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> 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival- Doc Market March 14 - 23, 2014
Live coverage from Vanessa McMahon
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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
FIRST TIME FEST is back for the second time in New York
FIRST TIME FEST The Second Time Around April 3-7, 2014 CELEBRATING FIRST-TIME FILMMAKERS WITH A GRAND PRIZE OF THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION Following last year’s acclaimed first edition, FIRST TIME FEST is back, and it shows that the secondtime is even better. The Second Time Around for FIRST TIME FEST is set for April 3 – 7, 2014, and it will be based at their new home. NeueHouse (110 East 25th St.). NeueHouse will be the location for panels...
The 11th Green Film Festival in Seoul announces the finalists for this year’s Green Competition
The 11th Green Film Festival in Seoul is pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s Green Competition, the international competition category of the GFFIS. Thanks to all your supports and participations, 1,059 films were submitted from 97 different countries around the world, helping our festival make a spectacular event. After the preliminary selection, 21 films from 16 countries advanced to the Green Competition. These films will compete for four GFFIS awards: B...
Full program Go Short (9-13 April) online
With three weeks to go until the shortest week of the year, you can find the full program of Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen online. The sixth edition of the main short film festival in the Netherlands is full of premieres. With over 250 unique films in the program, there are no less than 65 short films in the Netherlands for the first time. This year Go Short has 4 world premieres and 5 international premieres. The complete program is now online, and tickets are av...
Project Native 4th Environmental Film Festival
COMING VERY SOON! PROJECT NATIVE’S 4th FILM FESTIVAL REVOLUTION, a film by award-winning director Rob Stewart, to kick off the festival at ...
Aspen Film Announces Aspen Shortsfest Lineup
Aspen Film, a year-round film arts and education organization, announces the finalists invited to screen at its 23rd annual Aspen Shortsfest, April 8-13, at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen and the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale. A record number of submissions--more than 3,000 from over 90 countries--were considered. Seventy shorts representing more than 30 countries were ultimately selected for this year's International ...
The complete Fantasporto 2014 Coverage
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 Openi...
The European Film Market 2014 - Benefits and Prospects
Virtually each year similar criticisms of the European Film Market are articulated. Thus the decline of must-have productions is deplored, the low level of business, the” lack of heat” (Screen International), the costs of attending the EFM and the timing of the market. Presumably, the EFM is too close to the important other important film markets, the American Film Market in November and the Cannes film market in May. Undoubtedl...
The tenth Glasgow Film Festival reached a 40 000 admissions record
The tenth Glasgow Film Festival supported by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Event Scotland, Creative Scotland and The BFI, closed tonight with the Scottish Premiere of Under the Skin. A packed programme of 369 screenings, panel discussions, live performances and pop-up cinema events ran across the city throughout February, and while final box office figures were unavailable at time of going to press, organisers can confirm that they’ve already broken 40,000 total admissio...
OPENING CEREMONY, 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
OPENING CEREMONY of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century. 14-23 March 2014 The curtain rose on the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century with a discrete opening ceremony held on Friday, March 14, 2014, at a packed Olympion theater. Nastia Tarasova’s documentary Linar, which chronicles the touching adventure of a frail young boy, was screened after the ceremony. In his opening remarks, Thessaloniki Documentar...
Mirage International Film Festival Announces 1st Set of Distributors Scheduled to Attend MIFF 2014
Mirage International Film Festival Announces Distributors In Attendance MIFF 2014 | Mar 2014 The mission of the Mirage International Film Festival (MIFF) is to help filmmakers present their films to audiences, industry professionals and distributors from around the globe. One of the most important aspects of achieving our mission is to ensure we provide an environment where aspiring writers and filmmakers can connect with agents, sales companies, distributors and ot...
2014 iREP International Documentary Film Festival in Nigeria
iREP was initiated in 2011 by three Nigerian culture workers and activists to promote independent documentary film production, expression and discourses, especially to spread global awareness about the role of documentary films in deepening participatory democracy. Some of its other objectives include creating a platform of awareness and expression for aspiring and practising filmmakers, and providing a forum for people’s ingenuity to be showcased without prejudice to style or subject.��...
> THE AWARDS WATCH
SXSW 24 Beats per Second Audience Award Announced!
2014 Audience Award, for the 24 Beats per Second category, goes to Take Me to the River. This highly entertaining story of a vital slice of Memphis' musical legacy features Terrence Howard, William Bell, Snoop Dog, Mavis Staples and many more. You can see all the winners on this page, and check out the film's trailer above. Congratulations to this remarkable film, and to all the films across all the categories! Stay up to date on developments on films screened at SXSW here on ...
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...
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Shashi Kapoor, on his 76th birthday
Call it co-incidence or destiny, but I got to meet, and shake the hand of, Shashi Kapoor, on his 76th birthday. For the last six years, I could not bring myself to meeting him because I could not bear to see him on a wheel-chair. But I did come very close to him at the service of his brother Shammi Kapoor, who passed away in 2011. I bumped into Shashi's daughter Sanjana at an event two years ago, and she re-assured me his illness was not all that bad. There was a lot of talk abou...
Series and franchises: Milking cash cows or creating new content?
Abhishek Bachchan, Indian lead actor and son of legendary Amitabh Bachchan, who has acted in all three outings of the superhit Dhoom series of action films made over the last ten years, and Vijay Krishna Acharya, writer of all three and director of the third film in the series, were on the stage on day 2 of FICCI FRAMES, the three-day international convention on media and entertainment which concluded in Mumbai yesterday. Working in a franchise such as 'Dhoom' and ...
> FILM TO WATCH
Petra Costa's film ELENA (2012) @ 16th Thessaloniki Doc Fest
Brazilian director Petra Costa's film ELENA (2012) screened this week at the 16th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Petra Costa Edited down from 200 hours of footage to 83 minutes, the film is visually stunning with every shot edited to create cinematic poetry. ELENA is told through the eyes of Petra Costa from her years as a seven year-old looking up to her then teen actress sister, Elena Andrade, to her own years as a young adult in search of her sister's lost s...
15th Havana Film Fest NY Documentary Competition: 6 stories that will stay with you
15th HFFNY presents 6 exceptional films competing for the Best Documentary Havana Star Award. These documentaries, portraying true Latino stories that will stay with you, will be screening at Quad Cinema throughout the festival. Five of the filmmakers will be present and engaging in Q&A sessions with the audience at the screenings. The 15th HFFNY will run April 3-11 at the Quad Cinema and additional venues around the city. The winners will be announced duri...
The Darkside opens the Travelling Film Festival at Grafton’s Saraton Theatre from March 27-30, 2014
KATH SHELPER OPENS THE TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL GRAFTON The Darkside opens the Travelling Film Festival at Grafton’s Saraton Theatre from March 27-30, 2014 Producer of The Darkside, Kath Shelper will open the Travelling Film Festival in Grafton, introducing the Opening Night film and taking part in a Q&A! Kath Shelper has produced numerous Australian films, television and documentaries but is best known for The Turning, Here I Am and her first feature film, Samson and D...
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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
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Alan Parker, invité d’honneur du BRUSSELS FILM FESTIVAL !
Le 12ème BRUSSELS FILM FESTIVAL se déroulera du 6 au 14 juin 2014 à Flagey et à la Cinematek. Après le succès de son édition précédente, le festival, dirigé par Ivan Corbisier, a mis les bouchées doubles pour offrir cette année aux spectateurs une édition encore plus prestigieuse et riche en surprises! A cette occasion, le visuel du festival fait peau neuve avec un nouveau s...
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 p...
Top 10 des entrées hebdo France du 12/03/2014 au 18/03/2014
Top 10 des entrées hebdo France Titre Entrées Copies Moy/copies Cumul Semaine 1 Fiston 921 751 455 2 026 921 751 1 2 Supercondriaque 881 538 836 1 054 ...
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal à Québec Du 2 au 6 avril 2014 au Cinéma Cartier
Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) sont heureuses de s’associer pour la première fois à Antitube, diffuseur d’événements cinéma et vidéo à Québec depuis 1995, afin de présenter la dixième édition des RIDM à Québec du 2 au 6 avril 2014 au Cinéma Cartier. Pour l’occasion, les RIDM ont le plaisir de présenter une sélection de c...
Le Festival International du Film Fantastique de Neuchâtel - NIFFF et la Maison d’Ailleurs : un tandem de super-héros !
Le Festival International du Film Fantastique de Neuchâtel (NIFFF) est heureux d’annoncer le lancement d’une collaboration pluriannuelle avec la Maison d’Ailleurs d’Yverdon-les-Bains. Imaginé autour des affinités thématiques entre les deux institutions, ce partenariat reposera sur des propositions de contenu réciproques, présentées au public entre 2014 et 2016. Coup d’envoi ce samedi 22 mars à Yverdon avec le ve...
Un palmarès engagé et un record d’affluence au FIFDH.
Participation record « Avec plus de 25'000 festivaliers, soit 2'000 de plus qu'en 2013, le rôle de relai du Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains n'a jamais été aussi efficace pour répercuter au niveau international la parole de celles et ceux qui résistent à l’oppression et engagent leur vie sur le terrain. Les opposants, les résistants et les jeunes blogueurs, les cit...
Programme de la clôture et remise des prix du 12e Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Paris
La cérémonie de clôture et de remise des prix du 12e Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Paris aura lieu ce soir à 20h au cinéma Le Nouveau Latina. AU PROGRAMME : 20h00 : cérémonie de clôture et de remise des prix 20h45 : projection du documentaire Tacacho, en avant-première française 21h55 : débat avec le réalisateur Felipe Monroy et Sintha Marché, Cha...
La Compétition Européenne 2014 du Festival de Cinéma de Brive.
La liste des 25 films qui composent la Compétition Européenne 2014 du Festival de Cinéma de Brive. Le jury (communiqué ultérieurement) attribue le Grand Prix Europe, le Grand Prix France et d’éventuelles mentions. Le public participe en votant pour le Prix du public. Seront également décernés le Prix du Jury Jeunes de la Corrèze, Le Prix CINE+ & un nouveau prix, le Prix Format COURT. &nb...
Le temps à Cannes sera beau, chaud, ensoleillé et très glamour pour le 67ème festival
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