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LIMA-BORN COMEDIENNE PHYLLIS DILLER TO RECEIVE 1ST EVER NWIOFF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

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THE NORTHWEST OHIO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL IS PROUD TO PRESENT PHYLLIS DILLER ITS 1ST EVER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. From 1955, Diller, a native of Lima, Ohio has been in the public consciousness since being a guest contestant on Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life and played a key role in the advancement of female comedians. She has since expanded her repertoire to include music, painting and writing, expressing a dedication to the importance of art in her life. Her t...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - HOLLYWOOD'S FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL, AUGUST 3-5, 2012 - Hollywood's Laemmle Noho 7 Theater

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  Be a part of the 5th Hollywood INTERNATIONAL  FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL, an all-favored festival event coming August 3-5, 2012 to Hollywood’s Laemmle Theatre.  Late Submission Deadline is May 15, 2012, and the Extended Deadline is May 20, 2012. Submit today. We're looking for Feel-Good Feature, Short, Student Films and Screenplay submissions.  Winners share over $100,000 USD in prizes each year.  For the chance to gain exposure and distribution for your work, submit to th...

2012 Los Angeles Film Festival Line-Up

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This year's Festival will screen a diverse slate of nearly 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, along with signature programs such as the Filmmaker Retreat, Poolside Chats, Coffee Talks, Music Events and more. Check back May 15 for the complete Festival schedule! OPENING NIGHT:   To Rome With Love- (DIRECTOR/WRITER Woody Allen PRODUCERS Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum CAST Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz,...

116,000 movie-goers at Tribeca

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The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by Founding Sponsor American Express, today announced that more than 380,000 people attended screenings, panels, talks and free community events - including the Tribeca Drive-In series, Family Festival Street Fair, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day and the second annual Tribeca/NYFEST Soccer Day, as well as the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards and the Tribeca Film Institute Interactive D...

2012 FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

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Be a part of Hollywood's INTERNATIONAL FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL, an all-favored festival event - coming August 3-5, 2012. Hollywood's Laemmle Noho 7 Theater Late Submission Deadline: May 15, 2012 Extended Deadline: May 20, 2012. For the chance to gain exposure and distribution for your work, submit films that make you feel good today: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6743  or www.fgff.org  Feel-Good Feature, Short, Student Films and Screenplay submissions.  Win...

The BUFF Blog (April 2012)

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Traditionally in the UK, the most-watched programmes on television are always scheduled on a Saturday night. The last few years have seen a more aggressive approach to win hearts and minds with the UK’s 2 biggest broadcasters (BBC & ITV) going head-to-head and scheduling their ‘MUST-SEE’ programmes against each other. In the last 6 months alone, Strictly Come Dancing was beating The X Factor when previously the ITV juggernaut was winning hand over fist. On ...

Eli Roth Inspired Filmmakers in Beverly Hills Today with Emotional Keynote Speech During IFTA Production Conference

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IFTA Production Conference, which featured an electrifying opening speech by celebrated independent filmmaker Eli Roth. He spoke before a sold-out crowd of more than 300.  Produced by the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), the event was titled: “Cost Isn’t An Obstacle Anymore! New Avenues to Finance, Produce & Distribute Films at Any Budget.”  Writer/director Eli Roth and Jean Prewitt, President.. Eli Roth ignited the ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel i...

Catalina Film Fest reveals highlights

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CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP, GUESTS FOR SECOND ANNUAL FEST— MAY 4-6, 2012   Stan Lee, Rachel Leigh Cook, James Scott, Darren Le Gallo, Tommy Chong, Scott Thompson, Daniel Gilles, Adam Sinclair Among Guests Confirmed to Attend   Catalina Film Fest— an annual celebration of film on the only West Coast resort island— today announced the lineup for the 2012 run, May 4-6. The Festival features more than 60 films, industry panels, networking and special events, incl...

IFFS Paris 2012. FESTIVAL TECHNOLOGY: Implementing New Technology & Software. Speak to your audience! by Nesta

Watch films in the cinema from a cinema perspective, and speak to your audience... the online Red Carpet. You can easily meet your grandmother on Facebook!

5th ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL ALERT - Late Submission Deadline Ends May 15, 2012

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Be a part of Hollywood's FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL all-favored festival event - coming August 3-5, 2012. Late Submission Deadline is May 15, 2012, and the Extended Deadline is May 20, 2012. Submit today.  We're looking for Feel-Good Feature, Short, Student Films and Screenplay submissions.  Winners share over $100,000 USD in prizes each year.  For the chance to gain exposure and distribution for your work, submit to the Feel Good Film Festival today at: https://www.withoutabox.com/lo...

Feel Good Film Festival - submit feel good films and screenplays at https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6743

Be a part of Hollywood's FEEL GOOD FILM FESTIVAL, an all-favored festival event - coming August 3-5, 2012.  Regular Submission Deadline is April 15, 2012, Late Submission Deadline is May 15, 2012, and the Extended Deadline is May 20, 2012. Submit today. We're looking for Feel-Good Feature, Short, Student Films and Screenplay submissions.  Winners share over $100,000 USD in prizes each year.  For the chanc

Online Contest: "Photo of the Festival"

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Hey Shutterbugs! We know you were going picture crazy at last weekend’s 2012 ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival. And why not? There were some amazing moments to document. Well, we want to see your skills! Send us your best photo of the festival, whether it be a candid moment with a director or a fabulous afterparty shot, just make sure it’s something that you think represents the festival. The photo with the the most likes will be posted on our website, our Fa...

Tribeca Online Festival will offer Festival's exclusive content 4 features films, interactive events...

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  Online Festival Marks Third Year of Cultivating Digital Environment with Exclusive Content Including Free Streaming of Four World-Premiere Feature-Length Festival Films, Live, and Interactive Special Events The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) today unveiled the lineup and programming for the Tribeca Online Film Festival, presented by founding partner American Express. The third year of the pioneering digital initiative continues the extension of the TFF experience...

Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards

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  Awards to highlight successful disruptive innovation in non-traditional, identity-based domains such as culture, education, healthcare, philanthropy, politics, religion and social entrepreneurship  The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), in association with noted Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen and the Disruptor Foundation, announced it will hold the third annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by NYU Stern School of Business, on April 27. The 11th edi...

Shriekfest Founder/Director Nabs Role in Mel Gibson Film, “Get the Gringo”

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  Denise Gossett      It’s obvious to anyone who has tried—breaking into show business takes a lot of work. And no one knows this better than actor Denise Gossett, founder and director of the Shriekfest Film Festival, the longest-running Los Angeles-based festival dedicated to all things horror and sci-fi. But it seems that Ms. Gossett is starting to see her efforts really pay off. This May, she will be featured in the new Mel Gibson motion picture, “Get the Gring...

Fourteen movies will screen in the 1st Latin American Film Festival on-line: iber.film.america

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● Organized by Filmotech.com, the Festival offers for free fourteen Latin-American and Spanish productions through www.iberfilmamerica.com from March 27th to April 16th. ● The Latin-American and Spanish Internet communities will give the Audience Award through the official Facebook application. ● iber.film.america has been created with the vision of presenting and displaying audiovisual content through new distribution channels  Last Tues...

KASHISH 2012 needs EVERYONE to contribute

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Even as the Supreme Court is preparing its verdict on Sec377, KASHISH, your favourite LGBTQ festival that mainstreams queer issues through cinema, will be back for its third year very soon. With no government support and corporate sponsorship in India still difficult to come by, we rely heavily on support from individuals and organizations to make the festival happen. You can support the LGBTQ cause in India in your own big or small way! And we have some exclusive incentives to show our g...

Call For Entries: Brownfish Short Film Festival NYC 2012

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: BROWNFISH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NYC    The 2nd annual Brownfish Short Film Festival NYC is now accepting submissions through August 1, 2012 for short films and short screenplays. From page to production, from production to profession, the Brownfish Short Film Festival NYC is dedicated to helping filmmakers and screenwriters get their work exhibited and grow their career paths. In addition to the short film competition, this year’s festival will debut a screenwri...

CCI Chairman urges entertainment and media enterprises & related trade associations to initiate competition compliance program

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 Speaking at FICCI FRAMES 2012  in Mumbai on Friday, Ashok Chawla, Chairman, CCI, urged entertainment and media enterprises and related trade associations to initiate competition compliance programs. Trade bodies could be used for price coordination or market allocation amongst member companies, he cautioned.A competition compliance programme would include imparting awareness and training to employees who may engage themselves or are exposed to anti competitive conducts. It not only reduce...

The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Short Film selection

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The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by founding sponsor American Express, today announced its lineup of 60 short films, 26 of which are world premieres. For the second year running, the recipient of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best Narrative Short award will qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules. The 2011 TFF Narrative Short Pentecost was n...

First Curaçao IFFR opens 29 March with Marley

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Fundashon Bon Intenshon is proud to present the first edition of the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam (Curaçao IFFR). From Thursday 29 March until Sunday 1 April 2012, Curaçao IFFR presents a strong selection of twenty-seven feature length films (both documentary and fiction) as well as eleven short films from around the world in the new six-screen multiplex theatre The Cinemas, located in the Otrobanda district of Willemstad. The festival programme, made in collaboration with th...

Egyptian Cinema at the Ankara Film Festival.

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Organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and supported by Turkish Ministry of Culture, the 23rd. Ankara International Film Festival will take place between 15 – 22nd March. Festival will be showcasing a special selection of the latest Egyptian Cinema which will include films that address contemporary cultural movements and social sentiments across the Egyptian landscape. Without a doubt, one of most talked about issues of the 2011 was, collapsing of the thirty year d...

Robert Altman Retrospective in Ankara

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The Retrospective program of the 23rd Ankara International Film Festival will be hosting the films of the prominent American director Robert Altman (1925-2006).  Altman had a ‘love-hate’ relationship with Hollywood.  “We're not against each other. They sell shoes and I make gloves” is how he defined his relationship with them. In his career of 55 years, Altman never compromised from his eccentric and innovative style and always worked on projects of his own d...

Robert Altman Retrospective

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The Retrospective program of the 23rd Ankara International Film Festival will be hosting the films of the prominent American director Robert Altman (1925-2006). Altman had a ‘love-hate’ relationship with Hollywood.  “We're not against each other. They sell shoes and I make gloves” is how he defined his relationship with them. In his career of 55 years, Altman never compromised from his eccentric and innovative style and always worked on projects of his own desire.   A...

HOLLYSHORTS 8th (August 9-16, 2012) Calling for entries

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 Contact Info  3906 Pacific Ave #3  Marina Del Rey, CA 90292  California USA Website: http://www.hollyshorts.com/    HollyShorts  HollyShorts www.hollyshorts.com is now accepting submissions for the 8th installment of the HollyShorts Film Festival which takes place August 9-16, 2012 in Hollywood, CA. Since the festivals launch in 2005, HollyShorts has grown into the largest short form content film festi...

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