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> Reykjavík International Film Festival RIFF September 25 - - October 5
In conversation with RIFF Fest Director Hrönn Marinósdóttir

One minute films by children and a variety of films screened in RIFF
RIFF Film Concert SÓLSTAFIR with classic "The Raven Flies" in ReykJavik

> San Sebastian Film Festival September 19 - 27
French films hit a nerve at 62 San Sebastian Festival - full awards list

Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Award 2014 for the best project

Other awards of the 62nd San Sebastian International Film Festival

Awards of the 13rd International Film Students Meeting

> THE AWARDS WATCH
Winners of the 2014 "Sepanta Awards" at the 7th Annual 'Iranian Film Festival - San Francisco'

Guam Film Festival Awards Revolution and Cicada
Cardiff's Iris Prize Festival - bigger and better

Shriekfest Teams up With Gravitas Ventures for Grand Jury Prize!

Awards FIDMarseille2014

2014 Trinidad and Tobago Winners announced

Revolution receives Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature AND Best of Festival Award in Guam

Winning Projects of the Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform

Agentic Digital Media Announces Inaugural VIFF Impact Award

> PARTNERS NEWS
The 2015 Television & Film Awards competition
The New York Festivals Awards 2015 ceremony will celebrate the World’s Best TV & Films™, as well as present the Lifetime Achievement Award, Broadcaster of the Year, Production Company of the Year, and United Nations Department of Public Information Awards. For more information on the 2015 Television & Film Awards visit: www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/
The deadline to enter the 2015 Television & Film Awards competition is October 15, 2014. Entry details and competition rules and regulations can be found on the NYF Television & Film Awards website www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/. To view the complete list of categories click: HERE
All Entries in the 2015 competition will be judged online and screened by New York Festivals Television & Film Awards Grand Jury of 200 plus producers, directors, writers, and other creative media professionals from around the globe. Award-winning entries will be showcased on the NYF Television & Film Awards website.SUBMIT
New York Festivals's blog I Website www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/
The Nashville Film Festival 46th Annual April 16 - 25, 2015
The Nashville Film Festival is proud to bring the world to Nashville through a celebration of the diversity of the human spirit expressed through the art of film. In year-round programs, NaFF helps build a more informed, collaborative and alive community.
The call for entries for the 2015 Nashville Film Festival is now open. Make sure to enter your film today. We offer cash and prizes valued at over $54,000 and qualify Live Action, Animated and Documentary Short Films for Academy Award™ consideration. SUBMIT VIA WAB or use the Call for Entry 2015 .
Nashville Film Festival's blog I Website: www.nashvillefilmfestival.org
The Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) March 25 - 29, 2015
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Final deadline is January 30th 2015. Please submit via "Withoutabox"
The Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) is presented by the Sonoma Film Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, as a welcoming, entertaining and inspiring cinematic experience that supports and promotes independent films, celebrates the cultural diversity in the Sonoma Valley through film, and funds visual arts in education.
"2014" - 220 Filmmakers - 14 countries - 114 films
Named one of America's "Top Ten Destination Film Festivals," Sonoma prides itself on giving every filmmaker the royal treatment. Celebrated as one of the friendliest and most uplifting festivals on the circuit. SUBMIT
Sonoma International Film Festival's blog I Website www.sonomafilmfest.org
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival April 23 - May 3, 2015
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EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE – November 19, 2014
Hot Docs (www.hotdocs.ca), North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 22nd annual edition from April 23 – May 3, 2015. An outstanding selection of approximately 200 documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Hot Docs will also mount a full roster of conference sessions and market events and services for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Hot Docs Forum, Hot Docs Deal Maker and The Doc Shop. In partnership with Blue Ice Group, Hot Docs operates the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, a century-old landmark located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood.
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival's blog I Website http://www.hotdocs.ca/
Tackling Torture Video Contest Winners Announced April 10, 2015
Deadline for entries: March 1, 2015
Unfortunately, a majority of the under-informed and misinformed public now thinks that torture is necessary and useful.
Tackling Torture at the Top, through this contest, hopes to produce entertaining and informative videos that contradict this harmful and inhumane view, educate the public, raise questions about the direction of our foreign policy and our use of the military, and by so doing, give the public the awareness and courage to rein in our country’s out of control security apparatus. SUBMIT
Tackling Torture Video Contest's blog I Website tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/
The Boulder International Film Festival. Mach 5- 8, 2015
Late Deadline: October 6
A filmmaker’s festival.
Our big idea? Combine low entry fees with generous filmmaker hospitality, and open the festival to gifted film artists worldwide. This has made BIFF one of the most influential festivals in the US, with an extraordinary number of new films that have gone from BIFF to significant box-office success and multiple Oscar nominations. Chris Gore, the author of The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, says "The staff's dedication to championing true Indies, the amazing hospitality along with a classic theater make this a festival that should be on the top of every filmmaker's list”. Submit today, you’ll love it here. SUBMIT
BIFF's blog I Website www.biff1.com
Silver Springs International Film Festival April 8 - 12, 2015
Regular Deadline: October 1, 2014
SSIFF provides filmmakers and their audiences a unique, sophisticated and welcoming experience, featuring four full days of screenings, events and professional networking and development opportunities.
Categories include: Feature (more than 60 minutes), Short (not more than 20 minutes), Documentary Feature (more than 40 minutes), Documentary Short (not more than 30 minutes), Student Short (not more than 20 minutes) and Animation (long and short format).
SUBMIT
Silver Springs International Film Festival's blog I Website www.SpringsFilmFest.com
New York Int'l Children's Film Festival February 27 - March 22, 2015
Final Deadline for Shorts Oct 6, 2014 - Final Deadline for Feature Films Nov 10, 2014
New York Int'l Children's Film Festival is North America's film festival for children and teens. Each year the Festival presents 100 animated, live action and experimental shorts and features from around the world plus retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, audience voting, and an annual Awards Ceremony.
We are looking for creative, original, non-formulaic short and feature films that support our mission to create a more dynamic film culture for children and teens. We often program films that were not created with a young audience in mind, but are received passionately and enthusiastically by attendees ages 3-18 nonetheless. We are not shy about showing films with mature themes, subject matter, language or sensibilities.
Members of the Festival jury include Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Bill Plympton, Christine Vachon, James Schamus, Henry Selick and Gus van Sant, among others. The Festival is an Academy®-qualifying festival. SUBMIT
NYICFF's blog I Website www.gkids.com
The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 22 -25, 2015
This will mark the 10th year anniversary of the festival ranked one of the top 25 film festivals in the World by Movie Maker Magazine.
We are open to all genres. MBIFF also has a budget category, so a film with a 10 thousand dollar budget does not compete against a project with a 10 million dollar budget (with the exception of the overall winner).
We have been quoted as the best or one of the best festivals ever attended by films makers around the globe.
We are passionate about film and it shows! Submit by January 10th 2015
Myrtle Beach International Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.myrtlebeachfilmfestival.com/
The Garden State Film Festival
2015 Call for Entries is OPEN NOW!!!
The Garden State Film Festival was founded to promote the art of filmmaking on all levels by showcasing a wide variety of film, video and animated works as well as provide educational programs in the creative arts to the public by industry leaders. The artistic philosophy of the Garden State Film Festival is rooted in the celebration of the independent film genre and the creation of a forum where local and other independent filmmakers can exhibit their work. Film, Screenplay and Movie Music competitions all open now!!
Film EntriesScreenplay Competition
Movie Music Competition
The Garden State Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.gsff.org
L Europe autour de l' Europe Festival calling for entry for 2015

Evropa Film Akt's blog I Website http://evropafilmakt.com
> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
52nd New York Film Festival Premiere of Maps to the Stars Red Carpet Photos

Full Lineup for the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival announced!
10th anniversary edition Athens Video Art Festival 2014
The Chicago International Children's Film Festival Announces Full 2014 Schedule

Chelsea Film Festival Feature Film Lineup!

Line up for the 6TH Annual Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film
Line up of The 12th annual Tallgrass Film Festival

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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Picture Up, Roll Sound: Salute to John Williams’ 49 Noms, Movie Music’s 49 Best List & More

Stephen Colbert Reunites With Steve Carell For The Montclair Film Festival’s Annual Celebrity Fundraiser
CAMERIMAGE presents the jury of the 2014 edition

> FILMS IN FOCUS
Documentary Feature Films 2014 in competition in Mallorca
Features in competition in Mallorca

November 2014 Acting Intensive Workshop
"Wild”....Bring Tissues

Other Worlds Austin Announces Centerpiece Film

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> STRICTLY BUSINESS
November 2014 Acting Intensive Workshop in Palma de Mallorca
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Award 2014 for the best project

The Inaugural ZURICH SUMMIT, on invitation only, ready to kick off
Filmfestivals.com renews partnership with IFFS for the 11th Annual International Film Festival Summit in Austin

Need more and better film submissions for your festival? don't miss the one month booster
> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
A Week in Festivals. Newsletter 658 - Filmfestivals.com
This weekly newsletter reaches 178 316 subscribers.
Read this online I Promote Film to Festivals I Promote Festivals to Filmmakers I Email us I Advertize in our Newsletters and eBlasts I
Filmfestivals.com was established in 1995, over the years we became the premier link between film and festivals with 5000 festivals listed, over 22 000 festival organizers contacts in our database, 75 000 articles...
Check our coverage with dailies from Montreal Venice Toronto and San Sebastian

IFFS 2014 -Ask for the Filmfestivals.com DISCOUNT CODE FOR A PREFERED 300€ RATE.
> San Sebastian Film Festival September 19 - 27
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Award 2014 for the best project

Naomi Kawase cancels her visit to the San Sebastian Festival

Orlando Bloom will attend the San Sebastian Festival to present "The Greasy Hands Preachers"

San Sebastian Festival will subtitle its galas live in three languages
Movistar TV, official sponsor of the 62nd San Sebastian Festival
New Improvements made to the Kursaal Auditorium for The San Sebastian Festival

Karra Elejalde, José Coronado and Edurne Ormazabal, gala presenters at the 62nd edition of the San Sebastian Festival opening

Denzel Washington awarded in San Sebastian


> Reykjavík International Film Festival September 25th - October 5th 2014
Reykjavík International Film Festival kicks of today.

Ruben Östlund to be guest of honor at RIFF

RIFF presents the films in the New Visions category competing for the Golden Puffin

Opening film at RIFF announced US film "Land Ho!"

> Toronto Dailies September 4 - 14
Laura Vandervoort at TIFF 2014 at Technicolor Party at Thomson Rooftop - Thank you for WATCHING Filmfestivals.com

TIFF 2014 PREMIERE VIDEO: François Ozon’s 'The New Girlfriend' (Un nouvelle amie) An Anticipated Controversy in France

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> THE AWARDS WATCH
The DC Shorts Film Festival (September 11-21) Award Winners announced

Missed Samonte bags the Best Short Film Award at Second Imphal International Short Film Festival 2013

50 Films in EFA Selection 2014
European Film Academy Nominates Three Animation Films

Ricky Rijneke director of Silent Ones awarded at Toronto Independent Film Festival 2014

Denzel Washington awarded in San Sebastian

> PARTNERS NEWS
The 2015 Television & Film Awards competition
The New York Festivals Awards 2015 ceremony will celebrate the World’s Best TV & Films™, as well as present the Lifetime Achievement Award, Broadcaster of the Year, Production Company of the Year, and United Nations Department of Public Information Awards. For more information on the 2015 Television & Film Awards visit: www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/
The deadline to enter the 2015 Television & Film Awards competition is October 15, 2014. Entry details and competition rules and regulations can be found on the NYF Television & Film Awards website www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/. To view the complete list of categories click: HERE
All Entries in the 2015 competition will be judged online and screened by New York Festivals Television & Film Awards Grand Jury of 200 plus producers, directors, writers, and other creative media professionals from around the globe. Award-winning entries will be showcased on the NYF Television & Film Awards website.SUBMIT
New York Festivals's blog I Website www.newyorkfestivals.com/tvfilm/
The Nashville Film Festival 46th Annual April 16 - 25, 2015
The Nashville Film Festival is proud to bring the world to Nashville through a celebration of the diversity of the human spirit expressed through the art of film. In year-round programs, NaFF helps build a more informed, collaborative and alive community.
The call for entries for the 2015 Nashville Film Festival is now open. Make sure to enter your film today. We offer cash and prizes valued at over $54,000 and qualify Live Action, Animated and Documentary Short Films for Academy Award™ consideration. SUBMIT VIA WAB or use the Call for Entry 2015 .
Nashville Film Festival's blog I Website: www.nashvillefilmfestival.org
The Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) March 25 - 29, 2015
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Final deadline is January 30th 2015. Please submit via "Withoutabox"
The Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) is presented by the Sonoma Film Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, as a welcoming, entertaining and inspiring cinematic experience that supports and promotes independent films, celebrates the cultural diversity in the Sonoma Valley through film, and funds visual arts in education.
"2014" - 220 Filmmakers - 14 countries - 114 films
Named one of America's "Top Ten Destination Film Festivals," Sonoma prides itself on giving every filmmaker the royal treatment. Celebrated as one of the friendliest and most uplifting festivals on the circuit. SUBMIT
Sonoma International Film Festival's blog I Website www.sonomafilmfest.org
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival April 23 - May 3, 2015
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EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE – November 19, 2014
Hot Docs (www.hotdocs.ca), North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 22nd annual edition from April 23 – May 3, 2015. An outstanding selection of approximately 200 documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Hot Docs will also mount a full roster of conference sessions and market events and services for documentary practitioners, including the renowned Hot Docs Forum, Hot Docs Deal Maker and The Doc Shop. In partnership with Blue Ice Group, Hot Docs operates the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, a century-old landmark located in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood.
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival's blog I Website http://www.hotdocs.ca/
Tackling Torture Video Contest Winners Announced April 10, 2015
Deadline for entries: March 1, 2015
Unfortunately, a majority of the under-informed and misinformed public now thinks that torture is necessary and useful.
Tackling Torture at the Top, through this contest, hopes to produce entertaining and informative videos that contradict this harmful and inhumane view, educate the public, raise questions about the direction of our foreign policy and our use of the military, and by so doing, give the public the awareness and courage to rein in our country’s out of control security apparatus. SUBMIT
Tackling Torture Video Contest's blog I Website tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/
The Boulder International Film Festival. Mach 5- 8, 2015
Late Deadline: October 6
A filmmaker’s festival.
Our big idea? Combine low entry fees with generous filmmaker hospitality, and open the festival to gifted film artists worldwide. This has made BIFF one of the most influential festivals in the US, with an extraordinary number of new films that have gone from BIFF to significant box-office success and multiple Oscar nominations. Chris Gore, the author of The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, says "The staff's dedication to championing true Indies, the amazing hospitality along with a classic theater make this a festival that should be on the top of every filmmaker's list”. Submit today, you’ll love it here. SUBMIT
BIFF's blog I Website www.biff1.com
Silver Springs International Film Festival April 8 - 12, 2015
Regular Deadline: October 1, 2014
SSIFF provides filmmakers and their audiences a unique, sophisticated and welcoming experience, featuring four full days of screenings, events and professional networking and development opportunities.
Categories include: Feature (more than 60 minutes), Short (not more than 20 minutes), Documentary Feature (more than 40 minutes), Documentary Short (not more than 30 minutes), Student Short (not more than 20 minutes) and Animation (long and short format).
SUBMIT
Silver Springs International Film Festival's blog I Website www.SpringsFilmFest.com
New York Int'l Children's Film Festival February 27 - March 22, 2015
Final Deadline for Shorts Oct 6, 2014 - Final Deadline for Feature Films Nov 10, 2014
New York Int'l Children's Film Festival is North America's film festival for children and teens. Each year the Festival presents 100 animated, live action and experimental shorts and features from around the world plus retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, audience voting, and an annual Awards Ceremony.
We are looking for creative, original, non-formulaic short and feature films that support our mission to create a more dynamic film culture for children and teens. We often program films that were not created with a young audience in mind, but are received passionately and enthusiastically by attendees ages 3-18 nonetheless. We are not shy about showing films with mature themes, subject matter, language or sensibilities.
Members of the Festival jury include Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Bill Plympton, Christine Vachon, James Schamus, Henry Selick and Gus van Sant, among others. The Festival is an Academy®-qualifying festival. SUBMIT
NYICFF's blog I Website www.gkids.com
The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 22 -25, 2015
This will mark the 10th year anniversary of the festival ranked one of the top 25 film festivals in the World by Movie Maker Magazine.
We are open to all genres. MBIFF also has a budget category, so a film with a 10 thousand dollar budget does not compete against a project with a 10 million dollar budget (with the exception of the overall winner).
We have been quoted as the best or one of the best festivals ever attended by films makers around the globe.
We are passionate about film and it shows! Submit by January 10th 2015
Myrtle Beach International Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.myrtlebeachfilmfestival.com/
The Garden State Film Festival
2015 Call for Entries is OPEN NOW!!!
The Garden State Film Festival was founded to promote the art of filmmaking on all levels by showcasing a wide variety of film, video and animated works as well as provide educational programs in the creative arts to the public by industry leaders. The artistic philosophy of the Garden State Film Festival is rooted in the celebration of the independent film genre and the creation of a forum where local and other independent filmmakers can exhibit their work. Film, Screenplay and Movie Music competitions all open now!!
Film EntriesScreenplay Competition
Movie Music Competition
The Garden State Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.gsff.org
L Europe autour de l' Europe Festival calling for entry for 2015

Evropa Film Akt's blog I Website http://evropafilmakt.com
> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Evolution, Mallorca International Film Festival is back for the 3rd Edition!

A brief presentation of Evolution, Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF)

23rd Philadelphia Film Festival Full Film Line-Up
Hawaii International Film Festival to open with THE VANCOUVER ASAHI
Inaugural #TROPVINE Winner Revealed

41st Film Fest Gent lineup announced

Filmmakers, musicians and artists in Rotterdam for CAMERA JAPAN
19th Festival of German Films in Paris will be opening with a hotly anticipated film: PHOENIX by Christian Petzold

14 Narrative Feature Projects with Bay Area Connections Contending for at Least $300,000; Winners to Be Announced in November
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will open with the Premiere of Relativity Studios’ Desert Dance
Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA)

Line up for The 19th Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
12th annual Tallgrass Film Festival Galas and Spotlight Films
Have a bite at next Minneapolis Underground Film Festival at St. Anthony Main Theatre October

New Improvements made to the Kursaal Auditorium for The San Sebastian Festival

4th Filmfest homochrom opening with German premiere of "The Normal Heart"

6th Petaluma International Film Festival runs October 17 -19

Sonoma Filmmakers @ 6th Annual Petaluma International Film Festival

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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Bruno Chatelin Advisory Board Member on the Festival Circuit

CAMERIMAGE presents the jury of the 2014 edition

Indian director and producer Shekhar Kapur will serve as Chairman of the 19th edition of Capri, Hollywood – The International Fi

Many New Film Buyers to Attend AFM

Star Trek's George Takei Hosts VSPC Film Commission Q&A Oct 4 at Sullivan Studio

Jury announced for Curtocircuito 2014

Sandor Sara and Vilmos Zsigmond, two super cinematographers at CINEFEST MISKOLC 2014
Meet The IFFS Staff

> FILMS IN FOCUS
The Captive by Atom Egoyan: Review

Darker than midnight: Review
IFP Announces Its New Theatrical Platform “Screen Forward” and the First Five Films Opening Theatrically at the Made in NY Media

7 films competing for the Grand Prix of CinEast film festival, Luxembourg
Cambodian Supernatural drama, FREEDOM DEAL: "a strong, interesting story with good characters and excellent acting" - Hiway 61

Reza Mirkarimi’s ‘‘TODAY’’, a TIFF premiere, will represent Iran for Oscar Race
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> STRICTLY BUSINESS
November 2014 Acting Intensive Workshop in Palma de Mallorca
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Award 2014 for the best project

The Inaugural ZURICH SUMMIT, on invitation only, ready to kick off
Filmfestivals.com renews partnership with IFFS for the 11th Annual International Film Festival Summit in Austin

Need more and better film submissions for your festival? don't miss the one month booster
> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
Panic Reverse, Le Cinéma à l’Envers : réaliser une bande-annonce ou un court-métrage à partir d’une fausse affiche.
Les CARTOON TRIBUTES seront décernés aux diffuseurs, investisseurs et producteurs les plus actifs dans le développement
Avant programme du Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest 2014
Soutenez le 16ème Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris !
"Échanges de talent(s)", version 5.0 au FIFF de NAMUR
ARTE MARE lève le voile sur sa programmation
Détails de la 23ème Quinzaine du cinéma francophone, du 1er au 11 octobre 2014 à Paris
La European Film Academy désigne trois Films d’Animation

> COVERAGE FROM CANNES
The exhaustive coverage of Cannes competitions as PDF
Your Cannes Market Dailies as PDF
Check videos of our Cannes ambiance coverage on our YouTube Channel
> COVERAGE FROM CANNES
The exhaustive coverage of Cannes competitions as PDF
Your Cannes Market Dailies as PDF
Check videos of our Cannes ambiance coverage on our YouTube Channel