1939
Union Pacific by Cecil B. DeMille
United States
1946
Torment (Hets) by Alf Sjöberg
Sweden
The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder
United States
The Red Meadows (De røde enge) by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Denmark
Brief Encounter by David Lean
United Kingdom
Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria (Xochimilco) by Emilio Fernández
Mexico
Neecha Nagar (नीचा नगर) by Chetan Anand
India
The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy p...
It's the BFI London Film Festival and I'm at the BFI Southbank to meet Clive Owen.
We can all just google Clive Owen to read about his achievements as a BAFTA, Golden Globe winner and for his extensive work in the film and tv industry. Therefore I thought I should pick out some goodies from the interview, that you don't read about everywhere else...
Born 1964 in Coventry, Clive Owen was a man who didn't have it all set in his early life. With a father who left the family when Owen was thr...
Hello Butterflies:
The festival round is coming to its
end with Butterflies screening this Sunday for the very last time on a
big screen at First Glance Film Fest in Philadelphia.
You can find the info here:
http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie
From
all your requests on the videos, we realize we can't bring the film
everywhere. But, because we know that lot of you can't make the
festival screenings, we are deciding on our next step and want to bring
the Award Winning film...
La Femme Film Festival will present the Award Winning documentary
Butterflies about YouTube on Thursday, October 15th at 6PM at the Davidson/Valentini
Theatre in Hollywood.
See the feature film about YouTubers one last time, before the festival season closes at the end of the month in Philadelphia.
Subscribe here for the trailers and behind the scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/ButterfliesTheMovie
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Let's get together one last time ...
We are done with our East Coast Premiere at NewFilmmakers in NYC and the Award Winning film about YouTube had an amazing response there.
Here are photos from the screening and I am so super excited to have such an amazing night with all the great people!
Next, we are heading to the Montana Independent Film Festival where Butterflies screens on October 25th.
We are going back to Los Angeles presenting Butterflies at La Femme Film Festival in the middle of October and then Philade...
Other dates and cities to be announced bellow:
Butterflies will screen at:
Freeze Fest, Czech Republic, September 5th, 2009
Temecula Valley International Film Festival, September 9-13th, 2009
New Filmmakers, New York City, September 16th, 2009
Montana Independent Film Festival, September 27th-28th, 2009
First Glance Philadelphia, October 2009
...
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The Award Winning documentary Butterflies has been selected into
Southern California festival in Temecula,
and will play this September at the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival.
"Butterflies is the first feature film that profiles the YouTube community and examines the power of online media.
The film had its World Premiere last month at AOF Film Festival, where it received the Alan J. Bailey Excellence Award
for Documentary Filmmaking and was nominated for Bes...
There is only one day left for the official premiere of Butterflies at the AOF Fest.
So far, it has been great seeing other people's films and meeting all the talented filmmakers.
But, tomorrow is our turn!
Butterflies will screen at
AOF (Action on FIlm) International Film Festival
July 27th, 2009 @ 8PM
Regency Academy Theatre
1003 East Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA
Tickets can be purchased at:
https://www.aoffest.com/store/AOF-2009-c4.htm
There will be a party after t...
Be there on July 27th, 2009 to see history in making! The online
personalities are making it to the big screen and this will, without a
doubt, be the end of entertainment as we know it.
You remember when television killed the radio star? Well, this is when Internet kills the TV star :)
No more fabricated characters in movies, no more perfect people that no one can compare to.
These are regular folks, that have it all, and you can see how they did it.
See the YouTube stars taking over the e...
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary
The increasingly popular world of new media has introduced online viewers across the world to a diverse group of individuals in cyberspace. YouTube.com has emerged as one of the leaders to catapult an Average Joe into an instant “Weblebrity” with the stroke of a computer key. Meet six folks in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of b...
www.quickfest.com
PRESS RELEASE
QUICKFEST ANNOUNCED NEW CONTEST – SHOOT A COMMERCIAL - FEST 103
Los Angeles, CA – Quickfest.com has partnered with a premier water company for it’s next film festival where filmmakers will submit their take on a 30 or 60 second spot. A winner will be selected from a panel of judges that include a representative from the water company along with a commercial direction.
Having just wrapped it’s successful Quickfest 102 - Horror Fest, Quickfest is excited to bring a new type of filmmaking event to the filmmaking community. The commercial contest, Quickfest 103, will begin July 24, 2009 at noon Pacific Standard Tim when registered filmmakers will learn the name of the water company and be provided with artwork as part of the critical elements list. Competing filmmakers will then have 10 days to complete and upload their spot (or spots) by the end of the festival on August 2, 2009.
The winning commercial will be announced one week after the end of the contest and the winning commercial will have a chance to be broadcast and as well as additional prizes to be announced as the event unfolds.
Entries will be accepted either 30 or 60 second length. In the coming weeks the judges for the event will be announced along with other details and special surprises.
“We are excited to be bringing on a company that is excited to tap into the creativity of the Quickfest audience” said Greg Zekowski, Quickfest’s Festival Director. Mr. Zekowski adds that “like all commercial shoots, the company has high expectations after seeing the great entries for the recent horror fest”.
To enter or get on the Quickfest mail list, go to www.quickfest.com and register. The winning films of our past festivals can also be seen here, or at Quickfest’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/QuickfestTV.
About Quickfest:
Quickfest (quickfest.com) is a unique Film Festival founded by Filmmakers. Quickfest events occur online and are open to Filmmakers around the world with competitions in various formats and genres. Quickfest reaches out to creative people everywhere, featuring the work of film industry professionals and amateurs with a passion for telling a story. For more information, contact Festival Director, Greg Zekowski at greg@quickfest.com and follow Quickfest at twitter www.twitter.com/quickfest
Abel Ferrara wins the “Ciak di Corallo” for his career achievements at the Ischia Film Festival seventh edition (July 5-11), the only international contest dedicated to the filming locations.The American director, born July 19 1951 in the Bronx, will receive the cinema’s world tribute thanks to his work, that has always been visionary, original and restless in a unique way in the international movie scene.The Ischia Film Festival will present a short preview of Ferrara’s docufiction ex...
[Ischia, June 16th 2009] “Villa Amalia”, directed by Benoit Jacquot andstarring Isabelle Huppert , will be the opening film of the Ischia Film Festival7th edition, an international film competition dedicated to thelocation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLBcTT_Hkc The French film will be introduced as a national premiere the 5thof July in the evening, during the Festival opening gala, in the wonderful scenery of the Aragonese Castle, in Ischia Ponte.Based on the homonymous novel...
TICFF 2012 NOW is Calling for Entry
Please visit http://www.ticff.org.tw for details.
TICFF 2012 Calls for Entries
visit http://www.ticff.org.tw for more information!
TICFF 2012 NOW is Calling for Entry
Please visit http://www.ticff.org.tw for details.
Calling for Entries! Deadline: October 31, 2011.
US$28,000 & 7Trophies in prize!
Best Dramatic Feature or short‧Best Documentary‧Best Animation‧Best Television Program‧Taiwan Award‧Special Jury Prize‧
Each winners of the above awards will receive cash prize of USD4,000 (tax included) .
Best Joint Production by Taiwanese Kids & Adults is particularly for Taiwan local productions. The winner will received a trophy and g...
Judi Krant's debut feature "Made in China" has won the narrative feature jury competition at South by Southwest The film "Made in China," which premiered at the festival, follows a Texas novelty inventor who travels to Shanghai.
and discovers that it takes more than a bright idea to succeed. (Cast includes Jackson Kuehn, Dan Sumpter...)
Feature Jury Awards
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner - 45365
Director: Bill Ross
Honorable Mention - The Way We Get...
Prix de la meilleure musique de film décerné au compositeur Jerome Baur - Locarno 2008 - Prix Fondation Suisa pour la musique.
Un film du réalisateur Olivier Peyon
CD soundtrack sur iTunes, Fnac, Virgin, Amazone, Alapage. Idem pour le DVD du film.
Prix de la meilleure musique de film décerné au compositeur Jerome Baur - Locarno 2008 - Prix Fondation Suisa pour la musique.
Un film du réalisateur Olivier Peyon
CD soundtrack sur iTunes, Fnac, Virgin, Amazone, Alapage. Idem pour le DVD du film.
The selection includes, among the 17 films confirmed to date, 12 world premières, and 5 international premières, of which 5 are first films. Two exclusives will screen out of competition. The selection for 2008 is distinguished by its strong Latin flavour: from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Spain, via Portugal and Italy to France – competing with three titles.Conceptual Films. The 2008 selection confirms the radical line that is this section’s hallmark, with a highly diverse range of narrat...
