STANLEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WORLD PREMIERE OF BENEATH, PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND ADDITIONAL EVENTS
- Free Outdoor Screening of THE SHINING to Follow ROOM 237 Screening -
- Saturday Single-day Passes Now Available -
The Stanley Film Festival (SFF), presented by NBC Universal’s Chiller, announced today additional screenings, industry panels and special events for the inaugura...
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The countdown continues and we couldn't be more excited for this year's program. The party starts with doors opening at 8PM each night of the festival (May 1st-4th), so you have plenty of time after work to catch a free ride with SideCar to the Downtown Independent. Get your festival passes now! $30 gets you all 4 days + our super rad after party. To give you a sneak peek at what's in store, here's full schedule:
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In a surprise announcement at the Opening Night ceremonies of the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 25 - May 9), the San Francisco Film Society announced that Harrison Ford, one of American cinema's most iconic male leads, will be the recipient of the 2013 Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting. The award will be presented to Ford at Film Society Awards Night, Tuesday, May 7 at Bimbo's 365 Club.*
The announcement was a surprise for the actor who kept h...
Filmfestivals.com and Bruno Chatelin will be very happy to see some of our Film festivals organizers friends for a drinks - wine tasting terrace party, reserved for festival orgtanizers.
Mark your calendar: May 21, 7 pm - 9pm Le Suquet : Wine tasting for film festivals organizers attending Cannes. Toast?
Bring a bottle which you would like to share, something you like, something that grows in your country.
Wine with stories are fun.
Details to follow.
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The numbers are in and we're ecstatic to tell you
We had outstanding support and attendance for our 11th Season, Celebrating Women in Film since 2001!! It wouldn't have happened without YOU! We are very proud to have returned to our founding name and focus... celebrating women's cinematic achievements. Based on the outpouring of support and congratulations, clearly we made the right decision.
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Bruno Chatelinposted toMichael Ryan
a few seconds ago near Paris
I did not believe this news, I had to come here on Facebook to discover the sad reality.
I deal with thousands of film festivals (as filmfestivals.com founder) in some case with a very personal relationship...In dealing with him I rarely found such quick creative reactivity.
He will be missed.
Bruno
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LET’S SHOW “THE GREAT DICTATOR” TO THE NATZIS OR 38 FILMS IN THE SHORT FILM COMPETITION AT THE 53RD KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL
Following the qualification results to the national and music documentary competition, the organizers of the Krakow Film Festival announced the selection results of the short film competition. 38 films, including seven Polish productions, will compete.
The international short film competition is the core of the Krakow Film Festival, taking place co...
FEFF 15 opened with the presentation of its Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement
The fifteenth edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival will symbolically open under a sign of peace: Friday, April 19 at 8.00 pm the opening night will kick off with the presentation of the Golden Mulberry for Lifetime Achievement to a great man of peace: Mr. Kim Dong-ho, the ambassador of Korean culture in the world.
Director, actor, historical director of...
The European Independent Film Festival, Europe's leading event for independent cinema, is proud to announce the worldwide launch of The European Independent Film Channel (EuroIFC) on 25 April, 2013.
The European Independent Film Channel (www.euroifc.com) will offer high quality independent films that push the boundaries of creativity, originality and offer a cinematic experience that is much more rewarding than found on mainstream video channels.
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AWARD WINNERS IMAGINE ANNOUNCED!
Winner Black Tulip (Best Film):
WOLF CHILDREN (Okami kodomo no ame to yuki)
Japan, director: Mamoru Hosoda
Winner Méliès d’Argent (Best European Fantastic Film):
FIN
Spain, director: Jorge Torregrossa
Winner Méliès d’Argent (Best Short European Fantastic Film):
PERFECT DRUG
Belgium, director: Toon Aerts
Winner MovieZone Award (Best Film, prese...
Plans are well underway for the 34th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), South Africa’s largest and longest running film festival hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), reports Kishore Gobardan Director of Professional Services in the College of Humanities at UKZN in which the CCA is housed. The CCA is currently a special project of the newly appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Cheryl Potgieter, in the College of Humanities....
Cine Las Americas announced today the award winners for the 16th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, which took place on April 16 to 21 in Austin, Texas. The festival grants jury awards in the categories of Narrative Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film, Narrative Short Film, and Documentary Short Film. The Hecho en Tejas Award is presented in partnership with the Texas Archive for the Moving Image (TAMI). In addition, three audience awards are recognized: Audience Award f...
The 13th of March may become a major turning point in European construction – and a scandalous one.
That was the day the European Commission, under the leadership of Commissionner Karel de Gucht, decided to trample on the cultural exception and adopted a draft negotiation mandate that includes audiovisual and film services into the EU-US trade discussions to start this summer.
Forgotten are the passionate words of President Barroso back in 2005: “on a scale of values, cultu...
The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of the DGA, MPA, WGAW and France's Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM), announced today that The Attack, directed by Ziad Doueiri and written by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma (based on Yasmina Khadra's book L'Attentat), walked away with three honors, including the COL*COA Audience Award. The Critics Special Prize also went to the film as well as the new Coming Soon Award, a prize given in association w...
by Alex Deleon
Deepa Mehta, Canadian based Indian director
The 2013 edition of the Los Angeles festival of Indian Film closed shop with a brace of films on successive evenings by two of the best known Indian woman directors, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta. The films in question were respectively Nair's recent "Reluctant Fundamentalist" and Mehta's newly minted "Midnight's Children" based on Salman Rushdie's latest novel of ...
12th Audi Festival of German Films (30 April – 15 May, 2013)
This year will again see the Goethe-Institut and German Films continuing a long-lasting tradition and are hosting the 12th Audi Festival of German Films in Australia. From 30 April to 15 May, new German films will be shown in eight Australian cities with an accompanying programme such as introductions to the presented films, Q&As with directors, a poster exhibition, panel discussions and much more. Over 20,00...
AFI Docs presented by Audi announced today the AFI Docs opening night gala at the Newseum will be the theatrical premiere of LETTERS TO JACKIE written and directed by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Bill Couturié. The film, presented by TLC and co-produced by Amblin TV and The Couturie Co., features letters from the public written to Mrs. Kennedy in the dark shadow of the President's assassination fifty years ago. The letters are read by 20 of today's top actors including Bé...
Every year in the spring one Czech spa cities becomes the city of animation. AniFest was held for the first time in 2002 in the Southbohemian spa city Třeboň, in 2009 it began its journey to the north, up untill to Northbohemian spa Teplice. Since then AniFest grew from a local film event to a big festival with international competition, which annualy causes some swirlings in the calm waters of Czech film through the selection of the best from both Czech and world animated production. ...
Gerald Potterton is a British director, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the animated cult classic Heavy Metal and for his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Born in London, Potterton attended the Hammersmith Art School. After working as an assistant animator in London, (Animal Farm, 1954 Halas and Batchelor), Potterton joined the NFB where he directed both animated and l...
At the award show for the Danish filmfestival CPH PIX earlier this morning the jury gave the New Talent Grand PIX Award to firsttime director Ramon Zürcher for his film 'The Strange Little Cat'. The Audience Award sponsored by the major Danish newspaper Politiken went to the Belgian film 'The Broken Circle Breakdown' by Felix Van Groeningen.
At PIX's award brunch Friday the New Talent Grand PIX Award was given to the Swiss director Ramon Zürcher. With...
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Karlovy Vary Alex Deleon
Ischia Global Film and Music festival Bruno Chate...
Organized through grass root efforts the Kinofest is a niche film festival based in New York’s East Village. It is aimed at the Ukrainian and increasingly Russian communities in the New York metropolitan area and presented its fourth edition this year. Covering four days of screening from April 4-7 the festival programmed this year 25 short and 4 feature films from the Ukraine, six East European and some other countries that following the festival’s theme: East European issue orienta...
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For a small embattled coun...
The 6th Annual Charleston International Film Festival is just one week away!! From April 24-28, we'll showcase more than 85 films from 15 different countries.
This year will be the best one yet! The Opening Night outdoor reception on George St. will kick off the festivities with a surprise film debut from a major studio player. The festival schedule is full of incredible events including film screening and Q&A with Frank Abagnale, the man portra...
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