|
||
Pro Tools
FILMFESTIVALS | 24/7 world wide coverageWelcome ! Enjoy the best of both worlds: Film & Festival News, exploring the best of the film festivals community. Launched in 1995, relentlessly connecting films to festivals, documenting and promoting festivals worldwide. Working on an upgrade soon. For collaboration, editorial contributions, or publicity, please send us an email here. User login |
Feel the Festival Beat of the circuit this past week Volume 783Wishing you all much success on the festival circuit! Read this online FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS: Advertise in our Newsletters from 200€ email us for a quote
Partnering these next months with the hottest festivals and markets so you can get full coverage and DAILIES.
We, at filmfestivals.com, are extremely proud of our relationships and partnerships with these amazing film events: Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, and Cannes Market of course.
Happy to serve the community bringing industry news and dailies to our audience and newsletter subscribers (125 000) FESTIVAL DAILIESMontreal International Animation Film Festival - August 17 - 20, 2017
Animaze is an international film festival and conference exploring the world of animation in all its diversity. Filmmakers and professionals from over 65 countries will converge on Montreal from August 17-20. Filmfestivals.com has partnered with Animaze to offer our audience discount on the industry passes. http://animazefestival.com
Animaze - Montreal International Animation Film Festival's blog I Website I Submit I Facebook I Twitter I Contact Laurie Gordon B
MIAFF Awards 2017
Best International Short Film Ex aequo award to Meeting MacGuffin by Catya Plate (US) and Drifting Away by Cyprien Clement Delmas (Spain) Best Canadian Short Film Cigare by Tom Tassel (Canada) Best Short Film: Student Film Contest Nana by Alexandra Kellner (Canada) With a special mention to In a Heartbeat by Beth Davis and Esteban Bravo (US) Best Feature Film Abina and the important men by Soumy...
From Holly Shorts to MIAFF - Meeting McGuffin creator Catya Plate video interview
Stop motion "arts and crafts" animator Catya Plate talks to MIAFF festival director Laurie Gordon about her win and special mention of her animated trilogy Meeting McGuffin. Just coming to MIAFF 2017 from Holly shorts in Los Angeles Catya talks about her win and travels on the exciting festival circuit, and plans upcoming for her animated trilogy. Interview with Catya Plate against the beautiful city skyline of Montreal at the steps of Moyse Hall, the ...
Slave vs owner - Abina and the Important Men - video interview Soumyaa Behrens
Elated Soumyaa Behrens with her family- winner of Best Feature MIAFF 2017 Soumyaa Behrens is an educator at the prestigeous San Francisco Documentary Film Institute. Also an actress and filmmaker Behrens is the recipient of the Best Feature MIAFF 2017. Here is her interview with MIAFF director about channeling the spirit of Abina a slave who fought a legal case as a slave against her "owner". The case was dug up more than 100 years later in library archives....
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL & VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE - August 30 - September 9, 2017The second edition of the Venice Production Bridge focuses on the presentation and exchange of original projects
The Venice Production Bridge comprises the Venice Gap Financing Market, the workshop Final Cut in Venice, the Book Adaptation Rights Market, the European Film Forum, Networking Sessions and Panels, as well as an Exhibition Area, and much more. The Venice Production Bridge will be held during the 74th Venice International Film Festival, from August 31st to September 5th on the third floor of the Excelsior Hotel of the Lido di Venezia. The second edition of the Venice Production Bridge focuses in particular on the presentation and exchange of original projects for films and works in progress, so as to foster their development and production.
The Venice Production Bridge also focuses on one of the major new trends in contemporary production, which is the co-existence of a diversity of platforms fostered by the digital revolution: television series, web-series and, above all, the new frontier represented by VR/Virtual Reality, which are currently attracting major investment and the most advanced technological research. The Venice Production Bridge intends to attract industry professionals active in these fields.
Venice Gap-Financing Market last chance for meetings one on one
The Venice Production Bridge is just a week away, with 47 projects selected for the Venice Gap-Financing Market. The meetings will take place on September 1, 2 and 3 from 9:30 until 18:00 in the Venice Production Bridge areas at the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido di Venezia, within a short distance from Palazzo del Cinema, the main festival hub.
The previous work of the directors is available on Festival Scope now.
Watch Previous works by filmmakers with projects in Venice Gap-Financing Market (31 August - 5 September)
Venice Film Market offers Venice attendees an access to watch the previous works by filmmakers who present a project at Venice Gap-Financing Market (31 August - 5 September). Please use the following link to log-in https://pro.festivalscope.com/users/connect/bdde205abb8fc8dc21e5e3ccc0b04c4ede854d62 and visit the Venice Gap-Financing Market page. ...
"The Cousin" has it's World Premiere at Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Competition
World Premiere - Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti Competition. Nominated for 3 Israeli Academy Awards. THE COUSIN World Premiere at Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Competition Press & In...
Calendar of events, presentations and talks
Calendar of events, presentations and talks THURSDAY AUGUST 31ST Lido di Venezia, Hotel Excelsior. Beginning date of the VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE, which will continue until the 5th of September. Lazzaretto Vecchio Island, VR Theater. Beginning date of the VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY, which will continue untile the 5th September. The International Jury of Venice Virtual Reality will award, with no ex aequo awards permitted, the following prizes to the 22 projects in competition: Best VR, Best VR Ex...
How To VR at at Lazzaretto Vecchio Island (VR Theater)
(August 31 – September 5; press preview August 29 -30) Lazzaretto Vecchio island, where the VR Theater of the 74th Venice Film Festival will be set up, is located just a short distance from the lagoon side of the Lido, in front of Riva di Corinto and across from the Hotel Excelsior. The VR Theater will host the Venice Virtual Reality competition, the first competition of its kind for films made using Virtual Reality (VR) technology; other VR projects from Biennal...
Services and special offers for the public, young people and accredited visitors
Lido in Mostra La Biennale has once again activated the Lido in Mostra project, thanks to the long established relationship with local businesses. This will provide special offers designed specifically for industry professionals and for the public. Services and facilities - ACTV, the Venetian public transportation company, will guarantee daily transport service to and from the Venice Film Festival, extending and increasing l...
1400 online tickets for the films from Orizzonti section and the Biennale College
Web Theatre for the films of the Orizzonti section and the Biennale College - Cinema at the Venice International Film Festival Following the successful experience of the past five years, the Web Theatre returns to the 74th Venice Film Festival for the films of the Orizzonti section and the Biennale College - Cinema, with a maximum capacity of 1,400 seats for each screening. The films will be streamed simultaneously with the official presentations of the films on the Lido. This ...
Filmfestivals.com along with Variety, Ciak and Venezia News to deliver Dailies from Venice
Filmfestivals.com partner media of Venice Production Bridge Established in 1995 as the premier online trade publication for the festival circuit filmfestivals.com will produce dailies and news from the Festival and Venice Production Bridge Coverage will be published http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/mostra_internazionale_d_arte_cinematografica_venice and promoted in the newsletter to 125 000 subscribers of one of the most important pro database in the industry. &...
Pre-inaugural Evening (Tuesday, August 29th, 2017) of the 74th Venice International Film Festival
In the Sala Darsena at the Lido: the legendary silent film Rosita (1923) by Ernst Lubitsch, in a vivid new restoration by MoMA, with the support of The Film Foundation, and presented as a world premiere Live musical accompaniment by the Mitteleuropa Orchestra directed by Gillian Anderson from her arrangement of the original score Rosita (1923, 82’), famed as the single collaboration between two of the giants of the silent screen, the director Ernst Lubitsch and the star...
The Festival by Countries
Film Productions and Coproductions in the Official Selection ARGENTINA Lucrecia MARTEL, Zama (Out of Competition) Pablo GIORGELLI, Invisible (Orizzonti) Manuel ABRAMOVICH, Años luz (Venice Classics - Documentaries) AUSTRALIA Warwick THORNTON, Sweet Country (Venezia 74) Jason RAFTOPOULOS, West of Sunshine (Orizzonti) Michael LEONARD, Jamie HELMER, The Knife Salesman (Orizzonti – Short Films) Alena LODKINA, Strange Colours (Biennale College &nd...
Maestri and debutants attending #Venezia74
Maestri and debutants Are attending the Official Selection: · 4 Golden Lion-winning directors (Tsai Ming-liang for Vive l'amour, 1994; Gianni Amelio for Così ridevano, 1998; Darren Aronofsky for The Wrestler, 2008; Samuel Maoz for Lebanon, 2009) · 2 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement-winning directors (William Friedkin, Frederick Wiseman) 6 Academy Award-w...
Venice International Film Festival N°74 ... sharing other Facts and Numbers
71 new feature films in the Official Selection divided as follows: · 21 in Venezia 74 (Competition) · 20 in Out of Competition (8 of which are documentaries and 2 medium-length films) · 19 in Orizzonti · 5 in Cinema nel giardino · 3 in Biennale Coll...
80 years of Cinecittà “Pillole” from the Istituto Luce archive
(edited by Nathalie Giacobino – film editing by Patrizia Penzo) In 2017, Cinecittà - its legendary Studios, “the dream factory,” the ideal home for Federico Fellini and Italy’s collective imaginary - turned 80. This is an important birthday and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà absolutely had to celebrate it. In Venice, too, where, for several years now, the Pillole d’Archivio (“Archive Capsules) have been sparking the curiosity, the ...
New developments in 2017!
Paolo Baratta: President of the Biennale di Venezia
"The Red Cube and the White Piazza The “Citadel of Cinema” at the Lido is completing its rebirth. The program which was launched after the annus horribilis in 2010, when the fragility and criticality which had accumulated over time reached a highpoint, is progressing in a systematic fashion. The Red Cube sets the seal on this rebirth. And as such, it is a complement to the surrounding buildings, rem..." READ THE FULL INTERVIEW
> MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - August 3 -20, 20177Plenty of Film Guests at MIFF 2017
Every year MIFF welcomes a wide variety of guests – local and international – to participate in the festival. From introducing their films and taking part in post-screening Q&As with you, the audience, to sitting on MIFF Talks panels or taking over our social media, our guests are a vital part of what makes the MIFF experience unique. In 2017, MIFF is hosting guests at the following screenings and VR events, and their associated Talks: Across | directo...
Wrapping MIFF by Bernard Bories
This is the end ! Leaving tonight Melbourne and its great Festival (MIFF). So lucky to have seen such a great number of fabulous films, persons and artits. In these last days, I keep in mind the pleasure to discover the fabulous and so funny and dynamic film from Nadia Tass "The Big Steal" with the beautiful Claudia Carvan and the talented Ben Mendelshon, but also the amazing, luminous and magic "The Butterfly Tree" with the gorgeous Melissa George, the so funny and del...
MIFF 2017 Audience Award Winners
During the festival, MIFF audiences vote for their favourite feature films and documentaries to win the MIFF Audience Awards, presented by Wander Victoria. See all the winners below going back to 2009. MIFF 2017 Top 10 Feature Films 1. Call Me by Your Name 2. Ali's Wedding 3. The Party 4. Top of the Lake: China Girl 5. Brigsby Bear 6. Ethel & Earnest ...
About MIFF
The story of film in Melbourne could not be written without MIFF. MIFF is a not-for-profit organisation that has been continuously running since 1952, making it the leading film festival in Australia and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, alongside Cannes and Berlin. Presenting a curated global program of innovative screen experiences and the world’s largest showcase of exceptional Australian filmmaking, MIFF is an accessible, iconic cultural event that provides tr...
> PEOPLERIP Jerry Lewis
Photo by Alan Schoenauer
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) was an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures. Lewis was also known for his charity f...
Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 reveals guest-list,
The 150 plus guest-list this year is as vibrant and eclectic as ever, with nearly 40 of the films represented. It is a year when fan favourites are reunited and the new wave of genre talent is firmly embraced within the FrightFest fold. It’s been five years since Don Mancini and Fiona Dourif raised the Empire roof with CURSE OF CHUCKY and this year they are joined by the irrepressible Jennifer Tilly for the opening World Premiere of CULT OF CHUCKY. Also attending five year...
Nicole Garcia will head Dinard Jury 2017
Other jury members include: Valérie DonzelliRéalisatrice/Actrice/Scénariste - Française Philippe BESSONEcrivain/Scénariste - Français ...
Ariel Wengroff from BROADLY (VICE Women's Channel) Today at 1.30pm ET on Facebook /Instagram live!
Chelsea Film Festival October 19-22, 2017 www.chelseafilm.org ...
Billy Flynn's fans go wildWatch the video of his fans greeting Billy > AWARDS WATCHSmartFone Flick Fest Announce 2017 Award Winners.
SYDNEY FILMMAKER WINS BIG AT SF3 GALA AWARDS! The judges have deliberated and the people have spoken, naming the SmartFone Flick Fest (SF3) award winners for 2017, following last night’s Gala screening at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington. Local and international filmmakers were celebrated and awarded over $10,000 worth of prizes for their ingenious directing and filmmaking, whilst using only handheld devices and artistic licences, delivering sh...
The Unwilling Wins Best Feature Horror at the 2017 Silver Scream Film and Comic Festival!
WINNING FEATURE FILMS Forry Ackerman Imagi-Movie Award TELEIOS Directed by Ian Truitner Best Feature – Sci-Fi CRONUS Directed by Derek Presley Best Feature – Horror THE UNWILLING Directed by Jonathan Heap Best Feature – Horror/Comedy THE NIGHT WATCHMEN Directed by Mitchell Altieri SCREENPLAYS Forry Ackerman Ima...
Top 21 New Media Films and Content for New Media Film Festival 2017
There were new learning experiences for everyone at the 8th New Media Film Festival which has always been on the cutting edge of film making and this year did not disappoint. Susan Johnston, Founder/Director, New Media Film Festival always makes sure that Film Fest impresses international audiences with its diverse genres and cutting edge methods of storytelling – from web series, 3D, 360, AR, AI, 5D to VR. There were Eighty-seven (87) new media films and c...
Leonardo DiCaprio Socially Responsible Conservationist Award
New Media Film Festival was proud and honored to present Leonardo DiCaprio with the Socially Responsible Conservationist Award for his Conservation dedication and efforts via Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - Dedicated to protecting Earth’s last wild places and implementing solutions that create a harmonious relationship between humanity and the natural world. This recognition stems from Leonardo DiCaprio's opening scenes in Worst Shark Attack Ever whi...
Writers who will be in competition this season at Action On Film 2017
At the Action On Film International Film Festivals and the new Hollywood Dreamz Film Festival and Writers Celebration we know that every story, every film, every blockbuster begins on the page. Every season, we honor so many great works and great writers that it can be a little overwhelming. The judging alone requires so much work that even one point, one mistake, one misspelled word can mean t...
2017 Nominations announced – are you in the running for a Rose d’Or?
September 19, 2017 : Axica, Berlin ...
Action On Film 2017 Award Nominations
The AOF Official Film and Video Nominations for 2017 1 Best Editing Feature 1. What Waits In The Red - David Ince 2. Surprise Me! - Nancy Goodman 3. American Satan - Ash Avildsen 4. Tinker - Tom Bhramayana 5. The Mason Brothers-Keith Sutliff 6. Immortal Fist- Lon Beyer Best Editing - Short 1. Spy vs Spy - Jesse Orrall 2. Xing - Rosa Costanza 3. Trouble Man - Jackson Young 4. Separated - Danny Thykaer 5. Grocery Store Action Movie Matthew Campbell 6. Don’t Be Afraid of The Light Ja...
4th HollyShorts Screenplay Contest announces its list of finalists
HOLLYSHORTS SCREENPLAY FINALISTS ANNOUNCED The 4th annual HollyShorts Screenplay Contest is proud to announce its list of finalists. The top 3 screenplays will be announced/awarded at...
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film FestivalAudioscape and Special Jury Results Round Out Full List of 2017 Finalists!
Special thanks to Dolby for judging the Audioscape category, and to our preliminary judges for nominating films considered for Special Jury. See the Finalists ...
15 short films compete for Iris Prize Best British Award including an animation about a gay man who lives with a real bear!
· Pinewood Studios Group continue to offer the £20,000 award for Best British LGBT short film · Trans stories make up almost a third of the competing films presented by some of Britain’s brightest film makers Organisers of the Iris Prize have today (09/08/2017) announced details of the 15 short films competing for the Best British Award at the 2017 Iris Prize Festival. The ...
> PARTNERS FESTIVAL NEWSNew Media Film Festival
June 12 -14, 2018
|
LinksThe Bulletin Board > The Bulletin Board Blog Following News Interview with EFM (Berlin) Director
Interview with IFTA Chairman (AFM)
Interview with Cannes Marche du Film Director
Filmfestivals.com dailies live coverage from > Live from India
Useful links for the indies: > Big files transfer
+ SUBSCRIBE to the weekly Newsletter Deals+ Special offers and discounts from filmfestivals.com Selected fun offers
> Bonus Casino
User imagesAbout Newsletter
Team Laurent
(AB01) The blog publishes the past collection of our newsletters covering the film festival circuit. Advertise inside the newsletter? Subscribers breakdown details View my profile Send me a message The Editor |