Hello, this is my first ever blog anywhere!! I am Toni Powell and am the Festival Director of Heart of Gold in sunny sunny Queensland, Australia. This is our second year and our first was a runaway success with 123 films shown over 4 days to around 3,500 attendees. We gave out over $20,000 worth of prizes and $12,500 of that was cash!. Filmmakers who attended really raved about their experiences... I may post some of their letters on other blogs... ABOUT HEART OF GOLD. For better or worse,...

Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all probability they will not come back. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ih...

Participate to the Tahiti Online Film Festival, submit your romantic short and win a trip for 2 to Tahiti! More than 15.000 $ in prize value Check the details on the Tahiti Online Film Festival videoblog. See how to register your film in 3 easy and free steps. ...

Online competition starts November 11, 2006 The theme of the competition is romantic short films. Participation is free. Each participant is to open a free videoblog account on www.Fest21.com and register to the Tahiti Online Film Festival group on fest21.com. Formats - Maximum length: 10 minutes. All formats accepted : avi, mov, mpeg, flv, mp4, wmv, asf, 3gp. - Multiple film submission is authorized. - Language: original language or (readable) subtitles in either English or French. - Film...

The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF) proudly announces its return to its hometown Manhattan for eight days of film screenings, world premieres, industry panels and after-parties. The festival, known as "the voice of independent film," will showcase over 200 international and domestic feature films, shorts, documentaries and animations. The festivities kick off on November 9th with a networking party for filmmakers and artists at West Chelsea hotspot ...

London Launch - 3rd November Single Shot - a major new initiative that provokes new ideas about the ways we view, interact with, and understand the moving image - launches in London on 3rd November 2006, the starting-point of a five-month tour of cities across England. Single Shot is a multi-platform touring programme of moving image works drawing on two distinct commissioning strands; a series of specially commissioned works by well-known artists working in film and video (including George Ba...

Tam Tam Digifestival sponsors IPSE DIGIT, a competition reserved to digital audio-video productions. If you have realized only by digital a videoclip, an Internet documentary, a mobile movie or a newsreel reportage, please send your work to: Coop. Tam Tam, Via Ugo Niutta 33, 80128 Napoli / Naples - Italy. It can last from one minute to one hour. The competion is from October 1st to December 31st 2006. It will award 5 between the best works in each section (Digi Music, Fahrenheit Planet, Mobile T...

Fest21.com welcomes all festival organisers, movie pros, film fans and all festival goers from around the world to share fun, experience, information, pictures, videos and pod casts... Create your community, your own group, discuss and enhance your projects, promote them, distribute them, be on the Featured videoblog list... Open your own videoblog with free video storage. Festival Blogs, dailies, ambiance and panache. The Films showcased here will enjoy the privilege of close encounters with ...

RUNE to Become First-Ever Feature Film Released Exclusively for Free iPod Video Download Simultaneous Download and DVD release October 10 Independent filmmakers of the new movie RUNE see video iPod as new world wide venue for independent feature films. RUNE to become first-ever feature film release exclusively for free iPod video download on October 10 from runethemovie.com. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 14, 2006 -- As Strother Martin and Paul Newman both say in Cool Hand Luke “What we h...