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NewsletterTHE NEWSLETTER REACHES 200 000 FILM PROFESSIONALS EACH WEEK.Email us to be featured at special rates. SUBSCRIBE Highlights and Previews from the Festival Circuit Volume 754 - Filmfestivals.comWishing you all much success on the festival circuit! Read this online FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS: Advertise in our Sundance and Berlin Newsletters from 200€ email us for a quote > FOCUS ON SUNDANCESundance 2017 Jury Members announced
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Actress Eileen Dietz to attend the World Premiere of "Lake Alice
LAKE ALICE SYNOPSIS: LAKE ALICE is set during Christmas at an isolated cabin in the subzero temperatures of northern Wisconsin where the days are short and the nights last forever. The cast includes Brando Eaton (American Sniper), Peter O'Brien (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Brad Schmidt (House of Lies), Caroline Tudor (Mortal Combat: Legacy), Laura Niemi (Jobs), and ...
The Midwest Independent Film Festival is Back at Sundance
The Midwest Independent Film Festival is Back at Sundance: Monday January 23rd! The Midwest Independent Film Festival is the nation's only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker, presenting audiences with regionally produced independent cinema every First Tuesday of the month at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, 2828 North Clark in Chicago. This year-round film festival sits proudly at the center of the independent film scene in Chicago and the Midwest and is de...
HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to the searing documentary CRIES FROM SYRIA
HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to the searing documentary CRIES FROM SYRIA, by Oscar® nominee Evgeny Afineevsky, ahead of its world premiere in the Documentary Premieres section of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22. This harrowing account of the Syrian civil war from the inside out is Afineevsky’s follow-up to the Emmy®- and Oscar®-nominated “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedo...
Spotlight Initiative Gala to Light Up Park City
Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Laura Prepon, and Barbara Kopple named 2017 Honorees to receive Awards The Creative Coalition announced this year’s honorees headlining the 2017 Spotlight Initiative Awards Gala Dinner to be held at the Kia Supper Suite during the upcoming Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Confirmed talent include actor and President of The Creative Coalition Tim Daly; actors Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Laura Prepon, Carrie Preston, directors Barbara ...
Netflix presents Burning Sands
PRESENTS BURNING SANDS from director/co-writer Gerard McMurray starring Trevor Jackson (ABC's American Crime), Alfre Woodard (Netflix's Luke Cage), Steve Harris (ABC's The Practice), Tosin Cole and DeRon Horton. Burning Sands takes you on a raw, voyeuristic journey of fraternity pledging through the eyes of one favored pledgee, who is torn between honoring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing....
Newness and TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time Join Festival Lineup
2017 Sundance Film Festival Adds Two More Films (L-R) Newness. Credit: Courtesy of Production; TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time. Credit:Laura Hudock/Courtesy of SHOWTIME. Sundance Institute augments the 2017 Sundance Film Festival program with two new independent films, announced today: Newness, from director Drake Doremus, and TRUMPED: Inside The Greatest Political Upset of All Time, from directors Banks Tarver, Ted Bourne and Mary Robertson. The...
Anyone can make a movie. With no money. And be a well-known filmmaker.Download this ebook to findout how!
NO BUDGET FILMMAKING by Jack Truman. The entire Ebook will be available for free during Sundance and Slamdance. Here's a link to the Ebook for your review: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/646348 Anyone can make a movie. With no money. And be a well-known filmmaker. An informative, alternative, out-of-the-box reference book for the film industry, NO BUDGET FILMMAKING covers a wide range of tips and tools: from proven filmmaking techniques, valuable industry resources, and more...
Oklahoma City premieres in Sundance traces the events where 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast
OKLAHOMA CITY Barak Goodman's Startling Look At the Catastrophic Origins of the White Nationalist Movement *Premieres at Sundance 2017* *Opens in Theaters Feb. 3* *Premieres on PBS on Feb. 7* From American Experience - PBS: On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. M...
GOLDEN EXITS Premieres in Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition
Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry (Acquisition Title/WME and Forager Films) Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny and Analeigh Tipton Synopsis: Nick has settled into a safe existence in a small pocket of Brooklyn, where he currently toils on an archival project for his father-in-law. Soon, 20-something Naomi arrives from Australia to assist Nick for the semester. She has no acquainta...
LOOK AND SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry to screen at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
LOS ANGELES, CA (December 12, 2016) — LOOK AND SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (previously titled THE SEER), directed by Independent Spirit Award-winning filmmaker Laura Dunn (THE UNFORESEEN), will screen in the Spotlight section at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival as part of the The New Climate program, following its award-winning premiere at SXSW earlier this year. The Sundance Film Festival...
Followup to An Inconvenient Truth to World Premiere at 2017 Sundance Film Festival as Day One Screening
Documentary Caps Festival’s First Slate of ‘The New Climate’ Films and Work About Environment and Conservation The Honorable Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, Social Entrepreneur Jeff Skoll & Others Join ‘Power of Story’ Panel on January 22; Live Streamed at sundance.org ...
MACHINES by Rahul Jain World documentary competition
75 min / color /India, Germany, Finland / 2016 / North American premiere Director Rahul Jain is available for interviews - screenings TBA Guy Lodge in Variety: "Mechanical spectacle and human pain make surprisingly complementary subjects in Rahul Jain's composed, immersive Indian factory tour. Following its critically acclaimed world premiere at the International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Rahul Jain's feature debut MACHINES competes in ...
The Wound to Make World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
The Wound, a film by by John Trengove, will make its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 with screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah. The Sundance Film Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades, including Boyhood, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, The End of the...
New Frontier Showcases Storytelling’s Future at 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Virtual / Augmented Reality Experiences, Installations, Live Performances Lead Programming, Including Works by Chris Milk, Nonny de la Peña Now in its second decade of breaking new ground at the forefront of art and technology, Sundance Institute has curated an in-depth vision of storytelling’s future for the 2017 edition of New Frontier at the Sundance ...
THE GOOD POSTMAN by Tonislav Hristov - World Cinema Documentary Competition
Sundance Film Festival - world cinema documentary competition - 82 min / color / Finland / Bulgaria / 2016 / North American premiere Screenings TBA Critical praise for THE GOOD POSTMAN: Variety: "Tonislav Hristov's superb documentary study of electoral process in a small Bulgarian village pulses with wider-world resonance." Screen International: "for outsiders to Europe’s issues, a textbook illustration...
PERSON TO PERSON to Make World Premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Abbi Jacobson, Bene Coopersmith and George Sample III Head up Ensemble Cast PERSON TO PERSON, written and directed by Dustin Guy Defa, will make its World Premiere in the NEXT Section at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 with screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah. In PERSON TO PERSON, a record collector hustles for a big score while his heartbroken roommat...
> FOCUS ON ROTTERDAMIFFR announces selection for Big Screen Competition 2017
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam 25 January - 5 February 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the films nominated for the VPRO Big Screen Award 2017. Films competing for the award include: Chez nous, the highly current election drama by Lucas Belvaux (38 Témoins), as ...
IFFR announces complete Bright Future selection
46th International Film Festival Rotterdam 25 January – 5 February 2017 Rotterdam, 4 January 2017 IFFR announces complete Bright Future selection Impact Cinema adopts Bright Future Award International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) today announces the full line-up ...
The line-up and the jury of the Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2017 have been announced!
Eight films will compete for the two awards during the upcoming festival. The following films have been selected for the Hivos Tiger Competition: Arábia, Brazil, 2017, Affonso Uchoa, João Dumans The Burglar, Israel, 2017, Hagar Ben Asher Columbus, USA, 2017, kogonada Demonios tus ojos, Spain, 2017, Pedro Aguilera Light Thereafter, Bulgaria/Belgium, 2017, Konstantin Bojanov Quality Time, Netherlands/Norway, 2017, D...
> FOCUS ON BERLINALE AND EFMSci Films 2017 from Summer Hill Films presented at Berlin
Altered Spirits Scifi, action
Four young people are pulled into an alternate dimension through a portal in a sweat lodge. On the other side four murderous spirits of centuries-old gold hunters await to steal the young peoples’ bodies and return to the living world.Watch the trailer for "Altered Spirits" More L.A. Beat is a feature film by Christoph Kositzka that takes you to the underworld of Los Angeles. Cops, bad guys, guns and drugs - all the elements for a banging action movie. See the trailer and stills below! Synopsis: EFP celebrates 20th anniversary of European Film Promotion
It was exactly 20 years ago – during the 1997 Berlinale – that the time was right to launch EUROPEAN FILM PROMOTION e.V. (EFP) to highlight European films internationally in the face of domination from US blockbusters. Initially, ten countries joined forces to promote and market their national cinema in a European context and create networking opportunities for their up-and-coming creatives at major film festivals around the globe. The i...
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017: The Millennial Generation
Fourteen Films, including nine full-length fiction and documentary films, have been invited for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino in 2017. Strong fiction films by millennials characterise this year’s selection. The directors, who are mostly in their early 30s and were coming of age around the turn of the millennium, were shaped and socialised by this period. With them we take a look back into childhood and adolescence. We see kids affected by their parents’ separation, and en...
Samsonite RED is Premium Partner of the 31st TEDDY AWARD
The 31st Teddy Award is presented within the framework of the International Film Festival (9 Feb. – 19 Feb. 2017) on February 17th, 2017 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. For the very first time it is supported by Samsonite RED. Since 31 years, the TEDDY AWARD rewards movies and filmmakers, who contribute with engagement and queer topics for more tolerance, equality, acceptance and diversity in society. More than 1500 guests from culture, art, economy, politics an...
67th Berlinale: Competition and Berlinale Special
67th Berlinale: Competition and Berlinale Special - Danny Boyle, Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader’s Directorial Debut in the Competition Programme Competition The following films will be celebrating world or international premieres in the Competition of the Berlinale 2017. Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone) South Korea By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Right...
Berlinale Shorts 2017: Reframing the Image
23 films from 19 countries will be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bear as well as the Audi Short Film Award, worth € 20,000, and a nomination for the European Film Awards at the 2017 edition of Berlinale Shorts. The Algerian film Monangambeee, produced in 1969 and directed by Sarah Maldoror, will also be screened out of competition. The International Short Film Jury 2017 will be composed of Christian Jankowski, artist and professor at the Stuttgart State Academy ...
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Animation / India-France-Germany / Delivery: Cannes 2019 / English / Pre-Production From the team behind Oscar® nominated Waltz with Bashir and multi award winning Director, Gitanjali Rao comes her first feature animation: BOMBAY ROSE. Director: Gitanjali Rao Synopsis: On the Bollywood-soaked streets of Bombay, many lives and loves come together through the story of one red rose. Click HERE for a presentation of the film. Password: BRTiff2016 Script available upon request ...
Berlinale Talents: 250 Young Filmmakers from 71 Countries Invited
Berlinale Talents welcomes 250 emerging professionals from 71 countries to its 15th edition. Exploring the theme “Courage: Against All Odds”, the Talents will participate in a six-day programme featuring over 100 events, with many open to the public. Environmental sculptor Christo is going to join Berlinale Talents. The acclaimed artist will be one of around 100 internationally renowned experts presenting and discussing their work. Berlinale Talents will again take place in t...
On February 9, 2017, the 67th Berlin International Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Etienne Comar’s directorial debut: Django. Django will participate in the official competition of the Berlinale.The French film revolves around Django Reinhardt, the famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943. Within moments, this superb guitarist was able to reach people’s hearts with his instrument. Yet as Sinti, his family was haras... > AWARDS WATCHAward Season 2017: And The Nominees Are… Split & No Director-ess?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent During Award Season when Hollywood has the limelight, and this includes every major guild and member-based award show up until the 89th Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, there is a shopworn practice of splitting the Nominations announcements in the news, setting up anticipation for several different dates for the same organization. For example, today Jan. 11, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced its TV, Commercial and Documentary Nominees, wi...
25 Clues Meryl Streep Is Not Overrated: Out of the “Sandra Dee Box” & Into A Twitter War
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent So, here's the story, as they say in the movies... Sunday night Jan. 8, at the Golden Globes hosted by Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), award-winning actor/legend Meryl Streep stepped in it by “calling out” the new US President-Elect with a pointed speech on bullying as an undesirable trait. Long story, short, the soon-to-be-installed President Donald J. Trump, ignited a Twitter firefight in which he dubbed Str...
Nominations Announced for the 11th Asian Film Awards
The Asian Film Awards Academy announced the nominations for the 11th Asian Film Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong today. For this edition, AFA received almost 1,600 submissions from 28 countries and regions. Seventy-three nominations were made for awards in 15 categories, representing 34 films from 12 countries and regions. Japanese films and talents were nominated in all 15 categories, including a Best Film Award nomination for Harmonium (Director: Koji Fukada). ...
BAFTAs 2017: the nominations
Among the nominated films that first screened to UK audiences at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival are La La Land (receiving 11 nominations), Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, American Honey, Nocturnal Animals, Lion, The 13th, Toni Erdmann and The Eagle Huntress. Outstanding British debut contender The Pass was the opening night film at BFI Flare in 2016. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 12 February at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Best Film ARRIVAL Dan Levine, Shawn ...
Golden Globes Awards 2017 Full list of winners and nominees
Winners & Nominees 2017 Best Motion Picture - Drama WINNER Moonlight NOMINEE Hell Or High Water NOMINEE Lion ...
Moonlight Best drama, 6 nominations
WINNERS & NOMINEES Moonlight Golden Globes: 6 Nominations, 1 Win A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami...
LA LA LAND sings to high notes winning 7
The film transformed each of the 7 nominations into gold! A record! Golden Globes: 7 Nominations, 7 Wins A jazz pianist and a struggling actress cross paths in Los Angeles. Director:Damien Chazelle ...
Voting for Oscar nominations opens today
Voting for Oscar nominations opens Thursday, January 5 for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members, to be completed by Friday, January 13. The nominees for the 89th annual awards will be announced Tuesday, January 24. ...
18 scientific and technical achievements to be honored with with Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 18 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well as five organizations, will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday, February 11, 2017 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. “This year we are particularly pleased to be able to honor not only a wide range of new technologies, but also the pioneering digital cinema cameras that hel...
Slow Clap to Wild Applause: WGA Nom for DEADPOOL is Dead On
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Say what you will about “rigged” elections and fixed ways of thinking, voters at the WGA (Writers Guild of America) just went rogue and nominated DEADPOOL. Okay, they didn’t exactly go rogue, they actually went bold by nominating the graphic novel adapt of a Marvel character, from the X-Men series, by 20th Century Fox - a genre often limited to the margins of high art. Why are they right to do so? Because it’s no...
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