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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
Outlining Silhouette
by Ana Clara Soares, ÉCU writer September in Paris has been a month with endless opportunities for independent filmmakers to expose their work, and film-goers to enjoy them. With the end of our summer, it?s a time to enjoy the last moments of warm afternoons at parks or begin to find refuge in the movie theaters on surprisingly chilly nights. For those who like myself would prefer to combine...
Film Festival film nights
The Isle of Wight International Film Festival started it's run of Fancy Dress film shows, with a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in it's original format at one of the festival's venues in Ryde Isle of Wight. The evening proved a great hit with a number of die hard RHPS fans, many of whom came dressed up for the event. Over the next 5 months the Festival team will be running various spe...
BUDDHA MOUNTAIN (dir Li Yu) To Complete The 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival Competition Line-Up
BUDDHA MOUNTAIN now completes the competition line-up of the 23rd edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival which will take place from the 23rd to 31st of October. BUDDHA MOUNTAIN is Li Yu's already nominated feature in Taiwan; set in the mountainous region around Chengdu, it tells the story of a retired opera singer and her boarding tenants, a rock singer and a student who has...
CMJ 2010 Music Marathon and Film Festival Lineup Announcement
CMJ 2010 Music Marathon and Film Festival will be held in downtown New York, October 19 - 23, 2010. The festival features the best new music from around the world...
An Interview With Beth Einhorn, Filmmaker & Tonight Show Writer
We contacted Beth Einhorn recently to ask about her experiences working as a writer, producer, and director in TV comedy. She?s worked on The Chris Rock Show, HBO?s George Carlin specials, and Saturday Night Live, to name a few. Beth is currently a writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She?s also written and directed independent films that screened at The Valley Film Festival (Simple Roasted...
Rome Film Festival lineup
IFF Bratislava’s Feature Competition
VIFF's 25th Annual Film & TV Forum wrapped
Milwaukee Short Film Festival highlights
Pernod Creator Of art contest opens! cheers!
Finalists for the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants
Side by Side G&L Fest Tests Saint Petersburg’s Tolerance
Wiesbaden Exground filmfest highlights
Israel Fest film slate
Tall Grass Film Festival announces line up
Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma line up
Branchage fest wrap
Arpafilm festival in LA focuses on film from Armenia
Neds tops San Sebastian Awards
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FILM NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
Documentary Features In Competition At American Film Festival
The AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL (AFF), the first film event in Eastern Europe solely devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema, has announced the American Documentary Features that will compete for an Audience Award, with a cash prize of USD$5,000 and a chance at Eastern European distribution. The program in the AMERICAN DOCS section of the Festival is drawn from films that m...
LFF - EVERYTHING MUST GO [2010] dir Dan Rush
EVERYTHING MUST GO is based on a Raymond Carver short story about a middle-aged man, Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell), who in the space of one day become jobless, wifeless and homeless, in his front lawn, all due to an alcohol relapse. Feeling miserable, he has five days to vacate his front yard, but has to hold a yard sale in order to be able to stay those five days. A new neighbour moves in, Sam...
LFF - HEARTBEATS (Les Amours Imaginaires) [2010] dir Xavier Dolan
HEARTBEATS is a story of longing and love lost. Francis and Marie are friends, in Montreal, who meet Nicolas, a real life Adonis with no clear sexual preference. With no time lost, they both fall in love with Nicolas. Nicolas does not show preference for either, being ambiguous throughout. Soon, tension begins to rise between Francis and Marie as they try to be closer to Nicolas and things lite...
LFF - IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY [2010] dir Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY is most probably the best example of the culmination of every Hollywood studio's "indie film branch" teenage crisis movie ever made. It tells the story of Craig (Keir Gilchrist), a 16-year old teenager who is engulfed by depression and when is on the way to attempt suicide, decides to go check himself into a psych ward of the local hospital instead. He ...
TCFF Daily Post - The Clearwater Film Festival Announces Wavecrest Award Winners
WAVECRESTS AWARDED AT INAUGURAL CLEARWATER FILM FESTIVAL New Trophy Presented To 6 Filmmakers and 4 Actors Spain leads Australia, Canada, UK and USA The Wavecrest Award was unveiled at the inaugural Clearwater Film Festival. Created to honor the actor / writer / director, what the festival dubs a ?triple threat filmmaker?. Wavecrests were awarded in thirteen categories. In form to follow the ...
A New York State of Mind at Woodstock FF
Woodstock, New York, nestled in the majestic Catskill Mountains about 100 miles of New York, has a unique perspective on ?a New York state of mind?. Close enough to New York City to its south to be influenced by its multi-culturalism and razor-sharp analysis of everything from fashion to publishing to politics to Wall Street, it has also been a haven for ex-pat New Yorkers who burned out ...
LFF - LIVING ON LOVE ALONE (D'Amour et D'Eau Fraiche) [2010] dir Isabelle Czajka
LIVING ON LOVE ALONE is an interesting film; it follows Julie as she goes from a bad job in PR to a bad one in sales to a love affair. Julie is seeking employment in the hippest PR agency in Paris and when she finally gets it, we can watch disappointment creeping slowly, as she fails from task to task, the job being a complete let down for her. Next, she tries sales. A panel of judges whom she ...
3 doc mentaries on film at Sheffield
The Going Green Film Festival top scripts
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NEWS FROM THE KEY CIRCUIT PLAYERS
The Remarkable Universe of Masahiro Shinoda
Running parallel to the stellar film program of this year's New York Film Festival is a finely curated retrospective series of films from Japanese director Masahiro Shinoda. This prominent director of the Japanese New Wave was fascinated by traditional Japanese aesthetics and the modernity of c...
Eugene Hernandez Leaving indieWIRE
Eugene Hernandez, the highly respected and well liked Founder and Editor-in-Chief of indieWIRE is leaving the leading news, information, and networking site to take on what he describes as ?a dream job? as Director of Digital Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Hernandez founded...
Santa Fe Film Festival Seeking to Shake Corruption with New Management
Santa Fe Film Festival Facing Bankruptcy, Shakes Up Management In the wake of past corruption scandals, the Santa Fe Film Festival struggles to pay off debts to filmmakers while undergoing a change of management By John C Morley, The Morley Report September 21, 201...
Introducing AFF Director Roman Gutek
The AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL , the first film event in Eastern Europe completely devoted to classic and contemporary American independent works, will take place from October 20 to 24, 2010 in the historic city of Wroclaw, Poland. The Festival is the brainchild of Roman Gutek, a pioneering distrib...
Christopher Lloyd is Back in 'Time, the Fourth Dimension'
Enter the Void - Interview with Nathaniel Brown
Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has new board members
Clint Eastwood will be honored at MOTIFF festival
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AWARDS
First Cinema Tropical Awards 2010 Celebrates Top Tens of the Decade
By Maria Esteves The First Cinema Tropical Awards 2010 will commence on Friday, October 22, at the Times Center, New York. Cinema Tropical created by Carlos A. Gutiérrez and Monika Wagenberg, the awards are presented in partnership with Voces, Latino Heritage Network of The New Yor...
Woodstock Winners: Indie Films Honored
STRANGER THINGS (Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, US/UK) The Woodstock Film Festival, hailed as the most fiercely independent of regional events, wrapped its 11th edition this weekend with the Maverick Awards Ceremony that honored films and filmmakers in competition, as well as bestow...
Rio International Film Festival 2010 Awards
Shriekfest, Los Angeles International Film Festival Awards
Aspen Filmfest 2010 Is a Wrap
5th Batumi International Art House Film Festival AWARDS
Woodstock Winners: Indie Films Honored
Zurich Film Festival Awards
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itzon showcases the best in documentary, animation and fiction from around the globe on an innovative and interactive digital online broadcast platform: the future of TV. Quality film submissions of any length are welcome from all genres worldwide. In addition to the festival awards, itzon offers filmmakers the opportunity to truly interact with their audiences, earn revenue from their VoD viewing figures as well as sell merchandise for their films through the site.
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The Festival will bring together the independent music and independent film communities of Los Angeles in a celebration of local musical talent and creativity like never before. If you make music, make videos, like music videos or know anyone who does, come be a part of the movement to save music videos. Join the festival and submit your videos though fest21.com.
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One of the Premiere European awards festivals, annual competitive special interest film festival of 50 awards of various genres held in Monaco. Are the pioneers of non violent cinema from around the world, includes special nomination "Angel Peace Award" televised 2007 BBC World.
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