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44th Telluride Film Festival Announces 2017 Poster Artist Lance Rutter

   44th Telluride Film Festival presented by National Film Preserve LTD., proudly announces artist and graphic designer Lance Rutter as its 2017 poster artist. Telluride Film Festival’s prestigious annual gathering for film industry insiders, cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers and critics takes place every Labor Day weekend in the picturesque town of Telluride, Colorado. The 44th edition of TFF will run September 1-4, 2017.   Lance Rutter has spent the last 30+ years of his...

The cut and editing concepts play the lead part in the image of the 65th edition of San Sebastian Festival

  The author of the poster is the graphic design studio from San Sebastian Husmee The winner of the New Directors section is Primer vuelo (First Flight), featuring a “brave” plane as it searches for “a new direction”, designed by Angel Aldarondo, who also created the winning proposal of Horizontes Latinos, Muros (Walls), where an artist paints his “wish for freedom”. The designer Maite Rosende reflects on glass in her creation for Pearls, while Sar...

Line up for The Brainwash Drive-in Bike-in Walk-in Movie Festival

  The Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie festival Announces the 23rd Annual Festival 2017 Program!!! July 21, 22, 28 & 29/2017 @  Nimby,  8410 Amelia St., Oakland, CA, USA. All shows 9:00 pm.   Friday, July 21, 2017 Hell  No! – Sally Richardson/Dave Krzysik Where Have All The Flowers Gone – Hong Chan* The Heart of a Nation – Doug Birnbaum Impervia – Patrick Devaney Living  Limbo – Paul Aum...

The 13th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival Starts Today

The 13th edition of Grossmann Festival, taking place in Ljutomer, Slovenia, will begin today at 18.00h with the Creatures of Fashion performance and the the presentation of winemakers that take part in this year’s Wine Champion Vicious Cat competition.   The film program begins at 19.00h with Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece Metropolis, accompanied by live music by Mitja Reichenberg.   At 22.00h, Harry Kümel will address the Grossmann audienc...

Shriekfest announces its final call for entries

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Shriekfest, the Los Angeles Horror/SciFi Film Festival continues its tradition as Los Angeles' Premier horror film event, presenting an exciting program of films each fall with beautiful Los Angeles as its backdrop. Shriekfest takes place at the legendary Raleigh Studios, which is the largest independent studio operator in the country. We offer filmmakers and film fans alike an ideal setting in a world-famous city, Both established and emerging filmmakers gain media exposure, connect with th...

Golden Apricot (July 9 -16) kicked off in Yerevan

The 14 edition of the Golden Apricot (Vosge Dziran) International Film Festival GAIFF is off and running in Yerevan, the serenely beautiful capital of Armenia.       The Apricots have been duly blessed                   The Majestic old Moskva Cinema on Charles Aznavour, Plaza is the heart of the Golden Apricot Film Festival The opening night film On July 7 was a tribute to early Armenian cinema, an unsual 1927 silent di...

Festival international du Film de Montagne d’Autrans Edition 2017

Provoquer la rencontre, prendre plaisir, titiller le débat, solliciter notre questionnement intérieur… Le festival international du film de montagne d’Autrans s’engage cette année encore sur ses objectifs : être à la fois un lieu de découverte de la montagne sous tous ses aspects et s’imposer comme un foyer de discussions et de rencontres ! Rassembler sur 5 jours, autour de films mais pas uniquement, tous ...

Metropolis at the Opening of the 13th Grossmann Festival

The opening of the 13th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival on Tuesday, July 11th will feature a special screening of Fritz Lang's sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis, accompanied by live music by Mitja Reichenberg.   There are several reasons for presenting Metropolis at this year's edition of the Grossmann festival. The first, and most obvious, is that Metropolis is a classical science-fiction film and as such needs no special excuse to be screened at a festival dedica...

Feel the Festival Beat of the circuit this past week Volume 776

  Wishing you all much success on the festival circuit! Read this online     FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                     Advertise in our Newsletters from 200€ email us for a quote Discount Passes for Montreal International Animation Film Festival for our audience Animaze is an international film festival and conference exploring the world of an...

Revelation Perth International Film Festival Opens Tonight!

    Revelation Perth International Film Festival tonight kicks off its twentieth anniversary edition at the Luna Cinema in Leederville   The annual screen culture festival opens with a screening of Becoming Bond, a documentary about the life of Australia’s one and only James Bond, George Lazenby.   George himself be attending the opening and after party at Leederville’s The Blue Flamingo.   ...

Harry Kümel is coming to Grossmann Festival

With much joy we announce the arrival of the eminent Belgian director Harry Kümel to this year's Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, taking place from the 11th to the 15th of July at Ljutomer, Slovenia.    To the fans of horror and fantasy, Harry Kümel is best known for his unforgettable masterpieces Daughters of Darkness and Malpertuis, which will be screened in a special retrospective section. We will also screen the fascinating documentary Forgotten ...

The 22nd San Francisco Silent Film Festival wrapped

  The Freshman on Opening Night of SFSFF 2017 wilth Berklee Silent Film Orchestra. Photo by Pamela Gentile For four days in June, audiences thrilled to indelible live cinema events at San Francisco’s glorious silent-era movie palace, the Castro Theatre. This year brought many film restorations including three titles SFSFF had a hand in—Silence (1926) with Cinémathèque Française, The Three Musketeers (1921) with MoMA, ...

The closing ceremony of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival has taken place at the Rossiya theatre.

The closing ceremony of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival has taken place at the Rossiya theatre. The main prize was awarded to the film «Crested Ibis».     On June 29, 2017, the closing ceremony of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival took place at the Rossiya theatre.    Among those walking the red carpet towards the theatre, were such actresses as Oksana Akinshina, Anastasiya Zadorozhnaya, Alla Dovlatova, Paulina And...

Strong Storm hit Moscow causing hours of delay at airport when we left the city

 The bad weather in Russian capital city Moscow has resulted in changes in the schedule of Moscow airports. My flight was delayed by 5 hours ...

Iran’s Int’l Children Film Festival Gala Kicks Off in Isfahan

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The 30th International Film Festival for Children and Youth opened June 30 in Isfahan. The international event brings audiences a packed seven days of films for children. More than 50 films and guests from 44 countries are accepted to the festival with additional workshops taking place in Isfahan. Instructors from Sweden, Nigeria and Iran will cover various courses namely stop motion making by children, professional animation production and filmmakers’ interaction with international ch...

The NIFFF’s 17th edition is in full swing!

The Rambling Wheels - Interstellar Riot © Laetitia Gessler, NIFFF 2017   During the first weekend of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival’s 17th edition, more than 9,500 tickets were sold, which is 10% higher than in 2016. With many sold out events, including the world premiere of JoJo's Bi...

"Dalya's Other Country" FREE on http://www.pbs.org/pov/

FREE: Now streaming for free on PBS.org Point of View documentary films through July 25, 2017! “Other Country Films” presents this one hour and fifteen minute documentary by Julia Metzer about, Dalya, a young Muslim teenage girl,  and her mother, Rudanya, who had no choice but to leave war torn Syria to come and live with her son, Mustafa, in Los Angeles in 2012. When both Rudanya’s marriage, and her country fell apart, Rudanya, a US citizen, came to LA, and enrolled, D...

New York: Human Rights Watch Film Festival

As an independent international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigates human rights abuses through rigorous research and publicizes evidence based findings widely through video and print channels. Through newsletters, reports, seminars, films and videos HRW exerts pressure on policy maker and institutions to rectify human rights violations and to develop mechanisms to prevent current and future abuses. As an independent international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) ...

2017 WEST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 8 - 11, 2017

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Odessa, TX - The 2017 West Texas Film Festival is slated for November 8th through the 11th. All screenings and workshops will be held on the Odessa College campus in Odessa, Texas. This year's festival will feature three showcases and an Educational Day. November 8th - Cinema of Cuisine - This showcase will feature films about food incuding the 2009 comedy Julie & Julia. Shorts and documentaries will be included.  November 9th - Tales of Texas - This showcase will feature th...

Moscow 39th Awards

Wishing you all much success on the festival circuit! Read this online     FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                     Advertise in our Newsletters from 200€ email us for a quote     Festival closes at Gorki Park with a party ...   Bruno Chatelin with Program Director Kirill Razlogov Doc...

Feel the Festival Beat of the circuit this past week Volume 775

Wishing you all much success on the festival circuit! Read this online     FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                     Advertise in our Newsletters from 200€ email us for a quote Discount Passes for Montreal International Animation Film Festival for our audience Animaze is an international film festival and conference exploring the world of animation in ...

SUCCESS IN GOIÁS - FICA 2017 & URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL

For the first time the International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro was invited to be part of Latin America's most important environmental film & video festival - the FICA 2017 in the historical Goiás City, the ancient Capital of Goiás State in Central Brazil. Between June 20 and June 25 FICA 2017 screened more than a hundred films with an audience of about 3,400 people - 21 Percent more than 2016. One of the great winners of the FICA 2017 was &quo...

The Official Selection of Paris ART and Movie Awards is revealed !

   It’s in our name. Paris ART and Movie Awards. Why is that ? Because cinema is art, of course. But what about art ? What is the art, is it the goal, the end of the trail, or what you see walking along ? Is art what we are, or what we want to show of ourselves ? Today, art is becoming, again, a tool we have to use to react to society, our ways of live. Art is what connects us to the others, what helps us focus on our humanity, or the spark that makes us want to destroy it a...

BRICS (Chengdu) Film Festival Showcases Emerging Talent

  BRICS FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASES EMERGING ARTISTS (“Follow the Yellow BRICS Road”)   This year’s BRICS International Film Festival is being kicked off today in beautiful Chengdu, China, the capital of Sichuan province, a stunning area in Southwest China, better known for its relaxed atmosphere, fine food, and  as the home of the world famous Panda Bear.    Supported by a co-operative coalition of five nations - Brazil, Russia,...

Feel the Festival Beat of the circuit this past week Volume 774

Wishing you all much success on the festival circuit! Read this online     FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                     Advertise in our Newsletters from 200€ email us for a quote Discount Passes for Montreal International Animation Film Festival for our audience Animaze is an international film festival and conference exploring the world of animation in ...

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