After yesterday's hard-hitting and groundbreaking opening of Slovenia's premiere genre festival with our first, tremendously visited screenings (check out the fierce ambient on the pictures in our gallery and on video at the fabulous Grossmann TV on our official site), we will bite even deeper into the delightful program of Grossmann 2010 today!Featuring a fierce selection of films with announcements by Mladen Djordjević, Anders Banke,Timo Vuorensola and Laibach! To be continued... ...

Be forewarned! Today at 17:30h at the Culture House Cinema the 6th Grossmann Film and Wine Festival in Ljutomer, Slovenia, will finally begin! The Mighty Cat will introduce itself with the opening of the exhibiton of caricatures by Jakša Vlahović and photos from the last year's Zombie Walk by Edvard Pintarič, accompanied by the Monster Feast installation by Šlosart. At 18:00h there will be a presentation of the winemakers competing for the prestigious Vicious Cat Wine Champion award at the s...

Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase     OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO INTERNATIONAL FORUM: CARIBBEAN FILM MARKET & OTHER EXHIBITION ALTERNATIVES.  Caribbean film makers and producers, exhibitors and distribution companies’ representatives from Caribbean zone, Latin America, the Unites States of America, Africa and Europe; to the executives of Public and Private Television companies, the National Film Committees, and to the Caribbean Cultural Aut...

The 4th edition of Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which is scheduled to take place from 16–26 March, 2011, in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, has launched its call for entries today. Feature films, Short Films and Documentaries submissions are eagerly awaited. Entry forms, rules, and regulations are available on the Festival Website (http://films-for-africa.co.za ).   1.      Features: Features are all fiction films more than 50 minutes of length 2.     ...

Do we give a sh*t about Vegas and its film festival? If you're Hollywood, you kind of look at it like an artifact on the artifact. A facsimile hatched together for the Sunset Boulevard  devotee/autograph-seeking/souvenir-collecting fan-based crowd.   Which is to say that in 110 F degree heat, stuck in Hooter's with a bunch of paunchy middle aged doofs looking for p-u-s-s-y, there are many other things one of the film persuasion might consider doing... laundry, for exampl...

    6th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival 1. QUINTO AND VAN DYKE SET FOR HSFF OPENING NIGHT AT DGA 2.  SAVE THE DATE!  COME AND PARTY WITH HOLLYSHORTS AT FETE ...

The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Our website is available in over 50 languages and ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to people worldwide. This festival offers an extremely large variety of awards, certificates and exposure at venues in several large cities d...

The party didn't stop at the red carpet... From a week of whacky island adventures off the road in Aruba, to cocktail parties till late - it was hard to get much reviewing done, I was having too much fun. I quickly had to master the art of speaking eloquently about international cinema whilst balancing a plate of hors doevres and a glass of Moet in one hand, and a designer handbag in the other- and they don't teach you that in film school. A simple slideshow of sun and cinema, Aruba style:...

Legendary Brazilian master of horror Jose Mojica Marins will receive the lifetime achievement award at this year's Grossmann Film and Wine Festival, taking place from 26th to 31st of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Visitors of the festival will for the first time in Slovenia be able to see a selection of the most important works of this prolific director, writer, actor and producer that will naturally include all three Coffin Joe films! Other distinguished guests already confirmed for this year's G...

Now you can see in our web site the festival photos collection. Visit the Photo Gallery of Documenta 10 with all the protagonists in this VII Edition: Alanis Obomsawin, Peter Hutton, Ben Russell, Harutyun Khachatryan, Wang Bing, Gonzalo Herralde, Valentina Leduc and Carlos Bernal. You can also see how it was spent the PRESS CONFERENCES or the MATADERO ENCOUNTERS between audience and filmmakers; each of the DOCUMENTA VENUES; the presentation of La Casa Abierta, the last publi...

Documentary filmmakers can be very serious. It is a serious art. The Italian Consul-General of New York, Francesco Talo, aptly describes the Festival dei Popoli's New York Documentary Film Festival as "recognising social problems through documentary expression". But the most magical moments and memorable quotes of the festival were so refreshingly funny that I nearly fell off my chair.  Like the best of Italian cinema, the three distinguished Italian directors featured in tribu...

A great film festival, like a great film, raises questions. The New York Documentary Film Festival- Festival dei Popoli, from its opening film tonight, has posed a controversial one; Why has one of Italy's most awarded auteur films, 'Below Sea Level', (winner of 10 prestigious international awards including Best Documentary Venice Film Festival 2008, Grand Prix Cinema Du Reel 2008 & European Film Academy Awards 2009) not yet premiered in the United States? As Director Gianfranco Ro...

              Honoured at the Cannes Festival Italian beachfront Pavillion, by the leading film industry pros in attendance, Renzo Rossellini, the Italian composer was awarded a special Trophy for his life contribution to Italian cinematography. Born in 1941, Renzo Rossellini first collaborated with his father Roberto as an assistant Director and later as his producer until 1977. Then he founded and served as chairma...

Japan BoothIf you have any interest in Japanese films, make your way to the Japan Booth in the Palais where you can make an appointment to view their extensive DVD library as their booth is a host to many Japanese sales companies.  According to the "Cannes Market News," this year Japan is focusing on networking and promoting the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) of which the Chairman Tom Yoda, and the Programming Co-Directors Yoshi Yatabe and Kenji Ishizaka are here in Can...

UDINE Teatro Giovani: Photo : Helen Dobrensky     23rd April/1st May 2010 - Teatro Nuovo “Giovanni da Udine” and Visionario FAR EAST FILM 12 50 thousand spectators: a record-breaker for the twelfth edition! The Korean masterpiece Castaway On The Moon triumphs at the Audience Awards 2010! In the spotlight is also Japan, with Accidental Kidnapper, and Indonesia, with The Dreamer. UDINE – A time of success for Far East ...

People love Ashland. Ashland, Oregon appears, at first glance, to be a quintessential small American town.  It has a population of about twenty thousand and a compact, walkable downtown where the closest thing to a skyscraper is the Ashland Springs Hotel - once the tallest building between, depending on who you ask, either Sacramento and Eugene or San Francisco and Portland - which towers over the Main Street “skyline” but never reaches double-digit storeys. Within a few blocks from...

Attention all lovers of wild and cult cinema, divine wine and bloody beautiful music! The 6th Grossmann Film and Wine festival is approaching, so make time for vacation, sharpen your film tastes, and prepare your dancing shoes, zombie masks and taste buds! Slovenia’s biggest film-wine event will strike like thunder from a stormy sky on the last week of July, precisely from 26th to 31st of July, of course in the town of Ljutomer, the birthplace of Slovenian cinema. Once again you will be subj...