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Stockholm International Film Festival

The Stockholm Int Film Festival is one of the leading competitive film festivals in Northern Europe and with the fastest growing industry office in the region. Focus on emerging directors in contemporary film plus strong American indie & Asian sections.

Raetihi (new Zealand) Film Festival

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The Raetihi Film Festival is in the 1915 built THEATRE ROYAL in Raetihi, New Zealand. This year`s "call for submissions" closed on July 5th. We will list the schedule on July 17th on the website: http://raetihi.com

Magma Short Film Festival

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the magma short film festival is open to all film makers, awards categories include drama, documentary, animation, comedy. Guest speakers and workshops add to the programme to make an exciting and memorable short film festival

Jasmax Film Festival

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The Jasmax New Zealand Architectural And Creative Design Film Festival 2007 is calling for entries from film makers whose films tell stories or educate viewers in the arts of architecture and creative design.

Asia Film Festival Aotearoa

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The Asia Film Festival Aotearoa Trust is an annual competitive film festival devoted exclusively to the presentation of contemporary and innovative cinema from Asia and the Asian Diaspora.

Stratos TV (Gay & Lesbian Television Festival)

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The only gay & lesbian television festival in the world on free-to-air terrestrial television. It focuses on new work by gay and lesbian film and documentary makers, offering free airtime to producers and directors.

Cinechico Short Film Screenings

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Monthly short film screenings starts March 2006 and runs every month.

River City Film Festival

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International Short Films competition located in New Zealand for films completed after May 2004—15 minutes max. Visit web site. Also Call for Features to screen outside of competition, 35mm, completed after Jan 2004--contact Marion Campbell.

Big Mountain Short Film Festival

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Big Mountain showcases two phases of filmmaking - "No Budget" (under $1000) and "Budget" ($1000+). Open to international filmmakers. Includes filmmaking tips, guest speakers, demos, school competition, and other festival tie-ins.

Dreamspeakers International Film Festival

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A thought-provoking showcase of film works of Aboriginal people from Mexico, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Canada. Please visit www.dreamspeakers.org for more information and film submission forms.

Incredible Film Fest

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A festival about movies and free beer. A populist event (60s sexploitation, asian new wave, pop culture documentaries. Run by film lovers for film lovers. We leave the glamour and superficiality to other festivals.

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The Sundance Awards

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The 25th Sundance Film Festival culminated with a celebration recognizing the films that Festival juries and audiences selected for awards. Festivalgoers packed into the Park City Racquet Club for this special evening highlighting some of the 2009 Festival’s most original voices. Jane Lynch, the ceremony's host, followed in the spirit of this year's storytime theme and opened with a windy mad-lib pieced together by this year's film titles.” In fact, at the risk of sounding Crude let me tell ...

Success Stories at the Festival

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Below is a list of films that have achieved success through exhibition at our festival.   A lot of our films have our festival's laurels on their box art in US video stores.   The Derby Stallion - Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment The Final Patient - Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Return With Honor - Picked up by Excel Film Distribution Maximum Cage Fighting- Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Fighter - ...

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...

Rotterdam line up and Tiger awards competition

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Fourteen films have been selected for IFFR’s VPRO Tiger Awards Competition 2009. The line up features first or second films from all continents, and includes eight world premieres concurring for three equal top prizes of each 15,000 euro. For the first time, films from Turkey, New Zealand and Indonesia are included in competition. The Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films includes twenty-seven films shorter than 60 minutes; the three Tiger Awards for Short Film each come with 3,000 euro.Sta...

Animacam Awards: International Festival Animation On Line,

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Animacam, International Festival Animation On Line, closed its First Edition the past December 21, winters solstice, spreading in www.animacam.tv the Winners 2008 of the 11 awarded movies. From June the 23 until October the first we had travelled together an intense road. With more than 75.000 visits at the website and the participation of 164 films coming from 33 countries (Saudit Arabia, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia...

CineMart selects 36 film projects

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38th International Film Festival Rotterdam 21 January – 1 February 2009 CineMart selects 36 film projects for the 26th edition of the co-production market From almost 500 submissions, 36 international film projects have been selected to be presented at CineMart (25 - 29 January 2009) to an expected 850 international producers, sales agents, distributors and funds. The selection includes project by Zhang Yuan (EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE), Erik Skjoldbjærg (INSOMNIA), Ruben Östlund (INVOLUNTA...

Dough for Victoria Film Festival

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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 ...

Director “Sergei Dvortsevoy” bagged the best film award with the Golden Peacock in IFFI-Goa 2008,

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With the screening of Iranian film ‘The Song of the Sparrows’, directed by Majid Majidi, curtains came down on the 39th International Film Festival of India on December 2nd 2008. Director Sergei Dvortsevoy bagged the best film award with the Golden Peacock and a cash award of 40 lakh for the Kazakhstan film ‘Tulpan’. The Director also got the Most Promising Director Award for the film. The award comprises the Silver Peacock and a cash award of Rs. 15 lakh. Tulpan is a cinematic triumph...

Director “Sergei Dvortsevoy” bagged IFFI Goa's best film award

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Director “Sergei Dvortsevoy” bagged the best film award with the Golden Peacock in IFFI-Goa 2008, The Special Jury Award has gone to Sri Lankan actress “Malini Fonseka”With the screening of Iranian film ‘The Song of the Sparrows’, directed by Majid Majidi, curtains came down on the 39th International Film Festival of India on December 2nd 2008. Director Sergei Dvortsevoy bagged the best film award with the Golden Peacock and a cash award of 40 lakh for the Kazakhstan film ‘Tulpan...

Award Winners Announced At FLIFF Finale

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After nearly four weeks of film screenings, special events, receptions and information seminars, weary Festival honcho Gregory von Hausch took to the stage of the Cinema Paradiso last evening to announce this year's award winners at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Winning top prize as Best Film of the Fest was Gospel Hill, the feature debut of actor/director Giancarlo Esposito. The race relations drama, made even more relevant by last week's historic Presidential electio...

Award Winners Announced At FLIFF Finale

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Gospel Hill (US, Giancarlo Esposito)    Monday, November 10---------After nearly four weeks of film screenings, special events, receptions and information seminars, weary Festival honcho Gregory von Hausch took to the stage of the Cinema Paradiso last evening to announce this year's award winners at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Winning top prize as Best Film of the Fest was Gospel Hill, the feature debut of actor/director Giancarlo Esp...

London Festival Enjoys audience and industry records

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The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival rounded off its most successful year to date with the European premiere of Danny Boyle’s SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. This year’s Festival hosted 191 feature films and 109 short films from 43 countries including a record 15 world premieres. There were 398 screenings and 537 visiting international filmmakers, a record 1096 industry professionals, and the highest ever audience attendance. High-profile international filmmakers and actors attended their film’s s...

A look back at some Fantasporto prestigious winners

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They have been awarded by the International Jury: Official Fantasy Section "The Redeemer" by Kristo Papic (82) "Scanners" by David Cronenberg (83) "Le Dernier Combat" by Luc Besson (84) "The Company of Wolves" by Neil Jordan (85) "Fuego Eterno" by Jose Angel Rebolledo (86) "Defense of the Realm" by David Drury (87) "A Chinese Ghost Story" by Chin Siu Tung (88) "Monkey Shines" by George Romero (89) "B...

60 films in competition at Middle East International Film Fest

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Over 60 films from 32 countries around the world will take part in the Official Competition for this year's Middle East International Film Festival, running October 10-19, 2008.This year’s festival will see 138 films screened from East to West, up from 80 films in MEIFF’s inaugural festival in 2007. This year’s Official Competition is comprised of four sections: feature, documentary, short films and student films."I am pleased to say that MEIFF 2008 has attracted some of the top films, fil...

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