbourne: March 4 – 21 Canberra: March 18 – 31 Brisbane: March 17 – 31 Perth: March 17 – 31 Adelaide: March 18 -31   PLENTY TO CHEW ON, MON VIEUX The French have a reputation and a tradition unmatched in globally successful cinema, except perhaps by Hollywood, and the 21st Alliance Française French Film Festival giv...

Exclusive Media Group's (EMG) documentary unit, Spitfire Documentary Films, is teaming with Flat-Out Films and Diamond Docs to produce the definitive feature documentary on Formula One motor racing, the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the FIA and the richest, most glamorous sport in the world. The announcement was made today by EMG's Co-Chairman & CEO Nigel Sinclair. The creative team comes from Diamond Docs, who recently helped craft the 2010 Acade...

24th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL IN MIAMI   CELEBRATING THE INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS OF ISRAELI CINEMA   February 17-25, 2010 at Sunrise Cinemas Intracoastal Mall   Opening Night Honors Presented To  Yehoram Gaon 2010 IFF Lifetime Achievement Award The Peres Center for Peace 2010 IFF Humanitarian Award Shaul Rikman 2010 IFF Founder’s Award David Keinan ~ Akiva Segal ~ Ron Reshef 2010 IFF Community Leadership Award ...

It is our pleasure to inform you that you can now submit your films for the 3rd edition of the International Animated Film Competition at ANIMATOR \ 2010 Festival! The International Competition of Animated Films is open to artistic animated films of all techniques up to 30 min. Grand Prix of 60 000 PLN /ca. 13.000 Euros/ will be awarded by an international jury including George Griffin, Nancy Denney-Phelps, Mariusz Wilczynski, Dennis Tupicoff and Brigitta Ivanyi-Bitter. Fi...

Finally!!!  A Film Festival All About Sports!     (Hollywood, CA) – March 4, 2012 – The 4th Annual All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival will be held on November 9-11, 2012 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, California.   Whether it is a dramatic or comedic piece, ASLAFF welcomes screenwriters and filmmakers to share their great stories in regards to the world of sports. This festival will give the many sports fanatics an ...