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KIM JEE-WOON AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO OPEN 2013 BUSAN WEST FILM FESTIVAL AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY’S DODGE COLLEGE OF FILM AND MEDIA ARTS
Orange, CA (February 20, 2013) - Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premiere film schools in the United States, in continued partnership with South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Asia’s largest film festival, today revealed the official progra...
Thursday 21 February, a press conference was held at Monte Verità in Ascona, to announce the program for L’immagine e la parola, the first Festival del film Locarno spin-off event that is part of Primavera Locarnese. The event, with Carlo Chatrian as Artistic Director, focuses on the relationships between the moving image and the written word. L’immagine e la parola comprises different kinds of event, some of which are open to the public (Soiré...
The Brazilian born International Uranium Film Festival had great success in India. Between January 4th and February 12th the Uranium Film Festival travelled with more than 40 selected films through India from North to South and from East to West. The festival was guest in 10 cities: New Delhi, Shillong, Ranchi, Manipal, Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Thrissur and lastly in Mumbai.
All together the festival reached an audience of about 5000 spectators during the screenings....
ÉCU-The European Independent Film Festival is delighted to announce the Official Selection of it's 8th Edition. ÉCU 2013 will showcase 90 films from 28 countries which will compete in 15 categories for 25 awards on the 29th - 31st of March in Paris, France.
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Film festival-hopping, in India
Film- makers, as much as films, stole the show, at the three film festivals I attended in India, recently.
It’s tough to escape film festivals, in India, as there are so many of them . You name the cities, and they all have them . Apart from Goa, N.Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Trivandrum, they now have film festivals in Bangalore , Pune, Jaipur, Nasik !
The International Film Festival of India (IIFI), held at Goa, the coun...
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is regarded as the biggest and one of the most important festivals for animated film worldwide. From April 23 to April 28, 2013 around 1,000 of the best animated films worldwide, will be shown in Stuttgart representing the whole spectrum of the genre. In addition to the competitions with the newest films from all over the world, the Festival also has an Extensive selection of supporting programme which offers exciting highlights such as the ...
14th Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) takes place April 12-19 with more than 45 films, including World, U.S. and N.Y. premieres from Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinos in the US. Participating countries are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the United States.
The full program and complete list of films will be available starting March 11th at www.hffny.com
HFFNY is the annual film and ...
The first edition of L'immagine e la parola, the Festival del film Locarno’s spin-off event that is part of Primavera Locarnese, will take place 24-27 March 2013.
The event, with Carlo Chatrian as Artistic Director, focuses on the relationships between the moving image and the written word. L’immagine e la parola comprises screenings, encounters, workshops and discussions, and is composed of both events for the general audience and an educational program fo...
The focus of Indian cinema has always been primarily inward, but over the last few years things seem to be changing. Time to explore the Indian genre films of 2013 in the sidebar programme
Imagine Film Festival
8 to 17 April 2013 in EYE, Amsterdam
www.imaginefilmfestival.nl
Bollywood, the largest film industry in the world, has never really managed to gain a foothold in the West, unlike Chinese, Japanese or Korean cinema. Judging by the popularity of Indi...
After one exhausting week with hundreds of films at Berlinale, nerves are on edge.
Some have given up before – like columnist Harald Martenstein from „Tagesspiegel”: „There are strong people, and there are weak people. At Berlinale, you realize in the last third to which group you are belonging.” In his case it´s quite clear: Martenstein himself „passed out and then slept for 14 hours”.
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After one exhausting week with hundreds of films at Berlinale, nerves are on edge.
Some have given up before – like columnist Harald Martenstein from „Tagesspiegel”: „There are strong people, and there are weak people. At Berlinale, you realize in the last third to which group you are belonging.” In his case it´s quite clear: Martenstein himself „passed out and then slept for 14 hours”.
Others were hanging on – and are now grumbling, when...
If you are running out of money, don´t have an accreditation and losing your Berlinale tickets, which you have bought – that´s… Berlin.
Different as our mayor said: Poor, but not sexy anymore (nowadays a visitor like the Australian musician Robert F. Coleman is claiming in a big „New York Times”-article that the slovenly life at so cheap Berlin has ruined his band – too many drugs and parties. But I don´t think you can blame the city when you a...
UDINE – The gaze focused on the present and the future of Asian film, through 60 titles that draw on the best productions in recent months, and a tribute to the world ambassador of Korean culture: the great Kim Dong-ho! This is the fifteenth – much awaited – edition of the Far East Film Festival. Here is the window that will open up, from April 19 to 27, on the Far East...
After Career Awards to the master of laughter Michael Hui and a legendary director such a...
Work in Progress’s 2nd edition will take place on 10-11th of April within Istanbul Film Festival-Meetings on the Bridge, and will be open to feature films and documentaries that are still in the shooting or post-production stages.
The workshop aims supporting the completion and international publicity of the films from Turkey, that are still being shot or in post-production. Films on the shooting or post-production stage that holds an international quality are ...
New Locations: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Naxoshalle Frankfurt
Entry Deadline for VGF "Nippon in Motion"-Award Extended
Great names always loom large – the first film highlights at the 13th Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection, taking place in the new locations Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Naxoshalle in Frankfurt am Main, have been confirmed. From June 4-9 2013 the biggest platform for Japanese cinema worldwide will present more than 130 new ...
Dear guests, as a Berliner I have to apologize: Sorry for this awful weather!
More mud than snow, a harsh and cold westerly and the sky almost always grey. Instead of „Heavens over Berlin” (the originally German title of Wim Wenders´„Wings of Desire”) we only can talk about the bank of clouds over the city in these days. „Süddeutsche Zeitung” from Munich (where they normally have snow all winter and beautiful mountains nearby) writes: If there is...
Call for Entries!! LIAF The London International Animation Festival (UK), submit Online for 1,5€!!
If you have a short film, submit it to the LIAF The London International Animation Festival (UK) for 1,5€! through Festhome, a new online submission platform!
This festival have £10 entry fee.
Create your free account at www.festhome.com where you will find more information on this festival. Remove all the postal fees, submit your entire short film in hi...
Dear guests, as a Berliner I have to apologize: Sorry for this awful weather! More mud than snow, a harsh and cold westerly and the sky almost always grey. Instead of „Heavens over Berlin” (the originally German title of Wim Wenders´„Wings of Desire”) we only can talk about the bank of clouds over the city in these days. „Süddeutsche Zeitung” from Munich (where they have snow all winter and beautiful mountains nearby) writes: If the...
The Second Annual Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival kicks off Thursday, February 28 2013 with three full days of screenings and after-parties. This year’s event offers something for everyone, highlighting the dynamic range of talent and storytelling capabilities the independent filmmaking community has to offer. Among the 58 films selected for screening is a diverse mixture of documentaries, shorts, features, animation, music videos and horror films, including 9 student fi...
Staged for the 22nd time, the annual New York Jewish Film Festival featured 45 films and shorts. The program presented a global perspective on the Jewish experience with a large number of productions devoted to the Holocaust and its aftermath. The 2013 festival included contemporary Israeli productions, avant garde films from the thirties, restored films, documentaries, several biopics as well as some titles focusing on the arts. &...
In 2013, the Festival is celebrating “big” anniversaries with ten companies. L’ORÉAL PARiS, for instance, has been a Principal Partner of the Berlinale for 15 years. This duration underscores the Berlinale’s attractiveness as a platform for sponsors. New to the Berlinale family are Samsung as a Third- Partner, and Doremi and DVS as Suppliers. For the first time, Canon will also support the Berlinale Talent Campus as a Principal Partner.
“We w...
The Berlin International Film Festival opened today, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm.
After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival was officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, China) and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick. The International Jury - whose other members are Susanne Bier (Denmark), Andreas Dresen (Germany), Ellen Kuras (USA), Shirin Neshat (Iran), Tim R...
The Berlin International Film Festival opened today, on February 7, 2013 at 7.30 pm.
After a few words of greeting from Minister of State for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, the Festival was officially opened by Jury President Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong, China) and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick. The International Jury - whose other members are Susanne Bier (Denmark), Andreas Dresen (Germany), Ellen Kuras (USA), Shirin Neshat (Iran), Tim R...
BFI Head of Exhibition and Festival Director Clare Stewart announced today that the 57th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, will take place from Wednesday 9 October until Sunday 20 October 2013.
The highly regarded BFI London Film Festival champions creativity, originality, vision and imagination by annually showcasing features,documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental films from around th...
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