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AWARDS
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Boxing Day wins Australian Directors Guild Award!
Mipcom announces Mobile TV Award Winners
Awards SITGES 07 - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya
Slamdance announces screenplay competition winners
Rithy Pan wins EFA Documentary Award
The planet wins at Vancouver
Vancouver International Film Festival Awards
Moondance audience awards winners
European Film Academy first Awards and nominations

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FESTIVAL NEWS
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Rome celebrates a Roman Holiday of Cinema
Northwest Film & Video Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival’s centerpiece and gala films
African-American Film Marketplace and Short Film Showcase
Big Screen Art Scene to launch at Bahamas fest
New Indian film at the Annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council
Miami Short Film Festival expands with new alliances
Bollywood at The Middle East International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi
Show Biz Japan! Sneak Peek ~ Film Screenings of Next-Generation Japanese Filmmakers~”, to spotlight
Tromadance Film Festival to expand in Franklin, Indiana
All you neeed to know on upcoming 17th FilmFestival Cottbus
The Munich Film School Fest Screens 2007's Best Student Films

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

Brittany Snow to accept the 'Rising Star' Award at Gasparilla Fest
Angelina Jolie will be honored at next Santa Barbara
FLIFF Begins Month-Long Movie Marathon
IFP tribute to Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York,
Celebrating emerging African American Women Filmmaker
Hawai Fest "Rising Star" honor to South Korean actor and singer Lee Jun-Ki

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THE NEWS " IN FRENCH " l'actu des festivals francophones
LA COUVERTURE DE CANNES SUR http://croisette.fest21.com

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Colco Coa vu par les distributeurs américains
Cinéma Tout Ecran se transforme pour sa 13me édition
Un festival de cinéma dédié à la comédie à Monaco
Cinéma Tout Ecran fait partie des 50 festivals sélectionnés par Variety
Free et le Blic et Bloc
Les Rencontres Internationales : Nouveau cinéma et art contemporain
Le peuple qui manque : Cycle de films
Une louve à Montreal

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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS

Michael Clayton a serious festival circuit film releases worldwide
Interview With Rob Stewart Sharkwater
Audience invited to make short films : Stockholm fest new inititative
Four digital film projects selected for Hubert Bals Fund support

D-CINEMA NEWS

NEC Digital Cinema Division Wins the 2007 American Business Award
French 3D cinema is awakening…

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Film Festival Tourism: a research on its rapid expansion
The previous articles provided the context for the growing film festival tourism phenomenon. In this last installment, more specific information is provided about the participants in festival tourism, the services provided by the few agencies in this new niche market, and the characteristics of the film festivals that would most likely benefit from film festival tourism.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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CALL FOR ENTRIES ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
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TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S TV & FILM FESTIVAL April 4 - 8, 2008
Taiwan International Children’s TV & Film Festival Final Calls.Entry deadline: October 31, 2007. Don’t miss your opportunity to win cash prize USD 4,000 each category. Please visit our website: www.tictff.org.tw or the bulletin board page to get moresubmission information
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SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALl April 24 - May 8, 2008
The Golden Gate Awards competition is accepting submissions in 11 categories. Entries must have been completed on or after January 1, 2007. Works that have played a multiday commercial theatrical run in the Bay Area or had any kind of media broadcast are not eligible to apply to non-television categories
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SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL June 13 - 21, 2008
Now entering our 10th year, Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF) has become one of Asia’s largest festival for international short films and is one of the few Academy Award(R) accredited short film festivals SSFF reaches audiences of 30,000 in Tokyo and major cities in Japan. Our main festival is held for over a week in the heart of Harajuku TOKYO!
Please note that our festival dates are tentative.
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INDEPENDENT FEATURES FILM FESTIVAL July 25 - 27, 2008
The Independent Features Film Festival is the world's first film festival in which films will be chosen by a global audience via a web-based competition. The competition will run May 1st, 2008 through June 30th, 2008. The top twenty-one films will go on to be screened at the Independent Features Film Festival which will be hosted July 25-27, 2008 at the acclaimed Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan.
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ECU THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March 14 - 16, 2007
The European Independent Film Festival 2007 submission deadline of February 1st 2007 is fast approaching. Held in Paris on the 16th, 17th and 18th of March at the prestigious Biblioteque Nationale de Francois Mitterand the very best independent films from around the World will be screened to large audiences competing for 16 awards in 11 categories.
For more information go to www.ecufilmfestival.com
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Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee
The Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival wants to see your SHORTS!
Dramas, comedies, documentaries, animations, experimental works and films inspired by JAZZ.
Best of Fest Shorts Prize is $5000 USD - Go to www.kcjubilee.org for details (under 30 minutes, NO PAL).
Postmark deadlines are October 1, November 15 & December 1.
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Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Feb 15 - 23, 2008
PUNTO DE VISTA, the Documentary Film Festival of Navarra calls for a competition, open to participation by documentaries of any nationality made in after 1 August 2006. The deadline for sending films is next 30 September.
Fiction, institutional or publicity films will not be admitted, nor reports or works of a journalistic nature.
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TURKS & CAICOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL October 16 - 21, 2007
The Turks & Caicos International Film Festival (TCIFF) is dedicated to featuring films from all over the world that celebrate the fusion of cinema and music through content, character, theme or score/ soundtrack.

CINEMA IN PARADISE: BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL December 6 - 13, 2007
join filmmakers and celebrities from around the world at the 4th edition.
The festival will entertain visitors with a diverse presentation of international films,
unusual cultural experiences and fantastic social events. Come and be a part of the fun!

FANTASPORTO' 2008 CALL FOR ENTRIES
28th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 29 - March 8,
Entries Close Dec 15 Running on 5 theatres screening 200 feature films each year with Massive press coverage 5000 clippings every year - Over 110,000 entries in past editions.contact: Mário Dorminsky (Director)
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FUNCHAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - MADEIRA ISLANDS November, 2 - 10, 2007
The Festival is sponsored by the Regional Government of Madeira to promote the films and various events around them, as well as to promote Madeira Islands and the capital city of Funchal. The Festival's main category is the "Atlantic Films Official Section", a competitive section for feature films produced or co-produced by participants from the ATLANTIC countries.

ANNUAL PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
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