VISIONFEST – the other festival June 23 – 27,New York CityOriginating as the Guerilla Film & Video Festival, Vision fest is now in its fourth annual edition providing a platform for emerging independents. It remains the sole East Coast Festival in the United States that showcases only productions made by US producers and directors. It launches independents rather than cherry picking them from the programs of other established festivals. Thus numerous productions and film makers first scre...

VISIONFEST 04: The Other Festival (VF04) has officially announced the five filmmakers of this year’s FIVEXFIVE NEW YORK STATE OF MIND DV PROJECT, an exclusive VF04 initiative that features five NY-based filmmakers who have been given production tools and facilities to create five digital shorts dealing with one common New York incident – in this case, the 2003 blackout. Each filmmaker has been given a five-day schedule that is intended to meet the “world premiere” screening target of Sun...

The Sundance Institute launched the Fourth Annual Sundance Online Film Festival (SOFF) at www.sundance.org. This year’s Online Festival features 30 short films and interactive projects, and hours of new footage highlighting the activities and history of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute. Included in the new content are interviews with Sundance Film Festival programmers and Sundance Institute staff, behind-the-scenes looks at Institute programs, trailers from past Film Festivals...