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Locarno Open Doors 2013 to focus on the South Caucasus

© Festival del film Locarno The eleventh edition of Open Doors will focus on the South Caucasus. The Festival del film Locarno’s section that supports and puts the spotlight on filmmakers and films from countries in the South and East where independent cinema is vulnerable will also introduce a new component. With support from the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), every year Open Doors focuses on a different region; following Africa i...

The Co-Production Prize choose Sofia to expand its workshops for young Eastern European filmmakers

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Karin SchyleThis year the Robert Bosch Stiftung carried out a training for short and documentary projects with a focus on Black Sea and Caucasus during Sofia Meetings. Three teams (director and producer) from the Caucasian countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, three teams from the Black Sea countries Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and further four teams from Bulgaria were invited to participate in it. The event was organized in cooperation with the partners of Тhe Co-Production Prize o...

Mira Staleva: “Jamie King will present the platform for online distribution VODO”

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How did “Sofia Meetings” exact­ly help in the production of movies of young Bulgarian filmmakers and in finding partners? It helped in establishing contacts with extremely helpful and experienced people, with sharing of the experiences of these people by raising the level of writing the screenplays, screenwriting development, the basics of the regula­tion mechanisms for doing co-produc­tions. It turned into a know-how on how to do the things and how they happen. Which a...

AWARDS 2012 Cape Winelands Film Festival

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Films from Azerbaijan, Serbia, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Slovakia and South Africa were among the winners of the 5th edition of the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which had its last screenings on 24 March 2012 in Stellenbosch and Cape Town. The programme included award winning features, documentaries and shorts from more than 48 countries. 2012 Grand Prix Award: Grand Prix Award for the film BUTA Ilgar Najaf from Azerbaijan won the Grand Prix Award for Buta, a story...

Cape Winelands Film festival AWARDS Highlights

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AWARDS EVENING OF FIFTH EDITION OF THE CAPE WINELANDS FILM FESTIVAL (CWFF) Films from Azerbaijan, Serbia, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Slovakia and South Africa were among the winners of the 5th edition of the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which had its last screenings on 24 March 2012 in Stellenbosch and Cape Town. The programme included award winning features, documentaries and shorts from more than 48 countries. Ilgar Najaf from Azerbaijan won the ...

Sarajevo Talent Campus Call for Entries 2012

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New call for entries for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe to participate in Sarajevo Talent Campus held within the framework of the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival is open from the 15th of March 2012. Application deadline is the 8th of May, 2012. Sarajevo Talent Campus, the educational and networking platform for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe, was launched in 2007 in cooperation with Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talent Campus. The programme offer...

Second Film Festival of Corinth-Peloponnese

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We are delighted to invite you to the second Film Festival of Corinth-Peloponnese that will take place from the 3rd until the 10th of December at the municipal theatre of Corinth. The organizing committee after spending many months on the preparation, is presenting a wide schedule corresponding to all preferences and ages. Undoubtedly, the protagonist of the Festival is the Greek Independent Cinema, represented with fifteen films from a total of forty films in the event. However, the viewers wil...

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival ready to begin

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48th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, one of the most prestigious cinema events of Turkey’s arts and culture scene, will be held from 8th to 14th October 2011. With the support of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, the Festival is organized by the Antalya Culture and Art Foundation (AKSAV).Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, held annually since 1963 is the most important International film festival in Turkey. Taking place amongst the palm lined boulevards, and sun drenched ...

Professionals From 34 Countries Arrive In Snowy Tallinn

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The snow is heavily falling in Tallinn, as it is across Europe, which has played havoc with travel plans for film professionals this week (I still am waiting for my lost suitcase). However, a big contingent of film professionals is expected in Tallinn this week to attend the professional events in parallel with POFF, the Black Nights Film Festival, which runs from 25 November to 5 December in the capital city of Estonia.  Most professionals come from the Baltics, Scandinavia, Russia, E...

Black Market and Baltic Event industry focus

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Black Market and Baltic Event provides important industry focus for the 14th Black Nights Film Festival The 14th Black Nights Film Festival will once again prove to be an important meeting point for industry professionals from across the world interested in discovering the very best projects coming out of North Eastern Europe with the Black Market (for films and projects for North East Europe) and Baltic Event (concentrating on films and projects from the Baltic regions). With the chance for tho...

Animacam winners

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*ANIMACAM.TV (INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION ONLINE) **WINNERS** OF THE THIRD EDITION 2010*The audience from 106 countries, Jury of the Festival through their vote Online, with 500.000 visits registered, decided that the Winners of the Three Categories, sponsored with 2000 each one by the Entity Xacobeo S.A., were for films coming from /Colombia and Spain /Best short film Animation*T**ati n (la casa en l rbol)*/Josu Jaramillo//Colombia. 2010//Best Multimedia Animation/*L**os d as del Kr...

Baltic Event Brings Film Pros To Tallinn

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  As if the 250 plus films on display this week at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, held in the Estonian capital through Sunday, December 6, were not enough, the Festival is sponsoring a number of industry initiatives that bring togther film professionals from across Europe. BALTIC EVENT is the largest regional film market, bringing together film distributors, financiers, film festival reps and other professionals to meet the Baltic film industry. Comprised of seminar pane...

ORDINARY PEOPLE wins at FilmFestival Cottbus

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Award-winners at 19th FilmFestival Cottbus ORDINARY PEOPLE | OBICNI LJUDI from Serbia is the winner of 19th FilmFestival Cottbus: The International Jury awards director Vladimir Perisic as well as the producers Anthony Doncque and Milena Poylo with the LUBINA - the Main Prize for Best Film. The award is endowed with 18.000 Euro, donated by Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Film- und Fernsehrechten (GWFF). ORDINARY PEOPLE is about a special operations unit in an unnamed war-zone, who ...

Film Festival Cottbus to establish a new record of premieres

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19th edition of Film Festival Cottbus to establish a new record of premieresIn its 19th round, FilmFestival Cottbus is starting off with both a new record of national and international premieres and a significant raise of the prize money. A special highlight at the festival-opening is the screening of the German-Russian co-production THE LAST STATION, starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer as the main characters Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofya. “This is a wonderful start for our festival...

Lucía Puenzo wins best director award for EL NINO PEZ at the first Romania International Film Festival

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Palmarès of the first Romania International Film Festival RO-IFF held in Arad Georgian director George Ovashvili wins the CineBlackSea competition with his film THE OTHER BANK. Arad, Romania: The award ceremony marked the closure of the festival's first edition. For eight days, the festival in Arad allowed the discovery of new cinematic trends and unusual films - most of them as Romanian premieres. The CineBlackSea section focused exclusively on films produced in the Black Sea region – th...

Palmarès of the first Romania International Film Festival RO-IFF

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Palmarès of the first Romania International Film Festival RO-IFF held in AradGeorgian director George Ovashvili wins the CineBlackSea competition with his film THE OTHER BANK.Arad, Romania: The award ceremony marked the closure of the festival's first edition. For eight days, the festival in Arad allowed the discovery of new cinematic trends and unusual films - most of them as Romanian premieres. The CineBlackSea section focused exclusively on films produced in the Black Sea region – this yea...

Emir Kusturica at the first Romania International Film Festival

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The Ro-IFF (September 26 to October 4, 2009) presents a special Focus program for acclaimed Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Kusturica and his Non Smoking Orchestra will also open the festival with a concert on Saturday, September 26.The idea of Focus is to dedicate a program to the opera of a special personality in film. The films presented this year include OTAC NA SLUZBENOM PUTU (When Father Was Away on Business; 1985), DOM ZA VESANJE (Time of the Gypsies; 1988), ARIZONA DREAM (1993), UNDERGR...

NEWSLETTER N° 415: May 14th, 2009

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Follow this LINK if you cannot read the newsletter properly           Contact the Editor of the site, Advertise on the sites. Meet our staff and executives attending Cannes Palais 05.10 Message to our festivals organizers friends attending Cannes : you are welcome to get an express demo demo of...

NEWSLETTER N° 414: May 6th, 2009

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Contact the Editor of the site, Advertise on the sites. Enjoy the new version of The Festival Directory from Filmfestivals.com, MERGED to Fest21.com whith easier search options, simplified update process for festivals and opening of a major Film database for international filmmakers. FESTIVALEXPRESS, THE ONE CLICK FILM SUBMISSION SOLUTION AND BACK OFFICE. Filmmakers: register your film and select the Festivals marked as Yes for &qu...

Serbian Grand Prix, German-Azerbaijan Feature Film Prize

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MEDIAWAVE'2009 Award Ceremony was held in the former synagogue, now University Concert Hall in the evening 2 May. The Grand Prix of MEDIAWAVE'2009 International Film and Music Festival went to Boris Mitic's Goodbye, How Are You? Veit Helmer received the Prize for the Best Feature Film for Absurdistan. MEDIAWAVE'2009 AWARD LIST Animation, Documentary and Experimental Film Jury: Phil Mulloy - animation film director (UK) Andrei Paunov - documentary film director...

Serbian Grand Prix, German-Azerbaijan Feature Film Prize

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MEDIAWAVE'2009 Award Ceremony was held in the former synagogue, now University Concert Hall in the evening 2 May. The Grand Prix of MEDIAWAVE'2009 International Film and Music Festival went to Boris Mitic's Goodbye, How Are You? Veit Helmer received the Prize for the Best Feature Film for Absurdistan. MEDIAWAVE'2009 AWARD LIST Animation, Documentary and Experimental Film Jury: Phil Mulloy - animation film director (UK) Andrei Paunov - documentary film director (BUL) Péter Mészáros - film dire...

Baku International Film Festival

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Baku Int`l Film Festival (BIFF) is the biggest in the region.The organizer of BIFF is the well-known Azeri writer, playwright and director Mr. RUSTAM IBRAGIMBEKOV. He won OSCAR in 1998 for the best foreign film.

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Rotterdam Fest line up

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For its 38th edition, the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 will present 43 world premieres as well as 35 international and 34 European premieres of feature length films. A strong year for Eastern European film is led by ROOM AND A HALF, a fictional biopic about poet Joseph Brodsky by Andrey Khrzhanovsky; MORPHIA, Alexei Balabanov’s latest film, based on a M. Bulgakov adaptation by the late Sergei Bodrov Jr. and acclaimed Armenian director Harutyun Khachatryan’s BORDER. Throughout t...

FESTIVAL ON WHEELS 2008 goes international

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                                Festival on Wheels has changed its route! The 14th Festival on Wheels, which is organised by the Ankara Cinema Association with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Municipality of Kars, will start its journey on 7 November in Ka...

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