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The Festival Beat: Volume 853, with Bears still kicking
When the Berlin International Film Festival takes place from February 7 to 17, 2019, Berlin will again be under the sign of the bear.
After years of mystery, the current series of motifs will reveal the secret behind the Berlinale’s heraldic animal. According to Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, “The individuals you’ll see emerging from the bears’ fuzzy fur epitomise for us all those who have made the Berlinale the biggest audience film festival in the...
 
DEADLINE February 15th
Introducing the first annual inaugural debut for “Your Script Produced!” Worldwide Screenwriting Competition sponsored by Doval Bacall Films.
The sponsor will fully fund, develop, package and produce the Grand Prize Winning Film script. Also, Sponsor will purchase the Grand Prize Winning TV script to fund the development, package and potentially produce the Grand Prize Winning TV script. Open to anyone 18 years old or older. No cap on income earned as a writer. Open to all non-union members.
Sponsor plans to launch development / pre-production to the Grand Prize winning film script in September 2019. $250,000.00 USD Production budget fully financed by our sponsor(s).
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Final deadline September 7, 2019
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March 15, 2019 Regular Deadline
The Filmmaker Final Four is an innovative competitive festival program that will provide an an opportunity for filmmakers across the country to produce short films and have them presented to live audiences and industry professionals.
Filmmakers will assemble a team to conceive, cast, produce and edit a short film. They will have 16 days to complete the project, based on one of two application deadlines. The program will roll out across 4 separate regions (West, Midwest, Northeast, South)
All projects from each respective community, within one of the 4 regions, will have an opportunity to screen their film for audiences, friends and family. While some regions will have multiple screenings, there will ultimately be 4 winners from each region, as voted on by separate juries and online audience polling.
The 4 films from each respective region will be announced at the end of their quarterly competition. At the end of the year, the Sweet 16 will be announced and have additional screenings take place in Hollywood.
Check the rules and regulations and the awards
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15 Years of celebration, 4 GREAT FESTIVALS
We are now accepting submissions for the 2019 festivals, You can submit your film via Withoutabox, or enter direct at our web site
www.filmfestinternational.com/submit
London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Feb 16th - 23rd 2019
Nice International Film Festival on the French Riviera just before the Cannes film festival. May 11th-18th 2019
Madrid International Film Festival
Milan World Cinema
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April 24 – 28, 2019
February 23, 2019 Extended Deadline /
Known for it's quaint location, friendly staff/volunteers, inquisitive audience, consistent communication, multiple screening opportunities, workshops, panels and other amazing networking opportunities and parties; it's no wonder JDIFF was voted one of the coolest film festivals and one of the top 50 worth the submission fee by MovieMaker Magazine (2016 & 2017). JDIFF also ranks as one of the top 100 reviewed festivals by FilmFreeway. JDIFF is ALL about the independent filmmaker!
Dubuque, Iowa is a quaint city on the Mississippi and a perfect place to host the festival. As quoted in Filmmaker Magazine "The festival is smartly situated downtown, with an assortment of handsome venues all within walking distance" from the Festival Headquarters, located in the grand HOTEL JULIEN, the same hotel where Al Capone used to hide out from the Chicago Feds.
Our final nominees are judged by our Jury members of Film professionals, such as Directors, Producers, Critics, Director of Photography, etc and choose the final winner of each category.
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March 16, late Deadline
The first annual French Riviera Film Festival will recognize and celebrate short form content created for film, television, Web and all digital platforms. In the glamorous South of France setting, FRFF invites filmmakers from around the globe to participate in the two day festival that includes screenings, VIP receptions, awards ceremony and closing gala party. FRFF will place the spotlight on the best short form filmed content during the time period of the annual Festival de Cannes. A prestigious jury panel will select Best Drama Short, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation Short, Best Experimental Short, Audience Favorite Award, Best Director Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress Award, as well as special Industry Awards. Attendees and participants will include filmmakers, industry executives, celebrities, media and influencers. https://filmfreeway.com/FrenchRivieraFilmFestival
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Regular Deadline February 25, 2019
Three times now, The Melbourne Doc Fest has been rated as a Top 100 Film Festival on FilmFreeway and has consistently been ranked in the top 2% of the over 6,000 film festival in the world over the last 3 years.
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival is currently rated as the Documentary Film Festival of the Year (2018) by FilmDaily.
Our mission is to discover and promote independent Australian documentaries, and to showcase the best international documentaries to Melbourne audiences. The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival provides a public forum and supportive platform to allow emerging filmmakers to showcase their work.
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March 16, 2019 Regular Deadline
The 1st Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival launches in June 2019 in association with the Municipality of Kandanos-Selinou. The 'Lost World' of Paleochora nestles between the Mountains and Sea in South West Crete and is the perfect location for Filmmakers to convene to show their work, network with colleagues and enjoy our fabulous Cretan hospitality. We may be at the most southern point of Europe, but there are BIG Film things happening here and on the entire Island of Crete. Our main aim will be to select films which focus on great storytelling, whether fiction, documentary or any other accepted genre.
In due course we will announce details of parallel Talks and Master Classes which will be included in our Film Festival Programme. Keep a weather eye for details both here and on our website.
In addition to our listed venues, we are also aiming to include Open Air evening screenings in Central Paleochora. More news on this once we have finalised the details.
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March 1, 2019 Final Deadline
Damah looks to create unique events that foster a true sense of community. Our past events have featured Panel Discussions, Workshops, Interactive Screenings and Q&A sessions all designed to stimulate discussion and provide a platform for artistic expression.
We feature films from any genre and they can be submitted in any acquisition format. The only requirement is that films must be no longer than 30 minutes. Our next Festival & Awards Ceremony will be held in Tokyo, Japan on May 10th & 11th, 2019. We are currently taking submissions for this event.
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Javier Bardem, Angela Bassett, Chadwick Boseman, Emilia Clarke, Laura Dern, Samuel L. Jackson, Stephan James, Keegan-Michael Key, KiKi Layne, James McAvoy, Melissa McCarthy, Jason Momoa and Sarah Paulson A second wave of stars is headed for the Oscars® stage on Sunday, February 24. Academy Awards® producer Donna Gigliotti and co-producer and director Glenn Weiss announced today thirteen more Hollywood luminaries to celebrate the year in movies. The Oscars airs live on th...
Oscar-winning Greek-American director Louie Psihoyos is given a carte blanche in the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to select his favorite films. Psihoyios will attend this year’s edition to receive the festival’s top honorary award, the Golden Alexander, as well as to present the carte blanche films and a special screening of his documentary The Cove (2009, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature). As a wildlife filmmaker and an experienced National Geo...
As part of the European Film Market's EFM Horizon program, aiming to support the transformation of the film and media sectors through an interdisciplinary approach, IFP co-organized Re:Vision Think Tank Towards Inclusion at Berlinale on strategies for increased inclusivity in the film business, following a previous module hosted at IFP Week 2018. In Berlin, all participants a...
IFP Anthony Bregman With New York based indie veteran Anthony Bregman giving opening remarks on his producing experiences at Friday's opening Debate, the conversation expanded with European producers Linda Beath and Claudia Bluemhuber joining the table. All three producers agreed that more and more films are made based on algorithms in today's day global streaming platforms, and that films cannot be made based on data alone. Filmmakers must be true to their own voice a...
Entertainment Finance Forum | February 27, 2019 • Skirball Cutural Center • Los Angeles, CA | Our workshops on “Financing Content” and “Getting Down with OTT” are sold out! But don’t worry, we’ve still got other exciting workshops avail...
Agnes and Rosalie talking to camera with highlights from the Press Conference for 'Varda par Agnès' with Agnès Varda. ...
Film still from her movie: 'L'adieu à la nuit' with the director André Téchiné written by Léa Mysius,starring opposite Catherine Deneuve, Oulaya Amamra, Kacey Mottet Klein, Stéphane Bak The film is produced by Olivier Delbosc. Press Conference highlights ! ...
What an impressive career, what a great producer she is. Good thing she uses that fame to benefit legitimate causes like this one. Wendy Mitchell introducing Gale Annne Hurd at the Norway House on the launch of 10% for 50/50, a new European initiative offering rebates to gender-equal productions, led by post production house Chimney in partnership with Women in Film International and Women in Film and Television Germany. On a personal note I had the pleasure of working with her o...
Sondre Fristad (28) is an award-winning short film director from Bærum, Norway, and is best known for Alex, Kepaza, and Quiet by the River. He has contributed on Swiss Army Man, The King's Choice, Haram, The Dextape and Operation Arctic. He has a bachelor's degree in Creative Arts Film & TV from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. The Writer is his first comedy feature about a young wr...
Christopher Kühne is an internationally acclaimed screenwriter and co-writer of the feature length film Yerma: Barren, directed by renowned poet/film director Emilio Ruiz Barrachina. Yerma: Barren features an internationally diverse, award-winning cast including Spanish actress Miriam Díaz-Aroca and British actress Rebecca Grant. Yerma: Barren is the first adaptation of Federico Garc&iacu...
Mark Tchelistcheff Director / Producer of "André - The Voice of Wine" a documentary which took 7 years in the making won an award last october at Devour Festival but could not pick it at the closing award ceremony (as he had already left). Lia Rinaldo and Michael Howell, the fest organizers, brought his trophy all the way from Nova Scottia and handed it during the wonderfull Berlinale reception at the Canadian embassy on Potzd...
Mariette Rissenbeek is the Head of German Films and soon to be in charge of Berlinale with Locarno Fest colleague Carlo Chatrian. She took a moment to tell filmfestivals.com a bit about this year's initiative for young german faces in TV Series, while hosting a reception at Spree Gold by Zoo Palast. We met the acting talent of the 4th edition of FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS at a panel event and reception during the Berlinale Drama Series Days: FAC...
The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) announced the complete lineup of films and live music performances for the 22nd annual New Orleans French Film Festival, February 15-21 at the Prytania Theatre. The festival lineup features 17 feature-length films, 3 short films, and free live music performances—in partnership with Krewe du Kanaval—prior to select film screenings and the World Premiere of On Va Continuer!, a documentary about the Grammy-winning Louisiana band Lost Bayou Ra...
Announcing the 24th Annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival 36 films. 180 emotions. thousands of friend...
ÉCU WILL SCREEN 80 OF THE WORLD'S BEST INDEPENDENT FILMS IN PARIS ON THE 5th, 6th and 7th of April 2019. The European Independent Film Festival is honoured to announce its Official Selection for its 14th edition which will be held on the 5th, 6th and 7th of April, 2019 in Paris, France. ÉCU 2019 will showcase 80 films from 31 countries ranging from features, shorts, documentaries and animations to student films and experimental works. Filmmakers will compet...
The very first edition of the Montreal International History Film Festival (FIFHM) will take place from May 3-5, 2019, at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal. Founded by two filmmakers and two historians passionate about the representation of history in film, the FIFHM’s aim is to promote exchanges between filmmakers, historians and the general public, offering a showcase of films of any genre or other media products (especially television series or, ev...
February 17/23 - TCL Chinese Theatre - Hollywood, Ca OPENING CEREMONY: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 - 5pm SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 10:00am The Italian Masters – Special Screening The Lark Farm (122’) dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Actor Alessandro Preziosi will introduce the movie. 12:20pm Celebrating Matera Basilicata – US Premiere Mathera (90’) Dir. Vito Salinaro and Francesco Invernizzi 2:00pm The Italian Masters – World Premiere Leonardo 500 (9...
FANTASTIC WEB CONTEST III : Looking for an extraordinary web series ; a call for projects from the NIFFF and the RTS Driven by the desire to support a new generation of Swiss filmmakers, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), in collaboration with the Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), is launching its third call for projects among web creators, affirming once again its engagement for innovation. ...
Audiences' attendance reached almost 33.000 members during 25th VIFFAC edition. Several French distribution companies contacted us already to inquire about eventual movie acquisitions. French Culture Minister Franck Riester visited our Open Ressource Center and attended opening ceremony. THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS INCREDIBLE NEW SUCCESS!! 26th VIFFAC - Vesoul International Film Festival ...
After eleven amazing festival days with a programme of 400 films from 83 countries, seminars, talks, parties and a great industry programme, the 42nd edition of Göteborg Film Festival closed. With a record high industry attendees and a festival audience of 130,000 visits we look back at some of the highlights from the largest film festival in the Nordics. Now the Göteborg Film Festival team head for Berlinale 2019. Read more below about our TV drama showcase at Eur...
The ceremony took place last sunday (February 10, 2019 at 5.15 pm Meistersaal) with a welcome address by Paz Lázaro, Michael Stütz and a Laudatory speechby Rajendra Roy Wieland Speck's curatorial work in no small measure helped establish the Panorama section as a platform for independent and challenging cinema. Since the mid-1970s, Speck has been involved in film and video in a variety of capacities, and has worked as both author and publisher. As a dir...
Special Announcement: the winner of Best Costumes and Best Production Design at our 2018 festival, Chimera (starring Oscar-nominee Kathleen Quinlan and Emmy-nominee Henry Ian Cusick), has secured a distribution deal and is set to release in April of this year! We are so proud of the brilliant filmmakers involved and honored to have featured their work in our festival. Check out the trailer below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKCevLHGirQ ...
The 33rd edition of the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences Awards, aka The Goyas, took place in Sevilla. Surpringly, the film winning all major categories didn´t get the Goya for Best Film. The political thriller The Realm by Rodrigo Sorogoyen – co-produced with France – ended up with seven Goyas: including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Galician Luis Zahera) and Best L...
Eight films presented at the last edition of the San Sebastian Festival were acknowledged with 16 accolades at the 33rd Goya Awards. El Reino (The Realm), selected for the Official Selection, was the big winner of the night with seven awards. The film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen won the awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Leading Actor (Antonio de la Torre), Best Supporting Actor (Luis Zahera), Best Editing, Best Sound
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22ND ANNUAL SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS A Festival Kick-off Special Documentary Film Dinner - Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable – Thursday, February 21st at Sebastiani Theatre Sonoma, CA (February 7, 2019) – On Thursday, February 21st at 7:15pm, Sonoma International Film Festival fans can catch a special documentary film screening of Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable at the Sebastiani Theatre. Bethany Hamilton lost her arm to a tiger shark at age 13, but ...
FICCI 59 Unveils its Official Categories During a press conference at the Centro Ático of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival (FICCI) revealed the films included in its 10 Official Ca...
Alex Deleon, <filmfestivals.com> "M, A City Hunts a Murderer" ~ Viewed at ZOO Palast, 2, Based on the classic Fritz Lang classic of 1931, "M" with Peter Lorre. Two TV Installments. In this avatar the tale of a child molester and killer hated by all, pursued by both the police and the Underworld, is transposed to current day Vienna in the middle of a colorful snowy winter, and much is made of the sticky ongoing Immigr...
The Wife, Review: The Bitter Half It is easy to get swayed emotionally and empathise with the apparent underdog in this simple tale of a complex relationship. Only when you distance yourself, get down to analysing the issues and assessing the narrative, do you realise that the film did not have too much to say, and that the vulnerabilities of the characters cover a convenient screenplay. Performances, undeniably, are above par, and the film may also be seen for its intensity, focus and ably m...
Films we curate for festivals: Check our selection of 'Best for Fests' in the eco green genre! "Ones to Watch for fests' by filmfestivals.com"...
Films we curate for festivals Check our selection of 'Best for Fests' in the Horror SciFi genre! "Ones to Watch for fests' by filmfestivals.com"...
Films we curate for festivals Check our selection of 'Best for Fests' documentaries. "Ones to Watch for fests' by filmfestivals.com".
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Coming April 2019 "RAISED ON ROCK - The Burnette Family Legacy" will be premiering at Film Festivals throughout 2018 before being released for worldwide distribution
Director - Sally Steele
Sally Steele is on a mission to reunite the legendary battling Burnette family- a family United by Blood-Divided by Fame. The filmmaker travels across the United States interviewing special guests while learning the amazing rock history of Johnny Burnette and Dorsey Burnette and The Rock and Roll Trio who influenced Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and many others, on her quest to bring Rocky and Billy Burnette and the members of the family together for one final dramatic and exciting performance at the end of the film, trying to heal the rift that rocked the world and tore a family apart echoing down a generation to the family “Raised On Rock“.
The film exists in two versions Long Short (60) and Short Documentary (40)
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"A film that Google does not want you to see - filmfestivals.com Best for Fest"
An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it.
The Creepy Line is a title culled from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during a 2010 interview he explained Google’s code of conduct: “The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
However, as Dr. Robert Epstein explains in the film, “Google crosses the creepy line every day”.
Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, The Creepy Line examines what is at risk when these two tech titans have free reign to utilize the public’s most private and personal data to manipulate society.
There is no question that the “creepy line” is getting ever-creepier, and that the tech giants have crossed it.
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Sharkwater: Extinction by Rob Stewart Documentary Canada 2018 Sharkwater: Extinction by Rob Stewart - Canada 2018 90 minutes
Rob Stewart “Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth. And that, above all else, is worth fighting for” Watch Rob Stewart doing what he loved most of all, swimming with sharks, in exclusive footage from his third film, Sharkwater: Extinction.
Sharkwater: Extinction is a follow up to his first two award-winning films, Sharkwater and Revolution. Sharkwater exposed the devastating issue of shark finning, while Revolution brought the destructive effects of Ocean Acidification to light.
Rob taught the world to not fear sharks, through his iconic images of hugging these majestic creatures and free diving with them.
www.Sharkwater.com www.TheRevolutionMovie.com
LIVING IN THE FUTURES PAST by Susan Kucera, A documentary presented by Jeff Bridges.
USA October 2017 - 83 minutes
13 Festival wins so far for Living in the Future's Past
over 40 festival wins so far
Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.
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Nous sommes très fiers des bonnes relations et des partenariats signé avec les plus grands festivals et marchés : Venice Production Bridge, FestForums Santa Barbara, AFM, Animaze, Tallinn Black Night International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, Fantasporto, et Cannes Market bien entendu et beaucoup d'autres. Nous sommes heureux de pouvoir grace à ces parteneriats pouvoir apporter news et dailies à ...
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Promoting Movies that Matter / des films qui font grandir...
With contributions from Abbé Jean-Luc Maroy, Alex Deleon, Bruno Chatelin
French English
Contexte Le film devait initialement être réalisé par Fritz Lang, qui aurait eu l’idée d’ajouter un prologue et un épilogue pour justifier l’irréalisme du décor et le choix de l’expressionnisme, mais, en train de tourner Les Araignées, il fut empêché de poursuivre le projet par les distributeurs qui avaient un besoin urgent du film. Ce fut alors à Robert Wiene que le travail échut...
FEMMES EN CINÉMA 2e édition les 15, 16 et 17 mars 2019 au cinéma Les 3 Luxembourg Pendant 3 jours au mois de mars, au cœur de Paris, la 2e édition du Festival International Femmes en Cinéma propose de découvrir ou revoir des films de fiction, longs et courts-métrages, documentaires réalisés par des femmes. La programmation compte neuf longs-métrages et deux courts ; et parmi les longs, si...
Enquête hebdomadaire réalisée auprès d’un échantillon de 100 000 individus aux USA et de 35 000 en France, représentatifs de la population de chacun des pays. Parmi ces individus, 2 000 spectateurs étant allés au cinéma au cours de la semaine cinéma concernée sont interrogés sur les bandes annonces vues au cinéma dans chacun des territoires. ...
Ralph 2.0 s'impose en tête des démarrages 1er jour de ce mercredi 13 février, suivi de Alita : Battle Angel et de All Inclusive. ...
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