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#biff1 "Why should we show your movie?" Too many times, it seems as though film festivals are looking for an excuse NOT to accept your film. It doesn't fit the theme. It's too "weird." There's no name connected with it.
At the Boulder International Film Festival, we have one criterion for selection -- one. Quality. We are committed to providing a showcase of the best in film for our guests, and a great experience for our filmmakers. We welcome first-timers and ...
Le jeudi 8 juillet, en marge du festival du film fantastique de Neuchâtel, dans le cadre du symposium Imaging the Future, plusieurs conférences, discussions et projections sont consacrées à la production et à l’esthétique des effets visuels filmiques. Une occasion d’approfondir vos connaissances de ce domaine important de la création filmique contemporaine avec des professionnels internationaux. Programme 09.45 : THE WETA TOUCH: DESIGNING AVATAR AND DISTRICT 9 Stereo Compositin...
The 23rd Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival continues Sept 24th - 27th in select venues in select venues in downtown Napa. See nearly 50 films taking you to many different countries! Tickets are available along with a complete NSWCFF program schedule online at http://cts.vresp.com/c/?NapaSonomaWineCountr/d6df63a61f/b100fe9ae2/355f7ee36e, by phone at 707.935.3456 or at the venue the day of show. Program is subject to change. There are...
Director: Krisztina GODA.
Gábor is an office cleaner. Wearing overalls and a baseball hat, he seems insignificant. Working on the night shift, Gábor rarely has any contact with his employers, yet he learns everything about them by thoroughly analyzing their garbage. Since he is almost invisible, nobody suspects that Gábor is, in fact, a con man who carefully chooses his victims by the trash they leave behind. His targets are mostly disillusioned, lonely women. In a few months he destroys all their romantic illusions by taking all their savings. Having an unusually high IQ and an ability to assume various personalities, Gábor is an expert in manipulation. When he gets a job at a psychologist's office, Gábor meets Hanna, an injured dancer who happens to be the daughter of a millionaire. Insecure and vulnerable, Hanna seems to be the perfect victim. Gábor pretends to be a doctor who can cure her body and her soul, an irresistible offer for a desperate woman. Everything goes according to plan until Gábor falls in love with Hanna and has to make a hard decision between her and the money.
Director: Wieland Schulz-Keil, Dan Tang.
The film consist of four portraits of Peking opera performers, two adults and two children. It presents a subtle picture of the present cultural-political climate in China. Peking Opera often seems puzzling and out of place, even in China. Its style is the opposite of naturalism: It is perfectly possible that young girls play elderly generals, or that a young male actor performs the heroine's sword dance from "Farewell my Concubine." The radical artificiality of Peking Opera has often met resistance. During the Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s, it was considered decadent and was outlawed. Today it seems hopelessly old-fashioned compared to the new currents of popular culture. -- While visiting a Peking Opera school the filmmakers met a number of teachers and pupils who are working hard and with admirable devotion to keep their highly refined music and dance theatre alive. The theatre people not only taught them about their century old Chinese art form, but also about their lives in the midst of a mostly imported new culture.
Le film dans lequel Brad nous offre plusieurs visages...a reçu le plus grand nombre de nominations (13 fois nommé) dont meilleur acteur, meilleur film, meilleur scenario, meilleur maquillage...
Voici la liste complète des nominés
Meilleur Acteur
Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor" (Overture Films)
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Par...
Sunscreen Film Festival is organized and presented by the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Film Society, a not-for-profit 501(c) (3) organization, which is dedicated to educating the public about the art of visual storytelling, enhancing opportunities for local filmmakers to develop their craft and art, and increasing the public’s awareness and support of local filmmaking as a cultural and economic asset.
History:
The Sunscreen Film Festival has grown from its first festival in a local art gallery with 600 attendees in 2006 to a nationally recognized event with an attendance of over 11,000 people in 2011. The SSFF has screened over 600 independent films in its first 6 years. The festival is based at the Baywalk Entertainment Complex and Muvico 20 Theaters. The festival additionally utilizes multiple locations around downtown St. Petersburg.
Sunscreen places a great emphasis on supporting and encouraging Florida based talent. A grant has been established and given to the past two Best Florida Film winners at Sunscreen. Additionally SSFF has film acquisition execs in attendance every year. Over a dozen films have been picked up for distribution in the last 3 years at Sunscreen.
Sunscreen is different from other festivals in that the festival guests are expected to take part in workshops, classes or some other manner that supports the mission of the festival. Guests are asked to participate in educational programming as a part of their attendance at the festival. Past guests over the first 6 festivals have included;
Just a few of our past guests have included:
- actor John Travolta (Grease, Pulp Fiction)
- actor Kelly Preston (Jerry Maguire)
- actor Billy Dee Williams (Empire Strikes Back, Brian’s Song)
- actor Patrick Wilson (Watchmen, Phantom of the Opera)
- actor Jeff Donovan (Burn Notice, Changeling)
- actor Ethan Supplee (My Name is Earl, Butterfly Effect)
- actor Bill Cobbs (Night at the Museum, over 100 credits)
- actor Alexa Vega (Spy Kids 1,2,3, Broken Hill)
- actor Ayanna Berkshire (Twilight, Leverage)
- actor Solomon Trimble (Twilight)
- Ralph Winter (Producer, X-men 1-3, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Star Trek 2-4)
- Phil Cooke (Author, Filmmaker, Media Consultant)
- Dean Batali (Producer, Head Writer, That 70’s Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Sean Covel (Producer, Napoleon Dynamite)
- Doc Wyatt (Producer, Napoleon Dynamite)
- Leo Partible (Comic Author, Producer)
- screenwriter Timothy J. Sexton (Oscar nominee for Children of Men)
- screenwriter Steven de Souza (Die Hard, 48 Hours)
- casting director Lana Veenker (Twilight, Leverage)
- casting director John Jackson (About Schmidt, Sideways)
- composer, musician Michael Tolcher, (Scrubs, One Tree Hill, ESPN)
- producer Dave Anderson (Prince of Egypt)
- distribution, finance, acquisitions Jamie Fleming
- distribution, finance, acquisitions John Flynn
Description:
The Sunscreen Film Festival which is put on by The non-profit St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Society not only screens great films and brings in top notch Hollywood talent but it also provides excellent year round programming. The festival’s year round programming includes; special film screenings in partnership with and screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg, free outdoor film screenings, a Film School Summer Camp, and educational “Film Schools” for adults and kids throughout the year. As well as actor’s workshops and community support programs. Sunscreen additionally screens local independent films throughout the year in a theater environment to support local and Florida filmmakers.
The Sunscreen Film Festival is steadily growing into one of the top film festivals in the country. By programming great films, and bringing in top notch industry talent Sunscreen has established itself as one of the best young film festivals around.
Sunscreen continues to receive community support from the following entities in the form of resources and in-kind donations. The City of St. Petersburg, The Pinellas County Film Commission, The St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, The University of Tampa, Southeastern University Lakeland, The Dali Museum, Baywalk Entertainment Complex and Muvico Theaters, and The Renaissance Vinoy Resort.
The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable, educational, nonprofit organization committed to showing “Just Great Movies” and helping to save one of America`s few indigenous art forms - the cinema. Founded by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore.
The Las Vegas Film Festival is one of Las Vegas’ premiere film events, taking place annually in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world.
The flourishing Jameson CineFest will celebrate its 8th edition in September 2011, housing in a new cultural complex House of Arts. Each year, after a careful pre-selection, the top 15-20 features and 40-50 shorts, documentaries and animation films have the opportunity to compete in the official program. Most of the films came from Central Europe, from the US and Germany, but we received films from Indonesia to South America. Jameson CineFest provides an unique look into young international cinema's landscape, screening the best flicks from all over the world.
Many attractive supplementary programs, exhibitions, concerts, film history workshops, roundtable discussions will accompany the nightly screenings. Our CineClassics series started in 2010: explore with us Hungary's exceptionally rich film heritage: Oscar winner British screenwriter Emeric Pressburger was born in Miskolc, legendary founder of Paramount PicturesAdolph Zukor in the nearby village Ricse, 20th Century-Fox founder William Fox in Tolcsva, in the heart of the renowned Tokaj wine region, just to name a few. The 2009 conference dedicated to Emeric Pressburger (with the participation of his Oscar winner grandson Kevin Macdonald), and the 2010 workshop about Zoltan Korda was a true gem.
Jameson CineFest is one of the most attractive festivals of Central Europe, where our guests can get know the fresh cavalcade of world cinema, the hidden treasures of film history, fine food and drinks, concerts and parties - with true Hungarian hospitality.
See you in Miskolc in September 2011!
Dances With Films, now in its 14th year, champions the unflinching spirit at the very core of the independent film scene. While the vast majority of film fests rely heavily on celebrity, we have relied on the innovation, talent, creativity and sweat equity that revolutionized the entertainment industry. And that reliance continues to prove successful with alumni moving on to write and direct celebrity-studded vehicles, star in blockbuster movies and network series, produce multi-million dollar films and create hit TV shows. Oh....and we even have a few OSCAR® nominees... In a world of formulaic, homogenized film festivals Dances With Films continues to break the rules
Krakow Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films. During 7 festival days viewers have an opportunity to watch about 250 films from Poland and abroad. Films are presented in competitions and in special sections like retrospectives, thematic cycles, archive screenings. Festival is accompanied by exhibitions, concerts, open air screenings and meetings with the filmmakers. Every year Krakow Film Festival hosts about 600 Polish and international guests: directors, producers, film festival programmers and numerous audience from Krakow.
http://www.kff.com.pl/en/
Famous British actress, Oscar and Golden Globe winner, Vanessa Redgrave is the President of the Board of PriFilmFest. PriFilmFest is happening in Kosovo, the newest state in the world, next year in June 2009.
Baku Int`l Film Festival (BIFF) is the biggest in the region.The organizer of BIFF is the well-known Azeri writer, playwright and director Mr. RUSTAM IBRAGIMBEKOV. He won OSCAR in 1998 for the best foreign film.
Archived festival (terminated)
Director: Jaime de Armiñán.
Camila Ponte, a writer of Argentinian origin, is on an exhausting promotional tour for her first novel, a huge success. A mysterious woman, Vega, approaches her after a long and boring press conference and leads her out to a strange establishment, a hotel built over an old convent of franciscan monks. What follows is the story of a kidnapping for which there is neither a ransom asked, nor date of liberation, and on which the victim seems to agree. Camila soon discovers that Vega is not who she seems to be. A complex relationship develops between the two women. One that goes trough suspicion and distrust to love and hatred, from violence to tenderness We will finally learn she is seeking a retribution that will help her heal very deep wound.
¿Who will emerge as a winner? A hint: One of the opponents takes the name of a lady of the night, a vampire who has the habit of feeding on other people’s blood... Camila
Photos by Michel Belhomme
Nominations aux Oscar:La 79 édition des oscar délivre son lot de surprises avec l'annonce des nominations.Dreamgirls le film le plus cité ne figure pas dans la liste des meilleurs films.Encore un mois de patience pour connaitre le choix final des membres de l'Académie.Meilleur filmBabel The Departed Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Meilleur acteurLeonardo DiCaprio - Blood DiamondRyan Gosling - Half NelsonPeter O'Toole - VenusWill Smith - The Pursuit of HappynessForest Whi...
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