WorldFest-Houston, the third longest-running International Film Festival in North America, celebrated the conclusion of its 10-day run of film, fun and fanfare in its 45th annual independent film showcase with a 17% increase in box-office!  With two engaging luminaries receiving the WorldFest Remi Lifetime Achievement Award this year, Louis Gossett, Jr. on opening weekend and the inimitable Sally Kirkland on closing, WorldFest bookended this year’s ...

A substantial founder’s gift from resident and philanthropist Mary Fisher has allowed the Sedona International Film Festival to renovate a 3,500-square foot space in the Sedona Center, 2030 W. State Route 89A, into a 135-seat, state-of-the-art theater, which will become the Festival’s year-round independent film screening location and Sedona’s largest private theater venue. The venue will feature high-end, rocker-back seats, all digital equipment, full concessions and wine sales...

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WITH OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE LIVING IN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN, George Gittoes sheds light on OBL, May 3, 2011 MUST READ! George Gittoes has over 20 years of experience living and traveling in Pakistan and currently lives in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Q: Sharon Abella: On our last interview on February 10, 2010, you mentioned that George Bush and President Obama said that, “Bin Laden was in Bajaur, but that everyone in Bajaur knows one another, and if Bin Laden were living there, they would...

Dimension 3 Festival’s call for contents is open until April 15th . This competition is aimed at all producers and creators of 3D contents, who can sign up their S3D projects in one of the Festival’s 9 categories: - Feature films (live, action or animation)- Preview (feature film released in theaters)- Special formats (theme parks, museums, IMAX…)- Advertisements/Corporate films and visual identity- Documentary- Animation (single or series)- TV fiction (single or serie...

16 Documentaries and 5 Dramas; a Focus on the Power of the Mediawww.hrw.org/en/iff The 15th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be presented in London from 23 March to 1 April, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. The international feature programme includes 16 documentaries and 5 dramas, from Belgium, Colombia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Guantanamo, Guatemala, Hebron, Iran, Ireland, Kenya, Lebanon, Los Angeles, Peru, South Africa, Turkey, Yemen and Yugoslavia. Many of t...

25th Goya Awards  - BEST FILM NOMINEES  BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA - 14 NOMINATIONS--SYNOPSIS :The circus monkeys scream wildly inside their cages while, outside, men kill and die in another circus: The Spanish Civil War. The stupid clown, recruited forcefully by the Militia, ends up carrying out a bloodbath with a machete against the National soldiers while still wearing his clown costume.Many years later, during Franco´s time Javier, son of the clown in the Militia, finds work as th...

About: Artivist Film Festival 1 -4 th of December Nobel Festival dedicated to human rights, animals and environment issues through film. Best feature international human rights award went to the Portuguese filmmaker Mário Patrocinio for his film "Complexo Alemão - Universo Paralelo. At first the film reminded me of the Fernando Meirelles movie "City of God" for portraying the slums of Brazil. Soon after you acknowledge it's original content. Basically the st...

  Bollywood casts such a strong shadow over Indian cinema, that it may be surprising to many film buffs that many other regional cinemas in the country of India are thriving. With 50 different languages and vast differences between various states, films from Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Punjab are only four of the various film cultures that are producing interesting and varied work. In this regard, documentaries, short films and animated works from India are also virtually unknown ou...

About the film: The third French film in the running for the Palme d’Or, In the Beginning, is the occastion for Xavier Giannoli to return to Cannes, three years after the in-Competition screening of The Singer and eleven years after his 15-minute L’Interview was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or. Giannoli's latest feature is a drama set in Northern France, and it is based on a real-life event. A small-time swindler defrauds an entire region into thinking he is a sta...

Aspen Film announced today its film selections that will be screening at Aspen Shortsfest 2009, April 1-5 at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen and Crystal Theatre in Carbondale. More than 2,500 entries were considered from more than 60 countries, and more than 60 short films were selected from 21 countries for this esteemed, five-day Oscar®-qualifying International Competition. In its 18th year, Aspen Shortsfest is considered one of the world's premier international short film and video showcase...