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CRAZY HORSE SESSION – THE 48H ANIMATION JAM at ITFS - Application Deadline February 1, 2015

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Live Animation Competition CRAZY HORSE SESSION – THE 48H ANIMATION JAM 48 hours of non-stop animating at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2015? All those who are ready to take the challenge are invited to apply for the Crazy Horse Session – 48H Animation Jam till February 1, 2015. Animation students from international film and art schools as well as independent animators and animation producers aged 30 years or younger may participate. The organisers will choose four to fi...

IFFS 2014 Day 2 Agenda

9:00am – 10:00am Texas Ballroom 1 Tech: Sell Out Your Festival with Big Data Panelists will discuss how festivals can leverage the vast amount of data on concerts, bands, managers and other sources to maximize attendance. Learn the tools and strategies that festivals are using to leverage Big Data to drive ticket sales and marketing. Moderator: Biasha Mitchell, Manager, Music & Festivals, Eventbrite Panelist: Uri Bogler, VP Marketing, Fron...

3D Stereo MEDIA 2014 starts this Tuesday 9 December

Overview of event 3D Stereo MEDIA features the following main sub-events, all fully dedicated to some aspect of 3D: • International Conference on 3D Imaging (IC3D) - Tue & Wed • 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM) - Tue & Wed • Professional Conference (PCON) - Thu ...

DISCOUNTED ENTRY FEE! LAST DAY!

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Take advantage of a discounted submission fee TODAY ONLY!!!  Just follow our website instructions.  Go to www.nohocinefest.com for details.  Submit your film to our 2nd Annual festival, which will take place over week long period in April in the heart of Los Angeles!  HURRY!     ...

DISCOUNTED ENTRY FEE! LAST DAY!

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Take advantage of a discounted submission fee TODAY ONLY!!!  Just follow our website instructions.  Go to www.nohocinefest.com for details.  Submit your film to our 2nd Annual festival, which will take place over week long period in April in the heart of Los Angeles!  HURRY!     ...

More than 77 000 viewers at the Black Nights Film Festival

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  The 18th Black Nights Film Festival concluded on Sunday with more than 77 000 visits to cinemas and a record number of international guests. The festival presented about 700 films, 265 of which were full length, in 11 cinemas and 20 halls all over Estonia.   According to the festival director Tiina Lokk this year’s edition stood out in many ways compared to the previous years. In addition to the strong programme of films the festival was proud to present an impressive gues...

FMX 2015 trailer is based on the diploma project Wrapped

The student project Wrapped has been selected as the source material for the next FMX trailer. Wrapped, which was created by Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper and Florian Wittmann, thus promotes the 20th anniversary edition of Europe's most influential conference for digital entertainment, where Art, Technology and Business meet. FMX 2015 takes place from May 5 to 8 in Stuttgart next year. A first teaser for the breathtaking trailer has been released on the FMX website today. Wrapped has sco...

Star Studded Affair on Opening Night of the Singapore International Film Festival

The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) opened with stars including world-renowned auteur John Woo, actresses Zhang Ziyi and Juliette Binoche and actor Tong Dawei walking the red carpet. John Woo and Juliette Binoche   John Woo and Zhang Ziyi are in Singapore for Woo’s latest film, The Crossing, an epic love story spanning half a century of modern Chinese history. Woo, who has been making movies for over 40 years including A Better Tom...

Motown Fever Opening Night Party at the Bahamas International Film Fest

  BIFF will show over 90 films from over 20 countries.  Films at Galleria Cinemas JFK and Melia Hotel December 4 - 7 Opening Night Film LIKE SUNDAY LIKE RAIN December 5 Closing Night Film BIG IN JAPAN December 7 BIFF Awards Viewing  December 8 at Graycliff Hotel & Restaurant BIFF Plays and Screening with Roger Guenveu...

Think You Know A Lot About L.A.'s The Valley?

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Think you know a lot about The Valley? These young filmmakers thought they did. Join us in sharing this video to help crush stereotypes and appreciate the (818) in support of The Valley Film Festival a non-profit project of Community Partners. #VFF14     ...

Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin to moderate a panel on the challenges of a large film festival

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Special Challenges of Large Film Festivals ($500k + budget) Moderator Bruno Chatelin co founder filmfestivals.com Panelist: Joshua Nordin, Business Development Director, NEPS Worldwide –   Panelist:  Beth Caldarello, Operations Manager, Telluride Film Festival -   Panelist: Barbara Morgan, Executive Director, Austin Film Festival-   Panelist: Tonya Mantooth, Vice President, San Diego Film Festival  -       I see three moments in the discus...

Edinburgh announceD details of a new ‘Doc of the Day’ initiative for the 69th edition

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Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is pleased to announce details of a new ‘Doc of the Day’ initiative for the 69th edition (17 to 28 June 2015)  which will shine a light on documentary feature films and see a host of Premieres, special activities and guest panellists.   The Festival has unveiled plans for some exciting new developments around documentary films.  Reflecting EIFF’s early beginnings in 1947 as a Documentary Festival, the new ‘Doc ...

Locarno Industry Days Introduce Carte Blanche Extra

Festival del film Locarno 5 – 15 | 8 | 2015     Locarno Industry Days’ new initiative gives continuity to the past editions of post-production showcase Carte Blanche hosting the most promising upcoming producers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. From its first edition in 2011, the Festival del film Locarno post-production showcase Carte Blanche, focusing every year in a selected country, has given the possibility to producers of the most promising ...

Submissions for the LICHTER ART AWARD 2015

  The LICHTER ART AWARD is an international competition and exhibition, aiming to present the most contemporary, diverse and high-quality artistic works in the field of visual arts related to film. Accepted are works which use film and video as a primary media. The competition is open to visual artists, filmmakers and students from art and film academies. There are no restrictions on the theme of the work. To keep the high quality of the event, we want to make sure the works submitted me...

New York: DOC NYC, 2014

Netflix, Showtime, specifically HBO and more recently CNN as well as Aljazeera America, have been providing expanded platforms for documentaries which can be readily accessed.  Further festivals such as Britdocs and the Guanajuato International Film Festival’s ‘Documentary with an Impact’ program identify documentaries which have real consequences driving discernible change. Non-fiction programs have secured a firm position in the media landscape especially if they are i...

A Week in Festivals. Newsletter 666 - Filmfestivals.com

This weekly newsletter reaches 181 000  subscribers.                       Read this online I Promote Film to Festivals I Promote Festivals to Filmmakers I Email us I Advertize in our Newsletters and eBlasts I  Filmfestivals.com was established in 1995, over the years we became the premier link between film and festivals with 6....

14th River to River Florence Indian Film Festival: portraits of a generation

    The festival will pay Europe’s first tribute to international star Irrfan Khan, known all over the world for his roles in “Life of Pi”, “The Millionaire”, “The Amazing Spiderman”, “Lunchbox” and the HBO series “In Treatment”.  River to River Florence Indian Film Festival will take place in Florence from 6 to 12 December, Rome (13 and 14 December), Milan (February 2015) and, for the first time ever, in Mumbai ...

Try entering the San Diego Latino Film Festival Poster Competition

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: DECEMBER 12, 2014  12PM - No late entries will be accepted Poster must include the following text: Media Arts Center San Diego's 22nd Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival March 12-22, 2015 www.sdlatino.com | 619-230-1938   Please submit by:   DECEMBER 12,2014 12PM     Send submission via wetransfer.com to: Ian Virgilio Marketing/PR Associate San Diego Latino Film Festival ian@me...

New York: Polar Film Festival 2014

Held at the renowned New York Explorer’s Club, the annual Polar Film Festival was staged for the third time from November 21-22 presenting a selection of shorts and documentaries with Arctic and Antarctica themes.  The program included the 2013 feature film Maina by Michel Poulette on the role of an Innu leader’s daughter in the conflict between two clans. Given its focus and the superb photography of most productions selected the imagery of nature and icescapes shown was stun...

EFP in preparation to choose ten of Europe's One To Watch Actors at the Berlinale (Feb 5 – 15, 2015)

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  EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS 2015 Jury Line-up Is Unveiled   European Film Promotion (EFP) has today announced its five members of the prestigious EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS jury for 2015. This year’s jury represents various countries and stretches across numerous sectors of the international film industry, including Swedish actress and former SHOOTING STAR Eva Röse (Maria Wern), film editor (Empire magazine) Damon Wise from the UK, Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska (Elles),...

DOKKINO becomes the largest nationwide documentary film event for children and youth in Europe

The Finnish documentary film event for children and youth, DOKKINO, has yet again broken its attendee record. The tour that ended in November 2014 attracted more than 13 000 children and youth around the country to come and experience documentaries. DOKKINO has raised its popularity significantly over the last few years, and it has grown into the largest nationwide documentary film event designed for children and youth in Europe.   DOKKINO is a nationwide tour organized by DocPoint-el...

13th Festival of German Films in Moscow (3 – 8 December 2014)

  Tradition encounters new paths: film-makers like actress Katja Riemann as well as the directors Sigrid Hoerner, Mo Asumang and Lauro Cress will be presenting new prize-winning German productions at the 13th Festival of German Films in Moscow. This year will see the festival having an online presence on video-on-demand for the first time: the Russian VoD service ivi.ru is cooperating with German Films to have a German section in its program. The festival's opening film SUCK ME SHAKE...

A Week in Festivals. Newsletter 665 - Filmfestivals.com

This weekly newsletter reaches 181 000  subscribers.                       Read this online I Promote Film to Festivals I Promote Festivals to Filmmakers I Email us I Advertize in our Newsletters and eBlasts I  Filmfestivals.com was established in 1995, over the years we became the premier link between film and festivals with 6....

RIDM 2014 Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal (RIDM) Part 1 Report

Festival Report  Part 1  RIDM  (2014) : And as their motto rightfully states, “La Ou Toutes les Histoires Se Rencontrent” (Where All Stories Meet), the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), has boasted a very comprehensive program of contemporary life - where memory, the body, ethics, truth, reconciliation, story, and fabulation can be put on the big screen as documents to be examined discussed, dissected.  The Festival has open...

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