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Big Sky Documentary Festival Announces Award Winners
LA Pan African Film & Art Fest winners
independent juries prizes during the Berlinale
winners of the 2008 CINE Special Jury Awards
Teddy Queer Film Award Winners
Adrienne Shelly Wins ASA's Discover Screenwriting Award
Revanche wins Berlin Europa Cinemas Label

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BERLIN IN ACTION
The Luis Buñuel Retrospective at the Berlinale
The 58th Berlin Film Festival closes shop with Katyn
Berlinale Keynotes 2008: The Age of Collaboration?
Ukraine celebrates at Berlin Film Festival
Berlin jury shook by desertions
Opening of the Berlinale Talent Campus #6 And the Berlin Today Award 2008 goes to..."
Meet Alfred Holighaus, section director of Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Bollywood Comes to Berlin
Brazilian Film Shines and Wins a Golden Bear
Scarlet Jo and Natalie Po, a fetching but misplaced pair in The Other Boleyn Girl
There are Stars and there Super-Stars, then there is MADONNA...
Berlinale Panorama Audience Award
Prizes of the independent Juries at Berlinale
Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Drifter from Sebastian Heidinger wins „Dialogue en perspective"
Berlinale 2008: Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus
The 58th Berlin International Film Festival comes to a successful close: Music, Stars and Grand Emotions

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Program of shorts to screen at Florida Film Festival
Chile focus at Latin American Film Festival in Oaxaca
See What's Happening in IFFF 2008
IFFF- Family With a Mission
Madonna hits Berlin and raises tempo of sluggish fest
More than 130 films to screen at ZagrebDox
37 Greek films at 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Fest
Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation takes off in Dayton
The Berlinale Campus wins hearts
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival lneup
fmx/08 May 05 – 08 to host top class program!
The European Independent Film Festival 2008 is ready for you
Gasparilla Film Festival highlights
The lack Studio at PAFF
Kerala to host International Video Festival

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

Scarlet Jo and Natalie Po a fectching but misplaced pair in the other Boleyn Girl
Animator Bill Plympton guest star at Aspen Shortfest
Florida film festival announces juries
Sarah Glennie to head the Irish Film Institute
A conversation with Bela Tarr, Hungarian filmdirector
Strike is over: the Writers Guild Members have voted

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Programme de la 17e édition du festival du film d'action sociale de l'IRTS de Lorraine
26e FIFA pour tout l'art du Monde
RIDM Montréal : une série de projections mensuelles au Cinéma du Parc
Bill Plympton invité de la la Fête de l'animation
Vidéoformes explore les courants émergents de l’art vidéo
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La Noria : 9ème Quinzaine de Cinéma Hispanique à Aix

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Strategic Partners, the international co-pro market for filmTV projects
Berlin 58 closes shop with Katyn
The World is Yours Premieres at NYIIFVF
Berlinale keynotes: Film 2.0 – The Future of the Film Industry
The Yearbook shows a dip in European Union spectators
A call for valor selected at NYIIFVF
Eagle Talon The Movie to premiere at NYIIFVF
Berlinale Film In Focus: Cherry Blossoms
Pop Your Panties with Paris Nicole & Lindsay

D-CINEMA NEWS

Strike-Sidelined Cinematographers Offered P2 Workshops In Los Angeles
Warner Bros. and National CineMedia partner
Disney Utilizes Realscan 3D Again for Book of Secrets
PassmoreLab Creates Prototype Multi-Camera Array for 3D Imaging
Polar Express 3D goes IMAX 3D for Christmas
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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ACE FILM FESTIVAL- NYC - September 12 - 14, 2008 Accepting Entries February 8 - May 9, 2008
Want your film played in New York City? This is your chance to screen your work to an audience of fellow filmmakers, industry players, press, distributors and moviegoers in the heart of Manhattan! This priceless opportunity is only the beginning. Selected films will be reviewed by an impressive panel of accomplished judges for a chance to win awards, prizes, cash and more. Your film or video will share the screen with the latest and greatest in American independent cinema for one of the most anticipated events on the industry calendar.
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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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BABELGUM ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL Submit by February 24, 2008
Join the competition now to enter your film for the Babelgum Online Film Festival competition awards.
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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!
Please note that our festival dates are tentative.

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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