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NEWSLETTER N° 384: October 9, 2008


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Grand Prize of the Dutch Film, the Golden Calves
ICFF Manaki Brothers Awards
Filmfest Hamburg award-giving ceremony.
VIFF 2008 Dragons & Tigers Award Winners
Winners of the Golden Calves Best of Dutch film
Angelus Student Film Festival Awards
Calgary International Film Festival Movie Mavericks awards
Mikael Bertelsen wil host EFA awards in Denmark

International
viral video award

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MORE FESTIVAL NEWS


Reeling 2008 Chicago G&L Fest highlights
San Diego Teen Producers Project
frican-American Film Marketplace and S.E. Manly Short Film Showcase
The End of the Pier International Film Festival
Berlin Today Award 2010: Short Films for the Big Screen
Vancouver Brazilian Film Festival premiers with 15 features
Paonia International Experimental Cinema Exposition
Views From The Avant-Garde At New York Film Festival
Directors, writers, producers, and DOPs: EKRAN from EFA is free
for you
Tucson Film & Music Fest Announces Complete Film & Music
Lineup
Girona Film Festival
Filmfest Hamburg ends its journey through 134 film worlds
ICFF manaki Brothers
Tallgrass announces line up and details
VIFF's 23rd Annual Film and Television Forum wrapped
Boston Jewish Film Fest reveals a new era of directors
Tulsa tradition! an Oklahoma revolution, prepare 4 Tulsa afterparties
Spanish winner at the 4th BuSho Festival
Highlight on Arab Women Directors at MEIFF
Paso Robles Digital Film Festival , goes more digital!
Freeride World Tour is on the road again
The Paso Robles Digital Film Festival, planned for Nov. 20 through
25
New Delhi India International Women Film Festival
Poor weather and Weekend Highlights At The New York Film Festival
SCI-FI-LONDON OKTOBERFEST kicks off friday
Helsinki International Film Festival introduced a competition
102 World Premieres, 375 Market Premieres Scheduled for AFM

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DAILIES ON FEST21.COM

Coming next:
San Sebastian
New York
Recent video coverage Ischia
Locarno Montreal
Toronto
and SILVERDOCS
dailies

FESTROIA dailies

More archive Blogging from
IFFS
Europe
, Palm
Beach
, The
international Doc market at Thessaloniki
, ECU,
Miami - Cinequest
-Fantasporto
- Santa
Barbara
- Berlin
- Park City -
Tribeca
Film Festival
San
Francisco
- Sydney
- Boston
Cannes
- La
Croisette Cannes
- Future
of Cinema Salon in Cannes

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

Martesko-Fenster
new Managing Director of the Babelgum Online Film Fest
Iain Smith is to be the new Chair of Edinburgh Festival
Sir Ben Kingsley to attend Abu Dhabi with Gandhi
Hollywood Awards Gala will honor...
Thank You, Paul Newman.
Statement from IFTA President Jean Prewitt on Congress’s
action
Eastwood centerpiece of the New York Film Festival
Film-editor Joel Cox to be awarded at Paso Robles
James Earl Jones to receive SAG Achievement Award
Nagisa Oshima Retrospective at New York Film Festival
Robert Downey Jr. to star in Guy Ritchie's “Sherlock Holmes”

FESTIVALS AGENDA SUBMISSION CALENDARS
Festivals
calling for your films...
This week, this month..

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

ET...

Lancement de la version française de fest21
HD Film Festival 2008 : 31 programmes en lice
L'Autre Cinéma accueillERA cette année John Boorman
Premières infos du Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen
de Bruxelles
Isabelle Huppert et Olivier Gourmet clôturent le FIFF
Le Festival de Namur remet ses Bayards d'Or
Résonances, les Rencontres du cinéma citoyen
Lyon un rendez-vous incontournable du cinéma asiatique
David Kessler, le nouveau Président du Forum des images


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YOUR FEST ACCRED THROUGH US

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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS
Hollywood
properties into Entropia Universe Virtual Worlds
Kat Dennings, Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh get DEFENDOR
Film In Focus from New York Fest : TONY MANERO
The Viennale film premieres
Thriller in Manilla: Muhammad Ali vs Frazier Doc / Fest opener

D-CINEMA NEWS
Digital
screenings from Europe's Finest at Ghent
First Digital 3D Movie Released in China
350 systems commitments to date for Dolby(R) 3D
Interview with Lorenzo Branca on the VPF
Digitalization - challenge and threat
Women in Digital Cinema
The secret of Cinema 2.0

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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

NEWS FROM CANNES
Check out the Cannes Blog
Photo Gallery,
Video Gallery
Short Film Corner

CALL
FOR ENTRIES ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

Filmmakers don't miss these ones!


DUBAI
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
December 11 - 18,
2008

The 2008 edition of the Dubai International Film Festival features
12 programmes that will showcase cinema of all genres from all
over the world : The Cultural Bridge, Arabian Nights, A Celebration
of Indian Cinema, The Cinema of the World, The Cinema of AsiaAfrica,
Emirati Voices, Children’s Cinema, Animation, In Focus,
Rythm & Reels, Screen on the Green and Lifetime Achievement
Introducing the New Dubai Film Market


ECU
THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March, 2009

The European Independent Film Festival 200ç submission
deadline of January 15th, 2009 is fast approaching. Held in Paris
in 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
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW


SHORT
SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA June, 2009

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.
SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW


L.A.
COMEDY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
March
5 - 8, 2009

This is a festival
started by funny people, for funny people. All judges are top
names in the fields of comedy and filmmaking.
If what you have is short and
people laugh at it, around here, that’s a good thing.
So,
you think you're funny? Prove it!


SUBMIT
ONLINE NOW


SAVANNAH
FILM FESTIVAL
October
25 - November 1, 2008

Hosted by the Savannah College
of Art and Design, the annual festival presents a full range of
cinematic creativity from both award-winning professionals and
emerging student filmmakers.

Featuring the best in independent
and innovative film from around the world


http://www.scad.edu/filmfest/




AFRICA
WORLD DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
February 5 - 8, 2009
Join us for the 2nd Africa World Documentary Film Festival in
February 2009 in Saint Louis USA, in Europe, and the Caribbean.
At our 2007 inaugural festival in Saint Louis USA and Lagos, Nigeria,
over $5,000 in prizes was awarded. The festival and film makers
presenting were highlighted on CNN’s Inside Africa.
At the 2nd AWDFF in 2009, we are awarding more prizes to Film
makers, along with viewing of your work on three continents under
the banner of one festival. Look out for more and join us at the
2nd AWDFF around the globe!

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