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Jane Fonda and Robert Redford to receive Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Festival

The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, upon recommendation of the Director Alberto Barbera   Fonda and Redford perform together in "Our Souls at Night", which will be screened after the Award Ceremony Iconic American actors Jane Fonda and Robert Redford have each been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice International Film Festival (30 August ...

 

Downsizing by Alexander Payne is the opening film of the 74th Venice Film Festival

World premiere screening on Wednesday August 30th   The fims stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig Downsizing, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska) starring Matt Damon,Christoph Waltz,Hong Chau and Kristen Wiig will be the opening film, in Competition, of the 74th Venice International Film Festival (30 August – 9 September 2017) directed by Albert...

 

The second edition of the Venice Production Bridge will take place from August 31st to September 5th

The second edition of the Venice Production Bridge will take place from August 31st to September 5th at the third floor of the Excelsior Hotel of the Lido di Venezia. The idea of building an opportunity for networking for all the professionals involved in production, not only in cinema but across all the audiovisual sector, has shown its relevance in the huge success of the first edition, with a 35% increase of accredited professionals and an enthusiastic feedback from all participants. T...

 

74th Venice International Film Festival - On-line pre-sales opened

This year, the screenings schedule will span over 11 days, from Wednesday 30th of August to Saturday 9th of September. The official line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival will be announced at the official press conference which will take place in Rome on 27th of July. Season tickets presale will be available also this year from the 17th of July at 3pm www.boxol.it/biennalecinema Season tickets will be available for the following time slots: Sala Grande:  5 pm, 7.30 

 

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Carlos Muguiro will be the director of the new Film School promoted by the Provincial Government

He designed the teaching curriculum of the Film School of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), and currently he is the head of the specialty Documentary Cinema in the same school. He has an accredited experience in the world of cinema as programmer, creator, teacher and researcher. Itxaso has said that “the winning project, The hypothesis of cinema, with a brilliant development, proposes a model of School which fully concurs with the idea outlined in this project”. Carlos Muguir...

 

Pardo d’onore Manor for Todd Haynes

  On Monday 7th August the Festival will pay homage to U.S. director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes. His latest film Wonderstruck will be screened in company with Poison, one of the featured titles in Locarno70, the sidebar dedicated to celebrating the Festival’s 70th anniversary.   The Locarno Festival offers tribute with the Pardo d’onore Manor to American director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes. At the 1991 Locarno Festival there were 19 movies contend...

 

Iconic horror film-maker, of the Living Dead fame, Romero dies at 77

Iconic horror film-maker, of the Living Dead fame, Romero dies at 77 Often called the father or progenitor of the modern zombie movie, American film director George A. Romero has died of lung cancer, in Toronto. He was 77. George A. Romero passed away on Sunday July 16, listening to the score of The Quiet Man, one of his all-time favorite films, with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero at his side. He died peacefully in his sleep. Born in The Bronx, to a Cuban-born ...

 

Actor Martin Landau, Oscar-winner at 66, dies, aged 89

Actor Martin Landau, Oscar-winner at 66, dies, aged 89 Martin Landau, who landed his first and only Oscar in 1994, at age 66, playing Bela Lugosi in the Ed Wood biopic, has died, aged 89. He is also well-remembered as the star of the Mission: Impossible TV series (1966-69). Starting his career in 1959, he had been nominated for the Academy Award twice before, for Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola, 1988) and Crimes and Misdemeanours (Woody Allen, 1989). Brooklyn-born Landau ...

 

Leslie Zemeckis: On Making Emojis From Her Film, Plus A Lady & A Tiger

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent It’s fitting that Leslie Zemeckis is in Italy when we decide to do an interview, because the word burlesque is derived from Italian roots in “burla,” meaning mockery, to poke fun yet shine a spotlight on sexuality. Actor, writer, documentarian Zemeckis has just come out with a line of burlesque emojis inspired by a project she did on Lili St Cyr, among other performers, but the line from her Showtime documentary BEHIND THE BUR...

 

Actor Martin Landau dies

Martin Landau  (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American film and television actor. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played regular roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award) and Space: 1999.   Landau received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – ...

 

Locarno Talks la Mobiliare: the visionary power of words

Locarno Talks     What happens when people try to shape the future? This is the underlying question for the concept behind Locarno Talks, a new platform for discussion and exchange set up by the Locarno Festival together with its Main partner la Mobiliare and featuring guests from the world of politics, economics and the arts. For the first run of the event, which will be held from 6 thr...

 

Pardo d’onore Manor for Jean-Marie Straub

Pardo d’onore Manor for Jean-Marie Straub  Born in France in 1933, with a career that stretches back over sixty years and that plowed a distinct furrow across the field of 20th century cinema. The Pardo d’onore Manor of the 70th Locarno Festival will be given to Jean Marie Straub on August the 11th 2017. Benchmark auteur for generations of moviegoers and directors, Straub spent much of his lifetime with his partner in art and life, Danièle Huillet (1936 – 2006) ...

 

RIP George A. Romero, father of the zombie apocalypse

"It is with great sadness that Famous Monsters acknowledges the death of a horror great: George A. Romero, father of the zombie apocalypse, visionary filmmaker and master of social commentary. The NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD writer and director was 77 and, according to reports, passed away after a brief battle with lung cancer. Romero’s influence on the pop culture world is nearly incalculable. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, and DAY OF THE DEAD are unique and unch...

 

 

Rob Stewart's motivations for Revolution

MAKE A DONATION IN MEMORY OF ROB STEWART Rob Stewart accomplished so much in his life, but there’s still more to do. To honour Rob’s memory, the Stewart family is collecting donations through WWF-Canada in order to continue his conservation work. You can help by visiting wwf.ca/robstewartfund and WWF-Canada will hold the proceeds in a fund to help carry on Rob’s legacy. A tax receipt will be issued. Make A Donation   ...

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John Toll to receive Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award

We are very proud to announce that John Toll, ASC, will be the recipient of Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award during the upcoming 25th anniversary edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, which will be held in Bydgoszcz between 11th and 18th November 2017. Toll is an American cinematographer and two-time Academy Award® winner with over four decades of experience in film and television. He has collaborated with such filmmakers as The Wac...

 

Golden Apricot Awards, Yerevan 2017

by Alex Deleon   Winning film director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan expressing his surprise and gratitude as Jury president High Hudson looks on   The Awards accorded by the International jury at Yerevan 2017 proved once again that festival prizes like Hollywood Oscars are next to meaningless. A Gold plated jury consisting of emminent filmmakers  such as Hugh Hudson of England, Aniko Enyedi of Hungary, and Ciro Guerra of Columbia, named a piece of cinematic trash, the In...

 

Grossmann Festival 2017 Awards

On Saturday, the 15th of July, the 13th edition of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival came to a conclusion with a magnificent closing ceremony. In our competition programs, the following awards were given: -VICIOUS CAT for best feature film:  THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN (La noche del virgen; Spain; 2016; directed by: Roberto San Sebastián) Special mention: RON GOOSSENS, LOW BUDGET STUNTMAN (Netherlands; 2017; directed by: Steffen Haars, Flip Van der...

 

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival 2017 Awards

On Saturday, the 15th of July, the 13th edition of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival came to a conclusion with a magnificent closing ceremony. In our competition programs, the following awards were given: -VICIOUS CAT for best feature film: THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN (La noche del virgen; Spain; 2016; directed by: Roberto San Sebastián) Special mention: RON GOOSSENS, LOW BUDGET STUNTMAN (Netherlands; 2017; directed by: Steffen Haars, Flip Van der Kuil) -NOISY CAT ...

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The 8th Taiwan International Children's Film Festival (TICFF)
March 29, 2018 to April 05, 2018
 
August 15 Early Bird Deadline
 

Held once every two years, the festival brings young children and adults too, to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place March 29, 2018 to April 05, 2018. PTS, the organizers of this event, are now signing up entries for this tremendous series of showings, attracting some of the finest film makers from around the world with the lure of USD 25,000 in prize money.  
 

A biennial film festival, TICFF brings young children and adults to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place in April 2018 for its eighth edition.

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The World of Film Festival
September 28 – October 1, 2017

July 20, 2017 Extended Deadline

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. 

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Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE 
August 17 – 20, 2017

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Horror Calling

FEARnyc New York's premier horror film festival October 27 – 29, 2017 - Horror Calling

Morbido Festival Mexico October 26 – November 5, 2017 - Horror Calling

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RIP Horror Film Festival November 10 -13 - Horror Calling

A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons...  The Bloody Dolls are Killin It at RIP Horror Hollywood! All filmmakers can submit direct to submissions@riphorrorfilmfest.com Not all submissions will be selected, only TOP 12 Features, TOP 18 Shorts and TOP 20 Micro Shorts will be accepted as official selections. In celebration of our 5th year Fees are FREE for stu...

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival Oct 12-20, 20 - Horror Calling

Shriekfest Announces its Commercial Contest!

Monsters of Film Festival: The Stockholm based festival is calling with final deadline july 6th

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Are you eligible for The Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship

  With just five weeks until submissions close (24 August), Sydney Film Festival and Lexus Australia are encouraging all Australian filmmakers to make their submissions for the Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship. To be eligible, filmmakers will need to enter the international competition, Lexus Short Films. Lexus Short Films is a global contest that gives four filmmakers the chance to collaborate with Oscar-winning film studio The Weinstein Company o...

 

Alejandro Jodorowsky's ENDLESS POETRY opens Wider 7/21 & 7/28

    OPENING SELECT MARKETS JULY 21ST & July 28TH OPENED NY/LA THEATRICALLY JULY 14TH *Directors Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival 2016* *Official Selection - Locarno Film Festival 2016* "Most artists reach a point in their careers where their productivity winds down.  At 87, Alejandro Jodorowsky speaks as though he's just getting started" INDIEWIRE "Endless Poetry is the most accessible movie he has ever made, and it may also be the best.  It...

 

Josh Brolin Was Always on the Hot Side & Now Hotshot Side in ONLY THE BRAVE

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent This opener from ONLY THE BRAVE’s official notes says it best: “All men are created equal... then, a few become firefighters." Josh Brolin stars with Miles Teller to bring the Granite Mountain fire epic to life. Expect this movie to drop Oct. 20, when the summer heat is gone. It’s based on an article by Boston Phoenix alum Sean Flynn, who wrote “No Exit” for GQ magazine upon which ONLY THE BRAVE is based. Should...

 

Thirteen first and second films to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Thirteen first and second films by filmmakers from Argentina, Belgium, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award   Share on Facebook   Share on Twitter Images in high resolution At a news conference held today, the San Sebastian Festival Director, J...

 

The third edition of Ikusmira Berriak selects four proposals from five filmmakers under 35 years of age

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Holy Smokes, That Professor Marston Has Some Women Wondering, Wow

By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Summer is when the blood is up, so this is perfect timing for the convergent efforts of two famous daughters, Megan Ellison and Amy Redford, to bring justice to the humans behind the superhero capes. And it’s directed by a woman, Angela Robinson. What the what, you may say? PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN, starring Luke Evans and Rebecca Hall, is the smoking hot ménage à trois, allegedly a true story, behind the Wo...

 

 

"Intent to Destroy" Genocide Denial Opus closes Yerevan Festival

by  Alex Delonian,  <Filmfestivals.com> NOTE: Armenian Genocide denial is the act of denying the planned systematic genocide  of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I, conducted by the Ottoman government As a form of denialism, it can be compared to similar national historical revisionisms such as Holocaust denial and Nanking Massacre denial.  The 2017 Yerevan film festival closed appropriately with a brutally frank exposition of the outrageous ongoing Turkish de...

 

LE CERCLE ROUGE at Yerevan

By Alex Deleon      The peak film of the Yerevan week was without a doubt "Le Cercle Rouge", the 1970 all star masterpiece gangland thriller by Jean-Pierre Melville.  Less well know than his younger Nouvelle Vague disciples, Truffaut and Godard, but a much better filmmaker, Melville specialized in deliberately paced psychological thrillers in which top French stars gave some of their best performances. At the very beginning we are informed that the cryptic title...

 

Locarno Festival, a 360° experience

        Locarno Festival, a 360° experience       Five days of free screenings, concerts and Dj sets will herald the inception of the 70th edition of the Locarno Festival and will accompany it beyond its closing date. This year, the 360° offering of this event is thus enhanced, creating an increasingly involving and rich experience thanks to two novel places, a garden in the heart of the Old Town and a new place to meet a...

 

 

Internet Film Festival

The Internet Film Festival will be held December 1-2, 2018.  Call for submissions is now open.  With 23 categories, your film will have a showcase. ...

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THE EVIL WITHIN by late Andrew Getty 
Winner in Houston WorldFest and Fantasporto

OFFENSIVE, Jon Ford's thriller.Winner in Houston Worldfest

"They were forced beyond breaking point; they have no regrets, does that make them bad people? The first part of this film will enrage you ! The second part will sate you !". Bruno Chatelin - Filmfestivals.com

A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a remote house in rural France, the very same village Bernard’s war hero father liberated during the Second World War, over 70 years earlier. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a crual gang of street kids, who terrorise the village.

An e-generation permanently plugged into their devices, devoid of empathy, a new breed of technological psychopath…Pushed beyond breaking point, can Bernard live up to his father’s legend, as the situation explodes into a brutal war of generations ?

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Revolution by Rob Stewart  

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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Artwork and first glimpse of Vesoul IFFAC 2018

Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas proudly presents the 24th edition poster. The painting by friend and artist Fabien Bigotte features elements of our 2018 program: the main topic is WOMEN SPEAK, country in focus will be MONGOLIA with many rare and remastered Mongolian Cinema Classics. The 24th edition will include a retrospective of all fiction features and documentaries of Syrian filmmaker MOHAMMAD MALAS, as well as atribut...

 

Gas Natural Fenosa and Isabel Coixet will present the first part of a film on energy efficiency in San Sebastian

    Gas Natural Fenosa renews its backing of the San Sebastian Festival and announces Proyecto Tiempo (Time Project), a feature film directed by Isabel Coixet and produced by the energy company as part of its Cinergía initiative aimed at expanding commitment to energy savings and efficiency.    The film consists of four pieces, conceived as short films, the first of which will have its premiere at this year's San Sebastian Festival.   T...

 

2017 Playa Vista Film Festival Events

The Playa Vista Film Festival held a networking mixer July 14, 2017 at The Work Bar!     ...

 

Official Poster of the 10th Annual Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco

"Roozbeh Jafarzadeh" is the winner of the 10th Annual "Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco" poster contest. www.IranianFilmFestival.org

 

Films of the International Uranium Film Festival Berlin 2017

These films are selected for the next International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin, October 11 - 15, 2017. LUCENS(link is external) Schweiz, 2015, Regisseur Marcel Barelli, Produktion Nicolas Burlet, Nadasdy film und RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera. Animation, 7 min, deutsche Untertitel.   Die Geschichte des ersten Kernkraftwerks 100 Prozent aus der Schweiz … aber auch des letzten schweizerischen Atomkraft-werks.  Bester Trickfilm Uranium Film Festival 2016. www.l...

 

Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival 2017 Awards

On Saturday, the 15th of July, the 13th edition of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival came to a conclusion with a magnificent closing ceremony. In our competition programs, the following awards were given: -VICIOUS CAT for best feature film: THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN (La noche del virgen; Spain; 2016; directed by: Roberto San Sebastián) Special mention: RON GOOSSENS, LOW BUDGET STUNTMAN (Netherlands; 2017; directed by: Steffen Haars, Flip Van der Kuil) -NOISY CAT ...

 

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Major Buzz Factory : Expérience de Bruno Chatelin du marketing Digital pour les films

Fort d'une expérience acquise dans la distribution de films pour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark.eting et le digital.

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L'affiche de la 24e édition du Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul se dévoil

L'affiche de la 24e édition du Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul se dévoile. Pensée, conçue et peinte à la main par notre ami et artiste Fabien Bigotte, elle reprend l'ensemble des premières pistes de programmation: une thématique dédiée aux PAROLES DES FMMES, un focus dédié au cinéma MONG...

 

Festival International du Film de La Rochelle - 2017...C'est fait!

Chères amies, Chers amis, Cela devient presque une habitude mais comment ne pas s’en réjouir ? L’édition du Festival 2017, la 45e, est la meilleure que nous ayons jamais connue. Le précédent record de fréquentation de 2016 est battu : nous totalisons 84 737 entrées salles (contre 80 862 ) et 90 072 pour la fréquentation globale (contre 85...

 

 

La France domine la programmation de la 28e édition de Cartoon Forum avec 28 projets

28 PROJETS FRANÇAIS DE SERIES TV A LA CONQUETE DU CARTOON FORUM DE TOULOUSE DU 11 AU 14 SEPTEMBRE La région Occitanie-Pyrénées-Méditerranée sera représentée avec trois projets : "Chicken of the dead" de Anoki, "AVNI, unidentified friendly oddity" de Milan et "The Survival of the Species" de Xbo films. Toulouse, le 6 juillet 2017 - La ville de Toulouse accueillera la 28e édition de Cartoon Forum, la ...

 

Jeune femme, la Caméra d’Or, en ouverture du FIFF Namur

Un chat sous le bras, des portes closes, rien dans les poches, Paula est de retour à Paris après une longue absence. Au fil des rencontres, la jeune femme est bien décidée à prendre un nouveau départ. Avec panache. ...

 

 

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