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> Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 3- 11 july 2015    

The Center for Documentary Film presented the outcomes of an original research study analysing academic theses

Last week at the Karlovy Vary IFF, the Center for Documentary Film presented the outcomes of its research analysing students’ theses focusing on documentary filmmaking. The CDF team has been working on several research projects and their first output is a detailed analysis mapping the interest of the upcoming generation of film critics, historians and filmmakers in documentary filmmaking, its various contemporary and traditional forms, methods of production, financing and distribution...

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World Trailer Awards - London October 16

Early Bird Deadline July 30th, 2015

Announcing Call for Entry for the Inaugural World Trailer Awards in partnership with filmfestivals.com

Kicks off in London this fall.

Earlybird Deadline is July 30th

For more information and to submit your trailer, please visit to www.Worldtrailerawards.com

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MANHATTAN SHORT 2015  September 25 to October 4, 2015 

Final Call For Entries: Deadline July 31.

Filmmakers have until July 31st to get their films and screenplays into NYC if they hope to be part of the 18th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival to take place in over 250 cinemas across 6 continents. MANHATTAN SHORT is more than just one of the largest short film festivals in the world today, it’s the world’s first and only global film festival.

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The World of Film Festival October 1-4 2015

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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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".

www.filmfestivals.com/blog/greg_reitman/ 

Selection of Films for your consideration

The Center for Documentary Film presented the outcomes of an original research study analysing academic theses

Last week at the Karlovy Vary IFF, the Center for Documentary Film presented the outcomes of its research analysing students’ theses focusing on documentary filmmaking. The CDF team has been working on several research projects and their first output is a detailed analysis mapping the interest of the upcoming generation of film critics, historians and filmmakers in documentary filmmaking, its various contemporary and traditional forms, methods of production, financing and distribution...

 

Program for the Piazza Grande

  05.08 RICKI AND THE FLASH by Jonathan Demme – USA – 2015 – 100’ Excellence Award Moët & Chandon to Edward Norton 06.08 LA BELLE SAISON by Catherine Corsini – France – 2015 – 105’ LE DERNIER PASSAGE by Pascal Magontier – France – 2015 – 28’ Pardo alla carriera to Marlen Khutsiev 07.08 DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER by Lars Kraume – Germany – 2015 – 105’ SOUTHPAW by Antoine Fuqua &ndas...

 

A Dry White Season on Mandela Day

The award-winning and world-renowned French filmmaker Euzhan Palcy will showcase her most celebrated work, A DRY WHITE SEASON (1989), as part of the film’s 25th anniversary at this year’s Durban International Film Festival (DIFF). The film was adapted from a book by the acclaimed South African writer Andre Brink who died earlier this year. Palcy will be honoring Brink on Mandela Day (July 18). Additionally, in a tribute to her contribution to the South African film industry, Palcy w...

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Video Guided tour of Locarno 2015 by Carlo Chatrian The program of Locarno68

http://www.pardolive.ch/en/Pardo-Live/today-at-the-festival/2015/Line-up-2015/The-program-of-Locarno68.html#.Va1hzvntmkp ...

 

11th Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival Awards

On Saturday, the 18th of July, the 11th edition of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival came to a conclusion with a magnificent closing ceremony. Honorary Vicious Cat award for lifetime achievement was received by the legendary German actor Udo Kier.   In our competition programs, the following awards were given: -VICIOUS CAT for best feature film: Ghoul (Czech Republic, 2015, Petr Jákl)  Special Mention: Idyll (Idila, Slovenia, 2015, Tomaž Gorkič) ...

 

Locarno 2015 competition revealed

Concorso internazionale BELLA E PERDUTA by Pietro Marcello Italy – 2015 – 86' with Tommaso Cestrone, Sergio Vitolo, Gesuino Pittalis Production: Avventurosa Co-production: Rai Cinema World Premiere BRAT DEJAN (Brother Dejan) by Bakur Bakuradze Russia/Serbia – 2015 – 113' with Marko Nikolic, Misa Tirinda Production: Vita Aktiva Co-production: CTB, Focus Plus Cinema, Look Film, Pilon Media World Premiere CHEVALIER by Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece – 2015 &nd...

 

Just For Laughs Industry Schedule Conference

  Follow our dailies on filmfestivals.com by Musivision Films WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 TIME: 10:00 - 18:00 JUST FOR LAUGHS WELCOME DESK – OPEN FOR REGISTRATION The Just For Laughs Welcome Desk is located at the Hyatt Regency Montreal (1255 Rue Jeanne-Mance), in front of the Creation Room, on Level 6. read more about this event... WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 TIME: 11:00 - 13:00  SIR...

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Leopard Club Award to Andy Garcia

This year the award is attributed to the American actor Andy Garcia. Named after the supporting Association of the Festival, the Leopard Club Award pays tribute to someone in film whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination THE LOST CITY by Andy Garcia – USA – 2005 – 144’ THE UNTOUCHABLES&nbs...

 

Relatos Salvajes, 8 Premios Platino de Cine Iberoamericano

Relatos Salvajes was the absolute winner in last night´s Platino Awards of the Iberoamerican Cinema. The film, nominated to the Oscars for Argentina this year, got 8 out of 9awards leaving its closest oponent Spanish film 'La Isla Mínima' just with the best photography award. The film now starting its international parcour under the na of Marshland was also awarded as best film and best actor by the public voting through an internet poll. Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada won ...

 

ICMC Summer Film Festival Winners!

Winner of the CCJTDC GLOBAL GIRLS Film Festival Anti-Chiraq: The Documentary, Winner of Global Girls Film Festival The International Children's Media Center was thrilled to present the "Films For Me and You" program at the Global Girls Film Festival on June 20 at the CCJTDC. The program was the culmination of the 14-week Global Girls program during which youth at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center chose the films f...

 

Muvi Studio Recognized as “Enterprise OTT” Platform of the Year, Named on FierceOnlineVideo’s ‘Fierce 15’ list

The New York-based online video solutions firm Muvi LLC has made its way in to FierceOnlineVideo’s ‘Fierce 15’ list for 2015. Having been nominated in the ‘Enterprise OTT Platforms’ category, Muvi Studio (the VoD platform solution by Muvi) has finished on top on its category and graces the inaugural Fierce 15 Online Video Companies list. Easily amongst the most visible video streaming platform builder on web today, Muvi Studio’s contribution to the industry...      

> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT   

Stars expected at Locarno68

LA BELLE SAISON – Catherine Corsini A guitar played by Meryl Streep will give #Locarno68 its starting rhythm. Ricki and the Flash is the Piazza Grande opening movie, signed by a great director like Jonathan Demme (who won the Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs) – a symbolic start for a red carpet which, never like this year, can be considered Hollywoodian. Let's think about the pair of celeb...

 

Interview: Ryan Reynolds (Actor - Self/Less)

Self//less explores the consequences of taking a life to live forever. In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds).    The process is offered to Damian by Albright (Matthew Goode), the brilliant head of a secret organization that caters to the wealthy. ...

 

Michael Cimino at Locarno for the Pardo d'onore Swisscom

  Michael Cimino at Locarno for the Pardo d'onore Swisscom American director, screenwriter and producer, Michael Cimino will attend the 68th Festival del film Locarno, which is dedicating a tribute to him and where he will receive a Pardo d'onore Swisscom. Born in New York City, he had a classical education, graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts. After the Army, he embarked on a successful career in advertising commerci...

 

Lloyd Kaufman to conduct his Make Your Own Damn Movie Master Class At Vancouver, July 18,2015!

Major TROMA Retrospective and Live Commentary of The Toxic Avenger Presented at TROMAFEST   Greetings from Tromaville! Lloyd Kaufman, President of Tromaville and creator of the Toxic Avenger, will attend Vancouver's first-ever  TROMAFEST! A major Troma retrospective presented by Shivers Film Society and UBC Film Society.     ...

 

Comedians and film directors -Montreal's Just For Laughs 2015 Industry Conference - Mike Myers to Jason Reitman

      JASON REITMAN Jason Reitman’s first short film, Operation, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Reitman made his feature film debut with the 2006 hit Thank You For Smoking. He next directed Juno in 2007 for which he earned his first Oscar nomination… more... MIKE MYERS ...

 

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