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FLiCKERFEST 2019 Entries Now Open!

Do you have an awesome short film the world should see? Flickerfest, Australia's leading Academy® Accredited and BAFTA-recognised International Short Film Festival, is calling for entries for its 2019 Festival, to be held 11-20 January 2019 at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach. Now in its 28th year, Flickerfest is dedicated to showcasing the very best short films from Australia and around the world from live action to documentaries and animation. There are four Academy-qualifying compet...

2018 AFM Conferences Program Previews

AFM Conferences provide attendees with knowledge and insights from industry thought leaders, decision makers and experts. Access with a ticket or one of the following badges: Industry Plus, Executive Plus, Platinum or Buyer Plus.         The Global Perspective Friday, November 2     |     9:15am – 12:45pm     |     Starlight Ballroom, Fair...

Matthew Heineman's 'A Private War' (2018) World Premiere @ TIFF

                                                                          presents   A PRIVATE WAR  Directed by Matthew Heineman   Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, and Stanley Tucci   The narrative debut from the Academy Award nominated  direc...

North American Premiere of Bi Gan's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018) at TIFF

  Directed by Bi Gan NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE - Wavelengths **Official Selection - Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2018** As proven by his knockout debut, KAILI BLUES, Bi Gan is preoccupied with film's potential to both materialize mental space and convey physical sensation. His cinematic ambitions are further crystallized, to say the least, in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, a noir-tinged film abo...

International Premiere of John Chester's 'The Biggest Little Farm' @ TIFF Docs

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM Directed by John Chester   "UPLIFTING. The sleeper-hit film of this year's festival." -RogerEbert.com   "FRESH AIR FOR THE SOUL." -Variety   "GORGEOUS. REMARKABLE...an emotionally resonant narrative." -IndieWire ...

World Premiere of XYZ's THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN (Midnight Madness) @ TIFF

  TIFF: World Premiere of THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN (Midnight Madness) took place on Fri. 9/14 - A delirious Homage to B-movie-Bollywood-Martial Arts-Comedy Mashup Mayhem.   Demented Midnight Madness TIFF World Premiere  THE MAN WHO FEELS NO PAIN India / 2018 / 131 min / Color / Hindi, English, Marathi, Malayalam, with English subtitles Worldwide rights (excluding India) available / North American sales: XYZ Films   A glori...

Ritu Sarin's & Tenzing Sonam's A STAR IS BORN Premieres at 2018 TIFF

  See Tenzin Dolker in her star-making debut performance "Dolker, in her first film role, absorbingly inhabits her character." -THR   THE SWEET REQUIEM Directed by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam Written by Tenzing Sonam   Tenzin Dolker plays Dolkar, a young exile Tibetan woman living in Delhi. Tenzin Dolker was born in a Tibetan refugee settlement in South India. A dancer, yoga instructor and photographer, The Sweet Requiem is her acting debut   Synopsis...

Vanity Fair, David Yurman & Creative Chaos VMG Celebrate 'This Changes Everything' TIFF Debut

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Vanity Fair, David Yurman and CreativeChaos vmg celebrated the premiere of This Changes Everything at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 8th at Bisha Hotel Rooftop. Vanity Fair executive West Coast editor Krista Smith hosted the evening alongside Ku-Ling Yurman, who served as an executive producer on the film, Evan Yurman, Chief Creative Officer of David Yurman, Director Tom Donahue, Producers Ilan Arboleda & Kerianne Flynn and Executive Producers Geena Davis &...

'Quincy' (2018) Premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival

  September 9, 2018 at the Princess of Wales Theater, the Netflix documentary Quincy premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival. The premiere was followed by a live performance by Mark Ronson, Chaka Khan and YEBBA, performing the original song featured in the film by Quincy Jones and Mark Ronson featuring Chaka Khan. Images and video from the screening and after party can be downloaded from the link below. Alan Hicks, Rashida Jones, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan and Mark Ron...

'If Beale Street Could Talk' World Premiere @ TIFF

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  The film world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival at the Princess of Wales Theater.   Attendees included KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Brian Tyree Henry, Writer/Director/Producer Barry Jenkins,  Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner and PASTEL’S Adele Romanski and Sara Murphy. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK opens in theaters in New York on November 30th Los Angeles on December 7th Expand...

Well Go USA Acquires Master Director Zhang Yimou's 'SHADOW'

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WELL GO USA ACQUIRES MASTER DIRECTOR ZHANG YIMOU’S ‘SHADOW’ FOR MULTIPLE TERRITORY RELEASE   Zhang Yimou’s dazzling ink-washed action epic to receive a major theatrical release in early 2019.   Plano, TX–  Well Go USA has acquired all North American, UK, and Australia/New Zealand rights to legendary filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s SHADOW in advance of its world premiere at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. The film will have its North American premie...

Roadside Attractions Acquires 'The Last Full Measure' from Foresight Unlimited

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ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS ACQUIRES ‘THE LAST FULL MEASURE’ FROM FORESIGHT UNLIMITED Wide Theatrical Release Planned for Todd Robinson’s Film starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson and Ed Harris   LOS ANGELES (September 6, 2018) – Roadside Attractions, a sister company of Lionsgate, has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure, which recounts an extraordinary, untold story about the her...

National Geographic's Pulse-Pounding Doc FREE SOLO @ TIFF

The Pulse-Pounding Story of Climber Alex Honnold's Ascent of One of the World's Most Iconic Peaks - Without a Rope   After Triumphant Premiere at Telluride, Film Plays TIFF, Opens In Theaters Sept 28     "Literally breath-taking." - Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter &nbs...

Neon Nabs US Rights to Tom Harper's Wild Rose from Entertainment One

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  WILD ROSE FEATURES A BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE BY JESSIE BUCKLEY AS ASPIRING COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER    FILM WAS FINANCED BY eOne, BFI FILM FUND CREATIVE SCOTLAND AND FILM4.   Toronto (September 9, 2018) - After an all-night negotiation, NEON is excited to announce it has nabbed US rights to Tom Harper’s WILD ROSE which premiered Saturday evening at Toronto International Film Festival to a rapturous standing ovation.  The inspiring musical dramedy features a br...

Breaking News From Vision Films in Toronto

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8th Annual Napa Valley Film Festival

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8th ANNUAL NAPA VALLEY FILM FESITVAL The Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) is the ultimate celebration of film, food and wine, in the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga at the most colorful time of year, November 7-11. Now in its 8th year, the Napa Valley Film Festival will feature over 100 new independent films to be screened alongside awards season contending films screening in beautiful venues throughout the Valley, as visiting filmmakers and celebrities interact...

2018 Napa Valley Film Festival Announces Narrative & Documentary Films in Competition

  Festival to showcase films starring Danielle Campbell, Katie Cassidy, Tate Donovan, William Fichtner, Jim Gaffigan, Anna Gunn, Matthew Lillard, Missi Pyle, Debby Ryan and more   Napa, California – The 8th annual Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF), scheduled to take place November 7 - 11, announced its Narrative and Documentary Feature Film lineups in core competition today. The complete program lineup of approximately 100 films, including special presentations, award season ...

The Chandler International Film Festival calling (January 18 – 21, 2019)

    The Chandler International Film Festival will run January 18 -21, 2019, it is a diversified and pioneering film festival located in Chandler, Arizona.   September 8, 2018 September Deadline September 22, 2018 Late September Deadline October 6, 2018 Late Deadline October 27, 2018 Final Deadline The Chandler International Film Festival is a diversified and pioneering film festival located in Chandler, Arizona. CIFF is g...

Submit to Houston Worldfest 52nd edition

THE WORLDFEST REMI AWARDS ENTRY FORM  SUBMIT ON FILMFREEWAY 2019 WORLDFEST-HOUSTON April 5 - 14, 2019 Dates & Deadlines August 15, 2018  Opening Date November 15, 2018  Earlybird Entry Deadline December 15, 2018  Main Festival Entry Deadline January 15, 2019  Late Entry Deadline January 31, 2019  Final Brick Wall Deadline April 1, 2019  Notification Date April 5 – 14, 2019  Event Date Entries Op...

2017 & 2018 AFM coverage with dailies, newsletters and pictures

American Film Market Dailies coverage by filmfestivals.com included 275 articles, 163 photos and 9 newsletters circulated to our database of film pro subscribers worldwide (192 000 and counting). Wrap & global  I N°8 I N°7 I N°6 I N°5 I N°4 I OPENING N°3 I  Preview N°2 I N°1   The 2018 coverage of AFM will be comparable with over 200 articles and 9 newsletters. The site has been launched in 1995, audience is international (...

Final day of Sanhita’s theatre festival: Language of Hindustani theatre, and ode to an iconic Hindi poet

Final day of Sanhita’s theatre festival: Language of Hindustani theatre, and ode to an iconic Hindi poet August 17 marked the end of the three-day Natya Mahotsav (theatre festival) organised by Sanhita Manch, an initiative of Being Association, at the P.L. Deshpande Auditorium at the Ravindra Natya Mandir Complex in central Mumbai. The festival included several interactive sessions and staging of three Hindi/Urdu plays selected from 77 entries. Held for the second year in succession, th...

Special Event Opportunity “Production Without Borders” Santa Monica, November 5, 2018 p2p

On the heels of a hugely successful Cannes Film Festival/Marché du Film event "Global Film Showcase," co-presented with ROSKINO, Cloud 21 and Kultura PR are producing a special showcase event "Production Without Borders" to be held on the afternoon of November 5, 2018 at the Laemmle Santa Monica Film Center 1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401 during the time period of the American Film Market. The special sponsored PR event will first feature a panel of five film, T...

Blind Date, Review: A ‘play’ upon words, in which the blind lead the blind

Blind Date, Review: A ‘play’ upon words, in which the blind lead the blind Film and TV professionals got together to present a play at the RangSharda Auditorium, Bandra, Mumbai on August 12, under the title, Blind Date. It was about two blind persons alright, but there was no ‘date’, blind or otherwise. Punning on the concept, actor Pranav Tripathi wrote the original version in Gujarati and got Hindi film, TV and theatre veteran Raman Kumar to translate and adapt it in...

Submit ASAP! Earlybird Deadline - August 31st!

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THE EARLYBIRD DEADLINE FOR THE 10TH ANNUAL NYC INDEPENDENT FILM FEST IS AUGUST 31, 2018! Yes, August 31, 2018!!! Mark your calenders! SUBMIT ASAP!  To submit and to view full rules and guidelines you can visit: https://filmfreeway.com/nycindieff or https://www.nycindieff.com/submissions/submit ...

Exploring Shared Cinematic Universes of Marvel and DC

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We have long seen shared cinematic universes used by different movies from Hollywood. You have the Lord of the Rings universe which later gave way to movies like The Hobbits which shared the same universe of magical creatures with characters from the original trilogy. But the idea of cinematic universes has taken to a different level by the movies based out of comic book heroes. Here we have to mention the cinematic universes created by Marvel and DC, which are quite extensive and interweave th...

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