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Our film "When the Woodlark Sings" received two great recognitions on the Stanley Film Awards in London: AWARD WINNER in the category BEST ORIGINAL SCORE and OFFICIAL SELECTION in the category BEST SCREENPLAY! We congratulate the composer DANILO WIMMER for the splendid Award and the screenwriter ANA BILIC for the wonderful acknowledgement!
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We are very happy to announce that the director ANA BILIC won BEST DIRECTOR at the International Motion Picture Awards in Brooklin, CANADA. The festival describes itself: “We crave to form and empower alternate and diverse motion picture society with substantial networking opportunities as an alternate solution from mainstream regulations and culture.” Great honor for both the director and the entire team!
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Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Current Funding Recommendations for Production and Distribution / WCF Europe–TFL Audience Design Award
In the 39th jury session of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF), the juries made 14 funding recommendations for projects from Argentina, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Republic of Belarus, Rwanda, Senegal and Thailand. The current funding pot of eleven production and three dist...
Books at Berlinale 2023 © Carlos Collado
Berlinale Co-Production Market
On February 18, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will again bring together the publishing and film industries. Ten books from around the world selected as being particularly suitable for screen adaptation will be presented at Books at Berlinale, held in cooperation with the Frankfurter Buchmesse, and the rights holders will meet interested producers.
On Sunday, February 18, the Berlinale Co-Prod...
Inspired by the tragic events that occurred in Israel on October 7th, Israeli/American singer and songwriter Sima Galanti has released her new spiritual song Devotion, while staying true to her rock, edgy sound.
Watch the stunningly shot video, which will be featured at upcoming film festivals, now at Sima Galanti- Devotion (Official Music Video) (youtube.com)
On Oct 7th, Sima’s life turned upside down due to Hamas' brutal mass...
Conference at the Akademie der Künste on Wednesday, February 14th, starting 7pm
Film program and discussion at Hackesche Höfe Kino on Friday, February 16, starting 8pm
In the face of man-made climate change, today’s societies urgently need to transform themselves – and the world of film and festivals is no exception. To open Berlin Critics’ Week 2024, we will be debating what sort of influence filmmakers, critics and activists can (or shoul...
ATTEND EFM WITH SUMMER HILL!
Check out some exciting films from Summer Hill at AFM! We will be represented by Ted Chalmers at MGB 1st Floor, Stand #137 from Feb. 16 to 19. Ted can be contacted by clicking the meeting link below. We look forward to meeting with you!
Be sure to check out our website at www.summerhillfilms.com to see all our other available films. We look forward to working with you throughout the rest of 2024 and beyond! If you...
BELLA THORNE TO DIRECT FIRST FEATURE COLOR YOUR HURT PRODUCED BY LATIGO FILMS
Actress and entrepreneur Bella Thorne is set to direct COLOR YOUR HURT and has started casting based on her original screenplay.
Thorne wrote and directed two short films, UNSETTLED, currently in post-production and award-winning PAINT HER RED which premiered at the 2023 Taormina Film Festival.
COLOR YOUR HURT expands her short film UNSETTLED into a feature film. The short was filmed in June 2023 and produced ...
Get Lodged in the Red Sea Labs, interact with agents and reagents and MAKE YOUR FILM!
The Red Sea Labs announced the open call for the 5th edition of The Lodge program. A long-term residency programme, in collaboration with Torino FilmLab, and sponsored by Film AlUla, offering an intensive creative and professional film development experience. AlUla is a happening city. Hollywood productions shot in AlUla include the Gerard Butler-led action-thriller Kandahar, directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and...
The 81st Golden Globes are back this Sunday on a new network CBS with some new members, always known as the best “party” of the season. The first televised Award Show of the season, for many years their picks seemed somewhat consistent with the Academy. Who will win?
Christopher Nolan made almost $1bn in box office and brought audiences back to theaters, as did "Barbie," but that didn’t help Tom Cruise last year with his box-office wonder Mission ...
Can I go Home by Pritan Ambroase is more than a film, it is a cry of revolution from Children all around the world who continue to ask "Can I Go Home Now?" while being terrorized by wars.
Filmed in the current war zone of Ukraine as missiles flew overhead, 'Can I Go Home Now?' is a heartbreaking, moving, and powerful documentary film that gives a voice to Children suffering from ongoing horrific wars. No adults are allowed to speak in this film. Rarely do Children get to have ...
Bakhtawar Mazhar: In Flames of Glory
A day before the awards were announced, declaring In Flames the best film, at the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF), I was face–to-face with Bakhtawar Mazhar, one of the protagonists of In Flames, her feature debut, a film that had made a tremendous impression on me. This, a face-to-face with a Pakistani actress, had never happened before, and I was not going to let this opportunity go by. We got into a car, and started talking.
“M...
Salaar, Part I-Cease Fire: Could cause a seizure
Salaar is an Urdu-Persian word, meaning commander or leader. According to the beginning voice over, a Muslim invader could rule over India, during the 12th century, largely, due to the resources, strength and acumen of his trusted lieutenant, Salaar. There is a Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, India, which has a great collection of antiques, art and rare manuscripts. But I doubt if anything in the film is related to or valued by this prized anti...
ANNOUNCING THE LINEUP
FOR THE 13th EDITION OF THE
MCMINNVILLE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
FEBRUARY 23rd-25th
McMinnville, OR becomes a destination for art and culture this February for the 13th edition of the McMinnville Short Film Festival! MSFF is excited to announce the lineup for 2024, with over 100 short films from filmmakers all over the world screening in the heart of Oregon Wine Country February 23rd-25th. All films will showcase at the McMinnville Cinema foll...
The Theory of Everything (2014) A Stephen Hawking Biopic.
A Lush Baroque Love Story Turns into a Medical Nightmare --
Alex Deleon, filmfestivals.com
A Theory of Almost Everything-- or Cosmology for Beginners. Viewed at MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, January 26, 2015. This fervent quasi religious hagiography starts out as a tender saccharine love story in Cambridge,1963, but soon segues into a Medical Horror picture. It ultimately became an ordeal to sit through because h...
From November 25th to 28th, SIGNIS Board of Directors members and secretariat staff met in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first in-person meeting that took place since they were nominated, and it was an opportunity to discover the vibrant life at the grassroots level in each region, delving into the rich intercultural challenges that shape our global community.
The BOD also adopted a safeguarding protocol and discussed how to build trust and consolidate the network beyond the boundaries of t...
Following the onsite edition of FIDLab 2023, the 10 selected projects have experienced several evolutions since July.
Join the Follow up, a second moment of meetings with the directors and producers of the selected projects.
Professionals worldwide will have the chance to discover the current status of each project through online meetings.
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Gravitas Ventures, an Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company, has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to director Danny A. Abeckaser’s World War II drama, BARDEJOV. The powerful film stars Robert Davi, Danny A. Abeckaser, Kyle Stefanski, Dean Miroshnikov, Darren Weiss Omer Hazan, and Emil A. Fish, among many other talented actors to comprise the expansive cast.
Written by Shmuel Lynn and directed by Abeckaser, Gravitas Ventures will release the film with ...
Sundance Institute has announced the short films that will be a part of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival programming. The Festival will take place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25–28, 2024. The Festival will introduce new short films for 2024 across eight curated programs.
“Selecting the shorts for the Festival Program every year is an exercise in taki...
The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners!
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-tier international awards competition. It honors professionals, established and emerging, who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity. The goal of The IndieFEST is ...
AURO-3D® will showcase AURO-CX, the first and only truly scalable Next Generation Audio codec, during CES 2024, January 9–12, at The Venetian Hotel.
The AURO-CX Codec, designed for streaming but with applications in broadcast, has many advantages over existing Next Generation Audio codecs that make it desirable to the universe of content creators, content distributors, streaming services, and audio manufacturers. All these advantages are rooted in the codec’s inherent scala...
The fund underscores its commitment to fostering new and diverse voices, supporting a majority of projects by emerging talent.
HBF autumn 2023 filmmaker portraits
The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) of International Film...
Films by Jonathan Ogilvie, Amanda Kramer, Ann Hui and Billy Woodberry confirmed, along with dates for the IFFR Pro Days, press conference and more.
53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
25 January – 4 February 2024
Jonathan Ogilvie’s spirited post-punk coming-of-age comedy Head South will open the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Thursday 25 January 2024, with the festival running until Sunday 4 February. Several titles ...
Congratulations to the OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT winner Susan Kucera for her entertaining and provocative doc Wild Genius!
Seasoned pro Kucera delivers a captivating, beautifully crafted and tight documentary with a mind-expanding message. Showcasing the exceptional life, career and mental health challenges of living legend Robert Trivers, the evolutionary biologist TIME magazine named as “one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century”.
Susan Kucera (USA), Wild Genius, Do...
A UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD HAPPY HOLIDAYS SEASON!
“Papa, the mushroom soup, of the Toadstool café, is such a delight!”, and so we are, after 16 years, still coming to celebrate the end of the year Holidays at Universal Studios Hollywood !
Just because we love it and because it feels like a real Christmas celebration with the Grinchmas set up, with all your favorite characters including Mr. Grinch himself!
As we got to the park, and I recommend getting ther...
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