NEWSLETTER N° 342: December 5, 2007

FESTIVALS AGENDA SUBMISSION CALENDARS
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BABELGUM ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL Submit by February 15, 2008
Join the competition now to enter your film for the Babelgum Online Film Festival competition awards.
Spike Lee chairs a jury of industry experts drawn from around the world.
Winners in each of the 7 categories will be awarded $20 000, plus advertising revenue share and gain exposure to a global audience
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FESTIVALS IN ACTION - THE VIDEO DAILIES
Recent coverage and dailies from Goa London Rome Funchal Fort Lauderdale Bahamas AFI
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AWARDS
THE AWARDS WATCH ON FEST21.COM Oscar and more

Independent Awards Nominees
Stranded wins top prize at IFDA
Taiwanese film 'The Wall' gets top award at Goa, India's main film fest
4 Months, 3 Weeks...wins best film and best director at the European Film Awards
Stranded wins VPRO Joris Ivens Award 2007 at IFDA
British Independent Film Awards
Exground filmfest: winners of film contests
Santos Palace" from Belgium wins the “Cinemamondo – Castello nel Mondo” award
Annual Gotham Awards Winners Announced

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NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS FOCAL PRESS BOOKS

Anthony Artis' "The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide"
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FESTIVAL NEWS

Dutch Treats-Cinekids 2007-A Movie Marathon
Git Scheynius receives Excellence Award in Las Vegas
More importance afforded to short films in Berlin
Successful 5th German-French Film Rendez-Vous in Versailles
Smogdance announced its final selection of 43 films
Berlinale Talent Campus projects for next february
Goa: not just fish, feni and football... but films too
Sundance Festival has announced the line-up of films
Dane went to Clone Digital Film Festival

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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS

Reorganization and staff expansion at Film Independent
Influential Critic Hollis Alpert passed away
Jeff Margolis to Direct Screen Actors Guild Awards® Telecast
Palm Springs will honor Daniel Day-Lewis
Pasolini: Tribute To A Poet-Populist-Pornographer
Berlinale 2008: Oscar winner Costa-Gavras to be Jury President
Paul Verhoeven, has won Capri Cult Award
Naomie Harris to receive Rising Star Tribute from Bahamas

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THE NEWS " IN FRENCH " l'actu des festivals francophones
LA COUVERTURE DE CANNES SUR http://croisette.fest21.com

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Doremi équipera les salles numériques de CGR
Festival de Valloire : 5 au 8 janvier 2008
Palmarès des Rencontres du Cinéma Francophone en Beaujolais
Profession Film sur le net
Imagina sera plus ouvert et gratuit pour les professionnels
Fabrice Luchini présidera le Jury du festival du film de comédie de l'Alpe d'Huez
Parisfx, premier showcase dédié à la création numérique
PRIX "The Best 2007" attribué à Pascal Vicedomini, fondateur du Festival de Capri
20emes Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes
Les montgolfières clôturent le Festival des 3 Continents de Nantes

ASPIRING FEST REPORTERS & BLOGGERS WANTED, GET YOUR FEST ACCRED THROUGH US
Share your Festival experiences with us: OPEN YOUR BLOG AND PUBLISH ON OUR FREE PLATFORM.
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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS

From LA to Goa, director-writer scripts alien invasion for kids via animation
Indian media and entertainment close to "large-scale evolution"
Indian industry study pushes for adopting DRM in country
India opts for regional cinema from south to represent it at IFFI

D-CINEMA NEWS

Polar Express 3D goes IMAX 3D for Christmas
CGR Cinémas go fully digital, team with AAM
HD EXPO unveils 3D Day
The world’s digital screens reach 4000 mark
NEC Digital Cinema Division Wins the 2007 American Business Award
French 3D cinema is awakening…

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Film Festival Tourism: a research on its rapid expansion
The previous articles provided the context for the growing film festival tourism phenomenon. In this last installment, more specific information is provided about the participants in festival tourism, the services provided by the few agencies in this new niche market, and the characteristics of the film festivals that would most likely benefit from film festival tourism.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

WRAP UP FROM CANNES
Check out the Cannes Blog Photo Gallery, Video Gallery

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Second Life "La Croisette": http://www.fest21.com/blog/secondlife
TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR TO CANNES ON SECOND LIFE: you are invited TELEPORT HERE

CALL FOR ENTRIES ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
Filmmakers don't miss these ones!

BUSHO FILM FESTIVAL September 3 - 7, 2008
Short Film, Long Bang!
The 4th BuSho International Short Film Festival accepts entries in the categories of fiction, animation and experimental film.
Entry deadline: 3. May 2008.
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BABELGUM ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL Submit by February 15, 2008
Join the competition now to enter your film for the Babelgum Online Film Festival competition awards.
Spike Lee chairs a jury of industry experts drawn from around the world.
Winners in each of the 7 categories will be awarded $20 000, plus advertising revenue share and gain exposure to a global audience
APPLY ONLINE

TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S TV & FILM FESTIVAL April 4 - 8, 2008
Taiwan International Children’s TV & Film Festival Final Calls.Entry deadline: October 31, 2007. Don’t miss your opportunity to win cash prize USD 4,000 each category. Please visit our website: www.tictff.org.tw or the bulletin board page to get moresubmission information
SUBMIT INFORMATION ONLINE

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALl April 24 - May 8, 2008
The Golden Gate Awards competition is accepting submissions in 11 categories. Entries must have been completed on or after January 1, 2007. Works that have played a multiday commercial theatrical run in the Bay Area or had any kind of media broadcast are not eligible to apply to non-television categories
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SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA June 13 - 21, 2008
Now entering our 10th year, Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF) has become one of Asia’s largest festival for international short films and is one of the few Academy Award(R) accredited short film festivals SSFF reaches audiences of 30,000 in Tokyo and major cities in Japan. Our main festival is held for over a week in the heart of Harajuku TOKYO!
Please note that our festival dates are tentative.
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INDEPENDENT FEATURES FILM FESTIVAL July 25 - 27, 2008
The Independent Features Film Festival is the world's first film festival in which films will be chosen by a global audience via a web-based competition. The competition will run May 1st, 2008 through June 30th, 2008. The top twenty-one films will go on to be screened at the Independent Features Film Festival which will be hosted July 25-27, 2008 at the acclaimed Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan.
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ECU THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March 14 - 16, 2007
The European Independent Film Festival 2007 submission deadline of February 1st 2007 is fast approaching. Held in Paris on the 16th, 17th and 18th of March at the prestigious Biblioteque Nationale de Francois Mitterand the very best independent films from around the World will be screened to large audiences competing for 16 awards in 11 categories.
For more information go to www.ecufilmfestival.com
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Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee
The Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival wants to see your SHORTS!
Dramas, comedies, documentaries, animations, experimental works and films inspired by JAZZ.
Best of Fest Shorts Prize is $5000 USD - Go to www.kcjubilee.org for details (under 30 minutes, NO PAL).
Postmark deadlines are October 1, November 15 & December 1.
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Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Feb 15 - 23, 2008
PUNTO DE VISTA, the Documentary Film Festival of Navarra calls for a competition, open to participation by documentaries of any nationality made in after 1 August 2006. The deadline for sending films is next 30 September.
Fiction, institutional or publicity films will not be admitted, nor reports or works of a journalistic nature.

CINEMA IN PARADISE: BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL December 6 - 13, 200
join filmmakers and celebrities from around the world at the 4th edition.
The festival will entertain visitors with a diverse presentation of international films,
unusual cultural experiences and fantastic social events. Come and be a part of the fun!

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL December 9 - 16, 2007l
The 2007 edition of the Dubai International Film Festival features 9 programmes that will showcase cinema of all genres from all over the world : The Cultural Bridge, Arabian Nights, A Celebration of Indian Cinema, The Cinema of the World, The Cinema of Asia, The Cinema of Africa, Destination Documentary, Emerging Emiratis, Children’s Cinema.
December 9 - 16, 2007

FANTASPORTO' 2008 CALL FOR ENTRIES
28th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 29 - March 8,
Entries Close Dec 15 Running on 5 theatres screening 200 feature films each year with Massive press coverage 5000 clippings every year - Over 110,000 entries in past editions.contact: Mário Dorminsky (Director)
SUBMIT ONLINE

ANNUAL PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Calls SHORT FILMS producers worldwide to participate with their works.
Also see the news on the Festival for Documentaries and Narrative Movies.
Awards information and call for entries

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