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> THE AWARDS WATCH
Pedro Almodòvar to receive 6th Lumière Award

68th Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards were announced at the EIFF awards ceremony

TONY BENN: WILL & TESTAMENT was announced as the winner of the Audience Award in Edinburgh

10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove
> PARTNERS NEWS
Victoria Film Festival 2015 Call for Entries

Victoria Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.victoriafilmfestival.com/
18th Arab Film Festival October 10- 23, 2014
The Arab Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 18th Annual Arab Film Festival to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 2014. AFF annually showcases works by independent filmmakers that provide insightful and innovative perspectives on Arab people, culture, art, history and politics.
The Arab Film Festival is the largest independent annual showcase of Arab films and filmmakers in the country. The festival has an international standing and is considered one of the most important Arab film festivals outside the Arab world. AFF strives to present the best contemporary films that provide insight into the beauty, complexity and diversity of the Arab world alongside realistic perspectives on Arab people, culture, art, history and politics. To submit please visit the Call for Entries page.
Late Deadline June 13
Arab Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/
The Vancouver International Film Festival has long been one of the largest and most successful film festivals in North America. Last year, 341 films played on nine screens in seven venues. By the time our 16-day festival had wrapped, 130,000 attendees had been dazzled by the top films from more than 75 countries. Plus: VIFF offered$19,500 in cash prizes plus another $25,000 in services and prize packs to filmmakers as part of five adjudicated awards. The 2014 festival promises to be even more spectacular!
Click here to learn more: http://www.viff.org/viff-submissions-2014
Vancouver International Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.viff.org/
> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Durban Fest 2014 to feature a feast of African and South African Films
Revelation Perth International Film Festival kicks off its seventeenth season tonight
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) broke 46,000 admissions
Highlights the fourth annual FabulousIndependent Film Festival
Way to Freedom programme and forgotten masterpieces at OIFF 2014
Stockholm International Film Festival presents the first films for this year’s line up!

Ischia Film Festival 2014 kicked off

New York: KINO! 2014, New Films from Germany

10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Woody Allen's performances extracted from all his movies on the occasion of World Kissing Day July 6 2014

Zurich Film Festival will honor Hans Zimmer

10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove

> FILM TO WATCH .
Hard Day’s Night Comes Back Strong at 50 in July

'MARACANÁ': The Football Legend' (2014) by Sebastián Bednarik

Communicasia 2014 was a block-buster, II

'The Last Executioner' will be released in Thai Theatres,today

“The Sun Can Blind” (O Sol Pode Cegar) @ 2014 Palm Springs International Shortfest

Chaplin's The Tramp centennial to be celebrated at Film Fest Gent

1987 will open the 9th Possible Worlds U.S. & Canadian Film Festival
Help ban shark finning

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> STRICTLY BUSINESS
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> FESTIVAL DU FILM VIETNAMIEN
Le Festival du Film Vietnamien délivre son palmarès et conclut sur une soirée touchante et très conviviale
Clin d oeil à distance de David Genzel au Festival
Balade en mer pour les festivaliers, Les corsaires sont au paradis
Le dragon, la figure emblématique du Festival du film du Vietnam, sculpture...explications
Diner à la Malouinière de la Ville Bague
France Allemagne diffusé au Palais du Grand Large de St Malo, un des temps forts du festival du Film Vietnamien

Belle ouverture du Festival du Film Vietnamien avec l'Aspiration

Une belle sélection de films primés pour cette première édition

> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
La culture dans les relations extérieures de l'UE
Villa Kujoyama - 18 résidents lauréats en 2014 et 2015
Le Palmarès Coté Court

Le mal dans le cinéma allemand
UniFrance films dévoile son rapport sur les opportunités en Afrique francophone pour le cinéma français

Pedro Almodóvar Prix Lumière 2014

Deux grandes expositions à la Cinémathèque, l'une consacrée à François Truffaut, l'autre à Michelangelo Antonioni.

TOBE HOOPER sera président de la 7ème édition du Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg
Totale Fiction and I Can Fly présentent Thunder Donuts

Toon Boom Animation présente la version 11 de Harmony au MIFA d'Annecy
TVPaint à Annecy
Les studios Disney présentent leur nouveau court-métrage d'animation : ''Feast''
Space Hero présenté par les studios 10SLO Digital Animation
> COVERAGE FROM CANNES
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Your Cannes Market Dailies as PDF
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