Filmfestivals.com will be covering AFM 2020 running online November 9 - November 13, 2020 and hosting brainstorming networking on film festival strategy at the AFM Pavilion: networking from 10am (Nov 10-13)
Every Fall, the Global Film Industry Converges in Santa Monica: Filmmakers, producers, directors and writers from around the world come to AFM to gain exposure, discover new projects and make deals. The American Film Market & Conferences is the largest motion picture trade fair in the world.
2021: November 2 – 7 I 2022: November 1 – 6 I 2023: October 31 - November 5 I 2024: November 5 – 10
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AFM 2020 runs November 9 - 13
Filmfestivals.com will be covering The online AFM 2020 (41 st edition) with dailies and newsletters.
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Zoom conversation between Jonathan Wolf (Managing Director of the American Film Market® AFM®) with Bruno Chatelin. Here are some of the questions raised during the interview: Enjoy Jonathan's answers in our video.
The 41st edition will run November 9 -13. Jonathan Wolf is EVP of the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA®) and Managing Director of the American Film Market® (AFM®).
Since his appointment in 1998, he has guided the growth and repositioning of ...
HanWay Films has closed international sales including a multi-territory deal with Universal Pictures Content Group, for award-winning director Phillip Noyce’s incredible true-crime love story Peggy Jo. The Universal Pictures Content Group deal includes; Benelux, German speaking Europe, Italy, Portugal, Scandinavia, Turkey, UK, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia, Czech & Slovak Republics, Hungary, Poland, Romania, CIS, Baltics, Israel, West Indies, South Africa, Hong Kong, Indian subcontinen...
North America's largest film market, which took place online from 9 to 13 November, saw significant deals for key Russian film, series, and animation makers. In total, twenty-five Russian content producers presented over 100 projects.
‘The major deals of Russian industry players at AFM have once again shown the high demand for various genres of Russian content across all continents. It's great that n...
Arclight Films is set to handle worldwide distribution rights for the new musical dramedy Seriously Red directed by Gracie Otto (The Last Impresario) from a script by Krew Boylan who also stars. The film’s ensemble cast also features Rose Byrne (Insidious, Twentieth Century Fox’s Spy, Universal Pictures’ Bridesmaids, Neighbors), Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” Ant-Man), and Daniel Webber (Netflix’s&nbs...
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Voltage Pictures has hired industry veteran Robert Burke as EVP marketing and distribution with immediate effect during AFM 2020 Online.
Burke, who launched Lakeshore Entertainment’s marketing division and subsequently ran consultancy Ten One Entertainment, reports directly to Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter.
He arrived at a busy time for the company, whose After We Collided is in release and has been a success story for the in...
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VISIT THE 15th EDITION LIVE NOVEMBER 15 - 22, 2020
CYIFF Screenings Program / CYIFF Goes Online / CYIFF MEET & GREET
Venues: Screenings will be held at K-Cineplex Nicosia Prime, Cyprus
CYIFF 2020 Hospitality Hotel: The Landmark Nicosia 5*Hotel
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Introducing the10 major Russian companies attending MIP Cancun Online+ with their new series, films, TV formats and animation, most of them are already known in Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries - sci-fi movies, dramas and horrors from Russia traditionally present national industry on top TV channels, platforms and theatres around Latin America.
Delegation from Russia includes Central Partnership, NTV Broadcasting company, Sovtelexport, GPM ETV, Yellow,...
#BlackBear is an intriguing and unexpected comedic thriller starring #AubreyPlaza, #ChristopherAbbott and #SarahGadon. At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become.
Tandem Pictures is a leader in conceiving and implementing eco-sustainable filmmaking p...
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There were so many people to meet, in so many different time zones, that we are extending our meetings through next week (16-21 Nov, 2020).
NEW FILM LINEUP
Recently Completed
LOVELAND
Sci-fi Noir
In a near future Asian megacity, Jack, a hired mercenary, lives a lonely and monotonous existence filled with robotic lovers and callous executions...
BORN A CHAMPION
DENNIS QUAID | SEAN PATRICK FLANERY
MICKEY KELLEY, THE FIRST AMERICAN BLACK BELT IN JIU-JITSU, GETS PULLED AWAY FROM EVERYTHING HE LOVES AND INTO AN UNSANCTIONED TOURNAMENT.
PRODUCERS: ESX ENTERTAINMENT
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If you missed the virtual concerts you can watch them in replay... without the interactions...
World Premiere Concert from The Bluehouse Outfit USA
World Premiere Concerts: Mark Vennis & Different Place
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Hi I will be happy to share my festival and marketing experience at the AFM 2020 Networking Pavilion. Click to connect with AFM Registration. I have reserved an open table (for six) confirmed as follows: see you there (seats limited be sure to join the queue early)
Email me with any questions you d like in advance if you like, sharing specifics on your problem and opportunity in the festival circuit.
Looking forward to seeing you at the Market.
Day: Tues, 10th
Time: 10:00 A...
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FRIDAY SESSIONS
8:00AM PST
Protecting and Increasing Your Revenue: How Do You Control Who Benefits from Your Content Online? Everything You Imagine In One Country: Colombia
9:30AM PST
DISTRIBUTION CONFERENCE - Session I
Working with Sales Agents
Keep Calm and Carry On Filming
11:00AM PST
DISTRIBUTION CONFERENCE - Session II
Deciphering Streaming Models & The Path to VOD Distribution
Shooting in Spain...
Fruity Robo
A heroic journey full of surprises. An intrepid orange named Chengliuxiang, recruited the help of a little boy Le Le, to help him free his friends and family from the evil mouse king.
Trailer:
Fruity Robo Trailer from Flame Node Entertainment on Vimeo.
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Strike Back Studios (a new joint venture between Realization Films, Public House Films, and Hideout Pictures), has announced their new president film veteran Noor Ahmed and that Strike Back Studios will next release “Howards Mill” a haunting documentary about an abandoned piece of farmland in rural Tennessee that may hold the key to multiple missing person cases spanning over forty years, which is being released to global audiences in March 2021. Currently, Strike Back Studios has ...
Please join us for the AFM Closing Night Happy Hour celebration and two World Premiere Concerts.
Day: Friday, Nov. 13
Time: 5:00p PST till….?
Stop by the Networking Pavilion with a drink to mix and mingle. All tables on all floors will be open for Happy Hour. Let your colleagues and new acquaintances know where to meet you for cheers and chat.
Visit Stage One and Stage Two to watch specially recorded, world premiere performances by Mark Vennis & Different P...
AFM Finance Conference 11/12/20 @ 12:30PM
Highlights from today’s AFM Production Conference: What's Working in the Pre-Sales Marketplace?
VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR REPLAY
Panelists
Kimberly Fox, Partner & Head of International Sales, MadRiver International
Jeffrey Greenstein, President, Millennium Media
Nat McCormick, EVP, Worldwide Distribution, The Exchange
Moderator
Jeremy Kay, Americas Editor, Screen International
What’s it like engagi...
Alexander and I had a lively chat in my "Film Festival Strategy Room" in the Networking Pavilion.
Here is his story!
Alex Goldberg Jero is the President / Chief Creative Officer of MediaInVision Films
Alex is currently working on the new CGI animation film Master and Margarita. Goldberg Jero is the first winner of the famous First Surround Music Awards, winning the Best New Surround Music Composition award, presented by United Entertainment 2002. Hi...
ABOUT THE FILM
A psychological horror feature.
A young man’s struggle with his sexuality takes on a very real and terrifying dimension when his insecurities come to terrorize him in physical form.
Written & Directed by Robbie Lemieux
Category: Narrative Fiction, Feature
Genre: Psychological Horror, Drama, LGBT
News:
”Fester” will be featured at the Si...
Latest issues of our newsletter DGT online informer that have been dedicated to investigate HOW THE COVID 19 CRISIS IS MODIFYING THE CINEMA WORLD.
DGT 171 includes a graph about the Covid’s impact on admissions and gbo as well as the Cicae's appeal to the European Union to safeguard the existence of arthouse cinemas; in addition, an update of the map presenting the dates of the cinema lockdown and monitoring drive in cinemas in Europe;
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Vision Films moving documentary “Accidental Climber” from filmmaker Steven Oritt (“My Name is Sara,” “American Native”) is streaming globally on Amazon Prime, Amazon Instant in the United Kingdom, on iTunes in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland; GooglePlay in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden; and Vimeo in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland. This&n...
The AFM is not a festival - it is the largest motion picture market in the world. 8,000 industry attendees, including producers, distributors, directors, agents, writers, lawyers & bankers. Over 540 films screened, most world or U.S. premieres.
$US3 Billion spent annually by participants to produce films
8,000+ industry professionals
2,000+ new films and projects
1,000+ production companies
400+ distributors
540+ films screened
100+ world premiers
70+ countries represented
50+ thought leaders speaking
7 days of networking activities
1 beachfront campus that covers it all
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