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FILMFESTIVALS.COM AT AFM : This newsletter reaches 179 000 subscribers.
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Actors Essence Atkins (Half & Half), David James Elliott (JAG), and Heather McComb (Ray Donovan) joined writer/director Danny Buday and producers Lane Carlson and George Young Warner at AFM Sunday for a distributor screening of BATTLE SCARS. The film was recently acquired by TriCoast Worldwide for sales.
BATTLE SCARS stars Zane Holtz (PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER; FROM DUSK ‘TIL DAWN); Heather McComb; Ryan Eggold (NBC’s The Blacklist); Fairuza Balk (AMERICAN HIS...
The first teaser trailer for Iron Sky The Coming Race, sequel to the Nazis-On-The-Moon scifi comedy of 2012, is spreading like a wildfire on the Internet.
Now clocking over 800 000 views on different channels since its’ release on November 6th, the trailer was the 2nd biggest teaser trailer release on YouTube last week.
Simultaneously launched crowdfunding campaign is also treading on strongly. Already at $85 000, with the final goal of $500 000 by Christmas, the campaign, is...
From left to right, the cast names are as follows:
Umar Malik, Thalissa Teixeira, Dominic Sherwood, Jeremy Sumpter, Phoebe Tonkin, Max Deacon, Yuho Yamashita, Elliot Knight
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Mark Damon, CEO & Chairman, Foresight Unlimited, is seen at the 2014 American Film Market (AFM) at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 in Santa Monica, Calif. (Alexandra Wyman/Invision for IFTA/AP Images)
PRODUCTION CONFERENCE
As part of this year’s AFM CONFERENCE SERIES, attendees were invited to the Fairmont Hotel to a session on ‘Producing For a Worldwide Audience’ with moderator: Paul Hertzberg / President & CEO, CineTel Films, Inc and panellist...
Barbara Mudge, President & Founder, Worldwide Film Entertainment, and from left, Bobby Downes, CEO & Founder, ChristianCinema.com, Jim Mhoon, VP, Content Development & Integration, Focus on the Family, Mark Borde, Co-President, Freestyle Releasing, Ash Greyson, President & CEO, Ribbow Media, and Sophia Karteris Kelley, SVP Programming, UPtv are seen at the 2014 American Film Market (AFM) at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 in Santa Monica, Calif. (Alex...
Adam Carolla speaks at the 2014 American Film Market (AFM) at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 in Santa Monica, Calif. (Alexandra Wyman/Invision for IFTA/AP Images)
Adam Carolla speaks at the 2014 American Film Market (AFM) at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 in Santa Monica, Calif. (Alexandra Wyman/Invision for IFTA/AP Images)
Road Hard – A Comedian’s Journey from Crowdfunding to Distribution, which took place at the AFM Studio earlier ...
Laurence Gornall, and from left, Mike Tyson and Bert Marcus are seen at the 2014 American Film Market (AFM) at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014 in Santa Monica, Calif.(Alexandra Wyman/Invision for IFTA/AP Images)
Mike Tyson was in town to promote the upcoming film CHAMPS, which The Works is selling here at AFM
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Carnaby International’s Tania Sarra today announced they had cleared much of the world’s film sales territories for its new entry into the durable global Heidi franchise with the family adventure HEIDI AND THE MAGIC POOL. In a deal with a major Hollywood Studio, the territories included in the one single deal are: the UK; Australia and New Zealand; France; Benelux; the Czech Republic; Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland; Greece; Portugal; Slovakia; Scandinavia; India, Israel, South Afri...
Roundtables & Conversations
AFM Roundtables and Industry Conversations take place in the AFM Studio on the lobby level of the Loews Hotel.
Monday, November 10
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Roundtable - Distributing and Monetizing Documentaries
Speakers:
Stephen Nemeth, President, Rhino Films
Caitrin Rogers, Film Producer, Tremolo Productions
Meyer Shwarzstein, President,...
The sessions will be held on the courtyard level of Le Merigot Hotel, 1740 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica (next door to the Loews Hotel).
Monday, November 10
3:00 - 4:00 PM - Two Concurrent Sessions:
1. How to Produce in the Emerging New Film Ecosystem
2. Protecting Your Rights: The Producer's Guide to Distribution Contracts and Chain of Title
Ted Hope, Author, "Hope for Film"
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Monday, November 10 Marketing Conference sponsored by iQIYI
First Session - The Engagement Factor- Creating Effective Social Media Campaigns
Connecting with and engaging the core audience in authentic, creative and ongoing ways is critical. The social media and marketing gurus behind successful campaigns cover the essentials of creating a customized and innovative digital marketing strategy. Learn why timing is critical, how the consumer can be t...
Added Screenings
Film: Glass Chin
Time: 11:00am
Theatre: Fairmont 5
Company: Myriad Pictures
Film: The Malibu Tapes
Time: 1:00pm
Theatre: Loews 3
Company: Sunny Oak Films
Film: The Last Five Years
Time: 3:00pm
Theatre: Broadway 3
Company: The Exchange
Film: Wind Walkers
Time: 3:00pm
Theatre: AMC Santa Monica 5
Company: TriCoast Worldwide
AFM Events
9:15am - 12:45pm
Marketing Conference sponsored by iQIYI
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Jason Moring, President of Double Dutch International, has announced a series of deals for ELLIOT: THE LITTLEST REINDEER at AFM'14.
ELLIOT: THE LITTLEST REINDEER is based on a multi-award winning screenplay, having been named best Canadian screenplay in all categories by Praxis and securing the Angel Award in Monaco for Best Children's Screenplay. The animated feature is directed by Paul Griffin. Griffin was the lead animator on HAPPY FEET TWO and STAR WARS: ATTACK OF TH...
FILMFESTIVALS.COM AT AFM : This newsletter reaches 179 000 subscribers.
Read this online I Previous AFM Newsletters N°1 N°2 N°3 N°4 I Email us I Advertize in our Newsletters and eBlasts I
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Baby Steps from left to right
Candi Guterres (Art Director)
Anthony Stabley (Production Designer)
George Shaw (Composer)
Li-Kong Hsu
Lauryn Nicole Hamilton (Supporting Cast)
Michael Adam Hamilton (Lead cast “Tate”)
Justine Ruedas (Supporting Cast)
Ah-Leh Gua (Lead Cast “Ma”)
Barney Cheng (Writer/Director/Cast “Danny”)
Stephen Israel (Producer)
Success shined at last night's (Nov. 8th) 2014 Taiwan Cinema Party at the Santa M...
Sunday Nov 9th, 1733 Ocean Ave. Santa Monica
1PM - 2PM - Workshop
"DISTRIBUTION 411 your questions answered"
Speaker - JEROME COURSHON / Distribution Expert
3PM - 4PM - Sunscreen Film Festival
"FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS"
Speaker - Diana Romero / Festival Programmer
5PM- 8PM - Breaking Glass Pictures Cocktail Mixer
Founded in 2009 by Richard Wolff and Richard Ross...
Lotus Entertainment released a first look photo from Craig Zobel's Z for Zachariah starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie and Chris Pine, adapted from Robert C. O’Brien post-apocalyptic novel which follows a small-town girl who survives a nuclear war. Produced by Material Pictures, the film is executive produced by Lucky Hat Entertainment along with Silver Reel and Lotus Entertainment, who is handling international sales.
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The West is about to get wilder. Zombie Western Bullets for the Dead is primed to start principal photography 17th November.
From the Australian producers of Iron Sky and The Time Guardian, this is a film about a hardened bounty hunter James Dalton (Christopher Sommers), a gang of outlaws in his trust led by Annie Blake (Vanessa Moltzen), and a preacher who are forced to work together and battle their way across the American west of the 1870s when the zombie apocalypse begins.
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MARKET SCREENING
November 9th (Sunday) -
Loews 2 @ 9:00am
Cast:
Kat Dennings (THOR, THOR: THE DARK WORLD, TWO BROKE GIRLS),
Matthew Gray Gubler (CRIMINAL MINDS) & Ray Wise
Raymond has a prestigious MBA, but he can't find work. He can channel the paranormal, but chatting with a cute girl mystifies him. Kicked out of his big city apartment, Raymond returns home to his overbearing mother, ex-jo...
THE BLACK HOLE
112 min. Sci-Fi/Thriller. Complete.
Cast: Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), Natalie Distler (Rescue Me), Izzie Steele
Synopsis:
A high school musician experiences visual and auditory hallucinations as she starts to witness the collapse of space and time, leading her through a portal to a parallel universe.
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Renowned actor Ving Rhames has been signed to co-star alongside Luke Goss in the new action film “Blood Reef.” Foreign sales of the new film are being handled by Cardinal XD (Loews Hotel, Room 543. See: http://www.cardinalxd.com/blood-reef
“Blood Reef” is a new science-fiction, action/adventure film being co-produced by Cardinal XD and Brigitte Jean Allen; AKA The Creative Producer and head of Aristos Australia. The film will be shot in Australia during early 2015. &...
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