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Pictured: Bilal by Ayman Jamal Animation Day in Cannes opening film "Animation that Matters Accolade"
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5 pm - 5.45pm the UAE Pavilion Village International Riviera side N°136 Panel: Animation that Matters and Inspires Marie-Claude Beauchamp: President AQA, CEO Producer - CarpeDiem Film & TV, Ayman Jamal Director Producer from Barajoun Entertainment - Dubai Laurie Gordon Festival Director Montreal International Animation Film Festival Yonathan Parienti CEO Horyou 5.45 pm - 6.00 pm Afternoon Launch Platform Launch...
Bilal Ayman Jamal Best inspiring Movie Song of the Sea Tomm Moore Winner at European Film Awards Prize remitted by Marion Doeing and Jurgen Bissinger (EFA Le Repas Dominical Céline Devaux Winner at Cesar and Clermont Ferrand ...
Bilal Making of the battle scene Ayman Jamal presenting the epic battle scene The Shonku Diaries - A Unicorn Adventure Varsha Bansal APES (virtual reality project, 180º version) George Snow East End &n...
10.00 - 10.45 am Location: Salon La Renaissance VR, Immersive Experiences, Dome, VR: what’s the financial model? with Michel Reilhac, Melange VR expert, VR curator for Marché du Film Pavillon NEXT Laurie Gordon, Director of Montreal International Animation Film Festival (August 18 -21, 2016) Ana Serano, CFC X Media Lab & think tank George Snow VR Artist inroducing APES in Cannes ...
Cocopa Giorgio Martignoni A Whisker Past Midnight Andrew Garrett Local Sugar Andrew Garrett ...
The film tells the story of a group of children of the East End neighborhood in the outskirts of Rome, who wanted to watch for free the Lazio-Roma derby and hijack a military super secret satellite: Olimpico that the United States is using in the hunt for the most dangerous terrorist in the world, the notorious Al Zabir Muffat. While the protagonists of world politics manage the strategic crisis caused by the disappearance of the satellite, children, oblivious to ever...
FEVER (unreleased) Genre: Thriller Fever, starring Gemma Atkinson, is an upcoming sensuous, suspense thriller entirely shot in Switzerland. An Indian film with high production values and stunning locales, it tells the story of an assassin who takes on the identity of a writer to escape the law. Gemma Atkinson (of Christiano Ranaldo fame) and Catarina Murino (of James Bond’s Casino Royale fame) are the two beautiful and mysterious women in his life intrigue. This taut, ...
FOUNDING PARTNERS Filmfestivals.com Animazefestival.com Musivision Films INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS SACD Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques www.sacd.fr AQA Alliance Quebec Animation NEF Animation http://nefanimation.fr/anglais/ NEF Animation is a francophone plateform for professionals dedicated to the writing of and about animated film. MEDIA PARTNERS www.awn.com Animation Worl...
Bill Plympton's Mockumentary HITLER'S FOLLY (To release digitally June 3) As a special thank you to his loyal fans, Plympton will make film available for free streaming via his website: www.plymptoons.com PLYMPTOONS has announced the US release date of Bill Plympton’s new feature mockumentary HITLER’S FOLLY, a merciless satire in which Ado...
It was a cocktail event to bring the industry together on the matter of using film to provoke ground breaking global action. By shining the light on world issues and telling the stories that are important to be heard, the reach of the film industry can be used as a powerful medium to create social change. The Oscar winning documentary, ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,’ directed by Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, is a brilliant example of this. It br...
Alex Deleon <film festivals.com> The final Cannes competition film on closing night Sunday May 22 was the latest offering from the best known Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, whose tense family drama, "A Separation" won the foreign language Academy Award in 2014. His new film, "Forushande" (The Salesman, or "The Client" in French) presented here in the official Competition section, is an extreme shaggy dog story that is not going to inspire anything but...
Day by day, the best moments of the 69th Cannes festival : Photocalls, press conferences, red carpet, exclusive interviews - ...
The Jury of the 69th Festival de Cannes, presided by George Miller, has revealed the names of the 2016 prize-winners during the Awards Ceremony. Laurent Lafitte welcomed the prize-givers and winners onto the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, to the sound of music playing. The American actor, Mel Gibson, had the honour of awarding the Palme d’or to the best of the 21 films in Competition. The French actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, received an ho...
Ken Loach's "I,Daniel Blake" at Cannes Courtesy of Festival de Cannes, used with permission I, Daniel Blake Moira Sullivan San Francisco Examiner May 23, 2016 Reprinted with permission Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” won the highest honor at Cannes May 22– the Palme d’Or for the "69th Festival de Cannes". The decision was ...
The Jury of the 69th Festival de Cannes, presided by George Miller, has revealed the names of the 2016 prize-winners during the Awards Ceremony. Laurent Lafitte welcomed the prize-givers and winners onto the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, to the sound of music playing. The American actor, Mel Gibson, had the honour of awarding the Palme d’or to the best of the 21 films in Competition. The French actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, received...
The second Animation Day in Cannes took place on May 18th at the Salon La Renaissance, the Palais des Festivals and the UAE pavilion at the Marche du film, putting for a second year animation on the map of Cannes screenings and events and generating audiences from the animation industry and beyond, along with animation cinephiles and festival professionals. The two panel discussions, one on Virtual Reality and the impact that it has in the animation world of filmmaking a...
The title of the film, which literally translates as "Sweets loaded with Pepper" suggests the trick that children would play on adults by handing them a delicious looking sweet bonbon which turns out to be bitter. When the French New Wave and so-called Cinema Verité movements were all the rage -- the age of Beatle mania --when Godard and his followers thought they were so much more clever and creative than the older generation of French filmmakers, and stars like Jean-Pa...
The Critics Jury in Cannes (France, May 11-22, 2016) presented three prizes: to a film in Competition; to a film in "Un Certain Regard"; and a third one for either the Critics Week or Directors' Fortnight. Prize, in Competition: "Toni Erdmann" by Maren Ade (Germany, 2016, 162 minutes). Motivation: "A film gorgeously crafted, made with a fresh and a sensitive approach, that captures the complex relationship between father and daughter and comments on the lunacy of ...
This marks a three percent increase on the 11,500 badge holders registered with the market arm of the Festival de Cannes in 2015, as well as a new attendance record for the world’s largest film industry gathering. There were significantly more Chinese badge holders this year (total 494 participants); with the number up 32 percent on 2015.There were also notable increases from Brazil which was up 39 percent (total 147 participants). Growth in numbers could also be seen across Asia and L...
You are cordially invited to attend the world premiere of our film in Cannes May 17. An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy® Screening in Cannes May 17 1.30 PM Les Arcades 1 May 17 6pm Olympia 2 Kindly confirm : marketing@enoctherresplendent.com Schedule your meeting in...
Actress Mahtab Keramati and Director of her New Film Hassan Akhondpour - Baher Her Mind ...
Discussing Strategy and toasting toi great creative ideas on animation treatment...with Avi Bohbot (Chaos Media) Laurie Gordon (Musivision Films) and Bruno Chatelin (Major Buzz Factory) I Spy My Father, a documentary film by Laurie Gordon, is a dialog from beyond between filmmaker researching her father to learn the truth about what she believes was his other life as a spy. Research is taking her to unknown territories, special ops, the UN knew Know - shhh secrets. Why what who where&hellip...
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Regular Deadline July 31st
Over 250 Cinemas Across 6 Continents Unite for One Week for One Film Festival. MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival’s Official Call for entries. Deadline July 31, 2016.
Filmmakers have until the end of July to get their films in if they wish to be part of the 19th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival set to take place in over 250 cinemas spanning 6 continents between Sept 23-Oct 2, 2016. Over 100,000 film lovers will not only view the finalists but will judge them as well with votes being sent through to NYC where the winner will be announced on Oct 2, 2016. Films must be 20 minutes under in length. – Click here to enter:
http://www.manhattanshort.com/film-entry.html
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Urbanworld Film Festival September 21 - 25, 2016
May 27 Late Deadline
Submissions for the 20th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, to be held September 21 - 25 2016 in NYC are OPEN!! The five-day festival includes narrative features, documentaries, short films, spotlight screenings and conversations, live staged screenplay readings, the Urbanworld Digital track focused on digital and social media, and Urbanworld Music, which highlights emerging talent in live performances during after party events. Go to urbanworld.org to submit today!
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The largest festival in South Texas, the 22nd San Antonio Film Festival garners extensive local media attention and rave reviews. Industry and community leaders champion the festival for its diverse and exciting program. SAFILM has a strong reputation for uncovering cinematic treasures every year with an amazing lineup of narrative, animation, documentary and experimental shorts and features. SAFILM works with the top local hotels for special rates for our guests.
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Regular Deadline: April 8, 2016
The 12th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival and Film Conference/Film Market, scheduled for August 11-20, 2016 at the world famous TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, is now accepting submissions. HSFF, 4 times named to MovieMaker Magazine “Top 25 Fests Worth the Entry Fee” lists, has featured over 400 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, and Felicia Day.
In 2015, HSFF awarded over $150,000 in prizes, including $60,000 in post services for Best Short, Director, Music Video, Cinematography, VFX, and Commercial, and $15,000 Grand Prize cash . www.hollyshorts.com
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May 15 Late deadline
In 2016, WoFF returns for its third edition with great energy and ideas, generated from a wonderful 2015 festival.
Our focus remains on independent cinema from all around the globe, by showcasing the work of first feature filmmakers and female directors in our two main sections, First Features and The Female Perspective, respectively.
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Montreal International Animation Film Festival FESTIVAL DATES June 2-5 2016 Montreal Canada Le MIAFF! is a people's film festival and industry conference dedicated to the art of animation for film and technology. All genres and forms are welcome. Awards & Prizes Software and other award prizes. Visibility in our travelling shows in Berlin, Cannes, Annecy, Glasgow and more. Check 2015 fantastic programming on the website.
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You are cordially invited to attend the world premiere of our film in Cannes May 17. An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy® Screening in Cannes May 17 1.30 PM Les Arcades 1 May 17 6pm Olympia 2 Kindly confirm : marketing@enoctherresplendent.com Schedule your meeting in...
Discussing Strategy and toasting toi great creative ideas on animation treatment...with Avi Bohbot (Chaos Media) Laurie Gordon (Musivision Films) and Bruno Chatelin (Major Buzz Factory) I Spy My Father, a documentary film by Laurie Gordon, is a dialog from beyond between filmmaker researching her father to learn the truth about what she believes was his other life as a spy. Research is taking her to unknown territories, special ops, the UN knew Know - shhh secrets. Why what who where&hellip...
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Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore
Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family - 105 minutes - United Arab Emirates, USA
World premiere of our film in Cannes May 17.
An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®
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10 year old Mo & 13 year old Melody seek the help of their father’s dear friend, scientist & explorer Professor Shonku to find their missing father left earlier on a quest in search of the unicorn. En route they experience fantastical exploits & adventures that take them into opulent depths of the Himalayas, which are aided by a trail of clues.
Feature film: 01:28:00
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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...
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.
Feature - Feel Good Movie - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest
Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again.
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The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced two events that will kick off the festival's satellite festivities in Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Thursday, June 16. The receptions will mark the festival's new partnership with Wine Enthusiast Magazine. As part of the partnership, Wine Enthusiast Magazine will host the two events and will serve as an overall media sponsor for the festival. "As enthusiastic as we are about presenting the best showcase of independ...
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced today the ten narratives selected for the 2016 IFP Filmmaker Labs, IFP’s annual yearlong fellowship for first-time feature directors. The creative teams of the selected films are currently attending the first week’s sessions – The Time Warner Foundation Completion Labs – taking place May 23-27th in New York City. The IFP Narrative Filmmaker Labs are the only labs that support first-time feature directors with pr...
As in past editions the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival continues to expand traditional film festival limits to embrace new areas as eagerly anticipated by its audience. Before the Berlin Film Festival incorporated innovative television in its program schedule several years ago, Tribeca had already shown in 2004 the last episode of the hit show Friends. This year it presented 16 television programs, ‘The Best of the Small Screen on the Big Screen’ incorporating series finales of HBO&rsq...
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Ayman Jamal talks to camera of EICAR - Ecran Total during Cannes: describing his ambitions on Bilal and future projects. ...
Bilal Making of the battle scene Ayman Jamal presenting the epic battle scene The Shonku Diaries - A Unicorn Adventure Varsha Bansal APES (virtual reality project, 180º version) George Snow East End...
European Cinema: MAKING WAVES DOWN UNDER WILD by Nicolette Krebitz (Germany) European Film Promotion has launched a new initiative. For the first time, EFP, the Sydney Film Festival and Variety have joined forces to initiate European Cinema: 10 Women Filmmakers to Watch presenting ten exceptional European women storytellers. All films come fresh from their premieres at A-list festivals around the globe, some of them having been in co...
Actress Mahtab Keramati and Director of her New Film Hassan Akhondpour - Baher Her Mind ...
10.00 - 10.45 am Location: Salon La Renaissance VR, Immersive Experiences, Dome, VR: what’s the financial model? with Michel Reilhac, Melange VR expert, VR curator for Marché du Film Pavillon NEXT Laurie Gordon, Director of Montreal International Animation Film Festival (August 18 -21, 2016) Ana Serano, CFC X Media Lab & think tank George Snow VR Artist inroducing APES in Cannes ...
Martin is a coordinator at Animation Day in Cannes since the first edition. ...
Ayman Jamal with Jonathan Wolf who runs AFM Ayman Speaking at the prestigious Film Finance Forum May 13 A few movie tickets...Red Carpet magic for Ayman Jamal Reginald de Guillebon, publisher of Film Français talking animation business at La Potinière hotspot for the magazine for the past 30 years? At least that is how many times I have seen Film Français in Cannes. Michel Abouchahla, publisher of Ecran Total, Ayman Jamal...
Great team, and a special Bravo to the very talented Florian Parisot who shot, filmed, and wore the Riders's costume: true one man band! ...
By Maria Esteves – May 18, 2016 The 2nd Annual Blockchain Technology Summit (Consensus NY 2016) commenced May 2-4, at the New York Marriott Marquis. Presented by CoinDesk in collaboration with Digital Currency Group, Consensus is an annual global conference where industry leaders from financial services, government, healthcare and supply chain management converge on the new Internet layer called Blockchain technology (decentralized database) and the world of digital currency. This yea...
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Films Painting a Portrait of our World Stuttgart, May 1, 2016 – The 23rd Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) ended with an awards ceremony on Sunday. This year, the programme has been even more extensive than in previous years, And while the number of festival partners has increased, the festival has remained true to its initial concept: to present a multifaceted programme of top-class animated films to guests from the international animation industry – and, ab...
The Academy of Canadians in Sports & Entertainment - Los Angeles (ACISE-LA) has officially announced the list of nominees for the 2016 Golden Maple Awards in the categories of Best Actor, Best Actress and Newcomer of the Year, in a TV Series Broadcasted in the US. Nominees are Canadian talent in TV series broadcasted in the US between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016. The nomination committee for the GMA was composed of ACISE-LA members. All members of ACISE-LA will be voting to el...
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La soirée des PRIX NUMIX 2016 s’est déroulée au Monument-National devant un parterre composé des principaux acteurs de l'industrie des médias numériques du Québec. Le Gala a été animé par l’humoriste Yannick de Martino, qui a su transporter joyeusement son public avec l’humour et le sarcasme qu’on lui connait dans «le monde merveilleux du numérique». Le GRAND PRIX NUMIX 2016 du Fonds des médias du Canada a été décerné cette...
William Friedkin © Pat York La Leçon de Cinéma du 69e Festival de Cannes sera donnée par le cinéaste américain William Friedkin. Après Martin Scorsese, Nanni Moretti, Wong Kar-wai, Quentin Tarantino, Marco Bellocchio ou encore Philip Kaufman et Jacques Audiard, il sera sur la scène de la salle Buñuel du Palais des Festivals pour dialoguer avec le public dans une rencontre animée par le critique Michel Ciment. ...
FOUNDING PARTNERS Filmfestivals.com Animazefestival.com Musivision Films INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS SACD Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques www.sacd.fr AQA Alliance Quebec Animation NEF Animation http://nefanimation.fr/anglais/ NEF Animation is a francophone plateform for professionals dedicated to the writing of and about animated film. MEDIA PARTNERS www.awn.com Animation Worl...
Bill Plympton's Mockumentary HITLER'S FOLLY (To release digitally June 3) As a special thank you to his loyal fans, Plympton will make film available for free streaming via his website: www.plymptoons.com PLYMPTOONS has announced the US release date of Bill Plympton’s new feature mockumentary HITLER’S FOLLY, a merciless satire in which Ado...
It was a cocktail event to bring the industry together on the matter of using film to provoke ground breaking global action. By shining the light on world issues and telling the stories that are important to be heard, the reach of the film industry can be used as a powerful medium to create social change. The Oscar winning documentary, ‘A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,’ directed by Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, is a brilliant example of this. It br...
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