> EFX Equator Film Expo Jakarta March 27 - 30, 2015 in partnership with filmfestivals.com

Meet the EFX Panelists

Bruno Chatelin (chair person of the Conference) Bruno  is a marketer and film distributor who has launched more than 200 films over the past 30 years. His experience spans film making, production, training, studio management, distribution, marketing and online resources. He is a co-founder of filmfestivals.com, one of the international industry’s largest web portals, which has 192,000 subscribers on over 830,000 unique visitors across the globe each year.   Anne San...

 

EFX will screen DREAMERS by Noelle Deschamps in the Scriptwriting Workshop

Creation was always imagined as a mysterious process. Following these filmmakers, brings to light their passion, their imagination and their magical process. A documentary film by Noelle Deschamps staring Guillermo Arriaga, Jacques Audiard, John Boorman and many more authors explaining what their dream was and how it came... Noëlle DESCHAMPS France President / Artistic Directeur of éQuinoxe After studying Political Science at the IEP in Aix-en-...

 

EFX and Agence du Court Métrage present the Short Films Night in Jakarta

  Under the title "Human Beasts", this program (Les Animômes) was made for Animation DAY in France by the Short Film Agency and the French Association of Animation Film, addressing one of the favorite themes of fantasy cinema: the animality, or sometimes woven ambiguous relationship between man and animal.  EFX will introduce the 55 minutes long selection and present two shorts from La Femis the leading French Film School from France. LES ANIMMÔMES ...

 

The EFX Film Conference in Jakarta Sessions

EFX aims at presenting the best practices from France in production, distribution and sales to foster creativity within the Indonesian filmmaking community. Our sessions will include masterclasses in acting coaching, and scriptwriting and a series of panels with experts sharing their experience and vast knowledge of film distribution (features and shorts)   Film Marketing & Release Strategy Our panel of experts have between them...

 

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The Conference Program

EFX Film Forum 2015 kicks off the Equator Film Expo, Southeast Asia’s freshest film making event, bringing you international filmmakers, worldwide expertise and experience in the film industry. The EFX Film Forum conferences, workshops & masterclasses with a special focus on French know-how provide the perfect chance for you to learn and share your cinematic passion. Come and learn and share your ideas!   &nb...

 

The mission of EFX

 

Welcome to the Equator Film Expo (EFX), Southeast Asia’s newest and most exciting new film industry rendezvous point, where we encourage, develop, foster and connect film businesses within the local industry and the rest of the world. EFX draws on the energy, warmth and creativity of the dynamic and flourishing Indonesian film industry to provide a series of international-scale events incorporating a Film Forum, Film Fair and Film Fest which bridge the gap between East and West. The inau... 

 

> PARTNERS FESTIVAL NEWS  

Burbank International Film Festival Calling
September 9-13, 2015

Late Deadline April 30

The Film Freeway code for a $5.00 discount for www.FilmFestivals.com is: Festival

Burbank International Film Festival's blog I Website: www.burbankfilmfest.org I SUBMIT

Tackling Torture Video Contest  

Tackling Torture Video Contest's blog I Website tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com I SUBMIT

DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenwriting Competitions
Festival: September 10–20, 2015  
Screenplay Competition Friday, September 18, 2015  

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 30, 2015 

DC Shorts's blog I Website: http://festival.dcshorts.com

Adelaide Film Festival
October 15-25 

Deadline for entries is Friday 2 June 2015.

AFF accepts feature films and shorts (drama, documentary, hybrid, experimental and animation) made in Australia and internationally. These can be any length or genre.

The NYC Indie Film Festival 
Oct 12 to 18, 2015

Late Deadline May 15, 2015

The Festival is looking for the best independent films from all around the world. We seek untold stories and unspoken voices. SUBMIT your feature-length, documentary, short, super-short, music video or animation. Deadlines are quickly approaching! We proudly announce more prizes to the “2015 Best of Festival” in the following categories: 
- Director, Cinematography and Short Screenplay win a 7,500 USD camera rental package provided by PANAVISION + a SONY VEGAS Pro 13 each
- Narrative Feature, Documentary, Animation, Short Documentary, Short Film, Super Short Film and Music Video win a SONY VEGAS Pro 13 each.

We’ll shortly announce the prizes for Best Actor and Best Actress. SUBMIT your film! 

NYC Indie Film Fest's blog  I Website: https://www.nycindieff.com/

The 16th Golden Trailer Awards 
Held on May 6th at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills 

The regulations and entry forms to submit a film to the 2015 edition of the MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL are available for download. Please follow the links to get a copy. 
- 2015 REGULATIONS
- ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2015 MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
- ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2015 CANADIAN STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Click to submit your film

The Montreal World Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.ffm-montreal.org/ 

Hollyshorts 
August 13-22, 2015

The 11th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival and Film Conference/Film Market, scheduled for August 13-22, 2015 at the world famous TCL Chinese Theatre and Roosevelt Hotel, is now accepting submissions. (www.withoutabox.com/login/4655)   2014 HSFF, 3 times named to MovieMaker Magazine “Top 25 Fests Worth the Entry Fee” lists, featured over 400 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, and Felicia Day.  HSFF awarded over $150,000 in prizes, including $50,000 in post services courtesy of COMPANY 3 and METHOD STUDIOS for Best Short, Director, Music Video, Cinematography, VFX, and Commercial. Shorts HD distribution deals for winners and Final Draft prizes for Screenplay Contest winners.  

HollyShorts.com/submissions: www.withoutabox.com/login/4655

Screenplays:  www.withoutabox.com/login/12900

Hollyshorts's blog  I Website http://hollyshorts.com/

Le MIAFF ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival
April 16 – 19, 2015

Submit by march 20

Le MIAFF (April 16 – 19, 2015) is a Montreal-based international animation film festival providing a showcase for animators and animation producers to showcase and market their works. 

Le MIAFF provides an animation industry conference, workshops for animators, producers network, cocktail networking and ANIMAZE DAYS international co-production incentive. For independent filmmakers festival strategy workshops. 
Taking place during The City of Montreal Printemps Numerique (Digital Spring) Le MIAFF will also facilitate and curate works and subjects pertaining to digital arts. 
Expect news to unfold, great guest and films to be screened. Motivational guest speakers, teachers and master classes. Taking place on site at Concordia state of the art Hall Theatre which just completed a 3.5 million dollar state of the art screening room. 
The festival will screen animation features, shorts and experimental film. Industry conferences, panels and international co-productions will be facilitated. Workshops on the state of the art(s). Public film festival screening, panels and educational platform for children. A student film contest challenge from all graduate level animation film schools across the province of Quebec and Canada.
Submit

Animaze - Montreal International Animation Film Festival's blog I Website: http://animazefestival.com/

For festival consideration: 

Pseudonym, for festival consideration

First feature by french actor director Thierry Seban. Produced by la Petite Reine (The Artist) and Diabolo Films (The Suicide Shop).
Synopsis:  Alex is a divorced father, a stressed executive. His daily routine is work, work, work. Tonight he's in a hurry, he's due to meet a beautiful young stranger... who contacted him via the internet. But this blind date will flip him into a downward spiral and disrupt forever the course of his life.  Thriller, 75 min., Scope, Dolby 5.1  Directed by Thierry Sebban  Starring: Simon Abkarian, Igor Skreblin, Perrine Tourneux... Email us for a screener

 

Rooted in Peace by Greg Reitman has its world premiere at Sedona International Film Festival

Showing the BEST in independent film from around the world: February 21 - March 1, 2015.  ROOTED IN PEACE SCREENINGS AT THE 2015 SEDONA FILM FESTIVAL Rooted in Peace will have its World Premiere: Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 9:10am - The Harkins Theatre, Sedona, AZ Friday, February 27th at 3:00pm – Mary D Fisher Theatre, Sedona, AZ From features to shorts, documentaries to animation and foreign films to student films, you will be treated to a cinephile’s dream ...

March Selection of Films for your consideration

Men In Black Director To Adapt Doco About Houdini-Like Escape Artist

 

The filmmaker of such blockbuster movies Men in Black, Get Shorty and Addams Family, Barry Sonnenfeld will direct and produce a film adaptation of the documentary  An Honest Liar. Now the question is who will be playing the charismatic James "The Amazing" Randi? Johnny Depp is our guess. See press links below. Variety The Hollywood Reporter   With HBO's true crime documentary The Jinx making headlines last week, we recognize today when documentary films are mixed with...

 

New York: Burma themed films – Retrospective of Midi Z

The New York Asia Society presented from March 6 – 13  Homecoming Myanmar, the first US screening of the films by Midi Z, a Burmese-Taiwanese film maker. Under the military dictatorship the once vibrant Burmese film industry was destroyed and is now slowly recovering; overcoming the obstacles of having no film infra-structure and competing with pirated films. Midi Z was born in 1982 in Myanmar to ethnic Chinese parentage and raised there. He left at the age of 16 for Taiwan where h...

 

Scorsese's Polish Film Series Comes to the U.K.

Over a year since it made its debut at New York's Lincoln Center last February, Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, a traveling exhibition comprising 21 feature films, has screened at over 30 venues from coast to coast across North America. The series includes works by legendary directors such as Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi and others, which have never previously been been showcased on such a grand scale.   ...

 

Harvey Keitel Joins Cast of Jon Cassar's Rio Heat

 

Harvey Keitel will appear in the first season of Rio Heat opposite Victor Webster as Hubert Humbolt. Hubert is a mysterious figure, an ex-CIA operator who now owns the largest private investigation company in the world. He opens his Rio branch (enlisting our heroes to run it) as well as continuing to do contract work for his government cronies. Jon Cassar the Emmy-winning 24 producer/director will executive produce and direct multiple episodes of the action/comedy series. Rio Heat will be shot e...

 

Vail Film Festival Announces DAWN WALL Screening with Q&A

  Festival to screen never-before-seen footage of Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’s historic free climb of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite The 12th annual Vail Film Festival takes place March 26 – 29, 2015, in one of the United States’ premier ski destinations, Vail, Colorado, and is pleased to announce that climber Kevin Jorgeson will be in attendance to screen never-before-seen footage of his recent epic climb of El Capitan&...

 

MANIFF Secret Screenwriter week 4

MANIFF's secret screenwriter is still giving out his screenwriting tips for free. Still wondering who he is?   "If you feel you would much prefer to run with your story idea and start writing your script today instead of answering what appear to be dumb questions and making lists, I would strongly advise you not to. "   Instead head over to the screenwriting blog for this weeks lesson.   http://www.maniff.com/the-craft-of-screenwriting/2015/3/...

 

 

"The Salt of The Earth" / "Le Sel de la Terre"

  Social photographer and 'witness of the human condition,' Sebastiao Salgado, has traveled the world a few times over capturing photographs for his books: Other Americas: 1977-1984 - The People of the Andes, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. Sahel: The End of the Road: 1984-1986 - Capturing Drought, Famine, and Disease in Niger, Mali, and Ethiopia. Workers: 1986-1991 – Archeology of Industrial Areas Paying homage to the men and women who build the wor...