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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
Galway Film Fleadh to screen best in Irish and World Cinema
Galway Film Fleadh (pronounced " FLAH" meaning feast or festival in Irish) has announced the 2010 line-up of films for its 22nd annual Fleadh, which runs July 6-11th, 2010 in Galway, Ireland. The Fleadh is excited to present 100 feature films, 115 shorts films, eight World Premiers and 53 Irish Premieres during the six-day Fleadh. "We are thrilled to continue our tradition of off...
NEW VIEWS: Premiere Documentaries in Aspen
A recent renaissance in documentary filmmaking is having a major impact on American public discourse regarding the arts, politics, and society. To further explore this connection, NEW VIEWS: Premiere Documentariespresents five new documentaries focusing on music, the visual arts, photography, and more. Not yet available to the general public, these inspiring, thought-provoking films have won acc...
The Global Film Village: Davis Guggenheim?s WAITING FOR ?SUPERMAN?
by Marla Lewin The LAFF Premiere of Davis Guggenheim's WAITING FOR ?SUPERMAN? was on Monday, June 21st, Celebrities attending include: Jerry O?Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Pamela Reed (Jericho), Jay Roach (Producer), Elisabeth Rohm (Law & Order), Lesley Ann Warren (In Plain Sight), Cheryl Hines, Brett Ratner, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood). There was another Gala screening a...
The Global Film Village: Davis Guggenheim?s WAITING FOR ?SUPERMAN?
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Silverdocs Conference Takes Off
While it is undeniably fun (and instructive) to view the completed films at this year's SILVERDOCS, much of the meat of the 7 day program is in its annual professional conference. Held parallel to the film screenings at the AFI Silver Theater and other venues, the concurrent International Documentary Conference is a must for professionals in the non-fiction field. The Conference brings toge...
Pitching New Documentaries At SILVERDOCS
The AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland is now in full swing, with industry movers and shakers in town to exchange information and view the latest documentary offerings from around the world. While the completed films get the lion's share of attention from visiting distributors, programmers and an enthusiastic public, many producers are here t...
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Our website is available in over 50 languages and ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to people worldwide. This festival offers ...
Made in Prag Presents Czech Films and Young Producers in Hamburg
New York Documentary Film Festival
LA Film Festival day 6: Talking about 'Revolucion' and education revolution
Silverdocs Film In Focus: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
The New York International Film Festival is getting ready for the NY summer edition
Palm Springs ShortFest Panels
Ghent Film Festival Gent pays tribute to Tati
Los Angeles Film Festival really sparks LA Live
Done Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Sundance. Now Dun-gog.
Gutsy, Original, smart and free LA Fest premiere of 'The Kids Are All Right´
Los Angeles Film Festival Lights up Hollywood Downtown
Ghent Film Festival Gent pays tribute to Tati
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FILM NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT
Silverdocs Film In Focus: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
After you have produced one of the influential documentaries of your generation (and also won an Oscar for it), what do you do for an encore? Well, for Davis Guggenheim, the director of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, the rousing documentary that focused on the debate surrounding global warming and climate change (and that resurrected the moribund political career of former vice president Al Gore), th...
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Our website is available in over 50 languages and ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to people worldwide. This festival offers ...
Here I go again, picking on poor Wieden + Kennedy.
I feel like I need to start this post by backpedaling. Wieden + Kennedy is one of the greatest ad agencies in the history of advertising. They've done incredible work over years ?? some of the most persuasive, iconic, spectacular advertising that truly moved the marketing communication business forward. And no, I'm not just talking about the "old" Wieden + Kennedy. Last y...
FREAKONOMICS Opens AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival
The focus returns to documentaries from the US and around the world as the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival kicked off on Monday evening, June 21. The Festival and International Documentary Conference are the largest events of their kind in the United States, bringing together non-fiction producers, distributors, television executives, film festival programmers and a bevv...
EFP Industry Screenings in New York
June 28th and 29th In the 6th year of its NY Industry Screenings, European Film Promotion (EFP) is proud to present three European films to the industry on June 28th and 29th. >> download the file as pdf The screenings, which are supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Irish Film Board and German Films, will be shown at the Tribeca Grand Ho...
LA Film Fest day 3: Who's got the buzzzz & "Where's the elephant party?!"
Ron Gilbert and I raced from the screening of "Farewell" last night, looking for the drinks. "Let's go the Elephant party!!" he was saying, and who can resist a line like that. "The elephants are all the way down the end there", he said, scanning LA live cinemas 1, 2, 3, 4 and... nothing. "Where are the elephants?" he asked the first person to step into the...
Davis Guggenheim’s WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”
DOG SWEAT turns up the heat at LA Fest
The Doors, When You’re Strange, exhibition 9th July - 5th Sept
TIRZA to open 30th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival
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NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT PLAYERS
One week to go to Bergman week at Fårö
The 7th edition of the Bergman Week starts June 29 on Fårö. The Masterclass with Liv Ullmann and screenings in Bergman's private cinema on the island have generated great interest. But with one week to go until the Bergman Weeks kicks off there are still tickets available. Among the new additions fe...
Keynote from FEST Training grounds 2010 on selling your film to Sales Companies...
I was honored to be asked to deliver a keynote at Training Ground 2010 on World Sales Company ? How to Sell Your Film World sales companies are the responsible for a film to be distributed in several points of the globe, even to Independent productions. Knowing how they work and how they select th...
THE BIG EVENT of the day, if not of them entire week, was a personal appearance by Sylvester "Rocky" Stallone in the ongoing festival sidebar, "Conversations With" -- featured monitored stage interviews with various Hollywood personalities of note. The last was with actor Ben Affleck and still to come is legendary no-budget flix director Roger Corman. Mr. Stallone, now pushing sixty-four (Born July, 1946) but looking more like thirty-four, showed up nattily dressed in...
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AWARDS
Maui Fest 2010 Audience Award Winners:
Audience Award Dramatic Feature Audience Award Comedy Feature Audience Award Documentary Feature Consistently Enlightening, Somet...
Montreal First Peoples Festival Winners
WARBRICK (Meihana and Pere Durie, New Zealand) Since the Inuit drama ATANARJUAT won the prestigious Camera D'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, dramas and documentaries from the native peoples of Canada and elsewhere have been highly appreciated at film festivals and film events around the ...
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Our website is available in over 50 languages and ticket fees to the events are always low with no one ...
2010 Troia Film Festival Award Winners
The 26th edition of FESTROIA, the oldest and most prestigious film event in Portugal, concluded last weekend with the announcement of the Golden Dolphin Awards. This has been a rough period for cultural organizations in Portugal, with an already uncertain economy facing new challenges from what...
A new award for the Motovun Film Festival
Motovun Film Festival will be presenting as of this year - the Bauer Award! It will be awarded to the best film in the region in order to contribute to the opening of national boundaries and cinema markets in the region. Film professionals from the territory that the award covers - Bo...
Jose Mojica Marins to receive lifetime achievement award at Grossmann 2010
Legendary Brazilian master of horror Jose Mojica Marins will receive the lifetime achievement award at this year's Grossmann Film and Wine Festival, taking place from 26th to 31st of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Visitors of the festival will for the first time in Slovenia be able to see a selection o...
European Sweep At Zlin Film Festival
SEBBE (Babak Najah, Sweden/Finland) Films from Germany, Sweden and Romania dominated the award winners for the 50th edition of the Zlin Film Festival. Awards were announced at the Festival?s Awards Gala on Saturday, June 6th, which was televised live on Czech Television. Live presenters at ...
Rainbow Marble Advertising Awards
One of the major sidebars of the Zlin Film Festival, which is entering its final weekend today, is the Rainbow Marble, an international creative advertising festival accompanied by a 2 day professional conference. This year's conference, held on June 2 and 3, focused on political and green mark...
Festroia Lifetime Achievement Award
On its 26th edition, FESTROIA ? International Film Festival of Setúbal decided once more to pay a tribute to Portuguese cinema, by presenting a Lifetime Achievement Dolphin Award to Rogério Samora, who is celebrating three decades as an actor. Rogério Samora is the fifth Portuguese actor to rec...
Speed Auditioning finalists selected for Dungog debut
Art By Chance selection announced
Seattle International Film Festival Announces Award-Winners
Jury verdicts from Krakow
Rose d'or nominees revealed!
Awards gala event of the Filmfest Emden-Norderney
The Ball Is Round – The Film Is Short: Hamburg winners
Jeremy Irons to receive Ischia Legend Award
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Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival September 15th - 26th, 2010
The Wine Country Film Festival, established in 1986, is a premier showcase of international feature films, short films and documentaries. The Festival includes theatrical presentations as well as the popular "Films al Fresco" screenings under the stars in spectacular vineyard settings. The Festival features films of all genres with special sections such as "Cinema of Conscience", "The Arts in Film", "EcoCinema", "Indies Today", "International Perspectives" and "CineLatino Showcase." Submit Online
The 8th Vladivostok International Film Festival of Asian Pacific countries – “PACIFIC MERIDIAN” September 11 - 17, 2010
«Pacific Meridian» is an International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries. Asian-Pacific Countries are the countries surrounded by Pacific Ocean and countries of South-East Asia including India.
The Film Festival is held in Vladivostok, one of the most beautiful places on the Pacific Ocean coast.
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HOLLYSHORTS August 5 - 12, 2010
On the heels of the most successful HollyShorts Film Festival (www.hollyshorts.com) to date which featured participation from such stars and filmmakers as Demi Moore, Kirsten Dunst, Darren Lew, Eli Roth, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Joel Moore, and Tom Everett Scott, HSFF is now accepting submissions for the 2010 festival.
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8th ANGEL FILM AWARDS MONACO FILM FESTIVAL 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 Award" televised 2007 BBC World.Submit now
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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. Raindance is Europe's leading independent film festival and takes place annually in London's West End. Raindance showcases features and shorts made by independent filmmakers from all around the world and promotes all aspects of independent cinema, from guerrilla-style no-budget shorts to international indie blockbusters. Submit now
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THE CLEARWATER FILM FESTIVALSeptember 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 online through FestivalExpress
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MIAMI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL November 13 - November 20, 2010
The world's most creative filmmaking genre is about to be showcased at The 9th Miami Short Film Festival. Another year of festival and another opportunity for you to join us.
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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:
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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 exhibition end of the month..."
Art et Décès aka Glamrock City by Christophe Kay Kourdouly was Awarded Best Film in the foreign category Gold Remi Award by Houston Worldfest as a US premiere and had a Cannes debut May 19th
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