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> TASTE FROM FantasPORTO February 28 to March 8, 2014.
The Day by Day program of Fantasporto 2014 is online here ...
OFFICIAL SECTION PREMIÈRE & PANORAMA Out of Competition Opening Film Vampire Academy - Mark Waters - EUA Vampire Academy Closing Film : The Railway Man - Jonathan Teplitzky - USA The Railway Man - Jonathan Teplitzky – EUA - 116’ Hansel & Gretel Get Baked - Duane Journey - 86’ - EUA Johnny Christ - Mark Maggiori - 99’ - EUA Violet & Daisy - Geoffrey Fletcher - 88’ - EUA ...
PRÉMIO CINEMA PORTUGUÊS PRÉMIO CINEMA PORTUGUÊS - MELHOR FILME Competição Curtas-metragens/Shorts Blind Date - Claudia Clemente - 9’ 31’’ Walking Dead Infrared - Luís Miranda- 3’20’’ Salomé - Sofia Beirão - 16’09 O que Eu Entendo por Amor - Ricardo Martins - 13’53 Lado Nenhum - Rui António- 12&r...
OFFICIAL COMPETITIVE SECTION ORIENT EXPRESS Why Don’t You Play in Hell? - Shion Sono - 126’ - Jap Kung-Fu Divas - Onat Diaz - 115’ - Filipinas Miss Zombie - Hiroyuki Tanaka (Sabu) - 85’- Jap The Fake - Sang -ho Yeon - 110’ - Coreia do Sul Rough Play - Yeon-Shick Shin - Coreia do Sul Love Eternal - Conor Barry - 74’- Irl/Lux/Hol/Jap ...
OFFICIAL COMPETITIVE SECTION DIRECTOR´S WEEK - MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA AWARD Features Previews in Portugal Pecado Fatal - Luís Diogo - Port - 90’ Viral- Lucas Figueroa - 95’ - Esp The Red Robin - Michael Wechsler - EUA Love me - Maryna Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er- 90’ - Ucrânia/ Turquia Love Eternal - Conor Barry - 74’ - Irl/Lux/Hol/Jap Heavenly Shift - Márk Bodsár - 110’ - Hungria Sugar K...
OFFICIAL COMPETITIVE SECTION FANTASY FILMS CINEMA FANTÁSTICO Features Previews in Portugal O Espinho da Rosa - Filipe Henriques- Port /Guiné-Bissau- 97’ - World Opening/Antrestreia Mundial Kung-Fu Divas - Onat Diaz- 115’ - Filipinas - European Opening/Antrestreia Europeia Cheatin’ - Bill Plympton - 76’ - EUA Soulmate - Axelle Carolyn - 104’ - GB The Human Race - Paul Hough - EUA - 90’ Big Bad Wolves - Aharon...
Features O Espinho da Rosa - Filipe Henriques- Port /Guiné-Bissau- 97’ - World Opening/Antrestreia Mundial Kung-Fu Divas - Onat Diaz- 115’ - Filipinas - European Opening/Antrestreia Europeia Cheatin’ - Bill Plympton - 76’ - EUA Soulmate - Axelle Carolyn - 104’ - GB The Human Race - Paul Hough - EUA - 90’ Big Bad Wolves - Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado - 110’ - Israel Haunter - Vincenzo Natali - 97’ -...
I don't know about you...but I really look forward to watching this in Porto, Something special. Plus this edition is also something special for mario Dorminsky...We are really happy to th eonline media partner of the festival this year again, what are friends for... ...
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Based in Schull, West Cork, Ireland The festival is now looking for entries. Submissions deadline date 3rd of March. Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit their short films of 15 minutes and under. The Festival will run for 5 days over the last weekend in May from Wednesday, 21st to Sunday 25th of May 2014. This year to improve the submission process, you may enter either directly through the website at www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com or withoutabox.com. email helen.wells@fastnetshortfilmfestival.com
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Rules for Entry for 15th Annual Golden Trailer Awards Rules for Trailer/TV Spot/Video Game Entries Trailers must be under 4 minutes and 30 seconds long (no exceptions) Creation dates for Trailers/Teasers/TV spots/Video Game Trailers: In order to be eligible, the above mentioned must be created between March 8th, 2013 through April 11th, 2014.
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MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2014 - Early Call For Entries - Deadline March 1, 2014
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Manhattan Short's blog I Website: www.ManhattanShort.com
Recently named the Coolest Short Film Festival by Moviemaker Magazine, the DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition is the largest short film event on the East Coast of the United States. In 2013, we screened 152 films from 21 countries in 18 unique showcases that played over 11 days to a total audience of 9,300 people. We also hosted a table read of six screenplays, and awarded the winner an incredible prize of $2,000. Submit online...
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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
We Fund Writers and Filmmakers! Writers judge filmmakers, filmmakers judge writers! Winning writer gets their script made by the winning filmmaker! The writer gets their script made and they get paid. The filmmaker gets funded to shoot it! Very limited entries and everyone gets lots of coverage of their work! The winning filmmaker wins up to $50,000 (Feature) or $25,000 (Short) to shoot one of the top 10 scripts. Winning writer receives up to $20,000 (Feature) or $1...
FEBRUARY 27TH 9:00am Tribute to the legendary maestro Eduardo De Filippo Ghosts, Italian Style (104' - dir. Renato Castellani) 10:50am Brain Drain ( 100' - dir.Paolo Ruffini) Special Screening 12:40am Italian Movies (99' - dir. Matteo Pellegrini) 2:30pm Focus on Roberto Faenza Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (98' - dir. Roberto Faenza) 4:20pm Blame Freud (120' - dir. Paolo Genovese) Special Screening The director and the producer Marco Belardi ...
Realtime, Immediate Feedback, Virtual Production and Disruption - this year's main topics - affect all communities, thus creating new space for discussions on shared interests, such as education. For this reason, FMX dedicates a series of talks to "Disruptive Education." In addition, the program features presentations on Oscar-nominee Frozen and the international film project The Physician complete with its Producer Nico Hofmann as well as renowned personalities such as Star Wars C...
The 4th Women+Film VOICES Film Festival, produced by the Denver Film Society, announced today its full Festival program and schedule. The complete lineup of films for the Festival, which runs March 18-March 23, is available at denverfilm.org. Inspired by the theme of International Women's Day, which is celebrated globally every March, VOICES showcases a high profile, women-centric mix of documentaries, feature presentations and short films. The festival also inc...
Mary Manard Reed has been named Executive Director of the High Falls Film Festival. Reed succeeds Mary Howard, who moved to a new career in real estate. Malcolm Spaull, Chairman of HFFF said, "Mary Reed brings extensive experience in the film industry, corporate and non-profit leadership in programming, fundraising, marketing and operations. We are thrilled that ...
Tiburon Interantional Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual event showcasing independent feature and short films from around the world.
Tiburon Interantional Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual event showcasing independent feature and short films from around the world.
Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco 6 Beach Road, 544 Tiburon, CA 94920 USA info@IranianFilmFestival.org www.IranianFilmFestival.org
THE RIVIERA MAYA FILM FESTIVAL 2014 ANNOUNCES ITS PROGRAM, MARCH 9th-15th Today, the Riviera Maya Film Festival announced its official program of domestic and international films to be screened at this year’s annual event (March 9th-15th). In its third edition, the Festival continues its mission of promoting and distributing quality cinema for a larger audience, as well as showcasing the state of Quintana Roo as a cultural and travel destination which attracts and sup...
ReelWorld Honours Seven Individuals Who Inspire Us (and Others) to Strive Toronto, Ontario (February 21, 2014) – Do the same characteristics that inspires us, inspire you? When selecting Trailblazer and Visionary Award recipients we look for people who have recognized their path and followed it without wavering. We seek out excellence and thought leaders who are on the forefront, prompting others to naturally follow. This year’s 2014 Trailblazers and the Vi...
The 18th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London will be presented from 18 to 28 March, 2014 with a programme of 20 award-winning documentary and feature films. The festival will take place at the Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Soho, Ritzy Brixton and for the first time at the Barbican. This year’s programme includes ten UK premieres and three exclusive previews organised around five themes: Armed Conflict and the Arab Spring; Human Rights Defenders, Icons and Villains; ...
ITFS – First Programme Highlights This April, Stuttgart is again the centre of the animation world! The 21st International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) and the FMX 2014, Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia, present all cultural, economic and academic aspects of animation. In addition, the ITFS and FMX host the Animation Production Day, which unites as business platform the international animation industry. Visitors w...
The Druid Underground Film Festival plunges through the US to deliver a white-knuckle hell-ride of avant-weird films from around the world! Chock-full of hybrid moments which recklessly skate through Experimental, Comedy and Horror, this year's program is DUFF’s most absurd and inspiring to date! After a night of bizarre films and free raffle prizes, find out why Flavorpill says DUFF doesn't so much "defy convention as mow it down, douse it in kerosene, a...
In Nordfor Sola (North Of The Sun), two 20-something Norwegians pack in reality to live sustainably on the edge of the artic circle with nothing but driftwood for shelter, expired food, their boards and their own awesome wave. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_YFd2GzhM Livin’ the Dream Sometimes a surf film’s biggest achievement is not ...
TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS THE BEST IN WORLD CINEMA TO DUBBO Festival to run at Reading Cinemas from March 21-23, 2014 From tales of ghosts, war and honour to critically acclaimed features about love, family and terrorism – Dubbo film-buffs will be able to watch the latest and greatest in world cinema when the Travelling Film Festival hits Reading Cinemas from Friday March 21 to Sunday March 23, 2014. Tickets to Australia’s longest-running travelling film fes...
> THE AWARDS WATCH
The FIFO association is delighted to share the results from the 11th FIFO that took place at the Maison de la Culture from 3rd to 9th February 2014. Festival attendance shows that the aura of the event continues to grow and assert its importance in the Polynesian cultural landscape as well as in the audiovisual world. This year the organisers totalled 27, 860 entries, including 7,086 school pupils. The FIFO international jury, chaired by Mr Luc Jacqu...
UCLA Film Student to Receive $50,000 Sloan Grand Jury Prize from Tribeca Film Institute ® for Best Science-Themed Screenplay Sloan Foundation Has Awarded more than $3.8 Million in Direct Grants to Film Students Since 1997 Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) today announced the recipient of the 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Student Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting. Survival of the Fittest by Laura Alsum of UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television was selected as the best-o...
Compathos Foundation, screens social and environmental impact films in the Bay Area. Nov 5 screening The Engage Award is all about engaging a global audience on multiple levels and includes campaign development, providing educational resources, and audience engagement. "It was important for us to include online resources in our Viewers Guide at the event and we truly appreciate the extra effort that passionate filmmakers put into creating these types of valuable resources for t...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent AMPAS is always coming up with something new. And, in fact, ABC will have something like 700 cameras in and around the red carpet for fan enjoyment this year. In other words, you can see stars accept, walk around, even talk to the press corps. Our figure of 700 might sound high, but you get the idea - we have it on good intel from one of their behind-the-screens tech geniuses. Meanwhile, in their own words... NEW YORK, F...
By Alex Deleon Director Diao Yinan chinese champ hold up his bear at berlin The Chinese film Bai-Ri Yan-Huo ("Black Coal, Thin Ice") won the Golden Bear for best picture at the 64th Berlin international film festival. Actor Liao Fan won the prize for best thesp in the same pic, while Haru Kuroki won best actress for her role in the Japanese movie Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House). The English translation of the Bear winner is not even close to the ...
Online-voting kicked off! - Enjoy 18 bicycle shorts! See the films / the competition here: www.veloberlinfilmaward.com We started cycling fun: 18 films made it into the final round, to compete for 5 prizes worth €2500 in total: Narrative shorts, documentaries, clips and animated films about the love of cycling and bicycles. Till 29 March 2014, all selected films can be watched and voted for online at www.veloberlinfilmaward.com : You are the jury – the worldwid...
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
By Mike “Tak” Takeuch &nb...
Patricia Norris knows a thing or two about costume design. A half a century in the business will do that. And now the 82 year old is poised to learn something else: whether she'll finally take home an Academy Award after being nominated six times. The work currently under consideration is for Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man kidnapped into slavery for more than a decade. To stitch together what went into designing costumes f...
Photo by George Pimental The San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) announced today that Noah Cowan has been appointed Executive Director of the organization, effective March 3. Cowan, a leader in facilitating and creating internationally-recognized film programming for more than two decades, will oversee the Film Society's expanding programs in exhibition, education and filmmaker services. Cowan joins SFFS after five ye...
Bogdan Dziworski, a distinguished Polish cameraman, professor of cinematic art and photography, will receive the Dragon of Dragons award for his entire artistic output at the 54th Krakow Film Festival, which takes place from 25th May to 1st June. The Dragon of Dragons award has been given since 1998 by the Programme Council of the Krakow Film Foundation, organiser of Krakow Film Festival, as a recognition of the contribution to the development of the world cinematography in the field of docum...
> FILM TO WATCH
The LiFF has received an overwhelming amount of film entries and decided to split the LiFF into two events, namely the March 2014 edition, which is mainly concentrating on Swiss movies, and the October 2014 edition. Revolution has been screened by 4 pre-judges and it has convinced them to pass it off to the October 2014 event. In other words, Revolution received either an A+ / A / A- note by the pre-jurors. We are so proud...L ...
By Maria Esteves – January 25, 2014 The 5th Annual Digital Book World Conference 2014 (DBW14) Special Presentation of OUT OF PRINT, directed by Vivienne Roumani was held at the Sheraton New York Hotel, Wednesday, January 13, 2014. A benefit reception preceded this compelling documentary narrated by three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep followed by a Q&A session with director Vivienne Roumani, and cast members CEO Jane Friedman, Open Road Integrated Media, former CEO of Harper Collins;...
"Revolution" has been selected to receive 2 screenings at One Earth Film Festival. Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ, will do a story on One Earth Film Festival for one of their programs, Worldview. Climate change, sustainability, and related themes are most certainly global in nature, and half of the films selected for this year's Festival cover environmental topics specifically from a global lens. To that end, they will be interviewing Rob Stewart about the future developments ...
The tent protests that swept Israel during summer 2011 momentarily made unlikely bedfellows out of secular and ultra-religious activists confronting similar social issues. Gay rights were no such matchmaker, however, as seen in July 2011's Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem and the sizeable counter-protest it spawned in that city's ultra-Orthodox Mea Sharim neighborhood. (The previous year the black-frocked Deputy Mayor brandished cardboard donkeys to condemn the “besti...
7th WINTER FRENCH SHORT FILM SCREENING that will be held on Friday, February 28th at the CREST THEATRE. Doors at 6pm / Films at 7pm, with an intermission. Our WinterScreening will showcase the 2014 Cesar (French Academy Awards) nominated shorts and the audience will have the opportunity to vote for their own favorites in the Animation and Live Action categories, and choose the winners of our very own "Sacramento Cesar Awards" ... ! The 39th César Ceremony will have bee...
High Flight, a short animation (7 minutes) written and directed by three time Academy Award nominee Gerald Potterton, based on the poem by John Magee an American pilot who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
Le temps à Cannes sera beau, chaud, ensoleillé et très glamour pour le 67ème festival
Le 11ème FIFO a de nouveau été un succès populaire L’Association du FIFO est heureuse d’annoncer le bilan du 11ème FIFO qui s’est tenu à la Maison de la Culture du 03 au 09 février 2014. La fréquentation du festival montre que l’aura de l’événement ne cesse de croître, et confirme son importance dans le paysage culturel polynésien aussi bien que d...
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA 2014 A NEW-YORK ET DANS 40 VILLES AUX USA 24 longs-métrages sont en sélection pour cette 19e edition du festival qui mettra cette année les femmes cinéastes et la nouvelle "nouvelle vague" française à l’honneur. Les réalisateurs et réalisatrices Nabil Ben Yadir, Sébastien Betbeder, Serge Bozon, Guillaume Brac, Robin Campillo, Thierry De Perett...
Les 13e RENCONTRES du CINEMA EUROPEEN de VANNES se tiendront à Vannes du 26 mars au 1er avril 2014 Decouvrez la bande annonce de l’événement : BA Cinecran14 FINAL WEB from Cinécran Association Cinéma Irlandais Une sélection de films autour de cette thématique donc sera programmée toute la semaine. L’occasion pour tous les cinéphiles de visionner Michael Collins (Lion d'or à...
Etoile d’Or du Film « La vie d’Adèle chapitres 1 & 2 » de Abdellatif KECHICHE Etoile d’Or du Réalisateur Abdellatif KECHICHE pour « La vie d’Adèle chapitres 1 & 2 » Etoile d’Or du Scénario Albert DUPONTEL et Laurent TURNER pour « 9 mois ferme » Etoile d’Or du Premier Film « Les garçons et Guillaume, à table ! » de Guillaume GALLIE...
Les Cartoon Movie Tributes récompensent une personnalité ou une société ayant eu une influence dynamique et positive sur l’industrie européenne du long métrage d’animation. Ce sont les professionnels eux-mêmes qui désigneront le réalisateur, le distributeur et le producteur de l’année lors de Cartoon Movie, le forum de coproduction qui se déroulera du 5 au 7 mars prochains à Lyon. Les noms de tro...
Brussels Film Festival 2014 Brussels Film Festival - Dedicated to European Cinema s'apprête à vivre une nouvelle édition, la 12e depuis son installation à Flagey et, cette année encore, du 6 au 14 juin, toute son équipe est bien décidée à témoigner de la richesse du cinéma européen. Ce cinéma vivant et décomplexé salué par un certain… Woody Allen. «J&rsq...
Ainsi en 2013, la Fondation compte 7 lauréats : Fejria Deliba, Sara Forestier, Louis Garrel, Elad Keidan, Alireza Khatami, Laurent Teyssier et Rémi CHAYE «J'ai été très heureux d'apprendre que TOUT EN HAUT DU MONDE était lauréat de la Fondation Groupama Gan. Le parcours de production et de fabrication d'un film d'animation est souvent long et sinueux. Il faut être endurant et garder son op...
Les Rencontres Cinématographiques du Sud sont de retour pour la 4ème édition des Rencontres du 7ème Art à Avignon. PROGRAMMATION DES PROFESSIONNELS Accessible avec une accréditation Programmation Grand Public : 21 films en avant-première et 11 équipes attendues CAPI...
Festival Cinéma du Réel La 36e édition du festival Cinéma du Réel aura lieu du 20 au 30 mars 2014. Depuis sa création il y a 35 ans, Cinéma du réel s'est imposé comme le festival de référence du cinéma documentaire en France. À l’écoute de la diversité des écritures, des formes et des idées, il rassemble aujourd'hui un publi...
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