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of Cinema Salon in Cannes

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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT

Cine Las Americas announces the new dates for The 12th Cine
Las Americas
Freelance Media Journalist Combine organised "Film
Riveiw Writing Competition "
Portland International Film toopen with Coraline
Annual KidFilm® Festival turns 25
Palm Beach International Film Festival Final deadline next
week!
Second Annual Future of Cinema International Film Festivaln

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

Interim Co-Directors named for the 2009 Los Angeles Film
Festival
Nashwa Al Ruwaini to participate as juror in the 2009 International
Digital Emmy® Awards
Pupi Avati will be honored in LA Italia
Nashwa Al Ruwaini aims to tackle Arab stereotypes

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FILM
FROM FEST FOCUS

Culinary Cinema at Berlinale 2009
Program of Berlinale Forum
Competition of Berlinale 2009 Almost Complete
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D-CINEMA NEWS
RealD
demos Monsters vs Aliens at CES
Celluloid Meets Pixel at next Berlinale
Can you speak the Digital language?
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THE NEWS " IN FRENCH " l'actu des festivals
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Mort de Georges Cravenne, le créateur des
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Le Programme de Festivalloire
Les invités de Festivalloire
Le Jury de Festivalloire
Sélection des Films de Festivalloire
La vie et l'oeuvre de Quentin Tarantino
Bibliographie de Quentin Tarantino
Les Récompenses de Quentin Tarantino


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Le Mobile Film Festival à la cité des sciences
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Avant gout du festival Cinérail « Trains &
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Les chiffres du CNC : les records en 2008
Claire Denis présidente du jury de Premiers Plans
Belmondo et son chien : la colère d'Axel Brucker
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Filmmakers don't miss these ones!

THE
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL June 18-28,
2009
Now in its fourteenth year, the Los Angeles Film
Festival is widely recognized as a world-class event, providing
the movie-loving public with access to some of the most
critically acclaimed filmmakers, scholars, critics, film
industry professionals, and emerging talent from around
the world.
The Festival also features unique signature programs including
the Filmmaker Retreat, the Spirit of Independence Award
ceremony and gala, and Financing Conference. Additionally,
the Festival screens short films created by high school
students and has a special section devoted to music videos.

Submit
online

PALM
BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—
October
27 - 31, 2009
The Festival is a 501(3)(c)
not-for-profit organization supporting film programs in
local schools, and dedicated to making a difference in the
lives of future filmmakers by helping them fulfill their
dreams to work in the world of film. Proceeds generated
each year are donated to schools, in the form of grants
and scholarships, to provide new technologies.
The Festival is now accepting
submissions for Features, featurettes, shorts and documentary
of all genres and open to filmmakers worldwide.

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online

FILM
FESTIVAL OF IMAGINATION AND WONDER Film Festival du
film Merveilleux —
October
27 - 31, 2009
The Festival promotes films celebrating the imaginary, the
Wonder and magic from the entire world and allow us and
the section "off competition the kaleidoscope"
help to re-discover our different cultures and our planet.

The theme of the Film festival are magic, the imaginary,
the marvelous, the astonishing, the supernatural, the occult,
the strange, the esoteric, poetry, the fantastic, science
-fiction and myths, legends, comics, manga, video game,
dreams...
Submit
online

Art
by Chance Ultra Short Film Festival—
May 22 - June 5, 2009
- 30 seconds long films on concept of "journey"
theme
- made by enthusiastic and creative international film makers

- fiction, documentaries, animation or video art
- shown in major metropolitan cities all around the world
in May 2009 over the same two-week period.

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online

42nd
ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL—
April 17 - 26, 2009
Special Entry Deadline Extension to All FEST21 members!
Late Fee is waived! Save 15$
Enter the Festival that discovered Spielberg, Lucas, David
Lynch, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott and the Coen Brothers!
Extended Entry Deadline is january 31st, 2009! http://www.worldfest.org


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online

DOCUMENTA
MADRID —May 1 - 10, 2009
Documenta Madrid is an international film festival dedicated
exclusively to documentary film. Its offices are located
in the capital of Spain and it is organized by the City
of Madrid. It is presently the city's most widely-attended
festival. The festival was born for the purpose of strengthening
and disseminating the documentary genre, in so far as it
understood to be a reflection of the social, cultural, economic,
artistic, environmental, and other realities that exist
in the world.

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online

OPENFILM.COM—Openfilm.com
is a brand new web destination for quality films, videos
and animation. With its versatile, high quality player and
a host of social networking features designed to create
a dialogue between independent filmmakers and their audience,
Openfilm is the ultimate platform to feature professional
and semi-professional film work. Features include true HD
playback, manual processing and encoding of all videos,
custom-made subtitles and translation, animated thumbnails
and a chance to be featured in a professional film review.http://www.openfilm.com
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online

FANTASPORTO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAl February
20 - March1, 2008
29th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 20 - March
1
The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its
29th edition, specializes in fantasy and science-fiction
films in its Official Competitive section. 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)

ECU
THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March, 2009
The European Independent Film Festival 2009 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 11th 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

ANNUAL
PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Calls SHORT FILMS producers worldwide to participate with
their works.
Also see the news on the Festival for Documentaries and
Narrative Movies.
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for entries

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