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> THE PARTNER FESTIVALS
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The Studio City Film Festival will be held at the CAP Studio on Ventura Boulevard and will feature opening night ceremonies, complete with live music. The absolute FINAL deadline is April 5th.
Our last festival featured filmmakers from all over the world and we did our best to make it a great experience for filmmakers and audience members alike.
All genres are welcome. We wish to encourage all cultures and ethnicities. It is our firm belief that the arts are a unifying force that serve to bridge all cultural and ethnic gaps. Special consideration is given to films that present a unique, cutting-edge perspective in its subject matter.
Submit on Withoutabox
StudioCity Film Festival's blog I Website www.studiocityfilmfestival.com/
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TentSquare is the first completely crowdsourced production studio with an integrated social network.
From the earliest development phases all the way through post-production, our members weigh in.
Become a TentSquare member (for free) and get involved in the process of filmmaking. Compete to win a featured TentSquare job. Network with industry professionals and film buffs in our community. Choose our next story.
Help cast our next film.
AT TENTSQUARE YOU CALL THE SHOTS: SIGN UP
3 Easy Steps: RegisterI Setup Your Profile I Participate.
Find A Competition For You: Screenplay Development I Director I Actor I Cinematographer I Screenplay Development will begin on April 9, 2014
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Funding for the indie creator.
indieFilmFunding focuses on bringing the Storyteller (CREATOR) together with the film enthusiast (DONOR), through our unique Crowd-funding platform. The indieFilmFunding platform helps the Storyteller set up and promote their film package to maximize the opportunity to receive funding, so that the storyteller can cover the costs of making their film.
As a film enthusiast indieFilmFunding alsohelps you find film projects you love and want to donate to. Through iFF, you can donate and become part of the filmmaking process.
indieFilmFunding is a platform and resource where you can network, fund and launch your film project, as long as it meets our criteria.
We are the home for indie films, for the film enthusiasts, and the filmmaker. We bring together the people that love films, with people that make films, using our unique crowd-funding platform.
Register online and start promoting your own project
ASSISTANCE: How does IndieFilmFunding.com Work? I Why indieFilmFunding? I Help Center I Rules I FAQs
Indie Film Funding's blog I Website: www.indiefilmfunding.com
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The NYC Indie Film Fest is the celebration of the true independent filmmaker. SUBMIT your feature-length, documentary, short, super-short, music video, art video or animation. In addition to showcasing the best indie films to the entertainment industry and the NYC public, the festival will also offer a variety of prizes in 2014.
Click here to SUBMIT your film!
Read more.
NYC Indie Film Fest's blog I Website: www.nycindiefilmfest.com
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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.
Read more and Submit.
Maui Film Festival's blog I Website: http://www.mauifilmfestival.com
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).
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 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
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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Viewster Online Film Fest VOFF's blog I Website: http://festival.viewster.com/
> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET OF FILMS ON ART A MUST FOR FILM PROFESSIONALS Following the success of its three previous editions, the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) is inviting art professionals and specialists in the fields of films on art and media arts from around the world, to attend to its International Market of Films on Art (MIFA) held from Wednesday, March 26 to Saturday, March 29, 2014. A unique an...
For a 22nd time the film festival contravision celebrates the international short film. from 28 march to 5 april 2014, the second eldest short film festival of berlin will present 76 films of all genres from 21 countries. ...
Why the el Ojo cojo ? We wanted a name that translate our intention to promote the acceptance of the existence of so many visions as there looks , knowing that interpret the world is the way to apprehend him as our own. For this reason we promote the knowledge and enjoyment of different views and other aesthetic , seeking to raise public awareness about situations that are often outside. el Ojo cojo is a young NGO , from the knowledge of rea...
45-Latin American Film Line-Up Features a Record 24 Cuban Films Spanning 55 Years of Filmmaking in the Island Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY), a project of American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (AFLFC), will celebrate its 15th anniversary April 3-11, 2014, with a first-rate program showcasing 45 films from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the United States. This year's line-up includes a record 24 Cuban films spanning 55 years of filmmaking...
100 SONES CUBANOS / THE 100 CUBAN SONES FFNY FESTIVAL VENUES Directors Guild Theater - 110 West 57th St. (Bet. 6th & 7th Aves.), Manhattan Quad Cinema - 34 West 13th St. (Bet. 5th & 6th Aves.), Manhattan Museum of the Moving Image - 35th Ave. at 37th St., Astoria, Queens The Bronx Museum of the Arts - 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St., The Bronx King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU - 53 Was...
On Wednesday, the Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival, presented by Budweiser, revealed the films selected for the 6th annual K+S New York, including several events dedicated to Brazil. K+S New York 2014 runs from Tuesday, April 8, through Friday, April 11, in downtown Manhattan. This year’s festival boasts 11 films from eight countries, including the theatrical world premieres of two films from Budweiser’s “Rise As One” series, set to air on ...
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, today announced that the 2014 City to City programme will focus on Seoul, South Korea. “Seoul is one of the most exciting cities on the planet, and you can feel that energy in its films,” said Bailey. “South Korea's capital continues to produce consistently strong cinema, from art house to commercial. Seoul’s best auteurs win major festival awards, while its genre masters are sou...
By Maria Esteves – March 23, 2014 The 17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYSJFF 2014) Opening Night Gala commenced Thursday, March 13, 6:30pm at the Center for Jewish History, New York. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) in association with Yeshiva University Museum (YUM), this year’s ASF Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award went to world-renowned musical artist ENRICO MACIAS. His extraordinary live performance in a packed theater with encores and...
> THE AWARDS WATCH
By Maria Esteves – March 26, 2014 World-renowned musical artist and humanist ENRICO MACIAS received the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement during the 17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYSJFF 2014) Opening Night Gala held at the Center for Jewish History, New York, Thursday, March 13, 7:45 PM. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) in association with Yeshiva University Museum (YUM), the annual Pomegranate Award acknowledge achievements in the his...
Due to European elections on Sunday 25 May, the Festival de Cannes management team has decided to reveal the winners of the 67th Festival a day earlier, on Saturday 24 May, at the traditional awards ceremony in the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The final film in competition will be shown on Friday 23 May and the jury will meet the next day to select the winners. The winners of Un Certain Regard award will be announced in the evening of Friday 23 May and the Cinéfondation aw...
Michael Z. Wechsler’s “The Red Robin,” an official selection in the Narrative Feature category at the 2014 Gasparilla International Film Festival (GIFF) (www.gasparillafilmfestival.com) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking at an awards ceremony held on Sunday, March 23rd. “The Red Robin” stars Academy Award-nominated, veteran actor Judd Hirsch (“Ordinary People”), GIFF 2012 ...
Focusing on independent and arts-oriented productions the Winter Film Awards presented its third edition from February 26 to March 1st, surviving the first three years during which many new festivals fade away. As Stephen Follows pointed out a third of the new festivals last only one year. Run by volunteers the Winter Film Awards fest is non-profit endeavor with a minimal budget and not widely known. 350 productions were submitted for 2014 with a final selection of 61 ...
Record of public and box office gross for RIFF’s 13th Edition – Rome Independent Film Festival (from March 16th to 23th 2014), which has screened, at Nuovo Cinema Aquila, more than 100 films in competition amongst feature films, short films, and documentaries coming from over 40 countries. The RIFF AWARDS, which sum up to a value of around 50.000 Euros have been assigned to the following films: Best International Feature Film: The Girl Fro...
The Festival just announced this year's 2014 Premio Corazon Award Winners: HBO U.S. Latino Award (Narrative) - Avenues HBO U.S. Latino Award (Documentary) - Cesar’s Last Fast HBO U.S. Latino Best Short Award - Alta Exposicion Best Narrative - Tercera llamada Best Documentary Feature - Purgatorio Best Student Film - A Late Man Best Local Film - Skin Destination Best Narrative Short- Musica Para Despues de Dormir Best Documentary Short - Minerita Best Animated...
Set in the Silicon Valley, the cradle of contemporary technology and innovation, Cinequest Film Festival 2014 wrapped with record crowds, Award announcements and a powerhouse lineup of events, premieres and luminaries. Highlights and video recaps of inaugural Media Legacy Award events: Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News, Eric Kohn of Indiewire, and Kenneth Turan ofThe Los Angeles Times. Marty Cooper, the Father of the Cellphone, was honored with t...
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century (March 14 - 23, 2014) AWARDS AUDIENCE AWARDS - The Peter Wintonick Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection goes to: FOUR LETTERS APART – CHILDREN IN THE AGE OF ADHD by Erlend E. Mo, Denmark, 2013 The Audience Award for a film under 45’ in the International Selection goes to: BEACH BOY by Emil Langballe, UK 2013 ...
WINNERS 17th Holland Animation Film Festival 2014 Winner Grand Prix short narrative Love Games by Yumi Joung (South Korea, 2013) Winner Grand Prix short non-narrative Le Labyrinthe (The Labyrinth) by Mathieu Labaye (Belgium, 2013) Winner Grand Prix feature film The Fake by Sangho Yeon (South Korea, 2013) Winner Grand Prix European student film Wind by Robert Löbel (Germany, 2013) Winner Grand Prix for Dutch animation Mute by Job, Joris & Marieke (Ne...
By Maria Esteves – March 23, 2014 World-renowned musical artist and humanist ENRICO MACIAS received the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement during the 17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYSJFF 2014) Opening Night Gala held at the Center for Jewish History, New York, Thursday, March 13, 7:45 PM. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) in association with Yeshiva University Museum (YUM), the annual Pomegranate Award acknowledge achievements in the his...
On the occasion of celebrating the 10th edition of The EDN Award, the 2014 honour is presented to Tue Steen Müller. He receives the award for a lifelong commitment to the documentary genre and for personally contributing to the outstanding development of the European documentary culture. The EDN Award has mostly been presented in connection with a specific initiative or event. But in connection with the 10th ...
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Claus Mueller: You noted several years ago that too many films are produced. At the changing market panel I mentioned the overproduction issue because some panelists seem to encourage more production though there is hardly a market for all these films. What do you think accounts for this problem? Beki Probst: One reason they are producing so much is that there has been a reduction in the cost of making a film. Frankl...
Organizers of the 4th Beijing International Film Festival announced today the addition of Philippe Muyl to the festival jury, which will be presided over by director-producer John Woo, (“Mission Impossible II” & “Face Off”). Award-winning screenwriter and director, Philippe Muyl, is best known for films such as, “The Butterfly,” (2002) “Magique!,” (2008), “Cuisine et dépendances”, (1993). Philippe ...
THE 2014 CINEFONDATION AND SHORT FILMS JURY The 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be presided by Abbas KIAROSTAMI (Iran), supported by directors Noémie LVOVSKY (France), Daniela THOMAS (Brazil), Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN (Chad), and Joachim TRIER (Norway). They will be tasked with awarding three prizes to films submitted by students from film schools the world over, which will be presented in the Cinéfondati...
Photo: Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky The recipient of the Imagine Career Achievement Award 2014 is Chilean director and actor Alejandro Jodorowsky. The award will be presented to him on April 9th, the festival’s opening night. His film La danza de la realisad will have its Dutch premiere at Imagine. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Chile in 1929, as the son of Jewish-Ukrainian immigrants. He started writing poetry at a young age and j...
In its 3rd edition (18-24) March, the Luxor African Film Festival organized a press conference for the American star Danny Glover and the Bissau-Guinean director Flora Gomes as part of their tributes. The conference was attended by Sayed Fouad, the festival’s president and Azza el-Husseini, the festival’s director. It was moderated by film critic Sherif Awad. After thanking the festival’s organizers for their hospitality and the tribute, Glover spoke about his film The Chil...
By Maria Esteves – March 23, 2014 World-renowned musical artist and humanist ENRICO MACIAS received the ASF Pomegranate Award for Lifetime Achievement during the 17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival 2014 (NYSJFF 2014) Opening Night Gala held at the Center for Jewish History, New York, Thursday, March 13, 7:45 PM. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) in association with Yeshiva University Museum (YUM), the annual Pomegranate Award acknowledge achievements in the his...
> FILM TO WATCH
Canadian director Shawney Cohen's film The Manor (2013) screened at the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival last week. This award winning doc depicts the modern American family at its best, and worst. This is the story of Shawney Cohen's paradoxically functional family in all its dis-function. Shawney is a struggling filmmaker balancing between the world of film and his family run strip club. He is the designated manager of a strip club his father bought thirty years ago when he...
TentSquare is the first completely crowdsourced production studio with an integrated social network. Members can network and help us make our films. Sign up today at tentsquare.com! ...
April 12 marks the first anniversary of the opening of the Digital Gym Cinema, San Diego’s ONLY independent, mission driven movie theater. The Digital Gym Cinema has presented some of the best in independent, foreign, and documentary film in the last year. Many are Latino films that were audience favorites at our 2013 San Diego Latino Film Festival. The cinema has also hosted events with KPBS, UCSD, the San Diego Film Consortium, African Restaurant Week, and the Horrible Imaginings Fil...
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Last week, New York's Barclay Center was the scene of 7,000 eager "Game of Thrones" viewers, many dressed up as lookalike characters from HBO's hit fantasy series which debuts its Season Four opener on April 6. Last year, GOT was the most illegally downloaded show, according to BitTorrent, with 5.9 million pirated copies, a higher number than its TV audience. So what is going on? The bigger issue here is tha...
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
L’acteur français vient d’annoncer sa visite au Festival International de Films de Fribourg. Il sera présent le mardi 1er avril – ce n’est pas une blague! – pour rencontrer le public de La Braconne, premier film signé Samuel Rondière, un digne héritier de Jean-Pierre Melville. Le festival se réjouit d’accueillir l’un des comédiens les plus attachants du cinéma français. Le FIFF est par a...
La 30ème édition des Reflets du cinéma ibérique et latino américain (Rhône-Alpes) se déroulera du 19 mars au 2 avril 2014. Ci-dessous le résumé du festival avec les points forts. 13000 spectateurs sont attendus pour cet événement qui présentera une quarantaine de long-métrages dont 13 en avant-première nationale, 11 en inédit. Autour de ces projections, des documentaires dans les bibli...
© Rezo Films Claire Denis est la marraine exceptionnelle du cycle de la Cinéfondation en salles du 18 au 29 avril. Tournés par des réalisateurs passés par la Résidence et l'Atelier de La Cinéfondation, ces films ont été sélectionnés et primés en festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Locarno). Mis à part trois inédits - le chilien Carne de Perro, le néo-zélandais The Weight of ele...
Plus de 230 films (avant-premières, rétrospectives, cartes blanches...), pas loin de 50 000 spectateurs attendus... : le 32e Festival Cinéma d'Alès - Itinérances s'ouvrira vendredi (28 mars > 6 avril). Parmi les nombreux invités : Patrice Leconte, Agnès B., Arnaud des Pallières, Gustave Kervern, Piers Faccini, Vahina Giocante, Michel Gondry (sous réserve), le cinéas...
24 exportateurs français ont fait le déplacement pour la 18e édition de ce rendez-vous destiné aux professionnels du monde entier à Hong Kong du 24 mars au 27 mars 2014. Les exportateurs français seront réunis pour la plupart sur le stand UniFrance Films afin de proposer leurs films aux acheteurs de la zone Asie. Seront présents : Alfama Films, Doc&Film Intl, Bac Films, Celluloid Dreams, Europacorp, Les Films du Losange, Films Dist...
Unifrance Films présentera une sélection de 10 longs métrages et un montage inédit de clips, courts et publicités signés de réalisateurs français et plébiscités à l'international. La sélection sera projetée du 23 au 28 avril au Ciné Lumière et au Curzon Soho de Londres puis sur les écrans de salles de cinéma de Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Nottingham et Oxford. Fanny ...
RENCONTRE DE COPRODUCTION FRANCE-ITALIE @ RENDEZ-VOUS 2014 2 AVRIL 2014 – PALAIS FARNESE - ROME La Commission du Film d’Ile-de-France et la Roma Lazio Film Commission, partenaires au sein du réseau européen CRC (Capital Regions for Cinema), organisent avec l’Institut Français Italia, l’Ambassade de France en Italie et Unifrance, en collaboration avec le CNC et le Mibact, la première édition des ...
La Commission du Film d’Ile-de-France et les sociétés franciliennes de création audiovisuelle à la conquête du marché asiatique. (24 au 28 mars 2014) Depuis plusieurs années, la Commission du Film d’Ile-de-France a fait de l’Asie l’une de ses zones d’actions prioritaires pour promouvoir les atouts et les talents franciliens en matière de création cinématographiq...
L’École de la Cité offre à des jeunes passionnés l’opportunité de se former gratuitement aux métiers de scénariste ou de réalisateur. Arkena, filiale du groupe TDF, va mettre à disposition de ses enseignants et de leurs élèves sa plateforme OVP (Online Video Platform). Cette plateforme, réservée aux professionnels, permet de mettre en ligne des vidéos, de gérer le cat...
L’IESAV (Institut des Etudes Scéniques, Audiovisuelles et Cinématographiques) de l’Université Saint-Joseph au Liban, prépare la 6ème édition du FICMEC, « Festival International du Court-Métrage des Ecoles de Cinéma », qui se tiendra du 8 au 11 décembre 2014. Le FICMEC est un festival dont le but est de renforcer la place culturelle du Liban au Moyen-Orient et d’offrir aux jeunes cin&eacu...
« Jodorowsky’s Dune » de Frank Pavich en première à Docville Jeudi 27 mars à 20 h au Cinéma Excentris 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’adaptat...
Serge Siritzky est un observateur avisé et très informé de la filière du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel. Il connait les métiers de l’exploitation et de la production. Il a créé la revue Ecran Total et www.cinefinances.info Il donnera une conférence le 15 avril à Marseille sur le thème de « L’évolution des financements de la production française » dont vous trouverez l&...
Le temps à Cannes sera beau, chaud, ensoleillé et très glamour pour le 67ème festival
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