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> 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival- Doc Market March 14 - 23, 2014
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16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival- Doc Market
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014 DOC MARKET. March 16 - 22, 10.00 – 20.00. ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL, Byzantium Hall, 1st Floor, Aristotelous Sq. The International Doc Market, introduced in 1999, will be held in the Byzantium hall at the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel at Aristotelous Sq. next to the Festival headquarters, providing a substantial space to its participants, outfitted with 30 digital booths for private viewin...
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Opening Film
'Linar' (2013) by Nastia Tarasova, Russia. 16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014 OPENING FILM Linar by Nastia Tarasova, Russia, 2013 A young boy with a wise heart leads the way for the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opening night. Linar by Nastia Tarasova follows the odyssey of Linar, a Russian boy who travels to Italy to receive a heart transplant. Tarasova narrates with sensitivity and respect Linar’s adve...
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014 16th TDF FILM LINE-UP, FIPRESCI JURY & SIDEBAR EVENTS The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 185 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program. FILM PREMIERES The 16th TDF presents 3 wor...
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> FantasPORTO Day by Day February 28 to March 8, 2014.
2014 Fantasporto complete coverage with videos
VIDEOS Faces from the competitions in FantasPORTO 2014 Have a Port Cocktail and watch the opening of Fantasporto Interview with Olivier Beguin for Chimères Interview with Richard johnstone for Blood Lust Designer Sardines repelling Vampires, have a bite or watch the video...
Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin Street Rap ... in the Streets of Porto
Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin enjoyed his jury duty at Fantasporto 2014. Here is a fantastic story for you: walking along the streets of Porto, he found this local artist doing this Street Rap in honor of filmfestivals.com. Check the sound ! The rumor in the streets of Porto : filmfestivals.com own the most comprehensive database on the film festival Circuit (165 112 subscribers) Most of them are filmmakers involved in the circuit, where you could source your future entries....
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> THE PARTNER FESTIVALS
Submit to Maui Film Festival June 4-8
The Maui Film Festival believes in the power of Original Cinema.
Original Cinema is the rocket fuel that powers the Maui Film Festival by revealing its character, igniting its passion, focusing its vision and soothing its soul.
Especially when filmmakers explore what it means to be human alongside Humankind's relationship to all Life, Original Cinema can move culture and shift paradigm, moves culture and build a future worthy of generations yet unborn.
Maui Film Festival's blog I Website: http://www.mauifilmfestival.com
SUBMIT NOW to the 5th NYC Indie Film Festival 2014 October 18-20
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Join the celebration of the true independent filmmaker. SUBMIT your feature-length, documentary, short, super-short, music video, art video or animation. The festival takes place in iconic Times Square’s Theater District in New York City, every October. Submit NOW!
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NYC Indie Film Fest's blog I Website: www.nycindiefilmfest.com
The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival 21st to Sunday 25th May 2014 in Schull, West Cork.
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Based in Schull, West Cork, Ireland The festival is now looking for entries. Submissions deadline date 3rd of March. Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit their short films of 15 minutes and under. The Festival will run for 5 days over the last weekend in May from Wednesday, 21st to Sunday 25th of May 2014. This year to improve the submission process, you may enter either directly through the website at www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com or withoutabox.com. email helen.wells@fastnetshortfilmfestival.com
Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival's blog I Website: www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com
Submit your Best Trailers to the 15th Golden Trailer Awards
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Rules for Entry for 15th Annual Golden Trailer Awards Rules for Trailer/TV Spot/Video Game Entries Trailers must be under 4 minutes and 30 seconds long (no exceptions) Creation dates for Trailers/Teasers/TV spots/Video Game Trailers: In order to be eligible, the above mentioned must be created between March 8th, 2013 through April 11th, 2014.
That is the creation date of the trailer NOT the film (or video game).
That is the creation date of the trailer NOT the film (or video game).
In order to be eligible for SUMMER 2014 BLOCKBUSTER which is for a Film RELEASE date between May 2nd, 2014 until September 1st, 2014 (the upcoming 2014 summer Blockbuster Season). The trailer must be made for a film being released this Summer 2014.
Golden Trailer Awards's blog I Website: http://www.goldentrailer.com
MANHATTAN SHORT 2014 Calling For Entries - Early Deadline is March 1, Regular Deadline July 31st
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MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2014 - Early Call For Entries - Deadline March 1, 2014
During one week this year, over 100,000 film lovers will gather in over 300 cinemas across 6 continents to view and vote on the finalists' films in the 17th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. For all those with a short film who want their work viewed on a global scale - nothing quite compares to MANHATTAN SHORT.
Click Here to register your film for the 2014 Festival
Manhattan Short's blog I Website: www.ManhattanShort.com
Call for Entries: 2014 DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenwriting Competitions
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Recently named the Coolest Short Film Festival by Moviemaker Magazine, the DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition is the largest short film event on the East Coast of the United States. In 2013, we screened 152 films from 21 countries in 18 unique showcases that played over 11 days to a total audience of 9,300 people. We also hosted a table read of six screenplays, and awarded the winner an incredible prize of $2,000. Submit online...
DC Shorts's blog I Website: http://festival.dcshorts.com
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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
3rd Luxor African Film Festival opens in the arms of the Pharaohs March 18, 2014
Top African-American film star Danny Glover will attend the opening of the 3rd African Film Festival (18-24 March, 2014) to present his latest film “The Children’s Republic” that will open the festival. Also attending, among top African and international guests, Flora Gomes, the Guinea-Bissau director of the acclaimed film. Both Glover and Gomes will be given special tribute for their rich career at the opening night along with Egyptian star Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz. Glover has con...
ON THE ROAD - MEDIAWAVE Online Film Festival 1 March - 30 April, 2014
Watch ON THE ROAD features, shorts and documentaries online here! Our aim was to improve the spirit of our ”Gathering” with our fresh idea, a special topic announced for film makers as well as in other areas of our program. The films submitted in this category present ’being on the road’, let it be either a physical or intellectual journey or individuals, communities, minorities travelling temporarily or constantly, from free will or under pressure. Migration, emigratio...
The Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) launches the Spring Showcase
The Philadelphia Film Society is proud to announce that it will produce the Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF): Spring Showcase, a 7-day film event scheduled to take place from Friday, April 11 to Thursday, April 17, exclusively at the PFS Theater at the Roxy. "I'm thrilled to add this exciting new event to the PFS 2014 calendar, allowing us to spotlight some of our favorite upcoming films from the Spring and Summer while also showcasing the newly renovated PFS Theater at t...
The Birds Eye View Film Festival (8-13 April) highlights
The Birds Eye View Film Festival (8-13 April) is delighted to reveal details of their 2014 programme which promises to be a packed six day celebration of endlessly inspiring women from across the globe. Boasting numerous premieres, special presentations and events, this year’s Festival showcases some of the most exciting new filmmaking talent including works by British director Destiny Ekaragha and Laura Checkoway to films by Lena Dunham and Kelly Reichardt. The Festival will also celebrat...
Holland Animation Festival programme to showcase Norman McLaren Classics
The complete festival programme is online! Visit the website to browse through more than 400 films and put together your personal festival programme. From hilarious shorts to trail-blazing music videos and art film, from pencil sketch to mouse click. Surprising, inspiring, refreshing. There will be features and shorts, games en cartoons, competitions, special programmes, presentations and talk shows. The online ticket sales starts Wednesday 12 March at 12:00 hrs. Norman McLaren...
The countdown has already begun, the 16th edition of the Far East Film Festival – held in Udine
Trailer of The Midnight After: http://youtu.be/oRaASwkkevg While the countdown has already begun, the 16th edition of the Far East Film Festival – held in Udine from 25th April to 3rd May – reveals one of its key features: the close artistic and cultural connection with Hong Kong, which is clear year after year at the Festival. However, for the upcoming edition, this connection will manifest itself with a slightly different nuance: sure enough, since the handover to China 16 y...
Cinequest Film Festival 2014 reports record crowds of Silicon Valley innovators combined with global youth and artists
MAVERICK AWARDS, MEDIA LEGACY, RECORD CROWDS, SELLOUTS SHINE AT CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL WEEK ONE Half way through, Cinequest Film Festival 2014 reports record crowds of Silicon Valley innovators combined with global youth and artists-all celebrating the power of creativity, innovation and film. Highlights so far: Preceding Cinequest Film Festival, Cinequest's inaugural Picture The Possi...
Dresdner Sinfoniker in Mexico City (March 14th and March 15th, 2014)
http://festival.org.mx/site/ch_eventos/codex-dresdensis/ http://festival.org.mx/site/ch_eventos/codex-dresdensis-2/ ...
Visegrad Film Forum starts this Tuesday
Visegrad Film Forum runs March 11-15, 2014. Visegrad Film Forum 2014 - our educational and networking platform for enhancing filmmakers and film enthusiasts - starts this Tuesday at 18.00 and ends this Saturday in the late night hours (March 11th - 15th) in the city of Bratislava, Slovakia. The whole programme can be found in "Programme" section of our website. TUESDAY is the official opening day of VFF. Besides the first networking event for all participants you can ...
Fountainhead e-Letter, March 2014, Berlin/Germany
FOUNTAINHEAD® Tanz Théâtre e - Letter March 2014 . Berlin.Germany www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.blackinternationalcinema.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com XXIX. 2014 Black International Cinema Berlin May 7-11 "Footprints in the Sand?" Exhibition July1 -...
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The nominees for the Animated Com Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film have been selected!
ITFS – Nominees Animated Com Award | Theme day Animation and Advertisement The nominees for the Animated Com Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film have been selected! With more than 80,000 visitors and 2.500 professionals each year, the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is one of the biggest and most important animation festivals worldwide. In addition to the competition categories International Competition, Young Animation, Tricks for Kids, Teens and Tric...
2014 BAMKids Film Festival Winners
The 16th Annual BAMKids Film Festival ended on a high note with more than five thousand children and families attending the two day event February 22-23 at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music. Featuring 74 films from 27 countries curated by the International Children's Media Center, audience votes for the BAMmie awards were at an all time h...
Congratulations to the 2014 Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival Winners!
16 Outstanding Independent Films Honored in Awards Ceremony on March 1 2014 in New York City Best Student Film winner Julia Walter and Best Actress Nominee Stefanie Von Poser New York, NY (3/07/2014): If you happened to stop by the Gray Line terminal on 8th Avenue last weekend, you might have noticed that there was a lot more going on inside than tour bus ticket sales. Unbeknownst to many, this building is home to a private theater where NYC’s Winter Film Awards...
2014 Winter FIlm Awards Nominees and Winners
BEST ACTOR ...... Al Miro (Computer Potato) ...... Gavin Brown (Found) ….. WINNER ...... Ryan Eggold (Queen) ...... Warren Cole (The Gauntlet) BEST ACTRESS ...... Bai Ling (The Gauntlet) ...... Phyllis Munro (Found) ...... Stefanie von Poser (Job Interview) ...... Tesha Moon Krieg (Maria) ….. WINNER BEST ANIMATED FILM ........Andrew: Story of a Closet Monster ….. WINNER ........Attack of the Kil...
Fantasporto Awards Miss Zombie
FANTASPORTO´2014 34th edition of the OPORTO INTERNATINAL FILM FESTIVAL Fantasy film jury Cyril Despontin (festival director) Fra; Loris Curci (producer) Ita; Bruno Chatelin (filmfestivals.com) fra; Jordi Navarro (film teacher) Esp; Nigel Floyd (film critic) GB; Vassilis Mazomenos (producer and director) Gre The International Jury of the Fantasy Section on the 334th Oporto International Film Festival - Fantasporto 2013 has decided to grant the follo...
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Richard Linklater will be honored at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 24 - May 8),
Photo by Pamela Gentile Film Society to Honor the Celebrated Filmmaker at Awards Night and Screen His Groundbreaking Latest Film at the Castro Theatre The San Francisco Film Society announced today that filmmaker Richard Linklater will be the recipient of the 2014 Founder...
Interview with Dieter Kosslick about the 2014 Berlinale edition
Claus Mueller, www.filmfestivals.com NY correspondent with german blood, was privileged to sit down at the end of the Berlinale with Dieter Kosslick, the Festival Chief. Claus Mueller: What surprised you about the 2014 selection? DK: This year’s selection is completely different from what we offered last year. You really cannot compare it from the product ion angle, but you can compare it from the subject matters. Some films have the same focus such as sex, kids, violence....
Meeting Point Vilnius: focus on Baltic market and film marketing
A. Ramaska with the programmers to attend VIFF The fifth edition of Meeting Point Vilnius -- an industry sidebar held during the 19th Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris -- takes place between March 31 and April 3, 2014. A forum for international film industry professionals and lovers of Eastern European cinema, this year's edition of Meeting Point Vilnius focuses on marketing and promotion. It is aimed at an audience of festival programmers, film producers and oth...
Dieter Kosslick: Berlinale 2014 Reflections
Claus Mueller: What surprised you about the 2014 selection? DK: This year’s selection is completely different from what we offered last year. You really cannot compare it from the product ion angle, but you can compare it from the subject matters. Some films have the same focus such as sex, kids, violence... otherwise the films are entirely different, we have the kind of diversity we never had before CM: Thus you have a supermarket of different approaches and themes? DK: M...
Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin Street Rap ... in the Streets of Porto
Filmfestivals.com Bruno Chatelin enjoyed his jury duty at Fantasporto 2014. Here is a fantastic story for you: walking along the streets of Porto, he found this local artist doing this Street Rap in honor of filmfestivals.com. Check the sound ! The rumor in the streets of Porto : filmfestivals.com own the most comprehensive database on the film festival Circuit (165 112 subscribers) Most of them are filmmakers involved in the circuit, where you could source your future entries....
> FILM TO WATCH
Feature Films and Docu in Competition at SXSW
Features Narrative Feature Competition | Documentary Feature Competition | Headliners | Narrative Spotlight | Documentary Spotlight | Visions | Midnighters |Episodic | 24 Beats per Second | SXGlobal | Festival Favorites | Special Events Shorts Narrative Shorts | Documentary Shorts | Animated Shorts | Midnight Shorts | Music Videos | ...
Sean Bean, CHARLES DANCE & Rupert Grint line up on Vincent Regan’s ‘Macbeth’ adaptation ‘ENEMY OF MAN’, funded on kickstarter
A timeless tale of war, regicide, betrayal and untimely revenge, ENEMY OF MAN boasts a stellar cast led by Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, the upcoming Jupiter Ascending), alongside Charles Dance (Gosford Park, Game of Thrones, The Imitation Game), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise, Cherrybomb), Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch), James D’Arcy (Cloudless, Hitchcock) and Neil Maskell (Kill List, Wild Bill). ENEMY OF MAN marks the directorial debut ...
LE WEEK-END: Antidote to Superhero Flicks? Aging, a Bold Special Effect, for Broadbent, Duncan & Jeff Goldblum
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent On March 14, catch up on LE WEEK-END; it's a cinematic flu shot. Because, instead of Caped Crusaders tasked with their Superhero schemes, this movie presents a human-sized dose of adult life. "People can change," Lindsay Duncan's character avers. As in, "they can get worse." Already an award winner for Linsday Duncan (BIFA), Jim Broadbent and writer Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Launderette), the film ...
Congratulations to the 2014 Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival Winners!
16 Outstanding Independent Films Honored in Awards Ceremony on March 1 2014 in New York City Best Student Film winner Julia Walter and Best Actress Nominee Stefanie Von Poser New York, NY (3/07/2014): If you happened to stop by the Gray Line terminal on 8th Avenue last weekend, you might have noticed that there was a lot more going on inside than tour bus ticket sales. Unbeknownst to many, this building is home to a private theater where NYC’s Winter Film Awards...
Fountainhead e-Letter, March 2014, Berlin/Germany
FOUNTAINHEAD® Tanz Théâtre e - Letter March 2014 . Berlin.Germany www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.blackinternationalcinema.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com XXIX. 2014 Black International Cinema Berlin May 7-11 "Footprints in the Sand?" Exhibition July1 -...
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
Le meilleur des Cesar (le plus drole)
Le temps à Cannes sera beau, chaud, ensoleillé et très glamour pour le 67ème festival
Casablanca: l'adaptation sur scène au Théâtre DEJAZET de la plus belle histoire d'amour du cinéma !
Come See Entertainment & Gilded Balloon présentent Pour la première fois en France, l'adaptation à la scène de la plus belle histoire d'amour du cinéma ! CASABLANCA En live et en V.O. Écrit et mis en scène par MORAG FULLARTON Avec GAVIN MITCHELL CLARE WAUGH BARNABY POWER Du 17 au 26 avril 2014 Théâtre DEJAZET 41 boulevard du Temple 75003 Paris (M° Rép...
3ème edition du festival de Louxor du film Africain (LAFF) s'ouvre dans les bras des pharaons le 18 Mars, 2014
Les organisateurs LAFF ont décidé que la cérémonie de la troisième édition commence mardi matin sur la rivière du Nil avec des bateaux d'or prenant les invités du festival de leurs hôtels au temple de Louxor . Ceci sera accompagné par des bandes de musique folklorique et des drapeaux des pays participants avec des ballons d'hélium au ciel de Louxor . Sayed Fouad le président de LAFF a dit qu’...
FIFDH Paris : au programme du week-end
Le Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Paris continue tout au long du week-end et se prolonge jusqu'à mardi soir au cinéma Le Nouveau Latina, puis du 19 au 21 mars dans d'autres salles à Paris, Créteil et Pantin. Master class de Sebastian Mez Un des temps forts du Festival cette année est la présence du réalisateur Sebastian Mez qui animera une master class ce samedi à 15h30, au cin&e...
Envahissement de la cour des comptes par des représentants d’intermittents du spectacle
La Cour des comptes a fait l’objet ce jour d’un envahissement par des représentants d’intermittents du spectacle. Elle déplore cette méthode. La Cour regrette que des interprétations erronées de ses recommandations sur le régime des intermittents du spectacle soient à l’origine de cet envahissement. Comme elle l’a rappelé dans son référé sur le régime d&r...
Festival du cinéma brésilien de Paris 2014
La 16è édition du Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris se tiendra au cinéma L'Arlequin (6ème) du 1er au 8 avril 2014. En 2014, le monde entier a les yeux rivés sur le Brésil... Coupe du Monde de Football oblige ! Le 1er avril 2014, date d’ouverture du festival, retentiront les 50 ans du Coup d’État militaire du 1er avril 1964. Le Festival du ...
« Jodorowsky’s Dune » de Frank Pavich en première à Docville
Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) présentent déjà la troisième séance de la série mensuelle Docville 2014 avec le documentaire Jodorowsky’s Dune du cinéaste Frank Pavich. Le film raconte l’histoire extraordinaire de la tentative d’adaptation cinématographique du roman de science-fiction Dune par Alejandro Jodorowsky. Après sa première à Cannes lors de...
A L’occasion de son 25ème anniversaire le festival « Théâtres au cinéma » fait peau neuve et devient : BANDE(S) À PART
A L’occasion de son 25ème anniversaire le festival « Théâtres au cinéma » fait peau neuve et devient : BANDE(S) À PART Le festival frondeur Du 1er au 13 avril 2014 Au Magic Cinéma - Bobigny Bande(s) à part sera l’occasion pour les spectateurs d’apprécier le travail d’un artiste reconnu et de découvrir, en parallèle, un nouveau cinéma frondeur fait et conçu pa...
Cartoon Movie 2014 : 10 fois plus de spectateurs pour le dessin animé européen en 15 ans
La 16e édition de Cartoon Movie, le forum de coproduction de longs métrages d’animation européens, s’est déroulée du 5 au 7 mars à Lyon. La manifestation a accueilli le nombre record de 750 producteurs, investisseurs et distributeurs d’animation, ce qui représente une augmentation de 50% depuis l’implantation de Cartoon Movie à Lyon en 2009. La qualité très élevée des 60 proj...
Ouverture du 12e Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Paris au cinéma Le Nouveau Latina
Le 12e Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Paris s'ouvrira demain soir à 20h au cinéma Le Nouveau Latina : 20h00 : cérémonie d'ouverture 20h30 : projection du long-métrage documentaire LIFE IN PARADISE 21h50 : débat en présence du réalisateur Roman Vital, du co-auteur et producteur Sandro Zollinger, et de Grégoire Valadié, animateur de réseaux-Thématique Migrants a...
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