Filmfestivals.com broadband portal is creating a new way to experience movies online. Feature Films will be streamed in broadband along with a wide range of tools and content intended to enhance the interactive screening experience. Beginning January 18, during the Sundance Film Festival, a different feature film will be premiered every day.
In addition, Filmfestivals.com will offer Broadband Streaming of short films, including interviews with their directors, and a selection of specials.
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Paria, one of our Broadband Premiere Feature Films, signs deal to be represented by prominent international sales company, Celluloid Dreams. Paris-based, Celluloid Dreams, is known for distributing quality independent and festival award winning films, such as Jahar Panahi’s THE CIRCLE (winner Golden Lion / Venice 2000) and for working with such celebrated directors as Takeshi Kitano, Amos Kollek, Francois Ozon and others. ...
Filmfestivals.com is in negotiation to stream six minutes of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS with a brand new operatic score by, Kevin Saunders Hayes. This revitalized version of Fritz Lang’s monumental classic premiered with a live orchestra at the Avignon Opera House in conjunction with the Avignon Film Festival....
Press Release: Luxembourg, 15 January 20001.
Europe Online and FilmFestivals.com premiere
full-length movies online
Europe Online announced today its agreement with FilmFestivals.com to exclusively premiere a selection of full-length feature films on the Europe Online subscription Internet service.
Europe Online subscribers will have an opportunity to view films from FilmFestivals.com that have never before been released online to the public. A selection of four films will make their...
Les Bernstien, director of Night Train , one of our Broadband Premiere Feature Films, was recently notified by Filmmaker Magazine that his film will be reviewed in their Winter 2001 issue as part of Filmmaker’s overview of the prestigious Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
This is the second issue of Filmmaker Magazine to feature an article about Night Train. The first article, which appeared in the Summer of 2000 explored the film’s obvious allusions to early German expressionist cine...
Chat online with the director of:BEYOND THE OCEAN -- LIVE!!!
This coming Thursday, February 8 (10am LA, 1pm NY, 7pm Paris). Prior to the chat, feel free to log any questions you have on to the Beyond The Ocean forum section.
The Chat Room is a virtual meeting place where the director, cast and/or crew will periodically participate in live roundtable discussions.
Fans of the film can also communicate here in a lively, spirited spontaneous debate.
Just enter your name, choose a pa...
Paria has just started its festival circuit.
It has already won two awards:
*Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (2000) and
*Outstanding Male Performance at the Geneva International Film Festival (2000) (Shared by two male leads of film).
And in total, it went to the following festivals:
*Sao Paolo International Film Festival in Brazil, 2000
*Entrevues de Belfort in France, 2000
*Brussels International Film Festival in Belgium, 2001
*Gote...
Tromsø International Film Festival
January 16 - 21, 2001 (Norway)
There's a lot more to discover at Tromsø than the well chosen competition till
the festival will end on Sunday (finally in Tromsø the word's beginning to make
sense: on SUNday the 21st the sun will come back after four months of disappearance).
Apart from many other seminars and special presentations the festival offers
with "Horizons" a sidebar consisting of a very interesting programme of 18 fi...
Since beginning his career in 1987, Nicolas Klotz has directed several musical documentaries, including Chants de sable et d'étoiles (1996), and the features La nuit Bengali (1988) and La nuit sacrée (1993). He has likewise directed several plays and video monographies about musicians Brad Mehldau, James Carter, Robert Wyatt and Ravi Shankar.
His exact filmography is the following:
Chants de sable et d’étoiles (1996)
La Nuit Sacrée (1993)
La Nuit Bengali (1988)...
StreetRing is literally voices from the street. Created for homeless or formerly homeless people who have discovered the Internet and have decided to try building Web pages. Membership is NOT restricted. The major focus is dialogue. Service providers, governmental staff, academics and students, and other interested people should feel welcome. By taking time to navigate the sites of StreetRing, a Web surfer should have his or her thinking changed in some way. ...
Berlin
International Film Festival
February 7 - 18, 2001
With 16 world
premieres, the main competition program of the 51st Berlin International Film
Festival is complete. Twenty-four feature films and 11 short films will compete
for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, awarded by a jury of nine members
chaired by the American producer Bill Mechanic. With
the increasing number of co-production or international distribution deals,
the legal nationality...
Artisan Entertainment plans to go ahead with another Blair Witch movie
despite the recent sequel's lackluster performance. Fueled by the success of
the original Blair Witch Project, Artisan announced it would release
a sequel in late 2000 and the prequel by fall of 2001. The studio now hopes
to get the third installment in theaters by 2002. Book
of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 grossed just $26 million domestically, less
than a fifth of the business the first movie did. ...
Hollywood producer James Hill has died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of
84. Producer of such films as 1954's Vera Cruz starring Burt Lancaster, Hill
went on to produce several legendary films during the 1950s and 1960s. He was
married once, to Rita Hayworth in 1958. ...
Unable to find the ideal actress to play the role of Harry Potter's schoolmate
in the upcoming film based on the children's books phenomenon, director Chris
Colombus has decided to sign on his own daughter. The 11-year-old will play
alongside Daniel Radcliffe, in the role of Harry. The rest of the cast includes
Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, John Cleese and Richard Harris. Producers are counting
on a summer 2001 US release. ...
With 16 world premieres, the main competition program of the 51st Berlin International
Film Festival is complete (complete
list). Twenty-four feature films and 11 short films will compete for the
prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, awarded by a jury of nine members chaired
by the American producer Bill Mechanic. Asia is represented with 5 films, 4
from the US in competition and 2 more out of competition, and a large number
of European features: France (3), Italy (2), Ger...
It is New Year's Eve of the new Millenium. Victor (19) and Momo (24) are drunk and penniless in Paris when they are mistaken for homeless people and carted off to the local shelter. There they meet the long-haired, slovenly and almost catatonic Blaise. He has an array of diseases, the most serious being gangrene. Victor -- who has never encountered such misery -- is in shock. But in the depths of such suffering, a miraculous thing happens: the barriers fall and the simplest bond becomes a testam...
The Cannes Film
Festival announced Tuesday that American actress and double Oscar-winner Jodie
Foster will head the jury at the 2001 film festival, which runs from May 9 -
20. The decision has sparked speculation that festival president Gilles Jacob
is trying to please Hollywood. After all, Cannes is notorious for its anti-Hollywood,
anti-Blockbuster attitude. ``We didn't choose Jodie to please America, but the
whole world. She is a very intelligent woman and we are confi...
John Malkovich is set to star as a gangster in And Now Ladies and Gentlemen
for director Claude Lelouch. Currently on the big screen in the US in Shadow
of the Vampire, the actor will play alongside French performer Patricia
Kaas as his barroom singer girlfriend. Shooting is slated to begin March 26. ...
James Bond hero Roger Moore walked away unscathed from a car crash in Sweden Saturday.
Accompanied by his Swedish girlfriend Christina Tholstrup, the 73-year-old actor
was being driven to a television appearance near Gothenburg when the accident
occurred. Though he complained about pain in the ribs, Moore refused to cancel
the television engagement. ...
Writer Arthur Miller will be making his first big-screen appearance in an adaptation
of his short story "Homely Girl, a Life," for director Amos Gitai. Called Plain
Jane, the $9 million, English-language picture will star Oscar-nominated actress
Samantha Morton. The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist will play a Jewish immigrant
whose daughter is struggling with her ideals and emotions. Shooting is already
underway in New York. ...
William Friedkin's
director's cut of The Exorcist will open the Fantastic'Art Festival held
in Gerardmer, France from January 24 - 28. Among the other avant-premieres are
the first film by French actor Antoine de Caunes (Les Morsures de l'Aube)
and the new film from George Romero (Bruiser - closing film) - known for the
cult film The Night of the Living Dead. The competition selection is
featuring Sam Raimi's The Gift with Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reaves and
Hilary Swank...
Golden Trailer
Awards
January
14 (NY)
The Golden
Trailer Awards is the one film awards show where it really doesn't matter
if you've seen the film. As the title suggests, the competition to honor
for the best trailer. The Golden Trailer Awards showcase the best of the
best in movie trailers from Hollywood, the Independent Arena and around
the world. Winners were announced at the Show on January 14, 2001 at the...
Sarasota
International Film Festival
January 10 - 14 (Florida)
Sarasota,
Florida is a jewel of a city nestled on the aqua blue waters of the Gulf
Coast on the western side of Florida. The city has had a reputation for
the last fifty years as a cultural mecca, a town of less than half a million
that has its own permanent opera, theater, musical and film institutions.
The arts are thriving in Sarasota. A combination of ol...
The Director's
View Independent
Feb 9 - 12
(South Salem, NY)
Held in South
Salem, New York, the Director's View Independent is a competition featuring
new films by new directors. Festival Founder Robert Kesten says: "Our
goal with the Directors View Film Festival is to ensure a fulfilling,
entertaining and educational experience to both industry professionals
and the general public."
The festival
...
Nodance Film
and Multimedia Festival
January 20- 26, 2001 (Park City)
The irreverent,
independent Nodance Film & Multimedia Festival is proud to announce its program
line up, including an unprecedented number of world premieres. The event, held
at 333 Main Street in Park City, Utah from January 20th through January 26th,
2001 presents features, shorts, documentaries, and music videos in a celebration
of the vibrant alternative digital film culture.
COMPETITI...
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