Composer Will Bates has composed original scores for a myriad of filmmakers including acclaimed directors Mike Cahill (Another Earth; I Origins; Bliss), Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks; Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Zero Days; The Forever Prisoner), Ry Russo-Young (You Won’t Miss Me; Nobody Walks) and Fisher Stevens (Mission Blue; Bright Lights).
Bates’ upcoming p...
Composer Will Bates has composed original scores for a myriad of filmmakers including acclaimed directors Mike Cahill (Another Earth; I Origins; Bliss), Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks; Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Zero Days; The Forever Prisoner), Ry Russo-Young (You Won’t Miss Me; Nobody Walks) and Fisher Stevens (Mission Blue; Bright Lights).
Bates’ upcoming p...
Executive Producers Rakesh Tammabattula and Dr. Jacqueline Nguyen Photo: Tshombe Sampson
A Fragile Flower, the first ever Vietnamese feature film produced entirely in the United States, has received top honors at the 2024 New Delhi Film Festival. A Fragile Flower was named Top 3rd Feature Film, International Competition at the festival’s awards ceremony held on March 28 in New Delhi. The film was the only Vietnamese film awar...
Canneseries season 7 - great actors, series and a pink carpet - all in Cannes and still with MipTV!
Indeed this series festival takes place in Cannes, where else, nomen est omen. And it gets into competition with an the other majour festival dedicated to series. I'm talking about Series Mania from Lille. Both festivals are taking place in spring, one just finished and the other one, Canneseries to take place 05-10.04.
But while Series Mania is dedicated uniquely to televi...
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Make Believe: Year Two was one for the books, and we want to thank all of the volunteers, filmmakers, and audiences who helped make it so special.
This year we are unveiling our SPIRITUS AWARD, which is our version of a Golden Lion or Palme d’Or, which best represents the spirit of the fest.
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Lead actress June Squibb to be honored with the 2024 Golden Space Needle Award
for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema
The 50th Seattle International Film Festival will open with Josh Margolin’s action comedy Thelma from Magnolia Pictures and honor lead June Squibb with the 2024 Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema. The Festival’s Opening Night Film & Party will take place Thursday, May 9 at The Paramount Theatre followed by a ...
Radical by Christopher Zalla,
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies win Grand Jury Awards at
Movies that Matter Festival 2024
Other winners include Mediha by Hasan Oswald and Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad; Kix by Bálint Révész and Dávid Mikulán; Eddyʼs oorlog by Joost van der Valk; and Mast-del by Maryam Tafakory
On Wednesday, 27 March the Movies that Matter Festival announced the winners of its 16th edition during the award ceremony at The...
The 2024 program includes 50+ Films & Special Events, including John Waters in attendance!
The Calgary Underground Film Festival has announced the full lineup of films playing the 21st Festival, from April 18-28, 2024 at Globe Cinema. On-scale with the expanded programming of last year’s 20th Anniversary Festival, the largest in the organization’s history, CUFF 2024 will show 41 feature films, 37 shorts, and host 8 special events over 11 days.
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BFI Flare 2024 in numbers
28,125 audience attendances across BFI Southbank screenings, events and short films on BFI Player
54% of all ticket bookers new to the Festival
87% occupancy at BFI Southbank screenings and events
58 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries
5 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 6 European premieres and 23 UK premieres across the feature films
285 filmmakers and their ...
Full Frame recognizes the generous contributions of the 43 regional and national sponsors of the 26th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which takes place April 4–7, 2024.
“I am humbled by the tremendous amount of support from so many incredible sponsors and partners. Their generosity enables us to produce a world class event that gathers together thousands of people to celebrate documentary film and artists, and also puts a spotlight on our wonderful city of ...
Edinburgh International Film Festival announces collaboration with Edinburgh Festival Fringe, unveiling new venues and programming strands
Out of Competition, Midnight Madness and Repertory strands will showcase the best in UK and World cinema
The newly relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has today announced a landmark collaboration with the renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe which will open up the Film Festival programme in new venues across the city i...
The short film SHOTPLAYER (2024), directed by Sam Shainberg, screened in the Documentary Short Competition at this year’s SXSW. SHOTPLAYER is an impressionistic journey into the mind of Wilfred Rose, one of New York City's most notorious pickpockets. As he returns to the subway for the first time in many years, he reflects on a life of crime in a society that has left many of its citizens behind. SHOTPLAYER asks the question: When is it ok to p...
Amaze on and on and on: Matka King, Dupahiya, Snakes and Ladders, Matka King and The Rana Connection
In the third part of my report, here’s the lowdown on four more shows that Amazon has lined-up, in various languages.
Matka King (Hindi)
In this fictional tale set in 1960s Mumbai, an enterprising cotton trader who craves legitimacy and respect, starts a new gambling game, dubbed ‘Matka’, which takes the city by storm and democratises a terrain previously reserved for the...
The 11th Edition of the SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival in-person section closed on March 18, at the National Arts Club in New York. The Festival opened at the Maysles Cinema on March 13 and ran at MRHS and Cinema Village. The festival covers social issues totaling 53 films this year. The Official Selection is accessible online through the festival website. The main themes are 100 Years of Armenian Cinema, Black History, BIPOC films, Aging and Disability, Women, LGBTQI+,...
Amaze on and on: Citadel: Honey Bunny (Hindi)
Raj and D.K. The duo that always pay! They take-over Citadel from and name their series Honey Bunny. “We believe in giving titles that are in sharp contrast to the content of the show. (Well, what else would you say about The Family Man and Guns and Gulabs, for example?”). Honey and Bunny, co-incidentally, happen to be the names of the leading pair, Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, in the series. This is Varun Dhawan’s stre...
Amaze on Prime video: PLOTT A LOTT GOTT
Inviting us at 12 noon for lunch at a 5-star hotel was unusual. The practice is to invite you at 12 or 12.30 pm, and serve you lunch at any time between 3 and 5 pm. Oh, the price you pay for being a journalist! Proceedings begin at around 2 pm, and last for about 1- ½ --2 hours. Lunch dare not be served before the proceedings begin, or while they are on, because savvy organisers believe that starved journalists would wait, while ‘lunched&rs...
The Arthouse Cinema Training returns to Berlin this summer for its 21st edition.
19-25 AUGUST 2024
BERLIN, GERMANY
Don't miss it. Applications are open!
What is the Arthouse Cinema Training?
The Arthouse Cinema Training is an intensive one-week program that brings together arthouse exhibition professionals from across the world. The only program of its kind, the Training gives participants a unique chance to learn from top e...
RESYNATOR is a feature documentary film and synth resurrection project started by director Alison Tavel in 2014. The true story centers around a resurrected synthesizer (aka the RESYNATOR), that was invented by Alison’s late father Don Tavel in the ‘70s, which she dug up from her grandmother’s attic twenty-five years after his passing and has been on a mission to share it with the world ever since. RESYNATOR had its world premiere at SXSW on March 10th, 2024, and won the Docu...
Film.io’s fan and creator-focused platform elevates marginalized voices and restores creativity, collaboration and transparency to the filmmaking process
To kick off the first day of SXSW 2024, decentralized filmmaking platform Film.io announced its public launch, opening the doors for independent creators around the world and putting Hollywood decision-making into the hands of creators and fans.
Following the success of its initial debut at th...
PROFESSIONAL PLATFORM
CINÉLATINO 2024
FILM IN PROGRESS 43
& FILM IN DEVELOPMENT 19
AWARDS
Film in progress proposes to contribute, with pragmatism and efficiency, to the completion of the selected films, and exposes these films to international visibility in the professional environment in order to facilitate their circulation and distribution.
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For the 36th edition of Filmfest Dresden (16 to 21 April 2024), more than 370 short films from 62 countries compiled in the three Competitions and various special programmes are awaiting the audiences. In today’s press conference in the Filmtheater Schauburg festival cinema, Festival Directors Sylke Gottlebe and Anne Gaschütz together with further members of their team are providing insights into the highly diverse programme, including the already announced thematic focus on “...
TECHNICOLOR GROUP: A FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSFORMATION
World class businesses MPC, Mikros Animation, The Mill, Technicolor Games – to be housed under a new holding company: Technicolor Group
A company in a sound financial position, with new money injection and moderate indebtedness
Ambitious transformation underway to become a leading provider of visual experiences and cutting-edge technology in the dynamic world of visual storytelling
Technicolor Group, the new holding company for Technico...
MIPCOM CANNES ORGANISER RX FRANCE CONFIRMS THE LAUNCH OF MIP LONDON IN FEBRUARY 2025
MIPTV TO END RUN AFTER 61ST EDITION IN APRIL 2024
RX FRANCE today announced the launch of MIP LONDON, a new industry market and networking event set to take place 24-27 February 2025, with a pre-opening on Sunday 23 February. The inaugural MIP LONDON will take place the same week as the 2025 London TV Screenings and is conceived as complementary to the existing annual gather...
The Focus programmes: Rage & Horror, desired! – film lust & queer, Panorama and more Festival specials
From 16 to 21 April 2024, IFFF Dortmund+Köln presents an eclectic array of films and we look forward to welcoming numerous German and international film-makers to Cologne. Alongside the Competitions, the Festival sections with their different profiles will showcase provocative and poignant works by directors from all over the globe. This year’s Focus: Rage &a...
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