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Indie Film Innovators: Keeping up with New Thinking in Distribution - Friday, May 13th at 3:00pm
Panelists include:
Jon Fougner (Facebook), Tim League (Alamo Drafthouse), Shawn Bercuson (PreScreen), David Fenkel (Oscilloscope), Berry Meyerowitz (Phase Four)
Moderated by: Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-chief, Filmmaker Magazine
Queer Night Party - Friday,
May 13 9:00pm
Host and guest DJ John Cameron Mitchell (Rabbit Hole)
SATURDAY, MAY 14
In Conversation: John ...
Conversations Offer Opportunities for Deeper Audience Engagement with Festival Films and Filmmakers The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21–May 5) will present two new Conversations series designed to deepen and enhance the Festival experience, giving filmgoers the opportunity to go a step beyond the post-screening Q&A. An extension of the Film Society’s year-round Film Craft & Film Studies program, Master Classes are an opportunity to engage with special ...
Director: Cees Franke.
Het Uitgestrekte Land is a probing journey through the landscape of Noord-Holland in The Netherlands, in which the audience is borne along by the music of the internationally-celebrated, Bergen-born composer Simeon ten Holt. The remarkable incidence of light in the landscape in conjunction with the performance of Ten Holt’s composition Horizon gives the film a magical quality. The film is challenging to watch and the audience experiences the landscape and the music in an entirely new dimension.
Follow this LINK if you cannot read the newsletter properly Contact the Editor, Advertise on the sites. Our newsletter reaches 82 000 film professionnals every week. _______________________________________ FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT Masterclass with Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Thessaloniki This year's winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival...
Harris Named Editor-in-Chief at indieWIRE
by Brian Brooks
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...
Harris Named Editor-in-Chief at indieWIRE
by Brian Brooks
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...
The fifth annual Monaco Media Forum (http://www.monacomediaforum.org), chaired by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, opened today, promising two-and-a-half days of debate and conversation on the "mobilization" of media, marketing and technology.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20101110/419564-a ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20101110/419564-b )"From smart phones to tablets, pads and other new devices, mobile media intersects all our past discussions: "Web 2.0," social netw...
The Southern California Israeli Chamber of Commerce & Greenberg Traurig Invite you to a Breakfast Presentation By The Operating Room IMPORTING CREATIVITY FROM ISRAEL The exclusive panel discussion and press conference will focus on the efforts, challenges and potential of importing Israeli entertainment content to the United States and Hollywood. As part of the panel discussion, exciting recent developments and production deals will be announced. Panel Participants:HOWA...
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There’s new blood in Telluride’s film festival scene, and lots of it at the Telluride Horror Show. The newest addition in the festival capital of Colorado will showcase the latest independent horror films, with everything from horror comedies to over-the-top grindhouse gore flicks, in the historic Sheridan Opera House and Nugget Theatre. The festival program includes 16 feature films, over 20 shorts, special guests, and a party or two. If you’re a fan of horror, then you don’t want to mi...
Eugene Hernandez, the highly respected and well liked Founder and Editor-in-Chief of indieWIRE is leaving the leading news, information, and networking site to take on what he describes as “a dream job” as Director of Digital Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Hernandez founded indieWIRE in 1996, and has been Editor-in-Chief throughout the site’s near 15-year history. He will leave his current position October 29th, but maintain ties to indieWIRE as a...
Yousry Nasrallah
Screening outside, on the second evening of KINOTOK was Egyptian film director, Yousry Nasrallah's seventh feature, SCHEHERAZADE, TELL ME A STORY, a film about women for women, by the socially conscious director, a Copt, born in 1952.
This contemporary portrayal of politics and female issues in today's CAIRO stars the glamorous and utterly modern Hebba (Mona Zakki) as the speaker of a SUN TV show that opines on cases of corruption in Egypt. She...
By Maria Esteves – August 31, 2010
The 2010 International DJ Expo (DJExpo10) Clubland's Hitmakers artist moderated by VP promotion Cary Vance, PROMO ONLY Promotions, commenced Tuesday, August 17, 4:30 PM, at the luxurious Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ. The panel of diverse leading artists featuring singer Kaci Battaglia, singer Alexis Jordan, singer/songwriter/producer Blake Lewis, singer/songwriter/producer Chris Willis, and many others, discussed their musical processes in the indus...
By Maria Esteves - August 31, 2010
The 2010 International DJ Expo (DJExpo10) Keynote Q&A Presentation with the legendary Grammy Award winning artist DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Allen Townes) moderated by editor-in-chief Jim Tremayne, DJ Times magazine, commenced Tuesday, August 17, 3:00 PM, at the luxurious Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ. DJ Jazzy Jeff discussed
his musical career as an award winning American hip hop artist, R&B record producer, actor, and his earlier career with Will...
The Girl Who Played With Fire, the highly anticipated second instalment of the Millennium Trilogy, is coming to Cornwall in September. Noomi Rapace reprises her role as Lisbeth Salander, described by esteemed critic Roger Ebert as “compelling as any movie character in recent memory.”
When a researcher and Millennium journalist on the cusp of exposing Sweden’s sex trade are murdered, Lisbeth’s prints turn up on the murder weapon, making her the prime suspect. With a history o...
By Maria Esteves – June 28, 2010
The Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Exposition 2010 (SESNY ‘10) commenced March 22-26, 2010 at the New York Hilton Hotel. Presented by Incisive Media, SES New York is the largest search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) conference offered special keynote presentations, seminars, panel discussions, receptions, exhibitors show floor, and special events.
SESNY10 Panel Session “How to Become a Link Magne...
ShortFest Programs
Films
ALL IN THE FAMILY
96 min.
Families provide abundant fodder for creative storytelling, and in this selection of six engrossing new shorts, the stories add up to a whole lot more than the sum of each family's parts.... more
ANIMAL ATTRACTION
88 min.
Animals of every stripe are a staple of filmmaking plots, and in each of these striki...
How can short documentaries be produced and packaged in a compelling way? What are the challenges and advantages when working with international co-productions of short documentaries? Will the digital future bring a bigger need for short formats? These are some of the issues explored in this master class focusing on the German -Czech co-production Breathless. This project consists of five short creative documentaries on the theme Breathless - Dominance of the Moment. During the masterc...
The audience has decided: the Panorama Audience Award - organized by "radioeins" of rbb (Berlin-Brandenburg's public radio and television station), Berlin's city magazine "tip", and the Berlinale's Panorama section - goes to: Waste Land (Great Britain, Brasil 2010), directed by Lucy Walker, João Jardim and Karen Harley.
The official award ceremony will be held on the last day of the Festival, Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 5 pm in the CinemaxX 7 at Potsdame...
East European Forum Workshop & Ex Oriente Film 3rd Workshop Session: October 27 – 30, 2009 (Secondary Graphic Art School, Křížová 18, Jihlava, Czech RepublicEast European Forum - Public Pitch Sessions: October 31 – November 1, 2009 (Graphic Art College Hall, Křížová 18, Jihlava, Czech Republic) East Silver: October 27 – November 1, 2009(DKO, Tolstého 2, Jihlava, Czech Republic)- creative documentary films in development and after completion -The ninth East European Forum i...
Media Personality and CEO of UAE-based production company Pyramedia, Nashwa Al Ruwaini, was unanimously elected last week as a member of the prestigious International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. With over 20 years of experience in the television industry in the Middle East, Nashwa has built a massively successful reputation for content creation in the Middle East.
After 11 years of presenting and creating content for the Middle East Broadcasting corporation (MBC), Nashwa estab...
Telluride Film Festival www.telluridefilmfestival.org (September 4-7, 2009), will run a special program in honor of artist and film critic Manny Farber, "The Celebration of Manny Farber," will be presented at this year's 36th Telluride Film Festival. The three-part program will include an intimate bookstore signing of The Library of America's September 2009 release Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber with editor Robert Polito and Farber's wife and collaborator, Patricia Pat...
Bruce Goldstein will receive the Mel Novikoff Award at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23 - May 7). Named for the pioneering San Francisco art and repertory film exhibitor Mel Novikoff (1922 - 87), the award acknowledges an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public's knowledge and appreciation of world cinema. The Novikoff Award will be presented at An Afternoon with Bruce Goldstein on Sunday, May 3 at 5:00 pm at the Castro Theatre preceding...
After studying cinema at UC Berkeley (B.A.) and San Francisco State University (M.A.), Kimberly Reed was looking forward to a promising career as a filmmaker. She was a young, award-winning filmmaker (Views of My Father Weeping), had worked as a commercial editor, had traveled the world directing and producing travel documentaries, and had become an early expert in the nascent field of digital filmmaking and post
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