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THE KNOT Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021 With Director: Ashish Pant Interview by Emmanuel Itier Q: Tell me how this film came together for you? Ashish: It is based on an event that really happened to me when I was a kid in India, in the city of ‘Lucknow’ in the North. I was 7 and my dad was driving us for lunch to my grand-mother’s place. As we were at a light and had the way to pass, a scooter came from the left and collided with our car...
Interview with Casey McGarry director of two shorts showing at SBIFF: “ELECTRIC LADY” et “VUJA DE”
Director: Casey McGarry Two Shorts at the Santa Barbara film festival : ELECTRIC LADY – VUJA DE Q: Tell us about the genesis of these two docs? Casey: For the last 6 years or so, I’ve been making SB themed short to medium-length documentaries for the film festival and there’s no better feeling than lifting up your local community using this particular medium. Finding an inspiring, unique and local story on an ordinary person who lives among us here i...
Interview - Tim Plester (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY) for BACKYARD VILLAGE - Santa Barbara
BACKYARD VILLAGE Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021 With actor: Tim Plester (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1043031 ) Interview by Emmanuel ITIER for filmfestivals.com Q: How did you get to play this interesting English man lost in the land of Island? Tim: I met Marteinn Thorsson, the director of “Backyard Village”, a few years ago. Almost 10 years ago when I was in Iceland for a vacation. We had an amazing time and while we were...
> PEOPLE ON OUR RADARTallgrass Film Association announces Melanie Addington as the new Executive Director, effective May 1, 2021.
“Melanie comes to Tallgrass with a wealth of film festival experience, new ideas, and lots of energy,” said Adam Gunnels, board president. “We can’t wait to see what’s in store for Tallgrass with Melanie at the helm.” Addington most recently served as Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, MS. She has worked in the film festival industry since 2006, first as a volunteer, and then eventually becoming the Oxford Film Fe...
Interview - Ashish Pant for THE KNOT - Santa Barbara
THE KNOT Santa Barbara Film Festival 2021 With Director: Ashish Pant Interview by Emmanuel Itier Q: Tell me how this film came together for you? Ashish: It is based on an event that really happened to me when I was a kid in India, in the city of ‘Lucknow’ in the North. I was 7 and my dad was driving us for lunch to my grand-mother’s place. As we were at a light and had the way to pass, a scooter came from the left and collided with our car...
Register Now: “Global Content Creators 2021” Virtual All Female Panel Event on April 13
Cloud 21 International & Kultura PR International to Present “Global Content Creators 2021” Special Virtual Event on April 13, 2021 All Female Panel to Feature Award-winning Filmmakers Anna Fishbeyn and Eva Lanska, German American producer Christina Rose and Alien Films’ Eileen Tasca; Panel to be Moderated by Director/Activist Kate Rees Davies Cloud 21 PR International and Kultura PR International are pleased to present the inaugural installment of its l...
> FILMS IN FOCUS ...Overview of the US business for the week of Monday, April 5
Godzilla vs. Kong has shaken the U.S. box office back to life since its mid-week opening. The monster sequel from Warner Bros. earned $48.5M in five days since last Wednesday, with $32.2M coming in over Easter weekend. This result represents a record-breaking opening since the pandemic began 14 months ago. Sony's horror film The Unholy also debuted this weekend, taking second place with $3.2M in ticket sales. Universal's R-Rated action thriller Nobody followed in a close...
THUNDER FORCE’s Melissa McCarthy & Octavia Spencer get super jabs, ready?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Hey, the German trailer for THUNDER FORCE starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is almost more hilarious than the English version of the Netflix superhero flick to be released April 9. Can you imagine more unlikely Super Friends from childhood? No, you can’t, trust me. This is one caped caper worth the subscription fee alone for the super streamer. Watch… You’ll never listen to Seal again without a trigger-wa...
The Gotham Presents: The Future of Distribution – Reinventing The Industry - 7PM on Thursday, April 15th
Join the conversation with distribution decision makers as they discuss the current state and future of distribution. How has a year and a half of social distancing changed how independent films are distributed? On April 15th we’ll be hosting our second panel on the Future of Distribution, an opportunity for attendees to hear from distribution decision makers on how they’ve spent the past year successfully transitioning with the times and how you can utilize these new virtual ...
Luke Bracey and Brittany Snow to star in new thriller BIG NICKEL shooting end of this year
Australian superstar Luke Bracey (Warner Bros.’ Point Break, Academy Award winner Hacksaw Ridge) and Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect franchise, Hairspray) are set to star in the new feature film thriller Big Nickel. Tom Chilcoat is making his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with David Birke who penned the acclaimed Oscar nominated film Elle starring Isabelle Huppert, and Screen Gems’ Slender Man starring Joey King. Start of Principal Photography is set for W...
Highland Film Group enters first look output deal with Short Porch Pictures - Alec Baldwin cast in first film SUPERCELL
Leading independent worldwide sales agent Highland Film Group announced today that it has entered into a non-exclusive first look output deal with Ryan Winterstern and Nathan Klingher’s newly launched production company Short Porch Pictures. Under the far-reaching deal, Highland Film Group will represent worldwide or international sales rights, depending on the project, to feature films produced by Short Porch Pictures. Academy Award® nominee Alec Baldwin (The Departed, &ldquo...
Arclight Films locks North American distribution for QUEEN BEEES starring Ellen Burstyn and James Caan
Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired North American rights from Arclight Films, to distribute the heartwarming dramatic comedy ‘QUEEN BEES’. ‘QUEEN BEES stars Ellen Burstyn, James Caan, Ann-Margret, Jane Curtin, Christopher Lloyd, Loretta Devine, Elizabeth Mitchell, and French Stewart. The Astute Films production is directed by Michael Lembeck from a screenplay by Donald Martin and story by Harrison Powell. Gravitas Ventures will release ‘QUEEN BEE...
Only Human awarded BEST FILM at Gbeck Future Film Festival
ONLY HUMAN Wins best Film at the 7th GBECKFF THE WINNERS LIST FOR THE 7TH GBECKFF Gbeck Future Film Festival focuses on new media and young filmmakers. The competition is divided into two parts: “Script” and “Production.” As well the films were grouped by length (short and full-length film) and organized into three types: drama, documentary, and animation. Many great young filmmakers have been fostered by this event, and many excellent new films wer...
> FESTIVALS IN FOCUSWorldFest 54 Opening Night is two weeks away!
Wonderful WorldFest Film Premiere Schedule! Opening Night is just two weeks away for WorldFest54 (April 22 - 25, 2021) at Cinemark Memorial City! We’ll be premiering Houston’s hometown hero Shawn Welling’s exciting thriller NARCO SUB as our official festival opening. Japan's BEAUTIFUL LURE will be kicking off our Panorama Asia section. See below for film details and trailers. Join us after the movies at the HQ Westin Memorial City with your ticket for a glass o...
Fantasporto 2021 official presentation at the Hard Club
One more step has been completed towards the realization of the 41th Fantasporto - the official presentation. Hardclub welcomed us with friendly and affability, which is very important when organizing an event like this. Featuring the festival's 40th anniversary Anthology that will be officially presented on April 30th at 18 pm. All are invited. The Anthology I made about the 40 years of Fantasport arrived today. Anyone who has been there over the years now has to order and then fin...
Palm Springs International Film Festival Announces 2022 Dates
The 33rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will return Thursday, January 6, 2022 through Monday, January 17, 2022.
The Film Awards Gala will take place on January 6 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with film screenings beginning Friday, January 7 including the Opening Night presentation that evening and will conclude with Best of Fest on January 17. Palm Springs ShortFest is still schedu... 43rd Moscow International Film Festival wins over COVID times
Kirill Razlogov program director of the Moscow Film Festival (with Bruno Chatelin)
This year’s program inevitably reflects the uncertainties in the cinematic process itself. Now and again filmmakers in different countries went to extremes. The extreme situation of the Pandemic and the lockdown prompted extreme aesthetic and anti-aesthetic choices, unexpected semantic collisions, heightened by the creators’ polonged isolation. It would be naïve and arrogant to propose a way...
Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Call for Entries
The seventh editon of The Netherlands' main wildlife film festival is open for entries! The 7th Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam (WFFR) will take place from 26 – 31 October 2021. The festival focuses on the screening of wildlife, environment, sustainability, climate change and conservation documentaries. The competition is free of fees. Entries must be submitted before 1 May 2021. The 2021 festival takes place in beautiful Rotterdam, The Netherlan...
Los Angeles, Italia 2021 - Film, Fashion and Art Fest on the eve of the 2021 Academy Awards®
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN LOS ANGELES The 16th Annual Event in Los Angeles featuring Italian Motion Pictures, Audiovisuals, Music, Fashion, Tourism and Food will take place from April 18th to 24th, on the eve of the 2021 Academy Awards®. The event, chaired by Oscar-winning writer and producer Nick Vallelonga&n...
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2021: ten days starting on June 24, live in unusual locations...
A BEACON OF TOGETHERNESS FILMFEST MÜNCHEN means meeting up in person, even in the summer of 2021: attending open-air film premieres, seeing national and international directors and actors, and bringing the German film industry together in person at the first-ever Filmfest Beergarden Convention. For ten days starting on June 24, the festival will be the backbone of a creative network in Munich — in unusual locations, with lots of new and long-standing partners and a streamline...
The Italian Contemporary Film Festival in Toronto proudly announces Lavazza as its Presenting Sponsor: what else? ;-)
The world's most renowned Italian coffee brand strengthens its partnership with the ICFF for the tenth anniversary of the festival and the second edition of the Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival. The Italian Contemporary Film Festival is honored to announce that Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. (Lavazza) is strengthening its relationship with the largest Italian film festival in the world and becoming our presenting sponsor. This year, from June 27th to July 18th, the ICFF ...
ReelAbilities announced a line-up of streaming film with a drive-in opening night
The 13th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York will kick off to a virtual edition with films streaming Apr 29–May 5, and in person session at the Queens Drive-in for the opening night with Best Summer Ever by Michael Parks Randa + Lauren Smitelli! Tickets are now on sale for the 13th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York. OPENING NIGHT SCREENING AT THE QUEENS DRIVE-IN ...
SoundTrack_Cologne 18 moves to autumn (November 17 – 21, 2021)
The vaccination situation in Germany is sobering: given the current speed of vaccination, it is not to be expected that enough people will be vaccinated in eight weeks to realise SoundTrack_Cologne physically. Travel options to and within Europe remain unresolved for June, too. These circumstances make a smooth and safe realisation of the conference in June impossible, therefore with a heavy heart we have to announce that SoundTrack_Cologne 18 has to be postponed to November. ...
CUFF Announces the Full Slate of Films Playing the 18th Calgary Underground Film Festival
This year’s festival includes 29 features, 3 shorts packages & additional live online events The Calgary Underground Film Festival has announced the full lineup of films and live events playing the upcoming festival taking place online from April 23 – May 2. As always, the festival will feature a mix of comedies, horror, dramas, and other unusual fare that Calgarians have come to love. Films are available to stream from anywhere in Alberta. &...
LAGFF’s 15th celebratory edition is coming up next month!
NEW GREEK CINEMA ON YOUR SCREENS COMING SOON The newest crop of features, documentaries and shorts, curated by the programming team will be available on our secure platform May 10-30, 2021, accompanied by a host of webinars and live or pre-recorded Q&As. Stay tuned for more… soon! HONORING EXITING BOARD MEMBERS ...
Gangneung_IFF 2021 Opens International Narrative Feature Competition
[GIFF 2021] Festival dates : 22 – 31 October 2021 Festival venues : The City of Gangneung, Gangwon Province, South Korea [Awards Prizes] Best Feature : Cash award appr. USD 17,000(20 million KRW) and certificate Best Director : Cas...
Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) final call ends may 30
2021 AIFF Call for Submissions May 31, 2021 Late Submission The Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) based in Arlington, Massachusetts is pleased to announce the Eleventh Annual Call for Submissions featuring the work of independent and student filmmakers from Massachusetts, USA, and the Global Community. AIFF is a juried festival welcoming submissions of feature-length and short film...
10th Annual Sun Valley Film Festival Announces Film Slate for 2021 Streaming Fest
Gal Gadot, Ethan Hawke and Shaka King to Receive Honors, Participate in Coffee Talks; Ford Producer’s Grant Returns with $25,000 Grand Prize Celebrating a decade as a rising star on the boutique film festival scene, the 2021 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) announced the film lineup for its 10th annual event, SVFF Streaming, an all-virtual festival taking place April 14-18. SVFF celebrates the art of storytelling with a curated slate of films, moderated Q&As featuring e...
VIDEO Happy Days in Houston, ambiance at Worldfest Houston
The fantastic team behind each Worldfest Houston festival for quite some time! Hunter Todd founded the festival in 1961 and has run each of the 53 editions so far, that makes him the only festival organizer in the world with such a vast experience in running festivals. Behind each great man you will always find a great woman: here both Kathleen and Katy Lea have proven essential to the success of the festival. Check our ambiance video : this is what the festival looks like (FUN) when t...
Program announced for Fantasporto 41st edition
FANTASPORTO’2021 41st PORTO INTERNATIONAL CINEMA FESTIVAL HARD CLUB APRIL 26 - MAY 4 FANTASPORTO'2021 26 APRIL 13.00 • PORTUGUESE CINEMA AWARD - BEST FILM Toponímia- Memories of Porto - António Pinto - 82 '(Port) - PCP- WORLD ANTESTREIA-documentary - vo fal. port Through the streets of Porto, a journey in a slow but panoramic train to the past. A legacy of old customs and crafts that began to fall int...
Austin: From SXSW 2021: two outstanding features
With the objective of “helping creative people achieve their goals” the South by Southwest Conference and Festival (SXSW) was established in 1987 in Austin, Texas with an emphasis on the merger of interactive productions, the film ,and music industries. Like other festivals, SXSW embraced digital platforms for its conferences, music showcases exhibitions, networking opportunities and film screenings in 2021. SXSW Online 2021 took place from March 16-20, though conferenc...
> AWARDS WATCHNominees DOK.fest München AWARD of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit
Dear friends of DOK.fest München, in times of fake news and blurring boundaries between fiction and documentary, documentary film is also challenged anew. We consider the topic crucial for the future and open the DOK.fest München 2021 @home with the German premiere of the film HINTER DEN SCHLAGZEILEN (BEHIND THE HEADLINES) by Daniel Sager. An exciting and highly explosive insight into the hidden work of the "Investigative Research" department of the Süddeutsche Zeit...
GARDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL Victory + Award Winners
Screens +300 Films to +285k Viewers | FIRST HYBRID EVENT Photo by Tom Zapcic Vice Chair Heather Brittain O'Scanlon, Board Secretary Stephanie Clineman, Founder Diane Raver, Director of Operations Kristen Dirato, Daniel Baldwin, Executive Director Lauren Concar Sheehy, Avis & Finley Baldwin Photo by Tom Zapcic HONOREES MVP Ming Chen, Spirit of New Jersey Award Recipient Senator Declan O'Scanlon, Independent Spirit Recipient Daniel Baldwin ...
Marcel Duchamp the Art of the Possible wins Best Documentary Audience Award at Flickfair
FLICKFAIR.com is quickly becoming the most popular online film festival platform. We understand that the greatest value for filmmakers comes from exposure, our mission is to provide an audience that a traditional in-person festival simply cannot deliver. Traditional events only present a small number of projects to a limited audience, greatly reducing the reach of one’s work. FLICKFAIR.com breaks the norms and exceeds the value filmmakers seek from the traditional festival experience by ...
Gbeck Future Film Festival Award Winners announced
THE WINNERS LIST FOR THE 7TH GBECKFF Gbeck Future Film Festival focuses on new media and young filmmakers. The competition is divided into two parts: “Script” and “Production.” As well the films were grouped by length (short and full-length film) and organized into three types: drama, documentary, and animation. Many great young filmmakers have been fostered by this event, and many excellent new films were discovered in the selection process. Th...
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Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) final call ends may 30
2021 AIFF Call for Submissions May 31, 2021 Late Submission The Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) based in Arlington, Massachusetts is pleased to announce the Eleventh Annual Call for Submissions featuring the work of independent and student filmmakers from Massachusetts, USA, and the Global Community. AIFF is a juried festival welcoming submissions of feature-length and short film...
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