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> THE AWARDS WATCH
HollyWeb Wraps up Festival Weekend with Awards Party
2nd Annual celebration hands out “WEB” accolades – delivers stellar event Though HollyWeb Festival 2013 is over, the success of the event lives on and still has the web series community buzzing. Screening over 100 series in just 3 days, with discussions and panels, plus a full scale blue carpet reception and awards party, HollyWeb now ranks amongst the leaders in festivals which showcase online entertainment. Attended by mainstream film and television stars...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
16th SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (APRIL 10-14) WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Sonoma, CA (April 14, 2013) - The Sonoma International Film Festival truly came of age as their 16th edition came to a close Sunday night following five spectacular days that featured a wide variety of films from around the world, infused with gourmet food and phenomenal wine, serving up a bountiful cinematic feast. “This has been an extraordinary year,” said SIFF Executive Director Kevin McNeely...
15.04.2013 | Sonoma International Film Festival's blog |
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Philip K Dick Film Festival New York CALLING December 5-8,2013 New York, NY -
The festival is the first in the five boroughs devoted to science and science fiction. Named for the iconic novelist and short story writer whose work inspired the films Blade Runner, Total Recall andMinority Report, the four-day event aims to start a tradition of honoring films inspired by authors who have explored the metaphysical and eerie in all its manifestations. Possible themes include cyberpunk, dystopian realities, paranoia, altered states, and singularities. Science/science fiction documentaries, features and shorts are accepted. Submit here or on WaB
17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival calling for entries
The 17th Annual HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL(Oct 17-21, 2013) is now open for submissions in the follow genres: Features (all genres including animation, drama, comedy, horror), Docs, and Shorts (including animation). With film presentations taking place in the heart of Hollywood, the Festival presents a valuable screening platform for independent filmmakers, while providing for access to the studios and industry at large. The 2013 event will take this concept to the next level, presenting a unique networking program with “HOLLYWOOD NETWORK® INITIATIVE.” SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2013 – SUBMIT TODAY on WaB or on the site!
Hollyshorts calling for entries
The 9th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival, scheduled for August 15-25, 2013 at the world famous Chinese Theatre, is now accepting submissions. (www.withoutabox.com/login/4655). 2012 HSFF featured over 300 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Neil Labute, Zachary Quinto, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Joe Carnahan, awarded over $70,000 in prizes, including $30,000 in post services courtesy of Company 3 for Best Short, Director, Music Video, and Commercial. www.hollyshorts.com Submit now
NociCortinfestival | International Short Film Festival calling for shorts
8 Annual NociCortinfestival | International Short Film Festival runs August 01, 2013 to August 04, 2013 BARI Italy http://www.nocicinema.it Films of all subjects and styles will be considered for selection. All films entered into the competition must have been produced after January 1st, 2011, and must be no more than 30 minutes in length. We welcome films that have already been screened at other film festivals.
Above all, we are looking for films that are original, creative and that tell an engaging story. Submit
2013 Palm Springs International ShortFest: offers reduced rate for filmfestivals.com readers, SUBMIT by April 22
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL & FILM MARKET June 18-24, 2013 Call for Entries We are happy to extend a special FilmFestivals.com rate for any reader who submit their film to ShortFest.
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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
>THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Cannes unveils the line up of the 66th edition
The Official Selection and the Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury of the 66th Festival de Cannes were announced this Thursday, 18 April during the press conference held by Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux at the UGC Normandie in Paris...
19.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
New York Niche Fests: KinofestNYC 2013
Organized through grass root efforts the Kinofest is a niche film festival based in New York’s East Village. It is aimed at the Ukrainian and increasingly Russian communities in the New York metropolitan area and presented its fourth edition this year...
18.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Tribeca Film Festival 12th’s edition has begun
The festival opens with international premiere of the documentary “Mistaken For Strangers” by first time director Tom Berninger, heavy metal- and horror film-loving enthusiast who follows his brother Matt Berninger, lead singer of the indie rock band ‘The National”.
18.04.2013 | Tribeca Film Festival's blog |
Parody 48 Hour Film Contest
Promo for the 1st Annual Parody 48 Hour FIlm Contest! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4FSjNqgcFE
17.04.2013 | Parody 48 Hour's blog |
Israeli Film Festival No, 27 opens in Los Angeles
by Alex Deleon Farba For a small embattled coun...
17.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Charleston International Film Festival is just one week away
The 6th Annual Charleston International Film Festival is just one week away!! From April 24-28, we'll showcase more than 85 films from 15 different countries. This year will be the best one yet! The Opening Night outdoor reception on George St. will kick off the festivities with a surprise film debut from a major studio player...
17.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
CIFEJ Days in Ukraine
International Children's Television Festival "Dytiatko" and the International Center of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ) entered into an agreement to hold the framework of the 5th annual festival "Dytiatko" CIFEJ Days in Ukraine...
17.04.2013 | DytiatkoFest's blog |
Fingal Film Festival announces its schedule for 2013, which kicks off 8th - 10th May.
With the final films selected and a host of great workshops lined up, the Festival team are ready for action with only three weeks left to go. The organisers at the Fingal Film Festival are delighted to announce finally, most of the line-up for this years programme after months of planning...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
DOCUMENTA MADRID presents the first titles of the Official Selection.
The Oscar nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers”, the best European documentary “Winter Nomads”, the winner of Panorama Berlin “The Act of Killing”...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
High Falls Film Festival Starts Thursday! Guide to the Fest!
The High Falls Film Festival (highfallsfilmfestival.com) starts Thursday April 18! The 11th annual festival will present 27 screenings from 13 countries including four premieres, free panel discussions, three parties, and more than 50 award-winning independent features, documentaries and shorts.
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
18th Annual Meeting St Barth Film Festival/Cinéma Caraïbe – April 25-30, 2013
The St Barth Film Festival/Cinéma Caraïbe celebrates its 18th season from April 25-30, 2013 and continues to offer the population of St. Barthélemy the opportunity to discover films and directors from the Caribbean basin and beyond.
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
V International Children's TV festival "Dytiatko" calling for entries
“Dytiatko” festival is a noncommercial one; participation in it is free of charge. Children TV and animated studios and also TV companies and producer centers which make programs for children are welcomed to take part in the festival. Nominations: - “Best Play Film of a Children’s TV Studio”; - “Best Documental Film of a Children’s TV Studio”; - “Best TV Program of a Children’s TV Studio”; - “Best News Progra...
15.04.2013 | DytiatkoFest's blog |
Tribeca Film Festival 2013 MUST SEES!
Every film during the Pre-Festival screenings has been exceptional, however, many are under an embargo, and we are unable to write about them until after the premiere. I will, however, highlight a handful that are not under embargo. The Broken Circle Breakdown: World Narrative Competition, (Belgium, Netherlands) Elise runs a tattoo parlor. Didier is a tall, bearded, country-living, singer and banjo player in a bluegrass band. The movie starts off showing them as a couple with a six...
15.04.2013 | Tribeca Film Festival's blog |
Hollywood Film Fest injects new talent into the heart of the filmmaking industry
The 17th Annual Hollywood Film Festival (HFF), hailed by “Variety” as “the ultimate networking opportunity” and by The New York Times as “the first mandatory stop in the awards season.” A long-standing and well-respected celebration of the very finest in big-screen storytelling, HFF presents promising filmmakers with countless opportunities to network with the industry’s top executives and brightest stars. It’s no wonder so many w...
13.04.2013 | The Hollywood Film Festival's blog |
Bermuda International Film Festival Opens with “Ginger & Rosa”
Bermuda International Film Festival Opens with “Ginger & Rosa” *Poster's note-BIFF is a solid festival filled with the best in world cinema that is filled with wonderful people who possess the warmth of the island's wonderful weather! Highly recommend! To mark BIFF’s Sweet 16, the festival opens on Friday with “Ginger & Rosa,” a riveting coming-of-age story about two teenage girls growing up in the sixties in London. The tw...
11.04.2013 | Mike Takeuchi's blog |
>THE FILM PARADE
ZOE BELL in Tribeca for “Raze” (2013).
ZOE BELL in Tribeca for “Raze” (2013). Not often can one transcend from the industry's most famous stuntwoman to leading lady but gorgeous New Zealand daredevil, ZOE BELL breaks down these barriers as she stars in the upcoming Universal futuristic blockbuster, “Oblivion,” opposite Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo and Olga Kuylendo, opening wide April 19th. Set 60 years after an alien invasion has destroyed the planet, “Oblivion” is an ac...
19.04.2013 | Tribeca Film Festival's blog |
James Franco presents: 'THE DIRECTOR' at Tribeca 2013
JAMES FRANCO PRESENTS "The Director" (2013) A FILM BY CHRISTINA VOROS. In the 1960s, American movie icons traveling to Rome noticed the exceptional craftsmanship of a local leather shop founded by Guccio Gucci in 1921...
19.04.2013 | Tribeca Film Festival's blog |
The complete list of Short Films competing in Cannes
This year, the Selection Committee received 3,500 short films, representing productions from no fewer than 132 countries...
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola will open Cannes Un Certain Regard
The screening of The Bling Ring by Sofia Coppola, with Emma Watson in the title role, Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst, will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday 16 May. Inspired by a true story, The Bling Ring recounts a group of adolescents who are fascinated by “beautiful people” and the world of brands, tracking the whereabouts and activities of celebrities online so that they can rob their homes....
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
'A Year in Burgundy' (2012)
"Oh, some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French." John Masefield (1878-1967), Captain Stratton's Fancy. “Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.” Medieval German saying. 'A Year in Burgundy' (2012) held its world premier at the 28th Santa Barbara Film Festival...
17.04.2013 | Santa Barbara's blog |
Shortcut Romeo Hindi remake of Tamil Romeo to preem at Cannes
Shortcut Romeo is an new Romantic thriller from India Produced written and directed, by southerner Susi Ganeshan under his own banner, Susi Ganesh Productions. This will be the directors first Hindi film and is a remake of his own 2006 Tamil box office hit "Thirittu Paysale". Films which have been successful in the south are often picked up in Bombay and remade in Hindi with a new cast. Ganeshan has already helm...
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
CIFEJ Days in Ukraine
International Children's Television Festival "Dytiatko" and the International Center of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ) entered into an agreement to hold the framework of the 5th annual festival "Dytiatko" CIFEJ Days in Ukraine. CIFEJ Days including: - CIFEJ Animation and Film Workshop - CIFEJ Board Meeting; - Two-day Media-Conference “Global Village, Children, TV and Cinema”; - Screening CIFEJ winner Films. Days CIFEJ first held in Ukraine....
17.04.2013 | DytiatkoFest's blog |
Two Yash Chopra favorites at IFFLA 2013
KABHI KABHIE, A COMPELLING MELODRAMA and CHANDNI, A BELOVED SOAP OPERA by ALEX DELEON One of the highlights of this year's LA Indian Film Festival was a three film tribute to iconic director of extravagant Bollywood Romances, Yash Chopa, who passed away last year at age 80. SILSILA (1981) I had already seen on DVD but this was a rare opportunity to catch two other Chopra landmarks on the big screen ...
17.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) announces NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING as closing film
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is proud to announce NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber (alongside Amy Manson, Iain de Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis and Henry Ian Cusick), as the Closing Night film of the 67th edition of the Festival. The red carpet will be rolled out at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on 30th June when the stars and filmmakers attend the World Premiere of this indie romantic comedy set in Glasgow. Ch...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places: Interview with Jonathan Gurfinkel of "SIX ACTS"
One of the young talents at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is Israeli TV Director Jonathan Gurfinkel who presents his startling and disturbing first feature, Six Acts (Shesh Peamin). Powered by the haunting performance of young actress Sivan Levy, it is the story of Gilly, a sixteen year old girl who transfers to a new Tel-Aviv high school and looks for love in all the wrong places...
15.04.2013 | Suzanne Lynch's blog |
Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom in Zulu by Jérôme Salle to close the Festival de Cannes
Jérôme Salle © Melanie Cleary The 66th Festival de Cannes will close on 26th May with a screening of the thriller Zulu, shot entirely on location in South Africa by Jérôme Salle and adapted from the novel of the same name by Caryl Férey. The action takes place in Cape Town, in a South Africa still overshadowed by apartheid, where destitute townships rubs shoulders with affluent neighbourhoods. Two cops on the beat, Orlan...
14.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
>KEY FESTIVAL CIRCUIT PLAYERS
Thomas Vinterberg, President of the Jury on Un Certain Regard
Thomas Vinterberg, Danish director, scriptwriter and producer, will be this year’s President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Festival de Cannes Official Selection. Born in Copenhagen in May 1969, Thomas Vinterberg received his training at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1993 as the school’s youngest student. His first short films Last Round (Sidste Omgang, 1993) and The Boy Who Walked Backwards (Drengen der gik baglæns) (Le gar&cc...
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places: Interview with Jonathan Gurfinkel of "SIX ACTS" in Tribeca
One of the young talents at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is Israeli TV Director Jonathan Gurfinkel who presents his startling and disturbing first feature, Six Acts (Shesh Peamin). Powered by the haunting performance of young actress Sivan Levy, it is the story of Gilly, a sixteen year old girl who transfers to a new Tel-Aviv high school and looks for love in all the wrong places. As Gilly's quest for acceptance leads her into ever sadder and more da...
16.04.2013 | Tribeca Film Festival's blog |
> LES NEWS IN FRENCH
La sélection fait la part belle aux films français cette année. On y retrouve en effet La Sélection officielle 2013 EN COMPÉTITION Film d'ouverture ...
19.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
Avant de livrer ce jeudi 18 avril l’ensemble de la Sélection officielle, le Festival de Cannes fait deux annonces concernant le Certain Regard : Président du Jury et film d’Ouverture. Thomas Vinterberg, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur danois sera cette année le Président du Jury Un Certain Regard, Sélection officielle du Festival de Cannes. Né à Copenhague en mai 1969, Thomas Vinterberg a suivi la f...
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
The Bling Ring de Sofia Coppola, avec Emma Watson dans le rôle-titre, Taïssa Farmiga, Leslie Mann et Kirsten Dunst, sera projeté en Ouverture du Certain Regard le jeudi 16 mai. Inspiré de faits réels, The Bling Ring raconte l’histoire d’un groupe d’adolescents fascinés par le people et l’univers des marques qui traque via Internet l’agenda des célébrités pour cambrioler le...
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
Alors que la Sélection officielle des longs métrages du 66e Festival de Cannes sera présentée jeudi 18 avril, celle des courts métrages est dévoilée en avant-première. C’est le jury de la Cinéfondation et des courts métrages, présidé par Jane CAMPION, qui récompensera les meilleurs films de la compétition des courts métrages et de la sélection Cinéfondation. &nbs...
17.04.2013 | Cannes's blog |
Le plus important des festivals consacré à la production S3D indépendante met en lumière de nouveaux talents en provenance du monde entier depuis 7 ans. Cette année, Dimension 3 Festival franchit une nouvelle étape et devient le Festival des nouvelles dimensions de l’image en s’ouvrant également aux contenus 4K … Ouvert à tous les formats 3D relief et aux productions 4K, l’appel &ag...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
FESTIVAL CINEMAS DU SUD : Projections et rencontres avec des cinéastes du jeudi 2 au dimanche 5 mai 2013 à l'Institut Lumière L’édition 2013 est au coeur des questionnements et des vibrations que le monde arabe vit aujourd’hui. Parrainée par le cinéaste tunisien Nouri Bouzid (l’Homme de Cendres, Cannes 1986), qui présentera en avant-première son dernier fi...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Pour sa deuxième édition, les Deauville Green Awards ont le plaisir d’accueillir le public pour une avant-première et deux journées de projection en libre accès. Le Mardi 16 avril 2013 à 20h, le cinéma du Casino Barrière de Deauville accueillera Le Piège Blanc, un documentaire Thalassa de 110 minutes réalisé par Thierry Robert. Ouverte au public, cette projection, proposée par les Deauville Green Award...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Le St Barth Film Festival/Cinéma Caraïbe fête sa 18ème saison du 25 au 30 avril 2013 et continue à offrir à la population de St. Barthélemy la chance de découvrir des films et réalisateurs du bassin caribéen voire au-delà. Les invités du festival sont des réalisateurs, producteurs et professionnels du cinéma layant un lien au cinéma et la culture caraïbe au sens large. Cett...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
LE PROGRAMME INVITÉES D'HONNEUR Patrick Baucelin, Martinique Patricia Benoit, Haiti Edwidge Danticat, Haiti Michel Franco, Mexique Karine Gama, Guadeloupe Steve James & Stephanie James, Guadeloupe Christopher Laird, Trinidad & Tobago Chelda Nassal, Guadeloupe Pablo Trapero, Argentina Sandrine Tresor, Guadeloupe Dimitry Zandronis, Guadeloupe 4/25 / THURSDAY / JEUDI OPENING NIGHT / SOIR&Eac...
16.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
Les sélections officielles compétitions et panorama 2013 C’est avec une vraie émotion que nous rendons publiques les sélections officielles des deux compétitions Fiction et Expérimental - Essai - Art vidéo ainsi que la sélection du Panorama qui est non compétitive. Nous avon...
15.04.2013 | Editor's blog |
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