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> THE BERLIN PREVIEW

PREVIEW BERLINALE NEWSLETTER N°1

OPENING BERLINALE NEWSLETTER N°2

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> THE FANTASPORTO PREVIEW

The Day by Day program of Fantasporto 2014

The Day by Day program of Fantasporto 2014 is online here ...

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> THE CLERMONT FERRAND DAILIES

Clermont Ferrand 2014 Awards

Grand Prix La Lampe au beurre de yak Hu Wei / France, China / 2013 / Fiction / 16'00 A young itinerant photographer and his assistant offer to photograph some Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds. Special Jury Prize Molii Carine May , Mourad Boudaoud , Yassine Qnia , Hakim Zouhani&nb...

Jury of the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival

Meet the Jury JENS ASSUR RÉALISATEUR, SCÉNARISTE, PRODUCTEUR, PHOTOGRAPHE SUÈDE Né en 1970 à Östersund. Photographe reconnu mondialement, il a obtenu le Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award au Sundance Film Festival en 2012 pour ses deux premiers courts métrages et le scénario de son premier long métrage Close Far Away. www.studiojensassur.se ...

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> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT

HAFF selections shorts and features 2014 completed

Of more than 1,000 entries the selections have been completed for the international competitions for features and shorts. The Grand Prixs will be presented on Sunday March 23rd, the last day of the festival. Selection Features Eleven films have been selected for the international competition feature films, from romantic comedy and road movie to a documentary. For instance: Is the Man Who is Tall Happy by Michel Gondry is an an...

The Reel Artists Film Festival in Toronto is only a week away!

Image from Chimeras courtesy Mika Mattila and Navy Blue Bird Inc. Don't miss the chance to see World, North American and Canadian film premieres and to meet curator Germano Celant, artists Kehinde Wiley, Michael Landy and Richard Deacon, and other famed art world figures who will be speaking after the screenings. Read David Balzer's interview with Richard Deacon, and visit canadianart.ca/raff for tickets and program. Buy tickets now Opening Night Scree...

17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, March 13-20, 2014 Presented by the American Sephardi Federation the 17th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is now the only annual festival of its kind. A banquet for filmgoers, this year’s festival will feature world renowned singer Enrico Macias on opening night and productions from France, Israel, Greece, Austria, and Spain. Rarely seen in the United States, the 16 films will share unforgettable stories of Bukhari, Iraqi, Iranian...

San Diego Latino Film Festival is coming of age this March

THE 21 Annual SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (March 13-23) WILL BE FUN AND FULL OF COMEDIES IN 2014 MEDIA ARTS Center San Diego's San Diego Latino Film Festival is coming of age this March, turning the big 2-1, and it will be fun and full of comedies in honor of recent Latino box office hits Instructions Not Included in the U.S. and Nosotros Los Nobles in Mexico. You can expect comed...

Pan African Film & Arts Festival Opening Night Recap

Opening Night at PAFF Was A Hit (l-r) PAFF Executive Director Ayuko Babu, PAFF Life Time Achievement Award recipient Charles Dutton & Opening Night film director Jamil XT Qubeka (left) Rocky Carroll, 2012 Lifetime Achievement award recipient Loretta Devine & Charles Dutton (right) CCH Ponder, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Charles Dutton & PAFF Co-Founder Ja'Net DuBois (left) PAFF Life Time Achievement Award recipient Charles D...

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> THE PARTNER FESTIVALS

Based in Schull, West Cork, Ireland The festival is now looking for entries. Submissions deadline date 3rd of March. Filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit their short films of 15 minutes and under. The Festival will run for 5 days over the last weekend in May from Wednesday, 21st to Sunday 25th of May 2014. This year to improve the submission process, you may enter either directly through the website at www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com or withoutabox.com. email helen.wells@fastnetshortfilmfestival.com Visit the website www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com

Submit your Best Trailers to the 15th Golden Trailer Award

Rules for Entry for 15th Annual Golden Trailer Awards Rules for Trailer/TV Spot/Video Game Entries Trailers must be under 4 minutes and 30 seconds long (no exceptions) Creation dates for Trailers/Teasers/TV spots/Video Game Trailers: In order to be eligible, the above mentioned must be created between March 8th, 2013 through April 11th, 2014.
That is the creation date of the trailer NOT the film (or video game).

In order to be eligible for SUMMER 2014 BLOCKBUSTER which is for a Film RELEASE date between May 2nd, 2014 until September 1st, 2014 (the upcoming 2014 summer Blockbuster Season). The trailer must be made for a film being released this Summer 2014.
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MANHATTAN SHORT 2014 Calling For Entries - Early Deadline is March 1, Regular Deadline July 31st

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2014 - Early Call For Entries - Deadline March 1, 2014
During one week this year, over 100,000 film lovers will gather in over 300 cinemas across 6 continents to view and vote on the finalists' films in the 17th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. For all those with a short film who want their work viewed on a global scale - nothing quite compares to MANHATTAN SHORT.
Click Here to register your film for the 2014 Festival

The 5th New York City International Film Festival May 29 - June 5, 2014

Submit your work directly online : Narrative or Documentaries Features, animated and Shorts, TV Shows - TV Series Pilots, TV Pilots - TV Series - Web series

The 5th NYCIFF has a well earned reputation, nationally and internationally, as one of the most respected events of the film festival year. The organization is committed to bringing the best of the world’s cinematography to New York City and to provide a platform for talented domestic and international filmmakers to showcase their work.
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN NOW: Submissions end february 15, 2014

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN NOW: Submit to NYCIFF St Lucia july 24 -27, 2014

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...

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

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> THE AWARDS WATCH

'Living is Easy with Closed Eyes' gets 6 Goya Awards

The beautiful film telling the story of this English teacher who travels Spain ti meet John Lenon at a set in Almería and ask him to add lyrics to his LP´s. Based on a true story written and directed by David Trueba who won this 2 Goya Awards(Best Director and Best screenplay). Javier Cámara won his first Goya for Best Actor for the portrait of this teacher and Natalia de Molina won hers as a New Actress. The sixth Goya was to ...

Cinequest Debuts Media Legacy Award

Harry Knowles, Eric Kohn and Kenneth Turan, Inaugural Recipients Without the tireless brilliance and passion of great film journalists, so many of the films audiences enjoy and experience would remain unheard and unwatched. Cinequest turns the spotlight on the heroes of original, smart, innovative and meaningful cinema; the champions who provide audiences and, thus, life blood for artists and films. These champions have been instrumental in connecting audiences with beloved movies and art...

San Diego Jewish Film Festival juried competitive program of short films gave 5 Awards

The 24th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will run February 6-16, 2014. Sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. February 10th, a day was devoted to short films (THE JOYCE FORUM), which was a juried competitive program of short films. During the day, Programs One and Two were be shown at the Arclight Cinemas and Program Three was held at the David and...

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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Béla Tarr will preside over the jury of The Sarajevo Film Festival

20th Sarajevo Film Festival will run 15-23 August 2014 Sarajevo Film Festival has the pleasure of announcing that this year's President of the Jury for Competition Programme – Feature Film will be one of the most significant directors of our time and founder of the film.factory at the Sarajevo School for Science and Technology (SSST) Béla Tarr. The 2013 Sarajevo Film Festival presented its highest honour - Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award to Béla Tarr. ...

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> FILM TO WATCH

MENTHOL: Mumblecore at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Director Micah Van Hove and cast of "Menthol." If you ever wondered if it would be interesting if you recorded your friends partying the answer is… kind of. Mumblecore is defined by Urban Dictionary as “A genre of independent films in which the characters are involved in a personal crisis. Known for their realistic point of view, these movies are the eyes of the just-out-of-college generation.” As we sat down for the full-house world premiere of MENTHOL ...

High Flight a short animation (7 minutes) written and directed by three time Academy Award nominee Gerald Potterton

High Flight, a short animation (7 minutes) written and directed by three time Academy Award nominee Gerald Potterton, based on the poem by John Magee an American pilot who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

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