Independent icon Seymour Cassel lends his name to new festival award.    There is hardly an actor who better embodies the passion and love for independent cinema than American performer Seymour Cassel. For more than 50 years he has been working in front of the camera and is revered for his work with John Cassavetes while being THE face of independent cinema. Sam Peckinpah, Don Siege, Kenn Russell and Alender Rockwell or Wes Anderson have used his luminous qualities. For his performan...

A International Film Festival Summit Fireside Chat with Matthew Modine: How to Attract Above-the-line Players to Your Festival Hosted by: Robin Bronk, CEO The Creative Coalition Laurie Kirby, Executive Director of the International Film Festival Summit, has announced that Award-winning actor Matthew Modinewill be joining the 8th annual event and participating in a special ‘Fireside Chat’ – How To Attract Above-the-Line Players to Your Festival, a dialogue with IFFS participants to provide ...

Oldenburg Film Festival is proud to announce the first films of this year’s program. The great outsiders of Hollywood are joined by the most talked about talents of the independent scene    The festival offers German premieres of two true American cinema icons for the 2011 edition. John Carpenter makes a remarkable comeback with his latest horror-thriller “The Ward” and cult-director Monte Hellman will present his neo-noir thriller “Road to Nowhere”. Carpenter was a master of the...

Flamedrop Productions present The  C E L L U D R O I D  Sci-Fi / Anime / Fantasy Film Festival 5 - 14 July 2011 @ The Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Cape Town, ZA http://www.CELLUDROID.net Facebook Event Page rsvp: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid​=213016582067126 It is time again to get abducted to the CELLUDROID Film Festival for a wild line-up of Science Fiction, Animation and Fantasy movies.   In addition to a wide range of exciting movies, this year will feature special visi...

C E L L U D R O I DSci-Fi / Anime / Fantasy Film Festival 5 - 14 July 2011The Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Cape Town, ZA www.CELLUDROID.netIt is time again to get abducted to the CELLUDROID Film Festival for a wild line-up of Science Fiction, Animation and Fantasy movies. In addition to a wide range of exciting movies, this year will feature special visiting guest director Richard Stanley (with his movies, documentaries, short films and new book), include a graphic novel launch & more.There ...

  After last year's budget cuts cast doubts on the future of the „German Sundance" it is now certain that there will be an 18th edition of the festival in 2011. There will be an Oldenburg Film Festival No. 18. After the forced budget cuts by the municipal council in 2010 the festival was financially endangered. Grants by the city of Oldenburg were cut by more than half. In December 2010 the municipal council got together and with the votes of CDU, Green Party and Free Voters Assoc...

Oldenburg is a lively forum for passionate and independent filmThe 17th Oldenburg International Film Festival takes positive stock of this year’s edition and is able to match last year’s audience with 14.500 admittances –despite smaller venues and twelve screenings less. The exciting festival days drew to a close, having witnessed a total of eight world premieres, 17 German premieres, seven international premieres and five European premieres among the 56 shown films, on Sunday September 19...