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> THE AWARDS WATCH
Caleb Deschanel to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Camerimage
Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, announced today that five-time Oscar® nominee Caleb Deschanel will receive the coveted ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at this year’s Festival taking place November 15th – 22nd. In addition to receiving Camerimage’s prestigious ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’, Deschanel will present screenings of his films followed by a Q&A with the festival audience at the 22nd edition ...
Jackson Hole Science Media Awards 2014 Finalists Announced
Program/Content Finalists Have Been Announced! Crafts Category Finalists Announced August 15th CONTENT CATEGORY FINALISTS: Best Earth Sciences Program
(Including Geology, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Meteorology) Your Inner Fish: Your Inner Reptile Tangled Bank Studios & Windfall Films, for PBS The Day the Mesozoic Died Howard Hughes Medical Institute David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D C...
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Victoria Film Festival 2015 Call for Entries August 7
For over 20 years, The Victoria Film Festival, has brought the best in narratives, documentaries and shorts every year to Victoria and Vancouver Island during it’s ten day celebration of film. Eclectic and inspiring, the Festival hosts an array of guests that includes film directors, producers, distributors, festival and TV programmers.
Earlier is better! (And cheaper.) Send in your entries to the 2015 VFF before the Earlybird deadline of July 9th.
Additional Deadlines are:
Regular postmark deadline: August 7th, 2014
Late postmark deadline: September 11th, 2014
Extended Deadline: September 17th, 2014
Victoria Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.victoriafilmfestival.com/
L Europe autour de l' Europe Festival calling for entry for 2015
Film submission deadline: December 15, 2014 Subscription fee : free Participation rules: 1) Production: 47 countries of the Council of Europe 2) Screening formats : 35mm, 16mm, DCP, Quicktime, BluRay, Beta SP, Digibeta, DVD 3) Screeners : DVD, BluRay or link with French or English subtitles Address : Evropa Film Akt / Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe 22 rue Deparcieux 75014 Paris, France E-mail : leuropeautourdeleurope@gmail.com...
Evropa Film Akt's blog I Website http://evropafilmakt.com
Cucalorus Film Festival November 12 - 16, 2014 Downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, USA Extended Deadline is August 6
The non-competitive festival showcases more than 200 films from all over the world and attracts an accumulated audience of 14,800 cultural travelers who come to celebrate the art-form and connect with peers. The festival's spirited celebration has been recognized as a breeding ground for young artists, new ideas and lifelong friendships. Festival programs focus on dance, music videos, emerging artists, social justice, works-in-progress, and international cinema. Cucalorus creates an opportunity for intimate engagement between audience and artist through the festival’s retreat-like atmosphere, resulting in friendships that extend far beyond the festival’s 5-day celebration.
Submit
Cucalorus Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.cucalorus.org/
Last few days to submit a film to Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival August 15
The most unique difference between entering FLIFF and your ordinary film festival, is opportunity. When you submit your film to FLIFF you are automatically entered for consideration into: 29th Annual FLIFF November 7 - 23, 2014 Withoutabox logos are trademarks of Withoutabox, a DBA of IMDb.com Inc. or its affiliates. However, if you would prefer just to go direct with FLIFF, you can download an entry form right here. Entry Form (Adobe Acrobat) or Entry Form (MS Word).
August 15th...withoutabox.com Extended Deadline / Students have up till September 15th.
August 15th...withoutabox.com Extended Deadline / Students have up till September 15th.
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.fliff.com/
18th Annual Hollywood Film Festival – October 16 - 19, 2014 - Next Deadline August 15!
The Festival will showcase the best in regional and international cinema, presenting a unique combination of socially conscious filmmakers, emerging artists and master storytellers in the film capital of the world. In addition to film presentations, HFF will launch a Summit, connecting industry professionals to filmmakers, educators to change makers and producers to investors. The Festival embraces the new Hollywood, while celebrating the golden age. The historic Cinerama Dome plays host to Opening Night; and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home to the first Oscar ceremony, will help to close the Festival in style. Submit today! Extended Late Deadline August 15, 2014
Link to WAB submission page
The Hollywood Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.hollywoodfest.com/
LA Femme International Film Festival October 16 -19, 2014 Beverly Hills - Extended Late Deadline August 16
LA Femme International Film Festival is a premier festival that focuses on platforming women filmmakers “by women, for everyone”. Our Festival was created in 2005, when it became apparent that there was a need to enhance women behind the camera as Directors, Producers, and Writers.
LA Femme Film Festival is more than a festival it is an emergence of artistic, professional women who can make a difference in the entertainment community by creating productions that speak to a world wide audience. We will be the only festival of its kind to not only platform existing films and artists but will also distribute and mentor such films and artists.
Aug 16th- extended deadline
Aug 23rd – I forgot deadline
La Femme Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.lafemme.org/
> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
SAVAGE CINEMA presents the line-up of its second edition
A selection of six films reflecting the principles of SAVAGE CINEMA; to showcase unique, compelling lifestyles while at the same time redefining the very realms of possibility in action sports films Images in high resolution The second instalment of SAVAGE CINEMA focuses on real life adventure narratives in outdoor sports. On Any Sunday - The Next Chapter and Valley Uprising explore deep, intricate heritage, while Higher, starring pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones, showcases today's eli...
Special event in Locarno: Democracy without borders
Difret by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari During the 67th edition of the Festival del film Locarno, a special event will be organized in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Sunday, 10 August, the Ethiopian film Difret, by Zerezenay Berhane Mehari, will be presented in a special screening and followed by a panel discussion with the director, the producer of the film Mehret Mandefro, as well as Navi ...
New York: Japan Cuts
Presented by New York’s Japan Society with some corporate support from UNIQLO, Sapporo, Sony and private assistance, the eighth edition of Japan Cuts, The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema was held from July 10-20. Its program featured 27 feature films, of which 17 were not shown before in the US, and overlapped with the New York Asian Film Festival which carried 13 of the Japan Cuts selections. Among the few festivals celebrating Japanese films in the United S...
Submission Deadline Approaches for Cellar Door Film Festival!
The submission deadline for Ottawa's Cellar Door Film Festival (CDFF) approaches quickly! CDFF wants to remind filmmakers that the deadline to submit for the inaugural edition of the festival is August 15th. 2014 promises to be a strong year for Ottawa's first festival of speculative cinema. The CDFF team is very excited by the range of local, national, and international films that have been submitted thus far, so it encourages prospective filmmakers to sub...
Mumbai Women's International Film Festival, 2014
Women’s Film Festival returns to Mumbai The second edition of the Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (MWIFF), an 8-day event, organised by Oculus Creations, is slated for 6th to 13th December, 2014, with the goal of showcasing women's talent behind the camera and giving them the spotlight they deserve. The competitive category includes Short Films, Documentary Films, and Feature Films; the non- competitive category includes World Cine-busters, Wor...
NewFest 2014: The NY LGBT Film festival July 24-29
NewFest opened July 24th with presentation of Future Beach by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, about a lifeguard who falls in love with a German tourist in the aftermath of a tragedy. Wonderful tribute to admired queer filmmaker Ira Sachs, who is this year's recipient of the 3rd Annual NewFest visionary award. "Cinema is a place of freedom" said Sachs during his acceptance speech prior to the opening night film-"What I have learned over the last 25 years is that queer ...
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> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Berlinale Talents: Florian Weghorn is the new programme manager / Application round for Berlinale Talents 2015 underway
Florian_Weghorn-Copyright_Gerhard_Kassner On July 1, 2014, Florian Weghorn took over as programme manager for Berlinale Talents. Weghorn was formerly deputy head of the section Generation. Together with project manager Christine Tröstrum, Florian Weghorn will be responsible for the general direction of Berlinale Talents for the future. "Florian Weghorn brings his programming experience and knowledge of the festival to Berlinale Talents. We're very happy that through him...
Roman Polanski, the film Maestro at Locarno
© Guy Ferrandis One of the most influential figures in film history, Roman Polanski, accompanied by the actress Emmanuelle Seigner, will be a guest of honor at the 67° Festival del film Locarno, where he will give a talk about film that is open to the public. Director, actor, producer and screenwriter, Roman Polanski has had a profound impact on the history of modern cinema. His unmistakable humor and ability to master such a range of different styles, while always retain...
From Shock to Anger: The Case of Oleg Sentsov
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who has been involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev and has opposed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, was arrested by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) in his house in Simferopol on 10 May and brought to Moscow where he is still detained and awaiting trial. Continuing our series introducing the members of the Board of the European Film Academy, EFA Deputy Chairman Mike Downey (pictured) talks about Se...
Hippolyte Girardot will attend Montreal showing of Resnais’ last film Aimer, boire et chanter
Montreal World Film Festival president Serge Losique and director-general Danièle Cauchard are pleased to announce that a posthumous tribute will be paid to Alain Resnais at this year’s Festival to mark his extraordinary career. Actor and personal friend of Resnais, Hippolyte Girardot, will attend the film’s showing to accept the Festival’s award in Resnais’ honour. One of the giants of French cinema, Resnais began his career in the late 1950s and consolidated h...
Montreal FFM pays Tribute to Michael J. Werner
The Montreal World Film Festival will pay tribute to international distributor-producer Michael J. Werner, chairman of film sales of Fortissimo Films. The veteran America-born producer has been located in Hong Kong over the past two decades from where he guided the production and distribution of Asian films to markets around the world. “Michael J. Werner is an essential figure in the world of independent cinema, a shining example of how to make and distribute quality fil...
Jury of the 38th Montreal World Film Festival
Sergio Castellitto, president The Montreal World Film Festival is pleased to announce that Franco-Algerian director-producer Rachid Bouchareb, Andréanne Bournival, grande dame of Quebec television and cinema, and noted Icelandic producer Fridrik Thor Fridriksson will complete the international jury of the 38th Festival. These three join already announced jurors, actresses Ana Torrent and Jane Zhang under the presidency of Italian actor and director Sergio Castellitt...
Revelation Perth International Film Festival announces the appointment of a new Chairman to its Board of Director
Joining the Revelation Board is the former State Manager for Paramount Pictures and United International Pictures Ian Hale. Having built a formidable reputation over his years in the industry, Ian is about to embark on his own production as Managing Director of The Backlot Perth, a 50-seat, state-of-the-art cinema designed for not only for corporate film screenings and presentation use but also to service film makers with post-production and editing facilities. The announcement of the new Ch...
Giancarlo Giannini at Locarno for the Excellence Award
Italian actor and director Giancarlo Giannini will attend the 67° Festival del film Locarno as one of the guests of honor of the Titanus retrospective and will receive an Excellence Award Moët & Chandon. Following his successes in the theater, directed by Zeffirelli, and on television, Giancarlo Giannini made his film debut in 1965 in Gino Mangini’s I criminali della metropoli. In 1967 his talents as a singer and dancer led him to take on the ...
> FILMS IN FOCUS
Sundance Film Festival – Hong Kong Selects will offer the Hong Kong premieres of eight new films direct from the 2014 Festival
Sundance Institute and The Metroplex To Present Sundance Film Festival – Hong Kong Selects New American Independent Films Debut in Hong Kong September 19-28, 2014 Sundance Institute and The Metroplex will present Sundance Film Festival – Hong Kong Selects, a screening series of new American independent films accompanied by a delegation of filmmakers and Festival organizers from September 19 to 28, 2014, at the newly opened cineplex in Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong. Drawing o...
Thirteen films compete for the Kutxa New Directors Award
The selection of films making up the New Directors section was presented today. The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, revealed the titles of the films to compete for the Kutxa New Directors Award, decided by a specific international jury. The Award comes with €50,000. At the coming Festival, the New Directors section will propose thirteen first or second works by a new generation of filmmakers. With this ...
EFA Master Class on Virtual Production
High Value for Your Budget Virtual production allows filmmakers to interact in real time with their virtual film world, blurring not only the boundaries between real and virtual world, but also within the production pipeline between pre-production, production and post-production. How has this influenced the production workflows and how can it be put to use to the best creative effect and production value? Those were only two of the questions addressed by the EFA Master Class 2014 HIG...
Between Dream State and "In Development" Orson Welles and Cheap Champagne
Making Films is not, has not, and will never be easy even in our climate change of instant images and even faster results. We believe everyone"else" is outputting nonstop 24/7 in the dawning of nano-technology and Youtube. For a creative driven mind-soul or woeful personality (is that not the same thing?) The key to all of these funsense is FOCUS and VISION luck and timing if it happens before you die. So what is this all about? Well maybe its a pick me up for writers an...
The Dealer - World Premiere - Visit the Parisian Underbelly of Drugs, Thugs and Hoods - Not Just Boys -
The world premiere of DEALER will take place on Tuesday, July 29th at 9:40pm at the DB Clarke Theater, with Jean Luc Herbulot and Dan Bronchinson (also the lead actor) attending and introducing the film. Fantasia described the film as "a sturdy thriller that drags its audience full-steam ahead through a Parisian underbelly filled with hoods and thugs, marking the powerful arrival of one of the most promising new voices in French genre cinema. A feature-film baptism filled with noise and fur...
Locarno Pre-Festival Piazza Grande screenings with Indiana Jones and François Truffaut
Sunday 3 August and Tuesday 5 August will see the traditional Piazza Grande event with two free screenings to serve as a taster for the 67° Festival del film Locarno: Raiders of the Lost Ark and The 400 Blows. As usual the Locarno Festival offers its residents and visitors two free evenings on the Piazza Grande which offer a privileged foretaste of the 67th edition (6 – 16 August). The first Pre-Festival evening, on Sunday 3 August, goes Hollywood with a screening of...
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> LES NOUVELLES DU CIRCUIT FRANCOPHONE
Hippolyte Girardot sera présent pour l'hommage à Alain Resnais au Festival des films du monde
Serge Losique, président du CA et Danièle Cauchard, directrice générale, ont le plaisir d’annoncer qu’un hommage posthume sera rendu à Alain Resnais afin de souligner la carrière extraordinaire du réalisateur. L’acteur et ami d’Alain Resnais, Hippolyte Girardot viendra à Montréal représenter le réalisateur et accepter ce prix en son honneur. ...
Hommage à Mpntral à Michael J. Werner
Afin de souligner la contribution majeure de Michael J. Werner au rayonnement du cinéma asiatique, le Festival des films du monde rend hommage au prolifique producteur américain installé depuis une vingtaine d’années à Hong Kong, avec une sélection de films dont le rayonnement artistique et culturel a su dépasser les frontières de l’Asie. En faisant cette annonce, le président du Festival Monsieur Serge Losique a d&eac...
Le jury de la 38ème édition du FFM
Sergio Castellitto, président La direction du Festival des films du monde a le plaisir d’annoncer la présence de Rachid Bouchareb, réalisateur et producteur franco-algérien, d’Andréanne Bournival, grande dame de la télévision et du cinéma québécois ainsi que du réalisateur et producteur islandais Fridrik Thor Fridriksson qui complètent le Jury international du 38ème FFM. Ces trois no...
Bilan et remerciements de la Présidente Régine Petit
Chers Amis, Chers Partenaires, La première édition du Festival du Film Vietnamien vient de s’achever sous le signe du succès. Devant près de 1500 spectateurs venus suivre les 9 longs métrages, les 3 documentaires en compétition ainsi que de grands classiques de films franco vietnamiens, nous sommes fiers de vous avoir révélé ce cinéma qui vous a bouleversé, ému, fait rire, informé...
Diaporama Le Festival du Film du Vietnam à St Malo en images
Photos by Aurélie Lounas - M Bloch - Valérie Lavalou et Bruno Chatelin ...
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