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> BYRON BAY FESTIVAL October 18-27
The 2019 Byron Bay Film Festival (BBFF) Awards
Australia's largest regional film festival concluded 10 days of cinematic bliss, set in beautiful Byron Bay
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> TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL IN FOCUS
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event Works In Progress launches a new category for children and youth films
Black Nights Fest: Official Selection, First Feature Competition and Baltic Competition unveiled
One month to go - Industry @Tallinn & Baltic Event!
What's cooking at Industry @Tallinn & Baltic Event?
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> AFM IN FOCUS
AFM reveals new Poster
LocationEXPO® returns to the American Film Market, November 9 – 12, with 50 Film Commissions, Government Agencies, Production Facilities and Services from around the globe confirmed to participate. Located in dedicated exhibition space within the AFM, LocationEXPO has become a tremendous resource for AFM attendees to learn and gather information about locations, production incentives, services, and resources available to their projects and films.
Additionally, organizations from 11 countries will host Umbrella Stands at AFM to support and garner opportunities and exposure for their sales agents, producers, and production facilities. Confirmed stands include, Taiwan Film Institute (Taiwan), Japan External Trade Organization (Japan), Italian Trade Agency (Italy), Department of International Trade Promotion, Thai Trade Center (Thailand), ROSKINO (Russia), Created in Moscow (Russia), UK Film (United Kingdom), National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) (South Korea), German Films Service + Marketing (Germany), Romanian Creative Industries Business Federation (Romania), UFCTI (China), and UniFrance (France).
Foster, Tahar Rahim and Shailene Woodley join Academy Award® Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in Prisoner 760 launching for AFM
Thai Night celebrates its 11th year at the American Film Market on Friday, November 8th, 2019
Actress Anna Faris will produce and star in the comedy feature SUMMER MADNESS
Arpa Fest wil take place during AFM opening with the World Premiere of Sand and Fire
AFM 2019 in focus Newsletter N°1 Have a safe ride
Leslie Semichon joins the Orange International Sales team
Rachel Weisz Set to Star in See-Saw Films' A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
SC Films @ AFM 2019
Arpa Fest full program unveiled
Fairway Film Alliance will have the world market premiere of "Lost Treasure of Jesse James" in AFM.
The 2019 Israel Film Festival Opening Night Gala will take place on November 12th at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center
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> FESTIVALS IN FOCUS
> PARTNERS FESTIVAL NEWS
Garden State Film Festival
March 25-29, 2020
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Asbury Park, New Jersey - USA
The 18th Garden State Film Festival is New Jersey's Premier Independent Film Festival®.
The Garden State Film Festival [GSFF] is a global destination festival that enhances the quality of life in New Jersey by stimulating economic growth through the arts (over 9 million), investing in the creativity of students, making the arts accessible to undeserved populations, and preserving heritage arts.
(GSFF) showcases premier films, renowned and emerging artists, empowering global connectivity between creators, innovators and audiences.
GSFF was founded to promote the art of film making on all levels by showcasing a wide variety of film, video and animated works, as well as to provide educational programs in the creative arts to the public by industry leaders. Our goal is to present films of the highest quality in both production value and content.
Founded to celebrate the independent film genre, The Garden State Film Festival, a not for profit organization, offers independent filmmakers the chance to exhibit their work and gives New Jersey audiences a chance to experience new, cultural, and artistic endeavors through the medium of film.
The Garden State Film Festival's professional jury will select winning films in various categories. Submission categories are for administration purposes only. There are separate awards for student films as well as the "Home Grown Awards" for films where 75% of principal photography is shot in the State of New Jersey.
French Riviera Film Festival
May 11-12, 2020
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November 23, 2019 ealy bird deadline
The second annual French Riviera Film Festival will recognize and celebrate short form content created for film, television, Web and all digital platforms. In the glamorous South of France setting, FRFF invites filmmakers from around the globe to participate in the two day festival that includes screenings, VIP receptions, awards ceremony and closing gala party. FRFF will place the spotlight on the best short form filmed content during the time period of the annual Festival de Cannes. A prestigious jury panel will select Best Drama Short, Best Comedy Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animation Short, Best Experimental Short, Audience Favorite Award, Best Director Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress Award, as well as special Industry Awards. Attendees and participants will include filmmakers, industry executives, celebrities, media and influencers. https://filmfreeway.com/FrenchRivieraFilmFestival
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Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival
May 30 – June 4, 2020
October 24, 2019 Early Bird Deadline
February 25, 2020 Regular Deadline
April 10, 2020 Late Deadline
Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival launched its 1st edition in June 2019 to a spectacular success. The 2nd Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival returns in June 2020 in association with the Municipality of Kandanos-Selinou. The 'Lost World' of Paleochora nestles between the Mountains and Sea in South West Crete and is the perfect location for Filmmakers to convene to show their work, network with colleagues and enjoy our fabulous Cretan hospitality. We may be at the most southern point of Europe, but there are BIG Film things happening here and on the entire Island of Crete. Our main aim will be to select films which focus on great storytelling, whether fiction, documentary or any other accepted genre.
Screenings are held Under the Stars in the Town Hall Square with daytime programmes held at the fabulous Pearl Cavo oceanside venue.
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Toronto Metropolitan International Screenwriting Competition
March 31, 2020
Now accepting submissions
November 16, 2019 Late
December 19, 2019 Extended Late
January 23, 2020 Final Deadline
February 20, 2020 Extended Final
We reward winning screenwriters with various prizes including distribution of your script to top industry executives at several production companies and distributors in New York, LA, and Toronto as well as to our database of A list agents, managers, and festival winners on both coasts in both the US and Canada who are looking for clients and material to produce. Last year, one of our finalists signed with one of Beverly Hills most prestigious talent management companies.
2019's grand prize winner was personally introduced to six talent managers and producers and was given a one hour consultation with the top manager at Fictional Entity.
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Worlfest Houston 53
April 17 - 26, 2019
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Early bird entry by November 15
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival offers international competition in Ten Major Competition Categories! Features, Shorts, Docs/Business Films, Student, Experimental, Screenplays, New Media, TV Production, TV Commercials, & Music Videos! More than 200 sub-categories for fair competition. Only at WorldFest-Houston are you selected as a Remi Award Winner on the basis of your numerical score from the juries, which greatly increases your chance to win a Remi, unlike other festivals that only give out one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze! Only 10%-15% of entries actually win the coveted Remi Award!
You may enter Online via our entry platform - www.worldfest.org, or via FilmFreeway.com - we now accept entries via Vimeo & YouTube, in addition to DVD/BR Entries, & USB/Jump Drives. Screenplay entries must be bound. We will confirm when we receive your entry and we provide personal Jury Results, and festival details when you are selected for screening at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival!
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Artemis Women in Action Film Festival
April 23 – 26, 2020
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October 31, 2019 : Late deadline
Artemis Women in Action Film Festival Qualifiers
Submit all narrative, animated, documentary FILMS and SCRIPTS featuring women either starring or co-starring as a physical action character or agent of social change.
We celebrate women in kick ass roles.
Submit all MUSIC in any genre that is a film score, composition, song, or theme song created by female composers, female led bands, and female solo artists.
Artemis’ Women Powered Music sponsored by Bella Composers!
Submission Categories.
FILMS – 40 minutes or longer
SHORTS – up to 40 minutes
SCRIPTS, Features (70-120 pgs) & Pilots (45-60 pgs)
MUSIC in all genres, up to 10 minutes. Music FAQ’s.
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Myrtle Beach International Film Festival
(April 21-25, 2020)
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November 15th 2019 Regular Deadline
The Myrtle Beach International Film Festival his now one of the "Top 25 film festivals worth the entry fee" by Movie Maker Magazine.
The MBIFF 14 Film Festival broke records in deals negotiated. Several new projects have also found their funding during the event.
Our judging panel includes judges from all walks of life because it is important to have a broad spectrum of perspectives.
The goal of the founder and director Jerry Dalton, was to create a venue for independent film makers which is not corrupted by politics.
The MBIFF screens projects in a multi-million dollar theater, housing state of the art technology.
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NEW YORK CITY Independent Film Festival
May 10 – 17, 2020
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November 30, 2019 Regular Deadline I
December 31, 2019
Late DeadlineJanuary 31, 2020 Extended Deadline
NYC Indie Film Fest is a celebration of the Independent Filmmaker, documentaries, short and feature-length films, music videos, and animation.
All NYC Indie screenings take place in the historic center of NYC, Time Square which is the perfect home for an event geared toward creating incredible opportunities for independent voices.
NYC Indie Film Festival honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Music Video, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
With panels, parties and a week-long gathering of fellow indie filmmakers May 10 - May 17, 2020.
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Fantasporto 40
February 28 - March 7
Deadline November 1st, 2019
Deadlines for Entries for 2020 anniversary edition are November 1st (fantasy shorts) and December 1st (Final Call for features). Fantasporto enjoys incredible loyalty and support from the large film-appreciating community all over the World. In the last edition, Fantasporto was attended by over 25,000 enthusiastic genre film fans and over 200 members of the film press and industry.
Considered in 2015 as the first of the independent film festivals in the world by TRIPPER, Fantasporto is among the top film festivals for the discovery of new talent, having revealed countless of now famous directors, producers and actors.
The World Heritage City by UNESCO of Porto, twice considered Europe’s Best Touristic Destination, is another factor adding interest . Founded in 1981, the 40th edition has the support of the Portuguese State and the Townhall.
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> PEOPLE ON OUR RADAR
Santa Barbara November 20th to 22nd
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John Cooper, Sundance Festival Director will speak at Santa Barbara Fest Forum 2019
FestForums hosts another amazing roster of musicians to perform at Santa Barbara this year November 20-22nd
ESPN’s Brian M. Lockhart Joins New York Festivals TV & Film Awards Advisory Board
“Wayne's World” director Penelope Spheeris is FestForums’ Living Legend
Donald Sutherland returns to the Zurich Film Festival with his new film The Burnt Orange Heresy
Kevin Bacon, Jillian Bell, Vanessa Hudgens and Olivia Wilde to be Honored @ 9th Annual Napa Valley Film Festival
Elis Lovric performance at the closing of the ISFMF Awards Ceremony
32nd Tokyo International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Awards to go to Tatsuya Nakadai and Nobuhiko Obayashi
Kimberly Peirce and Tom Skerritt will receive the Golden Key Awards at Key West Festival
Taylor Swift Gets Her Kitty On With Andrew Lloyd Webber For CATS Movie
> AWARDS WATCH ...
Grand Prize / Category top 50 Finalists announced, winner will be announced at AFM
PLURAL+ Awards Ceremony
US in Progress Wrocław Awards and Panelists
The 4th International Film Festival and Awards‧Macao IFFAM Project Market
You are invited to the 14th SBIFFF Annual Kirk Douglas Award honoring Martin Scorsese
The 2019 Byron Bay Film Festival (BBFF) Awards
> INDIA in focus with Siraj Syed
The Current War, Review: DC Edison v/s AC Westinghouse
Terminator-Dark Fate, Review: Terminal stillness
Ujda Chaman, Review: Hair loss, weight gain
IFFI 50, III: 50th festival since 1952
IFFI 50, II: Make a short film in 72 hours, win Rs. 1,00,000
IFFI 50, I: 10 Oscar winners to be screened
8th edition of Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) from 7 November, announces full line-up
MFF 21, 2019: Fernando Meirelles’ Masterclass
MFF 21, 2019, 05: The rest, with ratings, and the best of the fest
Housefull 4, Review: Emptiness to the core
A salute and a Happy birthday to Siraj Syed our India Correspondent: check his fantastic film critics contribution over a year
> FILMS IN FOCUS ...
Beat Dox Sessions 2019: The RIDM’s free musical evenings are back!
New Clip: VOD RELEASE NOVEMBER 12: Award-Winning Merce Cunningham Doc IF THE DANCER DANCES
THE MYSTERY OF A BURYAT LAMA», directed by Elena Demidova
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Raised On Rock The Burnette Family Legacy
Coming April 2019 "RAISED ON ROCK - The Burnette Family Legacy" will be premiering at Film Festivals throughout 2018 before being released for worldwide distribution
Director - Sally Steele
Sally Steele is on a mission to reunite the legendary battling Burnette family- a family United by Blood-Divided by Fame. The filmmaker travels across the United States interviewing special guests while learning the amazing rock history of Johnny Burnette and Dorsey Burnette and The Rock and Roll Trio who influenced Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and many others, on her quest to bring Rocky and Billy Burnette and the members of the family together for one final dramatic and exciting performance at the end of the film, trying to heal the rift that rocked the world and tore a family apart echoing down a generation to the family “Raised On Rock“.
The film exists in two versions Long Short (60) and Short Documentary (40)
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THE CREEPY LINE a film by M.A.Taylor 2018
"A film that Google does not want you to see - filmfestivals.com Best for Fest"
An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it.
The Creepy Line is a title culled from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during a 2010 interview he explained Google’s code of conduct: “The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
However, as Dr. Robert Epstein explains in the film, “Google crosses the creepy line every day”.
Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, The Creepy Line examines what is at risk when these two tech titans have free reign to utilize the public’s most private and personal data to manipulate society.
There is no question that the “creepy line” is getting ever-creepier, and that the tech giants have crossed it.
Sharkwater: Extinction by Rob Stewart Documentary Canada 2018 Sharkwater Extinction by Rob Stewart - Canada 2018 90 minutes
Rob Stewart “Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth. And that, above all else, is worth fighting for” Watch Rob Stewart doing what he loved most of all, swimming with sharks, in exclusive footage from his third film, Sharkwater: Extinction.
Sharkwater: Extinction is a follow up to his first two award-winning films, Sharkwater and Revolution. Sharkwater exposed the devastating issue of shark finning, while Revolution brought the destructive effects of Ocean Acidification to light.
Rob taught the world to not fear sharks, through his iconic images of hugging these majestic creatures and free diving with them.
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LIVING IN THE FUTURES PAST by Susan Kucera, A documentary presented by Jeff Bridges.
USA October 2017 - 83 minutes
13 Festival wins so far for Living in the Future's Past
Revolution by Rob Stewart
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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.
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> NEWS IN FRENCH
Des partenariats forts avec les plus grands festivals et marchés
Promoting Movies that Matter / des films qui font grandir...
With contributions from Abbé Jean-Luc Maroy, Alex Deleon, Bruno Chatelin
Les raisins de la colère (The Grapes of Wrath) de John Ford (USA, 1940)
Top 10 des entrées hebdo France du 23 au 29 Octobre 2019
Découvrez le palmarès 2019 du festival pariscience
Le palmarès des Voix d'Etoiles Festival international des voix du cinéma d'animation
Le Palmarès de Cinemed
Impact des bandes annonces diffusées dans les cinémas au 29 octobre 2019
J-36 avant la 36ème édition du FIFMA
Les invités du Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt
Le programme de Kinopolska, festival du cinéma polonais
Mon Premier Festival : les films primés !
La “Festival de Cannes Film Week” au K11 MUSEA de Hong Kong
Le Forum RIDM dévoile sa programmation 2019
Bilan du 41e Cinemed
Talking About Trees en ouverture, INDIANARA en clôture des Ecrans Documentaires
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Israel FF in LA Announces Programming, Filmmaker & Actor Attendees: Take a break from AFM visiting the IFF
