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Eccentricities illuminate shadows of grief. When her husband dies, a young girl's mother withdraws, leaving her daughter to fend for herself in unique ways. Campers is a touching film about learning to reconnect after a great loss.  

San Sebastian Festival offers an accessible screening in the Basque language

  On Friday, September 28th, at 12h00 at the Principe Cinemas, the film Camera Obscura will be screened with audio description and subtitling for the hearing impaired in Basque. This is the first time that a showing accessible for people with sensory activity will be available in the Basque language.   This screening joins the others previously announced, accessible by means of subtitling and audio description for the hearing impaired. The Festival therefore continues its effor...

ECU Film Festival - Day Two

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It's about a quarter to one on the second day of the festival and Pablo Tourrenc has just revealed to a room full of school children that Kid Cudi is habitually four or five hours late to turn up on the set of his video shoots. This is a fact that they will keep with them and treasure, spreading it around the playground like a bad case of measles. Pablo's been taking us through the basics of budgeting, scheduling and on-set parking - with a helpful reminder to always be prepared fo...

ÉCU launchs new award on E-Inclusion

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ÉCU Film Festival 2012 presents together with social innovation partner Holken Consultants its newest award “ÉCU E-Inclusion Film Award”. What is E-Inclusion ? E-Inclusion is a method in filmmaking that utilizes innovation to achieve a wider audience viewership, whether by use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) or by pure individual imagination. We are looking for films that use creative ways to make it possible for any one with any social, cultural, ...

Futures of Entertainment Examines State of Media Industry

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Media Scholars and Experts Gather at MIT for Fifth Annual Conference Crowdsourcing, privacy, location-based technologies and producer/audience collaboration are among the pressing issues at the forefront of the futures of entertainment and media. Thought leaders from the media, entertainment and marketing industries will gather alongside media studies scholars in Cambridge to discuss these subjects at next...

The Invader at Venice, 68

At the 68th Venice Film Festival, Belgian director Nicolas Provost held his world premier for his first feature film THE INVADER (2011). He immediately after traveled to Toronto for TIFF 2011 where he held his North American premier and where we held our interview.left to right- Actor Isaka Sawadogo (Amadou), Director Nicolas Provost, Actress Stefania Rocca photo by Vanessa McMahon

The Invader at Venice, 68

At the 68th Venice Film Festival, Belgian director Nicolas Provost held his world premier for his first feature film THE INVADER (2011). He immediately after traveled to Toronto for TIFF 2011 where he held his North American premier and where we held our interview.left to right- Actor Isaka Sawadogo (Amadou), Director Nicolas Provost photo by Vanessa McMahon

The Invader at Venice, 68

At the 68th Venice Film Festival, Belgian director Nicolas Provost held his world premier for his first feature film THE INVADER (2011). He immediately after traveled to Toronto for TIFF 2011 where he held his North American premier and where we held our interview.Director Nicolas Provost, Actress Stefania Rocca photo by Vanessa McMahon

The Invader at Venice, 68

At the 68th Venice Film Festival, Belgian director Nicolas Provost held his world premier for his first feature film THE INVADER (2011). He immediately after traveled to Toronto for TIFF 2011 where he held his North American premier and where we held our interview.Director Nicolas Provost photo by Vanessa McMahon

The Invader at Venice, 68

At the 68th Venice Film Festival, Belgian director Nicolas Provost held his world premier for his first feature film THE INVADER (2011). He immediately after traveled to Toronto for TIFF 2011 where he held his North American premier and where we held our interview. left to right- Actor Isaka Sawadogo (Amadou), Director Nicolas Provost, Actress Stefania Rocca   photo by Vanessa McMahon

IFF APRIL 09, 2011

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• 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 ...

Independent Filmmaker's Survival Kit - Thursday, March 10, 2011

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Learn how to position yourself for a successful film career in today's rapidly changing and highly competitive market. This information packed evening provides valuable insight and tools for any person thinking of making a living in the film industry. Everyone wants in: the financiers, webcasters, the TV companies. They have the money and are looking for product. This is where you come in: how do you get paid and create product at the same time? For more info, visit http://ww...

A UNIQUE PLACE IN EUROPE!

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3 daysʼ worth of meetings and feedback in the field of new image technologies and their uses in S3D, Ultra High Definition, immersive applications, augmented and interactive applications… Dimension 3 is the place to be for creation, production, screening and visualization… Over its 4 years of existence, the Forum has become an event valued by professionals in all industries who have integrated new image technologies into their development and communication strategy. Dimension...

Symposium on creative producing

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ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS AND CILECT ASIA PACIFIC ASSOCIATION PRESENT 2010 SYMPOSIUM ON CREATIVE PRODUCING The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) will partner with Asia-Pacific’s regional arm of CILECT, the association of the world's major film and television schools, to present a symposium on creative producing curricula ahead of the fourth annual APSA Ceremony on December 2.Leading professionals and educators across Asia-Pacific will meet in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast for the CILECT Asia...

FeedbacK

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Mindfield Film Productions announces release of their new film, FeedbacK. Four Indy bands from Taipei are vividly showcased in this pilot episode, which features music and art from Taiwan's undersound! ...

NAKED SUSHI Screening in Pasadena at AOF Film Festival!!!

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We had a great screening Wednesday night! We followed a long block of serious, intense, and depressing films. We still got a ton of laughs. It was definitely a release for everyone to go from one extreme to the other!!! It was a fun ride as an audience member!!...

Jim Murphy Filmmakers Bursary winner announced by NSI

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National Screen Institute - Canada announces winner of inaugural Jim Murphy Filmmakers BursaryWinnipeg, MB - National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to announce NSI Features First project Hunter Hunter as the inaugural winner of the Jim Murphy Filmmakers Bursary.The $2,500 Jim Murphy Filmmakers Bursary is presented annually to a filmmaking team going through the NSI Features First training program with an inventive and creatively-integrated marketing plan for their project at the c...

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Looking For God In Boca Raton

 Sunday, April 13-------There is nothing in producer/director Emmanuel Itier's resume that would make you suspect that he is currently on his own spiritual quest. Emmanuel is a French-born, Hollywood-based producer whose oeuvre has been in the genre field of crime thrillers, soft-core erotica and horror films. But he is indeed on a quest to find God, or at least define Him/Her/It with his latest project, THE INVOCATION. Itier screened a seven-minute trailer of the film, which includes contribu...

International conference (Rotterdam fest) on media education from an artistic perspective

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Media education is a hot topic within national governments and educational institutions alike. Big words like new citizenship, empowerment and media literacy are used to convince us of its necessity. But what do filmmakers have to say? Until now they have remained surprisingly silent on the subject. During the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam, the international conference ‘How to Stimulate Filmsense(s)’, taking place on Wednesday January 30, 2008 is the place for them to speak ...

Ecofilms kicks off in Rhodes, Greece

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A good film festival must take you to unexpected places and modify your usual perception of a common concept. That’s precisely what Ecofilms does in its 6th edition held this year again on the sunny Greek island of Rhodes (20-25 June 2006). Through a selection of 115 films from 39 countries, the International Films & Visual Arts Festival shows us that ecology means much more than the protection of nature. It encompasses the preservation of the place we live in, in its broadest meaning: the in...

InDplay.com launches online rights acquisition system

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By launching the rights acquisition component of their online rights management system, inDplay announced today that the inDplay.com online film rights trading marketplace is open for business. Now, fully segmented film rights can be traded securely over the web. The services inDplay.com provides are a flexible buyer-seller negotiation process, and a contract, rights and payments management system, which allows buyers and sellers of filmed entertainment to negotiate, license and settle payments ...

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