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by ALEX DELEON There were many outstanding films at the 73rd Venice Film Festival this year but the awards on closing night, September 11, were as usual "iffy" to say the least. Venice has become known for good films and bad calls when it comes to dishing out the coveted Golden Lions at the end of the festival week. To start at the bottom the worst call of all was the Best Director Silver Bear award to Amat Escalante, for the Mexican porno-horror miscar...
by ALEX DELEON Just back from closing night on the Lido. Saturday, September 11 -- In terms of number of outstanding flms seen and personalities such as J.P. Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, and John Landis encountered up close, it was the best film festival I've winged thru in years. The closing awards watched on big screen in the Press Room was a noteworthy event in itself and I then caught a double header of prize winning flicks after that to close out the festival week. "L...
> TORONTO DAILIES
Visionary Quebecois auteur Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario) directs Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker in this sci-fi drama about the panic that follows a wave of mysterious spacecraft landings across the globe. ...
The Bollywood Renaissance man, industry titan, and multi-hyphenate (director-producer-actor-costume designer) joins us for a discussion about his blockbuster success as both a filmmaker and the mogul behind film-distribution dynasty Dharma Productions. ...
The Toronto International Film Festival® announced its award winners at a ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, hosted by Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. To watch the presentation, visit tiff.net/ceremony. The 41st Festival wraps up this evening. The short film awards below were selected by a jury comprised of American filmmaker Abteen Bagheri (That B.E.A.T.), French filmmaker Eva Hu...
by Leopoldo Soto. Carlos Saura, attendingn Toronto Fest. His recent work "J", dance on the Aragon... received 7 minutes of applause at the gala screening!!!! What a fine documentary, visual and musical aspects are top notch... Splendid...!!! in the photo with his daughter Anna and Leopoldo Soto. ...
dear toronto film festival...dear Piers I sincerely wish I could be with you tonight!... DENIS VILLENEUVE Ryan Gosling gets mischievous | TIFF 2016 ...
Actress Alison Wandzura will be lighting up the screen in the highly anticipated TV series Van Helsing. From the Producers of Emmy winning Fargo and Hell on Wheels, Van Helsing features Alison Wandzura as a key character in an apocalyptic vampire world. The new series premieres on September 23, 2016 at 10/9c on the SyFy network. Van Helsing is described as “a twist on the classic vampire adventure tale”. In Van Helsing, Alison’s charac...
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September 30, 2016 Regular Deadline
The first Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival will be held in Ramsgate with its stunning Royal Harbour, unique in England. It is run by the Ramsgate Film & TV Institute, which will also run a variety of screenings throughout the year to bring international independent cinema to local audiences.
President of the Festival is Brenda Blethyn (Secret & Lies, Vera,...), BAFTA, Globe and Cannes Best Actress Winner and Oscar Nominated. Brenda will also pick the winner of the First Feature Film Category.
The Festival focus is to show new works and help promote film makers. Screenings are complemented by a strong programme of quality events and seminars, with industry professionals of high reputation, who have already confirmed their attendance. Do check the website for more all news as they come.
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Regular deadline November 30, 2016
NYC Indie Film Festival honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Music Video, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Be part of the New York City Independent Film Festival! The 8th Annual NYC Indie Film Festival will take place May 2 - 7, 2017 and will present indie films from around the world, panels, live shows, parties, and more! NYCIndieFF celebrates the power of independent filmmaker and offers awards valued at over $12,000 USD. Submit your film today for your chance to win and join us in New York next spring! .
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The 2017 Television & Film Awards gala will take place at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th, 2017
Deadline October 15
The New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards honors the World’s Best TV and Films at its annual gala at NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 25th. Founded in 1957, NYF TV & Film Awards offers a powerhouse of categories including: 30 categories for documentaries and dozens of categories for news, drama and performers. New York Festivals welcomes network, studio, independent, and student productions of all lengths across all platforms. Late entries accepted until January 5th, 2017. For more information visit: http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/
NYF TV & Film Awards New Categories for 2017: Heroes, Ecotourism, and Best Use of Technology
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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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We encourage you to submit all your great films, both current and past. Great mountain and adventure films don't go out of style. Film Festival Flix is the intersection between filmmakers and film lovers, working to build the most complete Mountain & Adventure film library, so audiences can find and purchase every film they've heard about in the past 50+ years.
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
Winners Week: October 24th - 31st, 2016
Festival Home Page: http://filmfestivalflix.com/festival/halloween-horror-fest/#.V2MeeOYrKi5
Submission: http://filmfestivalflix.com/hhf-pages/film-submission/
Categories, Prizes & Benefits: http://filmfestivalflix.com/hhf-pages/prize-categories/ (under construction)
Submission Period: June 1st - August 31st
We encourage you to submit all your films, both current and past. Great films don't go out of style.
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EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE: OCTOBER 30TH, 2016!
Fantasporto’2017 | Oporto International Film Festival announces our Call for Film Entries for the 37th annual festival, running February 24th till March 4th.
This Call is for Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi features and shorts in the Fantasy competition. The Director’s Week is for features only, in all genres except fantasy.
Deadlines for Entries for 2017 edition are October 30th (Early Call) and December 5th (Final Call).
Films can be submitted now using the film submission website www.fantasporto.com
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 20,000 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 37th edition has the support of the Portuguese State.
Check the Regulations on the site www.fantasporto.com.
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V EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM BEST PROJECT AWARD 7:35 AM directed by Javier Van de Couter and produced by Varsovia Films (Argentina) SPECIAL MENTION TO THE PROYECT HOGAR directed by Maura Delpero and produced by dispàrte (Italy - Argentina) EFADs-CACI EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION GRANT ...
FILMS IN PROGRESS 30 INDUSTRY AWARD La educación del Rey (Rey's education) Santiago Esteves (Argentina) Escaping from his criminal baptism, Reynaldo Galíndez, alias &ldqu...
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The 14th Matsalu Nature Film Festival will be held in Estonia September 21-25, 2016! This festival is an annual nature film event. It is named after the nearby Matsalu National Park, one of Europe's largest bird sanctuaries and a wetland environment of global significance. The festival showcases a variety of new international films about nature, wildlife, expeditions, environment, sustainability, biodiversity, conservation - films that depict nature in...
Visionary Quebecois auteur Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario) directs Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker in this sci-fi drama about the panic that follows a wave of mysterious spacecraft landings across the globe. ...
The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® confirms the European Premiere of BEFORE THE FLOOD from filmmakers Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio, as a Special Presentation programme addition presented on Saturday 15 October at the Odeon Leicester Square. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and Academy Award-winning actor, environmental activist and U.N. Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio, BEFORE THE FLOOD is a riveting account of...
THAI FILM FESTIVAL IN MUMBAI & FILM INCENTIVES IN THAILAND by Ronita Torcato The Royal Thai Consulate- General in Mumbai and the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Tourism has organised a three day Film Festival at the Y.B. Chavan Center Nariman Point next week. Admission to the filmfest is on a first come first served basis and free of charge. Thail Consul-General Mr. Ekapol Poolpipat will formally inaugurate the festival &nbs...
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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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World of Film International Festival has announced full line-up and Schedule for the third edition of the festival, coming up September 29th to October 2 in Glasgow, Scotland. This year’s selection of feature and short films includes a variety of international entries across all three main festival sections - First Features and Short Film Competition, the Female Perspective Competition and the newly introduced Focus on Balkan Cinema. Highlights include Get Happy by Manoj An...
The 40th Anniversary of the Ottawa International Animation Festival is almost upon us! This September 21 - 25, 2016, the city of Ottawa will transform into the center of the animation universe. http://www.animationfestival.ca/ ...
Gearing up for the 46th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) with an ongoing focus on championing auteur films, celebrating innovative cinematic art and bringing this to a broad audience, festival director Bero Beyer presented the festival's renewed and reinforced team tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival. To optimize the support and services the festival offers to extraordinary film talent from around the world, IFFR is taking ...
The 14th edition of the Tofifest IFF will take place from 15th to 23rd October, in Torun ...
BATTLE OF IDEAS FESTIVAL Thought provoking debate This year's Battle of Ideas, at the Barbican in London on 22 & 23 October, is our 12th annual festival. Organised by The Institute of Ideas, the Battle has always managed to be wide-ranging, thought-provoking and wonderfully argumentative, but the festival has never seemed more important and urgent as this year's. From the Brexit vote to the rise of Trump across the pond, politics - and the future direction of soc...
Rather unusual, rather trapped on the border between dream and reality, silent film has for several years found affirmation at the PSSST! Silent Film Festival organised by the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre. PSSST! is a unique film festival presenting the art of silent film in a new, exciting and entertaining way. This Festival is a rare gem on the cultural scene which lacks initiatives offering artists the opportunity to try out their skills in this specific (and demanding!) art...
The 8th Annual MiFo LGBT Film Festival (www.mifofilm.com) kicks off its Fort Lauderdale edition on October 7, 2016, spanning two weekends, with seven days of film and events through October 16. MiFo is proud to present more than 50 films from throughout the world, guest appearances by actors, directors and producers, and a lineup of spectacular parties and events. The array of films includes features, documentaries, narratives and shorts. Rebranded in 2015 as &ld...
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) and the Japan Foundation Asia Center today unveiled the official poster and trailer of Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections, the first of the omnibus film series co-produced by the two organizations. The poster and trailer designs were created to evoke the title, signifying new points of light reflected from the mirrors of history and culture. The trailer is available at www.image.net/tiff2016_reflections_en Asian Three-Fold Mirror ...
WILLiFEST is back for its eighth season this Saturday with screenings all day. The Williamsburg International Film Festival's three day event launches with an invite-only Opening Night party on Friday, September 9th. Saturday brings a full day and night of screenings at returning partner Knitting Factory starting at 1:00pm with our famed Animation Program. An Industry Panel on the fascinating technology of Virtual Reality takes place at Videology Bar &...
Festival runs 20-25 September in Watershed, Bristo Catch the best new short and animated films from across the globe in Bristol. Encounters is the UK’s leading short film festival combining film screenings, special events, industry masterclasses and workshops in a jam packed programme of activity. The Encounters programme is bursting at the seams with a glorious selection of things to do, see, watch and experience. This year’s highlights include an Aardman Re...
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival, is excited to present NIGHTOWL, an interactive, multi-level rager in celebration of the Festival’s 40th Anniversary. On Saturday, September 24, 2016 the OIAF will take over 50 Sussex Drive for a night of music, food, sci-fi, art, animation, cosplay, robots and more! The party begins at 8PM with a free outdoor screening of Space Madness: DYI Sci-Fi. Presented by the NCC, ...
Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival Launched in Cannes Reproduced from Britflicks.com Fri, 03 Jun 2016 The 1st Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival, which will take place from 23 to 26 March 2017, officially launched at the Cannes Film Festival, supported by the Ramsgate Town Team. The fabulous Royal Harbour was featured on promotional material and the reception was amazing. Many people had never heard of Ramsgate and the prospect of a vaca...
Real Film Festival is back! The Real Film Festival is a three-day community, arts and Industry event showcasing documentaries, independent short and feature films based on true stories. The Program comprises of film screenings, Industry development workshops, panel discussions, networking events and film competitions for filmmakers of all ages and experience.
The Festival Program includes a variety of entertainment including the Opening Night Gala held at Tower Cinemas with a party to follow ...
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In recognition of a unique and dedicated contribution to the world of film, the European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting Jean-Claude Carrière with the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for his outstanding body of work. (picture: Roman Bonnefoy) The French novelist, screenwriter, and actor started out writing short novels based on the films of Jacques Tati. Through Tati he met Pierre Étaix with whom he made several films,...
CINEFEMME LAUNCHES DINNER WITH DAMES TO SPARK DIALOGUE ABOUT GENDER DISPARITY IN HOLLYWOOD Female-focused non-profit invites industry leaders to tackle diversity issues during meals with up and coming women filmmakers. Cinefemme today announced that Simon Barrett (Blair Witch, The Guest) will host its premiere Dinner with Dames on September 22, 2016. Dinner with Dames is a unique series of networking events that pairs show business veterans with emerging female filmmakers and...
CO-WRITER OF ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FILM GRAVITY WILL PRESENT DESIERTO IN-PERSON AT CLOSING NIGHT OF CINELATINO DENVER FILM SOCIETY ANNOUNCES JONÁS CUARÓN WILL ATTEND CLOSING NIGHT OF CINELATINO The Denver Film Society announced today that Jonás Cuarón, who co-wrote Gravity, with his father, Oscar winning Director, Alfonso Cuarón, will appear in-person to present his feature film, Desierto, on September 25 as the...
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National advisory body German Films launches major new initiative to showcase German cinema success German Films Service + Marketing, the national advisory centre for the promotion of German films worldwide, has launched a campaign to promote a new wave of German cinema achievements to international audiences and to showcase exceptional German talent worldwide. The initiative – entitled FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS - will spotlight six of the most influential German act...
3rd Annual Zurich Summit | September 24 - 25, 2016 | Zurich, Switzerland PROGRAM SPEAKERS JOIN The Zurich Summit is one of the leading platforms for the creative industries. Producers, start-ups, investors, tech minds and game changers gat...
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Le Jury de la 42e édition du Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville, présidé par Frédéric Mitterrand, entouré de Françoise Arnoul, Eric Elmosnino, Ana Girardot, Douglas Kennedy, Emmanuel Mouret, Radu Mihaileanu et Marjane Satrapi a décerné les prix suivants : GRAND PRIX BROOKLYN VILLAGE DE IRA SACHS PRIX DU JURY CAPTAIN FANTASTIC DE MATT RO...
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