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IFFI 50: 15 firsts at the 2019 festival

IFFI 50: 15 firsts at the 2019 festival 1.      International Film Festival of India, IFFI 2019, will witness 90 India Premieres, 6 World Premieres and 11 Asia Premieres of Films. 2.      In a first for IFFI, a special award named Icon of Golden Jubilee of IFFI has been constituted, by the Government of India. This award will be bestowed to superstar Rajinikanth, during Inaugural Ceremony. 3.      IFFI 2019 will see ...

Visit Estonia welcomes festival goers of the Black Nights Film Festival

Welcome to Estonia! We are happy to see you here and hope that not all the nights are black! Here are some tips what to do during your free time during the festival! We hope you will enjoy your stay here and if you have any tourism related questions give me a call or write to me!    Visit in Tallinn! - Today the Christmas Market of Tallinn will be opened on the Town Hall Square, grab a mulled wine, enjoy the performances on the weekends or vi...

Video capture of the Israel Film Festival opening in LA Nov 12

  Festival founder Meir Fenigstein with the honorees: Arthur Cohn and Sharon Harel-Cohen  Avi Lerner (Millenium Pictures) with Arthur Cohn, below the team of Incitement: Yaron Silberman and lead actor Yehuda Nahari Halevi Rosana Arquette / 2019 IFF Achievement in Film Award winner Sharon Harel-Cohen and Avi Lerner, Chairman and CEO, Millennium Media THE 33rd ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL in Los Angeles Opening Night Gala for the first time completely ...

AFM DAY 6 Market Beat

  THE MARKET BEAT FROM THE FILMFESTIVALS.COM TEAM! Welcome to the release of our daily newsletter from Santa Monica View in your browser Advertise in our Newsletters reaching 199 000 subscribers from 200€  email us for a quote FOLLOW FILMFESTIVALS.COM              Promote your line up during AFM AFM 2019 runs N...

AFM Programs & Events Update | Tuesday, November 12

Conferences & Programs Distribution Conference Time: 9:15am – 12:45pm Location: Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel Working with Sales Agents To reach the global audience, an independent producer’s best ally is their international Sales Agent. Our panel of experts will discuss how to find and work with the right Sales Agent. Panelists Maximilian Leo, Founder / Producer, augenschein Filmproduktion Vanessa Saal, Managing Director, Sales & Distribution,&n...

AFM DAY 5 Market beat

    THE MARKET BEAT FROM THE FILMFESTIVALS.COM TEAM! Welcome to the release of our daily newsletter from Santa Monica View in your browser Advertise in our Newsletters reaching 199 000 subscribers from 200€  email us for a quote FOLLOW FILMFESTIVALS.COM              Promote your line up during AFM AF...

Archstone wine and film tasting for HOUSE RED

Archstone was hosting a reception in their office Lowes Hotel - 7th Floor - Malibu Room offering to try this Harvest's HOUSE RED with Guest Sommellier Tamer Hassan. The team, Michael Slifkin, Jack Sheehan lead actor and producer..., were pouring the Mondavi with the special HOUSE RED film label on.         Archst...

AFM Screenings, Programs & Events Update | Monday, November 11

Conferences & Programs Production Conference Time: 9:15am – 12:45pm Location: Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel The Director/Producer Relationship Time: 9:30am – 11:00am Location: Palisades Stage – Loews Hotel Everything You Need to Know about Production Incentives Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm Location: Palisades Stage – Loews Hotel Television Conference Time: 2:30pm – 6:00pm Location: Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel Producing Passi...

IFFI 50: Homage to Bernardo Bertolucci

IFFI 50: Homage to Bernardo Bertolucci Bertolucci, who was born in 1941, passed away at last year at the age of 77. He has been acclaimed for two of his most important films--Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor. The former was embroiled in controversy for its explicit sexual content but also won a nomination for Marlon Brando at the Academy Awards, while the latter film, which was an adaptation of the autobiography of China’s last imperial ruler, Pu Yi, won 9 Oscars. Bertolucci bec...

IFFI 50: Russia to be Country of Focus, with seven films

IFFI 50: Russia to be Country of Focus, with seven films Every year, IFFI features a Country of Focus that brings out the cinematic excellence and contributions of that particular country. In its 50th edition of the festival, IFFI 2019, the Country of Focus is Russia. This section will showcase seven movies from the country. One of the movies featured is the film Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a documentary that recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the stor...

AFM Day 4 Highlights

Today’s programming included: PITCH CONFERENCE Pitching Essentials: The 2-Minute Pitch Panellists: Tobin Armbrust, Producer, former President, Worldwide Production & Acquisitions, Virgin Produced Effie Brown, Producer, Duly Noted, Inc. Cassian Elwes, Producer, ELEVATED Moderator: Lee Jessup, Screenwriting Career Consultant & Coach, leejessup.com   THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCRIPT SUPERVISOR Presenter: Randi F...

November 10 Panels at AFM : PVOD, Faith based films and festivals, LGBTQ content and much more

Finance Conference II Sunday, November 10     |     9:15am – 12:45pm     |     Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel Producing Studio Films with Independent Budgets Production quality and talent are more crucial than ever. Producers need to be strategic with their budgets – talent, locations, special effects, crew, everything! Seasoned producers and experts share their advice on how to stretch budgets and get every dollar, euro,...

AFM 2019 Day 3 with ambiance from Loews, Beverly Hills Awards reception and LATC Conference

      THE MARKET BEAT FROM THE FILMFESTIVALS.COM TEAM! Welcome to the release of our daily newsletter from Santa Monica View in your browser Advertise in our Newsletters reaching 199 000 subscribers from 200€  email us for a quote FOLLOW FILMFESTIVALS.COM              Promote your line up during AFM ...

AFM Screenings, Programs & Events Update | Saturday, November 9

  Added Screenings Film: The Best Is Yet to Come Time: 11:30 am Theater: AMC Santa Monica 2 Company: Pathé International Film: Aiyai Time: 1:00 pm Theater: Laemmle 5 Company: Phoenix Worldwide Film: Los Japón – Big in Japan Time: 3:30 pm Theater: Arclight 11 Company: Beta Cinema     Conferences & Programs Pitch Conference Time: 9:15am – 12:...

LATC Party at Bodega Wine bar ambiance

Steve Solot and Kete Lyra, the  hosts of the LATC party taking a pose for filmfestivals.com, in a room packed with young award winning filmmmakers attending and a few speakers at the conference, Bruno Chatelin to deliver a keynote of festival and markets strategy. The annual LATC Global Film & TV Program is a unique immersion experience for professionals from around the World with an intensive four-day agenda of meetings and panels on current U.S. film, television and enter...

AFM Opens Day 1 Ambiance

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AFM Day 1 | Photos, Quotes & Highlights BRON Studios Open’s AFM Finance Conference, Friday, November 8

Picture above:  L to R: Studio 8’s Founder and CEO Jeff Robinov, HYPNOTIC writer/director Robert Rodriguez, Solstice Studios’ President and CEO Mark Gill, Solstice Studios’ Head of Acquisitions and International Crystal Bourbeau.     Followed by Millennium Media’s Jeffrey Greenstein and Alan Siegel Friday morning, the American Film Market will kick off its Conferences with Finance Conference I: The Future of Film conversation with BRON Studios execut...

Byron Bay opening ambiance by filmfestivals.com photographers

In for a ride with photography from Byron Bay Film Festival by Christopher Labanne, filmfestivals.com   ...

Film Festivals Days Day 2 sessions

Sanja Drakulic presenting Duart European Actors Platform a casting platform she has launched to fill a void. Marinela Dropulic Ruzic introducing the  Whole Brain Model, so helpful to manage creative teams. The Whole Brain Model was developed by Ned Herrmann. Herrmann created this metaphorical model to illustrate that each person's brain basically has four quadrants when it comes to the process of thinking and learning. Each of these quadrant...

A Private visit to Pula's Aquarium an a croatian rhapsody video

I represent a film on Shark conservation (Sharkwater Extinction by late Rob Stewart) and my eyes caught sight of a brochure at the airport displaying sharks! I thought I should check the aquarium out, I did and was very pleasantly surprised by the visit, the dedication of the team I met there and the beauties available. The first visible extraordinary asset is the spectacular setting in an ancient fortress built 19th century. Here is a drone view : no more cannons just an aquarium under the 20...

A group visit to Pula' Gladiators Arena and Olive Oil Museum

The Arena in Pula is one of the 250 arenas built by the romans still standing, it was capable of sitting other 20 000 spectators (1/3 of the one in Rome), the strong walls built on a hill to save on materials are still standing, the sits have disappeared (stones were stolen to built most of the venitian constructions in Pula between the 14th and 17th century). Festival guests enjoyed the guided tour very much we were taken to a private visit and olive oil tasting (bread and olive oil) at Pula...

MFF 21 Movie Mela, II: New Blood- Ananya, Janhvi, Mrunal, Radhika & Avinash ring in the Next Generation

MFF 21 Movie Mela, II: New Blood- Ananya, Janhvi, Mrunal, Radhika & Avinash ring in the Next Generation Five of the most promising new generation actors--Ananya Panday, Janhvi Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Radhika Madan and Avinash Tiwary—jammed with anchors Anupama Chopra and Rajeev Masand, without inhibitions, at the Jio MAMI Movie Mela with Star 2019, held on 13 October 2019 at the Rang Mandir, Bandra, Mumbai. This was a precursor to the film festival proper, which gets going on the 17t...

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