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The 58th installment of the Locarno film festival at the Tippety-top of glorious Lago Maggiore in the Italian Speaking part of Switzerland (Ticino) got underway on Wednesday, August 3rd and concluded August 13. Some 300 films of all kinds will be projected at numerous venues all over town, but the main event is the slate of 18 features in competition for the spotted leopard awards, the jungle cat in question being the symbol of this fabulous Alpine resort city for nearly a hundred years – or...
It was a legendary night packed with phat, funky beats, and three floors of delirious dancing. Mirrorball parties always rock, and this being the 10th anniversary celebration, was clearly no exception.On The Venue's top floor, people were feeling the love as Stuart Bennett warmed the crowd up for Scottish DMC champion Ritchie Rufftone. In the middle floor Funkstörung’s Michael Fakesch got everybody movin’ with his unique blend of melodic electric beats and gritty hip hop tracks, while way d...
THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSEby Rebecca Millerstarring Daniel Day-Lewis and Camilla BelleJack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the break-up of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world. When Jack invites his girlfriend and her two sons to live with them, the situation quickly becomes precarious…BRICK 1st featureby Rian Johnsonstarring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lucas HaasProducer: Ram BergmanB...
California’s Big Bear City Film Festival Showcases Papa G Studio’s Donnie’s TreeIt’s good to know there are professional films coming from student filmmakers. Writer/director, and producer Isung Hwang, has brilliantly created Donnie’s Tree, a short film about an elderly man’s desire to come to terms with his wife by means of a kumquat tree. As a graduate student at Chapman University in Orange County, California, Insung created his characters, plot, and locations all in a 7 day shoot...
The numerous projects received for consideration will be submitted to a high profile selection committee comprised of key players in the industry such as David Thompson – BBC (UK), Nik Powell – NFTS (UK), Raimond Goebel - Pandora (Germany), Mylada Rybarova – Senator (Germany), Yves Marmion – UGC (France) and Antonio Saura – Zebra Producciones (Spain)The Programme: Sunday, 18 September, 2005, Kursaal 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Conference concerning the current state of th...
Luciana Film FestivalThe Winners 2005 - Animation SectionAnimation: Best short film Ex-Aequo- Les oreilles n'ont pas de paupières (Fra) - 500,00 euro- Little Things (UK) - 500,00 euro Special Mentions - Best tecnique: Sventlonos (Czech Republic) - Best sound: The Fish (Iran) Special Mention by LFF - Best subject: Viskningar (Whisperings) (Sweden) - Best art short film: The Fish (Iran) ...
Mobile Entertainment Summit and MarketplaceFormerly iWireless World July 27-28, 2005 If you followed the Filmfestivals.com Panel In Cannes "8 new ways to monetize digital rights" this is a "Must Attend" especially if Your Business Involves Generating Revenue or Attracting Customers using Mobile and Wireless Content, Entertainment, Services, or Applications! KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Larry Kramer President CBS Digital Media Rio Caraeff Universal Music Mobile General Manager Manish Jha ESPN Mobile Senior ...
New York Asian Film Festival, has concluded. This year it screened 31 films over 16 days. The New York Asian Film Festival Audience Award winner for 2005 is: THE TASTE OF TEA (Japan)And this year's Runner's-Up were:KAMIKAZE GIRLS (Japan) and CRYING FIST (South Korea)Additionally, this year's lineup was honored with International Premieres of MIND GAME and MARATHON, North American Premieres of PRINCESS RACCOON, UNIVERSITY OF LAUGHS, TETSUJIN-28, SNAKE OF JUNE, ELECTRIC SHADOWS, CRAZY N' THE CITY...
Indiefest Film Festival and Market, kicks off on July 29th and runs through August 7th. Screenings will take place at the exquisite Landmark Century Centre Cinema (2828 N. Clark St.) and the special “Screening Room” at Le Meridien Chicago (521 N. Rush St. (@ Michigan Ave)) in Chicago. Indiefest 2005 opens on July 29th with the world premiere of “Blood Deep”, a thriller directed by Todd Kniss. Lead actress Jordan Belfi (HBO’s “Entourage”) will attend the festivities with the directo...
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LA REUNION: SALON DE IMAGE DU SON ET DE LA LUMIERELaunching at la Reunion: Saint Denis, la Halle des manifestations du Port SIL 2005 July 13-17The first exhibition trade Show at la Reunion for professionals from sound image and light 35 exhibitors from the audiovisual industries, panels, concerts, screenings,master classes, audiovisual contests including FASTTRACK film selection andan acoustic concert by Laam. Enjoy!The panorama of audiovisual industries is rapidly changing at the the island o...
Beside feature-length films in the main competitive section, Ecofilms, the annual film festival (June 21-26, 2005) dedicated to ecology in Rhodes, also screens a series of shorts related to the environment. Among them, it presented this year two short documentaries by Dutch director Jos Neutgens : Reminiscentia (2004, 10 minutes) in the short films competition section and Allocation (1999, 14 minutes) in the non competitive Panorama section.Both are creative documentaries expressing a fascinatio...
The international film festival on ecology held each year on the Greek island of Rhodes has just changed its name from Ecocinema to Ecofilms International Film and Visual Arts Festival. The plural certainly better reflects the diversity of the lights cast on ecology at this annual event (June 21-26, 2005) which in more than 100 feature films and shorts from around the world covers a broad range of issues related to how we protect and nurture human life. In fact, its rich programming tackles this...
Véronique Cayla, managing director of Cannes film festivals has been appointed by the minister of culture as head of CNC. She will replace Catherine Colonna who joined the government.Véronique was appointed by Gilles Jacob early 2001 and joinded the dream team with Thierry Frémaux, Jérôme Paillard (Cannes Market)She held previous positions with le forum des images, Ciby 2000 distribution, a member of the CSA....
At the annual General Assembly of FIPRESCI, held in Taormina, Sicily, a new board has been elected, for the period 2005/2007.President: Andrei Plakhov, Moscow.Vice-presidents: Pamela Biénzobas, Santiago/Paris,Diego Lerer, Buenos AiresHassouna Mansouri, TunisGrégory Valens, Paris.Klaus Eder, General SecretaryMichel Ciment, former president (2001-2005), was appointed Honorary President....
Filmfestivals.com contributor, local reporter and occasional blogger Gene Grant (www.genegrant.com/blog) announced his intentions to watch the entirety of the "New Mexico Filmmakers' Week," at the Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Ave. in Nob Hill, from Friday, June 24th to Thursday, June 30th, front to back.The event is presented by the New Mexico Film Office (www.nmfilm.com) and will feature 47 hours of both shorts and features. All the films are made by New Mexicans and the event is free."This is go...
The 2nd Annual New York PitchXchangeLast year, over 30 executives (agents, managers, producers) attended the Inaugural New York PitchXchange to hear five-minute pitches from over 500 aspiring and working screenwriters. Companies included Miramax Films, Dimension Films, MTV, Abrams Artist Agency, The Howard Stern Production Company and many others.This year’s the event will topple last year’s. The first day offers a full-day seminar with Hollywood producer and “Pitch King” Robert Kosberg...
Ecofims International Film festival Rhodes 21-26 June COMPETITION FEATURE LENGTH FILMS A CRY FOR MADIOM, 63' - Erez T Yanuv Barzilay A DECENT FACTORY, 79' - Thomas Balmes BATTAGLIA, 58' - Daniela Zanzotto CARPATIA, 127' - Andrzej Klamt, Ulrich Rydzewski CITY OF PHOTOS, 60' - Nishtha Jain CONCRETE REVOLUTION, 60' - Xiaolu Guo CONTROL ROOM, 84' - Jehane Noujaim CZECH DREAM, 87' - Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak ILIAS PETROPOULOS: AN UNDERGROUND WORLD, 61' - Kalliopi Legaki INVISIBLE: ILLEGAL IN...
The 9th Over The Fence Comedy Film Festival Awards for 2005 go to;Just in case you don't know what Over The Fence is. OTF is a comedy festival that tours all over this great Nation. We go from the Big urban spaces to dusty towns. This year we toured from Mossman to Adelaide, Darwin to Melbourne, and Broome to Yackandandah & 30+ places in between.With a tour line like "Expect Something Different" you get we are going do something new in '05 while still delivering our core promises; an extraordina...
Last year, over 30 executives (agents, managers, producers) attended the Inaugural New York PitchXchange to hear five-minute pitches from over 500 aspiring and working screenwriters. Companies included Miramax Films, Dimension Films, MTV, Abrams Artist Agency, The Howard Stern Production Company and many others.This year’s the event will topple last year’s. The first day offers a full-day seminar with Hollywood producer and “Pitch King” Robert Kosberg. Attendees will have the opportuni...
The 45th International Film Festival for Children and Youth, which started in Zlín on Sunday, May 29, 2005 and closes this Saturday, June 4.Not only, the wife of well-known British actor Michael York (both guests at Zlin Festival) , Pat York is an accomplished artist in her own right. Pat York started as a journalist for Vogue in New York. Later she worked with Glamour around the world as a reporter in the Travel section. She became a freelance photographer and her work appeared in numerous mag...
The Dubrovnik International Film Festival has announced its winners:Winnners of DIFF 2005 are:FEATURE FILMSBEST FILM: FROZEN: Directed by Juliet McKeon (UK)BEST DIRECTOR: ZHOOREK Directed by Ryszard Brylski (POLAND)BEST SCREENPLAY: OPROSTI ZA KUNG FU Written and Directed by Ognjen Svilicic (CROATIA)BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: FROZEN Cinematography by Philip Robertson (UK)DOCUMENTARIESSVE PET Directed by Dana Budisavljevic (CROATIA)SHORT FILMSPHAID Directed by Chris Frey (USA)AUDIENCE AWARDGOLEMATA VO...
45th KRAKOW SHORT & DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL"L'embarras de choix"The 'Krakow Internationl Festival of Short and Documentary Films', which is now its 45th incarnation making it one of the oldest and most prestigious festivals of this kind in the world, has shortened its official monicker to a more simple "KRAKOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL" and has expanded its offerings to a mind-boggling 440 films -- all screened within six days as singleton showings in four different locations. With this m...
IndieLisboa’s second edition, which was held in Lisbon (Portugal) between April 21st and May 1st, was a huge success: the festival received 17.000 people (more 5.000 than in the first edition) divided between 116 sessions and with 40 sold out sessions. Thus maintaining its initial features (to perceive IndieLisboa as a space that contributes to revealing new films and new directors), this year the festival bet on its growth. More screens (3 in 2004, 4 this year), more films (79 last year, 130 ...
21 FESTROIA 28 May – 5 JunePROGRAMMEOfficial Section (Competition)First Works (Competition)American Independents (Competition)Man and His Environment (Competition)Homage to a country - FinlandEuropean Discoveries / Fassbinder Awards NomineesThe Modern Mozambique CinemaEurope in Shorts X – EU new countriesShorts from EuropePortuguese Cinema ShowcasePanorama and PremiersOther events and meetings:International Meeting of New Talents in co-operation with EFA, FIAPAF and OCICCinema Workshop for ...
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