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I asked Facebook a Question!

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I posted the following questions to various sites, pages and agroups:What are the three most important things a festival should do/offerThe answers were all over the map, but the common and consistant items were: Free entry for shorts.Opportunities to meet your peers and those in the industry who are working more than you. Networking is what the gathering is about for most independent filmmakers.Q and A after every film/block - give the filmmaker time to speak about his films, developing more o...

ÉCU's Partner CityCelebrity

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The federal network of city portals CITYCELEBRITY (www.citycelebrity.ru) is the largest independent crowdsourcing creative platform in Russia. They gather young talents from the whole of the country, making projects and contests in which thousands of people can take part and collaborate with festivals, culture centers, universities, international representatives and embassies, galleries, museums, creative and business communities.By registering at CITYCELEBRITY, you are going to to get new exper...

Variety Launches IMDB Competitor

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Variety's Flix Tracker, which has a team of 150 people to investigate film credits and production information will work on a subscription base.Flix Tracker (is a follow up of TV Tracker recently bought by Variety) is a database that doesn't rely on crowdsourcing but hard listing with human supervision. With Flix Tracker, Variety wants to use the reporting it already does, supplemented with regular calls to in-development and in-production projects, to provide the most up-to-date information on ...

DIFF 2011

DIFF 2011 Open Party on Jumeira Beach

DIFF Open Night 2011

DIFF 2011

Fireworks on opening night of DIFF 2011 photo by Vanessa McMahon 

DIFF 2011

8th edition Dubai Film Festvial (DIFF) opening night party! Hard working journalists! :-) photo by Vanessa McMahon 

DIFF 2011

8th edition Dubai Film Festvial (DIFF) opening night party! photo by Vanessa McMahon 

Tip of the day include a video on your profile

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     Include a video in your profile   Upload a video from your computer. Your account offers you a significant amount of storing space (500M) allowing to upload a few videos. Of course you do not have to upload videos but you should at least upload one (trailer, awards...) to have something in the "My videos" and enjoy a better visibility in the community. 1. Start uploading : click "create content/video" tab http://www....

ÉCU launchs #twitscript!

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- GET INVOLVED HERE - On Monday 28th November ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival, Paris's premier showcase for independently financed shorts and features, will attempt to write - and produce - a short film entirely made up of contributions crowd sourced via the Twitter social network. With an opening scene setter provided by the festival, it is then up to their followers to provide all successive dialogue and actions, creating new scenes, introducing other characters, building up...

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STAY TUNED for TIFF press! More coming in the days and weeks to come!!!  ...

52nd TIFF screening nights!

The Olympian Theater on a screening of Greek film 'PARADISE' (2011) at 52nd TIFF.photo by Dimitra Fourkalidou

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev at 52nd TIFF

The acclaimed Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev (mostly known for his internationally acclaimed film THE RETURN, 2003) presents his latest film, ELENA (2011) at 52nd TIFFphoto by Dimitra Fourkalidou  

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev at 52nd TIFF

 The acclaimed Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev (mostly known for his internationally acclaimed film THE RETURN, 2003) presents his latest film, ELENA (2011) at 52nd TIFFphoto by Dimitra Fourkalidou 

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Review of 'EIGHTY LETTERS' at 52nd TIFF!

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         EIGHTY LETTERS (2011) by Czech director Václav Kadrnka is a day in the life of European bureaucracy in 1987 Czechoslovakia. While the mother of a fourteen year-old boy runs around town from one office to another, signing this paper and that, the boy joins her and watches with intrigue this dizzying official system of communist Eastern Europe. In one scene, the boy must run to the post office to get a stamp that is missing on the papers, this...

DIFF 2011

Opening party for DIFF 2011 and BLACK GOLD premier partyphoto by Vanessa McMahon 

Black Gold at DIFF 2011

Composer James Horner from BLACK GOLD (2011) on red carpet in Doha at DIFF 2011photo by Vanessa McMahon 

Black Gold at DIFF 2011

Black Gold (2011) premier at DIFF 2011 and lead actor Tahar Rahimphoto by Vanessa McMahon 

Best Screenplay at 52nd TIFF

Producer Kevin Jackson holds onto the Gold Alexander for dear life during the closing party of 52nd TIFF. He accepted the award for writer/director John McIlduff, who was unable to make the ceremony.  photo by Vanessa McMahon

Best Screenplay at 52nd TIFF

Producer Kevin Jackson holds onto the Gold Alexander for dear life during the closing party of 52nd TIFF. He accepted the award for writer/director John McIlduff, who was unable to make the ceremony.  photo by Vanessa McMahon

Closing party 52nd TIFF

All filmmakers, press, industry, volunteers and locals gathered to celebrate the close of the end of the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival, the success of which was even more appreciated under the present economic circumstance. Given the positive attitude of everyone here, you would never think such grave problems were taking place.photo by Vanessa McMahon

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