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Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, West Cork, Ireland.

  Annually, over 5 days at the end of May, visitors can view the current year’s 170+ Competition films, screened in every corner of the village, attend Q&As, Premieres, Workshops and Discussions, enjoy family entertainment at the Tented Fringe all in the beautiful seaside town of Schull, West Cork. The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival is very much an ‘up close and personal’ experience. Filmmakers, directors, producers and invited guest speakers all share their expe...

Cinequest Wraps with Award Winners and Records

  As the worldwide, preeminent discovery ground for both cinema and media innovation, Cinequest Film Festival 23 (CQFF23) unleashed record-breaking premieres and audiences, leading edge technologic innovations, and a spectacular class of Maverick Spirit Award recipients. Over o ne hundred thousand participants enjoyed 86 World and U.S. Premieres from 48 countries in world class venues. The organization that led the revolutions of digital film making, internet distribution, and digital ex...

15th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century Ready to roll and stream live

15th TDF FILM LINE-UP, FIPRESCI JURY & SIDEBAR EVENTS   The 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 200 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.   OPENING FILM   First Position by Bess Kargman, USA, 2011, 90’. Multi-award winning documentary First Position takes us on a journey inside the w...

5th edition Go Short about to start

  Only two days until Nijmegen turns into the Dutch capital of short film. Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen is ready to take off. Go Short received 2246 entries from which only 92 screen in three competitions. A fierce battle with its grand finale at the Go Short Awards.   Premieres The upcoming edition has its fair share of premieres. From the 300 shorts that are shown no less than 54 are shown for the very first time on Dutch soil. Go Short has 5 World...

Karlovy vary to present the Complete Works of the Multi-Award winning American Independent Filmmaking Collective

    11th March 2013, London, UK: The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) today announced that it will present the first complete retrospective of the highly admired New York-based production company, Borderline Films during its 48th edition which runs June 28 – July 6th.  The trio of friends that make up Borderline; Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin and Josh Mond, are one of the most innovative and respected groups of independent filmmakers and their movies, such ...

Udine Far East under the sign of the snake

  The new symbol of the FEFF, designed by Tomas Marcuzzi, pays homage to one of the most recurring and important symbols of Asian iconography. Always keeping a keen eye on pop aesthetics, a reliable mirror of a cultural vocation that is not averse to playfulness, the Udine Far East Film Festival (April 19th to 27th) is readying itself for its fifteenth change of image. An image that, while affectionately paying all due respect to a classic dot-to-dot, aims to celebrate on...

Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) winners

  Jaie Laplante MIFF Director Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), produced and presented by Miami Dade College (MDC), celebrated the closing of the Festival (with one additional day of film screenings still to go) by reflecting on 138 films from 41 countries that culminated in its annual Awards Night Ceremony at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.   The screening of the revealing documentary, Venus and Serena, directed by Maiken Baird & M...

Sherry Lansing will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at the 27th Israel Film Festival

  Sherry Lansing will be honored with the 2013 IFF Lifetime Achievement Award at the 27th Opening Night Gala of the Israel Film Festival taking place on Thursday, April 18th at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, California.  Ballad of the Weeping Spring, which was directed by Benny Torati, will have its West Coast Premiere as the festival’s opening night film that evening. The Israel Film Festival will run from April 18 through May 2 and showcase over 30 new Israeli f...

The International Press Academy 2012 Satellite Awards

  After its 2011 public relations catastrophe, Netflix is back on track with its first original television show, "House of Cards" (2013) starring Kevin Spacey, who also executive produces. About a corrupt politician in the perpetually horse-trading, if not outright venal, Washington DC, "House of Cards" is an icon for our era.  Certainly, CEO Reed Hasting would not have tried to split Netflix's fees, into one for mailorder DVDs, the other for web streami...

Arab Women's Film Festival in The Hague preview

  Arab Women's Film Festival 2013 presents: Wadjda, the first Saudi feature film by a female filmmaker, de world premiere of the Syrian film Mariam, and the presence of BAFTA-winner Jeremy Brock, screenwriter of The Last King of Scotland From 8 till 10 March 2013, the third edition of the Arab Women's Film Festival in The Hague will take place. The Arab House of Arts organizes in cooperation with Filmhuis Den Haag and The American Book Center this unique...

Guest programmer René Windig presents Felix the Cat at Holland Animation Film Festival

  Animation highlights, from art-house to commercial, from cartoon to 3D, at the largest animation film festival of the Netherlands the 16th Holland Animation Film Festival will run from 20 to 24 March 2013 in Utrecht   Guest programme René Windig René Windig, famous with Heinz, drawn with co-drawer Eddie de Jong, has created a programme for the Holland Animation Film Festival with his favourite Felix the Cat films. The programme is put togethe...

European Cinema Industry Professionals to Meet in Vilnius

  During 18th Vilnius International Film Festival, cinema professionals from various European countries will visit Vilnius. On March 25th-28th international industry event “Meeting Point – Vilnius” will take place for the fourth time already, aiming at Lithuanian and European cinema professionals: producers, programme managers, film festival organizers and cinema centers. “It is a part of VIFF that is invisible to the audiences, but especially important to cinema p...

The 29th Hamburg International Short Film Festival (ISFF) preview

    There is a cinema that is rebellious, uncompromising, unreasonable and at times brilliant. It does not have to choose between blockbuster and arthouse. A cinema, where art and genre, experiment and narrative, adherence to style and breaching of style love each other with neither snobbery nor pride. From June 4th till June 10th, it will be our guest. There will be more than 300 films from all around the world, in all genres and all film languages, with five competitions, six speci...

A taste from Trento Film Festival

  THE 61ST TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL will run 25 April – 8 May 2013 in Trento and Bolzano     «At last Trento Film Festival also has a symbol which represents it around the world, like all the other major film festivals». This is how Roberto De Martin, President of Trento Film Festival, presented the new logo created by the graphic design studio Plus Communication today in Trento. A blue gentian, a ‘leitmotif’ which from 2013 will accompany all ...

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announces its 2013 lineup

 THE 11th ANNUAL INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES ANNOUNCES FILM LINE-UP Highlights include Mira Nair’s THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, as well as MISS LOVELY, PEDDLERS, SHAHID, and SALMA Today, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) proudly announced its 2013 lineup of narrative and documentary features and short films for this year’s festival. The impressive program reflects the rich diversity of Indian cinema, which is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year...

Ensemble Short Film nominated to one of the top 4 awards at Houston WorldFest

  Ensemble by Mohamed Fekrane, an Emotion Film Factory Production We are quite delighted to let you know that your entry has been Selected for Screening and to confirm that you have been nominated to receive one of the top four awards in your competition categories for your entry, as listed above. Unlike other festivals, we nominate only the four top entries, and we present Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, thus you are assured to win one of these top awards! The great thing abo...

SURKHAAB nominated to receive the prestigious REMI award at the 46th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film and Video Festi

  Canadian film-producer Tushar Unadkat was honored with the prestigious Trailblazer Award at the 11th Annual ReelWorld Film Festival last year is all excited about his upcoming film Surkhaab.   Surkhaab is an Official Selection for programming into The 46th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film and Video Festival in its TEXAS Premiere! WorldFest-Houston is one of the three original international film festivals in North America, after San Francisco and New York. It was founded...

IP Man The final Fight in Udine

  IP MAN - THE FINAL FIGHT: the roots of kung fu with Anthony Wong in the role of the legendary master Bruce Lee!. The new, eagerly awaited chapter of the biopic, in its European premiere in Udine, immediately following its debut at the Hong Kong Film Festival – HKIFF of 17 March   Honour, courage, discipline, respect: the profound roots of oriental culture, but also the profound roots of kung fu. The same kung fu that Ip Man, the legendary mast...

Multi awarded Cinematographer Christian Berger confirmed on Training Ground 2013

    We are happy to announce the confirmation of a legendary name in the field of cinematography.  The Austrian DOP Christian Berger, famous for his work at the side of Michael Haneke, in films such as The White Ribbon, Caché or The Piano Teatcher. Alongside Oscars and European Film Award nominations, Berger has received several prizes including from the  American Society of Cinematographers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Cir...

Sam Mendes’ Skyfall leads the pack with six nominations for the Jameson Empire Awards 2013

  SKYFALL LEADS THE WAY IN THE 18th JAMESON EMPIRE AWARDS NOMINATIONS     Sam Mendes’ Skyfall, recently crowned the biggest-ever UK box-office hit, leads the pack with six nominations for the Jameson Empire Awards 2013, it is announced today.   Joss Whedon’s Avengers Assemble and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey follow closely behind with five nominations apiece, while British indie hit Sightseers keeps pace with Hollywood with four ...

Jatt & Juliet, Mirza - The Untold Story, and Carry On Jatta bag 20 PTC Punjabi Film Awards

Gippy Garewal handing over the Best Debut Female actor award to Monika Bedi PTC PFA The PTC Punjabi Filmi Awards 2013 were held on Friday evening 1st March at a glittering entertainment extravaganza attended by a galaxy of stars  from Punjabi Films and Bollywood, and the crème de la crème of celebrities at the Multipurpose Sports Complex in Mohali. An enthralled audience of 6000 watched engrossed, as spectacular entertainment acts interspersed the presentation of 28 awards....

German Films allocates € 108,000 funding for theatrical releases of German films abroad

  First Distribution Support Sitting 2013: In the first sitting of 2013 – and the 50th to date – on yesterday evening (28 February) 2013, the „Distribution Support“ awards committee of German Films decided to fund nine foreign theatrical campaigns of German films. In addition, two applications from foreign distributors had been handled in advance and written consent was made to fund both of them. Thus, a total of € 108,000 was allocated.   The committee...

EAST DOC PLATFORM 2013 ready to open in Prague

  East Doc Platform runs in Prague March 4 – 10, 2013 East European Forum, Doc Launch, East Silver, Project Market Prague becomes the capital of documentary film - East Doc Platform starts Monday, March 4, 2013! There is only few days left to the second edition of East Doc Platform, presenting in Prague the traditional events designed to support East European documentary film - East European Forum, Doc Launch Presentation, Project Market, and East Silver Videolibrary. Same as ...

Annapolis Film Festival Presents Amazing Slate of Films: more than 55 visiting filmmakers coming to town!

  The Annapolis Film Festival, which will turn downtown Annapolis into Hollywood on the Chesapeake from March 21 to 24, firmed up its slate of more than 90 films. The films, features and shorts, narratives and documentaries, will be shown at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts,, St. John’s College, Banneker-Douglass Museum, St. Anne’s Church, and Bay Theatre from 7 pm on Thursday night to 8 pm on Sunday night.   Opening the Festival is the mid-Atlantic premiere of the ne...

Strategic Partners shines spotlight on India and the United Kingdom at 16th annual event, Sept. 12-15 in Halifax

      (Halifax, NS) – Strategic Partners, one of the world’s top co-production/co-financing markets focusing on feature film, TV and multiplatform fiction, shines the spotlight on India and for the second year in row, the United Kingdom at the 16th annual event, September 12-15 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. "Strategic Partners’ spotlight on India and the UK is timely,” said Laura Mackenzie, Director, Strategic Partners. “Mom...
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