Day 2 kicked off with rain and wind and yesterday was sunny and hot. I am not sure which I prefer... The day promised a lot and I didn't realise that the 3 films that I was about to see all had the same basic theme - acceptance. I caught Coming out of the nkuta, a film from Cameroon, at the Royal Hotel and was stunned at how prejudiced the society in Cameroon is. Homosexuality is still banned with "culprits" going to jail for five years. Apparantly, this country is even worse than mo...
THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS NOW OPEN for the 4th
Annual Taos Shortz Film Fest. We are rapidly gaining placement with the
highest rated short film fests in the USA.
Dedicated to featuring quality, juried short films from
around the globe; we invite you to bring your adventure of creativity to
our film fest! Accepting animation, comedy, fiction, dramatic fiction,
documentary and experimental-. Take the opportunity to strut your stuff
amidst the mountains and mesas of Taos, NM.
Do yo...
"A.S.E."
THE ACTION SEMINAR OF THE EAST COAST
3-DAY COURSE IN ACTION AND STUNTS!
OCTOBER 8-10, 2010
Pond View Equestrian Center
362 Wakefield Road
Pascoag, RI 02859
THE MISSION OF "ASE" IS TO PROVIDE SAFE TRAINING IN ACTION STUNTS
FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
*BOOT CAMP-STYLE CONDITIONING*
To compete in this business, one must be in optimum shape!
Be prepared to work out and move!
*STUNT RIGGING AND RAPPELLING*
Lear...
The Festival du Film Merveilleux promotes films celebrating the imaginary, the Wonder and magic from all over the world. The Talulah Association also organizes short-film and features film events in Paris ( all themes welcome ) as well as film workshops and ecological awareness. Founders are Benedicte Beaugeois and Maureen Gerby.
Best film 2010 : Le Portail directed by Liam Engle ( Black Bird Production & ASM )
Best animated Movie 2010 : Fard directed by David...
The
Festival du Film Merveilleux promotes films celebrating the
imaginary, the Wonder and magic from all over the world.
The Talulah Association also organizes short-film and features film
events in Paris ( all themes welcome ) as well as film workshops and
ecological awareness. Founders are Benedicte Beaugeois and Maureen Gerby.
The themes of the Film festival are magic, the imaginary, the marvelous,
the astonishing, the supernatural, the occult,...
Winners of Bangkok IndieFest's 'Golden Shirt' Award to be Determined by Audience Choice
Winners of Bangkok IndieFest's 'Golden Shirt' award in each category to be determined by audience choice this year, via ballot selection for each of the 80+ participating films.
See complete schedule and lineup here:
http://www.bangkokfest.com/schedule_venues/schedule_venues.html
BANGKOK INDIEFEST 1.0: August 6-8, 2553
More info @ http://www.bangkokfest.com
&nb...
VIDEOHOLICA 2010
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
EDITION 3 / KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE
10 – 18 AUGUST 2010, VARNA, BULGARIA
Between August 10th and August 18th, 2010, the 3rd edition of VIDEOHOLICA
International Video Art Festival will be held in Varna accompanying AUGUST IN ART
International Biennial of Visual Arts.
During the festival 9-day duration, according to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 motto 'KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE', various video selections and projects describin...
Dear friends,
we are happy to inform you Valpolicella Film Festival will extend its entry deadline to August 31st! We are waiting for your works!
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The Montreal World Film Festival will pay tribute to the celebrated French actress Nathalie Baye, who will be in Montreal to present a selection of her films. One of the most well-respected and versatile French actresses of her generation, Nathalie Baye has enjoyed a lengthy career that has included multiple César awards and a wide variety of roles. She has been the muse of many of the great directors of the French screen, such as Alain Cavalier, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Luc Godard, Toni...
SOMEWHERE (Sofia Coppola)
The world premieres are coming strong and fast for the Fall film season as the Venice Film Festival has announced a particularly stellar competition section. For North Americans not making the trip to the Lido, many of these films will receive their North American premieres at the Toronto Film Festival a week later in September (the two festivals actually overlap for a few days on the first weekend of September).
Twenty-two films have been set to ...
The unholy day is upon the beautiful town of Ljutomer, Slovenia! Today at 19:30h at the City Cinema Jose Mojica Marins will proclaim his ghastly gospel at a ferocious Q&A session, hosted by our Vicious Cat Jury President Dinko Tucaković. It will be followed by a vicious outburst of his most spine-chilling films. The first blow will be delivered by the Strange World of Coffin Joe at 21:30h at the Culture House Cinema. Then the carnival of horror will move to the Open Air Cinema at the Main S...
Next week The Sicilian Girl (2009) by director Marco Amenta starring Veronica D'Agostino and Gerard Jugnot will open in theaters in the U.S. The Sicilian Girl is a based on the true story of Rita Atria, a teenaged girl born into the Cosa Nostra who rebelled against the mafia as a witness in Italian courts to avange her father's death. It is a riveting dramatic thriller that has received international acclaim.
I saw The Sicilian Girl in Palm Springs, California when Amenta screened h...
La 22è compétition de films sur la nature et l’environnement
des Rencontres Cinéma-Nature, se déroulera du 8 au 10 avril 2010, à Dompierre-sur-Besbre dans l’Allier.
Pour inscrire un film à la sélection des 22es Rencontres
Cinéma-Nature, nous vous invitons à nous envoyer avant le 30 novembre 2010 : une copie D.V.D du
film, un résumé, le bulletin d’inscription dûment rempli et le règlement signé.
Pour plus d’informations sur la compétition e...
I have arrived yesterday 28 July and what a day it was! Flying in from Johannesburg was memorable as I saw two South African singing sensations making out at the drop-off. They can be compared to Bollywood stars as they have just starred in a local film together called Jakhalsdans where they fell in love on the set! It was something to behold to see thse two kissing as they would have been arrested in places like Dubai. The flight down - just under 50 mins - was routine and then Durban hit me...
BANGKOK ~ Organisers of the 2010 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsas) are expecting about 200 films from more than 40 countries to have been submitted for this year’s competition by the time entries close on August 23.
A total of 44 Official Submitting Organisations have been confirmed by Apsa and the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) to submit films to represent their country or area.
In addition, films are invited to compete by members of the Apsa No...
This is a great opportunity for me to present a dear friend of mine, Maria Clara Spinelli, actress of the award winning film Paulista (Quanto Dura Amor?, 2009) by director Roberto Moreira with Silvia Lourenco, Danni Carlos, and Paulo Vilhena. Maria is from a town called Assis in the interior of Brazil. In the film, however, she acts as the 'Paulista' native, Suzana. Maria has stunned audiences worldwide with her radiance and talent. Her honest and transparent nature communica...
Subtravelling second international exhibition of short films on the subway, from 15 to 24 October● The points of the festival will be the station of Universitat (L2) and the new exhibition hall Mercè Sala Diagonal (L5)● This year will a new section open to the passengers with the mobile as a cameraAfter the success of last year, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) is launching a new edition of Subtravelling, the second international exhibition of short films on the subway. S...
It is always a leap of faith to go into the heart of darkness, but the rewards can be great. This sentiment comes to mind with the release this Friday of one of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of the year. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s brutal genocide of its own population.
The film recounts historical facts through the personal ...
Once again you have a whole lot of goodness coming your way at Slovenian most extreme film and wine extravaganza, Grossmann Festival in Ljutomer!
There will be a Q&A session with Uwe Boll at the City Cinema at 19:30h, hosted by our Slak's Vicious Cats Jury member Alin Ludu Dumbrava, film critic from Transylvania! Open Air Cinema will also be in the sign of the controversial German director. After the documentary Raging Boll at 21:00h you will be able to see his adrenaline-ridden and gore-...
Is Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone an anti-semite? This question has swamped the blogosphere in the past few days after the director gave a controversial interview to the Sunday Times of London. The director of such celebrated films as PLATOON, WALL STREET, JFK and NIXON, whose most recent documentary SOUTH OF THE BORDER is a controversial look at the left-leaning politics in current favor in South America, has not exactly been known for his discretion. He is a social and political...
Hollywood has been buzzing about it all summer. Who would star as the male lead in the tinseltown version of the incredibly popular novel trilogy by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. Brad Pitt was considered the front runner and Tom Cruise was said to be interested. But word comes out from the Hills of Beverly that English actor Daniel Craig has closed his deal to star in Sony’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” plus the two potential follow-ups that will be based on author Stieg L...
The Cottbus FilmFestival announces prize money rise for the anniversary edition at the ENH in Wroclaw On Tuesday, 27 July 2010, the Cottbus FilmFestival held a reception at the largest film festival in Poland, the Era Nowe Horyzonty in Wroclaw, for the first time. At the festival club Arsenal the organizing agency pool production and all representatives of the festival office did welcome numerous well-known producers, directors and actors for the "Cottbus Cocktail". In his speech during the rece...
The Zieglerfilm Köln GmbH funds and hands out the Michel Award this year at the 8th Michel Kinder- und JugendFilmfest of Filmfest Hamburg 2010. The award includes prize money of 5000 euros. The patronage for this year’s Michel Kinder und JugendFilmfest is shared: award-winning actor Kai Wiesinger along with his wife and colleague Chantal de Freitas. ...
ERA New Horizons International Film Festival, named by the Polish Film Institute as the most significant film event in the country, is in full swing in the historic city of Wroclaw. Festivities began on July 22nd with the Polish Premiere of the Festival's opener Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner, Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) by Xavier Beauvois. That same evening also saw the screening of a second French film, the kaleidoscopic Enter the Void, the latest masterpiece ...
