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Nicole GARCIA, Jury President for Caméra d’or Award in Cannes

Cannes reveals the list of Films in Official Selection.

Cannes Announces its Final Selection

Cannes announces the Selection for the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection

PARTY GIRL, a first French film to open Un Certain Regard

Marcello? Marcello, Marcello: The 67th Cannes Festival Poster is revealed

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Submit to Studio City Film festival, final deadline is April 5

The Studio City Film Festival will be held at the CAP Studio on Ventura Boulevard and will feature opening night ceremonies, complete with live music. The absolute FINAL deadline is April 5th.

Our last festival featured filmmakers from all over the world and we did our best to make it a great experience for filmmakers and audience members alike.

All genres are welcome. We wish to encourage all cultures and ethnicities. It is our firm belief that the arts are a unifying force that serve to bridge all cultural and ethnic gaps. Special consideration is given to films that present a unique, cutting-edge perspective in its subject matter.
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5th NYC Indie Film Festival October 15 -19 CALLING FOR ENTRIES

The NYC Indie Film Fest is the celebration of the true independent filmmaker. SUBMIT your feature-length, documentary, short, super-short, music video, art video or animation. In addition to showcasing the best indie films to the entertainment industry and the NYC public, the festival will also offer a variety of prizes in 2014.

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Submit to Maui Film Festival June 4-8

The Maui Film Festival believes in the power of Original Cinema.

Original Cinema is the rocket fuel that powers the Maui Film Festival by revealing its character, igniting its passion, focusing its vision and soothing its soul.

Especially when filmmakers explore what it means to be human alongside Humankind's relationship to all Life, Original Cinema can move culture and shift paradigm, moves culture and build a future worthy of generations yet unborn.

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New York: New Directors / New Films, March 19-30, 2014

Now in its 43nd year, the renowned New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet-established filmmakers from around the world. With a focus on diversity, original narratives, and outstanding direction, the programmers from MOMA and the Film Society selected features by innovative film makers from recent film festivals but also from individual sub...

Marcello? Marcello, Marcello: The 67th Cannes Festival Poster is revealed

Hervé Chigioni and his graphic designer Gilles Frappier have based the poster design for the 67th Festival de Cannes on a photogram taken from Federico Fellini’s 8½, which was presented in the Official Selection in 1963. In Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini, we celebrate a cinema that is free and open to the world, acknowledging once again the artistic importance of Italian and European cinema through one of its most stellar figures. ...

Focus on the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS

In a few days Stuttgart will be the global capital of animated film again. From April 22 to 27, 2014 the best animated films from all over the world can be seen at the 21st edition of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) – one of the biggest and most important international festivals for animated film. In more than 200 individual events,out of 2,300 entries, over 1,000 animated films represent the entire spectrum of the genre. Click here for further information: program...

Cine Las Americas International Film -CLAIFF17 - Hecho en Tejas Films Announced

Following an announcement earlier this week of their official Opening/Closing night films, Cine Las Americas announced today the list of titles selected for participation in the Hecho en Tejas program at the 17th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, which runs April 22-27, 2014. For this year, the Hecho en Tejas program showcases 14 films representing work by filmmakers from around the state, including Austin, Arlington, Corinth, Edinburg, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio,...

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CDFF Promo Reel Challenge Winner

The Cellar Door Film Festival is pleased to announce the winner of the Promo Reel Challenge! First place goes to Janet Heatherington for her entry 'No Wine, Just Spirits'. The CDFF congratulates Janet on her creative and entertaining entry. We are excited to use this promo reel to help spotlight Ottawa as a setting for the sinister and the supernatural. View the promo reel here: About Cellar Door Film Festival Cellar Door Film Festival (CDFF) aims to be Ott...

Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling, Piranha) will receive inaugural 2014 Stanley Film Festival Master of Horror award

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) concluded with Awards

FANDRY receives Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature, POWERLESS receives Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. Best Short Film winner, ALCHEMY, will receive a cash grant from HBO. Audience Choice Awards go to SIDDHARTH, FAITH CONNECTIONS, and KUSH The 12 annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) concluded on Sunday evening (April 13) with a red carpet and gala fete that included the Los Angeles premi...

Revolution selected as RIFF AWARDS Nominee

Best Documentary Nominees AXEL BREUERHEROES FOR A SEMESTER MICHAEL ROSSATO-BENNETTALIVE INSIDE ANTHONY POWELLANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE ROB STEWARTREVOLUTION ELENA POGREBIZHSKAIAMAMA, I’M GONNA KILL YOU NANCY BUIRSKIAFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ ...

Aspen Film Announces Aspen Shortsfest Award Winners

23rd Edition of the Shorts-only Festival is a Wrap! Award-winners clockwise from top left: Kármán Line, Me + Her, Sprout, A Tropical Sunday, Our Curse and The Gallant Captain Aspen, Colo. (April 14, 2014) - Aspen Film, a year-round film arts and education organization, announced today the winners of its Aspen Shortsfest International Competition. The 2014 Awards Ceremony was held Sunday, April 13, at Rustique Restaurant i...

Award Winners from 19th FIFOG - 2014

The 9th Edition of FIFOG ended on a high note with the awards ceremony on Saturday, April 12th. It was followed by the last screening day on Sunday. Once again, the festival achieved great success among the public and the media. According to preliminary statistics, FIFOG recorded an increase in public attendance with more than 6500 visitors as well as a strong media presence. Awards Ceremony The Awards ceremony took place at the Grütli Cinemas in a festive atmosphere and the guests...

Go Short Awards

After five days of festival, the sixth edition of Go Short was a great success. Just like last year, the festival has grown. On Saturday 12 April Go Short announced the award winners of the European Competition, the Dutch and the Breaking Short Student Competition, and the Youth Award. These prizes are handed out by two international jury’s and a youth jury. In the European competition, the prize winning fiction film is Pride, Rogalik won the award for best documentary, Hu Wei wa...

MTV Music Awards 2014! WINNER of Best Film, “CATCHING FIRE”

Thank you MTV!!!! Bless you for existing and changing the Rock and Roll world forever! Cheers to the rock stars of the acting world! One World Cinema http://1worldcinema.com ...

Indian lyricist-writer-director Gulzar bags DadaSaheb Phalke award

Gulzar chosen for DadaSaheb Phalke Award, India’s biggest recognition of film personalities’ lifetime contribution to Indian cinema The Man who Defeated the Sun and Stole the Moon Sampooran Singh Kalra, born on 18 August 1936, in Dina (now in Pakistan), is better known by his nom de plume, Gulzar (garden). Dina is located in the northern part of Jhelum District, approximately16 km north of Jhelum City, with a population of under 50,000. In the 40s, the Kalra family fi...

SFFS Announces Winners of 2014 Documentary Film Fund Grants

The San Francisco Film Society today announced the three winners of the 2014 SFFS Documentary Film Fund awards totaling more than $75,000, which support feature-length documentaries in postproduction. The SFFS Documentary Film Fund was created to support singular nonfiction film work that is distinguished by com...

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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Remembering Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez

Quotes It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination." From The Paris Review Interviews, Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 A...

New Board of FIPRESCI

FIPRESCI - the International Federation of Film Critics - held its annual meeting at the Bari International Film Festival (BIFEST, April 5-12, 2014). During the meeting, its new board was elected. President: Alin Tasciyan (Turkey) Vice-Presidents: Dana Linssen (The Netherlands), György Kárpáti (Hungary) The former president Jean Roy has been appointed Honorary President. Alin Tasciyan began working for the "Milliyet Art Review" and "...

Pascal Vicedomini honoured by Ischia

Pascal Vicedomini, founder of the Ischia Global Film and Music Festival (running ion its 12th edition this year 12 - 20, july 201) was awareded the key to the city and Honour Citizenship of the City of Ischia...

Jury of AIM MISFC 2014

Our Honorable Jury panel RAJDUTT, A veteran director, 9 times State honored & twice national award winner as BEST DIRECTOR, NIKHIL WAGLE, a very emphatic opinion maker of the CNN-IBN-LOKMAT NEWS channel & ROHINI HATTANGADI, an actress in her own right, who shared screen space with SIR BEN KINGLEY in the multiple OSCAR AWARD WINNING epic saga of SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH on MAHATMA GANDHI &he...

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Director Fatih Akin Pulls his film "The Cut" OUT from Cannes Film Festival - Why?

Editorial by Laurie Gordon AND VIDEO INTERVIEW: Why has Fatih Akim pulled his buzz buzz film The Cut from the Cannes Film Festival OFFICIAL selection? Was this truly for "personal reasons" as the director has stated? Why on earth? Cineuropa reports that Akin has pulled "The Cut" from Cannes citing "personal reasons," and that's about all the explanation given. T...

“Human Capital”/”Il Capitale Umano” WORLD NARRATIVE COMPETITION at The Tribeca Film Festival 2014

"Human Capital” in Italian with English subtitles, is set in Italy and France, stars two of Italy’s finest actresses, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Carla), and Valeria Golino (Roberta Morelli), and is part of the World Narrative Competition. Divided into four chapters, all the shots are reshot from a different characters perspective, their lives intersect, they all know one another, and they are all in crisis; exploring feelings of loneliness, being a social outcast, losin...

THE END OF FACEBOOK. Ever thought of paying facebook to 'boost' or promote your film and get more likes? THINK AGAIN!

Watch this crazy video and learn how FB is deliberately diluting your fb likes with fake people to reduce your organic reach, even if you pay to 'boost' your likes/fan page. Crazy! http://www.booooooom.com/2014/02/25/end-facebook/ ...

Son of God reviewed

Son of God Making a television series or a feature film on a holy book or a historical figure comes with not one but many occupational hazards, like: *Do you picturise every bit in the text, in order to give a complete picture? Or do you exercise editorial discretion, at the cost of committing the sin of omission? *Do you take everything literally, interpreting the facts to the best of your ability? Or do you go for interpretations and the use of explanatory dialogue/silence, as the narrati...

Ten feature-length music documentary films qualified for the competition DocFilmMusic at the 54th Krakow Film Festival.

This week, the organisers of the festival announce the results of the selection of all four competitions. DocFilmMusic, the youngest of the four competitions of Krakow Film Festival, takes place for the second time. The music documentary films submitted to the selection should be longer than 30 minutes. The winner of this section will get the Grand Prix award The Golden Heynal and a cash prize amounting to 20 000 zloty. "Music film does not have to mean trifling,"...

Film North Announces 2014 Opening Night Feature Screening

Film North, Huntsville International Film Festival announced today their first program leak. Watermark will be the opening night feature film on Thursday September 18th at the Algonquin Theatre, Huntsville, Ontario. Lucy Wing, CEO and founder of Film North said, “Watermark has been secured as our openi...

"A Dream of Warsaw" will open THE Krakow Film Festival

Krakow, 14th April 2014 - "A Dream of Warsaw," a biographical story about Czesław Niemen, one of the most popular Polish singers, will open the 54th Krakow Film Festival, which starts on 25th May. The documentary by Krzysztof Makowski will also take part in Polish competition. "A Dream of Warsaw" is the first extensive biographical film about Czesław Niemen, the icon of Polish popular music. The opportunity to make this film is the 10th anniversary of the musici...

Sheffield Doc/Fest opens with PULP

PULP A FILM ABOUT LIFE, DEATH AND SUPERMARKETS Saturday 7 June, City Hall On Saturday 7th June at the magnificent City Hall the 21st Sheffield Doc/Fest will officially open with the European Premiere of PULP. A Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, attended by the director Florian Habicht, producer Alex Boden of Pistachio Pictures Production and band-members: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber. This opening night event will b...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2014 at Barclay’s

The entire show WAS OFF THE CHARTS, but especially, "Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band," as they rocked out “E Street Shuffle,” “The River,” and “Kitty’s Back”. The 5 hour Induction will be condensed down to 2 hours and shown on Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 9pm EST on HBO. The manager for James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt, Peter Asher, got the evening started, followed by Peter Gabriel, who stated he &ldq...

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Ouverture de la Fondation Jerome Seydoux-Pathe le 9 septembre

La Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, qui œuvre depuis 2006 à la conservation et à la mise à disposition du public du patrimoine historique de Pathé, ouvrira ses portes dans le treizième arrondissement de Paris. Au 73 avenue des Gobelins, à la place de l'ancien Théâtre des Gobelins, la Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé s'étendra sur u...

La 26ème édition du festival Cinelatino s'est achevée après dix jours indéniablement intenses.

Vous nous avez témoigné votre enthousiasme et votre plaisir à partager cet événement, fruit de l'association des énergies débordantes des bénévoles, professionnels et nombreux partenaires qui oeuvrent pour le festival. Nous vous remercions sincèrement pour votre soutien, votre implication, votre générosité, votre confiance renouve...

Métier : Réalisateur, quand les maîtres du cinéma se racontent par Mike Goodridge...chez Dunod

Métier : Réalisateur Quand les maîtres du cinéma se racontent Mike Goodridge Prix: 25.90 € En librairie : le 23 avril 2014 EAN : 9782100705009 Pages : 192 L...

Top 10 des entrées hebdo France du 09/08/2014 au 15/04/2014

Kitarô KÔSAKA, (LE VENT SE LEVE) invité d'honneur de Japan Expo

Venez rencontrer Kitarô KÔSAKA du 2 au 6 juillet En conférence et dédicace Kitarô KÔSAKA rejoint le studio Oh! Production juste après ses études au lycée de Fukaya, dans la préfecture de Saitama. Il fait ses premiers pas en tant que directeur de l'animation sur la série Sherlock Holmes (1984-1985) et commence à travailler en indépendant en 1986. Grâce à la qualité de ...

Premier coup de projecteur sur les 28e Journées Romantiques de Cabourg du 11 au 15 Juin 2014

Le Festival du Film de Cabourg se déroulera du 11 au 15 juin 2014. Evénement cinématographique professionnel et grand public, le festival accueille chaque année près de 11 000 spectateurs, pour des projections en salles et en plein air de films ayant pour thème central, l’amour. Lieu mythique depuis que Marcel Proust y rédigea ses feuillets sur À la Recherche du temps pe...

2014 marque une nouvelle étape pour la Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma.

La Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma est une des deux fondation du Groupe Groupama, et constitue, avec la Fondation Groupama pour la Santé, les deux piliers de sa politique de mécénat, qui traduisent ses engagements culturels et humanitaires. En 2014, La Fondation poursuit son engagement en faveur du 7ème art, avec de nouvelles ambitions. Fidèle à sa mission d’origine, elle recentre son action sur l&...

Le Cinéma français présent en force avec UniFrance Films au Festival International du Film de Pékin

Le Festival International du Film de Pékin, qui se tient du 16 au 23 avril et qui fête cette année sa 4e édition, sera placé sous le signe de la France et des célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire des relations diplomatiques entre la France et la République populaire de Chine. Pour l’occasion, et à l’invitation d’UniFrance Films, de n...

Côté court, du 11 au 21 juin - Compétitions et panorama !

1402 films étaient inscrits cette année pour participer aux deux compétitions ou au Panorama. 58 films ont été retenus pour les compétitions et 38 pour le Panorama. Une goutte d’eau, une sélection, un ligne artistique, un regard... Côté court ! > Nous découvrons de nouveaux talents, d’autres s’affirment, tracent un sillon ou reviennent entre deux longs... > Les soirées officie...

Centenaire Henri Langlois, collector 4 timbres

« Henri Langlois a donné chaque vingt-quatrième seconde de sa vie pour sortir toutes ces voix de leurs nuits silencieuses, pour les projeter dans le ciel blanc du seul musée où se rejoignent enfin le réel et l’imaginaire.» JEAN-LUC GODARD Henri Langlois fut un personnage savant et dénué d’ esprit de sérieux, intempestif et opiniâtre, àl’instar&...

Fritz lang à l'Institut Lumière

Le Palmarès du FIFOG 2014

La 9ème édition du FIFOG s’est terminée en beauté avec la cérémonie de remise des prix samedi 12 avril, suivie de la dernière journée de projection le dimanche. Cette édition remporte une fois de plus un immense succès publique et médiatique. Selon les premiers indices, le FIFOG enregistre une fois de plus une augmentation de la fréquentati...

La Mante Religieuse fait le plein d'avant premières enflammées

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Le temps à Cannes sera beau, chaud, ensoleillé et très glamour pour le 67ème festival

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