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16th NYC Independent Film Festival June 5-8, 2024 August 31, 2023 Earlybird Deadline November 30, 2023 Regular Deadline January 15, 2024 Late Deadline February 15, 2024 Extended Deadline Home of the NYC Indie Awards the festival aims to discover the Artist Filmmaker, showcasing them to the entertainment industry and the NYC public. All NYCIndieFF screenings take place in...
The Call for Entries for the 22nd Wild & Scenic Film Festival is now open
The Call for Entries for the 22nd Wild & Scenic Film Festival is now open and closes on September 17, 2023. The early-bird discount on the entry fee ends midnight PST on Sunday, July 16th. Submit your film for consideration to our annual program through FilmFreeway. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival inspires environmental activism and a love for nature–through film. The 5-day event happens annually in Nevada C...
The Call for Entries for the 22nd Wild & Scenic Film Festival is now open
The Call for Entries for the 22nd Wild & Scenic Film Festival is now open and closes on September 17, 2023. The early-bird discount on the entry fee ends midnight PST on Sunday, July 16th. Submit your film for consideration to our annual program through FilmFreeway. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival inspires environmental activism and a love for nature–through film. The 5-day event happens annually in Nevada City and Gras...
ReelAbilities Film Festival to launch a new streaming service on July 11, showcasing films by and about people with disabilities
ReelAbilities Stream will be the first streaming platform to offer an expansive collection of celebrated disability-themed films offered with pioneering accessibility features. Honoring Disability Pride Month and the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, ReelAbilities Film Festival is thrilled to announce the highly-anticipated launch of ReelAbilitiesStream.org, a groundbreaking, accessible streaming platform dedicated to films that celebrate and explore the li...
Andrea Iervolino’s TaTaTu Partners with Berlin’s TV SERIES FESTIVAL on Short Film Contest #ShareYourShort
#ShareYourShort Entries Will Screen on the Rewards-Based Platform TaTaTu and Qualify To Be Nominated for TV Series Festival’s Best Short Film TaTaTu to Host Content from Major Italian Broadcaster During The Festival including “The Sea Beyond,” “Dragonero - Tales of Paladins” and “The Left Handed Son” TaTaTu, the groundbreaking rewards-based social media app founded by Andrea Iervolino, and Berlin’s TV Series Festival, the ...
The Montreal International Documentary Festival and Forum RIDM unveil the visual identity of their upcoming edition
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) and Forum RIDM are proud to unveil a visual identity that’s as vibrant as ever for their 2023 edition, to be held this November. For a second consecutive year, graphic designer Juliette Moal was invited to create the festival’s visual signature. Building on the concept she initiated in 2022, which was inspired by the imagery of VHS cases and 1990s television, Juliette has constructed a delightfully kinetic...
FREE PITCH ! Receive a USD 5000 $ Cash Prize to create your future film
FREE PITCH ! Receive a USD 5000$ Cash Prize to create your future film. We are excited to announce a unique opportunity for filmmakers to showcase their talent and win a Cash Prize of USD 5000$ to fund their next short film!. New York Indie Shorts Awards is introducing a new competition called “PITCH THE AUDIENCE,” where filmmakers can submit a 2-minute video presentation. This presentation, if selected by our programming team, will be screened during o...
Celebrate Diversity in Film! 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival - Call for Entries
INDIE FILMMAKERS … Do you have an awesome film? Celebrate Diversity in Film with New York City's WINTER FILM AWARDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL All Genres - Shorts - Features Animation - Horror - Music Video - Documentary Drama - Comedy - Web Series - Experimental - Student Work Winter Film Awards is New York City -- showcasing the eclectic diversity and excitement of the independent arts world. The Fest celebrates the outstanding work of emerging filmmakers in a...
FEFF 26 will be hosting the world premiere of 5 restored masterpieces
24 April/2 May 2024 - Udine, Italy, Teatro Nuovo and Visionario FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL 26 FROM “A CITY OF SADNESS” TO “RAISE THE RED LANTERN”: FEFF 26 WILL BE HOSTING THE WORLD PREMIERES OF RESTORED VERSIONS OF FIVE PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE MASTERPIECES! Chiu Fu-sheng, legendary producer of the five films, will be receiving the FEFF’s 2024 Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement in Udine. Apart from being the five mas...
Moutainfilm 2023 Festival Recap Video
2023 Festival Recap Video Our 2023 Festival was absolutely magical. We are so grateful to every sponsor, donor, attendee, guest, filmmaker, film subject, volunteer and staff member who made it happen. Check out the recap we put together of some of our favorite moments from this magical weekend. ...
The first films competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival
The films by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Campillo, Raven Jackson, Joachim Lafosse, Noah Pritzker, Cristi Puiu and Martín Rejtman, among others, will be competing for the Golden Shell at the 71st San Sebastián Festival The American newcomer Raven Jackson will be forming part of the Official Selection with a film developed in the Ikusmira Berriak programme María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, Robin Ca...
Ikusmira Berriak opens the tenth call for its residencies
The registration deadline for the audiovisual project development programme is September 1 From this edition, one of the positions on the pre-selection committee will be filled by an alumnus of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) on a rotating basis Ikusmira Berriak, the programme of residencies and audiovisual project development, organised by the San Sebastian Festival, Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), ...
Proyecta, organised by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Festival, are accepting submissions
The deadline for submissions is August 1 Proyecta, the initiative jointly organised by Ventana Sur, the Marché du Film and the San Sebastian Festival, opens its call for the submission of audiovisual feature films projects from Europe and Latin America that are at the development stage and are looking for co-production. Open from today, the initiative is for first or second works by their directors. The call is for fiction and non-fiction projects in development from Latin Ameri...
Lunenburg Doc Fest relaunches $10,000 pitch contest for underrepresented Nova Scotian filmmakers
Lunenburg Doc Fest is now accepting applications from Nova Scotian filmmakers for The Launch: Documentary Development and Pitch Contest. The initiative, funded by CBC and Bell Fund, offers underrepresented Nova Scotian media artists a chance to win mentorship and a prize package to make a short documentary over the next year. Five selected participants will pitch their documentary project live at the 2023 Lunenburg Doc Fest in competition for a $10,000 prize package including ca...
27th installment of LA Shorts Fest boasts 529 films from 34 countries, plus cash prizes for winning filmmakers
OSCAR QUALIFYING LA SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2023 PROGRAM - 27th installment of venerable LA Shorts Fest boasts 529 films from 34 countries, plus cash prizes for winning filmmakers. - Sponsored by Immaculate Heart Community, the opening night celebration features red carpet arrivals and social justice film bill. - 14...
Berlinale Spotlight: Berlinale Shorts at FIRST International Film Festival in Xining, China
La herida luminosa / Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays von / by Christian Avilés © ESCAC Films Berlinale Shorts With its specially curated programmes, the Berlinale has been present around the world for many years. The Berlinale Spotlight extends the festival period and makes the activities of the Berlinale visible throughout the year. The upcoming Berlinale Spotlight: Berlinale ...
The Film Community of the Many: Berlinale Talents Calls for Applications
The Talents at the Global Speed Matching 2023 © David Ausserhofer, Berlinale 2023 Until September 4, 2023, emerging film creators can once again apply for Berlinale Talents (February 17-22, 2024). The talent development initiative offers 200 creatives from 14 film disciplines the opportunity to take part in a multitude of think tanks, talks, workshops and labs. With more than 9,500 alumni in over 150 countries, and seven branches worldwide, Berlinale Talents has becom...
2024 Berlinale: “Next Move” - Focusing and Condensing for a Future-Oriented Festival Structure
After two unusual festival years due to the pandemic, the Berlinale celebrated a successful and glamourous comeback as an on-site event in February 2023. Executive Director Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian evaluated the structure of the Berlinale after the festival. Their goal is to be able to sustainably configure the festival by restructuring the organisation and condensing its programme. “Like many other areas of society, c...
5 key European Film Festivals unite introducing Launchpad to support emerging film professionals networking opportunities
The Locarno Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, IFFR and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival have joined forces in a new initiative: Launchpad. Launchpad aims at facilitating the integration of selected emerging film professionals working in international sales, marketing, traditional and online distribution, exhibition and programming, funds and commissions by giving them facilitated access to a network of film festivals in the ...
'Day9' by Award-winning DGA Director Dastan Khalili To Have World Premiere at LA Shorts International Film Festival
Thriller satire short Day9 will have its world premiere at the LA Short International Film Festival on July 25, 2023, at 3:15 p.m. PST at Regal LA Live Cinemas in downtown Los Angeles. In the film, Dobroth, a merciless millionaire, assembles a team of resilient workers and forces them to toil in an uninhabitable wasteland until they are pushed to their limits, both mentally and physically. Official Trailer: Day-9 trailer.mov from Alliance Of Light on ...
I want to be a kid again check the PUNTO Y RAYA JUNIOR FESTIVAL wrap video
PUNTO Y RAYA JUNIOR FESTIVAL 2023 June 14th-18th, 2023 CNP Centrum na Przedmieściu, Wroclaw (PL) Punto y Raya JUNIOR 2023 / Summary at CNP (Wroclaw, PL) from Punto y Raya Festival - Dot&Line on Vimeo. Video by Punto y Raya Junior, the world benchmark for Abstract Art in Motion produced BY CHILDREN and youngesters is back in Wroclaw, with free admission!. The event will be held June 14-18th 2023 at CNP Centrum na Przedmieściu, with complementary activities outdoors...
The Drummer reviewed from The Golden Apricot Film Festival
By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.com The Golden Apricot Film Festival, now in its twentieth year, always tends to spotlight films from countries in the region which are not likely to get much exposure at other festivals. This, in addition, of course, to a wide selection of other films from around the world and prize winners from top festivals such as Cannes and Venice. On Bastille Day, July 14th, I caught up with two off-beat Georgian features a...
"Magic Mountain" review from The Golden Apricot Film Festival, now in its twentieth year
By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.com The Golden Apricot Film Festival, now in its twentieth year, always tends to spotlight films from countries in the region which are not likely to get much exposure at other festivals. This, in addition, of course, to a wide selection of other films from around the world and prize winners from top festivals such as Cannes and Venice. On Bastille Day, July 14th, I caught up with two off-beat Georgian features a...
Final Cut in Venice 11th edition (September 3rd – September 5th) The 7 work-in-progress films have been selected
Final Cut in Venice 11th edition (September 3rd – September 5th) The 7 work-in-progress films have been selected The seven work-in-progress films of the 11th edition of Final Cut in Venice have been selected. Final Cut in Venice is the industry program that has been providing since 2013 concrete support in the completion of films from all African countries and from five countries of the Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. Final Cut in Venice is one of the p...
Georgia-based Southbox Entertainment Expands Film and TV Production with $25 Million FilmHedge Partnership
Southbox Adds Former ICM Exec Chandler Heinz Laun and Finance Industry Veteran Jonathan Hecht to Leadership Team to Help Navigate Company’s Aggressive Growth The team in Cannes Southbox Entertainment, a film and TV production company founded by investor Jon Gosier, has secured a $25 million partnership with sister company FilmHedge to greenlight scripted series and feature films. The company is in the process of raising an additional $55 million from private investors for a...
VIDEO "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" : behind the scenes of the Rome Chase : don't try this at home!
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can ...
Holland Film Meeting selected projects 2023
Of the nineteen projects presented within the New Dutch, Stories & Beyond and BoostNL categories, the majority are fiction features with the subprogramme Stories & Beyond placing special emphasis on Dutch genre films this year. Additionally, one project this year is a creative documentary, and one is a feature-length animation. New Dutch Selection New Dutch is a curated selection of the most exciting new projects from the Netherlands w...
The Marrakech Short Film Festival (MARRAKECHsFF) is back for its third edition September 22-29, 2023
Third Edition, September 22-29, 2023 The Marrakech Short Film Festival (MARRAKECHsFF) is back for its third edition, showcasing Moroccan talent in the realm of short films through an international selection in iconic venues in Marrakech. As the first open-air cinema festival founded by women in Morocco, this event continues to bridge the gap between the short film industry and the city of Marrakech, while highlighting Moroccan and international talents through an engag...
VIDEO Visit to the of Set of Field of Dreams during JDIFF
Only 20 miles away from Dubuque I had to pay a visit to the movie site of Field of Dreams, a film which I have distributed in France during my Sony Days! ...
Walter Kaufmann: What a Life, Germany, 2021
This superbly crafted biographical documentary by Karin Kaper and Dirk Szuszien premiered in North America in a May 2023 screening arranged in New York by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and the Leo Baeck Institute. The focus of the film, writer Walter Kaufmann, passed away at the age of 97 in 2021. Every stage of his life is chronicled and accompanied by his visual participation and recorded commentaries from his texts including childhood and youth; passage as a Jewish child refugee from Germany ...
> AWARDS WATCHCinema for Peace Award for The Pope, President Zelenskyy, and Filmmaker Afineevsky
Cinema for Peace Honorary Award 2023 Trailer Cinema for Peace hosted a special honoring of His Holiness Pope Francis, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky at the Vatican and in Rome, which was followed by a screening of the film “Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom”, at the European University of Rome. Cinema for Peace has honored the greatest icons of mankind in the past, from Muhammed Ali to Nelson Mandela,...
Awards Ceremony of the JDIFF 2023
Aly Yeganeh winner enjoying hi Best Ensemble Cast Trophy for Sibel's Silence with Festival Director Susie Gorell Best Feature: “Pinball: The Man that Saved the Game” Best Documentary: “Labeled: The Missing, the Murdered and the Forgotten” Best Short I: “Hedgehog” Best Short II: “Mayfly” Best Cast Ensemble: “Sibel’s Silence” ...
Finalists of the International Film Music Competition
Carl Falkenau, Elliot Murphy and Cian McCarthy. © Zurich Film Festival These are the finalists of the International Film Music Competition The International Film Music Competition takes place for the 11th time during the 19th Zurich Film Festival's "Cinema in Concert" gala event. The prestigious event motivated 153 composers from each of the world's continents to enter an original score, which they created for the short film AU REVOIR JERÔME. Presided ...
Finalists of the N.E.F.T.I. Africa Competition will screen at Durban FilmMart
NEFT Vodka In Collaboration With Durban FilmMart And AFRICAN BANK To Spotlight African Film Talent With Its N.E.F.T.I. Africa Competition Three Top Films To Be Screened At The Durban FilmMart Competition Winner Receives $5000 As Well As A Long-Term Collaboration To Create Short Films, Documentaries, And Other Video Content For African Bank. Audience Choice Award Winner Receives $2000 The Three Finalists Are Lwazi Duma (South Africa); Emma Tollman (So...
Locarno: The Leopard Club Award to Stellan Skarsgård
Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, one of the most popular faces of contemporary cinema, will receive the Leopard Club Award at the 76th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12). The award ceremony, which will take place on Friday evening, August 4th, in Piazza Grande, will be followed by a talk with the audience at the Forum @Spazio Cinema on Saturday, August 5th, while God afton, herr Wallenberg (Good evening, Mr. Wallenberg, 1990) by Kjell Grede will be screened on August 3rd. Stel...
Trieste / ShorTS IFF Winners of the 24th edition
ShorTS International Film Festival 24th edition / Trieste, 1 - 8 July 2023 THE WINNERS OF THE 24th EDITION MAREMETRAGGIO SECTION EstEnergy – Gruppo Hera Award / Best short film - 4.000 euro (Jury members: Leonardo Martinelli, Valentina Otormin Dall'Oglio, Yannis Sakaridis) Serpetatiyen neqewimi by Ramazan Kılıç (Turkey 2023) «For the bravery of telling this story of a family in a remote village that reflect...
Awards at Punto y Raya JUNIOR 2023 educational programme
Punto y Raya JUNIOR 2023 educational programme and its culminating event in Poland. The fifth edition of the festival -co-produced by MAD and PyRLAB- took place June 14th - 18th, 2023 at CNP Centrum na Przedmieści, Grotowski Institute, PAN Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapies , Pracownia Małych Instrumentów, and Przejście Dialogu in Wrocław (PL). PUNTO y RAYA JUNIOR 2023 Summary at CNP FULL HD &mid...
> PEOPLE IN FOCUSPortugal’s João Pedro Rodrigues will chair the Giornate degli Autori jury
A PORTUGUESE FILMMAKER LEADS THE CHARGE OF THE 27 This year it will be João Pedro Rodrigues heading the jury of Giornate degli Autori. The Portugue...
"Beat" Takeshi, the Wildman of Japanese Cinema, is the Special Guest of the 20th GAIFF film festival
2023 Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan runs July 9 – 16, 2023 By Alex Deleon for Filmfestivals.com Takeshi Kirano at the height of "beatness" in "Violent Cop", 1989 Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), better known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. The nickname "beat" which he adopted as...
Jacqueline Nsiah Will Join the Berlinale Selection Committee
Jacqueline Nsiah © Engin Oruc Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of the Berlinale, has asked Jacqueline Nsiah, a film festival, art and culture consultant from Berlin, to join his selection committee. Barbara Wurm is leaving the committee to head the Forum section, starting August 1,...
Meet the Juries of the 76th Locarno Film Festival
Following on from the unveiling of the official selection, the names are now being announced of the jurors who will be in Locarno to award the Pardo d’oro and other prizes on the closing day, August 12th. Photo: ©Locarno Film Festival The juries will involve voices from around the world, representing some of the most exciting and creative visionaries on the contemporary scene, as this year’s jurors set about deciding the outcomes of the 76th Locarno Film Fe...
Locarno76: full program announced, plus Excellence Award Davide Campari to Riz Ahmed
Today’s press conference in Bern saw the unveiling of the official program for the 76th Locarno Film Festival, together with eagerly awaited competition line-ups and the presentation of the non-competitive sections. British actor Riz Ahmed was also revealed as the recipient of this year’s Excellence Award Davide Campari. ©Photo by Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images From the 2nd to 12th of August the passion ...
'Day9' by Award-winning DGA Director Dastan Khalili To Have World Premiere at LA Shorts International Film Festival
Thriller satire short Day9 will have its world premiere at the LA Short International Film Festival on July 25, 2023, at 3:15 p.m. PST at Regal LA Live Cinemas in downtown Los Angeles. In the film, Dobroth, a merciless millionaire, assembles a team of resilient workers and forces them to toil in an uninhabitable wasteland until they are pushed to their limits, both mentally and physically. Official Trailer: Day-9 trailer.mov from Alliance Of Light on ...
Interview with Lebanese French Producer Financier Carlos Bedran for ENTRE NOUS (2023) at the 76th Cannes Film Festival
French Lebanese producer and financier began his professional career with a degree in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1982 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at MIT (Boston, USA) in 1983. After years working as a venture capitalist and founding multiple startup finance and investment consulting companies, Carlos moved into the arena of entertainment and film. Carlos acted as shareholder and Chairman of the board of Artemis Productions in Belgium since December ...
Death of Amer Alwan, Iraqi director 1957 - 2023 RIP
Death of Amer Alwan, Iraqi director 1957 - 2023, audience award for «Zaman, the man of reeds» at the FICA in Vesoul. A message from our friends at FICA: "We have just learned of the death, on July 4, of Iraqi francophone and francophile director Amer Alwan at the age of 66. We loved this man who always had a smile despite the hardships of life. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, studied film in France. He holds a DEA in Philo...
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