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In an historic moment for Arab film-making and Middle Eastern creative talent, the world premiere of Arabian film epic, Black Gold, will open the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) 2011. The movie, a unique and authentic insight into the region and one of the biggest cinematic projects ever undertaken in the Arab world, will set the agenda for the internationally-renowned festival.
Black Gold, co-produced by DFI and Tarak Ben Ammar’s Quinta Communications, is directed by Jean-Jacques A...
It was announced today that the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will present multiple Oscar® winner Paul Haggis (“Crash,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Casino Royale”) with the Festival’s prestigious Golden Eye Award for his life work as a screenwriter and filmmaker. The announcement was made today by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht. Haggis will receive the “Golden Eye” for his life’s work on Saturday, October 1st within the framework of the prestigious “A Tribute t...
This year’s celebration of cutting edge Japanese cinema will get under way from November 17th to 24th
Following the success of last year’s inaugural festival, the second Zipangu Fest – celebrating the best of cutting edge and avant garde Japanese cinema – will be held at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts from November 17th to 24th, before moving to venues around the UK.
Showcasing a selection of Japan’s finest features, documentaries, shorts, anima...
The list is ready: the competition program of 8th Jameson CineFest is complete. We can say that this year’s program, all the 14 movies, is much stronger than last year’s, moreover, it is going to be the strongest Hungarian festival competition program ever. Our aim is unchanged: to create the best international film festival in Hungary – without any compromises.
We regard the US line important: you will be able to watch the best indie oversea films in Miskolc and also find Sundance...
Award winning Iraqi film maker Koutaiba Al-Janabi's debut feature film, Leaving Baghdad, about the brutal Saddam Hussein regime, shown through the story of the everyday person, who gets caught up in the turbulances of the country's politics. The film provokes the question of guilt, conscience, collaboration, escape. Universal questions, that were asked in connection with Nazi Germany, with the communist regimes, with ...
Even as one waits eagerly for French director Luc Besson's fictional film on Burmese freedom fighter Aung Sang Suu Kyi,'The Lady', with Maggie Cheung playing the lead, a new, real-life docu film on Burma's most famous political leader 'Lady of No Fear' has won applause at many Human Rights Festivals, and will now do the rounds of many international film festivals around the world .
Infact, it's told that Luc Besson studied this docu at length, before he began his ...
Up and coming filmmakers,young film critics and journalists are invited to apply to the next edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival which will take place from February 11-16, 2012. "Changing Perspectives" is the thematic focus of the 10th Talent Campus which will be held during the Berlinale. Succesful applicants can participate in the general campus program, and can also apply to attend a host of cutting edge workshops on di...
The 16th Portobello Film
Festival runs from 1 to 18 September at the Pop Up Cinema and Westbourne
Studios, Acklam Road W10. All shows are free admission.
Highlights this year include the premiere of Ebony Road by 18 yr old filmmaker
Mya Krall Fry and John Tiberi’s Sex Pistols in Stockholm 1977 on the Opening
Night (1 Sept, Pop Up), JC Carrol from The Members’ Golborne Road Opera on 2
Sept at the Pop Up, and 6 days of dedicated London premieres from 6 – 11
September at the Pop Up inc...
The 55th BFI London Film Festival will close on Thursday 27 October with the UK premiere of Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea.
Set in post-war Britain, this deeply moving story is an adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play. Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out of her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot,...
"A.L.I.C.E." was accepted to its 22nd film festival, the Portobello Film Festival in London, UK, for September 5th, 2011. Admission is free!
The film is represented by Fred Joubaud of Ouat Media. For more info, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com (click on the film can labeled "A.L.I.C.E.")
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Berlinale Talent Campus would like to invite you and/or your colleagues to apply for Talent Press, a project of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe Institute, and FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics). Young film critics and film journalists will be invited to Berlin to report on the films at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (February 9–19, 2012) and on the events of the Berlinale Talent Campus (February 11–16, 2012).
The call for applications for Talent ...
Grand prize of €5,000 up for grabs in the G-Technology Driven Creativity Competition 2011
Entry closes on 31st August and is free!
Open to talented professional and non-professional filmmakers,
entrants will have the chance for their hard work and creative ambitions
to be recognised and rewarded.
Winners and runners-up will be awarded stylish G-Technology external
hard drives and the overall winner will receive €5,000 – all to further
drive their creativity.
...
Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Sir Anthony Hopkins to open THE 55TH BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
The 55th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, is proud to announce that this year’s Festival will open on Wednesday 12 October with the European premiere of 360, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener, Blindness) and with an original screenplay from the acclaimed writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/...
Mr Geoff Small, Mr Stephen Lloyd Jackson, Mr Yves Brodsky, Ms Sonja Phillips, Ms Jane Sanchez-Gull, Mr Aml Ameen, Mr Cassius Matthias, Mr Lyndon Ives, Mr Harold Chapman, Ms Ida Akesson, Ms Beth Parkes, Mr Richard Bond, Mr Ben Miller, and Mr Paris Leonti.
Having saluted our 16 shortlisted filmmakers BUFF would like to thank all of those other talented filmmakers who’ve submitted their entries for festival consideration – it has been a privilege to watch them all. We would also like t...
In June 2010 I received the following email from New York based correspondent and Cambodian cinema afficianado Claus Mueller:
From: Claus Mueller <filmexchange@gmail.com>
To: The CamboFest Team <info@cambofest.com>
Subject: Re: combofest lite december 2010
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:35:29 -0400
Hello JR
In late April we communicated about CamboFestLite.....Since I may be in
Phnom Penh in December I am most interest...
Sometimes just a film or a guest or one single snap makes the whole trip worth it.
The presence of Glenn Close at the 59th San Sebastian Film Festival to receive The Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement award and to present her latest film, Rodrigo García's 'Albert Nobbs' it´s my thing.
Glenn Close made her feature film debut in George Roy Hill's The World According to Garp. Her performance in the film earned her awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the ...
London International Animation Festival – Friday 26 August to Sunday 4 September
www.barbican.org.uk/film Box Office: 0845 120 7527
The London International Animation Festival returns for its eighth year - and first at the Barbican - from 26 August to 4 September (1), with an inspiring, comprehensive, and sometimes controversial collection of animated film.
The LIAF is the UK’s largest festival of its kind, bringing the best new animated films from every corner of the worl...
Hello Colleagues in Media, Film, Business, Music, the Arts, Philanthropy, and Beyond:
This is writer-director Jason Rosette of Camerado SE Asia, I hope you are all well!
With the recent winding down of the 4th edition of the CamboFest, Cambodia Film Festival, our efforts have shifted back to producing a fabulous and compelling feature film that we've been developing for some time.
I hope you'll take a moment to read on - there's never been a movie quite like this, and you'll soo...
Guidelines: (download
the pdf)
Submission is free and all entries must be received by 31 July 2011 – this
has been extended!
All contributions should relate to climate change and must have been produced
since the Cancun Climate Change Conference (1 December 2010). It is open to
everyone, worldwide, but should not have been published or produced for
commercial gain elsewhere.
All submissions should be titled with the production date, the author’s name
and a questi...
Climate
Change TV is offering US$5,000 for the best video on climate change – to be
voted for by the public.
Guidelines: (download
the pdf)
Submission is free and all entries must be received by 31 July 2011 – this
has been extended!
All contributions should relate to climate change and must have been produced
since the Cancun Climate Change Conference (1 December 2010). It is open to
everyone, worldwide, but should not have been published or produced for
commercial gain elsewhere.
All submissions should be titled with the production date, the author’s name
and a question, EG: 01/2011 SMITH: What is climate change?
If it is in a language other than English, then please use subtitles in
English as well.
It should not exceed three minutes
It should be provided as an flv file and not be greater than 50MB.
Only one submission per person is allowed – attempts to submit more will mean
that person is disqualified.
Inappropriate content will not be used.
Only videos matching all these requirements will be presented at
www.climate-change.tv/award for public voting. Climate Change TV retains the
rights to host these on the site for the next two years (duly credited), and the
winner and a selection of others may be used in promotional campaigns around the
awards.
Votes will be welcomed over email, Twitter and
Facebook during August and September – details to follow, but do sign up to our monthly
briefing to keep updated.
Submission:
By email: (using, for example, dropbox or yousendit) to
award@climate-change.tv
By post: Climate Change TV, 19 Heddon Street, London, W1B 4BG
I had the privilege to work with Roland Emmerich on the release of ID4 (when I was running UGC Fox distribution in France) I am glad to share the news: he will headline Concordia University's Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre's Fall Conference Sept. 6-9 in Portland, Ore. Emmerich's new film, Anonymous, speculates on a centuries-old question – did William Shakespeare really write the works attributed to him? – and offers one possible answer.
At the conference, Emmerich will ...
Who would be a media mogul ey? The last few weeks and months has seen the likes of Simon Cowell and Rupert Murdoch become the story for the wrong reasons. For months, the press were told who was in and who was out in the game of musical chairs regarding this year’s X Factor judges. Eventually we said goodbye to Danni Minogue and Cheryl Cole and hello to Kelly Rowland and Tulisa Contostavlos (Peter Dickson, the voice of X-Factor will certainly have his hands full announcing her name in full e...
The SFF London is the first London-based international film festival solely for student film. We aim to fill a crucial gap in the existing market for international competitive festivals featuring student works. SFF London film screenings will be one of multiple opportunities for filmmakers to showcase their talent. Networking events, workshops, and mentorship awards will create space for professional guidance and cross-industry relationship building, sowing seeds for future development within the filmmaking industry. Competition & Categories: Short Film, Fiction Film (over 45 min), Animation Film, Documentary Short, Documentary Feature (over 45 min), Music Video.
Oscar winning documentarian Errol Morris has had more than his share of interesting interview subjects in his 30 year plus career, but perhaps none is quite as gonzo as the one he captures in his new film TABLOID, which opens in limited release in North America this week (and is available on most VOD platforms). The film focuses on the bizarre-but-true story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who became a notorious tabloid sensation in the 1970s when she snatched her...
Well, a fantasy film festival would not be complete without an exorcism/horror and the latest demon to take possession is that in THE POSSESSION OF EMMA EVANS (La posesión de Emma Evans; Spain, 2010), also known as EXORCISMUS. While the film itself is a Spanish production (by Filmax, Barcelona) realized by Spanish director Manuel Carballo, it is set in London and filmed in English with actors Tommy Bastow, Sophie Vavasseur, Richard Felix, Douglas Bradley, and Stephen Billington. The f...
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