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2012 AMERICAN FILM MARKET kicks off

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More Than 10% Increase in Buyers Expected, Including 120 New Buying Companies Industry Conversations Featuring Directors Sacha Gervasi and Victor Levin, “Harry Potter” Franchise Executive Producer Michael Barnathan, Producer Bonnie Curtis, Jonathan Silverman, Pamela Adlon and Many More Also Announced. The 2012 American Film Market (AFM®) will kick-off tomorrow with more than 120 new buying companies and a 10% increase in buyers, according to AFM Managing Director Jonathan Wolf. ...

Createasphere Announces TransVergence Summit™

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New, First-of-its-Kind Event Integrating Branding, Technology and Storytelling to Launch in Los Angeles Createasphere, the leading community builder uniting business leaders, content creators, emerging technology providers and thought leaders working in entertainment and media, is launching a new conference focusing on the convergence of technology, branding and storytelling in Los Angeles in the first quarter of 2013 with additional dates scheduled for New York and Amsterdam.   Dub...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival presents its Tallinn Industry Days 2012 (November 26 - 28, 2012)

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  Tallinn Industry Days boasts a line-up of Asian and North American professionals. The top movers from Asian and American independent industry from producers to financiers, festivals amd institutions are meeting up in Estonia this fall on 26 -28 November to boost their cooperation across continents, Estonia and North-Eastern Europe. Multinational hits, Asian project markets, potential genre biz, and crowd funding are tackled in a two day meet with an unique finance and matching program wi...

The foundation lettera27 presents a fund of 25,000 euros to support African filmmakers

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 The foundation lettera27 presents a fund of 25,000 euros to support African filmmakers participating at the Industry Area of the African Film Festival of Cordoba A Jury of experts will select the best script for production.   The Italian organization lettera27 , with the support of the Moleskine foundation has presented today, 14th of October, a fund of 25,000 euros for the realization of one project out of 11 African film projects, which were presented in the 4th Forum of Coproduc...

Film Script Writing Workshop in Jaipur from 19th of October 2012

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No fee of any sort will be charged to the participants in the workshop belonging to the Below Poverty Line and those writers who cannot bear the fee for admission during the script writing workshop, there will be a screening of the Academy Award winning film-A Separation     In order to ensure better development of cinematic culture and to its fundamental training, Jaipur International Film Festival along with Central Circuit Cine Association is conducting a workshop on impor...

Film Marketing an interactive session in the Bahamas with Bruno Chatelin

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The Bahamas FInternational Film festival will run Dec 6 -9 in Paradise island and 10-15 in Eleuthera. On that occasion Bruno Chatelin (former film distributor) and jury Member at the Festival will offer a keynote on film marketing.   ·         Studio to indie what will work for you.  I will share key lessons I learnt when marketing major studio films at Sony and Fox and how this can apply to independent film marketing. · &...

Bruno Chatelin keynote at Unipanamericana University in Bogota

  The keynote will also be the occasion of a Q&A around Ensemble (which Bruno coproduced) and Roman de gare by Claude Lelouch at Alliance Française.    ...

The Industry events scheduled at London BFI

The 56th BFI London Film Festival in association with American Express today reveals an exciting and comprehensive line up of events, screenings and services for UK and international film professionals. The Industry Programme, held at BFI Southbank and other London venues, comes hot on the heels of the early October launch of the BFI’s five year plan for supporting British film – Film Forever – and underlines the BFI’s steadfast commitment to supporting the B...

PRODUCE A S3D MOVIE FROM CONCEPTION TO SCREEN – The last S3D Campus Training for 2012/2013!

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  S3D Campus offers soon a training combining practice and theory that will be thought by the best experts of the S3D production chain. Supported by the European MEDIA programme for 3 years, S3D Campus offers its participants an exceptional learning frame in terms of means and opportunities to build or reinforce your professional network. From November 19 to 28, 2012, S3D Campus will offer an 8-day training program on Producing an S3D Film, from conception to screen. Divided into groups o...

Guests at Forum Future of Film Festivals 2012 Katowice Poland

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    „Future of film festivals - between the Local and the Global": Film Forum guests list   The Forum is parrt of Ars Independent, organized by Anita Skwara for the Festival. THE AGENDA    September 24th at Rondo Sztuki 10:00 - 10: 30 welcome speech Introduction during which the managers will present goals and ideas of the Forum and intro-duce the attendees. "Authorial word&...

Future of Festival Forum in ARS Film Festival in Katowice.

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Very exciting panel at the Forum in Katowice. Delegates (including your editor Bruno Chatelin) gathered from all over Europe in Katowice for 2 days of brainstorming, exchanges and keynotes. The event has been inspired by Jonathan Davis and led by Anita Skwara. Please come back for more news here.   ...

International film and TV delegates to discuss funding and distribution at Cardiff’s Producers Forum

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 International film and TV delegates to discuss funding and distribution at Cardiff’s Producers Forum. • Expanded industry event to co-inside with Iris Prize film festival • 12 industry speakers from the UK and US to address the forum • Highlights includes Distrify co-founder Andrew Green discussing distribution and a presentation by S4C on co-production Cardiff will host a newly expanded Producers Forum in October to co-inside with the popular Iris Prize Film Festi...

Sunscreen Video Podcast 1, with Special Guests from the Emmy Nominated HBO Documentary "Superheroes", News and More!

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Sunscreen Film Festival Video Podcast 1.  Discussions about the film and TV business.  This episode features interviews with special guests Superhero and Artiseroi from the Emmy Nominated HBO Documentary "Superheroes". watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57jj6DJiMBU&feature=share&list=UU0tP1gHLS9-e55BKY2RRatQ Discussion includes the Superheroes Documentary, Spider-man movie, Batman, Godzilla and more nerd dialogue than you can imagine! ...

Another speaking engagement in Bogota Colombia for our editor Bruno Chatelin

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My next speaking engagement (after Katowice Ars Festival) will include a  presentation of my Short Film Ensemble and Claude Lelouch's Roman de Gare http://issuu.com/alianzacolombofrancesa Alliance Française in Colombia check for details page 47. I will also be giving 3 masterclasses and organise a 48 hours shoot out in Bogotta. In cunjunction with a "Bruno Chatelin Award" (OMG) at the Festival of French Cinema Watch their fantastic trailer below. ...

Jean Prewitt and Jonathan Wolf to Lead IFTA

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                                    The Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA®) has renewed contracts with CEO & President, Jean Prewitt and Executive VP & American Film Market Managing Director, Jonathan Wolf through 2015.   Chairman Paul Hertzberg stated, “We are thrilled to have...

Something viral (marketing) from Montreal

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  The first thing I wanted to share is this the interactive postcard for Shiftting the Blame ( Director Lars-Gunnar Lotz's debut film) with a the QrCode leading to the website ww.schuld-film.de (check our Interview with the team) The second nice is a surprise flyer for a film "Cyber" not even present or showing at the festival. If any more media picked it was worth the pain of the poor guy in kinda Batman tights at the walk out of the main theater...

Future of Film Festivals Forum – Between the Local and the Global.

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Accompanying event of the 2nd Ars Independent International Film Festival, from 23th to 25th of September in Katowice. (www.rsindependent.pl) The program: Monday, 24th of September Rondo Sztuki 10:00 – 10: 30 Welcome speech Introduction during which the managers will present goals and ideas of the Forum and introduce the attendees. “Authorial word” of meeting’s moderators. 10:30 – 13:30 the For...

About Musivision

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MusiVision is an artist driven, full service film and music production company located in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 2006 by Laurie Gordon, Musivision is a boutique production house working with icons of the animation world including such legends like animator Ryan Larkin and Co Hoedeman as well as  cult film Heavy Metal director Gerald Potterton.                       Documentary film is a definitive part of ...

9th edition of the course “DigiTraining Plus: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies”

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From the ninth edition of the course “DigiTraining Plus: European Cinemas Experiencing New Technologies” Amsterdam, 29 August – 2 September 2012   http://www.mediasalles.it/dgt_online/index.htm A sailing boat will accompany participants directly to the entrance of the Cinema Oostereiland, Hoorn’s new arthouse movie theatre. Arising out of the restoration of an old prison, the complex comprises three fully digital auditoriums (seating respectively 110, 56 and 35), to whi...

PRODUCE A S3D MOVIE FROM CONCEPTION TO SCREEN

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PRODUCE A S3D MOVIE FROM CONCEPTION TO SCREEN November 19 to 28, 2012 This training, unique in its conception, offers the trainee to produce a S3D short-movie pilot in 8 days. The participants are divided into groups of 5 to 7 people. They are confronted to the problematics linked to S3D content creation during practice workshops punctuated by educational breaks. Each trainee supervises the stereography of a plan/sequence with challenges to overcome. The plans are then edited and calibrate...

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