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James Franco at PSIFF 2011 on SAL

James Franco’s feature film SAL (2011) held its world premiere at the 68th La Biennale Venice Film Festival. Most recently the film debuted in Palm Springs during the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival. After the screening of the film, Franco appeared with lead actor in SAL, Val Lauren, to attend a Q and A to audiences.   photo by PSIFF press

James Franco at PSIFF 2011 on SAL

James Franco’s feature film SAL (2011) held its world premiere at the 68th La Biennale Venice Film Festival. Most recently the film debuted in Palm Springs during the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival. After the screening of the film, Franco appeared with lead actor in SAL, Val Lauren, to attend a Q and A to audiences.   photo by Vanessa McMahon 

James Franco at PSIFF 2011 on SAL

James Franco’s feature film SAL (2011) held its world premiere at the 68th La Biennale Venice Film Festival. Most recently the film debuted in Palm Springs during the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival. After the screening of the film, Franco appeared with lead actor in SAL, Val Lauren, to attend a Q and A to audiences.   photo by Vanessa McMahon 

James Franco at PSIFF 2011 on SAL

James Franco’s feature film SAL (2011) held its world premiere at the 68th La Biennale Venice Film Festival. Most recently the film debuted in Palm Springs during the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival. After the screening of the film, Franco appeared with lead actor in SAL, Val Lauren, to attend a Q and A to audiences.   photo by Vanessa McMahon 

James Franco at PSIFF 2011 on SAL

James Franco’s feature film SAL (2011) held its world premiere at the 68th La Biennale Venice Film Festival. Most recently the film debuted in Palm Springs during the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival. After the screening of the film, Franco appeared with lead actor in SAL, Val Lauren, to attend a Q and A to audiences.   photo by Vanessa McMahon  <

LA Fest appoints Stephanie Allain, producer with stellar track record

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 Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Spirit Awards, announced the selection of accomplished film producer Stephanie Allain as its new Los Angeles Film Festival Director, starting immediately. She succeeds Rebecca Yeldham, who recently elected to step down for personal reasons. Stephanie will be working closely with Festival Managing Director Gloria Campbell and Festival Artistic Director David Ansen, as well as Associate Direc...

Call for submission Entry deadline 15th March 2012

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  Porto7 - Oporto International Short Film Festival: Call for submission Oporto International Short Film Festival - Porto7 Call for submission Entry deadline 15th March 2012 Free Submission www.porto7.com “Porto7” – Oporto’s International Short-Film Festival, is an event that will take place from 13th to 17th June 2012 in Portugal. Porto7 is a Festival dedicated to Short-Films. Its target is to promote the production and exhibition o...

San Francisco Executive Director Bingham Ray passed away while in Sundance

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  The San Francisco Film Society regrets to announce that Executive Director Bingham Ray passed away on January 23 while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Bingham Ray Photo by Michael Rauner "The board of directors and staff of the Film Society are stunned and deeply saddened by the untimely death of our executive director Bingham Ray. We at the Film Society a...

Edinburgh Short Film Festival

Edinburgh Short Film Festival 

Following a highly successful inaugural year, the Edinburgh Short Film Festival will again showcase the best Scottish, UK & International
short films in cinemas and film venues across the stunning city of Edinburgh in June 2012 and we are now open for submissions to this year's festival.  

There will be free talks and seminars on films and film-making hosted by the Ragged University as well as continuing to host our lively film-maker networking sessions and other social events following the screenings.

 http://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/

 The event is scheduled for early June and screenings will take place in cinemas and film venues across the city.

Films of all genres and budgets will be considered. Please note the following points:

  •  Fees  £10 per films  (maximum length 25 minutes)
  • The deadline for film submissions is Friday May 4th 2011, and details of the film program will be posted on our website shortly after this date.
  • Please don’t submit your only copy! Discs cannot be returned!
  • Entrants may submit more than one film.
  • All successful entrants will be informed in May.

A Celebration of Music in Film in Sundance with Ice T and Chuck D: just for u :-)

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  Sundance Institute today announced that Ice-T and hip hop icons Chuck D (Public Enemy) and Grandmaster Caz will perform at 'A Celebration of Music in Film' on January 21 at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. 'A Celebration of Music in Film,' one of the most anticipated music events at the annual Festival, this year celebrates SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP, by director Ice-T, co-director Andy Baybutt and producer Paul Toogood. The event takes place Saturday, January 21, 8:3...

KINOSCOPE - New Section in Sarajevo Film Festival Programming

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The Sarajevo Film Festival has created a new section in its programming called KINOSCOPE and drafted in three new programmers onto its international team: Mike Goodridge from the UK, Alessandro Raja from Italy and Mathilde Henrot from France. The programme will comprise films from around the world, both narrative and documentary, choosing 18 films from around the globe excluding the southeastern European territories which compose the festival’s competition strand. The focus will be on disti...

Submit your shorts to Busho Budapest Short Film Festival

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  About BuSho BuSho (Budapest Short) was established in the autumn of 2004 by a group of young Hungarian filmmakers and the first event successfully ran its course the following year. The festival became an international breakthrough in an exceptionally short period of time: we got 360 individual entries from 45 countries in 2009. We had plenty of festival screenings, selections of film academys, feature films, conferences, film-, and all-art workshops in the program.   ...

VIEWFest | Digital Movie Festival

VIEWFest is an international festival on 3D cinema and animation, organized every year by VIEW Conference, that screened important world previews, the best of 3D production, retrospectives, movies, short movies, video clips, music, workshops for schools and exclusive events. Not just this. VIEWFest shows the best of the international animation festivals, first of all SIGGRAPH, thanks to a network that become larger every year and goes from Holland to Greece, from Germany to USA; Turin is the Italian side of this network.

VIEWFest offers to independent productions the opportunity of an international audience and, at the same time, brings to Turin the best of the International production.

VIEWFest 2012 will be held from 19th to 21st October at Cinema Massimo in Turin.

Check the website for news! www.viewfest.it

Annual Myrtle Beach International Film Festival calling for entry

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This marks the 7th year for the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival. Submissions end February 6th 2012, submit through withoutabox.com or throug the festivals website, myrtlebeachfilmfestival.com   Selected by Movie Maker Magazine as one of the top 25 film festivals worth the submission last year, one of the top festivals in the world by Film international and touted by many as one of the most important independent film festivals in the circuit.  We are passionate abou...

THIS MONTH – ÉCU SCREENS IN ASIA

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This month ÉCU will be screening some of its winning films from 2011 in Asia at our partner film festivals in Bangladesh and in India.International Children’s Film FestivalJanuary 21st – 27thThe International Children’s Film Festival returns to Bangladesh later this month, continuing its stated mission to “open a new world of cinema to the children of Bangladesh and to give them an exposure to culture and tradition of different countries through film as a powerful media of art.” This ...

Nippon Connection Festival 2012 focuses on Fukushima

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The date for the 12th Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main is set: From May 2-6, 2012, the biggest festival for Japanese cinema worldwide will once more present more than 100 of the latest Japanese short and feature films. The screenings will be accompanied by a comprehensive cultural program ranging from tradition to modernity, as well as by the attendance of numerous filmmakers and artists from Japan presenting their works. The 12th edition of Nippon Conne...

ÉCU's Partner - Cyprus Films Days opened for submissions

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The Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre announces that Calls for Entries for the 10thCYPRUS FILM DAYS -International Film Festival 2012, are now open. The festival, which is being held for the 10th time this year, will host an international competition section titled “Glocal Images” in which film-makers from around the globe and Cyprus are invited to submit their films.The films participating in the competition section will be selected by the festival’s artistic committee:...

International Short Film Festival Action II

At second time in Prokuplje (a town in south Serbia) will be international festival of short film wich name is Action.

- up to 60 seconds

- up to 300 seconds

Film North - Huntsville International Film Festival

Film North, Huntsville International Film Festival, is the newest place for a small, simple, excellent festival in a remote location. Huntsville is a two hour drive north of Toronto, in the beautiful lake district setting of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Movie lovers can continue after attending the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF, the first two weekends of September, to the lovely setting of Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, the third weekend of September. Our mandate is to create a user - friendly environment for emerging Canadian and International Filmmakers to exhibit, promote, entertain and inform the audience. We are an incorporated non profit organization. Our board of Directors are from the film, arts and business sectors. The founders are residents of Toronto and Huntsville, with backgrounds in the Film and Arts professions.

Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival

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Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Festival - Now Open for 2012 Submissions  2012 marks the 10-year anniversary of the festival and as a result it will be re-launching on a grander scale with international industry decision makers, international filmmakers and an array of new and exciting short films and documentary films. The festival strives to maintain the cultural fulfillment and expectations of the general public, as well as serving as an inspiring event for the audio-visual sector. Sp...

The Australian Film Festival returns in March 2012 (7-17) for its third year

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  The Australian Film Festival returns in March 2012 (7-17) for its third year screening the best new and classic Australian films. The Festival celebrates everything Australian about film with the opening (07 March) and closing nights film and party (17 March), a jam-packed food and film street fair day (11 March), an outdoor movie under the stars on the sands at Clovelly Beach (10 March) and much more.                                         ...

Highlights of upcoming 18th FICA - International Asian Film Festival

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    Kore-eda Hirokazu, Atiq Rahimi, Tran Anh Hung, Ermek Shinarbaev Four major directors at 18th FICA (Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie) Vesoul International film festival of Asian cinema 14-21 February 2012     With the wide audience of 28 327 people at last FICA, Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema is part of the main film festivals in France. FICA is also the oldest film festival in Europe entirely dedicated to Asian cinema.   ...

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