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• AWARDS TIME IN MEETINGS ON THE BIRDGE The winners will be announced at Meetings on the Bridge, the sixth of which takes place this year and which aims to create a platform for the cinema industry to meet. The awards ceremony, which will start at 19.00, will take place in Cezayir.
• A BRIDGE OF FILMS BETWEEN ITALY AND TURKEY Italian Chamber of Commerce and Roma MedFilm Festival will hold bilateral meetings in Lütfi Kırdar Congress Center under the scope of the 30th Istanbul Film Fes...
• COMPETITIONS KICK OFF The screening of films that participate in the Festival’s National and International competitions will start. The exciting race for Golden Tulips will begin with the arrival of jury members in Istanbul.
• FROM FICTION TO FILM The film adaptation of Orhan Kemal’s 72nd Ward, which takes as its subject the lives of prison inmates in 1940s, full of misery and pain, is part of the National Competition line-up. It will be screened at 13.30 in Atlas. Follo...
• LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871) STARTS! One of the Festival’s most anticipated films, La Commune (Paris, 1871) lasts 345 minutes and reenacts history. The film will be shown in Pera in three installments at 11.00, 13.30, and 16.00. The screening will be attended by the son of the film’s director Peter Watkins, its editor and casting director Patrick Watkins.
• FROM THE KIRGHIZ CINEMA Kirghiz director Aktan Arym Kubat draws a funny and touching portrait of small-town ...
Note To Self:by Kimberly Deisler The one thing I really love about the LA ComedyShorts Film Festival, well, there are many things, but in particular are thepanels. While I may have mentionedthis before it bears repeating because the panelists are the most honest,irreverent and hilarious. Youlearn a lot, you get it straight and you know exactly where you stand … in along line of other people trying to get jobs in the industry. The hunger of interest in the audience is palatableunlike...
The cinematographic kermesse of RIFF, Rome Independent Film Festival has got to the end, and it has seen in the programming at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila of Rome, in this tenth edition, more than 120 films in competition - including feature films, short films and documentaries coming from more than 40 countries. The International Jury of RIFF Awards 2011 consists of Stefano Bethlen, head of Theatrical Distribution for Walt Disney Studios, the producer Gianluca Arcopinto, the Iranian Kurdish dire...
French Actor Mathieu Amalric Directs and Stars in This Sexy, Wistful Comedy,
Featuring Burlesque Performers from San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and New York
San Francisco, CA – The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5) will close with On Tour, Mathieu Amalric’s directorial feature about brassy American burlesque performers touring the French countryside, 7:00 pm, Thursday, May 5 at San Francisco’s landmark movie palace the Cas...
David Andre accepts award for Amnesty International Award
The 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century (March 11 - 20, 2011)
AWARDS
AUDIENCE AWARDS
The Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection goes to:
TEARS OF GAZA (GAZAZ TARER) by Vikebe Lokkeberg, Norway, 2010
The Audien...
The 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century (March 11 - 20, 2011) AWARDS AUDIENCE AWARDS The Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection goes to: TEARS OF GAZA (GAZAZ TARER) by Vikebe Lokkeberg, Norway, 2010 The Audience Award for a film under 45’ in the International Selection goes to: THE OTHER TOWN (OTEKI KASABA) by Nefin Dinc, Turkey, 2010 The Audience Award for a Greek film over 45’ goes to: ALMA BONITA (TO MORO MOU F...
Filmfever has yet to end in Miami! With theclosing of the Miami International FilmFestival, film buffs can continue feeding their passion for the ‘Big Screen’at the 6th Annual Sicilian Film Festival (SFF) on April 7 to 13, 2011 at the MiamiBeach Cinematheque, located at the HistoricCity Hall, 1130 Washington Avenue,Miami Beach, 33139.ArtisticDirector, Salvo Bitonti todayannounced the addition of the highly-acclaimed film, “Legend of the Bandit and the Champion.” Loosely, based on a b...
Boasting a wide-ranging slate of documentaries, features and shorts guaranteed to appeal to film-lovers. The Philadelphia Cinema Alliance is excited to announce the full film lineup for CineFest 2011 - running Thursday, April 7 - Thursday, April 14 - along with opening night highlights, special award recognition to famed horror film director John Carpenter and the reintroduction of Action Asia.
As previously announced, this year's festival lineup is bookended by comedic films lauded by atte...
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, the founding sponsor of the Festival, today announced its lineup of 60 short films, 22 of which are world premieres.
Also new this year, the recipient of the TFF Best Narrative Short award will qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
The short film pro...
9th Annual Garden State Film Festival
Returns to Asbury Park, NJ March 31-April 3, 2011
Honorees Include:
Honorary Chairperson, John Lloyd, President of Meridian Health Care
Spirit of NJ Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
Beacon Award Lainie Kazan, Movie, TV, Music and Broadway Star
Lifetime Achievement Award-Steve Sabol, President of NFL Films
Plus-Ann Reinking acclaimed BroadwayStar and Choreographer & ...
Gosh its all go here at Abertoir Headquarters today! I am delighted to announce that submissions for Wales’ National Horror Festival; The Abertoir Horror Festival are now open.
In addition, for the first time in Abertoir history, the festival will run for 6 days (as opposed to a miniscule 5) from the 8th-13th November 2011.
I'm the Acquisitions Manager for the Festival and the key thing which we are looking for are 'different' types of horrors which are professionally made ...
TO READ POST WITH ACCOMPANYING PHOTOS VISIT TINSEL & TINE
Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor) has once again written and directed a picture that’s been touted at the festivals; however, his newest film has enough mainstream appeal to be backed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Win Win is the story of an attorney, wrestling coach and most importantly, family man, Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) living in a middle class Jersey suburb trying to keep things going in these diffic...
'Mothers' (2010) Line Producer/Production Manager Milan Stojanovic speaks speaks at press conference in 2011 Belgrade International Film Festival about Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski's (Before the Rain, 1994) latest film 'Mothers' (2010), which premiered at the 2011 Berlinale.
film summary:
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet
THE LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
June 16-26, 2011
Call for Entries
Early Deadline: December 3, 2010
Regular Deadline: January 14, 2011
Final Deadlines:
Short films and music videos: February 11, 2011
Feature-length narrative and documentary films: February 24, 2011
Contact Inf...
Indomina Group, the fast-growing U.S. and Dominican Republic based producer and distributor of film, TV and trans-media content, announced today it has entered into a partnership agreement with the world-renowned Pinewood Studios Group, which will operate, manage and market a new state-of-the-art film and television facility in the Dominican Republic. A ground breaking ceremony, inaugurated by the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández Reyna, is taking place today.
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Dimension3
May 24 - 26, 2011
Call for Entries - Click here
Final Deadline: April 15, 2011
Contact Information:
Dimension 3
Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris area, France
Avance Rapide Communication
5, rue Victor Hugo
92310 Sèvres / France
Phone : +33 1 49 66 97 80
WEBSITE
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Belinale Poster
The poster for the Berlinale 2011 was conceived by the Boros Agency. Just like in the last years, a single motif represents the entire Berlinale. For the sake of unified communication there will be no separate section posters.
The team
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Online voting starts today to decide the winners of the POLYGLOT video contestDo you speak video? Visit www.polyglot-turku.eu to discover the entries!NISI MASA received 87 valid submissions from 28 different European countries: Video Portraits (documentary) on My multilingualism and Video Poems (fiction) on The language I dream in.Voting is open until February 14th on the POLYGLOT website.18 winners will be selected in total – 9 by the public and 9 by a special jury. Already confirmed for the ...
AARP The Magazine to Recognize Film Icon Robert Redford With Lifetime Achievement Award at Its 10th Annual Movies for Grownups® Awards in Los Angeles, Feb. 7th
It's awards season and AARP The Magazine has once again picked the best films for the older audience with its annual Movies for Grownups® Awards. Robert Redford is the recipient of the Movies for Grownups Lifetime Achievement Award and Tom Hooper's The King's Speech nabbed this year's top honor for overall "Bes...
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It will be a thrilling battle with eight new feature films contending for the festival's award for Best Nordic film. Now the award is even more coveted as the prize money from this year and on is set to a breathtaking SEK one million (app. $143.000), an increase from the previous years' prize of SEK 100,000.
Dragon Award Best Nordic Film is one of ten awards presented at the Dragon Awards Gala on Saturday, February 5. Contributing to ...
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