American Theatre of Harlem is currently accepting submissions for its 9th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival. This year's festival runs from October 17 to October 20, 2013.
CULTURES COLLIDE celebrates the efforts of multicultural films and filmmakers and features an industry panel. Each night concludes with an Audience Choice presentation, where the audience selects its favorite film.
CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival screens in the arts community of Fort Greene, ...
"Found Objects",written and directed by Dawn Westlake, will play the Portobello Film Festival at Westbourne Studios, London on Sat., 14th September, 2013. The film stars British actress Jo-Anne Krupa, 5x Emmy Award winner Joey D'Auria, and Emanuele Secci, known in Italy for his fastweb spot with George Clooney and in the US for his role in "Nobody Walks", the 2012 Sundance Film Fest Producer's Award winner. The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2013 CinemAvven...
"Found Objects" is set to have its US premiere at the Johnstown Film Festival in Johnstown, PA on September 6th, 2013. The film stars 5x Emmy Award winner Joey D'Auria, Emanuele Secci from George Clooney's popular Italian fastweb.it spot, and British actress Jo-Anne Krupa. It was shot on the Canon C300 by Brandon Bondehagen.
For more info on the film, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com
For more info on the festival: http://www.jaha.org/FilmFestival/Friday2013.html
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"Found Objects" will have its Greek premiere in the Athens International Digital Film Festival, September 7-17th, 2013. The film will be projected in the L.A. (Life n' Art) Theater. "Found Objects" deals with art and fame and how life in art requires some balancing...
The film was generously supported in the camera department by Canon USA, Inc. The C300 was provided for the July 2012 production. Cinematography is by Brandon Bondehagen.
For more info on the festival: htt...
The Best Screenplay Award from CinemAvvenire Film Festival for Ron de Cana Productions' 2012 film "Found Objects" was received by director/writer Dawn Westlake yesterday in Los Angeles. Posing with her here is actor Emanuele Secci who, with Claudia Praolini (Concorto Film Festival in Pontenure), oversaw the Italian subtitling of the film.
For more info on "Found Objects", please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com
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The Northern Wave Internatnional Film Festival is now open for entry! The deadline is the 15th of August 2013. The festival takes place in a picturesque fishing village in the West of Iceland on the weekend of the 15th-17th of November.
The Northern Wave weekend consist of a numerous screenings of a variety of international short films. The program also includes a lecture from a professional from the film industry, a fish soup competition at the local fish market and numerous concerts and...
"Found Objects", winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2013 CinemAvvenire Film Fest in Rome, is being included in the Best of Video Anthology of CinemAvvenire with projections at Coffee Park-Circus di Largo Passamonti in Rome. The screening is July 14th, 2013 at 9:30p. Tickets are 5 Euros.
For more info on the screenings: http://www.pixwork.it/download/locandina_cinema.zip
For more info on the film: http://www.dawnwestlake.com/dawnwestlake/rondecana/films/foundobjects/index.html...
Call for Entries OPEN for the 2014 Taos Shortz Film Fest
Come join the hottest shorts film fest in the country. Taos Shortz is dedicated to featuring quality juried short films from around the globe and provide filmmakers with a venue to showcase their work, participate in workshops, panels, and network with fellow filmmakers, media companies, producers and distributors.
This year we are excited
"Covariance" will play the San Gio Film Festival in Verona, Italy July 23-27, 2013. This is the 33rd festival acceptance for the 2011 short film made with the generous support in the camera department from Canon USA, Inc. Directed by Dawn Westlake and starring David Razowsky, the film has been nominated for awards in Brazil, Rwanda, South Africa and Canada.
For more information: http://www.dawnwestlake.com
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We are now accepting short films with genres like Horror, shocking, experimental horror, physco horror, paranormal and gore, for the Malta Horror FILMFEST, submission are now open, visit us on www.maltahorrorfilmfest.com for more detailed information!
Modern society has a daunting problem with preserving traditions and languages of small cultures. Many of these cultures fall and become lost in history. In our film we show how Tverskie Karelians preserve their culture and their lifestyle, how they dream to save what is left and how this oppressive desire unites them. These people live in a hidden from extraneous eyes half-abandoned village far away from every ...
Coup de Pouce workshop – Cannes Short Film Corner – Court Métrage
As part of the Short Film Corner, the Cannes Film Festival offers a series of panels and workshops for young filmmakers. I applied and was selected for one such panel. It was called, ‘Coup de Pouce’, which roughly translates to ‘helping hand’ or ‘a push in the right direction’. My advisor was Roland Nguyen, head of the short film acquisition at France 3 television; we dis...
Zookastar in London is calling for entries for a Short Film competition and also a Music Video competition.
We are a film event happening over Halloween weekend in London; we have interactive workshops, screenings, feature debuts, collectors fairs, signings, auctions and special guests from the world of cinema.
See our page for more details about the film competitions.
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"Found Objects" screenwriter/director Dawn Westlake received a Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay at CinemAvvenire Film Festival in Rome, Italy on Sunday, June 23, 2013. Festival director Sergio Di Lino communicated with award winners ahead of time to ask for an acceptance message or video from those unable to attend the festivities. Dawn Westlake used 'found video' from a recent visit to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to craft her remarks. Check out her acceptance speech...
We are working on getting the prestigious selection of short films that were nominated for the European Film Awards 2012: they are part of The SHORT MATTERS! Tour
EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY SHORT FILM 2012:
The Winner was
SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN OR BATMAN by Tudor Giurgiu, Romania
The other nominees were
Ghent Short Film Nominee
DEMAIN, ÇA SERA BIEN (Tomorrow Will Be Good)
France, 16 min, fiction
directed by Pauline Gay
Valladolid Short Film Nom...
Cannes Film Festival 2013 Life Is Amazing - Short film competition presented by Lexus Europe in collaboration with The Weinstein Company Harvey Weinstein, Tim Burton join a panel discussion with five promising upcoming filmmakers from around the world.
Held at Cannes 2013 at Hôtel Majestic Barrière edited by MV for www.filmfestivals.com
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An appointment for Friday 14th June to better understand short film diffusion and outline current practices and existing distribution opportunities in a meeting co-organised by the Mifa and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market.
The Mifa and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market are joining forces and skills for this meeting designed for industry professionals working in production, distribution and acquisitions. This is the opportunity to examine relevant questions concerning the short fil...
The 7th festival acceptance for Ron de Cana Productions' "Found Objects" comes from the City of 7 Hills: Rome, Italy! "Found Objects" unspools in June of 2013 in CinemAvvenire Film Festival. The film features Sardinian actor Emanuele Secci, known in Italy for his popular fastweb.it commercial spot co-starring George Clooney. Emanuele can also be seen in the 2012 Sundance Producers Award-winning film "Nobody Walks", co-written by Lena Dunham.
For more info on Ci...
"Found Objects" will have its African premiere at the popular Bush Fire Festival in Malkerns, Swaziland, taking place 31 May to 2 June 2013. The film stars 5x Emmy Award winner Joey D'Auria, Emanuele Secci (known in Italy for his fastweb.it spot with George Clooney), and British actress Jo-Anne Krupa. The film was made with the generous support of Canon USA, Inc. as director Dawn Westlake was named a Canon Platinum Filmmaker in Hollywood. It was shot by DP Brandon Bondehagen on Can...
"Hiroshima, au matin du 6 août 1945, une lumière éblouissante envahit les côtes du monde flottant.". /-----------------/ . Clermont- Ferrant International Short films Festival (Best Musical Score) . /-----------------/ . Grand Prix Imagina 2002 . /-----------------/ . Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimédia (Prix de l'oeuvre numérique) . /-----------------/ Sélection Césars 2003 . /-----------------/ . .Direct ...
"In the neighborhood in demolition of a city from Eastern, Mikhaïl struggling with his demons, undertakes a last trip guided by ghosts trapped in a book. Images veiled from the past and visions bruised are gradually revealed". /-----------------/ . Clermont- Ferrant International Short films Festival (Official Competition) . /-----------------/ . Autres Regards sur le Cout-Métrage of Saguenay (Official Competition ...
The Love Your Shorts Film Festival celebrates short films in Sanford, Florida.
The Festival screens only short films under 30 minutes in length. Films are divided into different blocks for screening and the audience votes for their favorites.
The winning films from each block advance to a final block for a panel of judges to pick the overall festival winner. Winners of each block earn the festival’s award, the “Monroe,” an original piece of metal artwork named after S...
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL®- OCT 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 2013
The 17th Annual HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL is now open for submissions in the follow genres: Features (all genres including animation, drama, comedy, horror), Docs, and Shorts (including animation). http://www.hollywoodfest.com
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NEW YORK NO LIMITS FILM SERIES Call For Entry for its 2013 Screenplay Competition is still open. The deadline to submit a screenplay is 5/15/13. Please go to our website at http://www.newyorknolimits.com for submission instructions.
The winning screenplay will receive a $4,000.00 prize towards producing the short film. NYNL will announce the award winning screenplay in August 2013. This is an international competition and screenplays from all over the world are accepted.
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