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MANIFF 2017

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We've had plenty of fantastic work submitted to next years festival and there is still time to get yours in before our final deadline on November 16th. 2016 was a stunning year for MANIFF and 2017 is set to be even better with a wide range of films from around the globe. Check out the video below and see what you can expect from one of the fastest growing festivals on the circuit.   To submit go to FilmFreeway or Withouabox ...

Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema

Founded by three local independent filmmakers, The Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema is the first and only film festival of its kind held in Kew Gardens, NYC, and its surrounding neighborhoods. Running for 10 days in August, the festival will showcase more than 100 films of all genres from around the world. Films will be shown at Queens' only operating art house theater—Kew Gardens Cinemas, located in the heart of Kew Gardens in Queens NY. The festival will culminate with a grand award ceremony gala on the rooftop penthouse of the world-famous Terrace on the Park, built for the New York World’s Fair in 1964. Conveniently located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, it features panoramic views of some of Queens' greatest landmarks, including the renowned Unisphere and the New York State Pavilion. Awards will honor the best films presented at the festival, and winners will walk away with beautiful statuettes. What makes our Festival stand out from the other opportunities available to filmmakers is that we are focusing on the TRULY independent film, not the film that is funded by the indie film division of a major studio. Nor are we focusing on what celebrity or 'name' actor may be in your film. We want to see the work of filmmakers and their teams who have poured their blood, sweat and tears into making their vision come to life. We are showcasing the best in all genres, including themes often overlooked by other major film festivals, like Horror, Sci-Fi, LGBT, Comedy, Animation and Experimental. We are a Film Festival founded by independent filmmakers, so we have a great understanding of the filmmaker needs when it comes to getting films made and in front of an audience. Along with filmmaker Q&A's after each screening, we will also be holding industry panels featuring some of the best names in independent cinema discussing their strategies, their struggles and how they broke into the film business. Other panels will consist of conversations with independent Producers, Casting Directors and Distributors. Our goal is to bring back and remind people why film festivals exist in the first place - which is to give otherwise unknown filmmakers the opportunity to screen their film in front of large audiences and have their work seen. In addition, we will be screening all our films in an actual operating Art House movie theater, unlike other festivals that show their films in screening rooms or otherwise other rented facilities that aren't prepared to screen films the way they should be. Upon acceptance each filmmaker will receive up to four (4) Filmmaker Badges that will allow access to all the screenings and panels being held throughout the festival, along with exclusive access to our Filmmaker Cafe & Lounge. Filmmaker badge holders will also be entitled to a 5% discount on all merchandise being sold at the festival. All selected filmmakers and respective cast & crew will be given the opportunity to purchase Gala Award tickets at a 30% discount. Opening night will consist of a meet the filmmakers mixer, where filmmakers will have the opportunity to network and promote their film with other festival attendees. Certain selected films to be featured in our Festival Spotlight programming will have a red carpet premiere as well as an after party hosted by the festival. Our Opening and Closing night films will consist of specially invited premieres following a red carpet event. While the festival will not be offering transportation or lodging for its inaugural year, through our sponsors we will be offering discounts and coupon codes to be used towards Hotel accommodations and commuting. We guarantee to have distributors and producers in attendance alongside our selected panel of industry professionals who make up our Jury. Winners for every category will each be receiving a personally engraved unique statuette. Industry guests who have expressed interest in participating in our festival are Lloyd Kaufman, founder of TROMA films; Larry Fessenden, actor/writer/director/producer with Glass Eye Pix; Joe Minion, writer of Vampires Kiss, After Hours. Our Festival will be taking place in Kew Gardens Queens in NYC, USA. Our venue, THE KEW GARDENS CINEMAS is Queens' only art house theater dedicated solely to playing independent and foreign films. Named one of the top 7 theaters in Queens, the theater was built in the 1930's and it is one of the oldest movie theaters still operating in NYC. A little known area of NYC, Kew Gardens and its surrounding neighborhoods - Forest Hills, Rego Park, Woodhaven and Glendale - are a major stomping ground for most television shows being shot today in New York. Not only is Kew Gardens known as the neighborhood that raised comedians Rodney Dangerfield and Ray Romano, but just a few minutes away is the recently built Broadway Stages. This area of Queens has now been featured in several blockbuster Hollywood films like The Babysitter, Goodfellas and Spiderman as well as major Network TV shows including- Daredevil, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, The Get Down, Luke Cage and SNL.

World of Film Festival Glasgow 2017: Submissions Open

The submissions for the 4th edition of the World of Film International Festival in Glasgow, Scotland are now open. The very earlybird submitters can send their short and feature films across the three main sections of the festival - First Features & Shorts Competition, Female Perspective & Focus on Balkan Cinema.  Films can be exclusively submitted via Film Freeway by clicking on the link below.    ...

FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires , Argentina

FIDBA is the first International Documentary Film Festival in Argentina, a space where cinema of the real, films with the same vocation, dialogue with one another and address the diversity of forms and particular tasks that take reality as material. From this premise, the FIDBA is planned as an annual event in which they will present a selection of new directors, revisit the films of prominent authors and will recover works and films unknown to mainstream audiences.

 

FIDBA also aims to be a meeting place for authors to widen our perception of reality and ways of expressing it and thinking it out through film, but also the arts, new media formats and new narratives ranging from photography to instalations, from documentary theater to transmedia storytelling, not to mention the intersections between reality and fiction. The Festival is open, in short, to all documentary works that are a reflection and an effort to understand reality.

 

Facing a market that prevails and makes all relations a part of a great show, documentary film maintains and reaffirms its character, for making every moment and letting rule for things not easily controlled, must necessarily invent forms for always unresolved issues: the documentary is unable to reduce the world to a previous device. And though the procedures are provided, and by nature, insecure, unstable and fragile, that is exactly their strength and driving force: to be there to allow the construction of new maps and to explore over those that are not entirely known to us yet.

WoFF 2016: The Awards

WoFF: World of Film International Film Festival has just wrapped up this year’s edition at Glasgow’s Britannia Panopticon Music Hall. The 2016 members of the jury Colin Kennedy, Bruno Chatelin and Laurie Gordon, who unanimously confirmed their excitement about this year’s official selection of the festival are announcing the following awards: - Best Feature Film: Tierra Caliente by Laura Plancarte | with a special mention to Get Happy by M...

Open Call for 22th Caminhos Film Festival

            Está aberto o período de Inscrições para a 22.ª edição do Festival Caminhos Cinema Português via FilmFreeway! Inscrições Grátis até 11 de Agosto! — Open Call for entries on the 22th edition of Caminhos Film Festival trough FilmFreeway! Free Early Bird entries until 11th of August!  + info at: http://www.filmfreeway.com/festival/cam...

Sydney Film Festival: Hub launch at Town Hall

The 63d Sydney Film Festival launched few days ago and already counts numerous sold out screenings and exclusive premieres as part of this year’s Australian and International selection.  Last Friday, the official festival hub opened its doors to all festival attendees and the public who have the opportunity to swing by and have a closer look at excerpts from this year’s programme, along with some exciting projects, installations and VR short film presentations.  The Hub i...

NYC Indie Film Festival Announces New Award for 2017!

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NYC Indie Film Festival is partnering again with SONY to award Catalyst Production Suite digital software to 12 award winners in the 2017 edition of the Festival! Submit today for your chance to win! Full details are found on the official website: https://www.nycindieff.com/submissions/submit ...

Champagne Reception at Russian Pavilion

To celebrate the russian presence in Cannes this year, the country's representatives organised a succesful champagne reception at the Film Market gathering media and market professionals to speak about Russian cinema and its new horisons. One of the biggest moments for Russian cinema this year in Cannes is the film "Uchenik (Student)" by Kirill Serebrennikov, part of this year's Un Certain Regard official selection.  Here are some photos from the event yesterday afternoon...

"Through the Pane" to have LA premiere on Hollywood Blvd!

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"Through the Pane" will have its Los Angeles premiere at Hollywood Shorts, hosted at the Genesis Cinema Lounge, at 6356 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 7:30p. There is a cocktail reception beforehand from 6-7:30p. ADMISSION is FREE! (Cash bar) The film's director, Dawn Westlake, will be in attendance. "Through the Pane" features an original score by Gregory Johnson of Acoustic Labs. Gregory's music can also be heard in the Tom Hanks-starr...

VISTA

VISTA is the most important cinema industry event of the region, organized by Ultracine S.A.

VISTA has evolved and grown year after year over the last six editions, being today one of the most important fairs, gathering more than 600 professionals of the industry that visit us from abroad.

In this 7th Edition there will be exclusive product presentations, exhibitions, trailers of the most important movies in the annual movie listing, meetings and lectures on distribution, exhibition, commercialization and publicity, as well as previews of new equipment and last technological advances, that will make this seventh edition a great opportunity for the entertainment business growth.

For all these reasons this edition turns to be a new appointment you cannot miss because it celebrates the cinema experience. We look forward to seeing you and share it!

 

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

  •  The most representative industry companies executives of the region.
  •  Movie theater chain managers.
  •  Independent movie theater owners.
  •  Distributors and production companies.
  •  State-bodies delegates, private institutions, embassies and universities.

REASONS TO PARTICIPATE

 PRESENTATIONS

Distributors anticipate the most important year premieres to the movie theater owners through exclusive presentations for Vista.

 NEW ARRIVALS

Goods and services companies show their new arrivals related to the industry: digital projections, laser lamps and sound systems, theater seats, etc.

SPECIALISTS

The most respected international specialists give lectures on the new tendencies in the entertainment business.

 BUSINESS

VISTA event is an ideal occasion to reinforce and generate alliances and business with other companies of the film industry.

 

VISTA OFFERS:

 OPPORTUNITY

A great opportunity to establish new commercial relationships and to strengthen the existing ones.

 ENTERTAINMENT

The cinema is an entertainment activity permanently growing that goes beyond crisis and consumption falls.

 TENDENCIES

The possibilities to know new tendencies and entertainment industry advances.

 

X SHORTini Film Festival 2016

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  RULES  Each author can take part at the festival with maximum two films for each competition.  Both for  NATIONAL COMPETITION, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION and for ANIMATION COMPETITION:  are accepted every kind and format of short film.  Each author can take part at the festival with film made after the 1° january 2013.  The film can’t be no longer than 35 minutes with  headlines and credits.  Italians short film can compete...

5 YEARS FUKUSHIMA - NUCLEAR FILMS WANTED

Five years Fukushima, 30 years Chernobyl, 37 years Three Mile Island. In 2016 the International Uranium Film Festival will be held in Los Angeles in March, in Rio de Janeiro in May and in Berlin in September.   The festival is interested in any film about nuclear energy, nuclear accidents and use and risks of radioactivity in general. From the Three Mile Island nuclear accident to Chernobyl, from the radioactive accident in Goiânia (Brazil) to Fukushima. The deadline f...

Call for entry: URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL 2016

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December 03, 2015 / Press Release   2016 URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ENTRIES - THE FESTIVAL TAKES PLACE MARCH 24 TO 28 IN LOS ANGELES, MAY 20 TO 28 IN RIO DE JANEIRO AND IN SEPTEMBER IN BERLIN   Rio de Janeiro (December 03, 2015) — The International Uranium Film Festival announced the last call for entries for the 2016 festival screenings.  The Regular Deadline is December 31, 2015 and the Final Deadline is January 31, 2016. The annual fe...

International Film Festival North Hollywood

 

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NORTH HOLLYWOOD - APRIL 28 - MAY 1, 2016 at the NoHo Arts Center in the NoHo Arts District of North Hollywood, CA.

IFFNoHo is designed to be a launch platform for new films, a nexus for discussion, and an expertly programmed showcase in all genres. The best films share a wonderful combination of substantive story-telling and creative use of the moving image and we invite all of you who are passionate about this collective form of expression to apply.

“Cinema is beyond entertainment”-Nitin Kakkar,director of Ram Singh Charlie at 46th IFFI in Goa

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    “Cinema is beyond entertainment.“Making films is about what you yourself want to narrate and we should be open to all kind of cinema” says  Nitin Kakkar director of Ram Singh Charlie. which has  Divya Dutta in the lead role.The film traces the life of an impersonator who performs in a circus. ...

Uranium Film Festival Berlin ended with glamour and stars from the German cinema

Berlin/Rio de Janeiro, October 03, 2015: The International Uranium Film Festival Berlin ended with glamour and stars from the German cinema. Film director Marcus Schwenzel received in Berlin the Uranium Film Festival’s Yellow Oscar 2015 for his movie "Seven Years of Winter". Together on the stage were Casting Director Uwe Bünker from Berlin and famous German actor Roman Knizhka who is one of the leading actors of Marcus Schwenzel´s Chernobyl movie.  ...

Daniel Hanifan, The Famous Artist Who’s Redefined Art and Cinema, A Passion for Life! By Adrienne Papp

SPOTLIGHT MEDIA PRODUCTIONS   Daniel Hanifan A Passion for Life! By Adrienne Papp Like a lot of great artists, Daniel Hanifan knew what he wanted to do at an early age. One of Hanifan’s Work At about the age of seven he remembers spending a lot of time making “things.” Instead of an interest in playing sports or games, like most other children in his neighborhood in Michigan, Daniel us...

WoFF 2015 Student Competition: Focus on India

    WoFF: World of Film International Festival Glasgow is setting the scope of its first Commonwealth Student Competition on India.    The Festival’s spirit to promote independent filmmaking and emerging cinemas from around the world, in conjunction with the Student Competition’s focus on the Commonwealth countries, puts Indian cinema in the spotlight for the 2015 edition of the festival.    “India’s film culture is one of the oldest ...

First Animation Day at Cannes 2015

  Sketch by Nesta Morgan www.art4film.com/ By Martin I. Petrov, Montreal Intl Animation FF Coordinator  The first Animation Day at the Cannes Film Festival, that took place today at the Horyou Village, located at the grounds of Le Grand Hotel Cannes created a fertile ground for animation producers, filmmakers and animation lovers to share news around their work, while attending a panel discussion and a screening of Best Of films from MIAFF 2015. Among the films screened were T...

Brazilian Yellow Oscars To 4 European Films

  Rio de Janeiro, 15/05/2015 - The Brazilian born International Uranium Film Festival is a global festival dedicated to films about all aspects of nuclear power: from uranium mining to nuclear power plants, atomic bombs and atomic waste, from Hiroshima to Fukushima. The Jury of the 5th International Uranium Film Festival has now selected five films that receive the Festival's Yellow Oscar Awards 2015 and that will be honoured in Rio de Janeiro and Be...

Race and Cinema

      https://youtu.be/3ViVPRWRRmk       With racial turmoil so prevalent in America today, it’s always refreshing to meet someone willing to have a fulfilling conversation about this impossibly complex issue.   Nydia Simone, an up and coming film maker,  has a perspective that will hopefully find it’s way into the consciousness of the industry.   “Dope” will be screened during the festival, which I person...

Movie Star Karine Vanasse at Uranium Film Festival 2015

Rio de Janeiro/Quebec 14/05/2015 - The International Uranium Film Festival thanks Canadian movie star Karine Vanasse for her support and presence at the opening of the festival in Quebec City, April 2015.  "We are very honoured to have stars like Karine Vanasse or like the famous Indian actress Amala Akkineni from Hyderabad on our side", says the Festival´s executive director Marcia Gomes de Oliveira. The question of nuclear power is an important but also at the same time...

The Yellow Oscars of 2015 go to ..

Five Yellow Oscar Awards went to films from France, Spain, Ukraine, USA and Germany/Denmark Rio de Janeiro, 12/05/2015 - The International Uranium Film Festival was held this year for the first time in Quebec City and Montreal. During nine days, between April 15th to 24th, the festival screened more than 40 documentaries and movies about nuclear power: from uranium mining to nuclear power plants, atomic bombs and atomic waste. The Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) was ...

FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA 2015 - Call for submissions

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The Festival du nouveau cinéma is looking for films, interactive works and performances for its 44th edition wich will run from October 7 to 18, 2015 in Montreal! Send us your works BEFORE JUNE 1st, 2015 to maybe be part of the Festival this year! Early bird rate before April 30, 2015! Two easy ways to submit a short or feature film on line:  - via Zone Festival - via Withoutabox   For more information, you can write to soumissions@nouveaucinema.ca &...

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