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> Annecy International Animated Film Festival 15th to 20th June 2015 

Animaze Daze in Annecy, screenings at Annecy Off

The following films screened in the Animaze Daze Selection. INTERFACE by Mel Hsieh  2:28 BIGSHOT (Ep1-Ep6) by Maurice Huvelin 13:30 Tears of Inge by Alisi Telengut 4:21 FLIPPING by JIN KYU AHN  8:00 The Urge 2 - It Lies Within by Christopher Angus 8:00   Best of Animaze Beauty - Rino Stefano Tagliafierro - Italie/Italy 2014 9:49 House of Unconsciousness -   Priit Tender - Estonie/Estonia - 201...

The Urge It Lies Within - Selected Animaze Daze at Annecy OFF

The Urge It Lies Within Director: Christopher Angus During a bizarre series of events a vampire discovers that harmless forest creatures, and even his own body, have turned against him.   <p><img alt="" src="/files/images/u72458/animaze-daze-winner-in-Annecy-orange_0.jpg" /></p> ...

 

BIG SHOT Selected for Animaze Daze at Annecy OFF 2015

Big Shot Director: Maurice Huvelin Maurice Huvelin was born in Paris. He graduated from Orléans Art School, where he is now a professor. Since 1985 he has been an indie producer and maker of particular, nonsensical and poetic movies. His films have been awarded at international festivals and screened on European TV. Only recently has he made the leap into animated images. BIGHORROR is the first episod of BIGSHOT SERIES, Prix du Jury at Web Program Festival&nbs...

 

Tears of Inge Animaze Daze Selected for screening at Annecy OFF

Running Time: 04 minutes 21 seconds Production Country: Canada Production Year: 2013 June Director and Producer: Alisi Telengut Film Contact: Alisi Telengut Film Synopsis Logline: A mother camel rejects her baby after a painful childbirth. Short Synopsis: A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel's emotion and tears. It is based on a real Mongolian nomadic story narrated by my grandmother. Short Synopsis (Français): C...

 

Flipping selected at Animaze Daze at Annecy 2015

Flipping is enjoying a successful festival run having been selected for Animaze Daze in Annecy France June 17-18 during Annecy OFF - Director Jin Kyu Ahn is based in California and a graduate from the California Institute for the Arts.  PROJECT WEBSITE: http://jinkyuahn.com/JIN-KYU-AHN ...

 

Winning Selected Shorts Animaze Daze in Annecy 2015

The five winning selected animation films for Animaze Daze at the Annecy OFF edition 2015   June 18 & 19 on Le Cynge   Flipping   Director: JIN KYU AHN Jin Kyu Ahn, an artist, an animator, and a filmmaker is based in Los Angeles. He has been focusing on new and experimental work through combination of various medium and genre such as poem, video, installation, and performance.  Jin Kyu Ahn was born in Pohang, South Korea, 1977....

 

Animaze Daze in Annecy, screenings at Annecy Off Ambiance and Winners

 

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Animation Day in Cannes discusses the next edition with SPFA

Laurie Gordon (LEFT) Animaze Festival Director, Corinne Kouper (Teamto, producer of Gus...) with Stéphane Le Bars Délégué Général of SFPA were discussing the future of Animation Day in Cannes following the SPFA presentation in Annecy.   ...

> Los Angeles Film Festival June  10 - 18, 2015 

Pocha winner of two prizes at LA Fest: audience award and jury prize

POCHA- MANIFEST DESTINY from Michael Dwyer and Kaitlin McLaughlin was awarded with two (2) prizes at the LA Film Fest!  The coveted AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FICTION FILM and BEST DIRECTORS JURY PRIZE to Michael Dwyer and Kaitlin McLaughlin! This modern day crime thriller features a breakout performance from a brand new actress - VERONICA SIXTOS - who will be this year's actress to watch.  This is Veronica's first feature role and she gives a great per...

 

OUT OF MY HAND LAFF Winner of the Grand Jury Prize Award

Written and directed by Takeshi Fukunaga Working as tree tapper on a rubber plantation in Liberia, West Africa, Cisco struggles to make a decent life for himself and his family. Despite his and his fellow workers’ attempt at unionizing, the rubber corporation maintains a stranglehold over their lives, keeping their dreams of a brighter future at bay. But when a well-timed visit from an American cousin opens Cisco’s eyes to a better future abroad, he seizes the one chance he has to...

 

LA Fest Day 8

    Awards Reception Audience Award winners for Best Documentary directors Lilibet Foster (Be Here Now) and Natalie Johns (I Am Thalente) with doc subject/skateboarder Thalente Biyela speak onstage at the Awards Cocktail Reception sponsored by LMU School of Film and Television   Seoul Searching Gala Dir...

 

LA Fest 2015 it s a wrap...rap video

Winners of the Los Angeles Film Festival

Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, produced by Film Independent with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. LIVE, announced the winners of the 2015 Festival at the Awards Cocktail Reception. Associate Director of Programming, Roya Rastegar, and Senior Programmer, Jennifer Cochis, hosted the awards ceremony. The Awards Cocktail was sponsored by Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television.   “Our mission includes connecting filmmakers wi...

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Call for Entries for this year’s Savage Cinema

The World of Film Festival October 1-4 2015

June 20, 2015 Regular Deadline

The World of Film Festival, formerly known as Commonwealth Film & Theatre Festival Glasgow is coming back for its second edition October 1-4 2015. In four days full of film screenings, theatre performances, live events, panel discussions and networking receptions WoFF will bring new, more vibrant and youthful vibe to the city’s emerging film and theatre scene.

WoFF’s errand is to bring together audiences from Glasgow’s multi-stranded art scene, while at the same time engaging people with powerful background in film and theatre that will bring fresh ideas, filling the gaps in Glasgow’s film and theatre events’ agenda.

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The Montreal World Film Festival 
August 27, September 7

The regulations and entry forms to submit a film to the 2015 edition of the MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL are available for download. Please follow the links to get a copy. 
- 2015 REGULATIONS
- ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2015 MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
- ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2015 CANADIAN STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL

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Hollyshorts 
August 13-22, 2015

The 11th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival and Film Conference/Film Market, scheduled for August 13-22, 2015 at the world famous TCL Chinese Theatre and Roosevelt Hotel, is now accepting submissions. (www.withoutabox.com/login/4655)   2014 HSFF, 3 times named to MovieMaker Magazine “Top 25 Fests Worth the Entry Fee” lists, featured over 400 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, and Felicia Day.  HSFF awarded over $150,000 in prizes, including $50,000 in post services courtesy of COMPANY 3 and METHOD STUDIOS for Best Short, Director, Music Video, Cinematography, VFX, and Commercial. Shorts HD distribution deals for winners and Final Draft prizes for Screenplay Contest winners.  

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Pseudonym, for festival consideration

First feature by french actor director Thierry Sebban. Produced by la Petite Reine (The Artist) and Diabolo Films (The Suicide Shop).
Synopsis:  Alex is a divorced father, a stressed executive. His daily routine is work, work, work. Tonight he's in a hurry, he's due to meet a beautiful young stranger... who contacted him via the internet. But this blind date will flip him into a downward spiral and disrupt forever the course of his life.  Thriller, 75 min., Scope, Dolby 5.1  Directed by Thierry Sebban  Starring: Simon Abkarian, Igor Skreblin, Perrine Tourneux... Email us for a screener

Rooted in Peace by Greg Reitman

ROOTED in PEACE, 97 minutes - 2015

Documentary by SUNDANCE alum GREG REITMAN (Sundance Audience Award Winner for fhis first documentary 'Fuel')

Starring: Deepak Chopra, Donovan, Mike Love, David Lynch, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, Pete Seeger, Ted Turner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"ROOTED in PEACE challenges viewers to examine their values as Americans and human beings. Today we are at war within ourselves, with our environment, and with the world. Director and award-winning filmmaker Greg Reitman invites viewers on a film journey to take notice of the world we live in, proactively seek ways to find personal and ecological peace, and stop the cycle of violence".

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June Selection of Films for your consideration

Ikusmira Berriak presents its project selection

The four projects to take part in the 2015 residencies programme have now been selected. Oskar Alegría, Marianne Slot and Paz Lázaro made up the committee of experts. The programme will incorporate a new feature: the REC Post-production Award. In February this year we presented the IKUSMIRA BERRIAK project, organised in collaboration by Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture, the San Sebastian Festival and the San Sebastian European Capital of Culture...

 

Kick-off to the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) filmmaker retreat in Camden and Rockport, Maine

Today was the kick-off to the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) filmmaker retreat in partnership with the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) and CNN Films. The five-day Camden/TFI Retreat, presented by CNN Films, kicked off today in Camden and Rockport, Maine and will provide mentorship and guidance to five U.S filmmaking teams focused on creative, cinematic, character-driven documentaries. The five projects selected for the retreat represent exciting new voices in documentary and embody the ...

 

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Gas Natural Fenosa is renewing its agreement as Official Sponsor of the Festival

Gas Natural Fenosa is renewing its agreement as Official Sponsor of the Festival and is presenting the shorts that form part of Cinergy in its second year.   Images in high resolution  Today the company presented this unique film project for the second year running, in which the directors, Isabel Coixet, Santiago Segura and Paco León have taken part with stories that raise awareness about energy efficiency through humour. During the presentation of the proj...

 

The San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua present the 4th edition of the short film competition "euskaraz bizi nahi dut"

The San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua have presented a new edition of the short film competition “euskaraz bizi nahi dut” (I want to live in Basque). This year will yet again include a section for professionals and another for amateurs with a total of more than 5,000 euros in prizes. The best works will be screened at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival. This morning the San Sebastian Festival and Kontseilua presented a new edition of the short film competition &ldq...

 

The Spanish Cooperation Award, new accolade at the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival

  The award will go to the Ibero-American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights The 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will for the first time present the new Spanish Cooperation Award to the producer of the Latin American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights. All of the Ibero-American films selected for the O...

 

The 14th International Film Students Meeting will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th September 2015

The 14th International Film Students Meeting will take place from Tuesday 22nd to Friday 25th September 2015 as part of the 63rd San Sebastian Festival. The 14th International Film Students Meeting, co-organized by the San Sebastian Festival and Tabakalera-International Contemporary Culture Centre of San Sebastian, proposes an exchange of audiovisual experiences and knowledge at one of the most important movie events in the world. The Meeting has the backing of San Sebastian Europea...

 

The San Sebastian Festival has unveiled the image of its 63rd edition.

The design of the official poster represents the stimulation of the senses prompted in spectators by cinema. The Festival will run from Friday, 18 until Saturday, 26 September. Images in high resolution  POSTERS The new image for the 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival was unveiled at an event in the Newton Auditorium of San Sebastian’s Eureka! Zientzia Museoa. An announcement was also made at the gathering as to the winning proposals of the poster competition calle...

 

The 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will dedicate a cycle to new Japanese independent cinema

Images in high resolution  New Japanese independent cinema 2000-2015 is the thematic retrospective programmed by the San Sebastian Festival for its 63rd edition, to take place from September 18-26. Beyond the bounds of the films produced by the big studios, the phenomenon of independent cinema in Japan has generated an important source of cinematic creativity expressed in a series of films produced outside the industry. This category includes not only the first works by ...

 

FEST 2015: Opening Ceremony

Simple and classy, the 11th edition of FEST: New directors | new films festival opened last night at the Cento Multimeios de Espinho in Espinho, Portugal. With selected guests from Belgium, Greece, Germany and numerous more expected during the week, the festival promises another edition full of carefully selected films and workshops, masterclasses and talks as part of its Training Ground, kicking off today and featuring names like Fernando Trueba, Peter Webber, Guillermo Navarro and Peter Doyl...

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Golden Trailer Awards

The 16th Annual Golden Trailer Award Nominees & Winners Nominees are listed in Alphabetical Order by Entry Title.  Legend: Film Title, Studio, Trailer House  Jump to: Show | Non-Show | Foreign | TV Spots | Posters | Innovative | Film Festival Show Categories   Best Action Winner: Furious 7 "Family", Universal Pictures, AV Squad Nominees: Agent 47 "New ...

 

The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced today the award winners of this year's festival.

HBO Audience Award / Best Narrative Feature: LEARNING TO DRIVE directed by Isabel Coixet   - HBO Audience Award / Best Documentary Feature: PACKED IN A TRUNK: THE LOST ART OF EDITH LAKE WILKINSON directed by Michelle Boyaner   - The John Schlesinger Award, presented to a first time documentary and narrative feature filmmaker: BREATHE, directed by Mélanie Laurent (narrative) and OUTERMOST RADIO directed b...

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Talents Durban 2015 Participants Announced - Durban International Film Festival

The 36th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) is proud to announce the participants of the 8th edition of Talents Durban, presented in cooperation with the Berlinale Talents an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival. Talents Durban is a five day development programme made up of workshops and seminars for African filmmakers delivered by film professionals, academics and intellectuals. The Talents, who are selected through a rigorous application process, will also have the opp...

 

Palm Springs Shortfest Forums with a keynote from Jason Reitman

Jason Reitman Serves as Keynote Speaker; Representatives from Anonymous Content, The Black List, CAA, CSA, Fandor, ICM Partners, IndieGogo, Preferred Content, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and many others The Palm Springs International ShortFest is best known for its award-winning film shorts, but each year the Festival also welcomes a long guest list of filmmakers and industry attendees for the ShortFest Forums’ Panels and Roundtables. Academy Award nominated director ...

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Major Buzz Factory : Expérience du marketing Digital pour les films

Fort d'une expérience acquise dans la distribution de films pour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark.eting et le digital.

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