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NEWSLETTER N° 464: may 6, 2010


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The European Audiovisual Observatory has announced the theme of this
year’s must-attend Cannes afternoon workshop
Getting the right rhythm for the digitisation of European cinemas.

It will take place in the Salle Buñuel (Palais des Festivals) on
Sunday 16th of May from 3pm to 4.30 pm. Last year’s Observatory
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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE
CIRCUIT

The Cannes Blitz Promotion Package Proposition
Cannes Market and the Cannes Film Festival are coming up soon.

Cannes hit by Hawai sized monster waves : Croisette
suffered

Massive 18 foot waves hit the French coasts of Cote
d'Azur late on may 4th.

Cannes beaches where particularly hit but the promenade des
Anglais in Nice was the spot to be, that is if you are a kamikaze
surfer (like Brice de Nice) having waited since the last swell in
1959.

The constructions for the screen on the public Beach which
were underway have been swept away, the festival organizers announced
promptly that there should be no worries for the launch of the
festival next Wednesday may 13.

As far as I am concerned I think so much water is no good,
champagne?

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ZLIN
Focus On Czech Cinema, Old And New

2010 is a special year in the history of Czech cinema.
Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the Zlin Film Festival (which
runs from May 30 to June 6 in the UNESCO heritage city in the Czech
Republic) but the Festival will honor milestones in Czech cinema, both
old and new.         The Festival is marking the centenary of the
birth of one of the cofounders of Zlín’s film...

The
Palace: Reviving A Historic Treasure

 

One of the main venues for the Connecticut Film
Festival, which opens tomorrow evening, is the Palace Theater on Main
Street in Danbury, a once prosperous town 50 miles north of New York
City. From the theater's simple facade and faded charm, it is hard to
imagine that this was one of the important theaters in the Northeast,
where headliners and musical legends once entertained Danbury's upper
crust. The historic theater, originally built in 1928 when Danbury was
a wealthy town, h...

 

Building
A Media Industry in Connecticut

   

Yes, the Connecticut Film Festival, which begins this
Tuesday and runs through Sunday, May 9, is about presentation of films
and new media projects for locals and visitors alike, but its goals
are far loftier and more ambitious. The Festival hopes to serve as a
catalyst for building a sustainable and creative working environment
for film, video and visual artists who call Connecticut home. That
explains the Festival's ambitious plan to gather the men and women on
t...

New
Film Festival Dedicated To American Indies Announced At Tribeca

Main Square, Old Town, Wroclaw, Poland The AMERICAN
FILM FESTIVAL (AFF), the first film event in Eastern Europe solely
devoted to the works of contemporary and classic American cinema, was
announced this week during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
The first edition of the AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL will be held from
October 20 to 24, 2010 in the cultural heritage city of Wroclaw,
Poland (featured this week in the New York Times as one of the hot
travel ...

Attendance
records set new Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (more than
zombies)

The cavalcade of films screened at the 5th annual
Haapsalu Fantasy and Horror Film Festival (HOFF), which closed on
Sunday, featured 31 films from 15 countries.

Seattle
International Film Festival claims largest festival in the US reveals
line up of 600 screenings

SIFF is proud to announce the lineup for the 36th Seattle
International Film Festival, the largest and most highly attended
event of its kind in the United States. Running a full 25 days, SIFF
will present 189 narrative features, 54 documentary features, 13
archival films, and 150 short films from 67 countries..

World
Cinema Fund with Three Films in Cannes

Three films funded by the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund
(WCF) have been invited to the Festival de Cannes: ...

Nine
Hubert Bals Fund and CineMart linked films in Cannes 2010

Continuing its strong presence in Cannes, the
International Film Festival Rotterdam has nine films linked to the
Hubert Bals Fund and CineMart in Cannes festival sections: ...

Life
Lessons At Palm Beach FF

TEN STORIES TALL (David Garrett, USA) It was perhaps an
unconscious choice, but several of the films I caught at this year’s
Palm Beach International Film Festival dealt with the sense of
fragility and vulnerability that is at the core of human experience...

Film And New Media Workshops at CT Film Festival
Starting on Thursday and continuing through the weekend, the
Connecticut Film Festival is presenting a dizzying schedule of
workshops and master classes in the areas of film education and
digital...

Animation visits Stuttgart
Today the 17th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film opened
its doors. That means six exciting days full of animation with hot
topics, colourful worlds and strange figures. The crème de la crème of
the ...

I'VE SEEN FILMS - International Film Festival
I'VE SEEN FILMS 2010 will run for ten days, from September
30 to October 9,  in the following venues located downtown Milan:
Gnomo Milano Cinema, Centre Culturel Français, and the Royal Palace
whe...

Sydney Film Festival Unleashes 2010 Program
Sydney Film Festival (SFF) has unleashed the Official
Program for the 2010 Festival, which runs from 2-14 June 2010.  The
festival program will include winning films from international film
festivals...

Focus On Czech Cinema, Old And New
2010 is a special year in the history of Czech cinema. Not
only is it the 50th anniversary of the Zlin Film Festival (which runs
from May 30 to June 6 in the UNESCO heritage cit...

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FILM NEWS FROM THE
CIRCUIT

Tribeca 2010: From Pipelines to Film Culture?
It belongs to our common sense perception that distribution and
production technologies develop more rapidly than the content they
cover and that great competence in technologies is not equivalent to
...

Wow, What A Musical Lineup
THE WRECKING CREW, the music documentary that opened the
Connecticut Film Festival at the historic Palace Theater in Danbury
last evening, was a musical wow. Telling the story of the studio
sessio...

ROCK, PAPER AND SCISSORS: THE COLLAGE IN THE
DOCUMENTARY. SCREENING HALL 2.0

Documenta 10 has a unique web cycle. Rock, Paper, Scissors: The
collage in the documentary. 2.0 Board proposes an approach to
documentary collage, an irreverent and subversive world exclusive
viewing...

Inaugural Indocumentales/Undocumentaries: US/Mexico
Interdependent Film Series

By Maria Esteves - May 3, 2010 The First
Indocumentales/Undocumentaries: US/Mexico Interdependent Film Series
will be held at venues throughout New York City, May 5 -21, 2010. 
Presented by Cinema T...

The 2010 British Urban Film Festival - May Blog
With the election imminent, it is widely assumed that out of the
650 odd MP?s who represent their various constituencies up and down
the UK, half of them will have to find new employment after the el...

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NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
PLAYERS

Tom Carruthers: Man On A Mission
Tom Carruthers, CTFF Executive Director Organizing a film
festival can be a major challenge, but to pull it all together in less
than 3 months is akin to giving birth.....exruciatingly painful...

Industry Mourns Connecticut Resident Lynn Redgrave
One of Connecticut's most illustrious residents, English-born
actress Lynn Redgrave died in her Kent, Connecticut home last evening,
surrounded by family members. She had been battling breast can...

Meet Filmmaker Denny Tedesco
Denny Tedesco decided to make his film debut THE WRECKING CREW
about a subject close to his heart. His father had been a studio
musician who played backup for some of the reigning giants of the r...

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) nomination council
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) today announced members of
the 2010 APSA Nominations Council, comprising international film
industry experts from eight countries drawn from high profi...

Connecticut Is Celebrity Country
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman With the Connecticut Film
Festival (www.ctfilmfest.com) launching on Tuesday, it is interesting
to note the many film, television and artist celebrities who hav...

Alex Gibney's Tribeca Trifecta
Alex Gibney Last week, Tribeca Film Festival founder Jane
Rosenthal jokingly referred to this year's Festival as "The Alex
Gibney Film Festival". Gibney, a respected docum...

Freshi Film Camp Hollywood is launching in July 2010
"Discovering the Storyteller Within You!" Freshi Films has presented
summer camps fully supported by the International Family Film
Festival.

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August 5 - 12,
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«Pacific Meridian»  is an International Film Festival of Asian Pacific
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August 5 - 12,
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On the heels of the most successful HollyShorts Film
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Demi Moore, Kirsten Dunst, Darren Lew, Eli Roth, Jimmy Jean-Louis,
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December 9-12, 2010
One of the Premiere European awards festivals, annual
competitive special interest film festival of 50 awards of various
genres held in Monaco. Are the pioneers of non violent cinema from
around the world, includes special nomination "Angel Peace
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18
th RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
29 September – 10 October 2010
The 18 th Raindance Film Festival is now open for submissions
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annually in London's West End. Raindance showcases features and shorts
made by independent filmmakers from all around the world and promotes
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THE
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September 29 - October 3,
2010
The Clearwater Film Festival is a
platform built to showcase seasoned filmmakers and emerging artists who
demonstrate the synergy of the actor, writer and director. Quality film
submissions of any length are welcome from all genres worldwide. The
festival will have 5 venues and accommodate up to 29,000 people.  Submit
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MIAMI
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
November
13 - November 20, 2010
The world's most creative filmmaking genre is about
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thru Nov
20 th , 2010.
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us.
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opportunity"
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BUSHO
FESTIVAL
September 1 - 5, 2010
BuSho (Budapest Short) was established in the autumn of 2004 by a
group
of young Hungarian filmmakers and the first event successfully
ran its
course the following year. The festival became an international
breakthrough
in an exceptionally short period of time: we got 360 individual
entries
from 45 countries in 2009.

New
York International Independent Film and Video Festival

Spring
Summer Edition inNew York:

The NYIIFVF is a competitive event and is dedicated to making
things happen for emerging filmmakers and screenwriters. The festival
has cultivated excellent relationships with thousands of companies in
both cities.
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"A russian artist in lack of inspiration, finds in murders committed
by her girlfriend, a way to create paintings for the important
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Art et Décès aka Glamrock City by Christophe Kay Kourdouly was
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More than 100 feature films - narrative and documentary are
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Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Investigative Documentary Feature: Last Train Home, Lixin Fan
(Canada/China 2009)   - Winner receives $25,000 cash prize and Final
Cut Studio software provided by Apple     &nbs...

USA Film Festival announced the Winners of the 32nd
Annual National Short Film & Video Competition

On Sunday, May 2, 2010, the USA Film Festival announced the
Winners of the 32nd Annual National Short Film & Video Competition
on Closing Night of the 40th Annual USA Film Festival in Dallas. C...

The Golden Aruba Award to be offerered to filmmaker
Bernardo Bertolucci

The Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF) announced today
that legendary, Academy Award® winning filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci
(The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris, The Conformist, The Dreame...

A time of success and awards for Far East Film 2010
50 thousand spectators: a record-breaker for the twelfth
edition! The Korean masterpiece Castaway On The Moon triumphs at the
Audience Awards 2010! In the spotlight is also Japan, with Accident...

Canadian Music Documentary Wins Tribeca Audience Prize
The Canadian music documentary RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED
STAGE has won the Heineken Audience Award at the 9th Tribeca Film
Festival, which concludes today. The award includes a cash prize of
$25,0...

The 13th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Announces Award Winners

The 13th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
announces the winners of the five categories of its jury competition:
Best First or Second Narrative Feature, Best Narrative Short, Bes...

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Tribeca Film Festival warps and announces Awards
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Hines, John Ridley, Gary Ross and Gary Winick   The Founders Award for
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européen de l’audiovisuel publie un nouveau rapport sur les aides
publiques au cinéma

 Les
Nuits en Or du Court Métrage du 18 mai au 30 juin

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St.Petersburg
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Young, fera la Clôture de Cannes

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