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2013 Boomtown Film & Music Festival - Call for Entries

Calling all Filmmakers! The sixth annual Boomtown Film and Music Festival will be held February 22-23, 2013 in Beaumont, Texas, USA. Films are now being accepted for consideration. We are accepting submissions in the categories of feature length, shorts, documentaries, experimental, music video, or student. We encourage both national and international filmmakers to submit their films to us via an online service such as wetransfer.com or you can send us DVD/BLU-Ray copies by mail. W...

Cut YOUR trailer for The Vermont International Film Festival

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The Vermont International Film Festival invites film/videomakers to enter a competition for making the 2012 festival trailer. The competition is open to all Vermont residents and to students attending any Vermont college, university or high school.   Festival trailers are shown before each film screening and their purpose is to celebrate the festival, allow the audience to ease into their seats, provide brief information and to thank our sponsors.   The number of winners will not be limite...

Interview with International Movie Trailer Festival Founder Roberta Suid

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I sat down with Roberta Suid to discuss the mission of her unique Trailer Festival, a format that trully stands out from the crowded film festival circuit which I have been following for over 20 years. Our websites: filmfestivals.com and fest21.com maintain the most comprehensive directory in the world , rich of about 6000 festival entries.                          ...

Campus MovieFest announces a 3D Student Film festival

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MovieFest (CMF), the world's largest student film festival, and Panasonic have announced the launch of CMF 3D, Powered by Panasonic. The announcement was made at the Blu-Con 2010 conference in Beverly Hills by Shiro Kitajima, President of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company, Jon Landau, Academy Award®-winning producer and CMF advisor, and David Roemer, Co-founder and CEO of Ideas United, which runs Campus MovieFest. Campus MovieFest is the only event of its kind, giving hundreds of thousands...

Panasonic will reveal at CES the world’s first professional, fully-integrated Full HD 3D camcorder

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Panasonic Corporation  will release the world's first* professional, fully-integrated Full HD 3D camcorder in Fall 2010. The company will begin taking orders in April.  Engineering samples of the professional Full HD 3D solid-state camcorder will be exhibited at the Panasonic booth (Las Vegas Convention Center, Main Hall, #9405) at the 2010 International CES in Las Vegas, USA, from January 7-10.               &nbs...

Pocket BLU™ app: the new Blu-Ray goodies for Iphones from Universal

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  Delivering on its promise to provide consumers an ever more immersive, dynamic and interactive Blu-rayTM experience, Universal Studios Home Entertainment (USHE) announced today the launch of an array of enhanced iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features and social web-based offerings with the release of upcoming titles Bruno, Funny People, 9, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Public Enemies, and Inglourious Basterds all available this holiday season. These innovations include the pock...

The Global Film Village: Hollywood Focuses on the Future by Marla Lewin

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ESCA 2009: This is a conference about the nuts and bolts that drive the Entertainment Industry and was held at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles over two days. The Studios feel that Blu-ray is the wave of the future. The question remains how to keep the quality and cost effectiveness for both machines and product.  It is important for the consumer to be aware that if you are not paying for the top end models of players, then all products may not be compatable at this time.   Internation...

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Director: Rustam Mosafir.
Man arrives into the store to buy a mousetrap, but not a usual mousetrap - humane mousetrap. That which will not kill the mouse, but simply will catch it...

13.5 million DVD Blu-Ray worldwide in first week for Dark Knight

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The Dark Knight took the world by storm on Blu-ray and DVD, breaking records for 2008. The blockbuster hit from acclaimed director Christopher Nolan became an instant must-own classic with Blu-ray sales of over 1.7 million units and total DVD and Blu-ray sales of 13.5 million worldwide*, including consumer sales and rental sales, in one week. Brisk consumer sales – totaling over 10 million with one week of sales reported - are expected to continue through the holiday season. The Dark Knight is...

Sounds (Super-Resolution Technology) wins big at Houston

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Super-Resolution Technology Makes History at Prestigious International Film FestivalSounds, the first-ever movie produced with Super-Resolution Technology, came home with multiple awards in several categories at the recently completed WorldFest International Film Festival, including the highest score in the New Technology category. Competing against more than 500 other full-length feature independent films submitted to the 41st annual WorldFest, Sounds won a total of three of the prestigious Rem...

Blu-ray Disc Association in Cannes

This Blu-Ray association presents this new High-Definition platform with impressive specifications. Blu-ray discs hold from 25 to 50GB, video and sound quality is superior, interactivity is on a new level, Internet access will be included in the coming versions of hardware... Remains to be seen at what price the first harware and disks will be priced in Q3 or Q4 of this year and how the digital rights management handles all this... Check also the interview of Blu-ray Disc Association head, ...

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