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Montreal International Animation Film Festival  - August 17 - 20, 2017 

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Women in Film: Abina and the Important Men

Trevor Getz and Liz Clark’s graphic novel about a young woman who fights for her freedom in the courts of Africa’s gold coast in the late 1800’s comes to life in an animated feature produced by the Documentary Film Institute at San Francisco State University. The novel won the James Harvey Robinson prize in 2014. Abina and the Important Men by Soumyaa Behrens | US | 1 h | 2016 A graphic hi...

 

Feature Films at MIAFF 2017

Feature Films Release from Heaven by Ali Noori Oskouci Islamic Republic of Iran 01:16:00 In a war torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a life changing journey. Ali Noori Oskouci was born in 1981, Tehran, Iran. He is a graduate of art who has started his art career from high school as a photographer, cartoonist and film maker. He then majored in cinema and tried different genres including fiction, documentary and animation. Along with f...

 

 

Shorts at MIAFF 2017

SHORT FILMS Fashion Cave! by Tristian Goik USA 0:59 Join Scarlet Envy and Daphne Sumtimez on an urban adventure of massive magnitude and dripping danger. No artist biography. Departure by Aoífe Doyle Ireland 9:15 An Irish grandmothers unexpected departure from her lonely life. Aoífe Doyle is the creative director and co-founder of Pink Kong Studios. The studio’s new short film “Departure” is funded by the Irish Film Board and RTÉ...

 

 

Film Program: VR 360

Virtual Reality (VR) 360º Films  Garden by Daniel & David Holechek USA 2:08 A young woman browsing through an art gallery makes a connection and unlocks a stunning world inside of her imagination. Garden blends fully stereoscopic live action and CG environments to create an imaginative and immersive VR short film experience. The film explores what it means to connect to a piece of art, in a way that that is unique to the virtual reality medium. The Holech...

 

 

Full Line up for MIAFF 2017 / Animation, panels and VR

The Schedule   FILM LISTINGS  SHORTS EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES VIRTUAL REALITY 360º  JUNOD   INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILMS   PANELS  NETWORKING INDUSTRY & PITCH   Virtual Reality Installations ...

 

Fairy Tale and Success story at Montreal International Animation Film Festival

  A debut short film from the UK premiers at the Montreal International Animation Film Festival and credits the festival’s contribution as final push that led to the film’s completion. BBC England has helped the UK short film go viral after featuring the young filmmaker in one of their daily news shows.   Ms. Ruth Coggins, a first time filmmaker created a film about her great g...

 

 

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Stephen Frears to receive the 2017 Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at the Venice International Film Festival

Victoria & Abdul - director Stephen Frears 2b © Focus Features His new film Victoria & Abdul to be screened Out of Competition   La Biennale di Venezia and Jaeger-LeCoultre are pleased to announce that the great English director Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons) will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival (30th August  - 9th September 2017), dedicated to a personality who has mad...

 

 

Venice celebrates the centennial of the birth of Jean Rouch with a screening of Cousin Cousine (shot in Venice)

  On the centennial of the birth of Jean Rouch the programme of the Venice Film Festival (7 and 8 September) adds the only film he ever made in Venice, the previously unreleased Cousin, cousine (1985-1987, 31')   For the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great French director and ethnographer Jean Rouch (1917 – 2004), the programme of the Venice Film Festival adds to its line-up the world-premiere screening of the only film ...

 

 

Venice Book Adaptation Rights Market

Download the brochure of the Book Adaptation Rights Market  and like to let you know that the meetings will take place on September 1st in the morning from 9:30 to 12:00 and on the 2nd  and 3rd  from 9:30 until 18:00 in the Venice Production Bridge dedicated BARM area at the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido di Venezia, within a short distance from Palazzo del Cinema, the main festival hub.    In order to book your meetings with the project representatives, you p...

 

 

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Jane Fonda and Robert Redford

The Electric Horseman (1979) by Sydney Pollack Thursday, August 31st in the Sala Volpi (5:30 p.m.) A tribute to Jane Fonda and Robert Redford 2017 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement   In honor of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, who will each be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, there will be a screening of one of the four movies in which the two great actors performed together. The film, The Electric Horseman (1979), was directed ...

 

 

Venice Film Festival Calendar Public Screenings

  Calendario delle proiezioni per il pubblico della 74. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica   Martedì 29 agosto 2017   20:30               SALA DARSENA PREAPERTURA - INVITI IN COLLABORAZIONE CON I QUOTIDIANI VENEZIANI  PARTITURA ORIGINALE RICOSTRUITA E DIRETTA DA GILLIAN ANDERSON ED ESEGUITA DALLA MITTELEUROPA ORCHESTRA VENEZIA CLASSICI ROSITA (1923) di Ernst Lubitsch (...

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International feature films in competition

LING FAST  (114 mins) 24 FRAMES Dir. Abbas Kiarostami  France Iran (2017)   (98 mins) AFTERIMAGE Dir. Andrzej Wajda  Poland (2016)   (127 mins) ANA, MON AMOUR Dir. Călin Peter Netzer  Romania (2017) STANDBY  (95 mins) ANTONIO 1, 2, 3 Dir. ...

 

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The story of film in Melbourne could not be written without MIFF. MIFF is a not-for-profit organisation that has been continuously running since 1952, making it the leading film festival in Australia and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, alongside Cannes and Berlin. Presenting a curated global program of innovative screen experiences and the world’s largest showcase of exceptional Australian filmmaking, MIFF is an accessible, iconic cultural event that provides tr...

 

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Glenn Close to receive Zurich Film Festival’s Golden Icon Award

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) announced today that Glenn Close will receive the Golden Icon Award at this year’s Festival,  which takes place from September 28 to October 8, 2017.   The Golden Icon Award is the Festival’s most prestigious symbol of recognition, in appreciation of the lifetime achievements of an actor or actress. Glenn Close will be honored with the award on Sunday October 1. Ms Close will also present her latest film, THE WIFE with her...

 

Meet Keith Garcia Programming Manager for Denver Film Society and the Sie FilmCenter

Allow me to (re)introduce myself. I'm Keith Garcia and I'm happy to announce that I will be the interim Programming Manager for Denver Film Society and the Sie FilmCenter for the next little while. Some of you may know me from my salad days when I held this same position for the organization for nearly a decade - going all the way back to the ol' Starz FilmC...

 

 

Jameson CineFest honors Jiři Menzel and Magda Vásáryova

The leading Hungarian film event, the 14th Jameson CineFest awaits the audience in 8-17 September 2017. On the 8th of September the festival opens its gate with the screening of ‘Shortcuts’ aka ‘Cutting it Short’ with the director, JiřiMenzel and the leading actress, Magda Vásáryova as special guests. The Academy Award winner director is this year’s Lifetime Achievement Aawrd winner, and the actress and diplomat Vásáryova ...

 

Oldenburg Honors Maverick Producer Ed Pressman with Retrospective

“Film seemed to be a way of changing the world”- Ed Pressman This personal credo resonates through his body of work and pioneering creativity and passion for story telling that has enabled and launched the careers of cinemas most acclaimed directors and stars. On the 50th Anniversary of his first foray into filmmaking in 1967, and with nearly 90 films to his credit, Ed Pressman is an iconic and prolific force to whom modern cinema and so many of its greatest artists ...

 

Franz Schwartz, the former director of Vienna’s Stadtkino, appointed interim artistic director of the Viennale.

 

Following the death of our director of many years, Hans Hurch, the Viennale board of trustees has entrusted Franz Schwartz, the former director of Vienna’s Stadtkino, with the interim artistic direction of the Viennale. Franz Schwartz has already started work and will remain in charge until the appointment of a new permanent director at the beginning of next year. “Tragically, the Viennale 2017 is Hans Hurch’s last. Working together, the experienced team of the Viennale and I...

 

 

Brett Ratner to Close 13th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival as Keynote

 

Brett Ratner, one of Hollywood’s most successful filmmakers, will close the Academy Awards® qualifying 13th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival w...

 

What If There’s No Back to School or Normal: Ai Weiwei’s HUMAN FLOW for UN’s WHD

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Maybe you’ve never heard of Ai Weiwei, who turns 60 on Aug. 28. Once a pro blackjack player, Weiwei still takes huge gambles as China’s best-known living artist, conceptual artist, and filmmaker who is often jailed or at odds with his government. There’s a link to his timeline and bio below. But for tomorrow Aug. 19, which the United Nation declared “World Humanitarian Day” back in 2003, Weiwei’s new fil...

 

 

Check out the hysteria with Billy' Flynn's fans

Watch Billy Flynn getting an amazing welcome   https://www.facebook.com/1504880126420139/videos/1953435961564551/ ...

 

 

Dead on Arrival D.O.A. Team on stage with cast at RIFF

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Jane Fonda and Robert Redford

The Electric Horseman (1979) by Sydney Pollack Thursday, August 31st in the Sala Volpi (5:30 p.m.) A tribute to Jane Fonda and Robert Redford 2017 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement   In honor of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, who will each be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, there will be a screening of one of the four movies in which the two great actors performed together. The film, The Electric Horseman (1979), was directed ...

 

Consensus New York 2017 Photo Coverage

By Maria Esteves The Consensus New York 2017 (3rd Annual Blockchain Technology Summit) presented by CoinDesk was held at the Marriott Marquis, New York, May 22-24, 2017. The Internet’s Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) and Cryptocurrency annual event included the launch of a decentralized blockchain storage system by Blockstack.org, R3 Corda Blockchain operating system, PRISM cryptocurrency portfolio by ShapeShift.io, TOKEN browser/messaging app by Coinbase, a special presentation of EOS...

 

Consensus New York 2017 Coverage

By Maria Esteves The Consensus New York 2017 (3rd Annual Blockchain Technology Summit) presented by CoinDesk was held at the New York Marriott Marquis, May 22-24. The Blockchain as a Service and Cryptocurrency annual event included a special presentation of EOS, Blockchain operating system; the launch of R3 Corda Blockchain operating system, the Blockstack decentralized browser and Token virtual chain, PRISM cyptocurrency portfolio by ShapeShift.io, and TOKEN messaging app by Coinba...

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 16th GARDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL  
March 22 -25 , 2018
 

2018 Call for Entries July 1- December 1, 2017! 

The 8th Taiwan International Children's Film Festival (TICFF)

March 29, 2018 to April 05, 2018
 
August 15 Early Bird Deadline
 

Held once every two years, the festival brings young children and adults too, to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place March 29, 2018 to April 05, 2018. PTS, the organizers of this event, are now signing up entries for this tremendous series of showings, attracting some of the finest film makers from around the world with the lure of USD 25,000 in prize money.  
 

A biennial film festival, TICFF brings young children and adults to enjoy the works in this international exhibition, which will take place in April 2018 for its eighth edition.

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Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE 
August 17 – 20, 2017

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Animaze is an international film festival and conference exploring the world of animation in all its diversity. Filmmakers and professionals from over 65 countries will converge on Montreal from August 17-20. Filmfestivals.com has partnered with Animaze to offer our audience discount on the industry passes.

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Horror Calling

FEARnyc New York's premier horror film festival October 27 – 29, 2017 - Horror Calling

Morbido Festival Mexico October 26 – November 5, 2017 - Horror Calling

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RIP Horror Film Festival November 10 -13 - Horror Calling

A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons...  The Bloody Dolls are Killin It at RIP Horror Hollywood! All filmmakers can submit direct to submissions@riphorrorfilmfest.com Not all submissions will be selected, only TOP 12 Features, TOP 18 Shorts and TOP 20 Micro Shorts will be accepted as official selections. In celebration of our 5th year Fees are FREE for stu...

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival Oct 12-20, 20 - Horror Calling

Shriekfest Announces its Commercial Contest!

Monsters of Film Festival: The Stockholm based festival is calling with final deadline july 6th

13Horror.com accepting film and screenplay submissions - Horror calling

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Picture Is Worth a 1000 Words, But a Picture Distributor Speaks Volumes at First Run Features

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Who will never look at tiki torches the same? Oh, it’s #Charlottesville flashbacks, that mob who tried to destroy the reputation of the Commonwealth of Virginia, home to more US Presidents than any other state . That old tourist ad slogan “Virginia Is For Lovers” has now been flipped on its head. What are we to do? Well, First Run Features President Seymour Wishman has a few ideas. This came to my inbox this morning, likely sa...

 

 

Steven Feinberg RIFF Festival director's amazing quote on Dead On Arrival

Dear Stephen Sepher, "I really enjoyed your film last night.  As mentioned, it looked like a $25 million movie.  Beautifully shot, camera choreography, production value and sound.  You gave a great performance as well, along with your fellow cast members.  I hope you think about making your next movie here in Rhode Island.  We have had approximately $400 million of production here in our Ocean State since I returned home and began an incentive program.  Film...

 

Venice celebrates the centennial of the birth of Jean Rouch with a screening of Cousin Cousine (shot in Venice)

  On the centennial of the birth of Jean Rouch the programme of the Venice Film Festival (7 and 8 September) adds the only film he ever made in Venice, the previously unreleased Cousin, cousine (1985-1987, 31')   For the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great French director and ethnographer Jean Rouch (1917 – 2004), the programme of the Venice Film Festival adds to its line-up the world-premiere screening of the only film ...

 

Batman & Spiderman Walk Into MOLLY’S GAME, But Jessica Chastain Doesn’t Cave to Superheroes

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Holy Toledo, sometimes an insider Hollywood story is so good, you see how the game is played. Jessica Chastain in MOLLY'S GAME So once upon a Batman, and a few-movies-ago Spiderman, the caped one and the web slinger became poker fanatics, like super fanatics, in a snake-pit-named Hollywood club’s back room, a club once owned by a Pirate. True story, plus there’s an ex-Olympic skier with the same name as a character from James ...

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DEAD ON ARRIVAL D.O.A. by Stephen Sepher - Thriller  - USA  - June  2017 -  96 minutes

Emmy nominated Billy Flynn stars in an ensemble cast as Sam Collins, a pharmaceutical sales rep who visits a small town in Louisiana to close the business deal of a lifetime. He finds himself in a dark world of sex, corruption and murder as he is poisoned with no antidote to save his life. Desperate for answers, with less than 24 hours to live, Sam turns to a local girl Jesse. Their path leads to a voodoo priestess who only confirms Sam's doomed fate. On the run, caught in a deadly vertigo with no one to trust, Sam and Jesse find themselves running from police detectives, the Mob and a dirty sheriff who wants him dead.

Inspired by the 1950 classic noir thriller D.O.A. 

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THE EVIL WITHIN by late Andrew Getty 
Winner in Houston WorldFest and Fantasporto

OFFENSIVE, Jon Ford's thriller.Winner in Houston Worldfest

"They were forced beyond breaking point; they have no regrets, does that make them bad people? The first part of this film will enrage you ! The second part will sate you !". Bruno Chatelin - Filmfestivals.com

A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a remote house in rural France, the very same village Bernard’s war hero father liberated during the Second World War, over 70 years earlier. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a crual gang of street kids, who terrorise the village.

An e-generation permanently plugged into their devices, devoid of empathy, a new breed of technological psychopath…Pushed beyond breaking point, can Bernard live up to his father’s legend, as the situation explodes into a brutal war of generations ?

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Revolution by Rob Stewart  

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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Atlantic International Film Festival announces full festival program for event, Sept. 14 - 21 in Halifax

  FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival announces its full program today, featuring over 120 film screenings and a full slate of special events, to be presented over eight days in Halifax, September 14-21. "As Atlantic Canada’s curator of epic and unforgettable stories this year’s program delivers like never before. Incredible regional films sit alongside some of the best the screens of the worl...

 

Announcing ILLUMINATE Film Festival Retreat’s Film Line-up

Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? How are we connected? What power do we have over it all? These are questions the human race has been asking for eons. Are we at a point in our evolution to find the answers? Come take a journey of inquiry, discovery and empowerment with us at the ILLUMINATE Film Festival Retreat in the verdant redwood forests of northern California. Set aside 4 days in early October to immerse yourself in inspirational films, meaningful ceremonies, thoughtf...

 

BRIDGE of ARTS 2017 announced main competition program

III International Motivational Film and Sport Festival BRIDGE of ARTS, which will take place at Rostov-on-Don from 23 till 27 August 2017, announced full-length films competition program. The program consists of films produced only in 2017. Filmmakers out of 11 countries will compete for the main prize. Main competition program includes 10 films produced in 2017, 6 of them will be screened in Russia for the first time. Two Russian films and those produced in France, Slovakia (co-production),...

 

23-27 August 2017 III International Motivational Film Festival BRIDGE of ARTS will Take Place in Rostov-on-Don.

The festival will include full-length and short film competition program, out-of-competition screenings, business forum of film and media content, sport events and meetings with Russian and foreign cinema and sport celebrities.  All events of BRIDGE of ARTS are aimed at building creative environment that will allow participants to contribute to film industry development, learn about new film content creation and feel the vibes of the Russian southern capital. Both tourists and viewers wi...

 

The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) returns for a 20th edition!

From November 9 to 19 this year, the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) will return for a 20th edition. While it prepares to announce its special programs and retrospectives for this anniversary edition, the festival is pleased to reveal 5 hard-hitting documentaries representative of a 2017 selection that will showcase openly political films.   Consisting entirely of interviews, Ouvrir la voix, the first feature by Amandine Guay, and Brexitannia by Timothy George Kelly (A ...

 

Japan Cuts 2017

Japanese Americans, with a population in excess of 1.4 million, are an important part of the fastest-growing multi-cultural segment of the Asian American population and share with the other Asian-American groups high educational achievements and the highest mean household income($90,000 in 2017). Japanese Americans have strong ties with their cultural heritage as expressed by their access to Japanese films through digital media in the United Sates. They are not, however, as well presented in t... 

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Un conte de fées au Festival d'animation de Montréal

Un court-métrage du Royaume-Uni fera sa Première au Festival International de Film d’Animation de Montréal, la directrice reconnaît que la contribution du festival a grandement aidé à sa complétion. BBC England a aidé le court-métrage anglais à faire le buzz sur internet en faisant passer la jeune réalisatrice sur leur plateau de télévision, dans une de leurs nombreuses émissions journali&egr...

 

 

Bienvenue au FIFAM 2017 opening today

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Le FFFH dévoile les premiers films de la 13e édition

François Clerc lance une société de distribution et de production Apollo Films, en partenariat avec CGR

Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal reviennent pour une 20e édition politique et engagée!

19e Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (4-15 oct. 2017)