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Happy new year to you all, 380 000 unique visitors per month

      Dear all We just had the confirmation that the maya did not understand much about calendar....We do, (for film festivals) to a certain extent with 6.000 in database!   As a proud co founder of the festival calendar (established 1995) I want to reassure you that my own prediction will stand...for a few more days. The end of the year is near. precisely on a monday 31.12.2012 at 24.00 GMT +/- anything that fits your part of the world, I know each of the...

Party Like It’s the Valley: Social Events for VFF12

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Mark your calendars for our festival parties: http://valleyfilmfest.blogspot.com/2012/11/party-like-its-valley-social-events-for.html...

MADEIRA FILM FESTIVAL 2013

The Madeira Film Festival intends to be Europe’s most exclusive and independent festival. Held at the prestigious Reid’s Palace Hotel The Madeira Film Festival serves as a platform to showcase independent feature, short and documentary films from directors around the world. Indicative of Madeira’s continued commitment to preserve the Natural History, flora and fauna of the island, the festival will pres

The Ohio Independent Film Festival is currently programming its 19th year

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This years film festival is scheduled for May 17 through May 20 and will be presented at the Arts Collinwood galleries, with the headlining film "For the Love of Music " presented at The Beachland Ballroom on May 20th. For tickets and additional information on the film festival please go to www.ohiofims.com or ticketweb.com (search Ohio Independent Film Festival). The Ohio Independent Film Festival is currently programming its 19th year of presenting films submitted by independent...

Connecticut Film Festival Highlights

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  The Connecticut Film Festival, which took place this past weekend in Danbury and Bethel, Connecticut, offered a creative mix of programming, educational seminars and special events. In all, some 75 films were showcased at the 4 day event. An extensive boot camp of educational seminars was geared to local and visiting filmmakers, new media entrepreneurs and television producers. Highlights included an master class by Focus Features president Andrew Karpen, a screening of...

BENEATH THE EARTH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2012 CALL FOR ENTRIES

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nnovative Online Festival seeks films from 1990 onward for 2012 competition (NEW YORK) March, 2012 – Beneath the Earth Film Festival (BTEFF), a rapidly growing online film festival in its third year, announces it’s Call for Entries for the 2012 season. “We’re doing things a little differently this year and onward,” says festival co-founder, Antonia Opiah. “We realize that a lot of filmmakers spend months on the festival circuit; some will get in...

TrindieFest

Do you have any films that would like to participate in our film festival? TrindieFest in Trinidad Colorado will take place on September 13-15 of 2012.

A Truly Independent Film Festival...that’s what TrindieFest is all about. Most of the bigger festivals have become selling venues for bigger films. Our job at TrindieFest is to bring the Independent Film back to center stage. This Festival is truly Independent Films.

Please let me know if you have any films or screenplays. Feel free to check out our site and guest speakers.

Nothern Film Festival

The 33rd edition of the Northern Film Festival (NFF) will held from 9 - 13 November 2011. This 5 day film festival focuses on (Northern) European cinema. Beating heart of the festival is the Interregional Competition, for first or second feature films, with the award presentation of the Matad’Or and the accompanying cash prize of € 10,000. Films in the Interregional Competition feature cinematographic explorations and representations of Europe’s regions in time, space and spirit.

Furthermore, many premieres and previews of films of cinematographic importance from all over the world are shown. These film programmes have been arranged thematically and geographically, in which Wij Noorderlingen (Us Northerners), with films from Scandinavia, the Baltic States and the Benelux, keep coming back.

More details on the Nothern Film Festival can be found on http://noordelijkfilmfestival.nl/english/

Sunset Film Festival Los Angeles

MISSION:  The mission is simple: Promote filmmakers and screen writers.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:  Lots of films are rejected at film festivals. One of the reasons is that there are too many submissions. Producing a film is one thing. 

The next step is submitting your film to film festivals. Then you realize that nothing is really happening. The Sunset Film Festival is different.

Giving filmmakers and screenwriters the opportunity to be noticed is our priority. Distributors love films screened at Festivals.

They love them even better when they are awarded.


FOUNDER:  The festival is brought to you by Mark Mos, Kodak Entertainment Imaging Awarded filmmaker and Film Premieres organizer.

Mark has organized pre-premiere film presentations such as: “Gladiator” (Russell Crowe), “Mission Impossible 2” (Tom Cruise),

“Gone in 60 seconds” (Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie), “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Jim Carrey), and much more.

 

He was in charge of the 5th Youth and Children Film Festival. Mark Mos is also a filmmaker; he has master’s degree in TV and Film Production.

His films were shown on film festivals in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago or Salt Lake City and also European countries: Hungary, Poland and Romania.

IMPORTANT:  100% of submission fees go directly to promote festival and rent auditorium for screenings. Submit your film with Sunset Film Festival. 

This is the key to go further with your passion.

Sanferfilm festival

A film festival about party. Party films, about celebrations, traditions, party, rave, birthdays, weddings, anything can be a party. SHORTS, LONGS, DOCU, FICTION, EVERYTHING ABOUT PARTY .

 

Festival de Cine de Fiesta.

Murray Lerner at the Academy’s Monday Nights with Oscar NYC

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By Maria Esteves - July 19, 2011   The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) “Monday Nights with Oscar” 1967 Academy Award nominated documentary FESTIVAL (1967), produced/directed by Murray Lerner commenced at The Academy Theater (Lighthouse International), New York, Monday, July 18, 7:00 pm. A special onstage discussion with Academy Award winning documentarian Murray Lerner and legendary singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary moderated by AMPAS...

AMPAS Monday Nights with Oscar NYC Screening of Festival (1967) Photo Coverage

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By Maria Esteves - July 19, 2011 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) “Monday Nights with Oscar” 1967 Academy Award nominated for best documentary FESTIVAL (1967), produced/directed by Murray Lerner commenced at The Academy Theater (Lighthouse International), New York, Monday, July 18, 7:00 pm. A special onstage discussion with Academy Award winning documentarian Murray Lerner and legendary singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary moderated by ...

Spirit Enlightened

Culture Unplugged Studios has now begun to organize the next film festival,  Spirit Enlightened, which aspires to trace the spirit that has led the humanity through centuries & civilizations and is in the making of our future. The festival hopes to explore with you, ‘That’ which envelops to infuse & evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands our vision of time as well as place, enlivens our hearts, and enlightens our species to transcend the present state of being for the mystical new – the next state of supramental self. Lets observe & feel this divine/enlightened spirit in the moment of its performance, in the midst of humanity now and forever, through film-media

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The BUFF Blog (June 2011)

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Online, on-air and in person, this is BUFF. And so said the voice of BUFF which greeted the masses of online followers with the May 31 announcement of this year’s opening feature. And though the dulcet tones of Ewan Allinson and DJ Elayne Smith will continue to form a cornerstone of the BUFF movement, things are going to be a little bit different round here. From September, the 2011 British Urban Film Festival will be coming at ya with a whole new look which means, finally, that the buffest fi...

The DARING DOCCIES Documentary Film Festival

A collection of daring documentaries from around the world, screened in Cape Town, South Africa

Madeira Film Festival

The Madeira Film Festival intends to be Europe’s most exclusive and independent festival. Held at the prestigious Reid’s Palace Hotel The Madeira Film Festival serves as a platform to showcase independent feature, short and documentary films from directors around the world. Indicative of Madeira’s continued commitment to preserve the Natural History, flora and fauna of the island, the festival will present a special environmental category screening worldwide nature orientated films. The aim of the Madeira Film Festival is to encourage creativity in all aspects of film production, not dependent on financial and physical restrictions, gender, geographical location, age or ability. We acknowledge and encourage film making through diversity and ‘out of the box’ thinking and we pay special attention to films ( shorts, docs and features ) pertaining to the environment and it’s relevance and importance in the world we live in today.

The world’s largest Laurissilva forest is located on the island of Madeira. In 1999 the 15,000 hectare indigenous ‘living relic’ was awarded the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site. Through the medium of film MFF intends to enhance education and global awareness of the Laurissilva and its importance to the ecological balance of Madeira thus sustaining the endemic flora and fauna.

The Madeira Film Festival recognizes the integrity of filmmakers around the world and consequently will present the ‘Laurissilva Award’ to the best documentary, short, feature and nature oriented film judged by an International Jury. MFF acts as a service to the local community and audience as a launchpad providing an attractive slate of films.

We are a festival with cultural aspirations. We are both a public and a pilgrimage festival. One of our roles is to discover talent and support, not necessarily financially. Although we aren’t in the business of film distribution we believe festivals play an ever increasing role in distribution due to the advent of new technology. MFF has a small yet critical role to play in this formula by helping the viewer at home decide what to watch i.e. Who is in it? What’s the film about? What have I heard about it? Basically festivals can help push the right button.

Film Festival Scammers and a Code of Conduct for Film Festivals

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Have you been scammed by a film festival, if so let us know We recently came across one festival organiser who runs 4 festivals, most of the awards go to their own films and the rest go in the trash. We are producing a filmmaking community expose documentary on scam film festivals. We are looking for shooters from all over the world to get involved Would you support a Code of Conduct for film festivals? More to the point would the festivals agree to a code of conduct? This...

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