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Clint Eastwood will be honored at MOTIFF festival

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The Museum of Tolerance will present the First Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival (MOTIFF) November 13-18, 2010 in Los Angeles, it was announced today by Museum officials. Festival offerings will be screened in several theaters including the 300-seat state-of-the-art Peltz Theatre. The MOTIFF will be screening films from around the globe that shine a light on human rights issues both past and present. Intertwined with classic films that bolster the Museum of Tolerance’s mission,...

Speakers for the October 2010 Filmmaker Forum announced

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  FILM INDEPENDENT'S 6TH ANNUAL FILMMAKER FORUM OCTOBER 29-31, 2010 Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced today the panelists for the sixth annual Filmmaker Forum, which will be held October 29-31 at the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles.  The opening night film, keynote speaker, and additional panelists will be announced shortly, as well as the recipient of the 2010 Sloan Produce...

Atlanta Film Festival 365 seeks New Executive Director

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Positioned at the intersection of art, culture and commerce, Atlanta Film Festival 365 (ATL Film 365) brings meaning to the moving image by championing the shared community experience, fostering the free exchange of ideas, and nurturing the development of a thriving industry.  The Executive Director (ED) works in partnership with the Board of Directors to help shape the vision of the organization based on its mission and long term goals. The ED oversees all of Atlanta Film Festival 365'...

2010 New York International Latino Film Festival Awards Photos

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By Maria Esteves - August 27, 2010 The 11th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) Awards presented by HBO honoring the best in filmmaking and emerging directors of Latino descent in 2010 was held at the SVA Theatre, Sunday, August 1, 7:00 PM. This year's film festival included 46 premieres, 33 features (domestic, international, cinedulce), 17 documentaries, 56 shorts; panel discussions; special presentations; workshops; free outdoor screenings; VIP receptions; and gala parties....

2010 New York International Latino Film Festival Awards

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By Maria Esteves - August 27, 2010 The 11th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) Awards honored the best in filmmaking and emerging directors of Latino descent in 2010 at the SVA theatre, Sunday, August 1, 7:00 PM. The award announcers were HBO associate manager/marketing development Marvin Scott, NYILFF founder/co-executive director Calixto Chinchilla, and co-executive director Elizabeth Gardner. Since 1999, NYILFF was founded by Calixto Chinchilla to assist emerging L...

FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival 2010 Award Winners Announced

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The Fourteenth Annual Festival Concludes Attracting Extraordinary Films, and bestows honors on Well-Known Comedic Actor Jonathon Katz and Artists and Entrepreneurs Jon and Betty Jane Berberian The 2010 Flickers: Rhode Island International Film   • Photos by Mary Hanley Festival (RIIFF) announced the winners in this year's film competition at its annual Awards Ceremony held at the Renaissance Providence Hotel's Symphony Ballroom in downtown Providence, ...

NEWSLETTER N° 474: August 26, 2010

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 .............                                                                                                                                                          WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER N° 474: August 26, 2010 THE SUMMER WRAP NEWSLETTER Follow this LINK if you cannot read the newsletter properly Contact the Editor, Advertise on the sites.  Our newsletter re...

2010 New York International Latino Film Festival Awards

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By Maria Esteves - August 27, 2010 The 11th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) Awards honored the best in filmmaking and emerging directors of Latino descent in 2010 at the SVA theatre, Sunday, August 1, 7:00 PM. The award announcers were HBO associate manager/marketing development Marvin Scott, NYILFF founder/co-executive director Calixto Chinchilla, and co-executive director Elizabeth Gardner. Since 1999, NYILFF was founded by Calixto Chinchilla to assist emerging Latino film...

11th New York International Latino Film Festival Opening Night Video Coverage

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by Maria Esteves - August 26, 2010 The 11th New York International Latino Film Festival 2010 (NYILFF10) presented by HBO was held at theaters in New York City, July 27 - August 1, 2010. NYILFF founder/executive director Calixto Chinchilla, executive director Elizabeth Gardner, HBO vice president, acquisition & multicultural marketing Lucinda Martinez-Desir, and many others opened the 2010 NYILFF at the SVA theatre, Tuesday, July 27, 7:00 PM. NYILFF founder/ex...

11th NY Intl Latino Film Festival Opening Night Premiere of THE DRY LAND Red Carpet & After Party Photos

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By Maria Esteves - August 25, 2010 The 11th New York International Latino Film Festival 2010 (NYILFF10) presented by HBO Opening Night New York Premiere of THE DRY LAND, written/directed by Ryan Piers Williams, commenced Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:00 PM, at the School for Visual Arts (SVA) theatre. 2010 NYILFF Opening Night VIP Reception preceded the premiere film. 2010 NYILFF Opening Night red carpet arrivals included international filmmakers, producers, writers, actors, recording artists, i...

Three US Film Festivals To Launch QR Code Campaigns

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For the first time in the US, three film festivals, two on the west coast and one on the east coast, will be using QR Codes on a variety of material to bridge the physical world with the digital world. The Port Townsend Film Festival (September 24-26), the New Hampshire Film Festival (October 14-17) and the Edmonds International Film Festival (October 20-24) will permit individuals to snap a QR Code with their smart phone cameras from a number of items: newspaper ads, posters, passes, program ...

The Anaheim International Film Festival ready for upgrade

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The Anaheim International Film Festival (AIFF) has signed FESTWORKS, the premier film festival consultancy, to provide artistic direction and programming for its inaugural event, taking place October 13-17 at UltraStar Cinemas at the Anaheim GardenWalk. FESTWORKS’ principals Rose Kuo, Robert Koehler, John Wildman and David Rogers launched their firm earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival after a highly celebrated year for the AFI FEST 2009. FESTWORKS’ Matt Bolish, also an AFI Fest ...

News from the Chicago International Children's Film Festival

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With over 40 countries representing more than 200 films from around the world each year, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival hosts an average of 26,000 children and their parents and teachers at several venues through-out Chicago each year and is the largest annual festival of films for children in the world. The mission of WTTW11 is to provide relevant and distinctive programming for diverse audiences in Chicago and around the nation. With a special commitment to children's conte...

Michael Lerman promoted to Philadelphia Artistic Director

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The Philadelphia Film Society is pleased to announce that it has promoted Director of Programming Michael Lerman to Artistic Director and hired Tom Quinn and Ryan Werner as programmers of the Philadelphia Film Festival. Lerman, Quinn and Werner previously worked together as programmers for the Woodstock Film Festival, successfully building the Festival through the programming of diverse, intelligent and engaging films. Quinn and Werner begin immediately, and will work with Lerman to curate the s...

The Global Film Village: PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR 2010

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    by Marla Lewin The 2010 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced that it has selected  314 films from more than 3,000 worldwide entries. Among the films screening and in competition areaward-winning films from 43 countries around the world. The 16th ShortFest will showcase 58 World Premieres, 55 North American Premieres and 24 U.S. Premieres.   All selections are structured into 52 themed programs, which will screen June 22-28, at the Camelot Theatres in ...

Provincetown International Film Festival Brings Warm Tides

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The year America's oldest art colony turned 100, it reckoned it couldn't start another century without a cinema fete. Thus was born the Provincetown International Film Festival. That was 1999, and now PIFF heads into its 12th edition June 16 to 20, 2010. The Festival will once again salute "new achievements in independent film…and the work of acclaimed and emerging directors, producers and actors," as per its website. Not a peep about writers, which is the bailiwick of the N...

Nantucket Film Festival - Chapter 15 in Literary Love Story

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As the days lengthen, so the Nantucket Film Festival fires up for its 15th annual storytelling blowout, June 17 to 20, 2010. The Festival, which celebrates screenwriters, screenwriting and the art of the raconteur in today's cinema, boasts "The Writers are Coming" as its motto. Wordsmiths aren't the only ones to wash ashore. Once again, 4,000 screenwriters, producers, agents, development executives and lay cinephiles are due on the Massachusetts island -- along with some 6,000 l...

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) announces some significantt changes

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  Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) today announced a dramatic expansion of 2011 festival dates and venues in response to tremendous audience demand.   The 11th Annual AJFF will be held Feb. 8-27, 2011. This expansion from 12 to 20 days allows AJFF to reach a larger audience, exhibit additional films, offer more repeat screenings of popular titles, and decompress what is currently a densely packed schedule. The shift to February and away from the winter holidays also offers...

Introduction: XXV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2010

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Production & Direction FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE THE COLLEGIUM - FORUM & TELEVISION PROGRAM BERLIN in association with CULTURAL ZEPHYR e.V. present XXV. Black International Cinema Berlin 2010 Anniversary A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy The Magical Oasis Cinema Experience in cooperation with Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin May 4-8, 2010 RATHAUS SCHÖNEBERG (City Hall) Kinosaal (cinema)...

The Ile de France Film Commission and Film London sign a partnership agreement in Festival de Cannes

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Olivier-René VEILLON, Executive Director of the Ile de France Film Commission, and Adrian WOOTTON, Chief Executive of Film London, signed a partnership agreement between the two Capital cities this afternoon (Friday May 14th) at the Cannes Film Festival at the Ile de France Region stand.  FILM LONDON and ILE DE FRANCE FILM COMMISSION have a common objective in promoting  their respective regions to national and international production companies. As such they have decided to put in place a f...

Film Commission Partnership

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This afternoon, 14 May, Olivier-Rene Veillon, executive director for Île-de-France Film Commission, and Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, will be meeting to sign a partnership agreement between both regions. This agreement between the IDF and London commission will be the first of its kind and intends to jointly utilize each of their production and post-production resources for industry events. There are also plans in the works to combine each regions' eco-initiatives, IDF's Ecoprod and Lon...

Hot Docs Divvies Awards

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Leave Them Laughing. It's the film that took the Special Jury Prize – Canadian Feature at the May 7 awards bash for Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 29 to May 9, 2010). And it could be the motto for the 17th annual fest, which played to packed audiences even as business slackened at its annual market. The film, by Oscar-winning director John Zaritsky, is about laughing in the face of terminal illness. How to live despite tough odds is a challenge the d...

NEWSLETTER N° 464: may 6, 2010

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.............                                                      WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER N° 464: may 6, 2010 Follow this LINK if you cannot read the newsletter properly The Future of Cinema Salon returns to Cannes Filmfestivals.com and Xomo present the Future of Festivals...its Digital...toast !  Mingle Talk and Wine tasting at the Spa des Stars (next t...

The San Francisco Film Society wrapped its 53rd San Francisco International Film

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The San Francisco Film Society wrapped its 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22 - May 6) with 293 screenings of 181 films from 46 countries, with 188 filmmakers and 104 industry guests from 23 countries in attendance and more than 75,000 filmgoers. The Festival sold out 92 screenings during its 15-day run, including five sellouts of the 1,400-seat Castro Theatre (An Evening with Roger Ebert & Friends, An Evening with Robert Duvall, world premiere of All About Evil, 20...

Winners of the Spring 2010 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants

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The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced the five winners of the Spring 2010 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants tonight at the Golden Gate Awards at Temple Nightclub - Prana Restaurant. The grants are given twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. The panelists who reviewed the finalists' submissions are Jacob Kornbluth, award-winni...
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