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A Week in Festivals. Newsletter 649 - Filmfestivals.com
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Following the 41st Film Fest Gent’s focus on France, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to French composer Francis Lai at the 14th World Soundtrack Awards. Francis Lai (born in 1932 in Nice) became world famous with A man and a woman (1966) his first score for a film by Claude Lelouch, for whom he would compose over thirty scores the next four decades. The Oscar winning film A man and a woman launched the career of Lelouch and made Lai a celebrated French f...
Pinewood Studios Group confirm prize worth £14,000 for new LGBT short film award Jury of 5 to be chaired by Judith Noble from Arts University Bournemouth English football fans in the 90’s, passion and desire between two women in a sleepy English coastal village and a new member of staff in a Scottish call centre for the deaf who gets embroiled in a lovers tiff are just some of the stories tackled by the finalists for a new LGBT short film award. Organisers of the Iris Priz...
The multi-talented French director will receive the Pardo d’onore Swisscom during the 67° Festival del film Locarno (6 – 16 August). After working as a theater photographer, Agnès Varda began directing in 1954 with the feature-length film La Pointe Courte, with Philippe Noiret, also at his first role. The film, which was edited by Alain Resnais, made an immediate impact as one of the most influential work...
The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a non-specialized festival with four competition categories, took place from July 4th to July 12th this year. It was organized by Film Servis Fesival Karlovy Vary, a.s., with Jiří Bartoška as president of the festival and Karel Och as artistic director. The 50th Karlovy Vary IFF will be held from July 3rd to July 11th, 2015. On July 12th 2014, the festival’s juries presented awards for the best films at the closing ceremo...
AWARDS OF THE 9th EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL At the closing ceremony of the 9th edition of the festival of European arthouse films "Europe around Europe" at the cinema L’Entrepôt in Paris, April 13, 2014, the Jury including Krzysztof Zanussi, director and producer - President of the Jury Pierre-Henri Deleau, founder and director of festivals (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) Giacomo Battiato, director...
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Cucalorus seeks bold, innovative, funny, and challenging films for its 20th annual film festival, held November 12-16, 2014 in Wilmington, NC.
Known for its gorgeous riverside setting and its laid-back, rock n' roll atmosphere, Cucalorus is a five-day showcase of independent and international film with programs dedicated to social justice, emerging artists, works-in-progress, shorts, dance, music videos, and North Carolina. Voted “One of the Coolest Film Festivals in the World, 2013”, “Cucalorus is a joyful amalgamation of interdisciplinary art, a top-quality selection of international and local films, and an intimate bonding experience fueled by bonfires and moonshine” (MovieMaker Magazine, 2013). Visit www.cucalorus.org to submit by the FINAL deadline on Wednesday, July 23.
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LA Femme International Film Festival is a premier festival that focuses on platforming women filmmakers “by women, for everyone”. Our Festival was created in 2005, when it became apparent that there was a need to enhance women behind the camera as Directors, Producers, and Writers.
LA Femme Film Festival is more than a festival it is an emergence of artistic, professional women who can make a difference in the entertainment community by creating productions that speak to a world wide audience. We will be the only festival of its kind to not only platform existing films and artists but will also distribute and mentor such films and artists.
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The Festival will showcase the best in regional and international cinema, presenting a unique combination of socially conscious filmmakers, emerging artists and master storytellers in the film capital of the world. In addition to film presentations, HFF will launch a Summit, connecting industry professionals to filmmakers, educators to change makers and producers to investors. The Festival embraces the new Hollywood, while celebrating the golden age. The historic Cinerama Dome plays host to Opening Night; and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home to the first Oscar ceremony, will help to close the Festival in style. Submit today!
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Project submissions are now closed for 2014 Frontières @ Fantasia. The Fantasia International Film Festival, in Montreal, was attracting an ever-increasing number of film professionals since its foundation in 1996. In 2011, for its 15th edition, the festival decided to devote a specific week-end to welcome members of the industry, making it the first unofficial edition of the Fantasia Industry Rendez-Vous, which resulted in a great increase in attendance. In 2012, the...
YEREVAN GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL, 2014 ~ «Ոսկե Ծիրան» Միջազգային Կինոփառատոն> By Alex DELONIAN, Yerevan The eleventh annual installment of the Yerevan International Film Festival opened last night with a grandiose red carpet invitational gala at the cavernous Yerevan opera house preceded by a screening of a digitally restored print of the legendary 1968 film “The Color of Pomegranates” by legendary Ar...
Friday at Grossmann will be in the sign of Djordje Kadijević Master Class, taking place at 20:00h at the Main Square. It will be hosted by Dejan Ognjanović. Master Class will be followed by a screening of Kadijević's cult 1973 film She-Butterfly, the first Yugoslavian horror. She-Butterfly was screened as a part of Tales of Mystery and Imagination series, and it stirred up controversy upon its first broadcasting due to literally scaring one viewer to death. At this year's Grossmann ...
The 9th Wavescape Surf Film Festival at DIFF celebrates almost a decade of bringing Durban an annual feast of surf culture, spearheaded by the world’s best surfing documentaries and shorts. The outdoor screening on the lawns at the Bay of Plenty takes place this Sunday 20 July followed by five days of indoor screenings at Ster Kinekor Musgrave (Monday 21 to 26 July). "Our 2014 edition features the most diverse and geographically disparate collection yet," said Steve Pike...
The 3rd day of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival will start already at 13:00h, when the gates of Torture Garden shall open within the dark dungeons of Alcatraz Cinema. It will feature five extremely fierce genre extravaganzas, brought to us in a steel cage by our last year's short film jury member Julian Richards, co-founder of Jinga Films, our partners in this year's B-marathon of blood, laughs and weirdness. Two of these films he also directed – found footage shocker The...
The official program for the 67° Festival del film Locarno has been announced. The awards to Juliette Binoche (Excellence Award Moët & Chandon), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Lifetime Achievement Award - Parmigiani) and Mia Farrow (Leopard Club Award) were also announced today. Those attending Locarno will include Dario Argento, Olivier Assayas, Luc Besson, Garrett Brown, Suzanne Clément, Pedro Costa, Julie Depardieu, Lav Diaz, Víctor Erice, Flori...
(Soft Vengeance) Sub-Saharan Africa Broadcast in association with channel ED and the 35th Durban International Film Festival A world first will be taking place this month when a full week of African documentary films are broadcast across sub-Saharan Africa on DStv channel ED (channel 190) and GOtv (channel 65), from the Durban International Film Festival, the largest film festival in South Africa that takes place from 17 to 27July. This unique film event w...
10th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is already in full effect. Enchanted Cinema, our new program section, is opening its door for the very first time, inviting all kids and parents to the screening of British animated hit film Chicken Run by Peter Lord and Nick Park. In our main competition program Vicious Cat we present three ferocius films today. First of them will be Serbian fantastic horror Nymph which has just recently won the Audience Award at Fantastic Zagreb Film Festiva...
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) will hold its first ever Southeast Asian Film Lab as part of its 25th anniversary celebration this year. The Southeast Asian Film Lab is a seven-day writing workshop aimed at emerging screenwriters and/or writer/directors from Southeast Asia aged between 18 and 35, with a focus on stories capturing the collective experiences of the past, present and future Southeast Asia, to be developed into feature length screenplays. ...
Fans of daring cinema and divine wine are gathering in Ljutomer, Slovenia, where the jubilee 10th Grossmann Festival starts today and will last until Saturday, July 19th. In five days it will offer a massive dose of horror, science fiction, thrillers, comedies, action and music documentaries from 23 countries from all around the world. This year's guest of honour is Serbian director Djordje Kadijević, author of numerous cinematic masterpieces and pioneer of fantastic film in Yug...
The Camerado-produced supernatural Asian drama, 'FREEDOM DEAL: The Story of Lucky', screened July 11th at the 1970: Music and Turmoil event in San Francisco, CA, USA accompanied by the film's director, US filmmaker, J "Jack RO" Rosette, who spent more than half a decade in Cambodia developing and researching the ongoing 'FREEDOM DEAL' project. Also attending was rock historian, Richie Unterberger, author of the definitive Velvet Undergrou...
This year’s edition of the 35th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) sees a special focus on British Cinema. Supported by the British Council and its Connect ZA programme, the focus is Part of the SA-UK Seasons 2014 & 2015 cultural season taking place over the next two years. In recognition of this season, DIFF presents a diverse snapshot of contemporary British cinema – including the strangely compelling Lilting, which tells the story of the triangular ...
Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, taking place from the 15th to the 19th of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia, revealed its official selection. The festival features four film competition programs: Vicious Cat (Best Feature Film), Noisy Cat (Best Music Documentary), Slak's Vicious Cat (Best Short Film) and Melies d'Argent (Nomination for Best European Fantastic Short Film award, given out by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation). The President of the Vicious Cat ...
CommunicAsia-BroadcastAsia diary, Singapore, June 2014 --A revisit 12 years later, to a block-buster event V: 4k resolutions up to 1,000 fps, HD up to 3,000 fps Prime Focus was the first familiar Indian name that I noticed at the Communicasia-BroadcastAsia twin events, while the first Singaporean Indian booth I stopped at was t-eight. Two persons were busy demonstrating the merits of ‘slowing down your world’. In film parlance, that means using high speed cameras that, when...
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Salaud, on t’aime, (We Love You, You Bastard) the latest film by celebrated French director Claude Lelouch, will open the 38th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival on August 21, it was announced by the MWFF’s president Serge Losique and director-general Danièle Cauchard. “I am faithful to this great festival and I am very happy to return to Montreal to show Salaud, on t’aime,” declared Lelouch. “The Montreal World Film Fest...
This year Fantasia continues its tradition of inviting the best and brightest genre filmmakers from around the world to the city of Montreal. The festival is proud to host more than 76 directors, producers and actors coming to Fantasia to premiere their films at the festival’s 18th edition. Fantasia will welcome filmmakers from all over the globe, from countries ranging from Brunei, Japan, and South Korea, to France and the Netherlands. With this year marking the 3r...
Pardo alla carriera to Jean-Pierre Léaud EN © DR The 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud in awarding him a Pardo alla carriera, career award. In honor of Jean-Pierre Léaud the Festival will screen 4 films spanning his career: Masculine-Feminine (Masculin Fémin, 1966) by Jean-Luc God...
This is to announce the composition of the official juries for the Concorso internazionale, Concorso Cineasti del presente, Pardi di domani and Best first film. The jury for the Concorso internazionale will have as its President the Italian director Gianfranco Rosi, winner of last year’s Leone d’oro at Venice for Sacro GRA. He will be accompanied by German filmmaker Thomas Arslan (Dealer, 1999; Gold,...
Returning to the Durban International Film Festival (17 – 27 July) for the second time, The Films That Made Me section presents a programme of five films selected by a prominent South African director to bear testament to the films that have shaped his or her directorial voice. This year, DIFF is delighted to announce that it has invited acclaimed South African filmmaker, Khalo Matabane (director of State of Violence and Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me), to...
Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), operator of the largest bouquet of pan-Asian channels dedicated to Asian entertainment, announced today its appointment of Su Wei Wong as Associate Director, Advertising Sales. Based in CTE’s newly-opened office in Kuala Lumpur, Wong will be responsible for driving advertising sales in Malaysia. She will be working closely with Astro Media Sales to boost advertising revenue for CTE’s channels Celestial Movies and KIX HD. “We a...
The Camerado-produced supernatural Asian drama, 'FREEDOM DEAL: The Story of Lucky', screened July 11th at the 1970: Music and Turmoil event in San Francisco, CA, USA accompanied by the film's director, US filmmaker, J "Jack RO" Rosette, who spent more than half a decade in Cambodia developing and researching the ongoing 'FREEDOM DEAL' project. Also attending was rock historian, Richie Unterberger, author of the definitive Velvet Undergrou...
By Maria Esteves - July 14, 2014 The 14th International Cloud Computing Conference & Exposition 2014 (CloudExpo14) Opening Night Exhibitors Show Floor and Reception was held at Javits Convention Center, New York, Tuesday, June 10, 6:00pm. The event included Red Hat’s launch of ManageIQ, an open hybrid cloud management product based on OpenStack platform and book release signing of “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win,” with co-autho...
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Alain Resnais’ last film, Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley), will receive its North American premiere to close the 38th Montreal World Film Festival on September 1, it was announced by Festival president Serge Losique and director-general Danièle Cauchard. Resnais began his career in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of wh...
Starts on Friday, July 18, 2014 at the Landmark Sunshine Theater in New York City, and on 80 screens throughout the United States. Producer, Regina Scully, refers to “Alive Inside” as “the little film that could.” The film demonstrates how music connects, heals, and restores lives. “Alive Inside” starts out with the founder of Music and Memory, and Social Worker, Dan Cohen, interviewing a 90 year old woman sitting in a wheelc...
Puchon will run from July 17 to 27 Stereo by Maximilian ERLENWEIN Can we truly ever be free of our past? Is it inevitable for past wrongdoings to hang around like a shadow, even in a person may have changed for the better? Stereo poses the questions of whether a person can be forgiven through penitence, and if that person can step away from his/her pain and mistakes of the past, and seek a new life. Filmmaker Maximilian Erlenwein explains that a painful past, though p...
New Films by Przemysław Wojcieszek, Marcin Krzyształowicz, Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda, will be presented to the foreign professionals during the key industry event of the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival. The organisers expect around 150 guests to attend. Polish Days is the most important industry event at the 14.T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival (24 July - 3 August 2014), where industry representatives including programmers, sales agents,...
The Waimea Ocean Film Festival brings a combination of film, breakfast talks, filmmaker Q&As, receptions, art exhibits and activities to the Big Island each year in early January. In 2015, award-winning films, presentations and breakfast talks are scheduled between multiple venues in Waimea, the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and the Fairmont Orchid from January 1-4, 2015. Early risers can enjoy yoga on the beach, and breakfast talk sessions with filmmakers and special guests. Films and speakers ...
Revolution, the new documentary by Rob Stewart, produced by Gus van Sant will screen @ Contemporary Science Film Festival 360 8 to 15 of October in a special out of competition program dedicated to the ecological problems. Call for entries for the 4th Contemporary Science Films Festival 360° is open. We accept entries for the following competition programmes: International Competition Documentary films on science, science activitie...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent In a Screenwriting Galaxy Far, Far, Away, the Writers Guild Foundation ( https://www.wgfoundation.org) once held “Words Into Pictures,” a series of conferences that brightened the years 1997, 1999, and 2002, with debates about everything from character development to story-craft. Around about 1999, David Koepp (writer of Jurassic Park, director of Panic Room and more) and Stand By Me’s Rob Reiner got into it over VFX vs Storytel...
*We're thrilled to announce that Michael Moore has selected one film only, 1971, for a unique 7 continent screening simulcast during his film festival (Traverse City Film Festival) on August 1 called MOVIE AROUND THE WORLD.* See his message here. "It's one of the best documentaries I've seen this year" -Michael Moore "The parallels between Nixon-era FBI whistleblowers and...
Listen Up Philip by Alex Ross Perry Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip (Concorso internazionale) and Joel Potrykus’s Buzzard (Concorso Cineasti del presente) signals the return of two filmmakers launched at recent editions of the Festival. The 67th Festival del film Locarno (6 – 16 August) confirms its interest in leading figures in new indie American cinema, which has demonstrated a new vitality in recent years. Two directors launched, and winning awards...
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) announced the Opening and Closing Film of Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival (SIFF) 2014 today. The Festival will open with the premiere of Woody ALLEN’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight and close with Partners in Crime, the latest film by CHANG Jung-chi, Golden Horse Award winner for Best New Director. ...
The Camerado-produced supernatural Asian drama, 'FREEDOM DEAL: The Story of Lucky', screened July 11th at the 1970: Music and Turmoil event in San Francisco, CA, USA accompanied by the film's director, US filmmaker, J "Jack RO" Rosette, who spent more than half a decade in Cambodia developing and researching the ongoing 'FREEDOM DEAL' project. Also attending was rock historian, Richie Unterberger, author of the definitive Velvet Undergrou...
“Virunga” premiered at this years Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2014, in the WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION, and was graciously screened again, last night, with the generosity of Bennett Miller, the Cannes 2014 Winner for BEST DIRECTOR, for his latest film “Foxcatcher,” which will be released in November, 2014. Bordering on Rwanda and Uganda, “Virunga” is a 7,800 square kilometre National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Establi...
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LAUREATS DE LA 9ème EDITION DU FESTIVAL Lors de la Cérémonie de clôture de la 9ème édition du festival de film d’auteur et d’art « L’Europe autour de l’Europe » au cinéma L’Entrepôt à Paris le 13 avril 2104, le Jury composé de Krzysztof Zanussi, réalisateur et producteur - Président du Jury Pierre-Henri Deleau, fondateur...
Date limite d’inscription : 15 décembre 2014 Frais d’inscription : gratuit Conditions de participation : 1) Pays de production : 47 pays du Conseil de l’Europe 2) Format de projection : 35mm, 16mm, DCP et Quicktime, BluRay, Beta SP, Beta Numérique, DVD 3) Format de visionnement pour la sélection : DVD, BluRay ou le lien avec sous-titres en français ou anglais Adresse : Evropa Film Akt / Festival L’...
Serge Losique, président du CA et Danièle Cauchard, directrice générale du FFM ont le plaisir d’annoncer que Salaud, on t’aime le plus récent film de Claude Lelouch inaugurera festival le 21 août prochain en première internationale. « Je suis un fidèle de ce grand festival et je me réjouis une fois de plus de revenir à Montréal pour présenter Salaud, on t’aime &r...
Serge Losique, président du CA et Danièle Cauchard, directrice générale, ont le plaisir d’annoncer que Aimer, boire et chanter d’Alain Resnais sera présenté en clôture du 38e Festival des films du monde le 1er septembre 2014 pour sa première nord-américaine. Alain Resnais, un des plus grands cinéastes français est l’auteur de films qui ont marqué l’his...
Du 27 juin au 6 juillet dernier, le Festival a fait salles combles avec 82 122 entrées réparties sur 316 séances. Sur tous les lieux du Festival, l’engouement était général et de la soirée d’ouverture à celle de la...
Bonjour à toutes et à tous ! L’association Croq’Anime organise la 7ème édition du Festival du Film d’Animation de Paris du 10 au 14 septembre 2014 au Théâtre de Ménilmontant. Nous sommes à la recherche de bénévoles pour un jour, 2 jours, 3 jours... ou pour la vie afin de nous aider à distribuer des flyers, accueillir le public, s'occuper du bar, être en charge ...
Le fonds francophone de production audiovisuelle du sud (volet cinéma) accorde 180 000 € à 16 longs métrages de pays francophones du sud Les 25, 26 et 27 juin 2014 à Paris, la Commission de sélection du fonds francophone de production audiovisuelle (volet cinéma), s'est réunie pour examiner les requêtes de financement reçues suite au lancement d'un appel à propositions clôturé en avr...
Le public du Festival Paris Cinéma a voté parmi les 11 films proposés cette année pour PARTY GIRL de Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger et Samuel Theis 2013 / France / 1H35 Distribué par Pyramide Distribution, le film sortira en salles le 27 août 2014 Le Prix du Public est soutenu par JCDecaux et Vodkaster. Il est destiné à encourager la distribution du film en salles. ...
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