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Every Fall, the Global Film Industry Converges in Santa Monica: Filmmakers, producers, directors and writers from around the world come to AFM to gain exposure, discover new projects and make deals. The American Film Market & Conferences is the largest motion picture trade fair in the world. 

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The Future of Film An exploration of the future of independent film, emerging marketplace trends, global film finance, and the impact of streaming platforms. A Conversation With BRON Studios BRON’s filmmaker-first approach has helped the company solidify its creative relationships. BRON is at the forefront of Hollywood deal-making, from slate financing deals with MGM and Warner Bros to securing financing and distribution for their own properties. BRON continues to invest in incredible ...

Arclight Films releases first look of 'Let it Snow' Starring Ivanna Sakhno and Alex Hafner

‘LET IT SNOW’ HAUNTING THRILLER STARRING IVANNA SAKHNO AND ALEX HAFNER ARCLIGHT FILMS HANDLING WORLDWIDE RIGHTS AND HOSTING Debut Market Screenings AT AFM   Cast: Ivanna Sakhno (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Pacific Rim: Uprising), Alex Hafner (Submergence, The Councellor), and Tinatin Dalakishvili (Abigail).   Director: Stanislav Kapralov 
 Writers: Stanislav Kapralov and Omri Rose   Producers: Serge Lavrenyuk.   Executive Producers: Yan Fisher and R...

Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist - New for AFM 2019

  NEW FOR AFM 2019 After millions of people vanish and the world falls into chaos, the only light is a charismatic new leader who rises to the head of the UN.  But does he bring hope for a better future?  Or is it the end of the world?           ...

Sky reveal first look image of forthcoming original film Twist

    Starring Sir Michael Caine, Lena Headey, Rita Ora, Franz Drameh, Sophie Simnett and introducing Raff Law in the title role London, 8 November 2019 The first look image has been revealed from Sky’s forthcoming original co-production TWIST, starring two-time Academy Award winner, Sir Michael Caine (The Dark Knight trilogy), Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), actress and singer Rita Ora, David Walliams (Little Britain), Franz Drameh (Legends of Tomorrow), Sophie Simnett (Daybrea...

Global Film and TV program organised by LATC during AFM, a strong immersive program for film professionals from around the world

The organizers, Steve Solot and Kate Lyra. Below some of the happy speakers, impressed by the quality of the participants in the program. Below some of the participants gathering around speaker Bruno Chatelin ...

Marjorie Calas speaking at LATC conference during AFM How to work with film commissions

Marjorie Calas represents AFCI gave an overview on the ways to work best with Film Commissions around the world, she works with AFCI, the association serves as a general resource and clearinghouse for information throughout the region and assist with the following services:   Tax Incentive Navigation Liaison with government departments/agencies Logistical information regarding crew, talent, facilities, stages, equipment, and support services Setting standards of...

Video Interview: Galaxy 360 a sexy, unapologetic satire of today's gender wars a future cult comedy with an opposite perspective

In a Galaxy far, far, far away, women rule the world, men dream of getting married, and you're invited to the most watched reality show of the future - VICTOR'S ANGELS MR. WORLD BEAUTY PAGEANT! Filmfestivals.com sat down impromptu at AFM with Anna Fishbeyn, first time filmmaker, introducing her film to AFM. "Oh my god I love you guys at filmfestivals.com you send me these newsletters with so much news, I love it" The video interview tells us what else she had to say about ...

AFM 2019 Day 2 with ambiance

    THE MARKET BEAT FROM THE FILMFESTIVALS.COM TEAM! Welcome to the release of our daily newsletter from Santa Monica View in your browser Advertise in our Newsletters reaching 199 000 subscribers from 200€  email us for a quote FOLLOW FILMFESTIVALS.COM              Promote your line up during AFM ...

Pryor Cashman's Fourth Annual AFM Cocktail Reception Ambiance and exclusive footage

At Pryor Cashman we are creators, supporters, protectors and connectors. We see the world beyond law.... During AFM  Pryor Cashman  held its traditional cocktail diner function gaathering some 300 executives from the entertainment industray, clients, partners and friends from the Law firm. James Janowitz (partner) Michael Mellor (right) Director of Marketing and Business Development at Pryor Cashman introduced filmfestivals.com  to a couple of his friend...

LATC Party at Bodega Wine bar ambiance

Steve Solot and Kete Lyra, the  hosts of the LATC party taking a pose for filmfestivals.com, in a room packed with young award winning filmmmakers attending and a few speakers at the conference, Bruno Chatelin to deliver a keynote of festival and markets strategy. The annual LATC Global Film & TV Program is a unique immersion experience for professionals from around the World with an intensive four-day agenda of meetings and panels on current U.S. film, television and enter...

John Singleton Receives Your Script Produced! Lifetime Achievement Award, Daughter Justice Singleton to Accept

         MEDIA ALERT   WHAT   John Singleton Receives Your Script Produced! Lifetime Achievement Award, Daughter Justice Singleton to Accept   Ultimate Grand Prize Winner: Feature Film to Have Project Produced With $250,000 Budget, Finalist List   International Actress Sheila Shah to Host Event   Season 2 Submissions Now Open, Sponsored by International Screenwriters’ Association   WHERE   Bombay Palace, 8690 Wilsh...

Zoey Deutch's comedy "BUFFALOED" Acquired by Film Bridge Internationalcomedy

Leading sales agent Film Bridge International has come aboard to handle international sales rights for the comedy, BUFFALOED, starring and produced by Zoey Deutch (Netflix¹s The Politician and Set It Up, Zombieland: Double Tap).  The announcement was made today by Ellen S. Wander, CEO of Film Bridge International.   Set in the underworld of debt collecting, BUFFALOED follows homegrown hustler, Peg Dahl (Deutch), who will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY. After getting into so...

DEVILWORKS nabs Fantasia winning feature DEAD DICKS

DEAD DICKS Starring Matt Keyes (Dark Phoenix), Heston Horwin (Rock Steady Row) and Jillian Harris  Directed by: Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer Starring: Matt Keyes (Dark Phoenix, Minutes Past Midnight) Heston Horwin (Rock Steady Row) and Jillian Harris. Synopsis: Becca finds a collection of her brother’s clones in his apartment and discovers that his body has been copied by a supernatural entity growing in his bedroom. Festivals: Fantasia International - - Audie...

New Faith-based action theatrical film "Emerald Run" debut at AFM 2019 with Avail Films!

Emerald Run gets 5 nominations at Milan IFF 2019     A Desperate man gets involved in a risky plan to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican border in order to save his daughter's life. When the deal goes awry and he is left for dead, his survival becomes a search for meaning and enlightenment in a brutal...

NEON Nabs MEMORIA From Palme d'Or Winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  In one of the first deals announced out of AFM, NEON has landed North American rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEMORIA. The Colombian set drama, written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, stars Tilda Swinton, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diaz.  The film is produced by Weerasethakul’s Kick the Machine, Burning and Illuminations Films. Weerasethakul previously won the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2010...

Clear Horizon announces new Russian Language action film RUSSIAN RAID

  Clear Horizon announces our new Russian Language action film RUSSIAN RAID Post Production: ACTION, 2020 - Delivery scheduled for Q1 2020 Promo - Please note no final sound/colour/FX https://vimeo.com/371562181 PW: CH2019! Nikita, a former Russian Spetsnaz operative, is hired to neutralize the large private security force at a local factory so that his shady employer can extort the business from the factory owner. But Nikita and his group of highly trained fighters get more ...

Shocked and sad about the loss of our friend Nik Powell, Producer of 'The Crying Game' and Virgin Group Co-Founder, EFA member

"I personnally enjoyed Nik's company and wit TREMENDOUSLY, and i also loved his passion for soccer I deerly remember so many good moments wduring the years we both served as board members of the European Film Academy." Bruno Chatelin   European cinema has lost a great filmmaker and the European Film Academy has lost a dear friend: Nik Powell The academy, where Nik served many years on the Board, shared the sad news to the mebers of the Academy: "In the early 1970...

An Interview with Ann Huang, a VCFA alumnus (14' W), poet, author and experimental filmmaker

By CAMMIE FINCH CF: You have a new poetry collection coming out with Finishing Line Press in September! Congratulations! Can you tell us a bit about your process of writing a Shaft of Light? What was the seedling for the book? How would you describe the knot or the driving question of the collection?  AH: Thank you so very much! I have always held a firm belief that dreams should not be thrown away as they become known to us. Although they may seem surreal and irra...

Imani Media Group and Manny Halley Productions are at AFM with 4 star studded original movies.

Imani Media Group’s slate of projects set for 2020 release include “GENA’S STORY” the second installment from the True To The Game franchise, “DUTCH” part one in the trilogy based on the Teri Woods novel, “ON THE RADIO” a suicide awareness film centered around an ecentric radio host. Our movies feature big names such as Lance Gross, Vivica A Fox, Columbus Short, Macy Gray, OT Genasis , Waka Flocka Flame, Faith Evans, Tamar Braxton, Mi...

FILM BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL ACQUIRES "BUFFALOED"

Tribeca Crime Dramedy Premiered at Tribeca and Stars Zoey Deutch, Judy Greer and Jai Courtney Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 2019) ­ Leading sales agent Film Bridge International has come aboard to handle international sales rights for the comedy, BUFFALOED, starring and produced by Zoey Deutch (Netflix¹s The Politician and Set It Up, Zombieland: Double Tap).  The announcement was made today by Ellen S. Wander, CEO of Film Bridge International.   Set in the underworld of...

THE BATTLE FOR OUR PLANET US DEBUT screening at AFM

Breaking Glass Pictures is thrilled to announce the US release of director and producer Peter Jay Brown’s (Entertainment Tonight, Real People, Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist) latest no-holds-barred environmental feature documentary, Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for Our Planet. “Breaking Glass Pictures is excited to be distributing Eco-terrorist: The Battle for Our Planet to help spread the word about the dire situation in which we find our planet. There is no reason, in 2...

BondIt Media Capital and Film Mode Entertainment Join Forces

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BondIt Media Capital and Film Mode Entertainment Join Forces To Bring First Look Finance and Sales Partnership to the Marketplace    Top, burgeoning companies satisfy a need in the marketplace for a cohesive one stop solution for finance, sales and distribution needs to filmmakers in all stages of production.     Matthew Helderman, CEO & Co-Founder of BondIt Media Capital and Clay Epstein, President of Film Mode Entertainment announce the formati...

Dustin Hoffman,Candice Bergen, Simon Helberg and Olivia Thirlby cast in AFM market premiere of As Sick As They Made Us

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Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment and producers Anne Clements (Stage Mother, Quinceañera), and Ash Christian (After Everything, Burn) are pleased to announce the lead cast and AFM (American Film Market) market premiere of As Sick As They Made Us. The new comedy-drama features a multiple-award winning cast that includes two-time Academy Award-winner, Dustin Hoffman, Academy Award nominee and five-time Emmy Award winner,  Candice Bergen,  Simon ...

Zoey Deutch's "BUFFALOED" Acquired by Film Bridge International at AFM

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Leading sales agent Film Bridge International has come aboard to handle international sales rights for the comedy, BUFFALOED, starring and produced by Zoey Deutch (Netflix¹s The Politician and Set It Up, Zombieland: Double Tap).  The announcement was made today by Ellen S. Wander, CEO of Film Bridge International.   Set in the underworld of debt collecting, BUFFALOED follows homegrown hustler, Peg Dahl (Deutch), who will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY. After getting into some...

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The AFM is not a festival - it is the largest motion picture market in the world. 8,000 industry attendees, including producers, distributors, directors, agents, writers, lawyers & bankers. Over 540 films screened, most world or U.S. premieres.

$US3 Billion spent annually by participants to produce films
8,000+ industry professionals
2,000+ new films and projects
1,000+ production companies
400+ distributors
540+ films screened
100+ world premiers 
70+ countries represented
50+ thought leaders speaking
7 days of networking activities
1 beachfront campus that covers it all

Our AFM Newsletters run each day with three bumper pre roll editions and a wrap edition:  

2019 Complete Coverage

2018 FULL HIT STORY TOLD IN 8 EPISODES

Pre roll newsletter N° 1 
Pre roll newsletter N° 2  
Opening Newsletter N°3 
N°4 (November 2) 
N°5 (November 3)

N°6 (November 4)  
N°7 (November 6) 
N°8 (November 8) Closing

AFM 2017 Wrap & global  I N°8 I N°7 I N°6 I N°5 I N°4 I  OPENING N°3 I  Preview N°2 I N°1

AFM 2016Pre roll N° 1 I Pre roll N° 2 Opening Newsletter N°3 I N°4 N°5 I N°6 Focus on ANIMATION  I N°7 I Final wrap
AFM 2015:   Newsletters N° 1 I N°2 I N°3 I N°4 I N°5 I N°6  N°7 I N°8N°9 I N°10
AFM 2014:   Newsletters  N°1 N°2 N°3 N°4 N°5 N°6 N°7 N°8

 


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