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August 18th - 21st, 2016.
Montreal International Animation Film Festival screen animation features, shorts and experimental film. Industry conferences, panels and international co-productions will be facilitated. Workshops on the state of the art(s). Public film festival screening, panels and educational platform for children. A student film contest challenge from all graduate level animation film schools across the province of Quebec and Canada.
We are happy to announce a brand new edition festival and industry conference August 18th - 21st 2016.
Exciting new films, original programming and industry conferences are currently being developed and scheduled.
ANIMAZE ANNOUNCES FULL PROGRAMMING ANIMAZE: The Montreal International Animation Film Festival is set to announce its full lineup in advance of the festival on August 18-21. Now in its third year, ANIMAZE is bringing a world of animation to Montreal. With a selection of over 170 short and feature-length animated films at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, an outdoor 360º Dome with planetarium-style projection and a Virtual Reality Cinema, Animaze has an inspiring and dynamic range of con...
Animaze has announced its industry conference schedule for the upcoming edition on August 18-21. The Animaze industry conference is a four-day gathering bringing together animation studios, distributors, vendors, tech startups and developers. Our roster of speakers includes industry leaders such as Clive Smith, Athena Georgaklis, Marie-Claude Beauchamp, Pascal Pelletier and more. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of hit PBS series Arthur, key figures from the show will talk ...
The adventures of Arthur Read the aardvark from Elmwood City, have delighted viewers and inspired millions of devoted fans. This hour long panel discussion will explore the development and production of Arthur, the classic PBS animated series developed and animated in Montreal. A discussion with directors, designers, writers and voice talent who have played key role in the direction of the show over its 20 year existence. Panelists will explore the creative process behind Arthur, key p...
Selection of trailers from upcoming films sccreening at Animaze 2016 Programming blocks at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Maxwell Cummings Auditorium Opening Ceremonies on August 18, 2016 7:00 pm Brave New World on August 19, 2016 1:00 pm Human Nature on August 19, 2016 3:00 pm Student Film Contest on August 19, 2016 5:00 pm Animaze Kids on August 20, 2016 1:...
Yona Pelovska filmmaker and VR jury and Animaze director Laurie Gordon Animaze press conference produced a great turn at Hotel le Meridien in Montreal Canada August 2. In attendenace were new partners for Animaze 2016 and 2017 including McCord Museum, Valtech, SAT - Societe des arts et technologies, Hotel 10 where th eindustry conference will be held, le Meridien Hotel, Fig55- All 2D screenings at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Spec...
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The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology.
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.
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General Submission: June 1st - August 31, 2016
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Official Line Up Announced: December 1st, 2016
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Celebrating world-class horror films and the filmmakers who terrify, disgust, and disturb us.
Submission: June 1st - August 31st, 2016 (Submission Fee - $25)
Official selections will be announced September 13th, 2016
Official competition dates: October 1st - 23rd, 2016
Winners Week: October 24th - 31st, 2016
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Join us September 23 to October 2, 2016 when over 100,000 film lovers in over 250 cities gather in Cinemas, Museums and Universities for one purpose...to view and vote on the Finalist's Films in the 19th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.
MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites. If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, MANHATTAN SHORT offers the ultimate platform -- one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Kathmandu, Vienna, Cape Town to all fifty states of the United States and beyond --
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Three debutants: North America’s Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm and Britain’s William Oldroyd will also compete for the Golden Shell The competition for the Golden Shell at the latest edition of the San Sebastian Festival, running from September 16th to 24th, will have as its protagonists some of the most eye-catching moviemakers on the international panorama. Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama), Fernando Guzzoni (Jesus), Johannes Nyholm (Jätt...
The San Sebastian Festival will host the European premier of American Pastoral, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor. The Scottish actor, Donostia Award Winner in 2012, will compete in the Official Selection with his directorial debut. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philip Roth novel, American Pastoral follows an all American family across several decades, as their idyll...
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Highlight The conversation with Jane Birkin tomorrow at 10.30 (Spazio Cinema Forum) has been canceled. The conversation will take place at 16.15 at Palavideo and it will be followed by the screening of LA FILLE PRODIGUE by Jacques Doillon Piazza Grande Events, 5 August JASON BOURNE by Paul Greengrass INTERCHANGE by Dain Iskandar Said Leopard Club Award to Stefania Sandrelli Special Events/Conversations with guests 5 August, 11.00,...
Three Dollar Bill Cinema is thrilled to announce the world premiere of Clyde Petersen's feature film debut, TORREY PINES, as the Opening Night film of the 2016 TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival. The film will screen ...
Free Fire to close this year’s LFF The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® is delighted to announce that this year’s Closing Night gala will be Ben Wheatley’s high-octane action thriller Free Fire. Massachusetts late ‘70s. Justine (Brie Larson) has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Iri...
We had a quick phone call with up and coming writer/director Kenneth Andrew Williams and here’s what we learned about race, MTV and his upcoming horror film Expulsion. What inspired you to become a writer/director? I was enamored with movies at a very, very early age. In fact, I wanted to be an actor when I was 8 years old because, at that age, all I could see were the people in front of the camera. And I thought they were making up everything as they fucking went. A short whi...
Dalia is stranded on planet Earth being left behind by a visiting scout ship from another planet. Dr Jones discovers her and gets help from Milly a spaceship navigator to try get her back home. Written by Warren Philp and co-written by Joyce Cocchi. ...
AFTERLOV, the debut feature from Greek director Stergios Paschos, will receive its world premiere in the Locarno International Film Festival’s "Concorso Cineasti del Presente" on 8 August, 2016. Greek sales company Heretic Outreach have come on board to handle worldwide sales, with all territories available. It’s summertime - a time when Athens feels hotter than the desert. Nikos, a broke 30-year-old musician, is chilling poolside and drinking cocktails...
By Maria Esteves – July 31, 2016 The Asian American Women Media Makers (AAWMM) Talk Back with multi-award winning Hong Kong director and screenwriter Mabel Cheung, moderated by co-founder S. Casper Wong, AAWMM, was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Saturday, July 23, 12PM. Presented by AAIFF16, director Cheung discussed her early film career from Hong Kong to England to New York, her first trilogy works (The Illegal Immigrant, An Autumn's Tale, Eight Tales of Gold)...
The European Film Academy awards the Collegiate Church of Sant Vicenç in Cardona the title “Treasure of European Film Culture”. picture: Departament de Cultura. Generalitat de Catalunya. AVIOTEC. In October 1964, Orson Welles used the Collegiate Church of Sant Vicenç in Cardona as the location for CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, his personal Shakespeare adaptation, with himself in the leading role. Although shooting lasted nine months, o...
By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016 The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Night Premiere of SPA NIGHT, directed by Andrew Ahn was held at Asia Society, New York, Thursday, July 21, 2016. A special Q&A session with director Ahn and lead actor Joe Seo moderated by festival programs manager Haisong Li, AAIFF, immediately followed. Questions posed to Ahn and Seo by Li and the audience included: "What message did you wanted to deliver by makin...
By Maria Esteves – July 29, 2016 The 39th Asian American International Film Festival 2016 (AAIFF16) Opening Press Conference was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Wednesday, July 20, 1PM. Presented by Asian CineVision (ACV), executive director John C. Woo, the event highlighted this year’s ten day (July 21-30) celebration of diversity in cast and themes by emerging and established Asian and Asian American filmmakers from 18 countries includes TOTO, directed ...
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Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore
Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family - 105 minutes - United Arab Emirates, USA
World premiere in Cannes
An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®
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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...
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.
Feature - Feel Good Movie - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest
Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again.
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The 15th International Film Students Meeting will take place on 20th-23rd September during the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival and will be held in Tabakalera Yet another year the San Sebastian Festival and Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture present the International Film Students Meeting, an event seeking to shed light on the work of students from film schools across the world. The pre-selection of works for this fifteenth, Meeting sa...
The San Diego Latino Film Festival is proud to announce the 2016 Exitos Del Cine Latino Film Festival (Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2016) Presented by Westfield Plaza Bonita Over the course of an exciting week, 15 must-see Latino films will premiere, accompanied by special celebrity appearances, dynamic musical performances, Lowrider Car Show, and exhibits by local artists. Film selection features: Spanish-Argentine thriller Cien Años de Perd&oac...
Piazza Grande Events, 4 August MOKA by Frédéric Mermoud Premio Raimondo Rezzonico to David Linde Special Events/Conversations with guests 4 August, 12.00, Spazio RSI (La Magnolia) Conversation with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Yann Coridian Hosted by Marco Zucchi and Daniele Rauseo 4 August, 13.30, Spazio Cinema (FORUM) Conversation with Bill Pullman (Excellence Award Moët & Chandon) Hosted by Eric Kohn Press Screening...
Piazza Grande Events, 3 August The opening ceremony will take place Wednesday 3 August on the Piazza Grande at 21.30. Presentation of the official juries of the three competitions Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to Bill Pullman Screening of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS by Colm McCarthy Press Screenings (Teatro Kursaal) 3, August, 12.00 Cinema Ex*Rex, Fuori Concorso UN JUIF POUR L’EXEMPLE by Jacob Berger 3 August, 13.30,...
check latest updates http://festforums.com/schedule/ NOVEMBER 19, 2016 10:30 am - 12:00 pm The Fess Parker Opening Reception & Registration Welcome cocktails & snacks More info 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CF1: Room 4 Converge...
FestForums is happy to announce the return of Best of the Fests! We will be awarding one winner from each festival type (music, film, and food & beverage) in 3 different categories: Sustainability, Innovation, and Charity for a total of 9 winners. Is your festival green? Does your festival have the wow factor? Or does it give back to the community? Let us know! How to Enter: Send an email to info@festforums.com with the following: Subject: Best of the Fests ...
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The Bristol International Festival of Cinematography CMIR | Bristol | United Kingdom | 20-24 September 2016 Western Europe’s only major festival of cinematography returns to Bristol, UK, with a programme of workshops, master-classes, screenings, talks, demos and Q&As led by some of the film industry’s best-respected off-screen talent and the latest insights on how new imaging technologies promise to revolutionise filmmaking. &n...
By Maria Esteves – July 31, 2016 The Asian American Women Media Makers (AAWMM) Talk Back with multi-award winning Hong Kong director and screenwriter Mabel Cheung, moderated by co-founder S. Casper Wong, AAWMM, was held at the Museum of Chinese in New York (MOCA), Saturday, July 23, 12PM. Presented by AAIFF16, director Cheung discussed her early film career from Hong Kong to England to New York, her first trilogy works (The Illegal Immigrant, An Autumn's Tale, Eight Tales of Gold)...
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J.A. Bayona will present “A Monster Calls”, out of competition, and the latest works by Diego Galán and Jo Sol will enjoy special screenings in the framework of the Official Selection Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Images in high resolution Nine titles with Spanish production will form part of the New Directors, Horizonte...
Sigourney Weaver, star of ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'', Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival The European premiere of J.A. Bayona’s ''A Monster Calls (Un monstruo viene a verme)'' will be presented in the Official Selection out of competition The Official Selection of the 64th San Sebastian Festival will include the European premiere of the latest movie by J.A. Bayona, A Monster Calls...
Local community leader brings experience and leadership to new position. Community and business leader Ryan Tarrant has been named the Co-Executive Director of the Sunscreen Film Festival. Tarrant will share duties with current Exec. Director Dwight Cenac II. Tarrant has been a part of the Film Festival’s Board of Directors for the past two years. “It&rsqu...
Locarno69 celebrates and pays tribute to the multi-faceted talents of a major actor: Harvey Keitel. In addition to the awards ceremony on the Piazza Grande on August 6, the tribute will also include a screening of Smoke by Wayne Wang, winner of the Prix du Public UBS at Locarno in 1995. He is the face of Sport, The Wolf, Hal, Charlie, Auggie, Rocco or simply the “lieutenant”. Locarno is awarding one of the greatest of H...
To mark the second year of the collaboration with Red Bull Music Academy, the Festival del film Locarno is pleased to announce a public lecture with Argentinian auteur Gaspar Noé, taking place on Saturday, August 6. Gaspar Noé is one of the m...
Keywan Karimi is a 30-year-old Iranian filmmaker who has been sentenced by Iranian authorities to six years in jail and 223 lashes. His crime: practicing his profession as a filmmaker and showing the unofficial face of Iranian society. A graduate from the University of Tehran, Keywan Karimi has studied communication and social sciences and participated in film directing workshops in Germany, Thailand and Russia. His short film Broken Border has received awards at vario...
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The San Sebastian Festival and Jaeger-LeCoultre promote a new award to acknowledge the career of prominent figures in the world of Latin cinema Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud to sponsor the San Sebastian Festival for the fifth year running. This year, La Grande Maison consolidates its presence at the event by giving the “Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award” to a prominent figure in the Latin cinema world. In this first edition the award will go to the film actor, d...
Organized in the frame of the 16th T-Mobile New Horizons International FF in Wrocław, the 7th New Horizons Studio's aimed to raise awareness of the importance of pitch in a film pre-production process and offers training in pitching to 24 participants from 10 countries all over Europe. Two-day intense teaching is composed of lectures on production, promotion and distribution of a film and a team-to-expert sessions about the pitch itself. The following professionals shared ...
Polish Days are the most important industry event of the 16.T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, where industry representatives including programmers, sales agents, producers, film funds and distributors from all over the world meet to watch the latest Polish films at closed screenings. This year's edition of Polish Days took place on 27-29 July. Six completed Polish films and nine works-in-progress were shown at closed screenings during the event. Another nine projects in d...
Premier Science Media Competition Honors Finalists Record submissions top 500+ Awards Gala to be held at Harvard Art Museum Jackson, WY (August 1, 2016) – Today the Jackson Hole Science Media Awards (JHSMA) announced finalists in 22 categories spanning content, program and craft in the science media field. JHSMA celebrates the world’s most effective science storytellers and stories. This&...
The winners of the 16th T-Mobile New Horizons International Festivals received their awards at a gala event at the New Horizons Cinema. Films competed in five different competitions this year: the New Horizons International Competition, the Films on Art International Competition, the Polish Short Films Competition, the European Short Films Competition, and the Zoom Competition. From among the 10 films in the New Horizons International Competition, the jury, consisting of Mania Akbari, Gust Va...
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Script to Screen Summit | September 9, 2016 • Toronto, Canada | You have the Script We have a way to get it to the Screen. Learn how it’s done from the Script to Screen Summit Crew: Miranda Bailey, Producer, Cold Iron Pictures: Actor, writer, director, and ...
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Dear FilmFestival buyers and distributors, In the last month or so, we’ve attended both The Festival de Cannes and The LA Film Festival and the response to Festpicks has been overwhelming. I’d like to take this time to thank those who gave invaluable feedback to us and to invite those we didn’t get to personally, to email us for more information. Here are some answers to the questions asked: What is Festpicks? A new streaming site designed for film...
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l’actrice et réalisatrice carole laure, présidente d’honneur du 8e festival international de cinéma les percéides en gaspésie du 24 au 28 août. Percé le 2 août 2016 - Le Festival de cinéma d’auteur Les Percéides en Gaspésie qui prépare sa 8e édition qui se déroulera du 24 au 28 août 2016 sur le site enchanteur de la Vieille Usine de l’Anse-à-Beaufils (Perc...
Centre d’art et de culture 15 bd des Nations-Unies - 92190 Meudon Renseignements 01 49 66 68 94 www.festivalmeudon.org Présentation Depuis plus de 25 ans, notre manifestation a pour vocation de découvrir les réalisateurs de demain, de valoriser le patrimoine et enfin de sensibiliser le jeune public et les scolaires au cinéma, à travers cet espace de liberté qu’est l...
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