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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Sundance Institute Announces Nine Films and Art House Theaters for Sundance Film Festival USA on January 30
Ann Arbor, MI | Boston, MA | Chicago, IL | Houston, TX | Nashville, TN | Orlando, FL | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | Tucson, AZ Sundance Institute announced today the films from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival that will each screen in one of nine independent theaters in cities across the country on January 30 as part of the Sundance Film Festival USA initiative. These audiences will share in the excitement of discovery of a film fresh from its world premiere at the 2014 Festi...
Hubert Bals Fund announces Fall 2013 and Boost! selections
The Hubert Bals Fund of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected fourteen film projects to receive grants for postproduction and for script and project development. In its Fall 2013 selection round, the Fund gives 161,700 Euro to projects from nine Asian, Eastern European, Latin-American and African countries. The selection was made out of 464 applications, the highest number of funding applications to date. Five HBF supported projects get the opportunity to further develop th...
Generation 2014: New Films and New Cinemas
Already twelve films produced and co-produced in ten countries have been invited to the Berlinale Generation section. The complete Generation programme will be announced in mid January. Generation will be returning to the recently reopened Zoo Palast cinema. Here, as well as at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, it will celebrate film premieres and repetition screenings. The section’s short film competition has been given a new home in the CinemaxX at Potsdamer Platz. Genera...
Berlinale and Glashütte Original Extend Their Commitment to Young Filmmakers until 2016 and Announce Jury for “Made in Germany –
Watch manufacturer Glashütte Original is extending its co-partnership with the Berlinale until 2016, and continuing its support of a talented young director from the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section with the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship”. Conceived for the development of a project, material and screenplay, the €15,000 fellowship is funded by Glashütte Original. “We are very pleased that for the third time now we will be able to awar...
Extensive Focus on Russia at Göteborg 2014
The 37th International Film Festival in Göteborg turns its gaze eastward. The Russian film tradition is one of the world’s most famous and Russia is currently one of the most interesting countries for film. “We have a large and broad Russian film program that is both artistically strong and that takes up current events in Russia. Several of the films touch upon subjects about the distribution of the country’s resources and the restrictions on freedom of speech,” sa...
Go Short welcomes Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen as Artists in Residence
As a host organization at AIR Besiendershuis, Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen invites the Finnish filmmakers Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen to work in Nijmegen for two months as Artists in Residence. From February till April they will reside in the Besiendershuis, a historic building situated on the quay of the Waal river. Artist In Residence Besiendershuis The Besiendershuis annually asks four organisations from Nijmegen to be a ...
> THE PARTNER FESTIVALS
Call for Entries: 2014 DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenwriting Competitions
Recently named the Coolest Short Film Festival by Moviemaker Magazine, the DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition is the largest short film event on the East Coast of the United States. In 2013, we screened 152 films from 21 countries in 18 unique showcases that played over 11 days to a total audience of 9,300 people. We also hosted a table read of six screenplays, and awarded the winner an incredible prize of $2,000. Submit online...
34th edition of Fantasporto to be celebrated from February 28 to March 8, 2014.
OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FANTASPORTO 2014 Oporto Film Festival promotes films that seek new forms and methods of film making. 34th edition of the Festival to be celebrated from February 28 to March 8, 2014. Submissions are now closed, see you at the Festival around a glass of...
Palm Beach Intl Film Festival 2014 Calling for submissions now!
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! The Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF) is now accepting submission for the 2014 festival. Official Entry Deadlines: Early: November 15, 2013 Late: January 10, 2013 Click to Download the Official Submission Form (pdf) Submission forms can be sent via email to: submissions@pbifilmfest.org. Please send us a printout of your submission form along with all other required...Submit now
Viewster Online Film festival #VOFF calling for entries to compete for 100'000 $ prize money
Viewster offers a catalog of TV shows and movies that you don’t find everywhere. Most of our content is free to watch online just by the click of a button. You will find thousands of cool niche movies, cult TV series, classics, celebrity news and trailers. You won’t find the latest blockbusters movies here that are still in the cinemas because Viewster is a legal site. The good thing: you don’t need to download and you don’t risk getting viruses ... Submit online
Houston Worldfest April 4-13, 2014 calling all filmmakers
The MAIN ENTRY DEADLINE is December 31th, 2013 THE FINAL "BRICK-WALL" DEADLINE is: JANUARY 31st, 2013 - ENTRIES MUST REACH US BY THEN! We now accept PayPal for even greater payment security. The secure PayPal payment address is - entry@worldfest.org The 47th Annual WorldFest-Houston - April 4-13, 2014 Ten Great Days in April! Download the entry form “Before there was Sundance or SXSW, Before there was Toronto or Tribeca, there was WorldFest...Submit now
Silver Springs International Film Festival 2014 calling for entries April 3-6, 2014
The Silver Springs International Film Festival is an international cultural event created to elevate awareness of Ocala/Marion County, FL, Florida’s Silver Springs State Park and the area’s contributions to the cinema, as well as the cultural landscape of Florida. The springs have inspired generations of nature lovers and filmmakers alike; serving as a dramatic backdrop for countless film, television and commercial shoots and the “laboratory” where cinematography legend Bruce Mozert conceived, developed and perfected underwater photography.
The first Festival is set to be held in Historic Downtown Ocala in the beautifully restored Marion Theatre. Visit our page and download the manual Entry Form.
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The Internet is full of articles/posts/blogs written by Industry Professionals with endorsement for the top ten or top five screenplay competitions – and it doesn’t take long before you start seeing the same Contests repeated again and again… That makes you feel good about those certain competitions, right? So, you submit your screenplay to some (or all) of those competitions with your fingers crossed… And you mig... Submit Now
Make YOUR Movie Contest on youpix.org!
Project Greenlight Reincarnated! Our winners make a MOVIE. "In Hollywood a script has a One in a Million chance at being produced. That sucks! At YouPix.org your script has a REAL chance at being made into a MOVIE! That does NOT suck!" Dear Screenwriters and Filmmakers, Let's face it. We all just want to make movies. Ever since we could remember. We were kids with movie cameras making goofy projects wi... Submit Now
> THE AWARDS WATCH
Actor Emile Hirsch and Producer Randall Emmett to Receive Top Honors at Sundance
The Creative Coalition announces today that actor Emile Hirsch and producer Randall Emmett will receive The Creative Coalition’s 2014 Spotlight Initiative Award. Hirsch and Emmett join actress Cheryl Hines, actor/director Rose McGowan, and directors Rory Kennedy and David Wain, all who will be lauded by peers and other entertainment industry leaders at this year’s Creative Coalition Spotlight Initiative Awards Gala Dinner. The event is presented at A-List Communica...
Santa Barbara Film festival honours Emma Thompson with Modern Master Award
Tickets available now! Click here to purchase. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will honor actor, screenwriter and producer Emma Thompson with the Modern Master Award at the 29th edition of the Fest, which runs January 30 – February 9, 2014, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. The Tribute will take place on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at the historic Arlington Theatre and is sponsored by Adobe. The Modern Master Award is the ...
Spanish comedies get most nominations at the FEROZ® Awards
The Spanish comedies ‘Three Many Weddings’ and ‘Witching and Bitching’ have obtained 7 nominations each at the FEROZ® Awards announced today in Madrid. For the first time AICE, an association of Spanish cinematographic informers, has announced the nominations to its newly created awards: FEROZ®. At the press conference hold this morning we have met actress Alexandra Jiménez and director...
Nominees to the XIX Jose Maria Forque Awards
The Spanish race to decide the best films, directors, actors and film professionals of the year has begun. Forqué Awards, FEROZ® Awards, MEC, Gaudis, etc… all giving hints before the Goya® Awards, due in Feb 9th, 2014. On Friday, EGEDA announced the list of final candidates to the XIX Jose Maria Forqué Awards, named after one of the most important Spanish producers. A 30000€ Awa...
The 7th Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards are proud to announce the recipients of two film development funds - the MPA APSA Academy Film Fund and APSA Academy Children's Film Fund - as well as the winners of three special awards from our partners NETPAC, FIAPF and UNESCO. More than $150,000 will be delivered to these recipients to further develop their film projects. MPA APSA ACADEMY FILM FUND RECIPIENTS The MPA APSA Academy Film Fund is a collaboration between Motion Pi...
The Berlinale and the French-German Youth Office Present the Jury of the “FGYO- Award Dialogue en perspective”
For the eleventh year running, the Berlin International Film Festival and official partner the French-German Youth Office (FGYO) are giving young film lovers the opportunity to participate in the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” as jury members. Seven cineastes – three German, three French and one Israeli - have been selected to view and evaluate the films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section of the 64th Berlinale. They will present the...
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will honor actor, director and producer Robert Redford
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will honor actor, director and producer Robert Redford with the American Riviera Award at the 29th edition of the Fest, which runs Thursday, January 30 through Sunday, February 9, 2014, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. The Tribute, sponsored by Sunstone Winery, will take place on Friday, February 7. The American Riviera Award is an award...
Eileen Doyle Named YANY's Executive Director
Young Audiences New York (YANY) is pleased to announce the appointment of Eileen Doyle as the new Executive Director. Eileen's strong background in leading the development of high quality, creative, "of the moment" programs for girls across the country will ensure that YANY contrinues to grow and evolve in meeting the needs of children in our City. Eileen is eager to begin working with YANY's education, community and funding partners to develop the best strat...
2014 EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS set to Soar at the Berlinale!
The Ten Best Young European Actors Are Announced DENMARK Danica Curcic (On The Edge) GERMANY Maria Dragus (Summer Outside) ITALY Miriam Karlkvist (South Is Nothing) THE NETHERLANDS Marwan Kenzari (Wolf)...
Peter Wintonick Memorial in Montreal - OSAMA BIN LADIN IS DEAD and other memories - The Documentary Film World Mourns
It has been a few weeks since Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick, considered the "international ambassador of documentary film," died at 60 years old. Last weekend I attended his moving memorial which was a full house of family and fellow filmmakers. Without a doubt Wintonick's contribution to the Montreal film community reverberates into the documentary film world all now mourning his loss. We lived in the same Montreal Mile End neighbourhood as did many of us &q...
> FILM TO WATCH
The Mardi Gras Film Festival will launch the full 2014 program of queer films in a special screening of Alan Cumming’s poignant drama ANY DAY NOW at 6:45pm on Wednesday 15 January 2014, Event Cinemas George Street. Set in 1970s Los Angeles and inspired by a true story, ANY DAY NOW, follows the story of aspiring singer Rudy (Alan Cumming) and his closeted district attorney partner Paul (Garret Dillahunt) who take in an abandoned teenager with Down Syndrome, becoming the family ...
Indie Series Awards locks date and venue for West Coast debut
Historic theater in the NoHo Arts District to host awards ceremony The Indie Series Awards, formerly known as the Indie Soap Awards, are coming to Los Angeles in celebration of its 5th year on April 2, 2014. The Red Carpet Gala will be held at the El Portal Theatre, a historic landmark in the San Fernando Valley located in the heart of North Hollywood. When it first opened in 1926, the theatre was home to Vaudeville shows, then Silent Movies and Academy Award winning f...
18th BERLIN & BEYOND in San Francisco announces Selection
Largest American festival of German-Language Cinema brings broad slate of celebrated pictures to Castro Theatre this January The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival (Jan 15-21) marks its 18th year with a return to its original exhibition schedule at the head of the calendar in January and a selection of some of the best and brightest award-winning films and talents of European cinema. It is the fourth year under the direction of festival director Sophoan Sorn, and his third in collab...
Berlinale Culinary Cinema Goes Kiez
Since 2007 the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema has shown films focussing on food and ecological topics. After screenings from the main programme, chefs make meals inspired by the films and prepared according to the Slow Food motto “good, clean and fair”. For the 64th Berlinale, this year’s Culinary Cinema will be taking food to the street. In collaboration with Markthalle Neun and Slow Food Berlin, it will provide Street Food. During the Festival, six trucks will off...
Forum Expanded: New Exhibition Spaces and Focus on Mid-length Films
Cinema is being rethought, with the mid-length format in particular seeming to offer new artistic freedoms with a true disregard for uniformity. A striking number of films in this year’s programme, whether shot digitally or on 16mm, 35mm, or even 70mm, are somewhere between 20 and 60 minutes in length. As such, they leave categories like feature, documentary, experimental or art film behind them to develop a contemporary film language able to take account of the complexit...
Asia TV Forum & Market and ScreenSingapore 2013 closes with strong market attendance
The 14th edition of Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) and the 3rd edition of ScreenSingapore concluded last Friday (6 December) on a high note with strong market attendance. The event took place from 4 - 6 December at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre at Marina Bay Sands, with a pre-market conference that kicked-off on 3 December. Adding to the buzz of the market and conferences was the world premiere of Firestorm (风暴). Following this was the Southeast Asian premie...
Berlinale Talents 2014: Ready to Play? Breaking the Rules
Under the motto “Ready to Play? Breaking the Rules”, Berlinale Talents 2014 will encourage its 300 budding filmmakers to experiment with new and unusual ways of bringing their stories and characters to life on screen. The focus in 2014 will be on storytelling and successful scriptwriting. Berlinale Talents will assist the filmmakers in playfully approaching character development. “For us, Breaking the Rules means introducing filmmakers with daring and new methods, it...
Highlights from The Reykavík Visual Music - Punto y Raya Festival
It is a true pleasure to invite you to yet another edition of the greatest event devoted to abstract art in motion. On this occasion, RCVM and MAD have joined forces to organise the Reykavík Visual Music - Punto y Raya Festival, which will take place from January 30th to February 2nd 2014 at HARPA, the Reykjavík Concert Hall (Iceland), and promises to make history :) Not only will we explore the intrinsic relationship between music and abstract imagery, but also carry out e...
New York: 2013 South Asian International Film Festival
The South Asian International Film Festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary from December 3-8, focuses on films from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Indian Diaspora. It presented this year 9 feature films and 5 shorts, including 6 Indian co-productions and 2 films from Pakistan. HBO is the principal sponsor of the festival which is considered to be the largest US film festival with productions from that region. The current edition programmed several outstandin...
Sundance Institute Announces Nine Films and Art House Theaters for Sundance Film Festival USA on January 30
Ann Arbor, MI | Boston, MA | Chicago, IL | Houston, TX | Nashville, TN | Orlando, FL | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | Tucson, AZ Sundance Institute announced today the films from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival that will each screen in one of nine independent theaters in cities across the country on January 30 as part of the Sundance Film Festival USA initiative. These audiences will share in the excitement of discovery of a film fresh from its world premiere at the 2014 Festi...
The Hubert Bals Fund of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has selected fourteen film projects to receive grants for postproduction and for script and project development. In its Fall 2013 selection round, the Fund gives 161,700 Euro to projects from nine Asian, Eastern European, Latin-American and African countries. The selection was made out of 464 applications, the highest number of funding applications to date. Five HBF supported projects get the opportunity to further develop th...
Generation 2014: New Films and New Cinemas
Already twelve films produced and co-produced in ten countries have been invited to the Berlinale Generation section. The complete Generation programme will be announced in mid January. Generation will be returning to the recently reopened Zoo Palast cinema. Here, as well as at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, it will celebrate film premieres and repetition screenings. The section’s short film competition has been given a new home in the CinemaxX at Potsdamer Platz. Genera...
Watch manufacturer Glashütte Original is extending its co-partnership with the Berlinale until 2016, and continuing its support of a talented young director from the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section with the “Made in Germany – Perspektive Fellowship”. Conceived for the development of a project, material and screenplay, the €15,000 fellowship is funded by Glashütte Original. “We are very pleased that for the third time now we will be able to awar...
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> STRICTLY BUSINESS
The Bulletin Board
Lithuania and Estonia become individual member countries at EFP
The members of European Film Promotion (EFP) have accepted the applications of the Lithuanian Film Centre (LFC) and the Estonian Film Institute (EFI) to become individual members of EFP. Until now, the three Baltic film institutes had been represented in EFP through the umbrella organisation Baltic Films. It was recently decided that every country should be free to become an individual member of EFP. With the decision taken at the EF...
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT
La programmation du 17e Festival cinéma Télérama
Les 15 meilleurs films de 2013 et un film jeune public sélectionnés par la rédaction cinéma de Télérama dans 242 salles Art et Essais dans toute la France. 3 euros la place de cinéma pour voir ou revoir les meilleurs films de 2013 ! Festival Télérama 2013 La Vie d'Adèle de Abdellatif Kechiche Djang...
Au Festival international du film d’Aubagne 81% des courts reçus ont une musique originale
15e FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM D’AUBAGNE Carrefour international de la jeune création cinématographique et de la relation musique et image 17 au 22 mars 2014 1063 courts métrages reçus de 55 pays 81% avec une musique originale L’équipe du Festival international du film d’Aubagne annonce la réception de 1 063 courts métrages de 55 pays dont 81% ont une musique originale. « Au même titre que la pro...
Les temps forts du salon IDIFF
Pour la12e édition découvrez le futur de l'image animée les 28 & 29 janvier 2014 au Dock Pullman : à travers ses conférences et ses ateliers, IDIFF apporte un éclairage sur les évolutions techniques de vos métiers. Inscrivez-vous. Badge gratuit. Gravity, fabrication du film événement de 2013 Le film Gravity a marqué les esprits tant par la qualité du reli...
Sensibilisation au montage: un stage de formation dirigé par Nathalie HUREAU proposé par la Maison du film court
La Maison du film court présente Sensibilisation au montage, un stage de formation dirigé par Nathalie HUREAU En mars 2014 - Candidatures en cours - OBJECTIFS - Répondre à toutes les questions des auteurs et réalisateurs au sujet du montage, sans apprendre la manipulation d'un logiciel de montage. - Penser au montage dès l'écriture du scénario jusqu'à la forme finale du film. - Enrichir son approche ...
Suivons na EXPERT en images lors de l' inauguration de son nouveau centre de formation
Le 26 novembre dernier, Ina EXPERT a inauguré son nouveau centre de formation en présence notamment du Député-Maire d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, André Santini et d’Olivier Schrameck, Président du CSA. INA Expert, centre de formation professionnelle de l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, a inauguré le 26 novembre ses nouveaux locaux, 21-23 rue Camille Desmoulins à Issy. Découvrez les installations de l'é...
Les temps forts du début d'année à La Cinémathèque française
La Cinémathèque française TEMPS FORTS DÉCEMBRE 2013- FÉVRIER 2014 Dossiers de presse téléchargeables en suivant ce lien : EXPOSITIONS Amos Gitai Architecte de la mémoire L’Exposition Une exposition conçue et présentée à La Cinémathèque française – Musée du cinéma en coproduction avec La Cinémathèque suisse, le Musée de ...
les temps forts du début d'année à La Cinémathèque française
La Cinémathèque française TEMPS FORTS DÉCEMBRE 2013- FÉVRIER 2014 Dossiers de presse téléchargeables en suivant ce lien : EXPOSITIONS Amos Gitai Architecte de la mémoire L’Exposition Une exposition conçue et présentée à La Cinémathèque française – Musée du cinéma en coproduction avec La Cinémathèque suisse, le Musée de...
Appel à soutien et à témoignages. L'audiodescription : travail d'auteur ou procédé ?
Il est d'usage courant que l'auteur(e) du texte de l'audiodescription d'un film ne soit pas un salarié. Il ou elle perçoit, à la commande de l'écriture et pour la cession des droits sur son texte, une rémunération en droits d'auteur. L’AGESSA (Association pour la Gestion de la Sécurité Sociale des auteurs), gère ainsi les cotisations soc...
4 Nominations pour La Vie D'Adèle aux Prix Lumière 2013
NOMINATIONS PRIX LUMIERES POUR L’ANNEE 2013 MEILLEUR FILM 9 mois ferme de Albert DUPONTEL Grand Central de Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI La vie d’Adèle – Chapitres 1 et 2 de Abdellatif KECHICHE L’Ecume des jours de Michel GONDRY Quai d’Orsay de Bertrand TAVERNIER Renoir de Gilles BOURDOS MEILLEUR REALISATEUR Gilles BOURDOS Albert DUPONTEL Michel GONDRY Abdellatif KECHICHE Bertrand TAVERNIER Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI MEI...
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