Spike Lee Visits FUNGLODE and Meets with its President, Leonel Fernández
The renowned filmmaker was accompanied by the Director of the Festival de Cine Global Dominicano, Omar de la Cruz; the head of the National Film Office, Ellis Pérez; Laila Petrone, production assistant on Spike Lee’s recent documentary Bad 25, as well as Jan Gabriel Rodriguez and Celines Toribio, who organized the visit.
Spike Lee visited the Santo Domingo h...
‘Terms and Conditions May Apply’ (2013) is an acutely relevant documentary that anyone who uses any communication tool whatsoever-internet, computer, tablet, phone, etc.- must see. It is an accurate nail-biting suspense of a very real situation all of us buy into and sign up for every day, and yet neglect to really think about. Director Cullen Hoback’s thesis in ‘Terms and Conditions’ is a vital piece of journalism reminding us of the essence of freedom th...
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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SETS DATES FOR BOTH THE 29TH and 30TH EDITIONS January 30 - February 9, 2014 January 22 – February 1, 2015 * * * Introduces the Concierge Pass All Passes and Packages 25% OFF through June 28th
Santa Barbara, CA, May 1, 2013 – The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has set Thursday, January 30 through Sunday, February 9, 2014 as the dates for the 29th edition of...
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THE PROJECT profiles the precarious, real-life story of the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF), a shadowy group of pirate hunters. Taking after the hijacking of the world’s waterways and the kidnapping of innocent citizens with its under-trained hands, the PMPF faces mutiny, murder, and diplomatic mischief in its dangerous quest to rid a country and its coastal waters of terror. The mercenaries’ epic battle makes for an intense, gripping, and groundbrea...
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Mark your calendar: May 21, 7 pm - 9pm Le Suquet : Wine tasting with film festivals organizers attending Cannes. Toast?
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The Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974 meant the end of dictatorship in Portugal. Celebrate with Dafilms and DocLisboa and stream the films about The Carnation Revolution from April 25 to 28 FOR FREE @ http://dafilms.com/event/119-the-carnation-revolution/
The Carnation Revolution or Revolução dos Cravos was a largely bloodless coup which occurred in the nation of Portugal in 1974. The result of the Carnation Revolution was the toppling of a dictatorship which had prevailed...
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HEINEKEN AND THE TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCE WINNER OF THE FIRST EVER HEINEKEN AFFINITY AWARD
One African-American Filmmaker Receives $20,000 Prize and Industry Support for Future Projects.
[New York, NY – April 20, 2013] – Today, Heineken USA, the world’s leading international brewer, and the Tribeca Film Institute® (TFI) announced the winner of the inaugural Heineken Affinity Award. The award, given to an African...
FILM & Wine from Sonoma, CA to the Atipodes.
When it comes to film festivals there are now thousands today, as if it is the goal of every city or town in the world to have one in order to slap a cultural stamp on its identity. While almost every city in the world now boasts its own film festival (and some cities have multiple) few cater to both cinema and wine together. Let’s face it, the worlds of film and wine are not that different- both require passion and art, a lot of ...
CIFEJ in collaboration with “Dytiatko” Festival will organize the International Conference on “GlobalVillage, Children, TV and Cinema”.
As a leading professional organization focusing on film industry - high quality films with useful educational content for children and young people - The International Center of Films for Children and Young People (CIFEJ) has decided to launch this conference as a premier forum for communications and network rese...
A film Arsy-Versy was inspired by the Space Odyssey and Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The film made by Slovak director Miro Remo has won numerous awards all over the world and you can STREAM it FOR FREE from April 22 to April 28 @ http://dafilms.com/event/118-space-odyssey-and-thus-spoke-zarathustra-in-miro-remos-film/
Miro Remo was born in Ladce, a small industrial village in the centre of Slovakia in 1983. He graduated grammar-school in 2001, then settled in Bratislava, capital c...
RUN & JUMP (2013) **OFFICIAL SELECTION: 12th TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL**
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The feature debut of Academy Award®-nominated director Steph Green. Starring Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam and Will Forte. Tribeca Film Festival World Premiere on Saturday, April 20th.
Synopsis:
An authentic, unconventional love story and an intimate family portrait, Run & Jump is the feature film debut of Academy Award®-nominated d...
GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA (2013)- Documentary. World Premiere at 12th Tribeca FF.
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GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA:
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a...
The 12th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival hosts the bittersweet final chapter of the 'Before' trology. ‘Before Midnight’ (2013) has received electric international buzz since its world premier in January at Sundance and at its international premier in February at the Berlin International Film festival.
Many films have attempted to capture the truth about love, but few have ever gone the lengths of the ‘Before’ trilogy. It began with an in...
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The 2013 Short Film Selections feature eight programs and 60 shorts; everything from narrative, documentary, experimental and student films.
-CHARACTER WITNESS – April 19, 22, 27 and 28 These documentaries present first-person perspectives that ponder events affecting life, death and in-between. In Yamamoto, Japan, eighteen months after the Tohoku disaster, survivors left with nothing hold onto their existence through pictures found and...
French winemaker Gauillaume Bodin’s film ‘La Clef des Terroirs’ (2011) to be released on DVD in France and America. The film held its international premier at the 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Relevant to the situation of California wines and agriculture here in northern California, the film discusses the benefits of ‘biodynamic’ organic farming in the world of wine. It is a form of modern wine producing being used in the global wine industry tod...
"Oh, some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French." John Masefield (1878-1967), Captain Stratton's Fancy.
“Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.” Medieval German saying.
A film festival in wine country Sonoma would not be complete without films about wine. ‘A Year in Burgundy’ (2012) continues its festival circuit at the 16th edition of the ...
"Oh, some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French." John Masefield (1878-1967), Captain Stratton's Fancy.
“Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.” Medieval German saying.
A film festival in wine country Sonoma would not be complete without films about wine. ‘A Year in Burgundy’ (2012) continues its festival circuit at the 16th edition of the ...
International Children's Television Festival "Dytiatko" and the International Center of Films for Children and Youth (CIFEJ) entered into an agreement to hold the framework of the 5th annual festival "Dytiatko" CIFEJ Days in Ukraine.
CIFEJ Days including:
- CIFEJ Animation and Film Workshop
- CIFEJ Board Meeting;
- Two-day Media-Conference “Global Village, Children, TV and Cinema”;
- Screening CIFEJ winner Films.
Days CIFEJ first held in Ukraine....
‘As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate’. -John Lilly (1553-1606)
One of the best (and most fitting) films to screen at the 16th annual Sonoma Film Festival was the French wine-drama ‘Tu Seras Mon Fils’ (‘You Will Be My Son’, 2011). The film is a drama of Shakespearean proportions with nail-biting twists and turns creating as much tension and unpredictability as a vineyard’s year.
Di...
‘As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate’. -John Lilly (1553-1606)
One of the best (and most fitting) films to screen at the 16th annual Sonoma Film Festival was the French wine-drama ‘Tu Seras Mon Fils’ (‘You Will Be My Son’, 2011). The film is a drama of Shakespearean proportions with nail-biting twists and turns creating as much tension and unpredictability as a vineyard’s year.
Di...
“Dytiatko” festival is a noncommercial one; participation in it is free of charge. Children TV and animated studios and also TV companies and producer centers which make programs for children are welcomed to take part in the festival.
Nominations:
- “Best Play Film of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best Documental Film of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best TV Program of a Children’s TV Studio”;
- “Best News Progra...
