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Bahiya & Mahmoud Receives Best of Festival Award; UMOJA: No Men Allowed Receives Panavision Grand Jury Award; Tsuyako Receives Future Filmmaker AwardThe 2011 Palm Springs International ShortFest, the largest short film festival and market in North America, announced its Festival award winners on Sunday, June 26, 2011. 331 short films screened throughout the Festival along with more than 3,000 filmmaker submissions available in the film market. A total of $128,800 in prizes, including $14,000 i...
Bruno Chatelin with the team of The Coffee Project (one from Israel, one from Palestine)
The 2nd International Festival du Film Merveilleux starts on June 30, 2011 at Theatre Douze (6 avenue Maurice Ravel) with an animation film program from the company TeamTO. The Festival offers a 3-day program of enchanting and magical short, medium and long movies.The Jury is composed of following members: Xavier Gens ( Hitman,Frontière(s) ), Caroline Vié ( jounalist ), Nicolas Alberny ( 8th Wonderland),Fabrice o Joubert ( French Roast, despicable me, shark tale)A selection of sh...
Now in its eighth year, top-tier, international awards competition, The Accolade, announces its Call for Entries for filmmakers, television producers and videographers.
Download entry form at www.accoladecompetition.org.
The Accolade is unique; it is an awards competition, not a traditional film festival. Awards go to those filmmakers, television producers and videographers who produce fresh, standout entertainment, animation and compelling documentaries. It is a showcase for c...
PRESS CONFERENCE at 64th Cannes Film Festival for: HEARAT SHULAYIM (FOOTNOTE, Israel, 2011) By director Joseph Cedar…
SUMMARY: “The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors in the Talmud department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The son has an addictive dependency on the embrace and accolades that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, ye...
Dragomir SholevThe main programme of the 15th edition of Sofia International Film Festival ended on the 13th of March with a gala screening of Aleksei Uchitel’s film The Edge.
The festival presented a total of 205 films from 53 countries from all over the world. Over 260 was the total number of international guests, amongst which were directors, producers, festival directors as well as media and film experts.
The main Award Ceremony took place on the 12th of March in Hall 1 of the Nat...
Lars Von Trier
Jafar Panahi
The 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is now history, but two standout personalities on opposite poles of the spectrum have defined this year as one of the most unusual in memory. In one corner, we have the Danish filmmaker provocateur Lars Von Trier whose verbal missteps about Nazism at his press conference led...
The 25th ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL closed tonight in NYC with a screening of the Panavision Audience Choice Award winning film – Avi Nesher’s The Matchmaker. The annual Panavision Audience Choice Award for Best Israeli Feature Film carries a state-of-the-art Panavision package worth over $60,000 for the director and producer to use toward their next film shot in Israel. Mr. Nesher’s The Matchmaker was shot utilizing funds he was awarded from the Panavision Audience Choice Award he received fo...
51st Krakow Film Festival is due to begin next week. Besides the competing and premiere films, the audience will also have an opportunity to watch the films of “Festivals Laureates” and “Somewhere in Europe” sections, which have already gained viewers' love and jurors' acclaim.Krakow Film Festival's category of “Festival Awards Winners” is being created on the basis of the cooperation with other festivals focusing on documentary and short films, such as IDFA in Amsterdam, HotDocs in ...
Israeli films have had a strong profile at international film festivals and in the Oscar competitions for the past decade. For the next two weeks, New York area audiences will get a chance to sample the variety, dexterity and quality of contemporary Israeli films as the Israel Film Festival marks its 25th anniversary. The Festival runs through May 19 at the AMC Loews 84th Street Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Over a dozen filmmakers will join us from Israel for their film...
“An Article of Hope” at 6th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
touches all humanity
By Ron Gilbert
I was
extremely moved by this documentary which goes way beyond the Jewish community
and is an inspiration to all races and religions.
In addition
to having astronaut Buzz Aldrin present to discuss his feelings about this film
were a moment that all of us were extremely fortunate to experience.
Director
Dan Cohen was inspired 7 years ago when he re...
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, in 2002, today announced that more than 430,000 people attended screenings, panels, talks and free community events - including the opening night world premiere of Cameron Crowe's The Union, the Tribeca Drive-In series, Street Fair and Family Festival, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day, Tribeca Disruptive Innovation awards, and NYFest - during the Festival's 10th edition.
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Project CineMaas presents an exclusive interview with Paris-based Scott
Hillier, an Academy Award winning Australian filmmaker who founded ECU The European Independent Film Festival.
Read on as he clarifies a wide array of issues, from the film
festival’s evolution and his definition of independent European cinema
to the judging process and his visions for the future.
The sixth ECU The European Independent Film Festival took place this year in Paris, Fra...
2011 Film Selections
Online Tickets Now Available!2011 Highlights
2011 Film Categories
CONFLICTS and ISSUES
TRADITION and IDENTITY
HISTORY and LEGACY
INSPIRATION
CONFLICTS and ISSUES
He's My Girl (La Folle Histoired'Amour de Simon Eskenazy)
Los Angeles Premiere!
Comedy/France/100 minutes/2009
Written & Directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Starring Antoine de Caunes, Mehdi Dehbi and Elsa Zylberstein
French with English subtitles
Based on th...
The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The Festival runs through May 1, 2011. The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 21 countries. Best New Director prizes were awarded fo...
The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by founding sponsor American Express, announced the winners of its competition categories tonight at a ceremony hosted at the W Union Square in New York City. The Festival runs through May 1, 2011.
The world competition winners for narrative and documentary films were chosen from 12 narrative and 12 documentary features from 21 countries. Best New Directo...
Director: Igor Beregovsky, Genrietta Patik-Beregovsky.
In authentic documentary language, directors sketch dilemmas of identity and belonging and create cinematic experiences of personal and social reality. In Israel of the 2000s, two creators try to make one movie about their lives and cross the boundary between film and life.
With the Tribeca Film Festival reaching its mid-point, one does not necessarily have to be in New York to be part of the excitement. The Tribeca (Online) Film Festival, supported by founding partner American Express, is a pioneering digital initiative that allows audiences across the USA to view feature and short films for free and worldwide audiences to engage with filmmakers and industry experts as the Tribeca Film Festival’s 10th edition runs concurrently in lower Manhattan from Ap...
The winners of the 2011 Tiburon International Film Festival Golden Reel Awards were announced during a formal ceremony on Friday, April 15, 2011 in Tiburon, California.
Best Film: Little Rose by Jan Kidawa-Blonski [Poland]
Best Director: Jan Kidawa-Blonski for Little Rose [Poland]
Best Actor: Miroslav Donutil for Novel for Men [Czech Republic]
Best Actress: Magdalena Boczarska for Little Rose [Poland]
Best Documentary: Cultures of Resistance by Iara Lee [USA]
Best Screenplay: Szab...
Director: yair qedar.
She died 41 years ago, but even today, Lea Goldberg is still an
enigmatic figure - she is Israel's most beloved poet, a powerful
woman, who lived with her mother and never married, a woman who
invented herself from the ashes of WWW1 though her magical poetry. The
film is a cinematic fantasy in five acts, using animation, after
affects, archives, still photos, original music and interviews that
celebrate together the fascinating story of L. Goldberg.
Ruby Mountain Film Festival, Elko, NV
April 15, 2011 - Late Deadline
RUBY MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
Elko, Nevada - USA
August 11 to 14, 2011
The RUBY MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL (RMFF) presents a full range of independent and student films from across the globe against the backdrop of the ruggedly beautiful Ruby Mountains in Northeastern Nevada. This four-day event promises to uncover cinematic treasures ...
Ruby Mountain Film Festival is gaining momentum! We already have a great lineup with a few weeks left to submit.
Entries so far come from, USA, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Russian Federation, Croatia, Sweden, Brazil, Taiwan, New Zealand, Israel, Argentina, Turkey, Finland, India, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Africa, Serbia/Montenegro, South Korea, and The Netherlands." Check out our recent spotlight on the event!
RUBY MOUNTAI...
Cinema City Call for entries
Up to 10,000 bucks – Young Talent’s Competition
Cinema City Festival, which is to be held from 16 to 23 June 2012 in Novi Sad, has officially opened the Call for entries in “Up to 10,000 bucks” selection. This competition selection represents films created using a budget of less than 10,000$ and their authors, who, in their bravery and creativity, saw their ideas through, using limited funds. The call for entries will be open until April 5th, ...
The selection for competitions of 51st Krakow Film Festival (23rd – 29th May) has ended. Films selected for the international documentary film competition has been announced in the first row. International documentary film competition was open to documentaries with a running time of 30 to 60 minutes and more than 60 minutes and only premieres were accepted. The competition consists mainly of films spotted at foreign festivals, complemented by titles picked from the record 2700 festival entri...
MY SWEET CANARY (Israel, Turkey, Greece, 2011) opened the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival to a full enthusiastic audience and standing ovations. Director Roy Sher and two singers featured in the film, Mehtap Demir and Martha D. Lewis, attended a Q and A after both screenings of the film.
In response to a question from the audience of how his fascination with Roza began, Roy explains: ‘My first interaction with Roza was through hearing her and her Jewish...
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