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> Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 3- 11 july 2015
The jubilee anniversary of the festival has plenty of surprises coming
The 50th Karlovy Vary IFF will take place between July 3 and 11, 2015. The jubilee anniversary of the festival will be a celebration of cinematography open to the general public. The festival tradition stretches all the way back to 1946 when the first, non-competitive showcase of films was held in Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně. The festival’s modern history began with the arrival of a team of organisers centred around Karlovy Vary IFF president Jiří Bart...
Interview with Richard Gere receiving his Crystal Award
Richard Gere was honored with the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. He introduces his latest film Time Out of Mind ...
Ben Mendelsohn will attend KVIFF to present his newest film MISSISSIPPI GRIND
Ben Mendelsohn will attend KVIFF to present his newest film, the critically acclaimed Sundance darling MISSISSIPPI GRIND, from the directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and co-starring Ryan Reynolds and Siena Miller. Mendelsohn is considered one of today’s best and most popular Australian actors. Since the mid-1980s, when he started out primarily in television series, he has gained a firm position not only in Australian film productions but has gradually – like his contemp...
Karlovy Vary unveils the 2015 competition line-up
Among the seven world and six international premieres, the festival will introduce new movies by Dietrich Brüggemann and Romanian filmmakers Anca Damian and Florin Şerban, as well as the feature debut of the rising star of Italian cinema Ferdinando Cito Filomarino. “This year, we are excited to present the youngest competition line-up in the KVIFF’s recent history, the average age of the filmmaker in the main festival section is 39 years old,” says KVIFF’...
Six Close Encounters with 6 directors who share exeperience on KVIFF
The celebrations around the 50th Karlovy Vary IFF will include an opportunity for festival audiences to encounter a special section entitled Six Close Encounters. For the programme, six international directors who share a history with the Karlovy Vary IFF present one of their favourite films. “It is extremely important to us that we maintain long-term relationships with filmmakers whose work we follow continuously, often from the beginning of their careers, which in many cases wer...
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Watch the Master Class with George A. Romero in KVIFF
Master Class with one of the top directors of the modern horror film. George A. Romero, creator of cult films beginning with the legendary Night of the Living Dead. Master of cult zombie films George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead), who has already been announced as a guest at the 50th Karlovy Vary IFF, will be presenting a screening of his action sci-fi horror The Crazies (1973). The story follows the helpless inhabitants of a town paralysed by...
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Official festival trailer from 50th Karlovy Vary Internatinal Film Festival. ...
Upcoming Industry events at KVIFF50
Pitch & Feedback Tuesday, 7 July 2015, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm. Barrandov Studios Villa (Becher's Villa) Pitch & Feedback is the annual presentation of selected Czech and Slovak film projects in development organized by Czech Film Center, Slovak Film Institute, Industry Office of KVIFF and MIDPOINT Script Center. The projects with the potential to succeed internationally and attract a foreign co-producer will be pitched by their creators to impor...
KVIFF 50TH Industry events on opening week end
Career Insights for the International Filmmaker: Understanding and Overcoming the Hurdles of Hollywood Sunday, July 5, 2015, from 1.00 pm to 3 pm Grandhotel Pupp, La Belle Epoque Restaurant This year’s informal panel will take an interactive approach to advising international filmmakers on how to push forward their film and television projects within the Hollywood system, including an active conversation about how best to approach collaborating with Hollywood stars, directors,...
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MANHATTAN SHORT 2015 September 25 to October 4, 2015
Final Call For Entries: Deadline July 31.
Filmmakers have until July 31st to get their films and screenplays into NYC if they hope to be part of the 18th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival to take place in over 250 cinemas across 6 continents. MANHATTAN SHORT is more than just one of the largest short film festivals in the world today, it’s the world’s first and only global film festival.
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The World of Film Festival October 1-4 2015
The World of Film Festival, formerly known as Commonwealth Film & Theatre Festival Glasgow is coming back for its second edition October 1-4 2015. In four days full of film screenings, theatre performances, live events, panel discussions and networking receptions WoFF will bring new, more vibrant and youthful vibe to the city’s emerging film and theatre scene.
WoFF’s errand is to bring together audiences from Glasgow’s multi-stranded art scene, while at the same time engaging people with powerful background in film and theatre that will bring fresh ideas, filling the gaps in Glasgow’s film and theatre events’ agenda.
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First feature by french actor director Thierry Sebban. Produced by la Petite Reine (The Artist) and Diabolo Films (The Suicide Shop).
Synopsis: Alex is a divorced father, a stressed executive. His daily routine is work, work, work. Tonight he's in a hurry, he's due to meet a beautiful young stranger... who contacted him via the internet. But this blind date will flip him into a downward spiral and disrupt forever the course of his life. Thriller, 75 min., Scope, Dolby 5.1 Directed by Thierry Sebban Starring: Simon Abkarian, Igor Skreblin, Perrine Tourneux... Email us for a screener
Rooted in Peace by Greg Reitman
ROOTED in PEACE, 97 minutes - 2015
Documentary by SUNDANCE alum GREG REITMAN (Sundance Audience Award Winner for fhis first documentary 'Fuel')
Starring: Deepak Chopra, Donovan, Mike Love, David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Pete Seeger, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"ROOTED in PEACE challenges viewers to examine their values as Americans and human beings. Today we are at war within ourselves, with our environment, and with the world. Director and award-winning filmmaker Greg Reitman invites viewers on a film journey to take notice of the world we live in, proactively seek ways to find personal and ecological peace, and stop the cycle of violence".
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Selection of Films for your consideration
FDA presents the STATE OF THE ART CINEMA exhibition
This summer, Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) will present the third consecutive STATE OF THE ART CINEMA exhibition, free to the public. Film fans will once again be able to enjoy a snapshot of contemporary poster design and photography supporting a wide range of films to be released in UK cinemas in the coming months. For the first time, the exhibition will include as its centrepiece an incredible, custom-built model of a cinema made from LEGO® bricks, commissioned by F...
Dinosaur Junior Film Distribution Nothing has changed- Everything's Different
The Radical change during internet 2.0 was this: Artists took back control of their own works their IP (intellectual property 101) and major studios bit the dust. Remnants of brick & mortar or keys to the Cadillac more about that in an upcoming blog...the standard distribution models were written in stone. Today it's Hurray (not) for Hollywood -the ground has been broken. Tectonic plates have shifted in the Land of T-Rex. Nosferatu my favourite ope...
Tropfest and Twitter present #TROPVINE [ultra] short filmmaking competition
Dachshunds. Weekends. Tyrion Lannister. Three things that are short, but awesome. Joining them is #TROPVINE: the short filmmaking competition where films can be no more than six seconds long. #TROPVINE is the lovechild of Tropfest Australia and Twitter’s short video app, Vine, and entrants from around the globe are invited to submit their Vine films now! Entrants need to make an original Vine film, using this year’s TSI (Tropfest Signature Item) ‘CARD&r...
New residency program for cinema and VIDEO ART artists, on the Cycladic island of PAROS
October 1- 4, 2015: Launching residency program for cinema and VIDEO ART artists, on the Cycladic island of PAROS. The residency will play host to a select group of INTERNATIONAL artists working on film/video, for an intensive collaborative project between PARIS and PAROS and then all the GREEK PORTS in EUROPE. The program created by SABRINA BOTBOL: ATELIER INNE-DIT with NICOLAS STEPHANOU - PAROS WEB is a joint initiative by: · &nbs...
Hong Sangsoo's Right Now, Wrong Then and Andrzej Zulawski's Cosmos return to Locarno with their new film
Hong Sangsoo's Right Now, Wrong Then and Andrzej Zulawski's Cosmos mark the return to Locarno of two filmmakers who have featured in previous editions of the Festival. The Concorso internazionale at the 68th Festival del film Locarno (5 - 15 August) will include films by two directors who, each in their own way, have made a strong impact at previous editions, and now return to Locarno with their latest films. South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, who won 2013's Pardo for Bes...
“The Hunger Games” Exhibition at “Discovery Times Square”
“The Hunger Games Exhibit” opens July 1st at “Discovery Times Square” on 44th Street. Throughout the years, the “Discovery Center” has hosted King Tut, Dead Sea Scrolls, Pirates Treasures, Pompeii, Bodies, and Legos. This exhibit is every bit as fabulous! It’s a really fun thing to do this summer. See the costumes they wore, the actual sets, and learn how to dodge arrows. Take home your own video and photos of you and your friends riding a chario...
Muhammad by Iranian director Majid Majidi will open Montreal FFM 2015
The latest film by renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi (3-time winner of the Grand Prix des Amériques) will open the festival and have its world premiere at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced. This 171-minute epic on the early years of the prophet of Islam is, with a budget of over $50 million, the most expensive film ever made in Iran, and has been in production for five years. “The Festival is very proud to be able to host the premiere of this imp...
Record number of short films Submissions to the Montreal Film Festival with a strong filmfestivals.com partnership
A record number of short films were submitted to the Montreal Film Festival for this year’s edition. Over 1200 shorts including some 400 Canadian and foreign student films, were submitted prior to the festival deadline, an increase of 42 % over last year’s figures. Seven hundred and twenty-six films from 64 countries have already be tabulated, with more countries sure to come. “These numbers are evidence of the vitality of today’s young filmmakers,”...
Cinema: “Boulevard,” Robin Williams’ last movie to open Ischia Global Fest July 12
Dito Montiel’s “Boulevard” – the last film starring Robin Williams – will enjoy its European premiere on July 12, opening the 13th Ischia Global Film & Music Fest. “We are proud to inaugurate the festival with a long awaited work where, according to US critics, the actors delivers one of his best performances,” announced Pascal Vicedomini, founder and producer of the Festival, “and to be able to do it almost simultaneously with...
ArcLight Documentary Series will Premiere Award Winning Non-Fiction Feature Films
ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood unveiled their summer line up of critically acclaimed award winning non-fiction films for their 2015 Summer ArcLight Documentary Series. The Series is part of an ongoing commitment by ArcLight Cinemas to celebrate the powerful storytelling of the documentary form. Under the curation of documentary filmmaker and President of the International Documentary Association, Marjan Safinia, this bi-annual series presents exceptional documentaries to...
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival New York 2015
Starting with the 1978 establishment of the Helsinki Watch focusing on compliance with the Helsinki accords and human rights violations and the creation of watch committees for the Americas and other regions in the eighties, the human rights watch has emerged as the largest global organization tracking and revealing human rights violations. Its work is distinguished by fact based non-partisan rigorous research, effective media use and has involved ...
Highlights of International Tour Film Festival 2015
ITFF 2015 International Tour Film Festival Short and medium length films about Fiction, Documentaries, Animation and tourism promotion “Experience New Horizons”From the 3rd to the 11th of July 2015 in Civitavecchia, the fourth edition The big organisational machine has started for the fourth edition of the International Tour Film Festival, from the 3rd to the 11th of July in Civitavecchia (Rome). The event is organised by the Cultural Association CivitaFilmCommission, whose Pres...
38th Asian American Intl Film Fest Opens with My Voice, My Life
By Maria Esteves - July 3, 2015 The 38th Asian American International Film Festival 2015 (AAIFF15) will be held in New York July 23 - August 1. Presented by Asian Cinevision, AAIFF annually showcase the best independent cinema by Asian and Asian Americans along with panel discussions, special events, screenplay competition readings, gala receptions and after parties. This year's Opening, Centerpiece and Closing night Premieres are MY VOICE, MY LIFE, directed by Ruby Yang at Asia Society, N...
Film4 FrightFest serves up a fearsome feast with a record 76 films, embracing 20 world and 42 UK & European premieres
Bigger, bolder, bloodier…Film4 FrightFest 2015 marks its 16th year with its largest line-up ever. From Thurs 27 August to Mon 31 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will return to the Vue West End, Leicester Square to present seventy-six films across five screens, plus a host of special events. There are eighteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking sixteen European premieres and twenty-six UK premieres. In addition, there is a further &lsquo...
Durban going back to its roots
The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) has announced its programme and the choice is amazing. DIFF returns for its 36th year of cinematic celebration. From 16 to 26 July, the city will be illuminated by the wonder and diversity of global cinema. This year's diverse line-up includes an expanded focus on African cinema with a selection of Africa's Lost Classics and a showcase of this year's FESPACO winners. Other focus areas include a cross-section of contemporary cinema...
KHÔRA RESIDENCY Α 10-day residency for site-specific cinema & sound projects in the Cycladic island of Syros
Α 10-day residency for site-specific cinema & sound projects 26 June – 6 July 2015 Ano Syros, Cyclades, Greece Invited artists: Michael Pisaro & Deborah Stratman (U.S.) Khôra Residency is a new 10-day residency program for cinema and sound artists, on the Cycladic island of Syros. The residency will play host to a select group of artists working on film/video and sound/music, for an intensive collaborative project. The program is a joint initiative by Syros Sound M...
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Sacramento French Film Festival 2015 Audience Award Winner!
SAMBA, the social comedy by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano, presented on Opening Night Friday, June 20, 2015, won the 2015 SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL AUDIENCE AWARD. 14 other Premieres were eligible to win our 2015 Audience Award. GEMMA BOVERY, the dramatic comedy directed by Anne Fontaine came second. NUMBER ONE FAN, the thriller comedy directed by Jeanne Herry, came third. SAMBA, the latest feature by the duo of directors who brought us Intouchables, combines...
Announcing the Television Industry Advocacy Awards
The Creative Coalition and TV Guide Magazine announce that the first annual Television Industry Advocacy Awards will be held Friday, 5:30 pm September 18th at The Sunset Tower in West Hollywood. This invitation-only event will bring together television’s most significant actors, showrunners, and executives to recognize those who use the power of their celebrity to advocate for charity and social causes. “The Creative Coalition was galvanized to encourage leaders in the enterta...
Udo Kier to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 11th Grossmann Festival
With great pride and joy we announce that this year's guest of honour and receiver of Honorary Vicious Cat award at Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival will be the legendary German actor Udo Kier, one of the most iconic faces of world cinema. In his amazing career he appeared in over 200 films, from low-budget horror and erotic films to celebrated arthouse films and Hollywood blockbusters. He collaborated with directors such as Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ...
The award ceremony of the 8th Doc Alliance Selection Award will take place for the first time at the Festival del film Locarno during the Industry Days. The name of the new award winner will be announced on 8 August, in the presence of Doc Alliance festival directors and the jury. The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and continuously promote quality creative...
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Kathleen Drumm has joined Toronto as Director, Industry Office
TIFF is pleased to announce that Kathleen Drumm has joined the organization as Director, Industry Office. Drumm will oversee all of TIFF Industry’s activities, including providing services to the more than 5,000 Industry delegates who attend the Toronto International Film Festival® each year, and the seven-day Industry Conference that takes place as a part of the Festival. Drumm comes to TIFF from Screen Australia, where she was Head of Marketing. Previously...
Line up and juries of National and International Competition confirmed for Odessa
6TH ODESSA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL SELECTION Thierry Frémaux to present "Lumière!" program Twelve films were selected for the International Competition of the Odessa International Film Festival 2015 (July 10-18, 2015). The National Competition program includes six features and 18 short films, while two Ukrainian films will participate in both the National and International competition. Viktoriya Tigipko, president of the Odessa International Film Fe...
King Willem Was Here & 10 Year Reconstruction of The Rijksmuseum
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent When King Willem-Alexander came to pay an official visit in June, including meeting US President Barack Obama to commemorate the 70th anniversary of The Netherlands liberation from the Nazis, he laid out some interesting facts in a quick speech during the June 1-3 tour. Coronated in 2013 upon the abdication of Queen Beatrix, then 71, the Sovereign said the main point of his visit “was to thank the United States… especially the 82nd ...
Edward Norton to receive the Excellence Award in Locarno
The American actor, director and producer Edward Norton will be among the guests at the 68th Festival del film Locarno, where he will be awarded the Excellence Award Moët & Chandon. Carlo Chatrian, Festival’s Artistic Director: “I’m very happy and proud to welcome Edward Norton to Locarno. He is someone who has shown immense talent in giving shape to characters as fascinating and complex as the times in which we live. I’m certain that his presence will leave i...
Louis L. Roquet jons the board at FFM
The Montreal World Film Festival is pleased to announce that Louis L. Roquet, President of Investissement Québec's Board of Directors has agreed to serve on the board of the Festival. “I am very honoured that Louis L. Roquet has accepted my invitation,” declared MWFF president Serge Losique. “The expertise of Mr. Roquet is widely acknowledged and his economic vision of Quebec and his openness to culture meshes perfectly with the mission of the Festival. I am ...
Michelangelo Antonioni Il maestro del cinema modern An Eye exhibition in Amsterdam
Michelangelo Antonioni – Il maestro del cinema moderno, from 12 September 2015 to 17 January 2016 at EYE, IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam, eyefilm.nl/antonioni From 12 September 2015 to 17 January 2016, EYE is presenting Michelangelo Antonioni – Il maestro del cinema moderno, an exhibition about one of the foremost innovators in film from the last century. The exhibition shows how Antonioni renewed the grammar of film by thinking in terms of the image and less in terms of narrative...
Ischia LEGEND Award to Helen Mirren and Antonio Banderas
ROBIN WILLIAMS’ LAST MOVIE “BOULEVARD” DIR. DITO MONTIEL TO OPEN ISCHIA GLOBAL FEST 2015. LOOKING FORWARD THE XIII ANNUAL GLOBAL FILM & MUSIC FEST LORENZA IZZO AND ELI ROTH TO JOIN ISCHIA GLOBAL 2015. CHILEAN MODEL AND ACTRESS TO RECEIVE ISCHIA RISING STAR AWARD. LOOKING FORWARD THE XIII ANNUAL GLOBAL FILM & MUSIC FEST ARGENTINIAN MODEL AND ACTRESS LIZ SOLARI TO RECEIVE "ISCHIA FILM & FASHION AWARD". LOOKING FORWARD...
International Film Festival (EIFF) announced two new Honorary Patrons of the Festival.
– Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) this evening announced two new Honorary Patrons of the Festival. Scottish actor James Cosmo and director/actor Karen Gillan have accepted the role of EIFF Honorary Patrons as the Festival heads into its 70th anniversary year. Karen Gillan and James Cosmo will be joining other EIFF Honorary Patrons Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Seamus McGarvey and Mark Cousins. The 69th edition of EIFF drew to a close with the World Premiere of Scott ...
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Festival War on Screen - Poster
3° ÉDITION : GRANDES LIGNES / FORETASTE Le seul festival international dédié aux représentations par la fiction, le documentaire ou le reportage des conflits d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain, réels ou imaginaires, présente sa troisième édition. Il embrasse tous les genres, de la comédie au film d’espionnage, de la...
Serge Toubiana annonce son départ de la Cinémathèque
Serge Toubiana explique les raisons de son départ: "Une décision sereine. La semaine dernière avait lieu la présentation de Saison 2015-2016 de la Cinémathèque française, suivie de l’avant-première d’Amnesia, le nouveau film de Barbet Schroeder. Il y avait du monde, il faisait beau et la terrasse des 400 Coups était pleine, joyeuse. Barbet Schroeder était fier...
Major Buzz Factory : Expérience du marketing Digital pour les films
Fort d'une expérience acquise dans la distribution de films pour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark.eting et le digital.
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