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Where Film and Cars Collide…
Where the Engine Meets the Celluloid… Where Hollywood Meets the Motor City…
Just at the intersection of “Le Mans” and “Gone In Sixty Seconds”!
Cars In Film Fest is premiering in sunny Santa Monica with locations including the Santa Monica Pier at the “End of Route 66” and the Third Street Promenade with it’s three theaters containing seventeen screens. Both the Santa Monica Pier and the Third Street Promenade have a combined average daily foot traffic of over 100,000 people, a welcomed attendance in addition to our scheduled film festival attendees. Its Red Carpet gala presentations are surrounding the “film famous” sandy Santa Monica Beach, from September 23, 2012, through September 30, 2012, and it is designated to be one of the largest film festivals in the state of California and a nationally recognized filmmaker forum; we are projecting an attendance of 24,000 in this, our premier year.
Cars In Film Film Festival 2012 was created to celebrate independent film-making by using the motor vehicle...as its “vehicle,” making our California scene, "The Land Of The Car," its backdrop! Although this is a film festival with full awards and educational symposia programs partnering us with film organizations such as Panavision, we are also partnered with other prestigious entities such as the Petersen Automotive Museum, bringing their membership to our festival and especially our Honoree Gala. Other automobile attractions such as sponsored vehicles and vintage film cars will have a concourse presence on our promenade; we’re encouraging “Street Teamers” with a new-car “Ride and Drive” and a celebrity car rally, and we are offering a “Supercar” for a charity auction...just to name a few high-end fun events, and a slight variance from the usual film festival appeal.
Cars In Film Film Festival, a non-profit entity, is planning significant fiscal impact by contributing to two important charities annually and bringing jobs and tourism to our locale, while celebrating the Indie Filmmaker and Film. Knowing that a larger than life populous believes independent film is crucial to our culture and to the future of cinema is inspiring involvement allowing our festival a larger outreach for Industry Relations, Marketing and Sponsorship, Advisory Board and Jury development, Symposia Panelists outreach, Educational outreach, Civic Agency and Film Commission relations, and many more necessary areas of constant development providing and sustaining the best credentialed film festival, making the biggest difference ever to this enormous demographic!
Though its selected screenings, educational symposia and gala awards events our festival's central focus is to discover, honor, and point out a jury's best recommendations as honor recipients in this well accredited and attended festival. Our participating sponsors and partners ultimately allow Cars In Film Fest to provide these essential resources helping filmmakers create new work, build an audience for their projects, and diversify voices in the film community. In Short, WE SUPPORT YOU, THE FILMMAKER, AND YOUR FILMS! We enrich this experience by infusing it with the city color, cuisine, sand and surf of Santa Monica, California.
An exciting aspect of our Awards Program is all films including student films, both feature and short, are included in the entire Awards program meaning students can possibly take home the “coveted” Golden Car Award for the Shorts, Features, Peoples’ Choice and Special Awards Programs as well as the Best Academic Film Award. We at CIFF feel that by allowing students to participate in the entire program we may discover a fantastic young filmmaker ready for introduction to the film industry! And, by making this submission feature available to all entries...films deserving accolades could receive several awards as well as “top honors” eligible for over $100,000 in cash and rewards, and also giving added exposure and celebration!
Cars in Film Film Festival is designed to become one of the largest film festivals in the State of California, and a nationally recognized filmmaker forum with the intention of becoming an accredited film festival to which "Oscar" pays attention! Galas, live entertainment, premier screenings and competitions, along with symposia featuring noted filmmakers, actors, directors, car aficionados and motorsports celebrities are combined to create a dynamic eight-day event beginning in the Summer of 2012!
“What is more “LA” than celebrating Cars In Film...and film? After all, we couldn’t really call it "LA Film Fest," could we..? Oh and… bring your Surfboard!”
Competition for films (long and short)for children and youth. .Specially from Latin America. Adults and kids jury. Emphasized en the cinematografic education for Kids.
Cartes Flux-screening Digital Shorts The focus of the selection is on the innovative use of the digital technology converging the subject matter. Especially non-linear and philosophical approaches are encouraged. Ongoing submission
Takes place in the ancient city of Carthage in Tunisia, residence of Presidentthe Republic .
RAI Trade organizes Cartoons on the Bay in order to sustain the commitment of authors and producers worldwide to unite art with entertainment, and to provide a service for buyers, TV distributors and executives.
A coalition of regional cinema lovers and seasoned industry professionals decided in early 2013 to incorporate the very first
Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival (CLIFF), bringing decades of film industry experience and a fiery passion for cinema
to fruit in the Victorian cosmopolitan regional hub of Castlemaine.
Packed with local, indigenous and international cinema, the inaugural Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival promises to be the most engaging film festival in the
country.
Prioritising strong narrative, stellar casts, and global stories, CLIFF has been curated with storytelling as the key focus. Power packed, fun and challenging, the CLIFF suite of selections encompasses features, documentaries, short films, local film competitions and an array of discussions and activities throughout the program.
*Be challenged by the provocative films of ‘enfant terrible’ bad boy of Aboriginal art Richard Bell (introduced by Gary Foley) that revise mainstream assumptions on race and cut to heart of difficult conversations.
*Be entertained by Skyhooks bassist Greg Macainsh’s 1974 classic Sharpie, where Greg himself will introduce the film.
*Taste the delight of South Korean food and lovers’ epic The Recipe.
*Exclusive Australian screenings of Paul Schrader’s controversial The Canyons, masterful Hungarian surveillance drama The Exam and many others.
*A devastating critique of the west, smuggled out of North Korea (Propaganda, North Korea 2012).
*Falling on the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination, CLIFF is proud to present the Australian premiere of a rare and provocative documentary feature, expert guests and original artifacts from the scene of the JFK assassination crime. Shrouded in question, rumour and conspiracy this session encourages open discussion and is guaranteed to draw intense press interest both locally and from metro press providers.
*A screening of the 1950’s classic Forbidden Planet coincides with a sci-fi kids disco and a robot-making workshop.
*Capping off the event we reward the hard work of local adult and children filmmakers by screening and awarding the local film competitions.
Many more highlights, full details and program available at the site www.cliff.net.au
Tickets: whole festival $120, $110 conc, session ticket $15 adults, $13 conc, $12 children
Box Office: Theatre Royal (03) 5472 1196
Enquiries: Neil Boyack 0409 685 621 / Bradley Dawson (03) 5472 1290
CLIFF venue
We are proud to present the inaugural Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival in Castlemaine’s magnificent Theatre Royal, a venue of rare beauty and splendour. The longest continually operating cinema on
mainland Australia, and a hub of cultural and social activity in regional Victoria, Australia.
www.theatreroyal.info
This cultural project takes place in Godella (Valencia, Spain)
since 2000. Catacumba
is an International Film Festival, involving
short and feature films, open to filmmakers of any nationality. Theme is
focus on horror, fantasy, science fiction, gore, psychological, experimental,
bizarre, animation… GENERAL RULES FOR PARTICIPATING: www.catacumba.org/participa_en.html
Cataleptic Canvas is a short film and video festival in its embryonic stages. While classic narrative work is welcome, the anthology also places an emphasis on work which engages in the experimental and alternative narrative genres as well.
Archived festival (terminated)
Competition of the Festival
1. TV advertising competition
2. Printed advertising competition
3. Labels and packaging competition
4. Newspaper, Magazine, Title page competition
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A Free Monthly Short Film Festival viewed by a live audience where voting will determine which shorts will be asked to continue with another episode. Please visit cavitymouth.v for complete list of rules and regulations.
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