The team wishes you all the best and a happy new year 2013
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Bruno Chatelin to chair the Summit - Europe April 2/3 in Paris,
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Dailies and ambiance videos from the Bahamas International Film Festival
Blue velvet horizons in the Bahamas family islands
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The European Film Academy Chronicles:
The European Film Awards ceremony took take place December 1st, Malta the show was broadcast in over 52 countries.
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THE AWARDS WATCH
Named after the great Spanish producer Jose María Forqué, these awards are the first of the year in Spain and they always give us a hint of what we can expect on the Goya Awards. Nominees for the XVIII Forque Awards are: BEST FILM BLANCANIEVES (Snowhite) GRUPO 7 (Unit 7) LO IMPOSIBLE (The Impossible) EL ARTISTA Y LA MODELO (The artist and the model) BEST ACTOR ANTONIO DE LA TORRE – GRUPO 7 JEAN ROCHEFORT – EL ARTISTA Y LA MODELO JOSE SACRISTAN &ndash...
One of the year’s most highly acclaimed films, Silver Linings Playbook, written and directed by David O. Russell, has won four awards including “Best Film of the Year” at Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival, which ended here today. In addition, the multi Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominated motion picture won the Capri Audience Award, the film’s extraordinary cast, which includes Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De...
BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA "Argo" "Django Unchained" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" "Zero Dark Thirty" BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" "Les Miserables" "Moonrise Kingdom" "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" "Silver Linings Playbook" BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty" M...
The 25th European Film Awards Ceremony THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS Marion Döring, Peter Busuttil picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS Wim Wenders picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: Anke Engelke, host picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2012 - Prix EURIMAGES: Helena Danielsson, Sweden picture: EFA / Rene Rossigna...
The 25th European Film Awards Ceremony THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS Marion Döring, Peter Busuttil picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS Wim Wenders picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud THE 25TH EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: Anke Engelke, host picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2012 - Prix EURIMAGES: Helena Danielsson, Sweden picture: EFA / Rene Rossignaud ...
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THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected twenty-five film projects that receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops. In its Fall 2012 selection round, the Fund gives 330,000 Euro to projects from seventeen Asian, Eastern European, Latin-American and African countries. (See full list below) From many strong applications for workshop initiatives, the Hubert Bals Fu...
The Distinguished Filmmaker William Greaves, who was an invited guest to the Berlin Film Festival and Actress-Painter, Audrey Henningham. Both were kind enough to accept an invitation to appear on THE COLLEGIUM Forum & Television Program Berlin, during their Berlin visit. Production & Direction: Fountainhead Tanz Theatre Berlin Only when Lions have historians, will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb. ...
Discover the Festival 2013 Main Features ...
16TH ANNUAL WILDSIDE THEATRE FESTIVAL The Hottest Two Weeks in Winter! January 3 - 13, 2013 Centaur’s 16th Wildside Theatre Festival jumpstarts the New Year with 10 days of sensational, cutting-edge theatre! Curated by Artistic and Executive Director, Roy Surette, the festival features a potpourri of colourful characters including the hilarious Mr. Joe in the North American premiere of Placebo; the outrageous Miss Hiccup, who has bee...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam introduces a new Competition. Aimed to support the distribution of films in Dutch cinemas, The Big Screen Award Competition will include ten very recent films with no Benelux distributor confirmed. The Big Screen Award will be awarded by an Audience Jury. The Dutch Circle of Film Critics (KNF) Jury will choose their winner among these ten films as well. Both prizes come with a guaranteed distribution offer for the Benelux, in collaboration with local d...
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HOT FILMS
Jason Bateman, Hope Davis and Haley Ramm in Henry-Alex Rubin's "DISCONNECT" Courtesy of LD Entertainment The 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (January 24-February 3), presented by lynda.com, will open the 2013 Festival with the U.S. Premiere of LD Entertainment’s Disconnect, directed by Henry-Alex Rubin and starring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård ...
Writer/Director/Producer Wael Omar is an avant-garde filmmaker in the true sense, standing at the frontlines of battle in the midst of Egypt’s ongoing political revolution. After receiving an MA in Film Arts, Wael began his filmmaking career making documentary shorts (‘The Countdown’, 2006; ‘Democracy 76, State of Emergency’, 2006; ‘Getting Back’, 2007) and most recently completed his first doc feature with co-director Philippe Dib ‘In Se...
RIVER TO RIVER, FLORENCE CHITTAGONG vs CHITTAGONG, AND THE WINDS OF CHANGE by Alex Deleon Bedabrata Pain (Bengali: বেদব্রত পাইন; born 27 March 1963, West Bengal, India) is a new Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Bedabrata Pain is also inventor of the CMOS image sensor. One of the most interesting things about Chittagong, the film, is that it is the debut feature of a 49 year old dir...
Wednesday 23 January, the world premiere of 'De wederopstanding van een klootzak' ('The Resurrecntion of a Bastard') by Guido van Driel (The Netherlands) opens the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Van Driel’s fiction feature début, also selected for the festival’s Hivos Tiger Awards Competition, stars Yorick van Wageningen ('The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), Goua Robert Grovogui and Juda Goslinga. Recently deceased Dutch actor Jero...
Cottesloe Films, in partnership with Impian Films, just announced that its upcoming short film Tango Underpants has raised an impressive $25,000 in 24 hours through its Pozible crowd funding campaign. As a result, the film also qualified to have its funding quadrupled under ScreenWest’s 3-to-1 Crowdfunding Initiative, bringing the total to more than $100,000. Tango Underpants is a playful and engrossing film, written by renowned screenwriter John Collee (H...
THE BEST RAJASTHANI FILMS TO RECEIVE CASH PRIZE This year, in The Jaipur International Film Festival besides the national and international cinema we are also encouraging and promoting the Rajasthani Cinema to the every possible extent. This is one of the primary reasons why JIFF will honour 3 best films selected out of overall films submitted from Rajasthan with the cash prize. The first prize comprises of Rs. 21,000/- whereas the second and the third prize will c...
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KEY FESTIVAL CIRCUIT PLAYERS
By Liza Foreman Julia Roberts and Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo will star in the HBO Films drama THE NORMAL HEART, directed by Emmy winner Ryan Murphy (“Eat Pray Love,” “Glee”), it was announced on Friday by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Slated to begin production in New York City later this year for 2014 debut on HBO, the film is written by Larry Kramer, adapting his groundbreaking Tony Award-winning play of the same ...
By: Stan Popovich Many celebrities and entertainers sometimes have to deal with embarrassing media reports which can cause a lot of problems. Here are a few suggestions on how to deal with these kinds of media reports. 1. Determine A Strategy Beforehand Chances are that if you’re a celebrity you will have to deal with some kind of media report in your career. Don’t wait until something happens. Plan ahead of time so that when something does happen you will know what to do to&nb...
Michael Moore was speaking (in his press conference in Cannes 2007) on health and quoting a 27 minutes average waiting time on Canadian hours. How the canadian responded fueled the controversy. ...
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Submit your film or screenplay to the 2013 Sunscreen Film Festival, taking place April 18-21, 2013 in St. Petersburg, FL- USA.
Named "One of the Top 25 Coolest Film Fests in the Country" (MovieMaker Magazine 2009) & Best Film Fest in Tampa Bay 2012 (Tampa Bay Magazine)
Over the course of four days, the Eighth Annual Sunscreen Film Festival will showcase more than 65 short and feature films, including films of all styles and genres as well as music videos, mixed media, student films, documentaries and feature films from around the world. Exclusive parties, workshops and panels Submit on WaB or on http://www.sunscreenfilmfestival.com
The 2013 Byron Bay International Film Festival - March 1 - March 10, 2013
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2013 Huatulco Festival of Food and Wine 10, 2013
CALLING FOR SHORTS ON FOOD.
If you shot a short film where food, wine, drinks...play an important role you should find multiple reasons in submitting to our festival. One of which beeing th epossibility to screen in Cannes at the Short Film Corner in frtont of 23 000 film professionals attending, 4000 media, 3000 buyers and 300 short film buyers. Sounds Good? We will open the competition shortly and partner with filmfestivals.com
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Taos Short Film Festival March 7th to 10th 2013
Come join the hottest shorts film fest in the SouthWest. Taos Shortz Film Festival is rapidly becoming an internationally known film festival.
We are dedicated to featuring quality, juried short films from around the globe and we invite you to bring your adventure of creativity to our film fest.
Take the opportunity to strut your stuff amidst the mountains and mesas of Taos, NM. Do you have a tale to tell?...
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ÉCU 2013 - The European Independent Film Festival- Paris March 29-31, 2013
ÉCU continually searches for the most talented storytellers and cinematic visionaries that make their stories a reality. Many of the films chosen for ÉCU 2013’s "Official Selection" will participate in the ÉCU-ON-THE ROAD tour. This year-round tour takes its films to special screening sessions around the globe for the world to experience.
ÉCU 2013 will also host its 7th annual "Much More Than A Script Competition!"
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The Inigo Film Festival calling for shorts...
TIFF Regulations for the 4th Iñigo Film Festival 2013 1. The 4 th Iñigo Film Festival (TIFF) and the “Iñigo Awards” are sponsored by the Society of Jesus as represented by the Conference of European Provincials (CEP). 2. The prizes (“Iñigo Awards”) will be awarded to short films on the theme “City of God”. Submit online
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Conference: Towards Transparency 2.0 - Focus on Media Concentration
Almost 200 media professionals and decision makers attended our 20th anniversary conference on media concentration on the 7th of November at the Council of Europe here in Strasbourg. If you made it, thanks for coming! If not, we’re now able to send you the information which so many of the participants requested following our conference. First of all, you’ll find a film of the conference on the YouTube Channel of the European Audiovisual Observatory here: T...
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