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In their fifth consecutive year, the EFM Industry Debates highlight current trends in the industry. This year the industry event, hosted by the EFM from 11 - 13 February in cooperation with the international trade magazines Screen International, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, will focus on independent film finance, the changing role of the sales agent in the current economic climate and the future of 3D.
Friday, 11 February 2011: Independent Film Finance
In ...
Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is to open the 64th Festival de Cannes at the same time as it opens in theatres all over France on May 11th 2011.
Photographer - Roger Arpajou © 2011 Mediapro, Versátil, & Gravier Productions
Midnight in Paris, the new film by Woody Allen will open the Festival de Cannes on May 11th in the LumièreTheatre, in the presence of the Jury presided by Robert De Niro.
The romcom, which was shot last year in the French capital, brings together ...
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Film Life, Inc., announces the 15th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) to be held in Miami, Florida, July 6-9, 2011. The ABFF is an industry retreat and competitive showcase of independent Black film. Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO®), returns for the fourteenth year in support of the festival's mission to strengthen the Black filmmaking community through resource sharing, education, artistic collaboration and career development.
The 2011 festival will feature the return of the ...
World’s longest red carpet to unroll at CamboFest, Cambodia Film Festival The world’s longest red carpet, measuring 26.5 kilometers, will unroll at the upcoming CamboFest Cambodia Film Festival (www.cambofest.com),linking the venue town of Kampot with the seaside coastal town of Kep while shattering existing records for a red carpet event. The lengthy carpet, donated by the Zhejiang Da Guanyuan carpet company of Zhejiang Province, China, is currently on its way to the Cambodian p...
Gritty
crime dramas, quirky love stories, clay-mation sci-fi and stirring
documentaries are just some of the themes being offered from films by
Kentucky filmmakers at this year’s Derby City Film
Festival.
In all 20 films from Kentucky filmmakers and 10 from
Indiana & Ohio will be screened during the festival, which takes
place February 18th through the 20th at the Clifton Center. Two more
films are from filmmakers with ties to Kentucky, both documentaries.
One, “Figaro:...
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles CorrespondentToday the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced this year's Oscar(r) nominations. With few surprises, Colin Firth's festival run in THE KING'S SPEECH, written by David Seidler, is poised to take most of the honors with a record-vying 12 nominations. Fourteen (14) is the record for Oscar noms (i.e.; TITANIC), but if this picture wins in every nominated category, cinema history will be made.Oscar 2011: Expect Natalie Portman & Colin Fir...
Sundance Institute announced members of five juries awarding prizes at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival which runs January 20-30, 2011. The juries are comprised of 23 individuals spanning the global arts community. Juror photos and extended biographies, in addition to the complete Festival lineup and schedule, are available at www.sundance.org/festival.
All awards will be announced the evening of January 29 at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. The Short Film Awards will als...
Have you got free time and you’re at a loss as to what to do? Are you
wondering what’s going on in Paris this month? Is there a good
exhibition? Do you want to go to the cinema but you don’t know which
film to choose? Here is a selection of exhibitions and movies that we
advise you to go see.
Vous avez du temps libre mais ne savez pas quoi en faire? Vous vous
demandez ce qu’il se passe en ce moment sur Paris? Y a-t’il une bonne
exposition en ce moment? Vous aimeriez a...
To mark its 40th anniversary, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is screening a selection of films made this year by former Tiger Award candidates, in its Return of the Tiger programme. Aimed at bringing new, unknown and innovative filmmakers to the attention of audiences and international film professionals, the Tiger Awards Competition has been a major feature of the IFFR since 1995.
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This Return of the Tiger program will be accompanied by a one-off award, the Return of the Tiger A...
The 40th annual Mobius Awards international advertising competition has nominated 37 entries for its Best of Show Shortlist. Agencies in Germany lead with 13 nominations; others came from UK, France, Spain, Amsterdam, Australia and U.S. The 2010 competition awarded 56 First Place Golden Statuettes, 63 Second Place Certificates for Outstanding Creativity, and one Student Award. Entries came from 33 countries. Winners will be announced January 25, 2011.
Nominees by medium are:
Broch...
January 13th: Iconic Canadian director Bruce McDonald will be attending the screenings of his most recent works Trigger and Hard Core Logo II at the Victoria Film Festival (VFF), where he will discuss his films during a question and answer session at the screening.
Trigger: Friday • February 4th • Cap 6 Th 6 • 9:15 PM
Bruce will be joined by actor Don McKellar at this screening. This is a story about two women who must overcome past grudges in order to come together...
Director: PH Debiès.
Four people with dark secrest are in an elevator. They don't know each other, how they got there, or why they're there..Memories come back.And the elevator goes down...
Director: Jennifer Sims.
A man has an enticing encounter in a library...
The Derby City Film Festival is proud to announce the selected films for the 2011 edition.
In total 67 films will screen during the three day festival which will be held February 18th - 20th, 2011 at the Clifton Center. Of those screening, 41 of the films have been selected for competition.
The festival will open with a short film screening group from The Bob Rogers Group (BRG), a production company based in Louisville. The BRG film program of 8 short films will be free to attend and begin...
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1st Annual New England Underground Film Festival To Be Held October 8 @ Master of None LLC in New Haven
NEW HAVEN, CT, JANUARY 10, 2011 - The New England Underground Film Festival, a new celebration of the best of contemporary underground cinema, will have its inaugural presentation on October 8 at Master of None LLC, a visual arts and performing arts space in New Haven, Connecticut.
The New England Underground Film Festival is now accepting submissions for consideration. The fe...
Yikes, can it already be 30 years since Lech Walesa successfully led the Polish freedom movement, Solidarnosc, against the repressive Communist Regime and paved the way to liberty in the other Central and Eastern European satellite countries*
This year’s edition of the KINOPOLSKA festival paid tribute the 30th anniversary of the historic Solidarity movement.      Â
The KINOPOLSKA Festival promotes contemporary Polish cinema, and this year, celebrated the ...
Createasphere Brings It with their Best of TV Webcast Series
Createasphere will take the audience back stage with
an engaging webcast featuring the cinematographer, producer and editor of Glee
- the award-winning, critically acclaimed television series now entering its
sophomore season. Â Featuring a real "how-did-we-do that?"
conversation, the Best of TV Webcast has been developed with American Cinematographer
Magazine and American Cinema Editors. Â
Joining the conversat...
CineMart, the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s co-production market has selected 33 film projects (from 434 entries) which will be presented to approximately 850 possible co-financiers. These include projects from renowned filmmakers such as Jan Švankmajer, Carlos Reygadas, Alex van Warmerdam, Andrei Zvyagintsev and Sergei Loznitza. Furthermore, the selection consists of feature film debuts, films by competition filmmakers from preceding IFFR editions, films that received Hubert Bals F...
Hello Writers!We hope all is well with your screenwriting!We are thrilled to inform you of fantastic news regarding Philadelphia's SCREENPLAYFEST - Your Online Screenplay Contest!  We have TWO exciting NEW SPONSORS:  ROBERT MCKEE'S STORYLOGUE and DANIEL MANUS' NO BULLSCRIPT CONSULTING.  The addition of these amazing sponsors has pushed our AWARDS total over $5000!Our FINAL DEADLINE for our 1ST ONLINE CONTEST FOR 2011 is:  January 5, 2011... 01/05/11 (11:59PM).  EVERY s...
The 10th edition of the River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival, under the patronage of Embassy of India, has had its last day on the 9th of December, with great attendance and feedback of the audience and the press, confirming furtherly the importance of the 50 Giorni di Cinema Internazionale a Firenze and the historical beauty of Odeon Cinema Hall.
There has been a large appreciation among the audience and the Industry people for the films in competition, th...
Harris Named Editor-in-Chief at indieWIRE
by Brian BrooksÂ
 indieWIRE's newly named Editor-in-Chief, Dana Harris.
Veteran film journalist Dana Harris has been named as indieWIRE‘s new editor-in-chief. Harris has worked for the last decade at Variety, where she most recently served as editor, strategic projects. She replaces Eugene Hernandez, who left the position in late October nearly 15 years after he co-founded the online publication.
Harris will serve as indieWIREâ€...
Harris Named Editor-in-Chief at indieWIRE
by Brian BrooksÂ
 indieWIRE's newly named Editor-in-Chief, Dana Harris.
Veteran film journalist Dana Harris has been named as indieWIRE‘s new editor-in-chief. Harris has worked for the last decade at Variety, where she most recently served as editor, strategic projects. She replaces Eugene Hernandez, who left the position in late October nearly 15 years after he co-founded the online publication.
Harris will serve as indieWIRE‘s...
 December 06, 2010 at the 51st Thessaloniki Film Festival (3-12.12-10) marked the grand event of its Agora Market Awards to independent Balkan filmmakers headed by Marie-Pierre Macia. The International Jury, consisting of Alex Baciu, screenwriter (Romania), Panos Iossifelis, screenwriter (Greece), Richard Kwietniowski, screenwriter/director, (UK/ Poland) 1) The jury of the 8th Balkan Script Development Fund awards 3 development grants of 7.000 euros each (out of 10 projects): SEPTEMBER, ...
December 06, 2010 at the 51st Thessaloniki Film Festival (3-12.12-10)
marked the grand event of its Agora Market Awards to independent Balkan
filmmakers headed by Marie-Pierre Macia.
The International Jury, consisting of Alex Baciu, screenwriter
(Romania), Panos Iossifelis, screenwriter (Greece), Richard
Kwietniowski, screenwriter/director, (UK/ Poland)
December 06, 2010 at the 51st Thessaloniki Film Festival (3-12.12-10) marked the grand event of its Agora Market Awards to independent Balkan filmmakers headed by Marie-Pierre Macia.
The International Jury, consisting of Alex Baciu, screenwriter (Romania), Panos Iossifelis, screenwriter (Greece), Richard Kwietniowski, screenwriter/director, (UK/ Poland)
1)Â The jury of the 8th Balkan Script Development F...
