The last week went by in a New York minute: ran between the NY Human Rights Film Festival, the Brooklyn International Film Festival and the NY Women in Film and Television Feature Film Financing conference.
Good to know I must have looked like a New Yorker too, as everyone kept asking me for directions & commenting on how much they liked my clothes and loved my shoes. A drumming troupe on the subway who made my heels move even offered me a job as a samba dancer too. Enjoyed the NY sub...
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Ryde International Film Festival Isle of Wight (IOWIFF) are currently adding short clips to the website so that users and subscribers can get an idea of different genres. The clips will also have captioing added to them so that the films are accessible to all site users.
We are also looking into providing a system by which users can have the site read out to them, which is useful for users who do not speak english as a second language.
We would welcome any comments or suggestions wi...
Now that the Russian Film Festival has finished for the year, we would love to hear any comments that you have about it and thoughts about what you would like to see at next year’s festival. You can email us at sa@academia-rossica.org or write to us – see our website for the address.
If you’d like to submit a film for next year’s festival, we’d also love to hear from you – contact sa@academia-rossica.org.
Our next cultural adventure is a festival of Russian literature, w...
The 2009 Russian Film Festival has now finished. Academia Rossica wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who came and hopefully we will see you all and more next year. Any comments that you may have would be extremely useful. Please email them to books@academia-rossica.org
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Which was your best experience of a film in a festival this year (feature film or documentary) That film which you think should have won but maybe did not make it. We want YOUR opinion. You can publish here, (post a comment including ONE film title ). ORSend us your vote to bruno and enter the draw to win a free one week banner campaign on filmfestivals.com mentionning "Audience choice"....
Steven Brand and Agata Gotova in "Say it in Russian"
Another good surprise in my jury duty in Funchal Fest: the quality of the films in compettion, I cant comment yet of course but watch out for some excellent surprises. Can't resist to share with you the beauty of the pool at Pestana Casino Park, Madeira...
MOONDANCE 2007 AUDIENCE FAVORITE FILMS*FEATURE FILM: Waiting for Dublin, Roger Tucker, directorSHORT FILM: The Windfisherman, Anna McRoberts, directorFEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM: Dalai Lama Renaissance, Khashyar Darvich, directorSHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM: Honor Killing, Jessica Habie, directorANIMATION FILM: Mirage, Youngwoong Jang, directorSHORT FILM FOR KIDS: Dance of the Blue Angels, Steve Lichtag, directorMUSIC VIDEO: Never Ending, Martin Chab, director*compiled from audience comments during the f...
Ann Arbor Film Festival Endangered campaign is just a week old and already we're receiving donations, kudos, and press. Our first wave of bold supporters is now posted online here: www.aafilmfest.org/endangered/supporters. For donations of $25 or higher you can get your name added to publicly show your support of the AAFF, and also get a vote for our next Act of Audacity. Your participation now is critical to help us build momentum for our campaign. In addition to donating here are othe...
leave a comment and resume here; hundreds of festivals are watching...You can also email the job description to bruno @ filmfestivals.comkind regards ...
Director's comments about the film " World War IV" :
"It seems that all the world is waiting for the third world war; the war which will destroy many parts of the world and kill so many people all over the world. Most people think that new weapons such as atomic bombs will cause such a catastrophe but I think that new destroyer is a more dangerous and more fatal enemy: AIDS or HIV virus. The film “4th World War
Surprises aren’t always a good thing in San Francisco.
Exhaustive media coverage of the centennial of the 1906 great earthquake and fire—the defining event of the city’s history and biggest natural disaster in America until Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last year—recently shook Bay Area residents with constant reminders that this is shake-rattle-and-roll country.
On Saturday morning, Talk Cinema founder and former Film Comment editor Harlan Jacobson admitted to being a “ne...
54th Berlin International Film Festival goes digital Worldwide digitalization has also brought changes to the cinema. Not only are more and more films digitally processed but they are also digitally produced and projected. With the advancement of digital cinema, the Berlin International Film Festival has increasingly turned to using digital projection for its movies. Ten festival cinemas are now equipped with digital projectors. Whereas the Zoo-Palast went digital some time ago, the Berlin Inter...
It was a good market, with objective growth resulting in all the figures and indicators that confirm the success of an event directly related to the audiovisual industry. The 70th Mifed has just closed with undeniable positive figures: 5163 participants from 71 countries, with an increase of 15.8% over the 4457 participants from last year. There was also a 12% increase of visitors from Eastern Europe and +10% from Asian nations.244 direct and indirect exhibitors from 25 countries covered an 8541...
