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I ON THE CLOSING NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL, THE AWARDS NIGHT, FANTASPORTO PRESENTS THE WORLD OPENING OF THE UKRAINIAN NEW FILM “EVERYTHING, NOTHING AND SOMETHING ELSE” The Organizing Committee of the 42nd Fantasporto has the honour to join the waves of solidarity around the world towards Ukrainians. On its Closing Award ceremony, on April 9th, the OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL- FANTASPORTO is going to screen in WORLD PREMIERE the feature EVERYTHING, NOTHING AND SOMETHING ...
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will present Ukrainian projects in Cannes this May and launch a film programme dedicated to Ukrainian cinema on its web cinema platform. "We are obliged to do everything possible to help and support the Ukrainian film industry at this difficult time, but even so more Ukrainian people," said Tiina Lokk, Festival Director of PÖFF. For the second year running, PÖFF and Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event will participate in t...
Since the unprovoked invasion from February 24, we witnessed the tragic procession of Ukrainian refugees and the countless casualties caused. Every member of the festival office expresses deep regret in response to this unbearable invasion of Ukraine, as the spirit of freedom and peace is the most basic and valuable ideology that all citizens in the world must defend. The Russian government deserves condemnation for its brutal and violent act of war. We demand the Russi...
The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, the partnership established by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and the European Film Academy to act as the film community's collective response to cases of filmmakers facing severe risk, has set up a special "Emergency Fund for Filmmakers" for film practitioners directly in danger due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Coalition and the Fund ...
International film academies are joining the boycott of Russian cinema due to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. The European Film Academy is boycotting Russian cinema and calling for a boycott of all European film academies.The Polish Film Academy, the Danish Film Academy, the Italian Film Academy, the Catalan Film Academy, the Lithuanian Film Academy, and the Slovak Film Academy have already joined the appeal. In addition, other film organizations are joining the boycott: D...
On March 6, as a result of shelling by Russian occupiers in the Ukrainian city of Irpin, the famous Ukrainian actor Pasha Li was killed. He was 33 years old. The artist joined the ranks of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to protect the country from Russian occupiers. Pasha Lee was a well-known Ukrainian film and dubbing actor, singer and composer. He played in the theater "Koleso", starred in films and commercials. Among his work...
#StandWithUkraine #StopPutinNow Dear colleagues, we, the KMW team, appreciate your support of Ukraine during these darkest days in modern history. Our country is on the frontline struggling against the russian aggressor, which has threatened humanism and freedom globally, without exaggeration. This is an unprecedented trample on democratic values as a basis of the current world order since World War II. Putin's regime escalated the current war with all the weapons available, which mean...
> SANTA BARBARA FEST IN FOCUS with Guy Kennedy, Emmanuel Itier, Mark Bennett and Quendrith Johnson
The final tribute of the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG featured a tribute to Academy Award winners, Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman, who received the prestigious Maltin Modern Master Award. Bardem and Kidman were recognized for their long-standing contributions to the film industry, most recently in the roles of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin's BEING THE RICARDOS from Amazon Studios, for which they both received indi...
Day 7 of the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG featured a tribute to Penelope Cruz, who received the Montecito Award. Cruz was recognized for her impressive career and performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS from Sony Pictures Classic. Cruz sat down with SBIFF Executive Director, Roger Durling, for an in depth discussion about her journey to stardom and her impressive career in film and television. Ph...
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jane Campion hug at the Cinema Vanguard Award during the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival at Arlington Theatre on March 9, 2022 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for SBIFF) Day 8 of the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG featured a tribute to Benedict Cumberbatch, who received the Cinema Vanguard Award. Cumberbatch was honored for his remarkable care...
BELLE VIE SBIFF 2022 With Director: Marcus Mizelle By Emmanuel Itier In-jailed between a Mc Donald and a KFC, stands proud and fearless the Parisian-style bistro: “Belle Vie” run by passionate maestro: Vincent Samarco. Director Marcus Mizelle explores what it takes to keep your passion alive and going, especially during a pandemic. But ‘Belle Vie’ is more than a gourmet journey into the heart of a passionate human being it’s truly exploring the...
YOU RESEMBLE ME aka TU ME RESSEMBLES. SBIFF 2022 With director: Dina Amer By Emmanuel Itier Dina Amer is a maverick director/producer. Not only the Egyptian born talented filmmaker who grew up between Egypt and the USA helped produced the Emmy award-winning Documentary, ‘The Square’ but she managed with success to direct her first feature, ‘Tu me resembles’, in French and on a very tricky subject matter: a woman drifting into islam extresmism to become a s...
A PLACE IN THE FIELD SBIFF 2022 With director: Nikki Mejia By Emmanuel Itier Director Nikki Mejia is an atomic director exploding on the screen with a “tour de force” first feature: ‘A place in the field’. She dares to explore and expose the human soul at its most raw incarnation and invite the viewer into a journey of redemption and self-exploration. Nikki’s poetic approach of PTSD among soldiers is a moving and rare inspiring mind...
Smith and Ellis sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s longtime awards columnist and host of its popular Awards Chatter podcast, Scott Feinberg for an in depth discussion about their cinematic careers. Some of the highlights from the conversation included: Will looked quite dapper on the red carpet dressed from head to toe in Dolce & Gabbana, see HERE! Will took us down memory lane from when he made history by being the first Grammy winner for Best...
The newest panel at the festival: the Animation Panel. Attendees gathered for Charise Castro Smith – Co-Writer/Co-Director (ENCANTO), Charlotte De Le Gournerie – Producer (FLEE), Enrico Casarosa – Co-Writer/Director (LUCA) Mike Rianda – Co-Writer/Co-Director (THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES), Don Hall – Co-Director (RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON) in conversation, led by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. Some highlights from th...
OUR WORDS COLLIDE SBIFF 2022 Interview with Directors Jordan Barrow and Matt Edwards, Producers Diane Luby Lane and Samuel Curties ( www.GetLit.org ) and poets: Jason Alvarez, Amari Turner and Virginia Villalta. And with Anti-Defamation League regional director: Dan Meisel By Emmanuel Itier “Life is a living poem”, Boris Vian, the French poet, was so right and “Our Words Collide”, the doc directed by Jordan Barrow and Matt Edwards, is truly a living poem as i...
Some of the highlights from the Virtuosos night included: Rosario Dawson, Executive Producer of OUR WORDS COLLIDE, World Premiering at SBIFF. Photo HERE. Alana Haim - Watch HERE. On driving the stick shift truck in the film: “You do not want me to teach you how to drive stick…I was a terrible driver so I really do appreciate Bradley Cooper and Cooper Hoffman for letting me almost kill them…they lived to tell the tale.” On her parents pl...
The Writers Panel in-person Saturday, March 5 @ 11:00am, moderated by Anne Thompson. Panelists included: Kenneth Branagh (BELFAST) Siân Heder (CODA) Adam McKay (DON'T LOOK UP) Denis Villeneuve (DUNE) Zach Baylin (KING RICHARD) Maggie Gyllenhaal (THE LOST DAUGHTER) Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG) Eskil Vogt (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) Day 4 of the 37th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival presented by UGG began with ...
Photo Coverage by Mark Bennett Conversations and Variety Artisans Award red carpet moments by William Conlin (YTS Film) Video Coverage by Guy Kennedy and Stuart MacNaught ...
Penélope Cruz received the Montecito Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Tuesday, March 8 at an in-person conversation about her career leading up to this year’s performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS from Sony Pictures Classic. “In the most complex role written by the master Almodovar, Penelope Cruz delivers the best performance of her career and a master class in calibration and detailed actin...
Virtuosos Award presented by UGG to 2022 recipients: Caitriona Balfe (Belfast), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza), Ciarán Hinds (Belfast), Emilia Jones (CODA), Troy Kotsur (CODA), Simon Rex (Red Rocket), and Saniyya Sidney (King Richard) (An award given to multiple “up-and-coming” actors for achieving a breakthrough performance.) &...
Santa Barbara International Film Festival -March 2022 Interview by Roxanna Bina Grandes Horizontale Premiering at the 37th Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival From the award-winning director Leslie Zemeckis ( https://lesliezemeckis.com) of Bound by Flesh, Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer and Behind the Burly Q comes a documentary about the lives, loves and enduring influence of the Grandes Horizontales. A never before in-depth look at the c...
The Santa Barbara international Film Festival is partnering with Direct Relief, a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit humanitarian aid organization that responds to natural disasters and other emergency situations by rushing critical medicines and requested supplies to people affected by the crisis in Ukraine and surrounding countries. All contributions will support Direct Relief’s emergency response to the Ukraine crisis. Thank you for working together to help those...
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORS OF THE YEAR AWARD Sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter Honoring Paul Thomas Anderson (LICORICE PIZZA), Kenneth Branagh (BELFAST), Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (DRIVE MY CAR), and Steven Spielberg (WEST SIDE STORY) THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2022 8:00PM - ARLINGTON THEATRE AND PANELISTS FOR SBIFF’S INDUSTRY PANELS ANNOUNCED PLUS THE ADDITION OF A NEW ANIMATION PANEL Paul Thomas Anderson (LICORICE PIZZA), Kenneth Branag...
VARIETY ARTISANS AWARD Sponsored by Variety Honoring Tamara Deverell Frederic Aspiras and Göran Lundstrom Germaine Franco Greig Fraser Lin-Manuel Miranda Paul Massey Kelly Port Peter Scriberras Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan MONDAY, MARCH 7th, 2022 8:00PM - ARLINGTON THEATRE Variety’s eighth annual Artisans Awards celebrates those essential to the filmmaking process and who have exhibited the most exciti...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Last night at the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) when Kristen Stewart arrived, you could actually hear the crowd roar outside in the light rain behind the makeshift metal gates along the street outside the Arlington Theater. And that’s how #KStew, in her fan shorthand, brought the post-pandemic thrill back to SBIFF when she accepted the American Riviera Award. Part of the magic was a black and white feather...
by Quendrith Johnson, filmfestivals.com Los Angeles Correspondent Not to say that Steven Spielberg phoned it in last night, but the WEST SIDE STORY teller had to appear by video link at the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) due to what Executive Director Roger Durling said was? "They tested positive for Covid." Did he mean Spielberg, who looked healthy as a peach on the link? Or Jane Campion on the screen from New Zealand? Perhaps DRIVE MY CAR&#...
PASANG: IN THE SHADOW OF EVEREST SBIFF 2022 Interview by Emmanuel Itier with director Nancy Svendsen, Pasang’s daughter Dawa Futi Sherpa and Nepali Mountain climber Dawa Yangzum Sherpa. Q: What inspired this film and what were you trying to explore with it? Nancy: I knew about the exploit of Pasang, this amazing, first Nepali, woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest. This was an inspiring woman, full of courage. It is a universal story for our times and for al...
Radhe Shyam, Review: Goodness gracious, how flirtatious! At its core, Radhe Shyam rakes-up an interesting debate, between destiny and those exceptions who surmount their pre-ordained destiny, and, in some cases, defy it. For destiny, read ‘predictions based on palmistry’. And yet, it tilts the balance strongly in favour of destiny, putting forth emphatically the theory that 99% of us cannot escape what has been written on our palms. Had this been the track that the screenplay deve...
Music Forever: Long performing music duo L-P, alias Laxmikant-Pyarelal Ajay Poundarik is neither a writer nor a journalist. But if he is anything, he is a fanatic admirer of the work of the music composer duo of Hindi films, Laxmikant and Pyarelal, better known as L-P. LP, which, in music parlance, is an acronym for Long Playing Record, is a term that fits them like the proverbial glove. They were indeed a long-playing pair, to be sure. As a tribute to his ‘deities’, Poundarik ...
Parallel Mothers, Review: Swapped babies and a Spanish history lesson from the Master Expectations suddenly rise when the name Pedro Almodóvar is mentioned. One regrets having missed the screening at IFFI, November 2021, but then Impact Films, Mumbai, of Ashwani Sharma, acquires distribution rights of Parallel Mothers, for India, and holds a press screening at Soho, in Juhu, Bombay, a small but exotic theatre, fixes its release on 11 March 2022, and invites you to catch-up on what you ...
80% of the 68 films of the 3 Competitive Sections are WORLD PREMIERES and EUROPEAN PREMIERES, the other films have their national premières. For a festival in Portugal this is quite an accomplishment! The Popular Fantasporto is back, after two downsized editions due to the pandemic regulations. But the Oporto Film festival moves on, holding its 42nd edition back at the Rivoli Theatre in the centre of the city. Looking at the line-up and the films in the two most important com...
Coverage in 70 countries, media reach of 11 billion... PÖFF in figures How many visits did the 25th Black Nights Film Festival receive, where it was written about, and how many million euros did it bring back to the Estonian economy? To summarise last year's figures: 71200 PÖFF cinema and web cinema visits 182 feature films, 2 short films and 12 TV series were...
Early Bird Tickets on sale for SRFF 2022 extended until March 11 We are pleased to be partnering with SR Socially Relevant Film Festival 2022, taking place in-person from March 16th to 20th at Lincoln Center, Cinema Village, and virtually from March 20th to 27th. As the premier film festival dedicated to celebrating social issues and human interest stories, the SR Socially Relevant Film Festival showcases stories such as Climate Change and Women, Immigration and Refug...
In support of Ukraine, Göteborg Film Festival teams up with Story, Draken Film and Folkets Bio to host screenings of Simon Lereng Wilmont's festival winner A House made of Splinters, set in a children's home in Eastern Ukraine. The screenings will take place in cinemas throughout Sweden and online via Göteborg Film Festival’s streaming service, Draken Film. All takings from the screenings will go in full to the organisation Voices of Children in Ukraine. ...
Visions du Réel is joining the international movement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for their freedom. We express our support for Ukrainian artists and filmmakers, and for all those whose lives are threatened and upended by the war. We strongly condemn the ongoing Russian invasion. At the same time, the Festival wishes to convey its support for the Russian artists and citizens who are currently expressing their resistance. The 2022 official selection notabl...
Ojai Film Festival, ranked one of the top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway, continues to grow in prestige. The festival, which begins November 3, 2022, showcases the finest new films by emerging and established filmmakers from around the world. Both the film and screenplay competitions opened to submissions March 1. In the previous 22 years 15 alumni received Academy Award nominations, two won an Oscar, and numerous others went on to gain distribution and win prestigious awa...
Left & middle photo: Director Ramin Bahrani (left) and MFF Director of Programming Jaie Laplante (Right). Right Photo: Director of Programming Jaie Laplante (Left), Director Fernando León de Aranoa (Middle), Jaume Roures Llop (Right) Oscar Shortlist candidates The Good Boss and Plaza Cathedral to Open & Close Fest; Ari Wegner to Receive Art of Light (Cinematographer) Award After being the first U.S. film festival to hold in-theater,...
From Wednesday 8 June to Sunday 19 June, the 69th Sydney Film Festival returns with 12 days and nights of the world’s best new cinema – and this year Australian filmmakers will be joined by international filmmakers with their films from around the globe. Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley said “Sydney Film Festival returns in 2022 with a groundbreaking program of feature film premieres and documentaries, international filmmaker guests, and live events.” &ldq...
AFF 2022 SLATE ANNOUNCEMENT! We would like to congratulate all of the officially accepted filmmakers for the 2022 Film Festival. We are excited to share these amazing films with you! The titles listed below will screen at the festival this year. Look for the final film schedule and p...
A festival 25 years in the making, Sonoma International Film Festival celebrates this milestone with a slate of more than 120 independent, international films screening—including 79 premieres—during the 25th Anniversary Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) March 23-27. The fun-filled, completely walkable festival in the heart of Sonoma Valley Wine Country, will also play host to two one-of-a-kind culinary events, special parties, panels, a Virtual Reality experi...
Honorary Chair First Lady Tammy Snyder Murphy ...
Capital Irish Film Festival Co-presented with Solas Nua March 3–6 This year's diverse slate of films includes 15 features, two shorts programs and three post-screening Q&As, along with a special screening of the inaugural Norman Houston Short Film Award winner, AN IRISH GOODBYE. The festival closes Sunday with music documentary WHERE'S THE CRAIC? with filmmaker Lauren Hakulinen in person. Highlights ...
We're searching for our next Executive Director! Please share the details and job description below with anyone you see fit (or learn more about applying yourself!) Applications will be accepted through March 22, 2022. Questions may be directed to hiring@filmfestivalalliance.org About Us: Film Festival Alliance (FFA) creates a collaborative global community for mission-driven film festivals. FFA advocates for a sustainable and inclusive environment for our industry withi...
Universal Studio Group's Chairman Pearlena Igbokwe joins as the first Summit Series keynote speaker Igbokwe leads four powerhouse studios: Universal Television, UCP, Universal Television Alternative Studios and Universal International Studios that produce over 3,000 hours of programming currently airing or streaming around the globe. The In Conversation series kicks off with a keynote by the Dean of Brown University's School of Public Health Dr. Ashish K. Jha ...
French Riviera Film Festival in collaboration with Kvartal Concert, UA has launched a PSA Campaign in support of Ukraine. The first spot features a poignant message from festival partner, award-winning actor Eric Roberts, with music by Keaton Simons. Additional spots featuring festival partners will be released throughout the week. "We're so grateful to our festival partners for joining us to support Ukraine," comments FRFF co-founder Nicole Muj. &qu...
Bruno Chatelin filmfestivals.com co founder former head of SONY AND fox theatrical distribution shared his festival experience and advice for an hour to participants of BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY AWARDS 2021 THE VIDEO WIL BE ACCESSIBLE FOR OUR AUDIENCE YOUTUBE CHANNEL OF BRUNO'S INTERVIEWS ...
The feature-length documentary 'Navalny', in which director Daniel Roher tells the blood-curdling story of the 2020 assassination attempt on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, opens the Movies that Matter Festival on Friday 8 April. Earlier this year, 'Navalny' won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary and the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance. The Movies that Matter Festival 2022 will take place from Friday 8 to Saturday 16 April in the Dutch city of The Hague, on...
Bantoo is a unique 360-degree solution bringing together social media and communication tools with holistic entertainment Top African and Caribbean influencers and entrepreneurs have joined the Bantoo (Bantoolink.com) movement as proud Ambassadors of the new digital platform and communication tool Bantoo that is being launched worldwide on 8 March 2022. "As an African...
Spring is almost in the air, the pandemic could possibly be coming to an end soon, and a film festival in the U.K interviewed me about my filmmaking and writing. What's not to love about that? Gareth James, Marcus Gregg, and LJ, the managers of the RATMA film Festival in West Yorkshire, England, interviewed James W. Hawk, award-winning filmmaker and author via Zoom. The RATMA Film Festival is in its tenth year. The interview covers Hawk's filmmaking and writing background and experience...
"We have just received two more honors from THE GOLDEN HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL in TOKYO JAPAN. We are very thrilled to receive these 2 very important awards: BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM and BEST FEATURE FILM! Wow! This is such a wonderful acknowledgement of the messages in our film that are inspiring people all around the world! So grateful!" GOLDEN HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL is an online film awarding ceremony dedicated to the...
"Thank you Beloit International Film Festival- humbled and honored to be here! @thesoundofus" Chris Gero director of 'The Sound of Us' one of our BEST FOR FESTS AND THE WINNERS ARE... Beloit International Film Festival Honors Filmmakers with Annual BIFFY A...
August 21-28, 2022
Calling: January 2 - April 30, 2022
«Castellorizo-The Aegean Island where Documentaries meet History & Culture»
The 7th International Documentary Festival «Beyond Borders», Castellorizo island, has the pleasure to invite documentary film-makers to submit their films from 2nd of January 2022 until 30th of April, 2022. The Festival’s objective is to promote the most important documentary productions worldwide that focus on history, culture, politics and other social issues. «Beyond Borders» which takes place every year during the last week of August, will be held once again under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou. It is produced by the Hellenic History Foundation (www.idisme.gr) in collaboration with Ecrans des Mondes (Paris) and the Society for the Restoration of Megisti, (Sydney). «Beyond Borders» includes a selection of Greek, European and worldwide productions of the last five years, workshops, parallel events and master classes.
Please, find the application form and the participation terms here:www.beyondborders.gr
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May 21 – 22, 2022
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The fourth annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) will recognize and celebrate short-form content created for film, television, Web and all digital platforms. In the glamorous South of France setting, FRFF invites filmmakers from around the globe to participate in the two-day festival that includes screenings, awards ceremony, and closing gala party. FRFF will place the spotlight on the best short-form filmed content during the time period of the annual Festival de Cannes. A prestigious jury panel will select Best Drama Short, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation Short, Best Experimental Short, Best Lifestyle Short, Best Fashion Short, Best Music Video, Best Female Filmmaker Award, Best Director Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress Award, Best Activism Short, Best Micro Short Award, Industry Excellence Award, and Lifetime Achievement Awards . Attendees and participants will include filmmakers, industry executives, celebrities, media, and influencers. https://filmfreeway.com/FrenchRivieraFilmFestival
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March 31, 2022 Regular deadline
Discovering and Producing Talented Writers and Filmmakers left behind by the entertainment industry, worldwide!
The return of Entertainment's unparalleled event!
Season 3 SPECIAL EDITION: Accepting the following submissions: Features, Pilots, Shorts AND Documentaries!
THERE IS NO AGE LIMIT ON SUCCESS! WE ARE ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FROM ALL AGES, WORLDWIDE! Anyone under the age of 18 MUST submit a parental consent form.
ALL GENRES / SUB GENRES ACCEPTED!
Writers & Filmmakers of ALL ages can submit.
ACCEPTING: FEATURES / PILOTS / SHORTS / DOCUMENTARIES!
OVER $500,000.00 IN PRODUCTION BUDGETS - CASH - AWARDS -PRIZES
Official website page, visit:
www.YourScriptProduced.com
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March 3, 2022 regular deadline
New Media Film Festival®, an innovative and award-winning* festival created in 2009, celebrates stories, technology, and platforms. We continually implement new opportunities outside the norm to bolster creators in media.
Judges from HBO, MARVEL, EMMYS, BBC, Grammys, PBS & more. $45,000.00 In Awards
Through our boundary pushing ideology, we create an environment for creators to thrive. New Media Film Festival® is an infinite catalyst for story and technology. Not just any stories, but the stories worth telling.
All submissions come with perks - one of them is consideration for distribution.
NETFLIX - 1st look deal, documentaries specifically.
AMC-1st look deal, feature length, & series - all types
New - NFT category
New - PITCHING - our Producer Panel & Pitching is now online. Submit your Pitch today!
New - One Page Feedback add on to Script Category
All categories -
360, AR, AI, 5D, Animation, Apps, Artwork, Digital Comics, Documentary, Drone, Feature, Mixed Reality, Mobile/Tablet, Music Only, Music Video, New Media, Pilots, Pitching, Podcasts, Scripts, Shorts, Sniplers (30 second pitch), SR- Socially Responsible, STEAM, Student, Trailers, TV, Virtual Reality, Web Series, Web Series Promo (one scene)
**Please note, New Media category includes Gaming, Tech Vlog's, VE, Vertical, Live, Location Based, etc.
June 1st Global Online and June 2nd in person at the state of the art theater, The Landmark in Los Angeles CA
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Regular deadline: April 15, 2022
The 'Lost World' of Paleochora nestles between the Mountains and Sea in South West Crete and is the perfect location for Filmmakers to convene to show their work, network with colleagues and enjoy our fabulous Cretan hospitality. We may be at the most southern point of Europe, but there are BIG Film things happening here and on the entire Island of Crete. Our main aim will be to select films which focus on great storytelling, whether fiction, documentary or any other accepted genre.
Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival launched its 1st edition in June 2019 to a spectacular success. The Festival enjoyed packed audiences at all screenings and played host to 22 visiting Filmmakers & Industry guests from as far afield as Brazil, USA, France, Ireland, UK, Germany, Greece & Iran. Check out our photos here as well as the Festival Vibe & interview videos on our YouTube Channel (Copy & Paste the link):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfnk7RWWnYUTFmB2cpfxz6g
Screenings are held Under the Stars in the Town Hall Square with daytime programmes held at the fabulous Pearl Cavo oceanside venue.
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Starring Aidan Browne and Sofia Masson
A young guitarist is about to play the biggest show of his life. Things don't quite go as expected...
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Short Film Fantasy USA December 2021 - 14 Minutes 20 seconds
A prestigious feminine writer examines in her most recent novel what it means to be a woman across history and conjures up Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt and fierce feminine writer/philosopher Mary Wollenstonecraft(mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frakenstein) who have crossed deserts of eternal time to meet.
The women materialize into her present time environment and recount their greatest victories, defeats, loves, regrets and dreams.
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Kevin Box has always known exactly what he intends to do with his life. In his words, "I want to have a conversation with people now and hundreds of years into the future."
As an artist, Kevin has been fascinated by the evolution of "lost wax casting" to create bronze sculptures and he spent many of his early years being mentored by other successful sculptors. Through his own R&D, he developed a unique signature by “unfolding” origami and casting these beautiful patterns into museum quality wall hangings.
"ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN" traces the career arc of Kevin and his partner/wife Jennifer as they now continue to create multiple traveling exhibitions of their artwork. Over the past decade, their unique sculptures have been viewed all over the country by millions of people.
"ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN" is an Artfilm, a Love Story, and an inspiration for all by showing what is possible…just starting with a simple piece of paper!
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark and his son Wes Clark Jr. take us on a journey through the complicated realities of our financial system and its profound exposure to climate change. Hot Money outs the whole game, the whole charade, the whole crapshoot of the money system with all the humor and intelligence of a New Yorker cartoon. Combined with the wisdom of international business experts and academics, Hot Money is rich with historical context. It severs the knot of economic and political forces that may lead to societal collapse.
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Documentary by Susan Kucera (director of Jeff Bridges Living in the future’s past)
USA July 2021 51 minutes 48 seconds
Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which are built in by evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address the problem.
Our brains evolved to solve short-term challenges for our survival. Climate change is a long-term challenge to our survival. Can we bridge the gap between these modes of thinking?
Emmy-nominated actor David Morse narrates the brutally honest 12th hour with insight from noted evolutionary biologists, climate scientists, cognitive researchers and psychologists.
Visionary thinkers like Peter Russell, Dr. Paul Piff, Dr. Kari Norgaard and dozens of the brightest minds in academia lay out an unflinching look at mankind: our past, our abilities, our shortcomings and what may be humankind's final destination.
If we have any hope to survive the changes we’ve locked in to our climate, we need to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. The 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.
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Documentary by Daisy Gedeon second feature documentary
Australia june 2021 90 minutes (in post)
ENOUGH! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour follows Australian-Lebanese filmmaker Daizy Gedeon’s personal and independent introspection into how her ancestral homeland, the place her family was forced to flee in the 1970s because of the Civil War, has ended up in a state of complete catastrophe. It is a story of awakening in which Daizy is forced to abandon her idealism about Lebanon and face the cold, harsh truth about the country’s dark underbelly which is its most sinister enemy.
Daizy prosecutes the case against the corrupt political class which has reduced a proud people to beg for garbage collection instead of greatness and negotiate potholes rather than peace.
ENOUGH! is the plea and the prayer, the feeling and fierce determination of the 4.5 million Lebanese in Lebanon as well as the 16 million members of the Lebanese diaspora scattered around the world, whose hearts continue to bleed for a homeland they are desperate to return to and so deeply want to believe in...once again.
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"The Sound of Us" illustrates that during this critical time in world and U.S. history, music gives sound to hope and courage, allows us to grieve and be honest, and is the great, universal language that unites us all.
As the world grapples with unrest the profound truth remains that, through music, we are not alone.
The Sound of Us weaves inspiring stories about the beauty and goodness of music with interviews and performances by artists such as Ben Folds, Sarah McLachlan, Avery*Sunshine, Eric Whitacre, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Hiromi, Antonio Sanchez, Butch Walker, Will Wells, Patti Smith, and many more. Combined, these powerful vignettes illustrate how music heals us, gives us hope for the future through our children, keeps our heritage and history alive, allows us to have the most difficult of conversations, sheds light on current struggles, and continues to invite us back to the thing that unites us all - music.
The film is directed by Chris Gero, a Grammy nominated, American music industry executive, concert producer, record producer, songwriter, film director and composer, founder of Yamaha Entertainment Group of America and Chief Artist Relations Executive for Yamaha Artist Relations Group
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USA 28 minutes August 2021
Invisible Hand is an exploration of memory. Our unnamed protagonist lives a life of repetition and insecurity. Every day is a blur of abstract actions until one night she meets a dark stranger who gives her a mysterious gift. Her life is turned upside down when she confronts a terrifying truth about her past. Deciding to take herself out of the abstract daily routine, she journeys into the crevices of her memory to untangle a dark secret that could ultimately destroy her.
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In an attempt to snatch a sample of human DNA, two clueless aliens come down to Earth and crash a Halloween party in Hollywood.
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74 minutes First feature documentary USA April 2021
A diverse group of middle-school students go on the journey of a lifetime when they compete in a nationwide competition sponsored by MIT to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
Zero Gravity is a feature documentary that follows a diverse group of middle-school students from San Jose, CA, who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
Seen through the wondrous eyes of three diverse young students and their first-time coach, they each take an intimate and personal journey to space as their team grows from amateur coders to representing California in the ISS Finals Tournament — the culmination of a summer-long adventure that sees their incredible accomplishment performed by astronauts in orbit.
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USA September 2020 77minutes
How do United States' presidential elections really work? And what would happen if we changed the rules? In Safeguard: An Electoral College Story, award-winning filmmaker M.A. Taylor answers those questions.
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BLUE MOTEL Award winning script by Ted Campbell
Feature film in production by Doval Bacall Films
Grand Winner Your Script Produced season 1 Platinum Remi Award WorldFest Houston
When his bank robber father injured in a recent heist seeks refuge at the desolate motel where he works, a motel clerk is forced to confront the truth behind a botched heist from his past.
Originally from Boston, Mass, Ted Campbell is a screenwriter and director who specializes in thoughtful, character driven thrillers. Ted will direct his heist thriller "Underground" with producer Ellen Wander of Film Bridge International. His contained, crime thriller “Blue Motel” won the Grand Prize in Your Script Produced screenplay competition. Ted will direct “Blue Motel” with Doval Bacall Films producing. Ted is a member of ISA’s Development Program. And was named to ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch list.
Ted finds inspiration in the works of the great noir writers Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald as well as his screenwriting idols Scott Frank, Shane Black, Tony Gilroy and Richard Wenk.
Russia USA Feature documentary April 2020 Director's cut: 79 minutes
What happened, what can happen to the centuries old amazing wooden churches in north of Russia. Photographer Richard Davies trips to Russia and USA tell stories on human soul, hope and russian american…cooperation in restoring beauty.
Saving North is the story of a struggle for human and cultural survival in the mysterious and insular world of the Russian North. An outsider from England, photographer Richard Davies, enters this mysterious and vast region of the world with the hope of documenting both the glory and the tragic demise of its rapidly disappearing Wooden Churches.
Nous sommes très fiers des bonnes relations et des partenariats signé avec les plus grands festivals et marchés : Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, et Cannes Market bien entendu et beaucoup d'autres. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir grace à ces parteneriats pouvoir apporter news et dailies à ...
L’ICD Business School, école de commerce et de marketing du Groupe IGS, reçoit Maître Ingrid Méry-Haziot, avocate européenne de droit du numérique et du divertissement lors de sa 6è master class sur la convergence numérique, sur la thématique « Cinéma et blockchain , vers un financement disruptif ? ». L’événement aura lieu le mercredi 16 mars à 17h sur le campus Groupe IGS Paris*. ...
Voila un bel événement à ne pas manquer et qui fera du bien...Quelle belle idée pour répondre à la barbarie et la bétise par l'intelligence et la culture. Un spectacle mis en scène Jérémie Lippmann Avec Virginie Ledoyen, Charles Berling, Frédéric Beigbeder, Dani, Zabou Breitman, Vincent Dedienne, Dorothée Gilbert, Antoine Leiris, Helena Noguerra...
Embarquez avec nous du 6 au 10 avril pour cette édition comeback du Festival Cinémarges à Bordeaux. Une sélection de 10 longs-métrages et 9 courts-métrages autour des questions LGBTQ+ et féministes ➜ 4 avant-premières (No Hard Feelings, Tove, Flee, Los Fuertes), des inédits (Ultraviolette, Delphine et Carole), des films cultes (Born in Flames, Joahnna D'Arc of Mongolia) et des coups de coeur en déc...
Alejandro Loayza Grisi, Carlos Segundo, Sol Berruezo Pichon-Riviére et d'autres cinéastes latino-américain·e·s incontournables Cette année, Cinéma en Développement se dédouble ! Cette année encore, nous innovons dans la forme que prennent les activités de la plateforme professionnelle. Après une édition qui s'est déroulée avec succès de façon dé...
Le pass Culture lance sa 1ère édition du Temps Fort des Métiers de la Culture et propose à ses utilisateurs une série de rencontres exclusives avec des professionnels de la culture Du 18 au 28 mars 2022, le pass Culture se mobilise pour faire découvrir à ses jeunes bénéficiaires les métiers de la culture et organise des rencontres exclusives avec près d’une centaine d’acteurs culturels à travers tout...
Brit, Brut et Borderline ! Le 24 mars à 20h au cinéma Les 7 Batignolles, Paris 17 Après le succès des deux première éditions cet automne, GAZ, le festival de films de montage et d’escalade, organisé par Climbing Distrcit et en partenariat avec le cinéma Les 7 Batignolles est de retour pour une présentation de 3 films exceptionnels et en avant-première dédiés, cette fois-ci, à la grimpe Brita...
Collaboration ! POLICE X THE BATMAN ! Le fameux justicier de Gotham s’associe à la marque Police ( département Horlogerie) pour le lancement de la collection THE BATMAN - un ensemble de 4 montres, en édition limitée incarnant le véritable esprit du super-héros DC, à l’occasion de la sortie en salles, le 2 mars , du long métrage de Matt Reeves ! Quatre montres uniques, pro...
Découvrez dès le 27 Avril 2022 Movie Ghost, un hommage aux polars noirs scénarisé par Stéphane Desberg et mis en images par Futaki. Résumé : Jerry Fifth connaît tous les péchés de la cité des Anges, des prostituées de Sunset Boulevard aux divas de Hollywood, des producteurs sur le retour aux jeunes acteurs sur le chemin de la gloire. On le paie pour trouver des amants, des enfants illégitim...
Nous partageons ici le message reçu du Film Festival des Arcs "Le jeudi 24 février dernier, nous étions toutes et tous sous le choc de cette attaque militaire de la Russie en Ukraine. Depuis, c’est bien une guerre que la Russie de Poutine y mène. Nous ne pouvons que nous indigner d’une telle situation en 2022 et nous souhaitons montrer notre solidarité au peuple ukrainien. Notre arme est la culture et tout particulièremen...
Walter Hill Photo © Nicolas Aproux Rendre hommage à Walter Hill, c’est rendre hommage au meilleur du cinéma policier dans ses fondements patrimoniaux. Dès 1975 avec LE BAGARREUR, Walter Hill s’impose comme un cinéaste avec lequel l’industrie va devoir compter. Scénariste, réalisateur et producteur, il excelle dans les trois domaines. Scénariste de la majorité de ses films, il a aussi collaboré à l&rs...
Crazy Theory : le jeu de société illustré par Fabcaro et inspiré de sa BD Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï se refait une beauté à l’occasion de la sortie du film ! Et si un petit côté complotiste se cachait en nous ? Avec plus de 300 000 exemplaires vendus, la BD Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï est adaptée sur grand écran. À l'occasion de la sortie le 23 février du film Zaï Zaï...
FESTIVAL CINÉ-NOTES / "MONSTRES ET CRÉATURES" - DU 7 AU 22 MARS 2022 À BORDEAUX ET EN RÉGION La bande-originale d'un film est une signature qui contribue à son succès… Qui pense à Psychose a immédiatement en tête les célèbres crissements des violons, et les terrifiantes Dents de la Mer de Steven Spielberg sont indissociables de la musique lancinante du requin en approche… C...
Basé sur le roman de Patricia Highsmith, Ben Affleck et Ana de Armas interprètent Vic et Melinda Van Allen, un couple aisé de la Nouvelle-Orléans dont le mariage s'écroule sous le poids de la rancœur, de la jalousie et du doute. Alors que leurs provocations et manipulations mutuelles s'intensifient, les choses se transforment rapidement en un jeu du chat et de la souris mortel lorsque les amants de Melinda commencent à disparaître. ...
La Maison Terre Exotique organise son deuxième Festival International des Poivres les 25 et 26 juin 2022 prochains à Rochecorbon, en Touraine à quelques minutes de Tours et à 1 heure de Paris. Nous serions heureux de vous inviter à venir passer 1 ou 2 journées avec nous afin de vous faire vivre et découvrir les différentes gammes de poivres, leurs saveurs, leurs usages, leurs gouts autour d’ateliers, de ...
Après une annulation en 2020 et une édition hybride en 2021, le Festival du Cinéma Espagnol de Nantes revient dans les salles du 8 au 20 mars 2022. Au programme de cette 31e édition : 60 films (dont 29 en compétition pour l’un des 7 prix, 23 premières, 4 avant-premières, 1 première mondiale, etc.), des rencontres et masterclass avec 40 personnalités du milieu du cinéma et de la culture invitées pou...
Tour à tour réalisateur, scénariste et producteur, mais aussi critique de cinéma pour le quotidien El País à la fin des années 1970 avant de fonder sa propre revue, Fernando Trueba explore au long de sa prolifique carrière les registres cinématographiques les plus variés : le film d’animation (Chico y rita), l’adaptation littéraire (El embrujo de Shanghai), ou encore le genre documentaire (E...
À l’heure où le monde a basculé dans une grave crise qui voit une partie de l’Europe se trouver en état de guerre, le Festival de Cannes souhaite exprimer tout son soutien au peuple ukrainien et à toutes les personnes qui se trouvent sur son territoire. Aussi modeste qu’elle soit, nous unissons notre voix à tous ceux qui s’opposent à cette situation inacceptable et dénoncent l’attitude de la Russie et d...
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