TAKING BACK THE GROOVE
SBIFF 2024
With Director: Celia Aniskovich
By Emmanuel Itier
Taking Back the Groove reintroduces the world to Bronx-born ’80s disco superstar Richie Weeks. A writer, singer, and producer who was compared to Quincy Jones at his height, Richie created quintessential New York Disco and performed in the likes of Studio 54 and Paradise Garage, all while maintaining day jobs as a postal worker and bricklayer. His mega-hit Rock Your World made it to #1 on the dance char...
La Jolla, CA, February 2024 - The Impact DOCS Awards goal is to discover and honor the achievements of filmmakers who produce high quality documentaries. Impact DOCS puts filmmakers first and provides a direct opportunity for recognition and publicity for high quality productions. It is international in scope and has granted awards to producers in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, ...
Now is its 15the year, The IndieFEST Film Awards announces its Call for Entries for flimmakers, television producers and videographers.
Submit: Deadline April 16, 2024
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The IndieFEST Film Awards are unique in the industry. Attracting both powerhouse industry veterans as well as talented new filmmakers it is an exceptional, truly international awards competition, not...
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The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners!
La Jolla, CA, February 2024 - The IndieFEST is proud to announce the latest winners. Congratulations to all the filmmakers who participated in the current season!The awards go to those filmmakers who produce fresh, standout entertainment and compelling documentaries. The IndieFEST is a top-ti...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Rick Prickett, Competition Director
858-454-9787
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Info@TheIndieFEST.com
The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners!
La Jolla, CA, February 2024 - The IndieFEST is proud to announce the latest winners. Congratulations to all the filmmakers who participated in the current season!The awards go to those filmmakers who produce fresh, standout entertainment and compelling documentaries. The IndieFEST is a top-ti...
Video by Marc Bennett and Guy Kennedy.
Jeffrey Wright has been honored with the Montecito Award at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Wright received the award on Thursday, February 15th, 2024 at an in-person conversation about his career leading up to this year’s performance in Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios’ AMERICAN FICTION, written and directed by Cord Jefferson. Wright has received lead actor nominations from the Gotham Awards, Spirit Awards, Gold...
Chosen Family is a 2024 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Heather Graham. It stars Graham, Julia Stiles, Thomas Lennon, Michael Gross, Andrea Savage and John Brotherton...
It had its world premiere at the 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival on closing night February 17
Video by Marc Bennett and Guy Kennedy.
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Honorary Golden Bear for Martin Scorsese – The 74th Berlinale awards the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement to Martin Scorsese. F. l. t .r.: Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Martin Scorsese, laudator Wim Wenders and Carlo Chatrian © Richard Hübner / Berlinale 2024
After the moving opening gala, numerous filmmakers presented their works at the festival over the last few days. The first half of the festival was marked by glamorous, but also political appearances on the ...
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VIDEO: Honorary Golden Bear: In Conversation with Martin Scorsese
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The Berlinale presented today this year’s Honorary Golden Bear to to Martin Scorsese: a filmmaker who has constantly pushed the medium toward uncharted paths. With a body of work spanning six decades and over fourty features, running the gamut from crime epics to animated features and religious dramas, Martin Scorsese has revolutionised the medium, and reinvented himself with every new film. His latest, "Killers of the Flower Moon" (Apple Original Films), is a vivid and...
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Since 1986, the Berlinale has awarded the Berlinale Camera to honour personalities and institutions who have made a special contribution to filmmaking and with whom the festival feels closely connected.
This year the German director and author Edgar Reitz will be honoured with the Berlinale Camera. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, February 22, at 2.45 pm in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The film&n...
World Cinema Fund Day: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 2.30 pm
WCF Day is the World Cinema Fund’s public think-tank. The panels and discussions focus on film culture, production conditions in the funded regions, structural changes and funding strategies, as well as on new key aspects of the WCF funding strategies and the presentation of new WCF-funded projects and films.
February 21, 2024
HAU2, Ha...
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award Preisverleihung des Berlinale Co-Production Market 2024 © Carlos Collado
On Sunday, three cash prizes and one in-kind prize were awarded to selected feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 17 to 21).
The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, endowed with 20,000 euros, went to the producers of ForeFilms from Ukraine for their project Screaming Girl (director: Antonio Luki...
Richard Paradise : Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival founder in interview at Ritz Carlton Berlin, during Berlinale 2024
Filmfestivals.com late Sandy Mandelberger had interviewed Richard some 18 years ago, Richard's passion is intact!
Check the interview!
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Meet our friend Greg Reitman : two hats and one passion for film as a Filmmaker and Festival founder of The Blue Water Film Festival in San Diego CA.
Interview by Bruno Chatelin during Berlinale 2024.
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Greg Reitman producer of the Sundance Audience Award Winner doc Fuel (2008)
Greg Reitman (May 10, 1971) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.
He is best known for directing, producing an...
Find out about the 6 festivals Michel Noll has launched in this Interview at MGB during EFM 2024 (by Bruno Chatelin).
Michel Noll (born 10 May 1949) is a French television director and producer.
Born in Cologne in Germany, Noll has lived in France for more than 40 years. After reading Economics and Sociology at the University of Cologne in Germany, he became a producer/director of television programmes when, in 1977, he joined TELECIP in Paris, then the leading ...
Berlinale 2024 Competition: Jon Ekstrand's original score to Gustav Möller's psychological thriller 'SONS' balances between the physical outter world of the film - set in prison - and the inner psyche of the main characters.
'Vogter' ('Sons') will premiere in competition at this year's Berlinale on 22 Feb
After 'The Guilty', Gustav Möller returns with 'Sons' ('Vogter'), exploring anothe...
Watch the introduction by Abduljaleel Alnasser, Senior Development & Investments Attraction General Manager, of the Saudi Film Commission: his speech was as brief as the lunch served by Ritz Carlton was delicious and long, The top heads of RSIFF were in attendance of course...
The Film Commission was established in 2020 in order to support the film movement in Saudi Arabia. The Commission aims to develop and organize the film sector, raise the level of production, mar...
Ted Chalmers has been involved with the sales and distribution of such well-known films as THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION, HELLRAISER, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, ONE FALSE MOVE, RE-ANIMATOR, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, SOCIETY and EVIL DEAD 2. Most recently was also Senior VP of Media Brokerage for ICAP Media/Moving Pictures, a division of ICAP Plc. He both founded Summer Hill Entertainment and TomCat Films.
Bruno Chatelin sat down with Ted at the end of a b...
288 days to go for the 2024 edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival
At the end of the third edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), on 09 December 2023, audiences, media and professionals alike were left craving for more. And more is coming your way. While some film festivals have fixed dates, and other international film festivals announce their dates much closer to the event, RSIFF has chosen to announce its dates almost ten months in advance. With very high p...
In 2008 Matteo Garrone directed the award-winning docudrama Gommorah portraying the fate of two teens aspiring to criminal success in a slum dominated by a crime syndicate. Garrone’s approach in Io Capitano was similar and appropriately compelling. It conveys the experience of young migrants entering Europe rather than conveying an outsider’s point of view. Garrone has stressed that “Every moment on the set I had people besides me who had actually lived through the experienc...
Interview by Emmanuel Itier:
With Director: Lisa D’Apolito for SHARI AND LAMB CHOP.
Television star Shari Lewis broke nw ground in the 50’s and 60’s with her ventriloquism and beloved puppet: ‘Lamb Chop’. Now, director Lisa D’Apolito, who brought us the brilliant ‘Love, Gilda’, is bringing for a very emotional portrait of Lisa and now she truly revolutionized children tv shows. This film brought tears to my eyes as it reminded be ...
ELECTRA
With Bahraini - American director: Hala Matar.
The story revolves around a journalist who travels to Rome for an interview with a renowned musician, only to be drawn into an unexpected invitation that sets off a thrilling adventure filled with mystery and surprises.
Maria Bakalova and Abigail Cowen shine so brightly in this travel movie following two women going to interview a famous musician, played by Jack Fathing. The brilliant director, Hala Matar, who had done several successfu...
By Emmanuel Itier in Santa Barbara
After the disappearance of his girlfriend, a foreigner man lost in a hostile land becomes the main suspect and his desperate research for her turns into a fight to stay alive.
Directed by Giovanni Fumu Written by Giovanni Fumu, Maximilian Selim Starring Jang Seong-beom, Lim Young-joo, Chris Carlson, Tony Denman...
Rarely did I see such a captivating and mesmerizing movie! ‘ABROAD’, directed by Giovani Fumu ( https://www.imdb.com/tit...
The Belarusian Film Critics Award ’Red Heather’ which took place last weekend during this year’s 74th Berlin International Film Festival at the European Film Market (EFM) announces all its winners.
The best Belarusian films and filmmakers of 2021 and 2022 are:
Best Documentary Feature Film
Mara by Sasha Kulak
Courage by Aliaksei Paluyan
Best Documentary Short Film
Belarusian Youth by Kseniya Halubov...
