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The selection is complete for the members of the five Juries (Venezia 75, Orizzonti, “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for Best Debut Film, Venice Virtual Reality, Venezia Classici) of the 75th Venice International Film Festival: Venezia 75 The personalities convened as members of the Jury for the Venezia 75 Competition are: the President of the Jury, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Guillermo del Toro; the actress, director, screenwriter and producer Sy...
The 33rd Venice International Film Critics' Week (Venice, August 29 - September 8, 2018) is opening next week. THE 2018 LINEUP COMPETITION AKASHA | THE ROUNDUP by hajooj kuka (Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany) ADAM UND EVELYN | ADAM & EVELYN by Andreas Goldstein (Germany) BÊTES BLONDES | BLONDE ANIMALS by Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray (France) LISSA AMMETSAJJEL | STILL RECORDING by ...
A selection of 18 feature-length films from the Orizzonti, Biennale College – Cinema, Sconfini and Out of Competition sections / Sale of tickets or digital passes starts August 21 A selection of 18 feature-length films, including eleven from the Orizzonti section, two from Biennale College – Cinema, three from Sconfini and two Out of competition, make up the rich programme of world premieres for the Web Theatre of the 75th Venice Film Festival 2018, headed by Albe...
Three films from the Netherlands have been selected for the 75th Venice International Film Festival. Sergei Loznitsa’s Process (The Trial), produced by Atoms & Void, Loznitzas own Hague-based production house, world-premieres Out of Competition while the documentary essay Living the Light – Robby Müller by Claire Pijman (produced by Moondocs) screens in VENICE CLASSICS – Documentary on Cinema section. Sven Bresser’s short film L’été et tout le...
Continuing its support for Arab cinema, MAD Solutions will present its award at the 6th Final Cut in Venice workshop (September 1-3), held on the margins of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, for the fourth consecutive year. The award offers marketing and distribution services across the Arab world to the winning film project. In 2017, the film project Joint Possession by Moroccan director Leila Kilani won the MAD Solutions award at the 5th Final Cut in Venice. Before that, ...
La Biennale di Venezia / 75th Venice International Film Festival Announces Two New Collateral Awards: · Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) Award to three winning filmmakers from Orizzonti for a residency programme / · Fundación Casa Wabi - Mantarraya Award to the winning director of the Venice Award for a Debut Film La Biennale di Venezia has ann...
The Toronto International Film Festival presents this year’s In Conversation With… lineup: Hilary Swank, Mahershala Ali and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Through insightful, dynamic and intimate discussion, this programme will provide an engaging experience for TIFF’s audience with artists who have commanded their distinct roles on screen. All discussions are moderated by a journalist or industry expert, along with clips of career highlights followed by a brief audience Q&A. In C...
Films screening as part of the Discovery programme include: aKasha hajooj kuka | Sudan/South Africa/Qatar/Germany North American Premiere ANIARA Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja | Sweden World Premiere Blind Spot ( Blindsone) Tuva Novotny | Norway International Premiere The Chambermaid ( La Camarista) Lila Avilés | Mexico World Premiere Complicity ( Kazenoki Wa Koto No Youni) Kei Chikaura | Japan/China World Premiere Consequences ( Posledice) Darko Štante | Slovenia/Austria World P...
TIFF 2018 CANADIAN FEATURES SLATE ANNOUNCED WITH NEW WORKS BY FESTIVAL VETS AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING FILM DEBUTS Download PDF Download French Version TIFF 2018 CANADIAN SHORT FILM LINEUP RICH IN MASTERFUL AND INNOVATIVE FILMMAKI... FF. The Grizzli...
Photo credit: George Pimentel Photography Today, on behalf of the TIFF Board of Directors, Jennifer Tory, Chair, announced that longstanding Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer Michèle Maheux will retire from the organization in summer 2019. Prior to her departure next year, Maheux will play a key role in ensuring a smooth leadership transition as Cameron Bailey takes on the extended role of Artistic Director & Co-Head alongside an...
Whether a role requires an air of gravitas, a playful smile, twinkle of the eye, or a world-weary, yet insightful soul, Morgan Freeman's ability to delve to the core of a character and infuse it with a quiet dignity has resulted in some of the most memorable cinematic characters committed to film. Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman is one of the most recognizable figures in American cinema. His works are among the most critically and commercially successful films of all ti...
Sarah Jessica Parker is an award-winning actress, producer and businesswoman who has garnered four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Parker starred as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998-2004) and served as an executive producer. She reprised her role and served as a producer for the screen adaptation of the hit series with the theatrical release of Sex and the City (2008) and ...
AMERICAN ANIMALS by Bart Layton BLINDSPOTTING by Carlos López Estrada DEAD WOMEN WALKING by Hagar Ben-asher DIANE by Kent Jones FRIDAY’S CHILD by A.j. Edwards LEAVE NO TRACE by Debra Granik ...
« For the first time, this year's Deauville American Film Festival has created the 44th Deauville American Film Festival Award. This award will be given to Jacques Audiard's film The Sisters Brothers in the presence of the film’s team, for the qualities of its direction, for its powerful performances from four major actors of contemporary American cinema - John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Riz Ahmed - and to salute its producers, thanks to whom such a no...
THE JURY Home | The jury Back Sandrine KIBERLAINJURY PRESIDENT Actress Sabine AZEMA Actress Alex BEAUPAIN Singer, songwriter & composer ...
Kate BECKINSALEDEAUVILLE TALENT AWARD Born and raised in England, Kate Beckinsale has proven to be one of the cinematic industry's most versatile and charismatic performers. She played opposite Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington as "Hero" in Kenneth Branagh's version of Much Ado About Nothing (1993). She won particular notice for her performance on the small screen in Larry Elikann's One Against the Wind (1991) for Hallmark Fil...
PREMIÈRES 2018 GALVESTON de Mélanie Laurent | Eugénie Jacobson LE SECRET DES KENNEDY de John Curran LES FRÈRES SISTERS de Jacques Audiard ...
Paul Thomas Anderson will receive the distinction for the third time in San Sebastian Phantom Thread has been voted Best Film of 2018 by the members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. The vote was decided by 473 critics from all over the world, who chose this production from among all of the films premiered after 1 July 2017. The other three finalists were Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri by Martin McDonagh (City of Donostia / San Sebast...
''The context of Ikusmira Berriak is ideal for concentrating on a single project'' The fourth edition of Ikusmira Berriak began last Monday, August 20th. During the six weeks that the residencies last, the five filmmakers chosen from the 155 proposals received Manuel Abramovich, Nele Wohlatz, Elena López Riera, Arantza Santesteban and Grigory Kolomytsev, will undertake their projects at the Tabakalera Artist's Space. Also travelling to San Sebasti&a...
The Festival will present the documentary ''Querido Fotogramas'' Made in Spain, showcase of the Spanish films of the year to which the Festival offers a platform for their international dissemination, has selected eleven productions,...
Fifteen productions will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award One French production, Les Météorites / Meteorites and one Chinese, Qing Feng De Wei Dao / Breeze, complete the New Directors selection at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. Kun Yang, from a small city in the South-West of China’s Yunnan province, studied film directing at the Beijing Film Academy. Qing Feng De Wei Dao / Breeze, his first feature film, revolves around a man...
The second feature film Di qiu zui hou de ye wan / Long Day’s Journey into Night, by Bi Gan (Kaili, China, 1989), after his award-winning debut, Kaili Blues, premiered in Un Certain Regard. The film narrates a man’s return to the town of his birth in search of a woman. Zabaltegi-Tabakalera will include the presentation of Kraben Rahu / Manta Ray, following its showing at Venice and Toronto. The first work by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng (Bangkok, 1976) brings the story of a fish...
Danny DeVito (Neptune, New Jersey, United States, 1944) will be presented with a Donostia Award at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival on Saturday 22 September in the Kursaal. The fo...
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Alpha, Review: Man and his best friend surviving in the Ice Age It’s not a dog who is man’s best friend in Alpha, but a wolf given that name by Keda, a young man who lived in Upper Paleolithic Europe 20,000 years ago. He is the son of the Chief of a small tribe of hunter-gatherers that hunts bison in the steppes every year, to store meat for the coming winter. Boring history and a geography channel lesson? Banish the thought. Alpha is a classy movie that ranks among the best seen ...
The Stolen Princess, Review: Ukrainian animation comes of age, comes to India Indian media-house major Ultra, a diversified company, brings four language versions of the Ukrainian animation feature, The Stolen Princess, to India. You can watch it in English, Hindi, Tamil or Telugu. We saw the English version today, and since the content remains unchanged in the dubbed versions, I would recommend it to children who understand any of these languages. Parents, this is good holiday fare, with ani...
Aretha Franklin: Soul Music Loses its Queen, its Soul American soul music queen, singer Aretha Franklin, died on August 18, aged 76, of pancreatic cancer in Detroit, where she grew up. Memphis, Tennessee born Aretha was the daughter of Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Minister and gospel singer, and a staunch church-goer herself. Unfortunately, her mother left the family when Aretha was just six years old and died when Aretha was 10. Her father was shot by burglars in 1979 and died in 1984, after five...
Final day of Sanhita’s theatre festival: Language of Hindustani theatre, and ode to an iconic Hindi poet August 17 marked the end of the three-day Natya Mahotsav (theatre festival) organised by Sanhita Manch, an initiative of Being Association, at the P.L. Deshpande Auditorium at the Ravindra Natya Mandir Complex in central Mumbai. The festival included several interactive sessions and staging of three Hindi/Urdu plays selected from 77 entries. Held for the second year in succession, th...
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MAGNUS SUNDHOLM/HFPA Glenn Close HFPA journalist Diederik van Hoogstraten met with renowned stage, film and TV actress and Golden Globe winner Glenn Closeto talks about a variety of topics, ranging from her la...
Coproduction Lounge heads into its third year with an exciting line-up of developing projects to be presented at 25th Edition of this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival. Following last year’s successful third year, the Matchbox Coproduction Lounge will be held in Oldenburg for the third time. On September 15th, the Oldenburg International Film Festival will host the event, in which filmmakers from all over the world will meet to exchange ideas and explore ...
The Festival honors one of the most uncompromising writers and directors, Britain’s iconic Bruce Robinson – “The Master of his Word” “Write it, damn you, what else are you good for?” wrote James Joyce. Words that are taped to the typewriter of writer-director, Bruce Robinson, long-revered by critics as the ‘neglected genius of the British film industry’. And had he never done another film after his 1987 loosely-autobiographical deb...
SAVE 100$ OFF STANDARD REGISTRATION WITH CODE FEST21 WHEN YOU REGISTER BY AUGUST 31 Script to Screen Summit | September 7, 2018 • Toronto, Canada Back to School and Back to Work! Meet the Script to Screen Summit Class of 2018 Join award-winning producers and dealmakers who have been at the forefront of diversifying conte...
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VIENNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 8, 2018 Viennale-Director Eva Sangiorgi gave a first preview and presented some of the highlights of this year’s festival. HERE you find the first outline of feature films and documentaries and we are happy to announce the first selected Special Programs. As announced previously, the main program eliminates the separation between fiction and documentary films in an attempt to go beyond the injustice ...
The festival runs 12 - 16 September 2018 see more festival trailers at our TRAILER PARK CHANNEL At a press conference in Casablanca, the new trailer "From Oldenburg with Love" celebrated its premiere for the 25th Oldenburg International Film Festival. To mark the anniversary of the festival, a tongue-in-cheek reference was made to a genre of cinema that had its heyday in the 1960s, during the Cold War and the growing fear of atomic threat...
Calgary International Film Festival, running from September 19 – September 30, announced the selection of fourteen more films, including headliners featuring big box office bold-faced names. Stars on screen at this year’s festival include Keira Knightley in COLLETTE, Salma Hayek in THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT and Hilary Swank in WHAT THEY HAD. Canadian fan favourites include Tantoo Cardinal and Graham Greene in THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE. “Not only does our audience love our...
Here are acclaimed titles from the international festival circuit in a top-notch lineup for this 47th edition. Stay tuned...
Stunning success heralding a wonderful opportunity for sharing the power of film, particularly to highlight women’s voices and stories, and to spotlight the plight of Mother Earth, the woman in all our lives! We were honored to have both Jeff Bridges and Jamie Redford present their films (Living in the Future’s Past and Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution, respectively), and interact with audiences. Both expressed delight at the outcome of the Festival: &ld...
FestForums Santa Barbara is back for 2018 November 14th-16th! Our Santa Barbara Conference is the biggest with over 800 attendees and over 80 exhibitors in 2017.This year's FestForums will take place at the same -yet new and improved- Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort (formerly The Fess Parker). The agenda consists of 2 days of panels with 2 tracks each day. Panels will include diverse and current topics such as VR, cryptocurrency, and the always popular festival ...
Silk Screen is celebrating its 13th Annual 10-day Asian American Film Festival on September 22-30, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This year's festival will showcase 25 feature-length films and 10 short films from 13 countries, including India, Japan, Indonesia, Turkey, South Korea, China, Pakistan, The Philippines, and Iran. This year, films will be screened at six venues in and around the Pittsburgh area: Harris Theater, Alumni Hall (Unive...
American Film Market Dailies coverage by filmfestivals.com included 275 articles, 163 photos and 9 newsletters circulated to our database of film pro subscribers worldwide (192 000 and counting). Wrap & global I N°8 I N°7 I N°6 I N°5 I N°4 I OPENING N°3 I Preview N°2 I N°1 The 2018 coverage of AFM will be comparable with over 200 articles and 9 newsletters. The site has been launched in 1995, audience is international (...
The Independent Days International Filmfestival (IDIF) is one of Europe's most important festivals for independent filmmakers and part of the European Festivals Association. Proud owner of the EFFE label (Europe for festivals - festivals for Europe) by the EU. Filmmakers can win 12 awards with more than 10.000 Euro prize money. IDIF is an IMDb Award-listing qualifying festival! Submit your films on filmfreeway! ...
Asian CineVision presented the 41st edition of the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) from July 25 – August 5 at the Village East Cinema and the Asia Society. This community oriented unique film festival is the premier with a comprehensive focus on Asian and Asian-American films and selected this year 80 productions from over 14 countries. The relevance of the festival for the Asian American community is reflected in a record number o...
First Annual MINT International Film Festival Announces Competition Titles, Main Slate Films Feature: Diane Lane, Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman, Gérard Depardieu, Sam Upton, Mark Boone Junior, Jared Abrahamson, Kate Vernon, Kerry Condon, Cassi Thomson, Laila Ali, Rory Culkin, Brian Dennehy, David Harbour, Mary Riitano, Jenna Ciralli and more. • Event Runs September 14-16 In Billings, MT and Includes Panels, Parties, and Networking Opportunities The First Annual ...
From star-crossed lovers in the Meiji era to early feminists fighting societal norms, the Japanese Film Festival (JFF) presents a FREE classic film program from 29 September – 2 December. The Festival will present a curated program: Passion & Obsession in Sydney with an abridged version in Melbourne and Canberra. Featuring works adapted from novels by celebrated authors such as Junichiro Tanizaki and Kyoka Izumi, the program showcases influential works from c...
FreedomFilmFest (FFF), Malaysia's leading international human rights documentary film festival is back and proud to announce a diverse line-up of bold and brave new films for 2018. Returning to PJ Live Arts in Petaling Jaya, this year's week-long festival (29th September - 6th October 2018) will play host to over 40 new and award winning films showcasing extraordinary talent from the very best of local, regional and international filmmakers...
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15 Documentaries Selected It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the EFA Documentary Selection, a list of 15 European documentaries recommended for a nomination for this year's European Film Awards. Ten documentary festivals have suggested to the committee one film each which has had its world premiere at the respective festival’s latest edition. Chosen in co-operation with the European Documentary Network EDN, these festiva...
Somehow Chloé Zhao's all-too-real film The Rider has remained somewhat under the radar, when compared to the many mediocre or even god-awful films that stay in the cinemas for months on end. Although it hailed high praise at Cannes in 2017, sadly it remains under-seen. The Chinese director/writer/producer uses a feminist approach to portray the vulnerable side of a modern day cowboy, Brady Jandreau playing a fictionalized version of himself, whose fateful head injury took ...
Unquestionably the funniest film I saw at the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Eaten by Lions (99 minutes) had sold-out world premiere screenings, selected in the British Cinema strand. From the enthusiasm of the audience at the second screening I attended, on a suprisingly sunny Scottish Saturday lunchtime in the Cineworld complex, and their clearly appreciative questions to director,cast and crew from the paying public, it could have warranted a more prominen...
A special presentation of this unique film commissioned by 14-18 NOW and Imperial War Museums will take place on 16 October 2018 at BFI Southbank, with Peter Jackson in conversation. The 62nd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is delighted to announce that Peter Jackson’s First World War film, newly titled They Shall Not Grow Old, will be given its World Premiere as the Documentary Special Presentation at the BFI London Film Festival on...
FROM ON HIGH has been accepted to the FerFilm Festival in Ferizaj, Kosovo for September 2-6, 2018. Written and helmed by Dawn Westlake, FROM ON HIGH tells the story of a young Syrian refugee girl who finds a better life in Europe. The film has won 7 awards, in the USA, Spain and Italy, including a BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY award for Pol Carrizo Vilarroig of Imatge Barcelona and a BEST SOUNDTRACK award for the film's composer, GC Johnson of Acoustic Labs. FROM ON HIGH marks the professional acting...
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Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf, the director of the film Holiday, is the winner of the Grand Prix of the New Horizons International Competition. Of the 12 competition entries, seven were directed by women. This year's edition of New Horizons can also boast record attendance. "In an unsentimental and unsettling way, Holiday reveals the mechanisims of conformisme and dependence as seen through the eyes of a chameleonic main character manuvering through a world encompased b...
This first wave of the 2018 World Soundtrack Award Nominees includes multiple Academy Award® winners and nominees, the best of contemporary film and television music as well as Pulitzer prize winner Kendrick Lamar and other pop artists. The nominees for Best Film Composer are Academy Award® winners John Williams and Alexandre Desplat, Academy Award® nominees Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jonny Greenwood and Carter Burwell. The Television Composer of th...
35 short films compete for the 2018 Iris Prize 20 countries represented bringing together films featuring contemporary dance, brutal violence and challenging stories about gender The £30,000 prize continues to be supported by The Michael Bishop Foundation Organisers of the Iris Prize have today (13/08/2018) announced details of the 35 short films competing for the Iris Prize at the 2018 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. The winning director will be presented with £30,000 to make the...
The 9th Odesa International Film Festival, which took place from July 13 to 21, sums up its achievements This year, 1070 films from 95 countries were submitted for participation in the competition programs. 12films from the International Competition competed for the main prize – the Grand Prix; 5 features and 13 short films participated in the National Competition, and 8 – in the European Documentary Competition. In total,&...
Best Action Mascarpone Jonas Riemer Best Animation The Driver Is Red Randall Christopher Best Cinematographer The Other End Of The Earth Aaron Grasso Best Comedy Must Kill Karl Joe Kicak Best Coming Of Age Melody Bernard Kordieh Best Diversity Diwa Aina Dumlao, Bru Muller Best Documentary Hula Girl Amy Hill, Chris Riess Best Drama Phone Duty Lenar Kamalov Best Ed...
The European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 49 films on this year’s EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2018! With 35 European countries represented, the list once again illustrates the great diversity in European cinema. In the 20 countries with the most EFA Members, these members have voted one national film directly into the selection list. To complete the ...
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The EarlyBird Deadline is November 15th
Entries Opened August 15th. The EarlyBird Deadline is November 15th and the Main Entry Deadline is December 15th. These are "Postmark By Deadlines". If you enter Online by the January 15th Late/Final Deadline and we receive the physical entry by January 31st, your entry will still be reviewed by our judges. Due to popular demand, we have extended the Final Brick Wall Deadline to January 31st, online!
The 2019 Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival is now open for entries! Info on All Winners info is submitted to Seoul, Korea ~ Concorto, Italy & the USAFilmFestival, Dallas at no extra cost!
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April 9th, 2019
Deadline for entries is October 15, 2018
New York Festivals World's Best TV & Films competition honors programming in all lengths and forms from over 50 countries. New Categories for 2019 include Human Rights Documentary, Digital Short-Form Music Video, Telenovela Promotion, Brand Image, CSR Not-for-Profit, Branded Content, Attitudinal Training, Branded Content Documentary, Student Documentary, Public Relations & Social Engagement.
All Entries in the 2019 competition will be judged online and screened by New York Festivals Television & Film Awards Grand Jury of 200 plus producers, directors, writers, and other creative media professionals from around the globe. Nominated Finalists are judged by a selected panel at the United Nations for the UNDPI Awards. Award-winning entries will be showcased on the NYF Television & Film Awards website. To View the 2018 TV & Film Awards winning entries please visit: https://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2018/
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Script Pool Tallinn is a script development competition launched at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2017, awarding a 5000 Euro prize by our partner Global Screen GmbH to one of the five writer-producer teams invited to Tallinn.
Global Screen GmbH is a leading international sales & distribution company for theatrical films, TV programs and formats based in Munich, Germany. It is owned by Telepool, a vertically integrated media and licensing company with more than 50 years of experience in film distribution. Telepool has been acquired on June 26, 2018 by actor and producer Will Smith and director Marc Forster and is now owned by their respective companies The Smith Family Circle, Will and Jada Smith’s Family Office and Elysian Fields.
The public pitch, open to all the attending industry professionals, takes place on November 29, 2018.
Submissions are now open. Deadline for submission is September 3.
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The Co-Production Market runs from the 27th until the 29th of Nov and presents the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the amount of 20 000 Euros. It provides a perfect opportunity to find financiers, co-producers and sales agents for your project during an intensive two days of pre-arranged one-on-one meetings. Projects from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine, plus projects from Italy, our 2018 Focus Country, are eligible for submission. Projects from other countries looking for co-production partners or service providers in these countries are also accepted.
POWR Baltic Stories Exchange (26-30 Nov) trains writers to deliver a good pitch and find a producer at the public project presentation as well as get industry feedback through pre-arranged POWR Meetings with carefully selected Baltic Event participants. Six screenplays in the early stages of development from the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as Italy, BE Focus Country, will be selected. The workshop is organised by Baltic Event in collaboration with the region’s Creative Europe MEDIA Desks and Torino Film Lab.
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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF), Youth and Children’s Film Festival Just Film
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The 22nd edition of PÖFF, running from November 16th to December 2nd, will see a major change in one of the three competition programmes of the festival. The former Estonian Film Competition that used to be judged by the same jury as the First Feature Competition will be turned into a new programme with its own international jury – the Baltic Film Competition – screening a selection of feature-length films made in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The programme requires Estonian premiere for the Lithuanian and Latvian films (no premiere requirements for Estonian films) and is designed as a showcase of the best Baltic cinematic output from the last year. The programme will have one award - Award for Best Baltic Feature Film with a grant of 3200 Euros, shared by the director and producer.
The festival will also continue its two other competition programmes. The Official Selection Competition will look for films completed after the 15th of September, 2017. With world, international or European premiere as a eligibility criterium.
The First Feature Competition, open for filmmakers presenting their feature debut, will accept films completed after the 15th of September, 2017. That have not had their world or international premiere.
Submissions are also open for all the non-competitive sections of the festival. The programme will include around 200 feature films and documentaries. The final day for submissions is the 17th of August.
The 17th Youth and Children’s film festival Just Film is looking for films for its youth and children’s competitions and documentary sections. Submissions will stay open until the 17th of August.
The 2nd PÖFF Shorts, showcasing short films and animations, will run from the 20th to the 25th of November. The festival saw the merging of two separate sub-festivals last year - the animation film festival Animated Dreams and the International Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers. The new festival has retained the identities and most programmes of the former festival. Submissions close on the 25th of August.
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Earlybird Deadline August 23, 2018
The 10th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival provides a showcase for indie filmmakers from NYC and around the world to the NYC public & entertainment industry. Indie filmmakers selffund projects with budgets from $0 - $1,000,000 and often overlooked, these filmmakers show extraordinary talent and creativity under tight budgets. The Festival provides filmmakers with the opportunity for potential distribution while meeting fans and promoting their film.
The Festival is an annual event and will run May 5 - 12, 2019, taking place at Producers Club, The Caveat and Cameo Clnton Studios. We will screen 250 films, host panels and presentations, as well as after parties, a live script reading, and a live comedy sketch performance! All while hosting hundreds of filmamakers from around the world!
2019 submission categories include: Narrative Feature, Short Film (narrative), Super Short Film (narrative), Documentary Fearure, Documentary Short, Music Video, Art/Experimental (short film), Animation (short film), Short Script, Short Sketch Comedy Videos, Virtual Reality, Web Series, TV Pilots.
Join us in New York City May 5 to 12, 2019
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ENTRY DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1st 2018
This Call is for Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi features and shorts only of Fantasy gendre. The Director’s Week section is destinaded only for, no strings attach.
Deadlines for Entries for 2019 edition are November 1st (feature and fantasy shorts) and December 5th (Final Call and only for features). Fantasporto enjoys incredible loyalty and support from the large film-appreciating community all over the World. In the last edition, Fantasporto was attended by over 25,000 enthusiastic genre film fans and over 200 members of the film press and industry.
Considered in 2015 as the first of the independent film festivals in the world by TRIPPER, Fantasporto is among the top film festivals for the discovery of new talent, having revealed countless of now famous directors, producers and actors.
The World Heritage City by UNESCO of Porto, twice considered Europe’s Best Touristic Destination, is another factor adding interest . Founded in 1981, the 39th edition has the support of the Portuguese State and the Townhall.
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Films we curate for festivals: Check our selection of 'Best for Fests' in the eco green genre! "Ones to Watch for fests' by filmfestivals.com"...
It was hard to choose among many beautiful documentary films and short films, selected by our festival members all over the world. Nevertheless, in the end we have the winners of Green Film Network Award 2018! And the winners are… Genesis 2.0 by Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev (Switzerland, 2018, 103’) On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a s...
KLEFF 2018 ANNOUNCES THE FINALISTS FOR 5 MAIN FILM CATEGORIES AND SPECIAL AWARDS After 6 months of film competition and 1 month of judging process, the KLEFF 2018 committee is proud to accounce the results of the film submission! Out of 179 submissions we received globally, the KLEFF 2018 panel jury has selected 100 films to be screened throughout the seven-day film festival. Our festival theme for this year is ‘Forest, River and Climate Change’. You can view the list of films...
The11th Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival will be held from 14 to 23 September. This year we are especially pleased to welcome as our guest of honour, the American film director John Landis. John Landis, an avid cinephile, began his career in the mailroom of 20th Century Fox Studios. A high school dropout, he made his way to the former Yugoslavia at age 18 to work as a “gofer” on MGM’s K...
So Kristian A. Söderström, who are you, where do you come from and what’s your creative arts background? I grew up in Gothenburg Sweden and was a film fanatic from the start. I got me an education in film directing from UCLA in Los Angeles, but I’ve studied film theory and psychology as well. For many years now, I’ve been making short films and commercials while trying to finance feature films. I write and direct. Wh...
Deadline For All Entries Coming Up On August 24th. Submit Through The Film Freeway... The Edmonton FESTIVAL OF FEAR International Film Festival is a Three Day Film Festival in Edmonton, Canada. It takes place at the Historic Princess Theatre, built in 1915. If your Feature Film or Short was Completed after January 1st, 2017, your Film is Eligible to be included in our program, as an Official Selection. Official Selections will be Announced on September 3rd, 2018. The Final Day For Subm...
Films we curate for festivals Check our selection of 'Best for Fests' documentaries. "Ones to Watch for fests' by filmfestivals.com". LIVING IN THE FUTURES PAST by Susan Kucera, produced and presented by Jeff Bridges. USA
EDN - European Documentary Network is seeking a new director to head Europe's largest documentary association, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. The new director should be a well-connected individual with a clear vision for the future of the documentary sector. The designated director will start working from early 2019 onwards, replacing Paul Pauwels who has been at the helm of the association since May 2013. Applications for this position are accepted until September 7, 2018. E...
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Sharkwater: Extinction by Rob Stewart - Canada 2018 90 minutes
Rob Stewart “Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth. And that, above all else, is worth fighting for”
Watch Rob Stewart doing what he loved most of all, swimming with sharks, in exclusive footage from his third film,
Sharkwater: Extinction.
The soundtrack "Child of the Water" is a tribute to Rob, written and recorded by the ethereal Chantal Kreviazuk.
Sharkwater: Extinction, scheduled to release in October 2018, is a follow up to his first two award-winning films,
Sharkwater and Revolution. Sharkwater exposed the devastating issue of shark finning, while Revolution brought
the destructive effects of Ocean Acidification to light.
Rob taught the world to not fear sharks, through his iconic images of hugging these majestic creatures and free diving with them.
TAIPEI by Jason Lester Romance under influence - USA, first feature film 96 minutes
"Think Romeo and Juliet meets Trainspotting" - Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin
Taipei is an adaptation of Tao Lin’s critically-acclaimed, cult favorite novel of the same name.
Two young New York writers fall in and out of love amidst a whirlwind of drugs, parties, technology, and travel. As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their new romance in an epic laptop-filmed “documentary”, the couple enter into a performative bad romance, fueled by substances and sleepless nights. Tracking the pair through a shotgun Niagara Falls wedding, an LSD trip in a New Jersey mansion, and to Taiwan, the country of Paul’s birth where the couple comes to confront their individual alienation, Taipei is a visually stunning, extremely contemporary portrayal of what it means to be young, alive, and in love in a digital world.
Taipei won 2018 Bronze Palm Award at The Mexico International Film Festival The Mexico International Film Festival and Awards has become an important awards event within the film industry and a centerpiece for promoting and growing the thriving arts and culture community of Mexico. Founded on the premise that the language of film is universal and a dynamic force in bridging cultural understanding, the event celebrates and recognizes the very best of international inde...
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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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Denial[1] de Mick Jackson (Le procès du siècle, 2017) invite, comme d’autres avant lui, à se poser une question : quelle contribution le cinéma peut-il faire à l’histoire, comment contribue-t-il à forger l’histoire elle-même, c’est-à-dire, à porter un regard sur elle[2] ? Le film se base sur un fait historique : le procès qu’intenta David Irving (Timothy Spall), écrivain bri...
Lion d’Or à la Mostra de Venise en 1988, le film d’Ermanno Olmi, La Légende du saint buveur est comme un astre errant dans l’histoire du cinéma. Le film est l’adaptation d’une nouvelle de Joseph Roth (1894-1939), un auteur qui lutta contre la pauvreté, la maladie et l’alcoolisme au moment même où il composa sa nouvelle. Le réalisateur, déjà célèbre pour L’albero degli zoccoli ...
On l’a entrevu chez Wenders dans Paris, Texas, le désert est omniprésent chez Gerry de Gus Van Sant, le désert est celui de tous les combats « intérieurs », spirituels et moraux, le lieu de l’errance par excellence. Le désert est aussi celui des espaces isolés, des banlieues déshéritées, des campagnes désertées où les repères disparaissent dans la nuit du monde. Mais les...
Dans Il Gattopardo (Le Guépard) de Luchino Visconti (1963), le prince Fabrizio Corbera de Salina (Burt Lancaster) dialogue avec le Père Pirrone, son chapelain. Pas moins de cinq scénaristes ont travaillé sur le film. – (Le prince) J’ai fait d’importantes découvertes politiques. Savez-vous ce qui se passe dans notre pays, mon Père ? Rien, il ne se passe rien. Rien qu’un petit ballet de classes presque immobiles. La classe m...
Les films qui ont une densité spirituelle évidente mettent souvent en scène le voyage, l’itinéraire initiatique, mais aussi la souffrance qu’implique de quitter sa terre, ses racines, son pays, son existence. On se rend compte, avec Les raisins de la colère que la modernité a constitué le terreau indispensable de la modernité liquide (Zygmunt Baumann). Le film est en effet réalisé en 1940, bien avant que la phi...
À l'occasion des 10 ans de la création de l'ICAU et de la première loi sur le cinéma en Uruguay, le festival rend hommage en 10 films à la créativité de ses cinéastes • EL CÍRCULO - José Pedro Charlo et Aldo Garay, 2008 • EL HOMBRE NUEVO - Aldo Garay...
Doc Circuit Montréal (DCM) est fier d’annoncer la 8e édition du Premier Pitch. L’événement permet à un groupe de réalisateurs québécois émergents de rencontrer et de tisser des liens avec des producteurs établis de l’industrie documentaire du Québec. Ces deux journées de formation intensive et de pitch se tiendront les 3 et 10 octobre 2018. ● ...
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C'est avec grand plaisir que la European Film Academy et EFA Productions révèlent la liste des 49 films de fiction proposés pour une nomination aux European Film Awards 2018 ! Avec 38 pays européens représentés, la liste témoigne, une fois de plus, de la grande diversité du cinéma européen. Parmi les 20 pays qui totalisent le plus de membres EFA, ces membres ont désigné un film...
C’est un bilan extrêmement positif que les organisateurs de Présence autochtone tirent de la dernière édition, la vingt-huitième en autant d’années, du festival multidisciplinaire consacré aux arts autochtones des Amériques et du monde. Le nombre important de long métrages présentés, dix-neuf au total, dont la moitié est la réalisation d’un cinéaste autochtone, donne la mesure de...
Le 44e Festival de Deauville se déroulera du 31 août au 9 septembre Le Film d ouverture du festival (samedi 1er septembre,) sera Friday’s Child de A.J. Edwards La compétition se poursuivra avec American Animals de Bart Layton (ACE) Nancy de Christina Choe (e-cinema) Puzzle de Marc Turtletaub (Bac Films) Diane de Kent Jones (Visit) The Tale de Jennifer Fox (HBO&OCS) Night Comes On de Jordana Spiro (Condor)...
le Samedi 10 Novembre 2018 - durée 01:45 Auditorium Jean Claude Brialy à LA BAULE Compositeur de génie et célèbre pour sa fidèle complicité avec Luc Besson, Éric Serra est expert pour sublimer en musique les films qui ont marqué les esprits sur plusieurs générations. La première référence à laquelle on pense lorsqu’on cite Éric Serra, c’est LA musique du...
Le 5ème festival du Cinéma & Musique de Film La 5ème édition du Festival du Cinéma et Musique de Film de La Baule aura lieu du 6 au 11 novembre 2018 et aura pour thème cette année : « la mer ». Il mettra à l'honneur La grande bleue ou plutôt "Le Grand Bleu", puisque cette année correspond au 30ème anniversaire du mythique film de Luc Besson. Autour de l'hommage qui sera rendu ...
La famille ! Pour son 40e anniversaire, le Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier célébre le partage, le dialogue et l’amitié. Quelle...
125 ŒUVRES CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUES DE 20 PAYS PRÉSENTÉES EN PREMIÈRE MONDIALE, NORD-AMÉRICAINE ET GASPÉSIENNE, UNE TRENTAINE D’ÉVÉNEMENTS SPÉCIAUX ET PLUS DE 90 INVITÉS LANCERONT LES CÉLÉBRATIONS DU 10e FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINÉMA LES PERCÉIDES QUI SE DÉROULERA DU 16 AU 26 AOÛT EN GASPÉSIE! C’est en présence du talentueux réalisateur et sc...
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