The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival April 19 – 22, 2017

The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival has been awarded several prestigious awards including one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine. The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology. 
Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World. We continue to be a venue for up and coming film makers as well as seasoned professionals. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance with their films, and will be available for Q&A sessions.

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Manhattan Short September 23 to October 2, 2016

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Stone To Present Snowden in Zurich with the Film’s Stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley

 

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has landed one of the first screenings of Oliver Stone’s latest film “Snowden,” announcing today that the much anticipated film will have a gala premiere screening in Zurich on Saturday, September 24th. The announcement was made by ZFF Directors Karl Spoerri and Nadja Schildknecht.   Three-time Academy Award® winner Oliver Stone has become a familiar face at the Zurich Film Festival, now in its 12th edition...

 

Women for Justice in Kurdistan

  Women for Justice is on film tour in Kurdistan / North-Iraq. The film has been given pro bono to all women´s and human rights organisations to support their work.   .

 

73rd Venice International Film Festival Out of Competition Films

Out of Competition Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the FestivalAll sections »   1 | 2 | BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI - OUR WAR Italy, USA, 68’ (documentary) KASPER COLLIN - I CALLED HIM MORGAN Sweden, USA, 91' (documentary) ANDREW DOMINIK - ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D) Great Britain, 112’ Nick Cave PHI...

 

 

André Forcier’s KISS ME LIKE A LOVER to open 40th Montreal World Film Festival

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes will open the 40thedition of the Montreal World Film Festival, it was announced.  The film’s world premiere in the MWFF’s World Competition will mark the fourth time a Forcier feature has competed in the festival, having won a variety of awards for Une histoire inventé (1990), A Wind From Wyoming (1994) andCoteau Rouge (2011). Scripted by Forcier and Linda Pinet, the fil...

 

 

BLOOD MOON Directed by KENNETH KOKIN to open Hollyshorts Film Festival2016

The 12th annual HollyShorts Film Festival sponsored by BITPIX will open with alumni and festival Jury member Kenneth Kokin’s directorial debut BLOOD MOON written by Oscar Nominated Nicholas Kazan and produced by Tim Williams (In The Bedroom). The feature film stars Maya Kazan (The Knick), Frank Medrano (The Shawshank Redemption) and James Callis (Battle Star Galactica, Bridget Jones’s Diary). The innovative score was composed by Joe Kraemer (Missi...

 

New York Asian Film Festival 2016

Held from June 22-25 at Lincoln Center and from July 6-9 at the School of Visual Arts theater the 15th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival presented 51 feature films in sold out screenings of which more than half were New York City premiers. The festival has certainly come a long way from its beginnings in a small theater in Chinatown, its passage through the Anthology Film Archives barely holding about 180 people to the much larger Walter Reade venue at Lincoln center w...

 

 

Brexit and Visionary Women to Headline TIFF Industry Conference

The first slate of films and Industry Programming for TIFF 2016 is announced! The seven-day conference launches with candid discussions on what impact Brexit will have on the industry, and will explore opportunities for the inclu...

 

 

Fourteen moviemakers will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award

Today saw presentation of the selection of films making up New Directors, the section embodying one of a film festival's core missions: to discover new filmmakers, or in other words, new ways of thinking, understanding and making cinema. The Director of the San Seb...

 

The new film by Douglas Gordon with Jonas Mekas will open the section Cineasti del presente 2016

    The Concorso Cineasti del presente will open with a film that is unique in its protagonists and for the concept that is the basis for the project. I Had Nowhere To Go by the filmmaker and video artist Douglas Gordon is based on Jonas Mekas's diary. “I Had Nowhere To Go is his story of exile; brought on by the horrors of the twentieth century, propelled by the need to create rather than destroy, to move on, to make sense... or not, where bewilderment is more h...

 

 

Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema

  6 Polish films in post-production in Locarno       OSTATNIA RODZINA (The Last Family) by Jan P. Matuszyński     For its sixth edition, the Festival del film Locarno’s First Look initiative (6 – 8 August) turns the spotlight on Polish Cinema. Thanks to a partnership with the Polish Film Institute and Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne, this year's First Look will present 6 films in post-production chosen by the Festiv...

 

Khyentse Norbu's "Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait", a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings in Locarno

One region, four countries, twenty-one films, and a world premiere. This is the Open Doors Screenings 2016, a platform for talent of contemporary cinema in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal.   For Open Doors to extend its purview to exciting developments in young national cinemas, such as those of southern Asia, is nothing new. But a world premiere at the Open Doors Screenings certainly is. This is the case with Hema Hema: Sing ...

 

The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016

The restored films of Venezia Classici will be an enticing sidebar at Venice 2016 alone worth a trip to the LIdo this year. Alex Deleone <filmfestivals.com>   director Roberto Andò to chair the Jury composed of cinema students restored films and documentaries in world premiere screenings Italian director Roberto Andò (The Confessions, Long Live Freedom, The Prince’s Manuscript) will chair the Jury of Cinema History Students whi...

 

 

Oliver Stone’s "Snowden", to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition

"Snowden", Oliver Stone’s new movie, to be presented in the San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection, out of competition   Share on Facebook   

Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Ian McShane China Anne McClain Jacob Latimore Michael Gross Thomas Nicholas Mark Rolston Cynthia Kaye Fred Tatasciore

Directed By: Khurram Alavi and Ayman Jamal 

Enoc The Resplendent Stargate by Martha Marin Premiering in Cannes

World premiere in Cannes

An artistic journey between fiction and documentary film at the same time, throughout space, time, dimensions, light and music, that are conducting through the full sequence to a live experience of Enoc the Resplendent Stargate Energy®

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Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...

Revolution by Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) 

over 40 festival wins so far

Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

Get Happy by Manoj Annadurai 

Feature - Feel Good Movie  - World premiered in Montreal World Film Festival Winner best romantic comedy in Manhattan Fest

Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again. 

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Winners Announced - The 2016 Script Pipeline Screenwriting & TV Writing Competitions

European Casting Director Award in Locarno

Locarno: The Leopard Club Award 2016 goes to Stefania Sandrelli

THE AWARDS of the 14. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signs of the Night / Signes de Nuit)

FIDMarseille Winners

Awards of the thirteenth edition of the Yerevan Golden Apricot Film Festival