The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected twenty-five film projects that receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction, distribution or workshops. In its Fall 2012 selection round, the Fund gives 330,000 Euro to projects from seventeen Asian, Eastern European, Latin-American and African countries. (See full list below)
From many strong applications for workshop initiatives, the Hubert Bals Fu...
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The first annual Baja International Film Festival, was held November 14-17 in Cabo, Mexico.
Awards were presented (Saturday, November 17th at the Cabo Convention Center) to two-time Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton, Academy Award-nominee Virginia Madsen, iconic filmmaker and President of the Directors Guild of America Michael Apted, celebrated actor Diego Luna, Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo, acclaimed director Nicolas E...
We will be posting video interviews shortly.
Meanwhile we would like to introduce to you the men and women whose vision transformed this idea of a world class festival dedicated to US and Mexican films... in Los Cabos (seems almost obvious when you think of it) into a brillant success...
THE FOUNDERS
EDUARDO SANCHEZ-NAVARRO REDO
Regarded as one of the main p...
The American Film Market (AFM), set for Oct. 31-Nov. 7 in Santa Monica, will kick off with more than 50 new exhibiting companies. National organizations from Australia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Russia and Thailand will also have a presence at AFM for the first time.
New exhibitors hail from more than 18 countries and include such companies as: Altitude Film Sales (William Clarke and Andy Mayson), Embankment Films (Hugo Grumbar and Tim Haslam), Good Universe (Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane...
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.
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"A.L.I.C.E." was selected into the 29th annual Bogota International
Film Fest in Colombia for October 10-18, 2012. This is the 38th festival
acceptance for the film, and the first film of Ron de Cana's 14-film
catalog to play in Colombia.
The film stars Joey D'Auria, Dawn Westlake, Aketza Lopez and David Razowsky.
For more information and to see a trailer, please visit http://www.dawnwestlake.com
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Concorso internazionale
Pardo d’oro
LA FILLE DE NULLE PART by Jean-Claude Brisseau, France
Premio speciale della giuria
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME by Bob Byington, United States
Pardo per la migliore regia (Best Director)
YING LIANG for the film WO HAI YOU HUA YAO SHUO (When Night Falls), South Korea/China
Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile (Best Actress)
AN NAI for the film WO HAI YOU HUA YAO SHUO (When Night Falls) by Ying Liang...
The "Horizontes Latinos" programmes at the 60th edition of the San Sebastian Festival includes the works of twelve filmmakers from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. A selection of films to have competed or been presented at important international festivals, but which have not yet been screened at a Spanish festival or commercially released in our country.
The latest work by Carlos Reygadas, one of the best known Mexican filmmakers on the international...
Silver Princess Statuette
(replica of the original "The Palace" statue of Ilejana,
daughter of the Romanian Queen Mary of Edingburgh)
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Nominees for BEST FICTION:
Joey ( dir. David Forster / Australia / 07'24'')
Guang ( dir. Shio Chuan Quek / Malaysia / 14'00'')
Short For Vernesa B. ( dir. Jons Vukorep / Germany / 10'47'')
The Factory ( dir. Aly Muritiba / Brazil / 15...
Perhaps one of the most ambitious independent films events in the U.S., the newly created Film Festival Week – LA will be held April 11-19 in Hollywood, CA. The event comprises four unique film events and will screen a wide array of films, webisodes and TV programs from all over the globe, exclusively at Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Ave, Hollywood (Chaplin Building). An Opening night kick-off party to welcome participating filmmakers will take place on Wednesday, April 11 at hotspo...
Perhaps one of the most ambitious independent films events in the U.S., the newly created Film Festival Week – LA will be held April 11-19 in Hollywood, CA. The event comprises four unique film events and will screen a wide array of films, webisodes and TV programs from all over the globe, exclusively at Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Ave, Hollywood (Chaplin Building). An Opening night kick-off party to welcome participating filmmakers will take place on Wednesday, April 11 at hotspot Confident...
Frank Benitez is young and talented filmmaker, who made it to ÉCU 2012 Official Selection with his film “Minute 200″. This interview was finished couple of weeks before the festival.
By Alexander Acosta Osorio
Q: Where does the inspiration for your short come from?
A: Usually my inspiration comes from places I visit or just an image that sticks in my memory. In this case it was that of a house in my hometown, a dilapidated house that had a sign on the facade whic...
● Organized by Filmotech.com, the Festival offers for free fourteen Latin-American and Spanish productions through www.iberfilmamerica.com from March 27th to April 16th.
● The Latin-American and Spanish Internet communities will give the Audience Award through the official Facebook application.
● iber.film.america has been created with the vision of presenting and displaying audiovisual content through new distribution channels
Last Tues...
The 13th annual Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) runs April 12-20 with more than 40 highly anticipated and influential films from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the U.S. including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the U.S will be in the festival's five venues and 3 boroughs. They span a variety of genres and themes, ranging from comedy, thrillers, action, drama and docume...
FEATURE FILMS
• COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT AWARD FOR BEST FILM, GIVEN BY THE AECID (SPANISH AGENCY FOR COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION) TO: "The student" of Santiago Mitre (Argentina)
• BEST DIRECTOR: Everardo Gout by "Days of Grace" (Mexico-France-US)
• Best Screenplay: Bernardo Arellano for "between night and day" (Mexico)
• BEST ACTRESS: Rossana Fernandez "The sound of the stones" of Alexan...
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by founding sponsor American Express, today announced its lineup of 60 short films, 26 of which are world premieres. For the second year running, the recipient of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Best Narrative Short award will qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules. The 2011 TFF Narrative Short Pentecost was n...
13th HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK (HFFNY) takes place April 12-20, with special events April 20th at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and April 20-22 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. HFFNY features more than 50 highly anticipated and influential films from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the U.S. including Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru, Venezuela and the U.S. They span a variety ...
Fundashon Bon Intenshon is proud to present the first edition of the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam (Curaçao IFFR). From Thursday 29 March until Sunday 1 April 2012, Curaçao IFFR presents a strong selection of twenty-seven feature length films (both documentary and fiction) as well as eleven short films from around the world in the new six-screen multiplex theatre The Cinemas, located in the Otrobanda district of Willemstad. The festival programme, made in collaboration with th...
On Wednesday 28 March 2012 the fifteenth edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) takes off. Five days of pure animation highlights in the historic centre of Utrecht: independent and commercial; handmade and 3D CGI. The biggest animation festival of the Netherlands shows all of it. The programming is in progress, but here we’ll raise a corner of the veil.
Competition programmes completed
The official selections of the competitions have been completed. The number of entries t...
ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival is delighted to announce the Official Selection. ÉCU 2012 will showcase 100 films from 33 countries on the 30th and 31st of March and 1st of April in Paris, France.
European Dramatic Feature (5)
Iron Doors 3D - Germany
On the Inside - Germany
Labirent - Turkey
Women and Children - United Kingdom
Everywhere and Nowhere - United Kingdom
European Dramatic Short (25)
Useful - Belgium
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ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival is delighted to announce the Official Selection. ÉCU 2012 will showcase 100 films from 33 countries on the 30th and 31st of March and 1st of April in Paris, France. European Dramatic Feature (5)Iron Doors 3D - Germany On the Inside - Germany Labirent - Turkey Women and Children - United Kingdom Everywhere and Nowhere - United Kingdom European Dramatic Short (25) Useful - Belgium GRANTRÆET - Denmark No Face - France Meeting in the Heavens - ...
Searching for Co-Production Partners: 39 New Film Projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2012 At the ninth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12 to 14, 2012), the producers and directors of 39 selected film projects from 30 countries will meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners. For each of these projects, the Berlinale Co-Production Market team will arrange approximately 25 meetings with interested partners. This means carefully scheduling more than 1000 meeti...
ÉCU Alumni Sebastian Mantilla presents Atik Media, and a unique webinar opportunity…
Atik Media's main focus is to build a bridge between Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia) and Europe through production and network services from Spain. We are looking for producers, programmers and sales agents who are interested in listening to the sessions, called webinars, where filmmakers from latinamerica present their projects. The producers have direct access, without ...
The Golden Alexander Award Winner at 52nd TIFF -TIFF PRESS RELEASE-52nd TIFF: The Awards (11/13/2011)52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL November 4 -13, 2011 The International Jury of the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival comprised of: Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator - Department of Film and Media, Museum of Modern Art NY, USA, Jury President Sitora Alieva, Program Director - Kinot...
