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AWARDS
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Ojai Film Festival Rolls Credits on 8th Annual Event with Award Winners
Central European Pitch Forum winners
Winners Golden Calves, the Grand Prize of the Dutch Film 2007
Awards and Award-winners at 15th Filmfest Hamburg
The DRAGONS & TIGERS AWARD 2007
Awads for the twelfth edition of Milano Film Festival
Aspen Filmfest wrapped
The International Panorama of Independent Film Makers Awards
The Awards for Dragons and Tigers will be announced today
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FESTIVAL NEWS
Coverage from fest21.com on San Sebastian New York
Toronto London
Europe's First Machinima Festival at DeMontfort University in Leicester
Film In Focus in London Festival: Brick Lane
The Film Financing Circle panels in Abu Dhabi
The Hollywood Film Festival announces the line up
The Vermont International Film Festival is in the homestretch now
3rd CentEast Market Warsaw
4th Annual Indigenous Film Festival
Sport Movies & TV 2007 to open with Women and Sport
Emile Hirsch and Nikki Blonsky to be honored at Palm Springs
Corona Cork Film Festival Programme to Set the Screen Alight
American Showcase at Children's Festival
Film Independent ready to host Filmmaker Forum
NESCAFE to Sponsor Warsaw Film Festival inside of Stalin's Wedding Cake
Festival do Rio Awards
Phuket Film Festival will kick off Oct 20 with Dance Machine’
Welcome to LAFemme.org coming soon
Reeling 2007, G&L Film Fest, Announces full Lineup
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FEST PLAYERS FOCUS
Anton Corbijn will visit Stockholm November 22-25.
The Provocative Cinema of Michael Haneke
Movie Maestros at the New York Film Festival
Julie Christie to appear at Special Ojai Film Festival
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THE NEWS " IN FRENCH " l'actu des festivals francophones
LA COUVERTURE DE CANNES SUR http://croisette.fest21.com
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SatisFecit 2007: 23 produits en compétition pour les trophées de l'Innovation !
CINEALMA tiendra sa 2è édition du 13 au 19 octobre à Carros
13e édition du Festival Etoiles et Toiles d’Asie.
la 13è édition de L’Étrange Festival Strasbourg aura lieu du 24 au 28 octobre prochain
Festival du Film Militant, pays d'Aubagne, du 9 au 13 octobre 2007
Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas, 23-25 Novembre 2007
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FILM FROM FEST FOCUS
Four digital film projects selected for Hubert Bals Fund support
Babelgum offers indie producers simultaneous upload of entire content libraries
Barney the Terrier awarded best comedy film at Toronto’s Commfest
'This is Nollywood,' to screen at London's Raindance
MEIFF - ABU DHABI, Announces ELAH and Gulf Region Films
D-CINEMA NEWS
NEC Digital Cinema Division Wins the 2007 American Business Award
French 3D cinema is awakening…
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Film Festival Tourism: a research on its rapid expansion
The previous articles provided the context for the growing film festival tourism phenomenon. In this last installment, more specific information is provided about the participants in festival tourism, the services provided by the few agencies in this new niche market, and the characteristics of the film festivals that would most likely benefit from film festival tourism.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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CALL FOR ENTRIES ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
Filmmakers don't miss these ones!
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALl April 24 - May 8, 2008
The Golden Gate Awards competition is accepting submissions in 11 categories. Entries must have been completed on or after January 1, 2007. Works that have played a multiday commercial theatrical run in the Bay Area or had any kind of media broadcast are not eligible to apply to non-television categories
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SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL June 13 - 21, 2008
Now entering our 10th year, Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF) has become one of Asia’s largest festival for international short films and is one of the few Academy Award(R) accredited short film festivals SSFF reaches audiences of 30,000 in Tokyo and major cities in Japan. Our main festival is held for over a week in the heart of Harajuku TOKYO!
Please note that our festival dates are tentative.
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INDEPENDENT FEATURES FILM FESTIVAL July 25 - 27, 2008
The Independent Features Film Festival is the world's first film festival in which films will be chosen by a global audience via a web-based competition. The competition will run May 1st, 2008 through June 30th, 2008. The top twenty-one films will go on to be screened at the Independent Features Film Festival which will be hosted July 25-27, 2008 at the acclaimed Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan.
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ECU THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March 14 - 16, 2007
The European Independent Film Festival 2007 submission deadline of February 1st 2007 is fast approaching. Held in Paris on the 16th, 17th and 18th of March at the prestigious Biblioteque Nationale de Francois Mitterand the very best independent films from around the World will be screened to large audiences competing for 16 awards in 11 categories.
For more information go to www.ecufilmfestival.com
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Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee
The Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival wants to see your SHORTS!
Dramas, comedies, documentaries, animations, experimental works and films inspired by JAZZ.
Best of Fest Shorts Prize is $5000 USD - Go to www.kcjubilee.org for details (under 30 minutes, NO PAL).
Postmark deadlines are October 1, November 15 & December 1.
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Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra Feb 15 - 23, 2008
PUNTO DE VISTA, the Documentary Film Festival of Navarra calls for a competition, open to participation by documentaries of any nationality made in after 1 August 2006. The deadline for sending films is next 30 September.
Fiction, institutional or publicity films will not be admitted, nor reports or works of a journalistic nature.
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TURKS & CAICOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL October 16 - 21, 2007
The Turks & Caicos International Film Festival (TCIFF) is dedicated to featuring films from all over the world that celebrate the fusion of cinema and music through content, character, theme or score/ soundtrack. Best of luck to all Filmmakers who will submit film to the festival ! Regular Submission deadline is July 17th.
CINEMA IN PARADISE: BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL December 6 - 13, 2007
join filmmakers and celebrities from around the world at the 4th edition.
The festival will entertain visitors with a diverse presentation of international films,
unusual cultural experiences and fantastic social events. Come and be a part of the fun!
FANTASPORTO' 2008 CALL FOR ENTRIES
28th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 29 - March 8,
Entries Close Dec 15 Running on 5 theatres screening 200 feature films each year with Massive press coverage 5000 clippings every year - Over 110,000 entries in past editions.contact: Mário Dorminsky (Director)
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FUNCHAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - MADEIRA ISLANDS November, 2 - 10, 2007
The Festival is sponsored by the Regional Government of Madeira to promote the films and various events around them, as well as to promote Madeira Islands and the capital city of Funchal. The Festival's main category is the "Atlantic Films Official Section", a competitive section for feature films produced or co-produced by participants from the ATLANTIC countries.
ANNUAL PROGRAM WITHOUT FRONTIERS
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