The San Francisco Film Society regrets to announce that Executive Director Bingham Ray passed away on January 23 while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Bingham Ray Photo by Michael Rauner "The board of directors and staff of the Film Society are stunned and deeply saddened by the untimely death of our executive director Bingham Ray. We at the Film Society a...

DEFY EXPECTATIONS. From July 6 to July 8, 2012, the City of Lima and the Northwest Ohio Film Foundation (NWOFF) will bring to you the Northwest Ohio Independent Film Festival (NWOIFF) that will be held primarily at The Veterans Memorial Civic Center in Lima, Ohio! The inaugural festival was a resounding success in 2011 (known as The Van Wert Independent Film Festival.) The Northwest Ohio Independent Film Festival and the City of Lima, Ohio will defy expectations in 201...

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The Arnold Sports Film Festival – hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the world’s leading showcase for sports-themed cinema – is seeking submissions of short films in all categories exploring individual athletic effort. The Film Festival takes place at the same time and adjacent to the main venue of the Arnold Sports Festival – with 18,000 athletes and 200,000 attendees – the largest athletic gathering in the world. For further information,...

Wildwood Film Festival, an annual festival based in Appleton, Wis., received an award from the Milwaukee Short Film Festival for its dedication to honoring the Wisconsin film community. All projects featured at the Wildwood Film Festival have direct ties to the state, whether it’s the actors, directors, writers, editors, or even locations. Ross Bigley, director of the Milwaukee festival, said that the Pacesetter Award recognizes those who make a difference in local film-making culture. “The...

The 2011 Anchorage International Film festival invites filmmakers to submit films of all lengths and genres through Withoutabox by Septembre 15th. AIFF screens over 120 films a year and brings together artists from around the world. The festival fills over 12,000 seats a year in two main venues during the darkest, most brilliantly cool time of the year. Check out "Films worth freezing for..." at www.anchoragefilmfestival.org  or friend us on Facebook.    AIFF’s missi...

Calling all documentarians! Funding proposals will be accepted from Nov. 1 to Dec. 2, 2011 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives program. It supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films made by experienced filmmakers based in the U.S. with a track record of completing feature-length films that have been broadcast nationally and internationally.   Projects must address significant social cha...

 What's Your Number' sex comedy with Anna Faris wows: by Eva Rinaldi What a year of raunch. Enter No Strings Attached (Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher) and then Friends with Benefits (Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis), now What's Your Number, another sexy and fun Hollywood comedy centered on a platonic relationship between two 20 year olds.   Anna Faris stars opposite Chris Evans, last seen on the big screen as Captain America. The two good lookers nurture their friendship, ha...

World's hottest news on Laden and Obama are unfolded by Lawrence and Andappan during their bicycle journey to a nearby toddy shop. The story is being reveled through a third standpoint. This short film was made before the actual event. ...

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 a personal reflection By Ron Gilbert   This film won the Sundance Film Festival editing award which was well earned. Watching this powerful documentary brought back some very strong memories for me because I was a college student at City College in New York in the midst of Harlem during that early period. What surprises me most of all is that it took over 30 years to present this documentary which was directed by Göran Hugo Olsson w...

  This is Woody Harrelson’s moment. The actor, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as an incendiary army officer in 2009’s THE MESSENGER, reteams with director Israeli-born director Oren Moverman on an even more explosive drama that is tailored to his particular talent for playing characters with a short fuse. World premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, RAMPART, set in a neo-noir Los Angeles in the late 1990s, alludes to the Ramp...

Submit your short, peace-themed film for the Ron Kovic Peace Award, which will be presented at the 2011 MY HERO International Short Film Festival.  The Peace Award, which includes a $1,000 cash prize, will go to the short film that best deals with the issue of peace. Ron Kovic has been an accomplished author, painter, and peace activist for more than 40 years.  A former Marine sergeant, Kovic volunteered for two tours of duty in the Vietnam War, during which he suffered inj...

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The 2011 Anchorage International Film festival invites filmmakers to submit films of all lengths and genres through Withoutabox by Septembre 15th. AIFF screens over 120 films a year and brings together artists from around the world. The festival fills over 12,000 seats a year in two main venues during the darkest, most brilliantly cool time of the year. Check out "Films worth freezing for..." at www.anchoragefilmfestival.org  or friend us on Facebook.    AIFF’s missi...

ARUBA ARE YOU READY ???....Rapper, Actor and Multi-tiered Business Mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson will be on AIFF’s famed red carpet, which promises to be as star studded as last year.....with actors and filmmakers from around the world descending on Aruba to take part in the Festival and interact with fans. The AIFF invites everyone in Aruba to come and see 50 Cent tonight on the Red Carpet at Paseo Herencia @ 7:30 PM   Julia reported us this morning that someone told her he had s...