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The CineYouth Festival produced by Cinema/Chicago, the presenting organization of the 45th Chicago International Film Festival, will kick-off with an Opening Night Celebration on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 6PM. Festivities will feature a showcase of short films by filmmakers Vince Singleton (The Porter), Hannah Dallman (Small Comforts), Sean J.S. Jourdan (An Open Door) and Jack Newell (Andre: Portrait of A Capoeirista). Following the screenings, a panel discussion will be moderated by Ron Falzone...
The CineYouth Festival produced by Cinema/Chicago, the presenting organization of the 45th Chicago International Film Festival, will kick-off with an Opening Night Celebration on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 6PM. Festivities will feature a showcase of short films by filmmakers Vince Singleton (The Porter), Hannah Dallman (Small Comforts), Sean J.S. Jourdan (An Open Door) and Jack Newell (Andre: Portrait of A Capoeirista). Following the screenings, a panel discussion will be moderated by Ron Falzone, Film Professor and Directing Area Coordinator at Columbia College. The night will wrap up with a reception where the audience gets a chance to speak one-one-one with the featured filmmakers.
Free food! Free movies! Networking with fellow filmmakers!
Admission is free and open to the general public with RSVP to cineyouth@chicagofilmfestival.com. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis and is limited to theater capacity.
Awards Ceremony - June 20th, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Film Row Cinema (Columbia College Chicago) - The winning films will be recognized with awards and prizes. Come support the filmmakers and their award-winning work!
The two-day CineYouth Festival showcases work from filmmakers under the age of 20 and from across the country. This year’s Festival features 95 films, with screenings and workshops held on June 19th and 20th at Film Row Cinema at Columbia College Chicago (1104 South Wabash). The screenings will run from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. both days and this year's workshops include:
How to Get Into, Pay For, and Navigate Film School (Friday, 3PM-4PM) Join our opening night filmmakers as they discuss the process of finding the right academic program, searching for financing, and choosing a schedule that best fits your talent.
Scriptwriting 101 (Saturday, 11AM-NOON): Led by Ron Falzone, this workshop will discuss the basics of writing a solid screenplay. Conflict, motiviation, tradgedy, comedy, drama! How to make the words work for you.
Bach or Beyonce? Choosing a Soundtrack for Your Film (Saturday, 1PM-2PM) Led by Hannah Dalman, this workshop will examine how different music can change the meaning of scene, and how a score can add-or subtract-from a film.
Am I Gonna Get Sued? How to Make Your Film 100% Legal (Saturday, 2PM-3PM) From parking permits to “borrowing” footage for your film, there are legal issues in movie making. Join Columbia College Chicago’s Film and Video Department Producing Concentration Coordinator, Kevin Cooper as he advises how to make a film, and not get sued in the process.
All workshops and panel are free to the public. Please RSVP to cineyouth@chicagofilmfestival.com
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed Iwana Chronis to lead the festival's Hubert Bals Fund. Chronis will take the position of Fund Manager from June 1, 2009. She takes over from Bianca Taal, who led the fund from 2007 until March 2009, when she left the IFFR to work for the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam.
Iwana Chronis (1977) has extensive working experience in combining culture and international development. She studied Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the Uni...
Director: Abhijit Das Gupta.
Something remarkable happened for the first time in Asia. 16 physically challenged persons wrote a new chapter in the history of the Asian soil. They participated in the “Beyond Belief expedition challenge”. In two nights and three days, they traversed through mountain paths, fording water bodies and navigating through forests infested with snakes and scorpions to prove to the world that those labeled “disable” are able and capable.
The expedition was to showcase their endurance power, skill and ability of the “differently able” persons. They went to the deep forests around the Garumara range in North Bengal, lived in camps and passed through areas that normal people would dread to dare.
The 4 teams :
Alpha:
Asit Kr Pal – Instructor
Sukanta Mondal – impairment of Upper limb
Jaydev Mondal – impairment of Lower limb
Nitai Khan – Visually challenged
Dipankar Goldar – Speech & hearing impaired
Bravo:
Chandana Biswas – Instructor
Probir Sarkar – impairment of lower limb
Binod Kr Singh – impairment of upper limbs
Tarun Bag – visually challenged
Pinto Goldar – Speech & hearing impaired
Charlie:
Kamalika De – Instructor
Rimo Saha – impairment of upper limb
Sanjay Das – impairment of lower limb
Kalidas Das – visually challenged
Santanu Sen – Speech & Hearing impaired
Delta:
Tapas Kangshabanik – Instructor
Bholanath Dolui – impairment of upper limb
Ujjal Ghosh – impairment of lower limb
Shyamal Kr Roy – visually challenged
Subhankar Goldar – Speech & hearing impaired
The area is the habitat of king cobras, leopards, elephants… Pushing a wheel chair across shallow jungle rivulets tested human stamina to its limits.
This was an epic saga of man against elements… flesh against stone…a quiet communion with nature.
All about the insatiable urge of human beings to tread un-trodden grounds.
16 individuals ventured not to conquer mountains …. Forests …. and rivers… but to conquer themselves
Their odysseys – Beyond Belief.
B-EST IFF, 5th edition : The Jury of the Feature Film section is composed of:
President of the jury - Nik Powell (vice-president of the European Film Academy)
Andrei Plakhov (program coordinator Moscow International Film Festival)
Pjer Zalica (director, winner of the Silver Leopard, Locarno International Film Festival)
Mircea Bunescu (professor Media University)
Alin Ludu Dumbrava (film critic)
The Jury of the Documentary section is composed of:
President of the jury - Lauren...
OPENING CEREMONY
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century enters its second decade as of Friday, March 13, with the Opening Ceremony of the 11th edition at the Olympion Theatre. Stavros Kalafatis, Minister of Macedonia-Thrace, launched the Documentary Festival, and the screening of Chao Gan’s The Red Race followed.
Despina Mouzaki, Director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, welcomed the audienc...
The tape machine is chewing on the digibeta cassette like a cudding cow. An exploding projector bulb screams like an incoming artillery shell. The fire alarm is triggered and water cascades into the cinema. 350 soaked people stream out into the cold.The bedside alarm goes off and I open an eye. Hmm. 3.10am. Nice. How I hate these reoccurring dreams only days before the festival ;) Apart from the vertigo-inducing nightmares that play out in my head during a couple of hours sleep I’m ridiculousl...
THE PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
April 23-27, 2009
Call for Entries
Late submission deadline is January 21, 2009
Download the entry form
Contact Info
Palm Beach International Film Festival
289 Via Naranjas
Royal Palm Plaza, Suite #48
Boca Raton, Florida 33432
USA
Phone: +1 561-362-0003
Fax: +1 561-362-0035
info@pbifilmfest.org
Executive Director: Randi Emerman
Festival Coordinator: Laurie Wein
Public Relations: Kelley-Grace Communicat...
THE LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
June 18-28, 2009
Call for Entries
No longer accepting submissions for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival
Contact Info
Los Angeles Film Festival
Film Independent
9911 West Pico Blvd, 11th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA
310.432.1209
310.432.1203 FAX 9911 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
LAFilmFest@FilmIndependent.org
STAFF
Rebecca Yeldham
Director
Gloria G. Campbell,
Managing Director
Progr...
Houston International Film & Video Festival
April 17 - 26, 2009
Deadline is extented to February 31 ONLY for filmfestivals.com and fest21.com filmmakers! NO LATE FEE
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42nd Annual WorldFest
9898 Bissonnet Street, Suite 650, Houston, Texas 77036
USA
Tel: 1-713-965-9955 or fax
Fax : 1-713-965-9960
Website: www.worldfest.org
E-mail: entry@worldfest.org
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"WorldFest is on...
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The Lone Star International Film Festival, hosted by the Lone Star Film Society, is a year round series of programs culminating in a five day celebration of cinema in November. In its first two years, the festival has welcomed artists and filmmakers such as Martin Sheen, T-Bone Burnett, Robert Rodriguez, Harry Dean Stanton, Bill Paxton, Fred Durst, Melonie Diaz, Jason Ritter, James Manos, Lauren Velez, Rod Hardy, Paul Soter, Jay Chandrasekhar and Donal Logue among many others. Each year the fest...
July 3-7, CA. Deadline: March 15 (early); April 12 (late). Max running time 30 minutes. Up to $2,400 in awards. Formats: 16mm, Beta SP. Preview on VHS. Entry fee: early $30, final $35. 415-499-6300 cbarboni@marin.org.
Held every 2 years, festival, focusing on Indigenous Peoples of Americas is organised by the NGO SODEPAU (Solidarity towards Development & Peace). Native American Film & Video Festival.
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Festival aims to introduce American audiences to Turkish films and to secure distribution in the US. The organizers at the Moon and Stars Project support and encourage interaction between Turkish and American filmmakers. www.moonadstarsproject.org
As the only “all lesbian” film festival in North America, we strive to promote positive lesbian identity through film.
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