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> THE AWARDS WATCH
Pedro Almodòvar to receive 6th Lumière Award
The distinction will be celebrated at the upcoming Lumière festival to be held in Lyon and Greater Lyon from Monday, October 13 to Sunday, October 19, 2014. The Lumière Award was created to celebrate a filmmaker, in Lyon, the very place where the cinematograph was invented by Louis and Auguste Lumière, and where they shot their first film, Workers Leaving the Factory, in 1895. Because we must express our appreciation to the directors and artists of th...
68th Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards were announced at the EIFF awards ceremony
The recipients of the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards were announced at the EIFF awards ceremony, held at Filmhouse in Edinburgh today, hosted by Grant Lauchlan, producer and presenter of STV’s Moviejuice. The ceremony took place ahead of Sunday’s Closing Night, which concludes the 12-day Festival with the International Premiere of WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS, and which will see the announcement of the EIFF Audience Award. The Award for Best Film in the ...
TONY BENN: WILL & TESTAMENT was announced as the winner of the Audience Award in Edinburgh
TONY BENN: WILL & TESTAMENT was announced as the winner of the Audience Award at the Closing Night gala of the 68th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF). Directed by Skip Kite, TONY BENN: WILL & TESTAMENT paints a vivid portrait of a man whose career transcended politics. The long-time Labour MP participated in the making of this moving and informative tribute shortly before his death in March 2014. The EIFF Audience Award is voted for by cinema-goers attending publi...
10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove
We thought this was interesting! So we are sharing! 10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts by Elliot Grove Here are 10 ways to really annoy distributors. 1) Make it nearly impossible for a distributor to see your film Let’s say a potential film buyer misses the one and only screening of&nbs..
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Victoria Film Festival 2015 Call for Entries
VFF is proud to announce that its Call for Entries for our 2015 film festival is now open! Earlier is better! (And cheaper.) Send in your entries to the 2015 VFF before the Earlybird deadline of July 9th. Additional Deadlines are: Regular postmark deadline: August 7th, 2014 Late postmark deadline: September 11th, 2014 Extended Deadline: September 17th, 2014 As always, we recommend submitting as early as possible and we set our fees to reflect this...
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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
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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
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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Durban Fest 2014 to feature a feast of African and South African Films
The ever-expanding African film industry will once more be represented at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) 2014 although South African film retains the festival’s key focus, with 40 feature-length films and 38 short films – most of them receiving their world premieres on Durban screens, and collectively representing by far the largest number of South African films in the festival’s 35 year history. This year’s opening night film on July 17 see the world prem...
Revelation Perth International Film Festival kicks off its seventeenth season tonight
Revelation Perth International Film Festival kicks off its seventeenth season tonight at the Luna Cinema in Leederville, Perth, Western Australia and runs until 13 July 2013. The annual Festival opens tonight with the breathtaking sci-fi film Under The Skin featuring Scarlett Johansson. Special guests of the festival will include Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Australian actor Aaron Pedersen (Mystery Road, Water Rats, City Homicide) alongside national and international filmmakers, musician...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) broke 46,000 admissions
In addition over 12,000 attend Film In The City outdoor screenings The 68th edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) drew to a close on Sunday having screened 121 new features over the 12 day Festival. More than 46,000 admissions represents a four per cent increase on 2013. The Festival sold tickets for its venues across the city, which included the EIFF’s home at Filmhouse, its venue partner at Cineworld Fountain Park, and at Festival Theatre Edinbur...
Highlights the fourth annual FabulousIndependent Film Festival
Burns Court Cinemas, Friday, August 22, Saturday, August 23 and Sunday, August 24, 2014. Scheduled to be held at Burns Court Cinemas in downtown Sarasota, the fourth annual Fabulous Independent Film Festival is celebrating diversity with 3 days of the best of LGBT cinema, with feature length films as well as short films. In association with and benefitting the Harvey Milk Festival, a non-profit organization, the festival is organized by broken rules productions. The Fabulous IFF makes it...
Way to Freedom programme and forgotten masterpieces at OIFF 2014
OIFF LAUNCHES SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME “WAY TO FREEDOM” // UKRAINIAN RETROSPECTIVE OF “FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECES” Kiew, Ukraine, July 1, 2014: The Odessa International Film Festival (July 11 - 19, 2014) presents a programme of seven films documenting current changes and upheavals in civil societies. Inspired by the political situation in Ukraine, the programme not only shows the latest documentary works produced in the country, but also risks glances across bord...
Stockholm International Film Festival presents the first films for this year’s line up!
Xavier Dolan’s Mommy The Stockholm Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and is proud to present the first five entries to screen at the festival in november. Xavier Dolan’s Mommy stars Anne Dorval as a widowed mother, overwhelmed by the difficulty of raising her troubled, somtimes violent son alone. Filmed mostly in a narrow aspect ratio in the shape of a cellphone video shot, the film was awarded the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival earlier...
Ischia Film Festival 2014 kicked off
From June 28th to July 5th 2014, the 12th edition of the Ischia Film Festival will take place at the Aragonese Castle in Ischia. Created and directed by Michelangelo Messina, the festival is organised under the patronage of the European Parliament, with the support of the President of the Italian Republic Hon. Giorgio Napolitano and the contribution of the Cinema General Directorate of the MiBAC (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities) and of the Department of Culture of the Region Ca...
New York: KINO! 2014, New Films from Germany
KINO! has been the longest running showcase for German Films in the United States at the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, featuring for 35 years many award winning selections from major international film festivals such as the Berlinale. The programs have always offered a survey of themes and styles of the latest creative film making in Germany, frequently surpassing the boundaries of traditional cinematography. KINO! has programmed numerous films and plays an important role in pr...
10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove
We thought this was interesting! So we are sharing! 10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts by Elliot Grove Here are 10 ways to really annoy distributors. 1) Make it nearly impossible for a distributor to see your film Let’s say a potential film buyer misses the one and only screening of&nbs...
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Woody Allen's performances extracted from all his movies on the occasion of World Kissing Day July 6 2014
Woody Allen's performances extracted from all his movies on the occasion of World Kissing Day July 6 2014 you can find here: This is part of iwoody.pl project hosted by Dariusz Zawislak film director and producer of "Happy Birthday Woody Allen & Keep Going!" together with the young artists from Academy of Fine Arts from prfessor Szymanski Studio of Alternative Imaging ...
Zurich Film Festival will honor Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer The third International Film Music Competition will be held during the 10th Zurich Film Festival and will bring with it legendary cinema composer Hans Zimmer, who will be honoured with a special Lifetime Award. The International Film Music Competition is an exceedingly popular, one-of-a-kind program running congruently with ZFF’s ‘celebration of cinema’ and is organized and run in collaboration with Forum Filmmusik and the Tonhalle-Orchester Z&uu...
10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts - by Elliott Grove
We thought this was interesting! So we are sharing! 10 Ways to Make Distributors Totally Hate Your Guts by Elliot Grove Here are 10 ways to really annoy distributors. 1) Make it nearly impossible for a distributor to see your film Let’s say a potential film buyer misses the one and only screening of&nbs...
> FILM TO WATCH .
Hard Day’s Night Comes Back Strong at 50 in July
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Friday night, July 4th, A Hard Day’s Night, the 50th Anniversary release of The Beatles seminal adolescent experiment with cinema from 1964, began limited screenings in 100 theaters. It is another US British Invasion of sorts. For the rest of us, the DVD/Blu-Ray reissue hits shelves today, July 6. Director Richard Lester has said in retrospect that George Harrison was “the best actor;” Paul McCartney “tried too h...
'MARACANÁ': The Football Legend' (2014) by Sebastián Bednarik
MARACANAZO: THE FOOTBALL LEGEND (MARACANÁ) They say that in Brazil the second most important thing to breathing is futebol (aka 'soccer'). 2014 sees the World Cup of soccer hosted in Brazil for the first time since 1950. It is easy to see by the contagious passion that all 32 competing teams display as they vie to the death in hopes of winning the cup, and the grand scale of work the Brazilians have put into pulling off a successful FIFA competition, just how important this spo...
Communicasia 2014 was a block-buster, II
'Communicasia diary, Singapore, June 2014--A revisit 12 years later, to a block-buster event II: Changi-Marina Bay-Kallang Who do you blame for choosing a terribly timed flight? AI342 landed at Singapore’s Changi International Airport at about 7.30 am. I had reported at Sahar at 7 pm. No, the distance between Mumbai and Singapore does not take 12 ½ hours to cover (it takes 5), but then this was not a direct flight. Including the stop at Chennai, it took 10 hours. Add to that t...
'The Last Executioner' will be released in Thai Theatres,today
‘ THE LAST EXECUTIONER’ Wins Best Actor Prize at Shanghai International Film Festival ‘PETCHAKART’ ,‘THE LAST EXECUTIONER'’ probably the most awaited Thai film of the year, will have its public release in Thailand ,today , and expectations are running high ,after its recent success at the Shanghai International Film Festival ,where the film won the Best Actor Award for lead-actor &nbs...
“The Sun Can Blind” (O Sol Pode Cegar) @ 2014 Palm Springs International Shortfest
“The Sun Can Blind” (O Sol Pode Cegar) (Brazil) by writer/director Toti Loureiro screened at the 20th Palm Springs International Shortfest. Made on a shoestring budget, the film wowed audiences for its gritty realism and naked truth about hard social life in Brazil's metropolis Sao Paolo. Paulo is a Paulista (native of Sao Paulo) who begins an affair with his maid, Maria. The two of them begin to feel growing emotions for each other as their intimacy intensifies but when Paolo ...
Chaplin's The Tramp centennial to be celebrated at Film Fest Gent
Film Fest Gent (14 to 25 October) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s the Tramp with exceptional screenings of two of the greatest classics of Charles Spencer Chaplin: The Circus and The Gold Rush. On 26 October, the festival will be getting an additional film music event toward its ending with a family concert of the silent film classic The Circus (1928). The film be screened with music composed by Chaplin, performed by a live orchestra led by Music Director Di...
1987 will open the 9th Possible Worlds U.S. & Canadian Film Festival
Hilarious coming-of-age comedy 1987 will open the 9th Possible Worlds U.S. & Canadian Film Festival at Event Cinemas on August 7th. The Festival showcases the best new independent cinema from Canada and the United States. Presented by North American travel specialists, Cosmos Tours and run by non-profit The Festivalists, the festival brings 18 new feature films – 9 Canadian, 9 American - to Event Cinemas George Street, August 7th to 17th. Selected titles will also scre...
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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
Meilleur Documentaire: L'histoire du Village de Then de tan Phi - Hoang Dung L'Ame Maternelle de Nhue Giang Pham Prix du Public et Grand prix du Festival Meilleures actrices: Hong Anh et Van Trang Meilleurs acteurs : Truong Minh Quoc Tai et Vu Dinh Toan ...
Clin d oeil à distance de David Genzel au Festival
http://davidrivegauche.tumblr.com/ Vu sur l excellent blog de David :-) JUILLET 6, 2014 Bruno joue les Crocodile Dundee au 1er Festival du film vietnamien de Saint-Malo ! Photo Bruno Chatelin 4:20PM | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZLXAer1KilpBS CLASSÉ DANS: Bruno Chatelin JUILLET 6, 2014 Au 1er Festival du film vietnamien de Saint-Malo ! ...
Balade en mer pour les festivaliers, Les corsaires sont au paradis
Balade en mer et rencontre avec Franck Meslier, l'âme du Repère des Corsaires à l'Île de Cézembre en face de St Malo. Les festivaliers passent entre les gouttes des grains pour débarquer à l ile de Cezembre et dégustent Repère des Corsaires un plateau de fruits de mer des araignées et langoustines...accompagnées du petit ballon de blanc qui va bien (très bien). Nous étions quelques retar...
Le dragon, la figure emblématique du Festival du film du Vietnam, sculpture...explications
Dragon (et autres animaux sympathiques, mais avec beaucoup de dents) créé par Richard Orlinski, sculpteur du prix du festival. ...
Diner à la Malouinière de la Ville Bague
Après le colloque sur "Filmer au Vietnam" les festivaliers ont pu se retrouver dans le cadre historique d'une ravissante malouinière, le nom local donné à ces vastes demeures de plaisance construites par des armateurs de Saint-Malo aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. On en compte 112 dans la région. La Malouinière de la Ville BagueDemeure d'armateurs et de corsaires où nous avons été reçus par un couple de...
France Allemagne diffusé au Palais du Grand Large de St Malo, un des temps forts du festival du Film Vietnamien
A 18h (Vendredi 4 juin) le festival a organisé une projection du match France Allemagne dans une ds belles salles du Palais du Grand Large. Grosse ambiance? commentaires experts et moment de communion intense lorsque Benzema s'approche du but à la dernière minute du match...et échoue devant le gardien allemand... Déception et frustration, ambiance de planc après la défaite, c'est ausi ça la dure vie des festivaliers. Claude lelou...
Belle ouverture du Festival du Film Vietnamien avec l'Aspiration
Le film "Khat vong Thang Long" (L'aspiration de Thang Long) du réalisateur Luu Trong Ninh a ouvert le festival, en présence de l'acteur et de sa productrice. Il a reçu un très bel hommage du public. Il avait été choisi pour représenter le Vietnam aux Oscar dans la catégorie de "Meilleur film de langue étrangère". ...
Une belle sélection de films primés pour cette première édition
Le Festival du Film Vietnamien se tiendra à Saint-Malo du 1er au 6 juillet 2014 au Palais du Grand Large. À cette occasion, neuf films et trois documentaires seront présentés en compétition, sept films, un documentaire et trois films d’animation seront projetés hors compétition. Le jury sera composé de sept personnalités issues du monde artistique, présidé par Régis Wargnier : Saïda Jawad, Chantal Laub...
> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
La culture dans les relations extérieures de l'UE
La Commission européenne a rendu publiques le 10 juin 2014 les conclusions d’un rapport sur la place de la culture dans les relations extérieures de l’Union Européenne. Elle avait mandaté pour la réalisation de cette étude un consortium conduit par le Goethe Institut, en association avec l’Institut français. C’est sur proposition du Parlement européen qu’un appel d’offres a été lancé...
Villa Kujoyama - 18 résidents lauréats en 2014 et 2015
Réuni ce matin à l'Institut français, le Comité de sélection* de la Villa Kujoyama a choisi, parmi plus de mille dossiers initialement reçus, 18 projets (6 en 2014 et 12 en 2015). Les créateurs de ces projets bénéficieront d'une résidence de 4 à 6 mois à la Villa Kujoyama dont l'inauguration est prévue le 4 octobre à Kyoto. Résidences 2014 Architecture &nb...
Le Palmarès Coté Court
C'est avec une réelle émotion que nous clôturons cette 23è édition du festival. Nous vous remercions très chaleureusement d'avoir rendu cette édition possible. Nous remercions particulièrement les artistes, le public, les adhérents, nos partenaires et tous les professionnels avec qui nous travaillons... Vous nous faites confiance chaque année et vous êtes chaque année plus nombreux! Partageons :) ...
Le mal dans le cinéma allemand
LE MAL DANS LE CINÉMA ALLEMAND / Éric Dufour Le cinéma allemand est depuis l'origine parcouru par l'idée du mal : en cela est son originalité, voire sa spécificité. De l'Allemagne de Weimar jusqu'aux années 2000, l'ouvrage montre comment le mal est un véritable fil rouge dans la création cinématographique. L'expressionnisme des années 1920 invente le fil...
UniFrance films dévoile son rapport sur les opportunités en Afrique francophone pour le cinéma français
"Pour que l'Afrique francophone soit une opportunité pour le cinéma français" : tel est le titre du rapport qui encourage le développement d'une filière cinéma dans les pays d'Afrique francophone. Sous l'égide du groupe de travail Francophonie, présidé par le producteur Éric Névé (La Chauve-Souris), ce rapport part du constat établi par l'OIF, selon lequel 50% des 220 millions de francoph...
Pedro Almodóvar Prix Lumière 2014
© El Deseo S.A. / DR Après Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gérard Depardieu, Ken Loach et Quentin Tarantino, c’est le cinéaste espagnolPedro Almodóvar qui recevra le 6e Prix Lumière, à Lyon. Le Prix Lumière a été créé afin de célébrer à Lyon un(e) cinéaste, à l’endroit même où le Ciné...
Deux grandes expositions à la Cinémathèque, l'une consacrée à François Truffaut, l'autre à Michelangelo Antonioni.
La Saison 2014-2015, qui coïncidera avec le 10ème anniversaire de l'installation de La Cinémathèque au 51 rue de Bercy, dans l'immeuble conçu par Franck Gehry, sera exceptionnellement riche en événements. Plusieurs rétrospectives intégrales : John Ford, Claude Sautet, Buster Keaton, François Reichenbach, Orson Welles – dont il sera célébré le ce...
TOBE HOOPER sera président de la 7ème édition du Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg
TOBE HOOPER sera président de la 7ème édition du Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg qui aura lieu du 12 au 21 Septembre 2014. A l'occasion du 40ème anniversaire de Massacre à la tronçonneuse, le film sera diffusé en séance spéciale et le Festival rendra hommage à Tobe Hooper en lui consacrant une rétrospective...
Totale Fiction and I Can Fly présentent Thunder Donuts
Les productions Totale Fiction inc, société de production de cinéma Montréalaise crée en 2000, qui s'est tournée depuis peu vers le cinéma d'animation et I Can Fly société de production française d'animation basée à Paris et à Bordeaux, étaient à Annecy pour nous présenter leur nouvelle co-production en développement : "Thunder Donuts". &...
Toon Boom Animation présente la version 11 de Harmony au MIFA d'Annecy
Compagnie de technologie basée à Montréal, Toon Boom Animation célèbre cette année son 20ème anniversaire. Après avoir fait l'acquisition du logiciel français "TicTacToon" et de l’américain "US Animation" dans les années 90, cet éditeur de logiciels de renommée internationale intègrera ces technologies intégrera ces technol...
TVPaint à Annecy
Présent cette année sur le marché du film du festival d'Annecy, TVPaint est un logiciel d'animation 2D crée en 1991 par Hervé ADAM. Le software, conçu à la base pour les ordinateurs AMIGA, a rempli sa fonction de logiciel de dessin intégrant des logiciels de retouche vidéo avant d'intégrer de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Il devient dès...
Les studios Disney présentent leur nouveau court-métrage d'animation : ''Feast''
Il y a un mois, les Studios d'Animation Walt Disney annonçaient le titre et le scénario de leur dernier court métrage d'animation "Feast". Ce film d'animation de 6 minutes produit par Kristina Reed a été projeté en avant première mondiale le 10 juin au Festival du Film d'animation d'Annecy. Cet événement était très attendu du public. Ce nouve...
Space Hero présenté par les studios 10SLO Digital Animation
Chengja He nous présente le studio Snow Leopard October Digital Animation (10SLO Digital Animation), crée en 2004, et basé à Wuxi dans la province de Jiangsu en Chine. Leur dernière production, "Space Hero", est une série animée comprenant 26 épisodes de 22 minutes, produite pour la télévision. Un projet de long métrage est aussi actuellement en développ...
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