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Highlights and Previews from the Festival Circuit Volume 732 - Filmfestivals.com
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August 18th - 21st, 2016.
Montreal International Animation Film Festival screen animation features, shorts and experimental film. Industry conferences, panels and international co-productions will be facilitated. Workshops on the state of the art(s). Public film festival screening, panels and educational platform for children. A student film contest challenge from all graduate level animation film schools across the province of Quebec and Canada.
We are happy to announce a brand new edition festival and industry conference August 18th - 21st 2016.
Exciting new films, original programming and industry conferences are currently being developed and scheduled.
Animaze has announced its industry conference schedule for the upcoming edition on August 18-21. The Animaze industry conference is a four-day gathering bringing together animation studios, distributors, vendors, tech startups and developers. Our roster of speakers includes industry leaders such as Clive Smith, Athena Georgaklis, Marie-Claude Beauchamp, Pascal Pelletier and more. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of hit PBS series Arthur, key figures from the show will talk ...
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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology.
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.
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General Submission: June 1st - August 31, 2016
Late Submission: September 1st, 2016+ (acceptance at the Festival's sole discretion)
Official Line Up Announced: December 1st, 2016
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Celebrating world-class horror films and the filmmakers who terrify, disgust, and disturb us.
Submission: June 1st - August 31st, 2016 (Submission Fee - $25)
Official selections will be announced September 13th, 2016
Official competition dates: October 1st - 23rd, 2016
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Join us September 23 to October 2, 2016 when over 100,000 film lovers in over 250 cities gather in Cinemas, Museums and Universities for one purpose...to view and vote on the Finalist's Films in the 19th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.
MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites. If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, MANHATTAN SHORT offers the ultimate platform -- one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Kathmandu, Vienna, Cape Town to all fifty states of the United States and beyond --
Deadlines: Regular Deadline July 31, 2016
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The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has landed one of the first screenings of Oliver Stone’s latest film “Snowden,” announcing today that the much anticipated film will have a gala premiere screening in Zurich on Saturday, September 24th. The announcement was made by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht. Three-time Academy Award® winner Oliver Stone has become a familiar face at the Zurich Film Festival, now in its 12th edition...
Women for Justice is on film tour in Kurdistan / North-Iraq. The film has been given pro bono to all women´s and human rights organisations to support their work. .
Out of Competition Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the FestivalAll sections » 1 | 2 | BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI - OUR WAR Italy, USA, 68’ (documentary) KASPER COLLIN - I CALLED HIM MORGAN Sweden, USA, 91' (documentary) ANDREW DOMINIK - ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D) Great Britain, 112’ Nick Cave PHI...
André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes will open the 40thedition of the Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced. The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventé (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) andCoteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the fil...
The 12th annual HollyShorts Film Festival sponsored by BITPIX will open with alumni and festival Jury member Kenneth Kokin’s directorial debut BLOOD MOON written by Oscar Nominated Nicholas Kazan and produced by Tim Williams (In The Bedroom). The feature film stars Maya Kazan (The Knick), Frank Medrano (The Shawshank Redemption) and James Callis (Battle Star Galactica, Bridget Jones’s Diary). The innovative score was composed by Joe Kraemer (Missi...
Held from June 22-25 at Lincoln Center and from July 6-9 at the School of Visual Arts theater the 15th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival presented 51 feature films in sold out screenings of which more than half were New York City premiers. The festival has certainly come a long way from its beginnings in a small theater in Chinatown, its passage through the Anthology Film Archives barely holding about 180 people to the much larger Walter Reade venue at Lincoln center w...
The first slate of films and Industry Programming for TIFF 2016 is announced! The seven-day conference launches with candid discussions on what impact Brexit will have on the industry, and will explore opportunities for the inclu...
Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the section embodying one of a film festival's core missions: to discover new filmmakers, or in other words, new ways of thinking, understanding and making cinema. The Director of the San Seb...
The Concorso Cineasti del presente will open with a film that is unique in its protagonists and for the concept that is the basis for the project. I Had Nowhere To Go by the filmmaker and video artist Douglas Gordon is based on Jonas Mekas's diary. “I Had Nowhere To Go is his story of exile; brought on by the horrors of the twentieth century, propelled by the need to create rather than destroy, to move on, to make sense... or not, where bewilderment is more h...
6 Polish films in post-production in Locarno OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) by Jan P. Matuszyński For its sixth edition, the Festival del film Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema. Thanks to a partnership with the Polish Film Institute and Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne, this year's First Look will present 6 films in post-production chosen by the Festiv...
One region, four countries, twenty-one films, and a world premiere. This is the Open Doors Screenings 2016, a platform for talent of contemporary cinema in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal. For Open Doors to extend its purview to exciting developments in young national cinemas, such as those of southern Asia, is nothing new. But a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings certainly is. This is the case with Hema Hema: Sing ...
The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016 alone worth a trip to the LIdo this year. Alex Deleone <filmfestivals.com> director Roberto Andò to chair the Jury composed of cinema students restored films and documentaries in world premiere screenings Italian director Roberto Andò (The Confessions, Long Live Freedom, The Prince’s Manuscript) will chair the Jury of Cinema History Students whi...
THE 60TH BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL TO PRESENT THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF QUEEN OF KATWE Madina Nalwanga and Lupita Nyong’o as Phiona and Harriet Mutesi in ‘Queen of Katwe’, Walt Disney Studios The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is delighted to announce that QUEEN OF KATWE will receive its European Premiere on Sunday 9 October at the Odeon Leicester Square, screening in the Festival’s prestigious headline gala section. Th...
The Argentine Film Festival, London is proud to announce that the festival will open its fifth edition this August with Pablo Trapero’s THE CLAN (El clan), the true-crime story of the seemingly respectable Puccio family in Argentina who in the early 1980s ran a lucrative family business kidnapping their wealthy neighbours for ransom. The film will receive its London premiere on Thursday 18th August at Curzon Soho and will be attended by director Pablo Trapero. THE CLAN is ...
"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition Share on Facebook
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Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family - 105 minutes - United Arab Emirates, USA
World premiere in Cannes
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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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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By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016 The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Night Premiere of SPA NIGHT, directed by Andrew Ahn was held at Asia Society, New York, Thursday, July 21, 2016. A special Q&A session with director Ahn and lead actor Joe Seo moderated by festival programs manager Haisong Li, AAIFF, immediately followed. Questions posed to Ahn and Seo by Li and the audience included: "What message did you wanted to deliver by makin...
By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016 The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Press Conference was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Wednesday, July 20, 1PM. Presented by Asian CineVision (ACV), executive director John C. Woo, the event highlighted this year’s ten day (July 21-30) celebration of diversity in cast and themes by emerging and established Asian and Asian American filmmakers from 18 countries includes TOTO, directed ...
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The 73rd Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will run at Venice Lido from August 31st to September 10th, 2016, directed by Alberto Barbera. The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a con...
The 17th Annual TromaDance Announces Prestigious Lineup for the 2016 Panel!!! ________________________________ "GETTING YOUR MOVIE MADE IN THE AGE OF THE P.C. POLICE" _________________________________ LLOYD AND PATRICIA KAUFMAN TO MODERATE THE PANEL OF INDEPENDENT ART EXPERTS: Henry Zebrowski- (NBC's Heroes Reborn, ...
The 29th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is pleased to announce two special showcases, a special selection of American Classics from UCLA Film & Television Archive, and another on Indonesian Cinema as the focus of the CROSSCUT ASIA section. These two are in addition to the previously announced focus on two iconic Japanese directors, Mamoru HOSODA and Shinji IWAI, and the world premiere of Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016, the first of the Asian omnibus film series being made in collabor...
The line-up for the 12th annual Rural Route Film Festival is up! Screenings will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens w/an Opening Night Screening Party at Brooklyn Grange’s flagship rooftop farm just down the street on Northern Blvd. in Long Island City w/after-party at COFFEED below. This year’s festival is centered around stories of brave youth and their animal friends. The line-up includes a mix of new movies and all-time classics, ...
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THE 40th MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL will run August 25-September 5, 2016 Since its founding 40 years ago, the Montreal World Film Festival continues to offer film lovers and professionals a rich program based on cultural quality and diversity, innovation, independence and creativity. The success and international reputation of the Montreal World Film Festival are firmly linked to these principles and goals. The World Film Festival is the only competitive film event in ...
The star of the opening ceremony of Hungary`s leading IFF, the 13th Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival will be Juliette Binoche. The festival starts with the screening of the masterpiece Three Colors: Blue on the 9th of September. The legendary French actress will receive a special award and the festival`s CineClassics program is going to remember the director of the film, Krzysztof Kieslowski, who passed away 20 years ago. By now, the Miskolc IFF has become one of...
Roger Corman will be paid tribute during the 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno via screenings of two of his films. Guest of honor at the Filmmakers Academy, the training project for young directors, Corman has long been considered a cult filmmaker who helped change the way films are conceived, produced and directed. As director and screenwriter he made a long series of films whose low-budget model combined principles of quality and popular appeal in unprec...
© Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky Filmmaker, writer, poet and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky will be awarded with a Pardo d’onore Swisscom at the 69th Festival del film Locarno. In addition to a selection of his films and the award ceremony on the Piazza Grande, Jodorowsky will also participate in a conversation open to all festival-goers. As son of Russian immigrants exiled in Chile, Alejandro Jodorowsky began his artistic career as a puppeteer, poet and thea...
John Zois has joined prolific independent entertainment studio IM Global as the Senior Vice President, Acquisitions, it was announced today by company founder and CEO Stuart Ford. Zois will report to Ford, and work alongside JR Smith, the company’s Director of Acquisitions. Zois was most recently the Director of Worldwide Acquisitions for EuropaCorp, where he worked on acquiring films for distribution in the U.S. as well as for France and around the world. While there Zo...
by Alex Deleon British actress Jacqueline Bissett, 72, was the special guest this year at the 13th Golden Apricot film festival in Yerevan and three of her early films were screened. Viewed here as part of the Jacqueline Bissett tribute, "Murder on the Orient Express" (Sidney Lumet, 1974) is so bad it looks like a dress rehearsal for a film that never got made. If the Agatha Christie novel had suspense and snappy dialogue Lumet's film has neither. No susp...
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The winners and runners-up of the 2016 Script Pipeline Screenwriting and TV Writing Competitions were announced Saturday, July 23rd and awarded over $35,000. The private event in Los Angeles connected top industry execs and the finalists, as well as other recent Script Pipeline writers. Australia-based writing team Penelope Chai and Matteo Bernardini won the Grand Prize for screenwriting with the adventure/fantasy Cinderella Must Die. Runner-up: The Coat, a thriller by Ross Saxon. ...
The Festival del film Locarno launches the first European Casting Director Award, in partnership with the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN). The ICDN, founded in 2005 in the context of the European Shooting Stars (EFP) at the Berlinale, is the first association to focus on casting directors on a worldwide scale. The ICDN seeks to improve the standards of the profession, to help shape film policy and processes, to pro...
© Photo by Marco Rossi – Courtesy S. Ferragina The 69th edition of the Festival del film Locarno will pay tribute to the dearly beloved Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli who this year celebrates her 55 years' career and her “70th springtime”. She will receive the Leopard Club Award 2016 on the Piazza Grande, on Friday, August 5. A key player in the great era of Italian cinema, an...
THE AWARDS of the 14. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signs of the Night / Signes de Nuit) Saarbrücken, Germany MAIN AWARD FERRIS WHEE...
13th YEREVAN GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL GAIFF By Alex Deleon The thirteenth edition of the Yerevan Golden Apricot Film Festival (GAIFF) concluded officially on Saturday July 17 with a gala awards ceremony in the massive Moskva Kinotheater on Charles Aznavour Plaza and a screening of "The Unknown Girl", the latest offering from, the Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, of Belgium. Major Awards International Feature competitio...
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Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada | You have the Script We have a way to get it to the Screen. Learn how it’s done from the Script to Screen Summit Crew: Miranda Bailey, Producer, Cold Iron Pictures: Actor, writer, director, and ...
Dear FilmFestival buyers and distributors, In the last month or so, we’ve attended both The Festival de Cannes and The LA Film Festival and the response to Festpicks has been overwhelming. I’d like to take this time to thank those who gave invaluable feedback to us and to invite those we didn’t get to personally, to email us for more information. Here are some answers to the questions asked: What is Festpicks? A new streaming site designed for film...
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LE 8E FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA LES PERCÉIDES EN GASPÉSIE ANNONCE LES MEMBRES DU JURY DE SON ÉDITION 2016 : CHARLES TESSON, PRÉSIDENT DU JURY ET DIRECTEUR ARTISTIQUE DE LA SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE DU FESTIVAL DE CANNES ; GUY ÉDOIN, CINÉASTE QUÉBÉCOIS ET MARTINE FORTIN, COMÉDIENNE, RÉALISATRICE ET PRODUCTRICE DE PERCÉ. PERCÉ, LE 26 JUILLET 2016 – Le Festival international de cinéma et d’art ...
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Invisible depuis plus de 50 ans - Pour la première fois en copie restaurée numérique AU CINÉMA LE 7 SEPTEMBRE 2016 • Naïs drame de Marcel Pagnol Avec Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin Scénario et dialogues : Marcel Pagnol d’après Emile Zola Réalisation : Raymond Leboursier supervisé par Marcel Pagnol Durée : 1 h 58. -1945 -noir et blanc Naïs, jeune paysanne provençale,...
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Chers amis, A l’issue de la 44ème édition du Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, nous sommes heureux et fiers de vous communiquer les chiffres suivants : au cours des 328 projections de 195 films (152 longs métrages et 43 courts), nous avons totalisé 80 862 entrées salles dont 60 388 entrées payantes. A cela s’ajoutent celles des rencontres publiques et professionnelles, les visites...
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