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QFest Hosts Events With A Touch of Drag and Quite a Few 'Bears'!

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What’s a film festival without a few parties? As the East Coast’s largest LGBT film festival, QFest is bringing the best. From poolside parties in Northern Liberties and glamour and glitz in the Gayborhood, to an evening with a few ‘bears’, QFest promises to keep you partying for 12 days straight. Following the Opening Night film Elliot Loves (Thursday July 12th at 7:15pm Ritz East 1), festival goers will head over to Table 31, 32 N. 17th Street, from 9:30p.m.-12:30a.m., for the O...

The Durban International Film Festival returns

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The Durban International Film Festival returns for its 33rd year to celebrate the magic of cinema in all its beauty and diversity. From the 19th to the 29th July, Durban will be illuminated by the glow of the silver screen, with over 290 screenings in 10 venues across the city. Alongside world-class cinema from across the globe, comprising 80 feature films, 40 documentaries and 45 short films, the festival offers a comprehensive workshop and seminar programme that facilitates the sharing...

Paolo Balicha by ConnexFilm 2010

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Zachary Quinto's Before the Door Pictures to Open HollyShorts Film Festival

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The organizers of Hollyshorts (www.hollyshorts.com) announced today that Zachary Quinto and his Before The Door Pictures ("Margin Call") banner (www.beforethedoor.com) will open the 8th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival (HSFF) with a special theatrical world premiere of PERIODS. (www.periodsfilms.com), an improvised comedy film series created by NY-based filmmakers Victor Quinaz, Anna Martemucci and their ensemble crew.   The showcase of the PERIODS. shorts will be held during the Ho...

Shangai Film Fest awards and ambiance

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Shanghai, once called the Paris of the East, is rapidly becoming one of the major cultural and financial destinations in the world.  The Shanghai International Film  Festival, sponsored by Jaeger Le Coultre , watch maker extraordinaire,  wrapped its 15th edition Sunday night with a bang and a Closing night ceremony featuring a Broadway like production number. Chinese Superstar Chow Yun Fat received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Martial Arts legend Jackie Chan.   I...

How Well Does This Sum Up the Challenges Faced by Indie Filmmakers?

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Some recent findings on independent film by researcher Craig Puller: http://valleyfilmfest.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-well-does-this-sum-up-challenges.html ...

Video Festival Imperia 8th edition

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Video Festival Imperia for the third consecutive time has been placed  under the high patronage of UNESCO for “the high value of the initiative aimed at promoting arts and at the preservation of the different expressions that make up the inestimable heritage of cultural diversity”. The 8th edition will start the 23rd of April 2013 and will last until the 27th. In the past edition we screened  77 films and awarded  35 prizes. The participants were 697 from 45 nations. O...

Video Festival Imperia 8th Edition

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Video Festival Imperia for the third consecutive time has been placed  under the high patronage of UNESCO for “the high value of the initiative aimed at promoting arts and at the preservation of the different expressions that make up the inestimable heritage of cultural diversity”. The 8th edition will start the 23rd of April 2013 and will last until the 27th. In the past edition we screened  77 films and awarded  35 prizes. The participants were 697 from 45 nations. O...

ÉCU's Partner IN THE PALACE Film Festival: A Short Film Festival with Royal Status

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IN THE PALACE Film Festival is the first and only festival of its kind in Bulgaria. Located in the quaint and romantic town of Balchik, the festival was first established in 2003.  The title of the festival originated from its venue, an architechural park, called "The Palace." "The Palace" was summer residence of the British princess and Romanian Queen, Marie of Edinburgh and constructed especially for her upon request. Initially beginning as a forum predominantly fo...

Euromed Audiovisual to hold first workshop on distribution in the South Mediterranean

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  Euromed Audiovisual to hold first workshop on distribution in the South Mediterranean On July 5 and 6, Euromed Audiovisual will hold a workshop in Jordan on strengthening film distribution in the South Mediterranean, in partnership with Europa Distribution andEuropa Cinemas. It will bring together 18 distributors, selected experts, and sales agents. This first workshop will include presentations on: Existing multi-territorial acquisition structures Network initiativ...

Privet from Moscow

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Off we go... Our first submission is a 3-minute Documentary called Reservation.   Shot in Moscow in 2011, the film was produced in 2012 by a team of VGIK fellows.    Synopsis - Thousands of people from all over the country gathered in the centre of Moscow to attend the celebrations of the 66th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War on the Red Square. But most of them had managed to see very little of celebrations: the entire city center cordoned...

Message to filmmakers who want to make an impression on the festival circuit

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Non Stop Festivals ! Dear friends Our website is the leading pro media and social network serving the film & festivals community worldwide since 1995. We think we can help. Here is how. Get your weekly eTicket for the festival circuit: sign up for our weekly newsletter (join 128 000 colleagues of yours worldwide in receiving fresh news from winners, line ups, festival announcements, deadlines...) Click here to subscribe to our weekly newsletter for free. Click this one...

The 11th New York Asian Film Festival launches this week

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    The New York Asian Film Festival (June 29 - July 15) returns !   The opening night film is Pang Ho-cheung’s astonishingly filthy, extremely hilarious VULGARIA, a movie about making movies, shot in just 12 days, all about gangsters named Brother Tyrannosaur, sleazy lawyers, the sex film industry, and men who love donkeys a little too much. The Hollywood Reporter calls it a “...laugh-out-loud, aptly titled comedy.” Pang himself, Hong Kong's hottest young director, will be a gues...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul will preside the Jury for the Locarno competition

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Thai director, screenwriter, producer and videomaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul will be Jury President for the Concorso internazionale (International competition) at the 65th Festival del film Locarno.   © Chaisiri Jiwarangsan Born in 1970, Apichatpong Weerasethakul holds a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Apichatpong Weerasethakul has come to be recognized as one of the most original v...

Phoenix FearCON V - 5th Phoenix Fear Film Festival

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This year's Phoenix FearCON V is scheduled in Tempe Arizona for October 13 2012. This year's fest is going to be Badass. Lots of interesting happenings, including live action Zombies vs Plants, Zombie Runway Fashion Show, the Zombie Housewives of the Apocalypse, Panel Discussions, Screenplay Contest, Best Scream Contest, Costume Contest and we're negotiating at the moment to bring in Zombie Midget wrestlers.. (you heard this first - no one else knows that). Plus the ...

IFTA Applauds Signing of Treaty on Audiovisual Performances at WIPO Diplomatic Conference

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The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) applauds the successful conclusion of the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances with the adoption of the this important international Act and Treaty springing from WIPO negotiations. The signing of the Act by 131 Member States and Treaty by 46 Member States, including the United States, France, Spain and conference host country, the People's Republic of China, is the first of its kind for protection ...

Winners of the Aruba International Film Festival’s Caribbean Spotlight Series

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Winners of the Aruba International Film Festival’s Caribbean Spotlight Series (CSS) Competition were announced on Sunday night at a special Festival event held on the rooftop of the Paseo Harencia. Encouraged by tremendous local support over the last two years, AIFF continues to expand its popular "Spotlight" series, which was created to showcase movies from Aruban and Caribbean filmmakers. The CSS Jury Award was split between two films; the US/Dominican Republic baseball...

Lineup for the sixth running of the Treasure Island Music Festival

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Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment are thrilled to announce the lineup for the sixth running of the Treasure Island Music Festival on October 13th & 14th, 2012. Saturday, October 13th will be headlined by Girl Talk, making him the first artist to ever return to Treasure Island, while Sunday, October 14th will be headlined by The xx, who will be making their only U.S. festival appearance in 2012. The lineup also includesPublic Enemy (marking their 25th Anniversary), M83, The Pr...

The Female Eye Film Festival wrapped

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Filmmakers and screenwriters from all over the globe including the United Kingdom, Australia, Turkey, Argentina, France, Sweden, Trinidad, Sierra Leone, Bahrain, Romania, Israel, the US, and Canada travelled to Toronto to participate in and celebrate in the 10th Anniversary Female Eye Film Festival (June 20th – 24th, 2012). In a shaky economy The Female Eye Film Festival held strong with unprecedented screenings, script readings, industry panel discussions and the FeFF 10th Anniversary Phot...

Hugh Hudson: Sport is a form of pure art

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  Sport is a form of pure art, an individualistic form of art. Even collective sports like football are art in themselves. Yes, sport is definitely an art – water jumps are so beautiful, archery as well. There is something else as well – collective sports like football, volleyball, basketball create a feeling of togetherness, commitment, family. Individual sports such as running, on the other hand, inspire you to challenge yourself every day. The goal off course is not to w...

2012 Tribeca Film Festival Circuit Coverage

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By Maria Esteves – June 26, 2012 The 11th Annual 2012 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF 2012) presented by founding partner American Express commenced April 18 - 29, 2012 in New York. This year’s festival showcased 106 features, 60 shorts, and 88 premieres including panel discussions, special events, online screenings, real time video streaming, free events (Tribeca Drive-In, Family Festival Street Fair, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day, Tribeca Soccer Day), filmmakers, and industry parties. The opening ...

Sorkin Presents NEWSROOM at Los Angeles Film Festival

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Halfway through the first scene (he writes long scenes) of Sorkin's NEWSROOM I thought, "This show could change the world." I am a Sorkin fan, and an idealist, but that's besides the point. In the same way that THE WEST WING made Americans feel apart of what was happening in Washington, NEWSROOM does too. It takes place in a newsroom in Washington, and not only that but it's set during the real events of the day beginning on April 20, 2010. I feel like this kind of pseudo-inside look...

Comic On A Half Shell starts hitting Connecticut television

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Comic On A Half Shell chronicles Conversation Crossroad host Garrison Leykam’s experiences learning to become a stand up comedian and debuting at New York City’s Gotham Comedy Club. Comic On A Half Shell will be airing in Connecticut on: Nutmeg TV for residents in Avon, Berlin, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Farmington, New Britain and Plainville on July 11th at 7pm. You can watch on Comcast Channels 5, 95 & 96 and AT&T Channel 99 as well as on the Internet “Live...

EFA 2012 at Cinema City

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The last day of Cinema City, film festival settled in Novi Sad, Vojvodina in Serbia went on with finale and awards of the Cinema City International Film Festival. Members of the Board of the prestigious film institution European Film Academy have been honorary guests of the Cinema City 2012 and this is the first official visit of the European Film Academy to Serbia. At the meeting of the Board, held in Novi Sad, Saturday June 23, decided about domestic film artists to become member of th...

The Clip Takes it All at Cinema City

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Cinema City is the past eight days showed a hundred films, most of which have premiered the local audience. In addition to four competitive selections, the program was introduced Revue "MTV is the Burn Planet Rock" and 360 °. This year Cinema City marked the visit of members of the board of the European Film Academy and a significant number of domestic and foreign filmmakers and professionals including a special guest was the German director Andreas Dresen. The festival Cinema City ...

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