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Highlights and Previews from the Festival Circuit Volume 741 - Filmfestivals.com
Wishing you all much success on the festival circuit!
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Deadline October 28
CINEFANTASY International Short Film Screenwriting Competition 2016 organized by ICFT and IFFAM 2016 OPEN for online submission via www.cineytp.com from September 30 until October 28. You will have a chance to meet closely influential film professionals and investors, win a trip to 1st International Film Festival & Awards Macau (IFFAM, December 8-13, 2016), cash prizes and even more surprises! It is a good opportunity for young filmmakers and screenwriters to show their talents on an international platform and connect directly with young talents from other countries!
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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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New York Festivals
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
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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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Donostia / San Sebastián 2016 European Capital of Culture 2016 Audience Award ...
The film Theater of Life has landed the Tokyo Gohan Award 2016. The San Sebastian Festival’s Culinary Zinema section accolade comes with prize money of €10,000 for the international distributor of the film or, failing this picture, for the producer. A jury appointed by the Japanese companies STYLEJAM and Pictures dept. co. ltd. chose the film directed by Peter Svatek, explaining the Refettorio Ambrosiano experience. Ch...
The Jury of the 15th International Film Students Meeting, consisting of students from centres in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and United Kingdom; chaired by the João Pedro Rodrigues has decided to grant the following awards: Panavision Award The 2016 Panavision award goes to a flm with cheek. It has a strong take on human desir...
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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ZeLIG is a cooperative founded in 1988 with the aim of providing education and training in the audiovisual production sector. Since its foundation, ZeLIG has kept pace with all the great many changes in the world of audiovisuals, and time and time again has been able to successfully interpret those developments and incorporate them while being ever faithful to the ZeLIG mission: “Multicultural professional training in filmmaking, digital media and television.” ZeLIG’s fo...
OPENING FILM OF THE VIENNALE 2016 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA | Director Kenneth Lonergan, Guest of the Festival MANCHESTER BY THE SEA by the American director and scriptwriter Kenneth Lonergan will be screened in Vienna’s Gartenbaukino on October 20 and marks the beginning of the festival. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Matthew Broderick and Lucas Hedges, the film caused a stir at this year’s Sundance, Telluride and Toronto film festivals and is meanwhile regarded a...
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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...
Last summer, leading Rotterdam arts institutions International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Kunsthal Rotterdam and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presented a multidisciplinary programme featuring exceptional films and exhibitions by internationally renowned artists in and around Rotterdam’s Museumpark. With a total of almost 125,000 visits the forecasts were more than exceeded, meaning that this pilot edition of Rotterdam Xpanded can justly be called a success. From 18...
Personal Artistic Expression through the medium of Film 2016 Selecction Expedition Sweden / Sweden / Jimmy Sundin and Linus Adolfsson LOSERS / Bulgaria / Ivaylo Hristov KUNG FURY / SWEDEN / David Sandberg Paranoid Girls / Spain / Pedro del santo MOUSSE / Sweden / John Hellberg DOVNQSNOAN / Sweden / John Manceau How to build a Terrarium / Czech Republic /Emma Piper-Burket SAD LAMP / Sweden / Emilia Bostedt Me...
Shriekfest Film Festival OFFICIAL TRAILER: 52 FILMS * 4 DAYS/NIGHTS OCTOBER 6-9TH, 2016 SHRIEKFEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR/SCI FI FILM FESTIVAL is thrilled to share the OFFICIAL TRAILER of the festival featuring clips from many of the selected films. The SWEET SIXTEENTH annual horror film festival, returns to Raleigh Studios Chaplin theatres from October 6-9th, 2016. Festival Director Denise Gossett says "I am absolutely thrilled with the selection this year, we have alr...
EFFA 2016 officially launches in Melbourne this Thursday at ACMI. And if you havn't checked out our Melbourne program check it out here. ...
For all Fantasy Film Fans and Young Filmmakers/Screenwriters between 18 and 36 years old! Organized by International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT) located at UNESCO HQs, the Competition is a Young Talents Project for short fantasy film scenario dedicated to discovering and supporting writing talents. You will have a chance to meet closely influential film professionals and investors, win a trip to 1st International Film Festival & Awards...
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) will hold a press conference on Monday, September 26 to announce the full lineup of the main sections and related special events of the 29th edition. We cordially invite you to join us at Toranomon Hills as we announce the 29th TIFF Official Selections. The 29th TIFF will be held October 25 – November 3, 2016, at Roppongi Hills, EX Theater Roppongi and other venues in Tokyo. Guest Yu Aoi – star, Japanese Girls Never...
BIBIANA VELEZ IS THE ARTIST WHOM BOGOTA FILM FESTIVAL HAS INVITED TO MAKE THE IMAGE IN HIS 33 RD EDITION. BIBIANA HAS TAKEN THE WAVE AS A METAPHOR OF THE WAY CINEMA ENVELOPS THE VIEWER. POSTER PRESENTATION WAS CONDUCTED LAST NIGHT IN THE GREAT SERVIENTREGA HEADQUARTERS TO A GROUP OF PERSONALITIES AND JOURNALISTS. THE FESTIVAL POSTERS ARE, BY TRADITION, COLLECTIBLES. THEY CONDUCTED IMAGE GRAU, NADIN OSPINA, MANZUR, RAMIREZ VILLAMIZAR, SANDRO CHIA, ANTONIO SEGUI,...
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Marco Mueller, the former head of the Locarno, Venice and Rome film festivals, (recently consulting for this year’s Beijing International Film Festival, and the Silk Road International Film Festival) has been appointed director of the inaugural Macau International Film Festival (Dec 8-13). Hosted by the government of Macau and the Macau Film & Television Productions and Culture Association, the new festival will be held at the Macau Cultural Centre, the Macau Science Centre and &nbs...
Two special guests, American filmmaker Abel Ferrara and Ucranian documentary maker Sergei Loznitsa will travel to Santiago de Compostela during the next edition of Curtocircuíto. Internationally renowned, both will visit the festival after the likes of Cannes, Venice or Berlinale. Abel Ferrara will visit Curtocircuíto as a programmer, curating a special program featuring some of the essential movies in his training as filmmaker....
Eleven top-notch films compete for the Golden Puffin The Cannes awarded The Aquatic Effect by the late ms. Sólveig Anspach will be the 13th Reykjavík International Film Festival’s opening film on Thursday September 29 . Among other films at the festival this year are the critically acclaimed The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon, Mister Universo by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, nominated at Locarno earlier this year and the 2016 Golden Berlin ...
The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is pleased to announce that Academy Award-winner® Nicole Kidman & Dev Patel will discuss their careers and current feature LION, this year’s American Express Gala. Eminent South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, whose film THE HANDMAIDEN is this year’s Dare Gala, also join the Screen Talk series. Previously announced Screen Talk participants are Werner Herzog, Paul Verhoeven and Ben Wheatley...
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Fort d'une expérience acquise dans la distribution de films pour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark.eting et le digital.
FOREVER ALIVE IN MEMORIAM KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI (1941-1996) LA RÉTROSPECTIVE KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI 75/20 Vendredi 30 Septembre - Mercredi 5 Octobre 2016 Urania Kino, Vienne Présidente d'honneur: Magdalena Sroka, directrice de l'Institut du Film Polonais/PISF à Varsovie. Il est décédé il y a 20 ans, le 13 mars 1996, d'un infractus lors d'une opération cardiaque. Cette ann&eacu...
J-8 Avant l'ouverture officielle du Festival des Cinémas Différents aux voûtes (Paris 13e), nous vous donnons rendez-vous du 4 au 10 octobre pour 7 événements hors-les-murs organisés au sein de lieux parte...
Découvrez l’affiche et la composition du jury (présidé par Omar Sy) du prochain et 20e Festival International du Film de Comédie de l'Alpe d'Huez (17 au 22 Janvier 2017). « Je suis honoré & fier d'être le Président du Jury du Festival de l'Alpe d'Huez que j'affectionne tout particulièrement. Encore plus cette année car nous fêterons ensemble son 20e anniversaire ! Fest...
L association Son et Image, organisatrice du festival Les Ecrans Documentaires, vient d'apprendre la baisse de 60% de sa subvention régionale pour 2016, mettant en péril notre manifestation, en milieu d'année, alors que nous n'avions nullement connaissance des décisions budgétaires souhaitées par la nouvelle majorité régionale. Un vrai coup de poignard dans le dos pour une petite association comme l...
Du 28 septembre au 2 octobre 2016, Dinard, la ville la plus british de Bretagne, célèbrera la 27e édition de son Festival du film britannique. Pendant 5 jours, la cité emblématique de la Côte d’Emeraude présentera au public et aux professionnels 6 films en compétition, de nombreuses avant-premières, des rétrospectives, des séances spéciales, des rencontres, Masterclasses, et rendra hommage à de gran...
Le Petit Studio organise la douzième édition du festival Faire un film en 48h de Paris et, est heureux de vous annoncer la composition du jury : Président du jury : Patrice Leconte Célèbre réalisateur français, c’est avec enthousiasme qu’il a accepté de présider cette 12ème édition, curieux de découvrir la créativité et la productivité d...
Le jury réuni autour de son Président Charles Nemes -scénariste, le jury composé de Nicolas Vannier - Producteur ; Pierre Loup Rajot - producteur / réalisateur / acteur ; Jean-Louis Langlois - producteur ; Danielle Michel-Chich - journaliste / écrivaine ; Christine Meignien - présidente de Sésame Autisme ; Pascal Duquenne – acteur a attribué : P &nb...
Du 22 au 25 septembre 2016, Pont-à-Mousson (54) a accueilli la 2e édition du festival « Des Notes et Des Toiles », manifestation mariant cinéma et musique de films. Lors du palmarès, le jury présidé par la comédienne Firmine Richard, et composé d'Audrey Bastien (comédienne), Julie Durand (comédienne et réalisatrice), Lina Lamara (chanteuse et comédienne), Grégoire Hetzel (compos...
Lors du festival International du Film d'Oldenburg en Allemagne, la European Film Academy a annoncé les films nominés pour le prix DÉCOUVERTE EUROPÉENNE - Prix FIPRESCI, décerné chaque année en coopération avec la Fédération Internationale des critiques à un jeune et prometteur réalisateur d’un premier long métrage. Les nominations ont été désignées cette...
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