An abundance of panel discussions from various perspectives of the film industry are scheduled for the 2009 festival. May 15- American Pavilion will host a discussion with Francis Ford Coppola, 5:30-7pmMay 16- Short Film Corner to host a conference entitled 'Focus on Scandinavian Short Film Industry', 4pm May 17- American Pavilion will host a discussion with American directors in Cannes with panelists: Lynn Shelton ("Humpday"), Lee Daniels ("Precious"), Josh and Be...
The UK Film Council today announced £1.8 million Lottery funding for the Times BFI London Film Festival over the next three years. The money will fund innovative ways to allow audiences across the UK to access and share in the festival, allow the festival to drive forward its ambition to become a recognised destination where the international industry does business, and allow it to compete with other major international festivals.The investment will significantly boost opportunities for audien...
The Community Cohesion Foundation in partnership with The Nevis Cultural Development Foundation and Community Development (Nevis) will host the Nevis International First Feature Film Festival (NIF3). The festival will take place May 3-8, 2009 at various locations around Nevis.“We are very much looking forward to the film festival and the exposure we hope it will bring to the island as a cultural destination,” said Devon Liburd, marketing director for the Nevis Tourism Authority. “This fe...
There are so many different definitions of success and “bigness.” There are film festivals that attract hundreds of thousands of people, and yet are not on the mainstream radar, and festivals which show only a few dozen films that are world famous. This session will address considerations and metrics for success including: number of films, number of acquisitions, celebrities, size of audience, longevity, number of impressions and reach? Most notably, these different metrics have differing ...
There are so many different definitions of success and “bigness.” Although some festivals admit they would love to grow "smaller" the general issue on development is how can a festival become bigger, better or even louder.What makes a festival director really happy, eventually what makes sponsors happy, and fulfill filmmakers dreams...How do festivals define goals and ways to measure the success.There are film festivals that attract hundreds of thousands of people, and yet are not on the mai...
Final conclusion of the two day event at the luxurious but loud Saint James & Albany Hotel in Paris
Program of the afternoon sessions:
The Workshop of Workshops
Developing unique programs to set your festival apart and educate the filmmaker can be a key component to any festival. What can and should you do to properly enhance the filmmaker experience? Hear from established fests how year after year they continue to create an exceptional filmmaker experience.
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Social networking and digital media: what tools are out there and how can your festival leverage these assets? Don't miss this cutting edge panel discussion addressing the latest tools that can help propel your festival forward.
Moderator: Bruno Chatelin, COO, Filmfestivals.com
Git Scheynius, Festival Director, Stockholm Int'l Film Festival
Kate Burns, Managing Director, Bebo.com
Anthony Zameczkowski, Strategic Partnerships Manager, You Tube, EMEA
I will introduce the dis...
2009 IFFS Europe Opening Keynote Presentation
Marco Müller
Director
Venice International Film Festival
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
8:30 am Registration Opens
9:15 am Opening Remarks by Conference Chair
Christian Gaines
Director of Festivals
Withoutabox, a division of IMDb
9:30 am - 10:30 am Dynamic Programming
Year round programming, migrating content to the web and extending audience reach are all critical programming issues. Once your festival has t...
You are invited to a wine tasting of Best of French wines areas. Join us at our offices April 7 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cocktail Reception Hosted By filmfestivals.com and fest21.comYou won't want to miss this year's opening cocktail reception. More networking and additional meeting time with your peers and colleagues will make this reception time well spent. Wine tasting in our offices offering a choice of red and white wines from the main french wine regions : Alsace, Bordeaux, Burgundy, south West ...
Saturday started off at 10:00 a.m., crack-of-butt-early for comics and Hollywoodies, but dark glasses and stellar panelists John Elliot and M. Riley, Mosaic Media, Daniel Weidenfeld, Comedy Central’s Chocolate News, and Ian Friedman, Manager of Content Development for Atom.com made it worth everyone’s while as they dispersed valuable insights on the how-to-do’s of the industry.This goes down as one of the best and most informative panels because of the passion these men have for comedy and...
Saturday started off at 10:00 a.m., crack-of-butt-early for comics and Hollywoodies, but dark glasses and stellar panelists John Elliot and M. Riley, Mosaic Media, Daniel Weidenfeld, Comedy Central’s Chocolate News, and Ian Friedman, Manager of Content Development for Atom.com made it worth everyone’s while as they dispersed valuable insights on the how-to-do’s of the industry.
This goes down as one of the best and most informative panels because of the passion these men have ...
“It was great to see so many more people out this year, we increased in all age groups especially with the 20 somethings and that's a great feeling – to present an event that reaches across the entire age spectrum,” said Festival Director Kathy Kay. We received some great feedback from festival goers this year, so hopefully we can carry that forward for an even better festival in 2010.”The interest from filmmakers around the world continued to provide a broad selection of film for Vancou...
Today, on Saturday, February 14, the 59th Berlin International Film Festival comes to a close with the Award Ceremony. 1600 guests are expected at the glamorous gala in the Berlinale Palast, where from 7:30 pm onwards, the winners of the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears, the Alfred Bauer Prize, and the Best First Feature Award will be announced. Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick and the International Jury with Jury President Tilda Swinton will present the awards; Katrin Bauerfeind will host the...
REEL TALKS, Co-Presented by FRONTERA FILMMAKERSSan Diego Latino Film Festival once again takes audiences behind the scenes with its REEL TALKS programming with the help of Latino Public Broadcasting, Nickelodeon and Walt Disney Animation Studios. Documentary filmmaking, special effects creation and animation will be spotlighted in this years edition of REEL TALKS.“The caliber of talent involved in this year’s REEL TALKS inspired an entire set of related programming that will appeal to local...
The inaugural Ventura Film Festival -- a dynamic, collaborative and imaginative blend of film and new media featuring more authenticity than flash, including international narrative, documentary, animation, video art and performance –- will take place at the Elks Lodge, 2126 Knoll Drive in Ventura, California on Thursday-Sunday, March 26-29, 2009. Please visit the website: www.venturafilmfest.com for more details.Under the guidance of 30-year movie industry veteran and Festival Founder/Directo...
On Saturday evening (7.2.) Festival Director Dieter Kosslick and Campus Programme Manager Matthijs Wouter Knol opened the 2009 edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus before approx. 600 invited guests at the Theater Hebbel am Ufer, HAU 1. 350 Talents from 106 countries will converge at the Hebbel am Ufer until 12.2. to exchange with international experts and network amongst themselves. Directors and screenwriters Sir David Hare (The Reader) and Daniela Thomas (O Primeiro Dia) as well as composer ...
The inaugural Ventura Film Festival -- a dynamic, collaborative and imaginative blend of film and new media featuring more authenticity than flash, including international narrative, documentary, animation, video art and performance –- will take place at the Elks Lodge, 2126 Knoll Drive in Ventura, California on Thursday-Sunday, March 26-29, 2009. Please visit the website: www.venturafilmfest.com for more details.Under the guidance of 30-year movie industry veteran and Festival Founder/Directo...
2009 IFFS Europe Opening Keynote Presentations
Marco Müller
Director
Venice International Film Festival
Wieland Speck
Director of Panorama
Berlin International Film Festival
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
8:30 am Registration Opens
9:15 am Opening Remarks by Conference Chair
9:30 am - 10:30 am Dynamic Programming
Year round programming, migrating content to the web and extending audience reach are all critical programming issues. Once your festival ha...
Each winter Winnipeg hosts NSI FilmExchange, featuring the best feature and short Canadian films of the year. NSI FilmExchange is a sizzling celebration of Canadian Film and Canadian filmmaking in one very cool city.
Slamdance, always looking for new and innovative ways to assist emerging artists and to contribute to the film community, has joined forces with Upload Films to annually produce a feature film based on that year’s prize-winning entry from the Slamdance Screenplay Competition, it was jointly announced by Peter Baxter of Slamdance and Todd Williams at Upload Films. It is believed Slamdance is the only film festival to actively produce feature films that emanate from its competitions. The firs...
The first titles for the Competition programme of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival have been confirmed. They include films from Algeria, China, Greece, Great Britain, Sweden, the USA, and Germany. This means that in addition to the opening film, the world premiere of Tom Tykwer’s The International (which is screening out of competition, as announced in the press release on Nov. 28, 2008), another ten films have been selected, four of which will be celebrating their world premieres a...
The Berlinale first went digital in 2004. Now, in 2009, it is about to take the next big step: 29 of its total 49 screens are being equipped with digital cinema servers for the upcoming festival. This creates a standardized system for screening the films of the festival and European Film Market that are available in a digital format. The Competition will, however, continue to use d-cinema systems for its digital presentations. In 2008, there were almost 400 films with diverse video formats scree...
Canwest Donates $140,000 to the Victoria Film FestivalVictoria, BC The Victoria Film Festival is pleased to announce that Canwest an organization with a strong history of giving back to the communities in which it operates has guaranteed the long-term health of the Festivals documentary programming with a multi-year financial commitment of $140,000.Were really excited about Canwests contribution to documentary film in Victoria. Its great when organizations can work together to improve access to ...
Emerging talent just isn’t confined to narrative and documentary feature films. As the Slamdance Film Festival celebrates its 15th Anniversary in 2009, 86 short films in four different competition categories - documentary, narrative/experimental, animation and music video, which is a new classification this year - will be showcased and be eligible for a Grand Jury Award. All accepted entries have been selected to screen by the Shorts Programming Committee, which is comprised primarily of S...
Academy Award ® Winning writer/director/producer Quentin Tarantino will be honored with Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood – Honda International Film Festival, it was announced today by Festival Chairman and producer Mark Canton (300, Spiderwick Chronicles, A Perfect Getaway, War of Gods, Fame) and Festival Director Pascal Vicedomini.
"Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most prolific talents, revered and respected by the entertainment industr...
