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PRESS CONFERENCE with EYAL SIVAN at 14th TDF

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  PRESS CONFERENCE EYAL SIVAN   -14th TDF PRESS- Israeli director Eyal Sivan held a press conference on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Mr. Sivan is attending the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century on the occasion of the Tribute to his work that the festival has organized. Mr. Dimitri Eipides, Director of the TDF and TIFF, introduced this leading representative of political documentaries, known for his unconventional views regarding the Pa...

Izza Genini Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Pomegranate Award

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By Maria Esteves – March 16, 2012 Writer and documentarian IZZA GÉNINI received the Lifetime Achievement Pomegranate Award for her excellence and achievement in filmmaking during the 16th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival 2012 (NYSJFF 2012) Opening Night Gala, held at the Center for Jewish History, New York, Thursday, March 15, 7:00 PM. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF), the Pomegranate (symbolize love and prosperity) Award acknowledge visionary achievements in the ...

Terror Film Festival 2012 Call For Entries is OPEN

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Terror Film Festival is a bad-azz international film festival that offers cash prizes, a world-class Screenwriting Competition, and the coveted Claw Awards. And it's all presented by the genre diva fashionista herself, Princess Horror! www.TerrorFilmFestival.net ...

Live Your Dream

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The theme for this year's I Will Tell film festival is an exciting and scary one. Living Your Dreams takes us a notch above Dreaming the Dream and stretches us to be more specific about the dream for our lives rather than the make-believe fairy tale that is often shoved down our throats from a variety of otherwise well-meaning individuals and organisations. Living the dream means being prepared to sacrifice time, money, relationships, sometimes reputation and respectability. Living y...

President Sicilian Film Festival, Emanuele Viscuso Speaks at Introduction to MIFF’s Italian Selection, “Annalisa"

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Miami Beach, FL…March 12, 2012… Last week Sicilian Film Festival President, Emanuele Viscuso spoke at the introduction of the Italian film, “Annalisa/Il Paese Delle Spose Infelici” that made its North American Premiere at the 29th Annual Miami International Film Festival.  Viscuso, a Sicilian native and Miami Beach resident, alongside Director Pippo Mezzapesa gave the audience a window into the beauty of rural Southern Italy through a “coming of age” tale - ...

CALL FOR ENTRIES - 5TH ANNUAL FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL

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CALL FOR ENTRIES - 5TH ANNUAL FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL Be a part of the 5th Annual Feel Good Film Festival featuring Feel Good Shorts, Features, Student films and screenplays that capture the beauty of our world. August 3-5, 2012 - Hollywood's Laemmle Noho 7 Theater The 2012 Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF) is now accepting submissions for its 5th year screening movies to inspire and enlighten...movies that remind us of the beauty of the world around us.  Submit through Withouta...

CALL FOR ENTRIES - 5TH ANNUAL FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL

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Be a part of the 5th Annual Feel Good Film Festival featuring Feel Good Shorts, Features, Student films and screenplays that capture the beauty of our world. The 2012 Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF) is now accepting submissions for its 5th year screening movies to inspire and enlighten...movies that remind us of the beauty of the world around us.  Submit through Withoutabox  (www.withoutabox.com/login/6743 or www.fgff.org ).  *FGFF CATEGORIES*: Feel Good Feature Film Feel Good Short Fil...

CALL FOR ENTRIES - 5TH ANNUAL FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL

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Be a part of the 5th Annual Feel Good Film Festival featuring Feel Good Shorts, Features, Student films and screenplays that capture the beauty of our world. Join us August 3-5, 2012, at Hollywood's Laemmle Noho 7 The 2012 Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF) is now accepting submissions for its 5th year screening movies to inspire and enlighten...movies that remind us of the beauty of the world around us.  Submit through Withoutabox  (www.withoutabox.com/login/6743 or www.fgff.org ). *FGFF CA...

HORROR AND SCI-FI FILMS WANTED.

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HorrorQuest film festival is seeking submission for 2012... To submit please go to www.thehorrorquest.com Also, be sure to check out our Kickstarter campaign.   http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/heyjoe/horrorquest-film-festival-2012 HorrorQuest, is has no submission fee and is free to the public and we need help if we are to keep it that way. So please, help us as much as you can. You can also, check out our bi-weekly podcast on I tunes.  http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/...

5TH FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL CALLING FOR ENTRIES - EARLY BIRD DEADLINE February 29th

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Hollywood's Laemmle Noho 7 Hollywood, CA Website:  www.fgff.org  The Feel Good Film Festival www.fgff.org is now accepting submissions for its 5th edition that takes place August 3-5, 2012 in Hollywood, CA. FGFF is devoted to helping advance the careers of filmmakers.  Filmmakers worldwide are encouraged to submit early to meet the February 29th early-bird deadline.    Submit live-action or animation, comedies or romantic comedies, fiction or non-fiction,...

The Feel Good Film Festival - Accepting Submissions for 2012

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    THE 5th ANNUAL FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL at Hollywood's Laemmle Noho 7 Theater FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 THROUGH SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2012 www.fgff.org.The 2012 Feel Good Film Festival (FGFF) is now accepting submissions for its 5th year screening movies to inspire and enlighten...movies that remind us of the beauty of the world around us.  Submit through Withoutabox  (www.withoutabox.com/login/6743 or www.fgff.org ). *FGFF CATEGORIES*: Feel Good Feature Film Feel Good Short Film F...

Lance Henriksen to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at The Derby City Film Festival

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Lance Henriksen to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at The Derby City Film Festival  Veteran actor known for roles in “Terminator” and “Aliens” is attending the festival in support of his latest film “It’s in the Blood”. LOUISVILLE, KY. (January 25th) —  Legendary actor Lance Henriksen will be the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2012 Derby City Film Festival in February. Henriksen, who’s career spans 4+ decades and include...

A Tribute To Horowitz: Lola Astanova Piano Debut in Carnegie Hall

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By Maria Esteves – January 23, 2012 A Tribute To Horowitz sold out concert with piano virtuoso Lola Astanova commenced Thursday, January 19, 2012, 8:00 PM, at the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York. Sponsored by Tiffany & Co., the extraordinary enchanting evening to benefit the American Cancer Society presented gala chairman Donald J. Trump and special guest artist host Julie Andrews with the American Cancer Society Lifetime Achievement Awards. The Stonewall Chora...

Master Class with Roland Joffé at Marrakech Film Festival

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    Last week during the 2011 Festival du Film de Marrakech, the legendary English/French director Roland Joffé gave a master class to attentive fans. Joffe has directed such classics as THE KILLING FIELDS (1984), THE MISSION (1986), CITY OF JOY (1992) and VATEL (2000). When asked in particular about his most celebrated masterpiece- THE MISSION- Joffe expressed the following:   Roland Joffé: When I made THE MISSION (1986) and worked with Robert De Niro, of cour...

'A TRIP' at Cinedays in Skopje, Macedonia! (interview with Ales Pavlin)

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 A TRIP (2011) producer Ales Pavlin The Slovenian film IZLET (A TRIP, 2011) by writer/director Nejc Gazvoda and producer Ales Pavlin most recently traveled to the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) and screened in competition at 'Cinedays' in Skopje, Macedonia. A TRIP's 'trip' will continue to Goa, India for the Goa Film Festival and then begin its tour in the USA. It is the first feature film (of what promises to be many) for both writer/director Nejc and producer Ales.  I in...

The Bahamas International Film Festival to honor Zoe Isabella Kravitz

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  The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that actress/singer Zoe Isabella Kravitz ("X-Men: First Class," "It's Kind of a Funny Story," "Yelling to the Sky"), daughter of legendary American/Bahamian musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, will be honored with BIFF's signature Rising Star Tribute. The announcement was made by BIFF Founder & Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool. The Festival's prestigious Rising Star A...

Bela Tarr receives Lifetime Achievement Award at RIFF, 2011

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  BELA TARR receives Lifetime Achievement Award at RIFF, 2011    The legendary, exemplary, unconventional and inspiring filmmaker Bela Tarr traveled from his native Hungary to Reykjavik, Iceland last week during the 8th annual Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) to receive the honorary award for Lifetime Achievement for greatness in filmmaking. The president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, awarded a statue of the nation's symbolic puffin to an emotionally ...

Mary Tyler Moore will receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement

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Renowned actress, producer and humanitarian Mary Tyler Moore will receive Screen Actors Guild (SAG)’s most prestigious accolade – the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Moore created a new paradigm for female leads in television, won top honors for her courageous performances in film, television and on stage, produced some of the most lauded television programs of all time, and for thirty years, has served as a tireless advocate giving hope to all those afflicted with Type 1...

Cineclassics Kiesloswki exhibition

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CINECLASSICS: KIESLOWSKI EXHIBITION             "It gives me the creeps, and I have an impression that somebody is speaking through Kieslowski" , said Robert de Niro in 1989. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films have had huge impacts all over the world, and right at the time of the Central European regime changes. Signs and Memories, the joint exhibition of CineClassics and the Polish Institute in Budapest, is going to be held in the House of Arts, Miskolc (Rákóczi u. 5.) and...

Demy time in San Sebastian

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Retrospective on Jacques Demy at the 59th San Sebastian Film Festival The season will be presented by hi widow Agnès Varda, Mathieu Demy and Rosalie Varda   The 59th San Sebastián Film Festival will be devoting a comprehensive retrospective to the work of the French filmmaker Jacques Demy (Pontchâteau, 1931- París, 1990), a key figure in French cinema who breathed fresh life into the musical genre. Although initially linked with the young directors who formed part of the nouvelle v...

The Raimondo Rezzonico Prize for Best Independent Producer will be awarded to American producer Mike Medavoy

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The Raimondo Rezzonico Prize for Best Independent Producer will be awarded to American producer Mike Medavoy (my former boss when he ran Orion Pictures and TriStar Pictures), on Tuesday August 9 at 21:30 on the Piazza Grande. The following day, Wednesday August 10, at 10:30 in the Spazio Cinema (Forum), Jay Weissberg will moderate a discussion with the producer.   The following films will be screened in honour of Mike Medavoy:   APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX by Francis Ford Coppola  Unite...

SURGE Honors the Officialy Selected Films of the SURGE 2011 Film Fest. SURGE 2012 is now accepting film/script entries.

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Screenwriter and Director Rio Collier of the B Media Collective seen here in 2011 after she received the SURGE 'Eternal Flame' award for keeping the flame of equality and social justice burning bright for all the world to see. She received the award for her inspiring film 'Armed with Art: A New Revolution is Necessary - "Armad@s Con Arte. Una Nueva Revolucion es Nescesaria." It was filmed throughout Mexico and shown at the Historic Academy Theater en Español ...

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