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Celebrity Sightings At Sundance
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Focus On European Documentaries At Sundance
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FESTIVAL NEWS
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Berlinale Camera for Karlheinz Böhm and Otto Sander
Europa Cinema Label 4th Berlinale
Sundance en Español : Celebrating Latin Cinema
Brussels Animation Festival ANIMA 2008
SPARK VFX '08 Visual Effects Festival
San Francisco Ocean Film Festival program
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival preliminary highlights
Babelgum , our partner, closed 1000 submissions so far, and counting
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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS
Berlinale jury with Jury President Costa-Gavras
Milwaukee Short Film Festival Announces Judges
Parker Posey,The Queen of the Indies, visits Göteborg
fmx/conference: first confirmed speakers!
Tom Cruise to be a Presenter at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
New staffers at The San Sebastian Festival
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IDIFF 2008, le cinéma numérique s’installe au Palais des Congrès
Festival International du 1er film d’Annonay
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Chiffres et Palmarès de Quintessence, au Bénin
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
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Documentaries and Societal Change
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D-CINEMA NEWS
Warner Bros. and National CineMedia partner
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CGR Cinémas go fully digital, team with AAM
HD EXPO unveils 3D Day
The world’s digital screens reach 4000 mark
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.
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BUSHO FILM FESTIVAL September 3 - 7, 2008
Short Film, Long Bang!
The 4th BuSho International Short Film Festival accepts entries in the categories of fiction, animation and experimental film.
Entry deadline: 3. May 2008.
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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 FESTIVAL 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 & ASIA 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!
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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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FANTASPORTO' 2008 CALL FOR ENTRIES
28th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 29 - March 8,
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