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Deaf Sounds

Director: Gheorghe Andrei.
The sounds that a boy and a girl make just by sitting on a bench are combined into a song that reveals a certain thing … they fall in love.

'The Maiden Danced to Death' with Endre Hules

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       Interview with Endre Hules!     ME: Hi Endre. First, can you speak about how you got into acting, writing and directing? In which order did you start and when did you know that you had to make films?     ENDRE: I started out in the theatre as an actor, but almost immediately began writing and directing, as well. I studied acting, then I completed a degree as a director at the National Conservatory of Theatr...

Cirkus Columbia at ADFF

New film by Bosnian director Danis Tanovic currently in competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival Read article here: http://ticketing.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/eng/film.aspx?ID=3147 Read interview with actress Jelena Stupljanin here: http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/vanessa_mcmahon/cirkus_columbia    

New Norwegian Film Fund Will Give Two Million NRK

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The Norwegian Minister of International Development, Erik Solheim, announced the establishment of a new fund to support film productions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. With a focus on freedom of speech, the fund grants funding to support film productions in countries where resources for such projects are limited. The fund will supplement other European film funds with similar purposes. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture have committed to grant two million N...

Kung-Fu Magyar: An Interview With Hungarian Director Bence Miklauzic

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 Kung-Fu Magyar?A comedy. A story of friendship and rivalry. A kung-fu film without a fight. Huh? Confused? You won't be after listening to Bence Miklauzic, talking about his new film, Children of the Green Dragon, one of the most popular films this week among audiences at the Warsaw Film Festival.Hungarian film director Bence Miklauzic is forty years old. And his second feature film, Children of the Green Dragon, had its European debut this week at the Warsaw Film Festival. Just back from the ...

Actress Daryl Hannah at the IFF Brother's Manaki

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Daryl Hannah at the IFF Brother's Manaki - recipient of the Special Golden Camera 300 for outstanding contribution to the world cinema art. At today's press conference, ICFF Brother's Manaki and Vip operator with great honour and pleasure announced the jury of the "Brothers Manaki Film Festival" (16-22.10.2010, Bitola), and over 150 outstanding guests from the world cinema, of whom many were awarded at various film festivals from A-category, and the guest list includes the excep...

Northern Wave International Film Festival

A short film festival in the small fishing village in Iceland called Grundarfjörður.

Send your short film to Iceland

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The 2011 Northern Wave International Film Festival will be open for submissions from the 15th of October until the 1st of December 2010. Submit your film here on fest21.com ...

Meet Kadi Lokk – An ECU 2011 Intern

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Hey, my name is Kadi Lokk I’m from Estonia and I’ve just started interning with The European Independent Film Festival here in Paris! I’m a college graduate from Mainor Business School in Tallinn, Estonia. I have worked in the US for the Southwestern summer program, managed a web portal in Tallinn and during the last couple of months worked in Disneyland Paris. I moved to Paris early this summer, simply because I love Paris- for me it is such a cultural city, where something...

THAT IS THE PICTURE

Director: Lauma Balode.
A bus with books. Once in a month they are going to different places in country side, but this "different" bus isn't only a library. For these people it means more.

European discovery EFA Price

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The European Film Academy has announced this year’s nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY - Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film. This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of EFA Board Member Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), EFA Member Pierre-Henri Deleau (France), and experts Jacob Neiiendam (director of the film festival CPH:PIX, Denmark), Alin Tasciyan (...

Arpafilm festival in LA focuses on film from Armenia

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13TH ARPA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN L.A."AGHET, a German View of a Turkish Genocide"by Alex Deleon, for ARPA is the name of the river that flows through Yerevan, the capital of the free Armenian Republic, which until 1991 was part of the former Soviet Union. Consequently, it is not surprising that an international film festival so-named is primarily (although not entirely) concerned with the presentation of films from Armenia, films dealing with Armenian topics, and/or films made by Armen...

Institute of Documentary Film at the Jihlava IDFF

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Jihlava IDFFOctober 21 - 31, 2010, Jihlava, Czech RepublicOnly a few days are left before our industry registration deadline. Get your industry pass for the East European Forum, East Silver and the Industry Sidebar. Deadline: September 30, 2010!EAST EUROPEAN FORUM  A total of 14 documentaries that in the past attended the East European Forum / Ex Oriente Film workshop have been included in the 2010 East Silver market.  The East European Forum has confirmed its guests! It will ho...

“Green Camp” at Filmfest Hamburg

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How do I finance my film project via Internet? Get the answer to this question this year at the so called “Green Camp” at Filmfest Hamburg. This digital one-day conference on October 8, 2010 is targeting professionals from the film industry. The main objective is to find out how filmmakers can marketing their projects via social media tools as facebook, twitter or kickstarter. The Green Camp is supported by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.This year's focus is on the financing of en...

TIFF Film In Focus: MAMMA GOGO

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  When a filmmaker draws on his own experience to the extent that Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson has done in his wonderful memory film MAMMA GOGO, the intimacy of the revelations is almost disarmingly intimate. The prolific director, probably the best known from his native country and one of the most consistent in Scandinavia cinema, takes his audience on a personal journey as the film’s protagonist, a filmmaker himself, becomes immersed in the downward spiral of his mothe...

Failed Scenario

Director: Kristina Sereikaite, Linas Mikuta.
The plot talks about a lonely timid woman who works in a low-end inn. When a happy couple accidentally leaves a purse at the table, the inn busser can't resist the temptation to check its contents. There she finds intriguing evidence of crime, but runs out of time to inspect it since the criminal himself rushes into the toilet to catch her in the act. The scene turns dramatic, but is all the way it looks to be? Genre: illusory drama with thriller elements

Taxiphone The Center of the World

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Isola Film Festival awarded film Taxiphone directed by Mohammed Soudani: a Swiss director originally from El-Chelif, Alergia that made more then 30 documentaries for Swiss Television RTSI. His directorial debut Waalo Fendo, Là où la terre gèle, gave him international recognition first time in 1997.               This time in Isola he presented his latest film Taxiphone , a film about Oliver and Elena, young Swiss ...

THE COLLEGIUM - Forum & Television Program Berlin/Germany - "Culture in Berlin"

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"CULTURE IN BERLIN" Production & Direction: Prof. Donald Muldrow Griffith Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre Photography: Soliman Lawrence...

Prof. Gayle McKinney Griffith, THE COLLEGIUM - Forum & Television Program Berlin

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"If Only.... The Puzzle" Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Production & Direction: Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre, Black International Cinema Berlin, THE COLLEGIUM - Forum & Television Program Berlin, Cultural Zephyr e.V. "....We Have A Dream and Still We Rise...."...

Vote online for the European Film Academy People’s Choice Award

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The People's Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film and win a trip to the European Film Awards Ceremony. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe's greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, nominees and winners, to attend the European Film Awards, the People's Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for - the audience. Winners in the past have included films ...

European Film Academy Opens Vote for People’s Choice Award

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The People’s Choice Award allows film fans across Europe to elect their favourite film and win a trip to the European Film Awards Ceremony. Every year, when the European Film Academy invites its members, Europe’s greatest film stars, directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, designers, nominees and winners, to attend the European Film Awards, the People’s Choice Award sheds a spotlight on the people films are made for - the audience.Winners in the past have included films like...

How to measure communication and media in the digital converging era?

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Workshop organised by the OECD, EBU and the European Audiovisual Observatoryin the framework of the Internet Governance Forum (Vilnius, 15 September 2010).The workshop will take place in room 5 of the Lithuanian Exhibition Centre LITEXPO in Vilnius between 4.30 and 6.30 PM and will be webcast live on the website of the IGF: http://www.intgovforum.org The objective of the workshop is to raise the awareness of the problems in measuring the impact of the Internet on the audiovisual industry. The de...

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