Dear friends from thefilm and festival community
My name is Bruno Chatelin and I am the editor of filmfestivals.com
(I can be reached if you need assistance at bruno@filmfestivals.com)
I wanted to give you some information about the progress we are making here AND give you some publishing tips.
The site growth is impressive and very promising.
We have passed the 500 000 pages/month mark a year ago (viewed fom a qualified audience)
Of course the figures are still lower than those o...
Video capture of the first meeting of the Association.
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The American Film Market (AFM®) presented the Marketing Conference by holding two sessions focused on Crowd Sourcing Your Audience and Demystifying Film Festivals.
The first session, Crowd Sourcing Your Audience, discussed how successful producers are discovering the latest tools to building and activating a target audience by using social media to aggregate potential audiences before and during production. The keynote address was given by Nicholas Gonda (Tugg In...
Veteran film, stage and television actor and native West Virginian, David Selby and a management team of three others have announced they are developing an equity based management investment fund to encourage film production in West Virginia.
West Virginia film producer Jeff Tinnell, of The Alleghany Image Factory, will act as CEO of the company. Joining the management team are film financing veteran John Michaels, production and financial structure specialist, and Lynne Schwabe, direct...
Studio 100 Film makes its initial debut at the American Film Market as a full service production, sales and distribution company. The recently launched new film division, part of international children’s production and distribution company Studio 100 Media GmbH based in Munich, will be offering a slate of family oriented animated films kicking off with its flagship project Maya The Bee – Movie. Alongside Maya The Bee – Movie, Studio 100 Film ...
CROSSROADS OPENING
The launch of the 9th Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which is part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival Agora Industry section, took place on Wednesday, November 6, at the Electra Palace hotel, in the context of the 54th TIFF. Festival Director Dimitri Eipides attended the event.
In his opening speech, Mr. Eipides said: “I welcome you all, and I must say I share your anxiety! The most wonderful thing is that older projects return as full featu...
Craze Digital is a digital distribution company.
So what you will say? I’ve already been approached by many companies doing digital distribution and got very little out of it?
We want to offer you a way to distribute your movies which is different from anyone else's offerings.
For example:
For a very nominal fee we can upload your movies to the “Cloud”. You don’t have to do a thing, and you do NOT have to license us your product and worry...
IFFS 2013 // December 8-10 // Austin, TX
Dear festival organizer
Filmfestivals.com, a media partner of the Film Festival Summit, allows its festivals subscribers to benefit from a 300€ preferred rate (ask for the promo code); the first 10 subscribers will also receive a free newsletter ad (valued 150€)
Founded in 2002, IFFS provides the only annual conference & symposium for film festival professionals and entertainment executives to network, learn from one another, es...
In a measure designed to boost the Netherlands’ attractiveness to international filmmakers, the Dutch Cabinet yesterday announced the allocation of an extra €20m to the Dutch film industry, starting 2014. The additional incentive follows a parliamentary motion by MPs Bergkamp (D66) and Monasch (PvdA) that called for a study into the effectiveness of film measures already in place across numerous other territories, designed to attract inward investment from the international film com...
The 2013 American Film Market will welcome more than one hundred distributors, producers and executives from more than fifty companies across all disciplines of the film industry from mainland China. Jonathan Wolf, Managing Director of the American Film Market and Executive Vice President of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, made the announcement today.
Chinese companies attending the American Film Market include:
Airmedia Group; Beijing Asian Union Cult...
The first day of the workshops for young producers has just ended. The first part of the meeting was dedicated to the discussion on the topic of the connections between theoreticians and the persons that create films.
These often hard relations were discussed by Marcin Adamczyk – off filmmaker in the 90s, author of the book “Globalne Hollywood, filmowa Europa i polskie kino po 1989 roku” (Global Holywood, Cinematic Europe and Polish Cin...
Indie Star Award is given annually at the American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland to established independent US filmmakers to serve as signposts to new emerging talent. The first two awardees were directors Todd Solondz and Jerry Schatzberg.
At this year's event (22-27 Oct 2013), the Award will be given to Christine Vachon, producer and co-founder of the cult production company Killer Films, who has been called the "godmother to the politically committed film". Among Vachon...
Nicolas Gonda, Producer and Co-Founder of Tugg Inc, will deliver the Keynote Address at the American Film Market’s Marketing Conference on Monday, November 11th. The 2013 American Film Market (AFM), the world’s largest motion-picture trade show, takes place November 6th – 13th in Santa Monica.
As a producer, Gonda has worked with Terrence Malick on The Tree of Life and To the Wonder. He has several projects in various stages of production, which include p...
Today the Netherlands Film Festival announced the winning projects of the Netherlands Production Platform, the coproduction market for European film projects that are presented to a select group of film professionals and potential film financiers. The aim of the Platform is to launch these projects by encouraging networking and collaboration among relevant representatives in the film industry. A selection was made from over 80 submissions and includes 23 projects from 15 different countries.
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Six projects selected for this year’s US in Progress Wrocław
US in Progress Wrocław is a two-day works-in-progress event targeted at American independent filmmakers and European buyers. It presents independent US films in final production stages to European buyers, post-production houses and festivals in order to help them achieve completion and to foster the circulation and distribution of American indie films in Europe.
The two days of exclusive screenings (behind closed doors, for...
AFM is just around the corner November 6 - 13
We trust you will enjoy The AFM Dailies and hope to contribute to your success.
Email us if you want to be featured and promoted.
Check this link for press release distribution service to 12 000 fim media, 5.000 buyers and other film profesionals from the festival circuit. (159 112 film pros contacts)
AFM DAILIES
AFM 2013 Producers Forum
The AFM Producers Forum is a new program, exclusively for experienced...
The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) has elected its new Executive Committee and Board of Directors. The elections held today were part of IFTA’s annual member meeting, held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City and concurrently via telephone at the British Screen Advisory Council in London.
The Alliance’s 2013-2014 Executive Committee will be headed by IFTA Chairperson Paul Hertzberg (CineTel Films, Inc), who was elected for a second term....
The AFM Conference Series gives attendees tremendous knowledge, insight, access, value and a rare opportunity to hear from the industry’s global thought leaders, decision makers and experts who all converge annually at the AFM.
The AFM Conference Series will take place Friday Nov. 8 – Tuesday Nov. 12, from 9:15am – 12:45pm daily and will include Conferences on Finance, Pitching, Production, Marketing and Distribution. From treatment to screen, ...
In order to help you get ready for the American Film Market & Conferences 2013, we will be sending out several emails leading up to event, which cover key facets of the filmmaking process and share thought-provoking stories.
We hope you enjoy this personal story from Christina Marie, producer, filmmaker and AFM attendee.
Get One in the Can - Don’t Just Go for an “Opus” Project!
After attending my first AFM last year, I was very inspired to shift gears in how I th...
The Produire au Sud and Festival of the 3 Continents teams are happy to announce the selection of the feature film projects for its 13th Produire au Sud seminar edition.
The seminar will held from November 18th to 24th, 2013 in Nantes.
BANGLADESH
Silence of the Seashell
directed by Kamar Ahmad Simon
produced by Sara Afreen
CHILE
In the Shade of the Trees
directed by Matias Rojas Valencia
produced by Giancarlo Nasi
HAITI
Carmen
directed by Pierre Lucson Bellegarde...
BOAT MEETING 2013
Boat Meeting (24-25 October 2013 ) is a two-day event that combines international co-production market, and the presentation of feature film projects. It’s purpose is to let ambitious and promising filmmakers present their first full-length feature film projects to the audience.
Mandatory requirement – the first or second feature film for the director.
For the participation in the Boat Meeting will be selected 10 p...
From looking at breakthrough narrative features and acclaimed docs to entering the world of non-traditional formats (webseries! video games! strategic distribution models!), the Film Independent Forum will be the one place to anticipate what's needed for your project to stay ahead of the curve when strategizing your financing, distribution and marketing plans. Panels this year will include:
On Financing
• ...
The Venice Film Market of the 70th Venice International Film Festival will be located at the first floor of the Excelsior Hotel of the Lido di Venezia and it will join and reinforce the Industry Office, which in turn will continue to function as it has in past years throughout the entire Venice Film Festival, offering many services to the guests (Booking for Industry Services no later than August 2nd, 2013 ).
The Venice Film Market will offer a ...
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