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Highlights and Previews from the Festival Circuit Volume 762 - Filmfestivals.com

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Akward Moment at 2017 Oscars And the winner is ... opps, sorry about that!

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by Oscar Deleon. <filmfestivals.com> We weren't trying to be funny -- It was a genuine f***up --   The mistaken announcement that LaLaLand had won best picture and the embarassed correction by co-awarder Warren Beatty naming Moonlighting as the real winner was a most appropriate capstone to the "craziest Oscars ever". Explanation: he was handed the wrong envelope -- which named Emma Stone as bes...
 

The 89th Academy Awards

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By Maria Esteves – February 27, 2017 The 89th Academy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel was held at Dolby Theatre & Highland Center, Hollywood, C.A on Sunday, February 26, 2017 and televised live on ABC Network and live streamed in more than 225 countries. Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.), the Oscars honored outstanding film achievements of 2016. La La Land was top winner with six Oscars including Best Director for DAMIEN CHAZELLE and Best Actre...
 

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Golden Trailer Awards 2017

REGULAR ENTRY DEADLINE March 31st, 2017

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***Discount for early submission. Early bird deadline is February 14th, 2017***. Regular Deadline: Friday March 31st, 2017

Seventeen New Categories this year/ BEST TRAILER FOR TV Show or Mini-series, Best Trailer or TV Spot FOR TV SERIES, STREAMING SERIES, LIMITED SERIES, WEB SERIES & MINI-SERIES....

For information on Industry Sponsorship, advertising in the GTA 18 program book and Web Banners on GoldenTrailer.com please email GBrahney@goldentrailer.com.

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New Media Film Festival
June 6-8, 2017

April 25, 2017 Final Deadline

The Best in New Media....Honoring Stories Worth Telling 

Judges from HBO, Marvel, Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and other Industry Leaders
Each entry is considered for Screening, Competition ($45k in awards) and Distribution Opportunities. 
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“If the TED Conference is where technology, entertainment and design meet in a broad forum, then the New Media Film Festival is its cinematic counterpart.” – VG

"I thank the New Media film festival for what they've done for young filmmakers." – Legendary Director Roger Corman

"Top 25 Festivals Worth The Entry Fee" - Movie Maker Magazine

"Makes the cutting edge accessible" - Huffington Post

 

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The World of Film Festival
September 28 – October 1, 2017

March 26, 2017 Regular Deadline

The submissions for the 4th edition of the World of Film International Festival in Glasgow, Scotland are now open. The very earlybird submitters can send their short and feature films across the three main sections of the festival - First Features & Shorts Competition, Female Perspective & Focus on Balkan Cinema. 

Films can be exclusively submitted via Film Freeway by clicking on the link below. 

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Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Calling

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March 19, 2017 Late Deadline 

The Melbourne Doc Fest each year curates world class features direct from some of the hottest most prestigious documentary film festivals in the world like Sheffield Doc Fest, Traverse City Film Festival Doc NYC, SXSW, Doc Edge and IDFA. But what matters to us most is documentaries that are well-made, compelling, thought provoking, passionate and relevant to Australian audiences.

The Melbourne Doc Fest is one of the world newest documentary film festivals and one of the most fun and interesting stop overs on the international documentary film festival circuit. It is the only festival in Australasia to provide feedback on submissions. ...

Good luck filmmakers! 

 

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Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE August 17 – 20, 2017

Late Deadline March 31, 2017

In partnership with filmfestivals.com

Montreal International Animation Film Festival is a people's film festival an dindutry conference dedicated to the art of animation for film and technology. 
All genres and forms are welcome.
Software an award prize. Visibility in out travelling show in Berlin, Cannes Annecy, Glasgow and more.

 

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New York Festivals  
The 2017 Television & Film Awards gala will take place at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th, 2017

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Deadline extended

The New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards honors the World’s Best TV and Films at its annual gala at NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th. Founded in 1957, NYF TV & Film Awards offers a powerhouse of categories including: 30 categories for documentaries and dozens of categories for news, drama and performers. New York Festivals welcomes network, studio, independent, and student productions of all lengths across all platforms. Late entries accepted until January 5th, 2017. For more information visit: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/

NYF TV & Film Awards New Categories for 2017: Heroes, Ecotourism, and Best Use of Technology

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Animation Day in Cannes 

Animaze Daze in Cannes Screenings May 18

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Regular Deadline is March 15

Submit your best short animated films for a screening May18th at Cannes Film Festival.
Enjoy industry visibility in front of the animation professionals attending Cannes during Animation Day in Cannes (second edition). take advantage of free promotion to buyers and media on our Animation Day in Cannes Newsletters, animation Day in Cannes websitefilmfestivals.com pages dedicated to Animation Day in Cannes and our Youtube channel, which will be offered for buyers and Media.

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The Unwilling selected at The Indie Horror Film Festival April 20 – 22, 2018

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April 20 – 22, 2018 The Indie Horror Film Festival is an independent film festival. We strive to support independent film, and work to get the filmmakers more notice, and to get independent films seen. The Indie Horror Film Festival started in 2005 (known then as "Indy Horror Film Festival") by Gatlin Pictures (Jason Davis - Horror Author / Festival Founder). The festival gain some size but then disappeared for a couple years. In 2010 Breaking Fate Entert...
 
 

The Unwilling selected for The Transylvania Cinema Awards August 25 – 27, 2017

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August 25 – 27, 2017 Transylvania Cinema Awards is a film competition with two seasonal events, reuniting cinema enthousiasts in the heart of Transylvania, Romania. The goal is to design a space where innovation and creativity fusion in order to deliver the best result to a new public. We create an opportunity for filmmakers to get their films judged and let them compete with other filmmakers. We perform a comprehensive evaluation process and the jury of film prof...
 

The Unwilling selected for The Maryland Film Festival March 31 – April 2, 2017

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March 31 – April 2, 2017 Welcome, filmmakers, to the Maryland International Film Festival-Hagerstown. We are excited about our 6th year coming up on March 31 - April 2. For 6 years, we've been bringing in the finest films from around the world. The film festival became a 501(c)3 and launched in 2009 and now screens more than 70 films each year! Hollywood Director Joe Carnahan is our creative director, and has been a powerful partner with our festival! He has brought us su...
 
 

The Unwilling Selected to open Toronto Spring of Horror and Fantasy

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April 7 – 9, 2017 Toronto Spring of Horror and Fantasy was created to give people of Toronto access to quality genre films throughout the year. Our aim is to showcase the best genre films from around the World from new filmmakers and seasoned veterans. Our focus is on new voices and we prefer creativity over big budgets. In addition to having short films in front of features, we also aim to start most screenings with a genre appropriate music video to set the mood...
 
 

The Unwilling selected at IIPMF Festival in Ancona

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The Unwilling is now in the Official Selection of IIPM FESTIVAL.  June 8 – 11, 2017     Email Website Facebook Twitter Instagram Venue   Movieland Goldoni Organizers Michael Segal FESTIVAL FOUNDER & CEO Roberta Graziosi FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Simone Piresti CREATIVE DIRECTOR   ...
 

Film Review: The Lost City of Z

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By Maria Esteves – March 14, 2017 Dedicated to the Loving Memory of My Father Getulio Esteves (1927-2016). THE LOST CITY OF Z is a compelling true story based on the three voyages of a British explorer Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) during 1906-1954, who journeyed to find a city between Bolivia and Brazil, in the uncharted Amazonian jungle, the oldest civilization known to mankind. Raised from humble beginnings, the first voyage, allowed Percy to redeem his fam...
 

The Kong Show: KONG SKULL ISLAND, Hiddleston, Larson, Jackson Deliver “Bigly”

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by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When the original KING KONG was released by RKO in March of 1933, some of the trade ads included a tie-in between Kong’s big bang box office receipts and the failed banks of the Great Depression roaring back to profitability. It was a nostalgia sell, a heart-tug for a pre-code Hollywood monster romp, the likes and scale of which had never been seen on the silver screen. In a quick recap, Merian C. Cooper was turned down at Paramount, th...
 

NYFF54 The Lost City of Z Press Conference Photos

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By Maria Esteves The 54th New York Film Festival 2016 (NYFF54) Closing Night Premiere Press Conference of THE LOST CITY OF Z, with director James Gray; cast members , Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, and Angus Macfadyen moderated by festival director Kent Jones, NYFF, was held at the Walter Reade Theater, NYC, Saturday, October 15, 2016. Questions posed to director Gray and cast members by moderator Jones and members of the press included: W...
 
 

"Minorities" tribute of the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

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19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 3-12 March, 2017   MINORITIES TRIBUTE   The first openly transgender firefighter in New York, Roma survivors of the Holocaust, the odyssey of the Kurdish refugees, the persecution of the Sami tribe, a lesbian refugee in search of a better life; people from all over the world who endure, claim and fight for equal opportunities and a better future, take centre stage in the "Minorities" tribute of the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary F...
 

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opened the 19th edition with The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across

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  The 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 213 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.   FILM PREMIERES The 19th TDF presents 1 world, 14 international, 4 European and 183 Greek premieres:   World Premieres: Upon The Shadow, Nada Mezni Hafaiedh, Tunisia, 2017, 80’ – Human Rights   International Premieres: ...
 

Apologies from Price Waterhouse Coopers

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Here's the apology, official. But why is PWC still the accounting firm of record. Award Season''s 2017 wrong *wow finish* (Humphrey Bogart uses the wow finish line to Bergman in Casablanca.)...   STATEMENT FROM PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS   We sincerely apologize to "Moonlight," "La La Land," Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture. The presenters had mistakenly been gi...
 
 

Global has signed an output deal with one of China’s leading production and distribution companies, Enlight Pictures

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  Independent Entertainment Studio Will Launch Sales On THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X At Filmart   Prolific independent entertainment studio IM Global has signed an output deal with one of China’s leading production and distribution companies, Enlight Pictures, to handle worldwide sales outside of China on the company’s upcoming slate, it was announced today by IM Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford.    IM Global will handle sales for up to six titles from Enlight...
 

KAURISMĀKI'S THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE: A Laconic meditation on Islamic Immigration in Finland

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BERLIN 2017, Getaway Day by Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com>    Aki Kaurismäki center, flanked on either side by the two main actors of "The Other Side of Hope", Sherwan Haji and Sakari Kuosmanen, at the Berlin press conference for his latest film   Kaurismäki is not the kind of director's name that is likely to attract many customers to American cinemas but here in Germany his is a name to be reckoned with...
 
 

Sand Castle launching on NETFLIX on April 21, 2017

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From a powerful and personal script by screenwriter Chris Roessner who was inspired by his experiences in Iraq, the film is an honest and candid depiction of the Second Gulf War told through the eyes of a group of American soldiers on the front lines. Sand Castle is the second feature film from acclaimed Brazilian director Fernando Coimbra (A Wolf at the Door), who also directed episodes from Season One of the Netflix global-hit series "Narcos."    Watch the tra...
 
 

A big thanks to the Entertainment Finance Forum participants and to Winston Baker's partner filmfestivals.com

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Last week, we were joined by award-winning directors and producers such as Neal Moritz, Cathy Schulman, Don Hahn, Penney Finkelman Cox, Ted Hope, Rob Minkoff, entertainment executives such as Lionsgate’s Jen Hollingsworth and Laura Kennedy, OddLot’s Rachel Shane, Skybound’s David Alpert, and many more. We would like to extend a special thanks to our sponsors and partners: Akin Gump, EP Financial Solutions, FTI Consulting, Hogan Lovells, Vine Alternative Investments, Fift...
 

Films in competition for the Golden Gate Awards (GGAs)

 
The San Francisco Film Society today announced the films in competition for the Golden Gate Awards (GGAs), which will distribute nearly $40,000 in total prizes this year in various narrative and documentary categories. Among the most significant awards for emerging global film artists in the United States, the Golden Gate Awards, first presented at the San Francisco International Film Festival (April 5–19) in its inaugural year in 1957, represent a signature featur...
 
 

This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice Lectures on exceptional film restorations and film heritage projects

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From April 3 to May 15, EYE and the University of Amsterdam present This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, a series of six public lectures at EYE devoted to notable projects in the field of film restoration and film heritage. Giovanna Fossati (chief curator at EYE and professor of Film Heritage at the UvA) addresses ...
 

Five tips on Creative Strategy for entertainment marketers

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Neil Goetz Founder & Executive Creative Director The Engine Room     Those of us who work in the entertainment marketing industry know all too well that creating a successful movie trailer or TV promo is an inexact science. When I’m working with a studio or TV network client to create a new piece of marketing for an upcoming campaign, I’m often reminded of my late mother, Marian. Not only was my mother an incredible cook and a master baker, but she knew t...
 

NYC Indie Film Fest March Indie Night: Art Doc Friday Screening Event

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Join us for our March Indie Night, Art Doc Friday! This month we're screening short documentaries from past festivals focused on the arts, from music to graphic design. Indulge in a drink while you watch, your first one on us with your admission ticket, and get inspired!    FEATURED FILMS:  Cuba's Violin (18 min) Lucas Blalock’s Digital Toolkit (6 min) S -- The Musical Shuttle (40 min) Unsung Ingenues (34 min)    Friday, Ma...
 
 

The Orchard will release director Pat Healy’s feature debut TAKE ME, starring Taylor Schilling opposite Healy

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The Orchard   announced today that the company will release director Pat Healy’s feature debut TAKE ME, starring Taylor Schilling opposite Healy. The Duplass Brothers serve as executive producers while Mel Eslyn and Sev Ohanian serve as producers of the film, which will have its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, followed by a theatrical and digital release May 5th.   The acquisition marks an ongoing relationship with the Duplass Brothe...
 

Sundance premiere 'The Discovery' with R Redford Launching Day and Date on Netflix

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A Netflix Original Film   The Discovery   Directed and Co-Written by Charlie McDowell (The One I Love) Starring Robert Redford, Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons & Riley Keough    ***World Premiere - 2017 Sundance Film Festival***   OPENING THEATRICALLY IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES AND PASADENA ON MARCH 31 AT IPIC THEATERS            In the near future, the world is off-balance...

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THE EVIL WITHIN by late Andrew Getty

The sadistic tale of a lonely, mentally handicapped boy who befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.
Starring: Frederick Koehler (Death Race), Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints), Michael Berryman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Brianna Brown (General Hospital), Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), Kim Darby (True Grit)
Written and directed by late Andrew Getty - Produced by Eric Berliner, Michael Luceri - Sales Vision Films Lise Romanoff
 
Horror, Thriller, 100 Min, 2016 Premiering at Fantasporto 2017 
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OFFENSIVE, Jon Ford's powerful thriller.

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“Holy shit! This flick is something else !” “Stands out as a roaring success!” - Dreadcentral, 4 stars. ****

"A well crafted thriller! Offensive will make your blood boil!” - Hollywood news 4 stars ****

"A bloody brutal spin on the home invasion story!” - Kat Hughes 4 stars ****

"Director Jonathan Ford expertly crafts the tension levels.” - Gareth Jones 4 stars ****

"They were forced beyond breaking point; they have no regrets, does that make them bad people?
The first part of this film will enrage you ! The second part will sate you !". Bruno Chatelin - Filmfestivals.com


A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a remote house in rural France, the very same village Bernard’s war hero father liberated during the Second World War, over 70 years earlier. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a crual gang of street kids, who terrorise the village.

An e-generation permanently plugged into their devices, devoid of empathy, a new breed of technological psychopath…Pushed beyond breaking point, can Bernard live up to his father’s legend, as the situation explodes into a brutal war of generations ?

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Revolution by Rob Stewart (following the success of Sharkwater) 
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over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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The Evil Within will have its UK premiere at Dead by Dawn, Scotland's International Horror Film Festival 24th Edition

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Adele Hartley, Dead by Dawn's Festival Director announced that The Evil Within will have its UK premiere at her event:  Scotland's International Horror Film Festival 24th Edition / 20 - 23 April, 2017 www.deadbydawn.co.uk FB: www.facebook.com/DeadByDawnHorrorFestival Twitter: @deadbydawnfest   * THIS IS HORROR Award Winner: UK EVENT OF THE YEAR * ...
 
 

17th Nippon Connection Film Festival First Program Highlights

 
  Focus on documentaries / more than 100 films from Japan / diverse supporting program   From May 23 to 28, 2017 the seventeenth edition of the Nippon Connection Film Festival will take place in Frankfurt am Main. With more than 100 short and feature length films, it is the biggest festival for Japanese film worldwide, offering a varied and exciting insight into Japanese cinema. Many directors and actors are present to introduce their works to the local audience for the first ti...
 

Museum of Modern Art: Doc Fortnight 2017

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  MOMA’s presentation of innovative nonfiction films was held from February 16-26 with more than 20 features and 10 shorts, including a section of new media Canadian nonfiction films and a retrospective of Emiko Omori with six productions. As in prior editions the program covered a broad range of themes and issues as well as innovative approaches in documentary film making. This year’s edition presented an outstanding selection of films investigating global issues and problem...
 
 

Israel FF in LA Honors Three in 31st Anniversary Launch

 
The Los Angeles based Israel Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the U.S., is launching its 31st edition by hosting an awards luncheon honoring CAA’s Adam Berkowitz, award-winning producer David Shore and real estate developer/philanthropist Max Webb, it was announced by Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir Fenigstein. Berkowitz, the co-head of the television department at Creative Artists Agency, has been named the 2017 IFF Career Achievement Award reci...
 

Dates Set for the 30th Anniversary Edition of Tokyo International Film Festival: Oct. 25 - Nov. 3 , 2017

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    The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2017, with festivities running from October 25 to November 3 at Roppongi Hills, EX Theater and other venues in Tokyo. TIFF was laun...
 
 

69th Berlin Film Festival/Overview

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by Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com>     Looking back over the recently completed 69th installment of the Berlin Film Festival I must say it was one of the best in recent memory. The weather, as to be expected in February in Berlin, was bad -- freezing, then rainy --  but this is good for staying inside to watch films.  The social scene was as lively as ever, especially with the Golden Bear Lounge next to the press conference room to hop in and out of between screenin...
 

 

Check these Festivals calling March 9 onwards

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    Read this online                  FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:               Dear filmmakers friends do not miss these Festivals in Focus.   > PARTNERS FESTIVALS IN FOCUS Golden Trailer Awards 2017 REGULAR ENTRY DEADLINE March 31st, 2017 Submit your: Trailers, Teasers, Post...
 
 

Frontières - Marché du Film - Amsterdam Forum

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The first edition of the Frontières Finance & Packaging Forum successfully concluded after 3 days of meetings, strategy sessions and networking from February 16-18 in Amsterdam. This collaborative initiative between the Fantasia International Film Festival and the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, and hosted in Amsterdam with the support of the Netherlands Film Fund, served as an invitational incubator for genre film projects in the late stages of financing. It officially ...
 
 

FIFOG Trailer

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Festival International du Film Oriental de Genève 2017 du 1 au 9 avril 2017 ...
 
 

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced today its galas and 2017 lineup

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The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced today its galas and 2017 lineup of narrative and documentary features, and short films for its 15th annual festival. Gala tickets and passes are now available at www.indianfilmfestival.org. Tickets for individual films will go on sale on March 17. The festival is widely recognized as the premiere showcase of groundbreaking Indian cinema globally. The 15...
 
 

The 15th Istanbul Biennial is collaborating with this year’s edition of the Istanbul Film Festival

 
The 15th Istanbul Biennial is collaborating with this year’s edition of the Istanbul Film Festival on an extensive film programme which relates to the biennial’s title and theme: “a good neighbour”. “There is nothing like the medium of film when it comes to visual storytelling, and as we know, good storytelling often includes moral conundrums that are important to understanding who we are and the societies we live in”, says artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, ...
 

Socially Relevant Film Festival, New York – Preview

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Devoted to film as a medium to increase our consciousness about social issues the festival will hold its 4th edition from March 13-16 offering films, panels and receptions. Even though it is a relatively small specialized niche festival about 500 production were submitted including new feature films, documentaries and shorts, most of which had not been shown before in New York or the United States.   In the feature film section six films were selected premiering here i..
 

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We Interrupt Our Movie Coverage for Wikileaks “Zero Year” & Recall Gibney’s ZERO DAYS

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by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent "Hello World,” is usually a newbie’s first line of code in programming, but as of Wikileaks Vault 7 data dump about CIA covert hacking on Mar. 7, followed by Julian Assange’s “Press Conference” on Mar. 9, the whole world is actually reeling, as in the wake-up call: Hello World! But fear not, leave it to the much-maligned Entertainment Journalists to tread where no investigative reporter dare to go. Later on, ...
 

John Berger Tribute @ 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 3-12 March, 2017       “We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice” John Berger   The 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival hosts a special tribute that honors the iconic late British art critic, author and painter John Berger (1926-2017), a highly influential, multifaceted intellectual whose legacy will be cherished.   The tribute presents two documentary films: The Seasons in Quincy: Fo...
 
 

Carte Blanche to Dimitri Eipides to select 10 documentaries

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Renowned Greek festival programmer Dimitri Eipides, the man who established the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in 1999 and directed it ever since until 2016, is given a carte blanche at the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to select 10 documentaries that will be screened in this year's event.   The festival thus honours a special person that has been devoted to cinema for many decades; “a godfather of interesting cinema”, as the director Jim Jarm...
 

Martin Scorsese - The Exhibition this summer at EYE Filmmuseum 25 May – 3 September 2017

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Major exhibition on Martin Scorsese illuminates his work, life and passion for cinema       Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976, Columbia Pictures)    After Berlin,...
 
 

Robert Osborne: Keeper of OSCAR's Secrets Gone Now

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by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Today, a familiar face left the Hollywood landscape as TCM host Robert Osborne, 84, died on Monday Mar.6, 2017. But he was much more than just another talking head about movies and movie stars. Osborne came to Tinsel Town from “off the farm,” as he recounted when we spoke about the Oscars history in 2011. Instead of penning a typical tribute, here’s a real inside look back at a man whose work in show business lives on. Ironical...
 

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Le FIFF lève le voile sur les titres de sa programmation

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A deux semaines de son coup d’envoi (31 mars – 08 avril), le Festival International de Films de Fribourg lève enfin le voile sur l’intégralité de sa programmation et de ses invité-e-s. Au total, 140 films en provenance de 45 pays seront présentés dont 10 en Première Mondiale et 70 en Première Suisse, Européenne ou Internationale. Nombreux seront les cinéastes et les invité-e-s présent-e-s &...
 
 

Les Reflets du cinéma ibérique et latino-américain se tiendront du 15 au 29 mars

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Les Reflets du cinéma ibérique et latino-américain se tiendront du 15 au 29 mars dans une dizaine de salles de la région. De l’Argentine à l’Espagne en passant par la Colombie, un festival unique, haut en couleurs et ponctué de temps forts ! Les Reflets, une invitation au voyage. Au programme de cette 33e édition : - 13 000 spectateurs attendus - une quarantaine de longs métrages (dont la plupart en avant-première ou in...
 

Lost City of Z adapté du livre "Le Continent perdu dans l’enfer amazonien" de Percy Harrison Fawcett

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  Ne manquez pas le film, captivant, qui a été dévoilé au Festival e Berlin 2017. Les huit expéditions de Percy Harrison Fawcett au coeur de l'Amazonie constituent l'une des plus extraordinaires aventures du XXe siècle. Colonel de la British Army, prototype de l'explorateur anglais à la fois visionnaire et flegmatique, Fawcett s'était juré - sur la foi d'anciennes chroniques portugaises et d&#...
 

Cinélatino, 29èmes Rencontres de Toulouse: Découvrez les 12 films de la compétition fiction!

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  Cinélatino, 29èmes Rencontres de Toulouse a le plaisir de dévoiler les 12 films sélectionnés en compétition, dont 11 premières françaises et une première européenne, et les 15 films présentés en section Découvertes, dont 6 premières françaises et une première européenne. Cette année encore, les spectateurs toulousains ont ...
 

Point sur le Festival Hallucinations Collectives, le festival de l'Autre Cinéma à Lyon.

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La 10ème édition du festival Hallucinations Collectives se déroulera du 11 au 17 avril 2017 au cinéma Comoedia, à Lyon. Dix ans, dix films   Pour fêter sa dixième édition, Hallucinations Collectives, le festival de l’Autre Cinéma, a décidé de se faire plaisir et de vous faire plaisir. Cette année, pas de thématiques, mais un « Cabinet de Curiosités » spécia...
 
 

A l'écoute du Festival de documentaires musicaux, Musical Ecran de Bordeaux

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La troisième édition du festival Musical Ecran se tiendra du 3 au 9 avril dans cinq lieux emblématiques bordelais : Cinéma Utopia, Cour Mably, Bibliothèque Mériadeck, Station Ausone... Au programme, une sélection de 17 documentaires, une dizaine de réalisateurs et spécialistes présents sur la semaine et 3 soirées live à ne pas manquer pour prolonger les projectio...
 

Django présenté en Grande première à Bienne

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Madame, Monsieur, Heureux du succès et du soutien que le Festival reçoit, le comité d'organisation aborde la 13e édition avec confiance et passion : l’enthousiasme du public, curieux e...
 

La société de production Wayna Pitch organise la Tournée du Cinéma Equitable 2017, du 1er au 25 mars

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    La tournée Cinéma Équitable est un événement annuel qui s’arrête pendant un mois dans les salles de cinéma, partout en France. L'édition 2017 revient donc avec le long métrage Tapis Rouge de Frédéric Baillif et Kantarama Gahigiri. Projection presse lundi 6 mars, 15h30, au Club de l'Etoile (Paris). Le cinema équitable Le Cin&eacut...

 

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